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'Papers Respecting the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa and the System Pursued for its Suppression' [42r] (23/72)
The record is made up of 1 volume (34 folios). It was created in 29 Oct 1869. 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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1 am to state that, as a correspondence relating to this subsidy has recently passed
between the Sultan of Zanzibar and the Government of India, and as, moreover, the
revrolution that has within the last few Weeks been accomplished at Muscat cannot fail to
have an important bearing upon the relations between Muscat and Zanzibar, and between
those countries and the Government of India, Lord Stanley is of opinion that any negotia
tions which may take place between the Sultan of Zanzibar's Envoy and Her Majesty's
Government would, with more advantage to the public service, be carried on at the India
Office than in this Department; and if, as his Lordship does not doubt, Sir Stafford
Northcote concurs in this opinion. Lord Stanley will refer the Sultan's Mission to the India
Office.
I am, &c.
(Signed) E. C. EGERTON.
No. 23.
The Earl of Clarendon to the Envoy of the Sultan of Zanzibar.
Sir, Foreign Office, December 9, 1868.
I HAVE the honour to acquaint you that the Queen has been graciously pleased to
accept Lord Stanley's resignation of the Office of Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, and to confide to me the seals of that Department.
I shall be happy to receive you at this Office on Saturday the 12th instant at 2
o'clock, in order to confer with you on any business upon which you may have received
instructions from the Sultan of Zanzibar.
I have, &c.
(Signed) CLARENDON.
No. 24.
Major-General Rigby to the Earl of Clarendon.—{Received December 12.)
My Lord, 14, Mansfield Street, December 11, 1868,
I HAVE the honour to inform you that his Excellency Sayid Mahommed bin Salim,
the Envoy to Her Majesty from His Highness the Sultan of Zanzibar, intends leaving
London on Friday next the 18th instant, to return to his own country by the mail-steamer
from Southampton.
2. The Envoy is deeply disappointed with the reception he has met with from Her
Majesty's Government, and particularly that no notice whatever has been taken of the
letter from His Highness the Sultan to Her Majesty which he presented to Lord Stanley.
I have, &c.
(Signed) C. P. RIGBY.
No. 25.
Mr. Hammond to Mr. Merivale.
Sir, Foreign Office, December 15, 1868.
I AM directed by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you herewith, to be laid
before the Duke of Argyll, copies of a letter which the Queen has addressed to the Sultan
of Muscat, and of a letter which Lord Clarendon also has addressed to His Highness, in
reply to the letters brought to this country by His Highness' Envoy.
I am at the same time to request that you will acquaint the Duke of Argyle, with
reference to your letter of the 8th instant, that Lord Clarendon would recommend to his
earlv attention the question respecting the subsidy payable by the Sultan of Zanzibar to
the Ruler of Muscat, and the possibility of disposing of it in connection with-an arrange
ment under which the Slave Trade still carried on at Zanzibar might be more effectively
controlled, if not suppressed altogether.
I am, &c.
(Signed) E. HAMMOND.
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This file contains printed copies of correspondence between British officials regarding Britain's attempts to prohibit slave traffic on the East Coast of Africa, relations between Britain and the Sultanate of Zanzibar, and Zanzibar's relations with Muscat. The correspondence dates from September 1866-July 1869.
The file contains translated copies of correspondence between the Sultan of Zanzibar, Majid bin Saeed and the Viceroy of India, John Laird Mair Lawrence as well as translated correspondence between an Envoy of the Sultan of Zanzibar and the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Lord Stanley [Edward Henry Stanley].
On folio 42r, the file contains a translation of a letter from Queen Victoria to the Sultan of Zanzibar, Majid bin Saeed. The letter confirms the friendly relations between the two and informs the Sultan that a sword has been specially commissioned for him as a gift.
The file also contains translated correspondence between the Sultan of Johanna [Anjouan Island, now part of the Comoros Islands] and Henry Adrian Churchill, Britain's Agent in Zanzibar.
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- 1 volume (34 folios)
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The file is arranged in rough chronological order, with the earliest correspondence at the beginning of the file and the latest at the end of the file.
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Condition: the file is contained within a bound volume that contains a number of other files.
Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at f 31, and terminates at f 66, 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. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 5-134; these numbers are written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.
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- 'Papers Respecting the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa and the System Pursued for its Suppression'
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- 31r:54r, 55r:66v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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