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Letter from Louis Mallet, Under-Secretary of State for India, to Robert Bourke, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs [‎145v] (3/8)

The record is made up of 1 file (3 folios). It was created in 17 Sep 1879. 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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Trucial Chiefs between Odeid and Ras-el-Khymah;
(b) to recognize the temtories of the Sheikh of
Bahrein as under the protection of Great Britain,
and (c) in case of piracies from within its juris
diction, to enforce restitution of plundered pro
perty and payment of compensation.
Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs observes, with reference to these proposals,
that, in the absence of inducements, the Porte is
not likely to assent to the suggested limitations of
its sovereignty or jurisdiction, or to independent
action of another power in territory or waters
admitted to be Turkish. Lord Salisbury, therefore,
suggests that it would be more practical, and more
in accordance with usage, that, having settled for
ourselves ^he limits within which Turkish juris
diction" may be exercised, and beyond which it
would be rejected or opposed, we should, as a
general rule, look to the Turkish authorities to
exercise a proper police in those limits, only
sanctioning the action of British cruisers in Tur
kish waters under special circumstances, when
the consent of ihe local authorities has been
obtained.
The principal objection to the course recom
mended by the Government of India appears to
Lord Cranbrook to be that it involves a previous
understanding with the Porte, which His Lordship
agrees with Lord Salisbury in thinking scarcely
possible of attainment. Apart from the notorious
difficulty of negotiation with the Turkish Govern
ment upon any subject, the past correspondence
in reference to Nejd and Bahrein indicates that
upon this particular question that Government is
likely to be found specially impracticable, and that
it is hopeless to expect that the Porte could be
induced to record, in even the most informal
diplomatic document, its assent either to limitation
its authority in Arabia or to anything like a
it maritime protectorate with the British Go-
iment along any part of the coast, and, still
to an exclusive British protectorate over
rein.
t must further, from past experience, be regarded
rery improbable that any undertaking on the
t of the Turkish Government to enforce from
. d parties restoration of plundered property and
payment of compensation would be operative in
practice. On this point, the complete absence of
result from the representations made at Constan
tinople in 1876 and lS??, in reference to the cases
of the British Indian subjects Cheyla and Rama,
and the attack on an Aboothabee boat in the'
harbour of El Bidaa, are significant.
Lord Cranbrook, on the other hand, fears that the
course suggested in Sir J. Pauncefote's letter of
the 23rd August, while it would probably be little
less distasteful to the Porte than that proposed by
the Government of India, would fail to attain the
object in view.

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The letter outlines the opinion of the 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. that no negotiations should be opened with the Turkish authorities over more clearly defined areas of jurisdiction and responsibility for the two powers along the southern coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . It is argued that Britain should maintain their commitments to the Trucial chiefs and the rulers of Bahrein [Bahrain] and Muscat, along with their security responsibilities on the Gulf seas, and if the Ottoman Turks do not impinge on these arrangements little communication with the Porte is deemed necessary. The argument is supported by an overview and discussion of the current situation in the region.

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1 file (3 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation for this description commences at folio 145 and terminates at folio 147, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The main foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

Condition: folio 145 is torn along one edge, with the loss of some text.

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Letter from Louis Mallet, Under-Secretary of State for India, to Robert Bourke, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs [‎145v] (3/8), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/18/B19/1a, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023557934.0x000005> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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