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2. Yon will observe that His Excellency in Council makes no reference
to the rule of His Highness Syed Salim, and yon will doubtless be careful to make
your communication to His Highness Syed Toorkee in precisely the Arabic
equivalent of the expressions used in the 2nd paragraph of Mr. Secretary
Aitchison’s letter.
3. You will further remark that you are to make no reference when com-
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Paragraph 4 of Mr. Secretary Aitcnison’s letter. „ „ -VV . .,
b F former dependencies ot Muscat on the
Mekran coast, or to Bunder Abbas, or to the Zanzibar subsidy.
4. His Highness is already aware that I have transmitted to Government
his various letters to me on the above subjects. But should His Highness refer
to any or all of these subjects, whether in conversation or otherwise, you need
not make any allusion to His Highness’s letters to me, but simply answer that
you have not as yet received any instructions from Government.
5. Eor the present it would be advisable for you to consider the 4th para
graph of Mr. Secretary Aitchison’s letter as confidential, and arrange that the
letter itself shall not find its way into your Office.
6. Referring to the 3rd paragraph of Mr. Aitchison’s letter, Her Majesty’s
steamer Zi/nx had left for Bombay under orders from the senior naval
officer before the instructions of the Government of India now transmitted to
you had reached me.
7. But I have telegraphed to Commander Lodder, senior naval officer,
„ requesting him to meet vou at Muscat on
Copy of telegram enclosed, 24th July 1871. ^ ^ pr0xim0) whio h will be the day
on which this letter also should reach you by mail steamer.
8. I have further requested Commander Lodder to arrange with you for
the firing of a royal salute (21 guns > by Her Majesty’s steamer in
honor of His Highness Syed Toorkee on the occasion of his recognition.
9. I doubt not you will cause the recognition to be attended with all
convenient and practicable shew and ceremony.
10. With reference to the desire expressed in your unofficial letter for
my visiting Muscat, I assure you, and beg you to assure His Highness on my
part that so soon as my duties here may permit of my proceeding to Muscat,
I shall hope to wait on His Highness in person.
11. You are aware that, under the arbitrament of the late Earl Canning,
the title of the ruler of Muscat is Sultan.
12 No allusion, whether in word or by letter, should be made to the
title Imcmm, which is a religious title accorded by the Arabs themselves only
to particular rulers, and on particular religious grounds. Neither Syed Saeed
nor Syed Thoweynee were Imaums.
13 I have requested Commander Lodder to return to the Gulf so soon as
possible after the recognition. In this view please give him every aid, enter-
taining the Native firemen he requires.
14 On Commander Lodder’s returning, oblige me by requesting him to
call at Angaum Station, and by giving him a telegram to my address reporting
proceedings.
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