'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [182] (224/733)
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182
MUSKAT.
Burka, and afterwards proceeded to the attack of Ismailee, in the
defence of which it was acknowledged the Imaum had lost two
hundred of his troops.
77. The Imaum represented on this occasion to the Bombay
Government that his co-operation with his friends and allies, the
English, in the late expedition, had involved him in a perpetual and
implacable war with the Wahabees, with whom he was before at peace
and trusted that the British Government would not remain neutral
daring the struggle which he was making to defend his possessions
and capital from the invasion of an ancient and inveterate enemy,
whose resentment had thus been strongly re-excited against him.
78. The Supreme Government, considering the declaration of the
Imaum, that he had refrained from taking advantage of the peaceable
overtures of the Wahabees in consequence of his connection with the
British, to proceed from a wish to promul-ate a belief that we were
united with him in his contest with the Wahabees, and that he might
expect to derive advantage from the reputation of having the support of
so powerful an ally, and thus lead to a rupture with the Wahabees,
against whom various considerations rendered it inexpedient, and
indeed impracticable, to afford the Imaum any assistance, it was
deemed of some consequence that His Highness should be undeceived
on tiiis subject, or rather that he should have no room to propagate the
belief of our being a party in the war with the Wahabees.
/9. It was therefore intimated to the Imaum that it was unnecessary
to regulate his reply to any overtures on the part of the Wahabees by
reference to his connection with the British Government, which had
always considered itself to be at peace with that tribe, the late
co-operation with the Imaum not having been in prosecution of
Avar against the W ahabees generally, but merely for the extirpation of
the pirates, whose augmented power and audacity had endangered
the security of his own dominions, as well as interrupted the com-
meice and naAigation of the Gulf. That the British Government, there
fore, was no further interested in the contest between him and the
W ahabees than as it was solicitous for the welfare and prosperity of
the Imaum. L nder the influence of that solicitude, and a just sense of
the benefits and blessings of a state of peace, it was recommended to
the Imaum to grant the terms of pacification solicited by the Wahabees,
if consistent with the honour and security of the State of Muskat.
80. Previously to the receipt of that communication, the Imaum's
brother, Syud Willah bin Humeed, had sailed on an expedition
against Bahrein and Zobara. Zobara was taken, plundered, and the
town burnt and levelled to the ground. His troops and battering train
were landed at Bahrein; the brother of the Governor, and Duryah Begee
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The volume is Selections from the records of the Bombay Government , compiled and edited by Robert Hughes Thomas, Assistant Secretary, Political Department, New Series: 24 (Bombay: Printed for Government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, 1856).
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The volume contains an abstract of contents on p. iii, a detailed list of contents on pp. vii-xx, an alphabetical index on pp. xxi-xxvii, and a list of maps etc on p. xviii.
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Pagination: two separate pagination sequences are present in the volume. The first sequence (pp. i-xviii) commences at the first page and terminates at the list of maps (p. xviii). A second pagination sequence then takes over (pp. 1-688), commencing at the title page and terminating at the final page. Both these pagination sequences are printed, with additions in pencil, and the numbers are found at the top (left, right or centre) of each page.
The fold-outs in this volume were not paginated by the publisher. As a result, these have been foliated using the nearest page number. For example, the fold-out attached to p.51 has been numbered as 51A.
Pagination anomalies: pp. 15, 15A; 45, 45A; 49, 49A; 51, 51A; 531, 531A.
The following pages need to be folded out to be read: 15A, 45A, 51A, 327-328, 531A.
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