'A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the years 1808 and 1809, in which is included some account of the proceedings of his Majesty's Mission, under Sir Harford Jones, Bart., to the Court of the King of Persia. With twenty-five engravings from the designs of the author; a plate of inscriptions; and three maps.' [‎372] (455/524)

ARAB PIRATES.
Within the last few years, their attacks have been almost indiscriminate ;
nor had they learnt to respect even the English colours, as the instance
in the text, and the subsequent capture of the Minerva, Captain
H opgood , proved too well. The British government however, know
ing the intimate connection of these pirates on the coast with the
Wahabee* proceeded in the suppression of the evil with cautious judg
ment ; and when, by the extension of these outrages to themselves,
they were driven to vindicate the honour of their flag, and to extirpate
their enemies, they regarded all the ports, which had not actually in
cluded the British within their depredations, as still neutral; and
endeavoured to confine their warfare to reprisals, for specific acts of
violence, rather than to ' commit themselves generally against the
Wahabees, by extending the attack to those of that alliance who,
amid all their piracies, had yet not violated the commerce of
England.
We might indeed thus separate the Joassmee tribe from the Wahahee^
for we had already, in a formal treaty, recognised thern, as an inde-
pendant power ; though perhaps for all other purposes, they might be
considered as identified. The strength however of the Joasmees alone
was very considerable. The ports in their possession contained, ac-
four guns, two of sixty, one of fifty, and eighteen from thirty-two to twelve guns; besides
smaller, &c. Captain H amilton , East Indies, i. p. 76. Modern Universal History
vi. 46.
* The first mention of the Wahahees^ is in N iebuhr , Description de I'Arabie, p. 17,
p. 296—302: and G ibbon first noticed the singular co-incidence, that they sprung from
the same province, Nedsjed, in which M oseilama the great contemporary adversary of
M ahomed , had propagated his faith, vol. v. p. 277. It may be added., that the Carma-
thians, who triumphed over the Mahomedans, like the Wahabees of the present day, and
like them took Mecca, (and plundered it indeed much more effectually than their succes
sors are said to have done) in the same manner took possession first of the provinces on
the Persian Gulph. See G ibbon, v. 449. S ale's Koran, p. 184. D O hsson, Tableau
de Vampire Ottoman, torn. i. p. 105^