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'Italian proceedings on the African coast of the Red Sea' [132r] (19/32)
The record is made up of 16 folios. It was created in 19 Sep 1881. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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observed that X/ord Granville was not aware of the
existence of any treaty between Italy and Egypt,
or between Italy and Turkey, giving the first-named
Power authority to deal with the slave trade in the
Ped Sea; that the treaty reported by Her Majesty’s
Ambassador at Rome to have been concluded by
Italy with one of the local Chiefs in the neigh
bourhood of Assab was stated by Count Maffei to
contain an article for the suppression of the slave
trade; but that no copy of this treaty was in the
possession of the Eoreign Office.
With regard to accrediting an Agent to the
Italian official, Lord Hartington was reminded that
Her Majesty’s Consul at Jeddah was also Consul
for Assab Bay, under the Berat of the Sultan of
Turkey.
Lord Hartington's views were expressed in a
letter from Lord Enfield, dated the 26th July,*
which, after recapitulating the language which had
been used by Her Majesty’s Government in past
correspondence with the Italian, Egyptian, and
Turkish Governments, continued :—
“ Such being the case, Lord Hartington can come
“ to no other conclusion than that the present pro-
<c posal of the Italian Government is, in effect, only
“ another form of seeking that official recognition
“ of their position at Assab which Her Majesty’s
“ Government have consistently refused to accord*
“ and that, if the present proposal be agreed to,
te without at any rate the cordial assent of the
“ Turkish and Egyptian Governments, such agree-
“ ment would weaken, if not annul, all the decla-
“ rations they have hitherto made, and be entirely
“ inconsistent with the good understanding which
“ now exists between this country and the G-overn-
“ ment of the Khedive.
“ Whether circumstances may at any future time
“ render a change necessary in the policy hitherto
“ adopted, is a matter on which Lord Hartington
“ will not now enter. He merely deals with the
“ question as it stands. It is, of course, impossible
“ not to see that the march of events may make it
“ difficult for this country to persevere inflexibly in
“ its present attitude on this question. Such an
“ eventuality, for instance, as that indicated in
“ M. Mancini’s recent speech in the Italian Chamber
“ of Deputies, to the effect that the Egyptian
“ Government had declared that it claimed ‘ no
“‘sovereignty or jurisdiction over Assab Bay,’
“ would, if true, lead to a reconsideration of the
“ whole question. But in the absence of any such
“ renunciation no sufficient reasons exist, in Lord
“ Hartington’s opinion, for any modification of the
“ position hitherto taken up in regard to it by Her
“ Majesty’s Government.
“ Lord Hartington is, of course, aware that the
“ Italian Government propose that the negotiations
“ on the modus vivendi treated in the letter should
“ be carried on ‘ without prejudice to any question
“ ‘ of the rights of sovereignty over Assab ;’ but he
“ regards this as a mere form of words which would
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The document, written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, discusses the following: the actual course of events at Assab and in the neighbourhood since May 1880; correspondence which has passed in the same period between the British, Italian and Egyptian Governments, and between the Political and Secret Department and the Foreign Office; and the proposed disembarkation of Egyptian troops at Raheita.
The situation in Assab was related to the Italian colonisation of the area during the period known as the 'Scramble for Africa'.
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