"ملخص عن تجارة الرقيق في خليج عُمان والخليج العربي للفترة ١٨٧٣-١٩٠٥(بالرجوع إلى التاريخ السابق من ١٨٥٢) إعداد جيروم أنتوني سالدانها، الجيش البريطاني، ل.ل. ب." [‎١‎٠‎٦] (١٢٦/١١٤)

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had passed between himself and the Persian slave authorities before the Senior
vide paragraph i of Political Resident's letter to Naval Officer on the spot, and recjuested
Commodore Jenkins, C.B, or in hi• absence Senior him tO " adopt measures for the examina-
Naval Officer, Bushire, forwarded to Gorernment • r i • . I .
by Political Resident as enclosure A to despatch tlOn 01 every VeSSCl COming into Bushire
No. 404 of 1858, dated November 17th. roads, as, if once landed, there appeared
to him no hope of obtaining the surrender of slaves owing to the lukewarm
• Paragraph 2 of ditto. co-operation of the Persian authorities."
Ihis search was "to be effected only*
however in the inner and outer roads." He further expressed his desire to
the Senior Naval Officer that " in his proceedings relative to the search for slaves "
Paragraph 3 of ditto. in the immediate vicinity of Bushire, when
the Resident could readily be communis
cated with " naval operations should extend to simple detention of, and strict
surveillance over, all suspected vessels until a reference were made to him " as
Political authority. Such a course the Resident hoped would put an effectual
check upon such barefaced attempts to carry on slave trade. The Resident,
however, was doomed to be disappointed. The Senior Naval Officer at that time
(Commander Foulerton) unfortunately represented his inability to carry into
effect the proposed measures. His hands, he said, were effectually tied by an
t This order i« dated 19th December 1840. Copy order^ in force in the Indian Navy jnten-
dency had never been forwarcled t0 the Bushire Resi * dieting all officers " from bringing too or
vide enclosure e to Resident's despatch to boarding vessels in a foreign port under
?7 r 'i858 retary ADderson ' No ' 404, dated November ot ^ er than British Colors." Provisions
for carrying out the Act of 12 and 13
Vict., Cap. 84, merely authorized detention of vessels <{ in any seas " making no
mention of harbours, ports, roadsteads or rivers. Did he seize a vessel there
fore in Bushire roadstead, the Act would be illegal and render him liable to
damages as per provision 17 of same Act.
22. With regard, too, to detention of vessels seized not at sea, and a sub-
X vide marginal note above. No such orders sequent reference to Resident respectinpf
records of the Busbire Residency. them> such detention was O pp osed t °
standing]: orders of the indian Navy, and such reference contrary to provision 2
of Act 12 and 13 already noted.
23. Add to the above, Commodore Porter released several vessels in 1849
which he had detained in the port of Bushire, as the Resident considered the
seizure to have been illegal.
24. On these several considerations he begged to be permitted to decline
Vide letter from Commander Foulerton, I.N.» acting OU the Resident's requisitions, more
£p.r&foaeM^ especially as Commodore Jenkins was
forming enclosure E. to Resident's despatch to daily expected at Bushire.
Mr. Secretary Anderson, No. 404, dated November
17. J85S.
2 5- Thus stood matters for some days when Commodore Jenkins arrived and
vide No. 134 of 1858, from Commodore Jenkins, at once concurred in the views taken by
b.f-,6 N aad° S^g e^irF 1 Commander Foulerton. Captain Felix ,
despatch to Mr. Secretary Anderson, No. 404, JOneS had therefore UO resource but to
^V^No.^ 1 Just noted above. lay § the whole affair before His Majesty's
Government of Bombay with a view to,
and in the hopes of, a remedy being applied to so glaring an evil. The Resi
dent s reference led to a correspondence between His Lordship the Governor in
Council and His Excellency the Commander-m'Chief of the Indian Navy, at
No. 631 -Secret—Deposit of 1859, from h. l. ^ he cl ? se of whIch ^ was arranged that the
Anderson, Esq., Secretary to Government of interdict On the Search of Vessels Under
c^d'^ other than British Colors in Foreign Ports
1859, forwarded to Political Resident, Persian Gulf, should be cancelled as regards Persian
No. ^Sec e r C e T-Uepo3it d o "i859. ,n his despatch P orts » inasmuch as the Persian authori-
_ ties had themselves conceded to us the
right of searching such vessels in their roadsteads. His Lordship in Council
considered it would be unwise to forego the advantages derivable from so valu
able a concession, and solicited it should be acted upon. In cases of refusal,
however, should any arise at a future period, such were to be reported to the
Government "in order that, if expedient, negotiations on the subject might be
opened."