IOR/F/4/914/25779

This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, minutes, and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. It is the third in a series of three items on Muscat and the slave trade (the others are IOR/F/4/913/25777 and 25778). The principal correspondents are the Government of Bombay; the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat, [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd]; the British Resident in the Persian Gulf, Ephraim Gerrish Stannus.

The item concerns:

• Captain William Fitzwilliam Owen’s acceptance of the cessation of Bombassa [Mombasa] and the subsequent dispute with the Imaum
• The history of relations between Oman and Bombassa
• The state of the Gulf, alliances and enmities in the Gulf, and the possibility of peace
• The history of relations between Britain and Oman, especially the implications of the 1798 treaty of friendship
• The state of the slave trade
• The terms on which the Imaum is prepared to ban the slave trade entirely in his territories.

The following folios are duplicates of those in IOR/F/4/785/21163: ff 4-6; 13-37; 45-50; 53-59.

The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Political No. 943, Draft 8, P.C. 423, [Season] 1827/28’.