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Bandar Jissah. It received corroboration from a report, apparently reliable
that the French Vice-Consul at Masqat had received special promotion to
Consul for valuable services, and it was resolved to sift the matter
to the bottom; for the conduct of the Sultan, if he had granted any con
cession such as ihat suspected, was clearly a violation of his Agreement of
1891 with the British Government regarding the non-alienation of terri
tory. In January 1899 the occupation of Bandar Jissah by the French was
considered so probable that an officer and boat's crew of H.M.S. f£ Sphinx "
were stationed there, and remained for some time, to hoist the British
flag in case of the appearance of a French man-of-war; and a remon
strance founded on the agreement of 1891 was addressed to the Sultan
by Major Fagan, the British Agent at Masqat. In reply to Major
Fagan's protest the Sultan admitted the grant of a concession, which,
however, he described in vague terms and professed himself unable to
cancel. A Eussian agent Was stated to be present in Masqat at this time
and to be in communication both with the Sultan and with the liench
Vice-Consul.
Various other questions, relating for the most part to the treaty
rights of British subjects and to compensation claimable by them, were
pending at this time, as w r e have seen, between Saiyid "Faisal and the
Government of India ; and on the 24th of January 1899, Lord Curzon,
who had very recently assumed the Viceroyalty of India, proposed to
instruct Colonel Meade, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to deal
with these unsettled cases, and to inform the Sultan that the subsidy
paid him would be withheld until they were disposed of. In view of the
Sultan's recent intrigues and evident hostility Loid Cuizon a.so con
sidered that a serious warning was required, and he consulted Hti
Majesty's Government as to the terms in which it should oe admmisteie .
On the 25th of January the Secretary of State for India authoiised the
Viceroy to remind the Sultan of past favours confened on him ^y
British Government, as well as of the conditions of fiiendship an
observance of treaty engagements on which the continuance 0 ^
"Zanzibar" subsidy depended, and to admonish him that, in event o
conduct continuing to be unfriendly, the support of the iiis T0
ment would be withdrawn and might even take another direction.
Further, to compel a settlement of the outstanding questions, t e k i y
of State was prepared to approve of any measuies, not m o
with the Anglo-French Declaration of 1863 and not requiiin 0 ie
currence, which Lord Curzon might consider likely to be efficaciou
Under the sanction thus conveyed, a memora ^7
British demands was prepared by the Govemmen o n ia
munication to the Sultan, and the Resident was oideie o l
Demand for
redress of the
grievances of
British
subjects
resolved on.
Addition of
a demand for
cancijlla t i o n
of the grant
to the French,