'Memo on Mussondomom' [‎1r] (1/18)

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CLO r^Y
No. 36 op 1863.
P olitical D epartment.
From Lieutenant Colonel L ewis P elly,
Acting Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
To the C hief S ecretary to G overnsient in the Political Department,
Bombay.
S ir,
I have the honour to request that you will favour me by causing the letter with
nppcndcd memorandum, which I submitted on the 13th January 1863, without
number, to be numbered in your office No. I a.
2. I now submit a second letter on the same subject. No. 2 a.
I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) LEWIS PELLY, Lieutenant Colonel,
Acting Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
Dated %nd Fchruary 1863.
No. 2 a.
To the Honorable H enry L acon A nderson,
&c. kc, kc.
Sir, Bushire, \st February 1863.
In a memorandum appended to my letter No. 1a of the 13th January 1863
i sn^csted the concentration of this Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , Main Telegraph Station,
and f oal Depot at some spot;near Cape Mussun doom, where a free port and depot
ini_ it be developed at a point central beFvveen~ine"Sl(ive Channel at the entrance
*: me Gulf and the Pirate coast.
2. Some of the principal arguments recurring to me in favour of the scheme
«cro summed up in the memorandum itself. And subsequent reflection tends to
strengthen my conviction that it is possible for Government to create, supposing cli
mate to be sufficiently bearable, near Cape Mussundoom, a settlement, which, from
'ts geographical position, under a free rule, would, before many years should elapse,
Income of considerable inportance, and lend to our interests and to our status,
■-'iOther commercial or political, in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , a character and a development
ch they do not at present possess, and which, perhaps, they would not readily
" U unless under some arrangement such as that proposed. '• - ,