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love of progress, as shown by his concessions to 

 European and Hindu traders, and by a squadron 

 of three frigates, four corvettes, two sloops, seven 

 brigs, and twenty armed merchant vessels, en- 

 titled him to a place amongst civilized powers. 

 With England he became an especial favourite, 

 after he had entered into the Palmerstonian 

 views upon the subject of slave exportation. 

 He began by sacrificing, it is said, 100,000 

 crowns annually, and he declined the various 

 equivalents, £2000 for three years, and other 

 paltry sums offered in a.d. 1822, as a compensa- 

 tion by Captain Moresby, R.N. His friendship 

 with us, indeed, cost him dear : more than once 

 he threatened that if other concessions were de- 

 manded by the unconscionable abolitionist he 

 would escape the incessant worry by abdicating 

 and retiring to Meccah. 



Sayyid Said first left Maskat for Zanzibar in 

 1828, and finally in 1832, justly offended by our 

 refusing to assist him, according to treaty, 

 against Sayyid Hamud bin Azran bin Kays, 

 the rebel chief of Sohar. Our policy on this 

 occasion is generally supposed to have been 

 prompted by Captain, afterwards Colonel, Sam. 

 Hennell, British llesident at Bushire. This 

 official, acting doubtless under orders, and living 



