Aden Affairs
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Aden Affairs
- Date:
- 1847/1847
- Description:
- Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 88 of 1847, dated 15 October 1847. There are two enclosures: one is dated 29 September 1847; the other is undated. Two other enclosures listed in the abstract, copies of the Bombay Times Summary of Intelligenceand the Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courierare not present.The item comprises a report on affairs in Aden, by Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Captain Indian Navy and Political Agent at Aden, to the Secretary to the Government, Bombay, approved by a minute of the members in Council. Haines’s report covers the following matters:The continued good relations with ‘our neighbours’The regular supplies to the market from the interiorContinuing dissensions between the Abdali [al-‘Abdalī], Azeibi [‘Uzaybī], Agribi [‘Akrabī] and Subei [Subaīhī] tribesThe meeting between the Abdali and Foutheli [Fadhlī] chiefs at Sheik Othman [Shaykh Uthman] has not yet taken placeThe [Ottoman] Turkish Commissioner Eschreff Beg [Muḥammad Sharīf Beg] has reached Judda [Jeddah] and the firman [order] he gave to Sherriff Hussein ibn ali Hyder [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī Haydar, Sharif of Mocha and Al Hudaydah] is reported to be a forgery written by a merchant at HodeidaRain showers in Aden.Physical description: 1 item (5 folios)
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Forgery
Tribal relations
Sultan of Fadhli
Governor of Mocha
Government of the Ottoman Empire - Geographic region:
- Aden
Abdali Sultanate of Lahej - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100153828290.0x000007_ar
81055/vdc_100153828290.0x000007_en
IOR/L/PS/5/451, ff 276-280
IOR/L/PS/5/451, ff 276-280