"الملف 35/86 I A 32 معاهدة مسقط التجارية، ١٨٩١: مراجعة سنة ١٩٠٥" [و‎‎١‎٣‎٦] (٤٨٠/٢٧٥)

Extract from ^esidenoy letter no. 205 dated 19th J an
1913. file 18/58.
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para. e4 I I
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fTho use of the title of "His Majesty"
in reference to the Sultan has been retained in the text
ad referendum, because it is employed in the existing
Order in Council.(Aitchison Vil. XII p.clxix)
The point if one which in any case needs the specific
consideration of Government, as i4 the course of discuss
ion of the draft of the New Comraervial J -reaty , the
Sultan has definitely asked that ffiis Highness / w should
be altered to "His Majesty" and I note, incidentally,
that in recent letters to the SultaTi in connection with
the Arms Warehouse negotiations, the SuZtzzi French
Consul always addresse s ^im as "Majesty*.
On the other hand in all our routine correspondence
in the past, the the declaration og 1862: and in all
instruments except the Order in Council of 1867, the
Sultan is always referred to as Sis Highness: and the
p^osition is understood to be the same in the case of tgz
the Sultan of Zanzibar,
No doubt the wording of an Order in Council
is primarily a domestic matter concerning the British
Government and its subjects^alone, but the point being
as I have atsHaat# explained atiready at issue in connection
with the Treaty negotiations now in temporary
abeyance, I trust the present opportunity will be taken
by Government to conaider the point and decide which
form is to be used.