A memorandum explaining the deadlock between the India and Foreign Offices regarding the expenses of the Zanzibar Agency. With quotations from correspondence, the text gives an outline of the principal events since 1861 to document a historical disagreement between the departments over the princi...
A brief account by Brigadier-General John William Schneider, Political Resident at Aden, explaining that the elected Ameer [Emir] of Zhali, Ali bin Mokhbil, had been replaced after refusing to submit to the Turks after they took over the region in 1873. The author fears that Turkish influence wil...
Memorandum No 1. Zanzibar Agency and Consulate Expenses
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A printed memorandum, written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary of the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, 17 August 1876. The first part of the document is a claim of expenses for an annual subsidy of 40,000 crowns from the Sultan of Zanzibar to the Sultan of Mu...
Report of a committee on the Muscat subsidy and the Zanzibar Agency and Consulate
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A printed report, written by a Committee formed by Louis Mallet, Henry Cadogan Rothery and William Henry Wylde, 8 December 1876. The Committee was nominated by H M's Treasury, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the Secretary of State for India, to determine whether the Imperial Gove...
Mr Rothery's report to the Treasury in respect to the Muscat subsidy and Zanzibar Agency Expenses
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A printed memorandum, written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary of the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, 27 September 1876. The memorandum discusses the views of Henry Cadogan Rothery on whether the Imperial Government had to contribute to the payment of an ann...
Report written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary in the Political Secret Department of the India Office, and dated 14 February 1877. The report, which deals with the question of British consular jurisdiction in Persia and the Persian Gulf, was written in order to close a matter th...
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary, Political Department
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Printed copy of a letter which concerns the question of consular jurisdiction in Persia. Ross, in his capacity as Political Resident at Bushire, gives his opinion on papers he has read which regard consular jurisdiction in Persia: chiefly, the lack of need for a judge of appeal at Bushire, the l...
Memorandum dated 23 April 1877, prepared by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary in the Political and Secret Department of the India Office. The memorandum was prepared in response to Government discussion over the merit of establishing a British consulate at Jeddah that was ‘free from a...