"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٤‎٦‎٦] (١٧٨٢/٦٠٩)

466
Aswistance
rendered to
Saiyid
Sa'ld by the
British Gov
ernment on
several occa
sions.
" Ternateto Masqat, where three other cruisers belonging to the
East India Company were already assembled. On the 19th of October
1829, after a small part of the " OscarV - ' cargo, consisting of Kashmir
shawls had been recovered at Masqat on payment of salvage, the
Resident, with the British squadron, and the Sultan, with two
frigates, sailed in company for Sur; but no traces of the missing
property were discovered at that place. Commodore Collinson then
visited Khor Jaramah, where ho had a long interview with Muhammad-
bin-'Ali, the chief Shaikh of the Bani Bu 'Ali, and persuaded him to
give up a few shawls and cash to the amount of §1,200, this being all
that the Shaikh, according to his own solemn oath, had it in his power
to restore. As the offending tribes could not be punished by means of
a naval expedition, the .Resident abandoned the idea of further
recoveries, and instead " endeavoured to create such an impression on
the minds of the inhabitants of this dangerous coast as would bo likely
ff to prove highly beneficial to any British ship that might have the
« misfortune to suffer a similar accident to that which had befallen the
Oscar ; and so the proceedings terminated.
After the difficulties with the Bani Bu 'Ali, encountered together
in 1820-21, the British authorities in India never failed to show their
solicitude for the interests of Saiyid Sa'id, at times restraining him
from imprudent enterprises in Bahrain, Persia or Turkish Iraq,
and at ^ others directly supporting his authority against rebels,
or enabling him to obtain a'reduction of Wahhabi demands. The
British naval demonstrations at Masqat in 1830 and T833, the threats
addressed by the Political Resident to Hamud during his rebellion in
1 834, the peace arranged between Saiyid Sa'id and the Sohar chief by
ntish intervention in 1839, the help and encouragement afforded bv
the British representatives in the Wahhabi crises of 1845 and 1862, the
diplomatic support lent to his case at Tehran in 1848,-these are lead-
mg illustrations of the spirit which, after 1821, animated the policy of
the British Government towards Sa id. On the other band' the
overnmen o ndia, m 1834, positively declined to undertake the
Zn 7 f ™ amfamin g fch e integrity of the continental possessions
ttrt 0fMUSC f a ^ the Wahh * bis ' -marking that," if we
"support ^hl/n^p 0 " rSelVeS ^ a declaration of 0 u r intention to
"expense and it ' I ^ of po]ic y must be Allowed up at any
"treasure whLh 18to se t limits to the waste of blood and
treasure which might ensue in consequence " The Saivid on his part
was not wanting in OTafitn^ . n a a- „ y f
^ n , at his final departure from Zanzibar