مجموعة ٣٠/٩٠ "المطالبة الفارسية بجزيرة البحرين" [و‎‎٤‎١‎٣] (١٠٦٢/٨٣٨)

17
India Bd.
to F.O,
7.2.1851.
Bor. I, 885.
F.O. to Sir
S. Canning,
Constanti
nople, No.40,
12.2.1851.
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the prohibition of the exportatmn of T d ° ne 5“ 1847 for
Majesty’s Government must obieet tr, slaTes ’ and t,iat Her
would transfer Bahrein to the do .° ? ny arran g em ent which
any other Power doimmon or protectorship of
Lord PatemoHmS”^ ^ t0 this decisi -
it is the opinion of Tnd T t0 the °, onclusi ^ that
first to beaimed at is to nrLen t R L t,° mpa ? y that 0 bject
the control of any foreign Power om/toV™" 11lmder
its present condition 0^01^°ndeZ ^ BufrV 11
from what has been sfatPrl ir, J^penaence. But L infer
have communicated to me that if thaf^f 0 ^ you
sa fetes? s
authority to be established in that island.” k ' sh
o/ the VFa/iahis a,id of Muscat, 1852-53.
Se *• tss. x cr„, c zi i srs-
Majesty s Government saw no reason to alter the views
Highnesf k^shTfm 1011 ol 1 Ba8re 1 lu communicated to His
nigtmess in 1849 (paragraph 58 above). In May 1853 the
Government of India authorised the Government of BomW
lm°iWw V h e o y wafno 6 t0 aU at ta ?l k ° n 7 ahrein by the WahaW Lor. !, 887.
Amir (Who was now nominally subject to the Turkish
Government) on the ground that Her Majesty’s Government
would not permit the occupation of Bahrein by the Turkish
Government or by anyone acting for them or in their interest.
Princ'ple of Non-interfeeevce in Internal Affairs laid down
by Bombay Government (1854).
. ^ 0n 20t ^ November 1854 the Government of Bombav
m a letter to the Resident laid down the principle of non-
mterference m the mtei-nal affairs of Bahrein, and authorised
the Resident simultaneously to inform the Sheikh of Qatif on
the Arab mainland that the British Government would not
tolerate his further interference with the affairs of Bahrein.
Slavery Agreement with Her Majesty’s Government (1856).
in C 5 ' T n + the T l0 . t o 1 ^ Ia / y 1856 an i a £ Teement supplementary Aitchison,
to the treaty of 184/ (paragraph 51 above) regarding the Mol. XI,
slave trade ^ was made with the Sheikh. Its contents were No - ix > 2 34*
identical with that of corresponding engagements entered
into at the same time by the Arab rulers of the Trucial Coast.
66. The Sheikh’s internal government continued to ^o
from bad to worse. In September 1858 reparation was
secured from him for the ill-treatment of British subjects in
Bahrein. In 1859 a Wahabi attack was averted by British
intervention. The local Wahabi Governor sued for pardon Lor T 887
to the Senior Naval Officer; the Wahabi ruler, however! L ° r - I ’ 8b7 -
made a formal protest, asserted his authority over Bahrein,’
and declared that he was himself a vassal of the Sultan of
Turkey. The Resident, in reply, informed him of the
determination of Her Majesty’s Government to preserve the
independence of Bahrein, and pointed out the inconsistency
of his. piratical attacks on Turkish shipping with his
professions of dependence on the Ottoman Government.
Sheikh’s Appeal to Persia and Turkey, 1859-61.
67. A t the end of 1859 or early in 1860, as the result, Lor. I,
apparently, partly of apprehensions of the Wahabis and
partly of irritation at the restraint exercised by the Resident
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