‘Persian Gulf. Affairs of Vol: 16’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf. Affairs of Vol: 16’
- Date:
- 1849/1849
- Description:
- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2349/123808. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Farrant, Her Majesty’s Chargé d’Affaires at Tehran; Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Minister for Foreign Affairs; and Messrs Malcolm, merchants of Bushire [Bushehr]. It is the sixteenth in a series of twenty-four items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item mainly consists of letters from Hennell to Farrant, concerning:The apology of Mahomed Hassan Beg [Muḥammad Ḥasan Begi] to Hennell for his treatment of Messrs MalcolmThe disagreement between Hajee Abdul Mahomed [Ḥājī ‘Abd al-Muḥammad] and his brother Aga Mahomed Ally [Āghā Muḥammad ‘Alī] on one side, and the people of Bushire and Sheik Nasir [Shaikh Nāṣir II Āl Madhkūr], Governor of Bushire, on the otherThe case of Messrs Malcolm (see also IOR/F/4/2349/123814) and Lord Palmerston’s ruling that the merchants may either enjoy British protection and pay British customs rates, or pay Persian rates without British protection.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 334 of 1850’, ‘Coll[ection] 4’, and ‘Collection No 1 of No 127’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 296, and terminates at f 322 as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Civil unrest
Customs duty
Governor of Bushire - Geographic region:
- Bushire
- Rights:
- رخصة المشاع الإبداعي
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100098180953.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100098180953.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2349/123823
IOR/F/4/2349/123823