Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, resolutions, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a political letter from the Government of Bombay, which appears in IOR/F/4/2445/134344. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Political Agent in the Persian Gulf; Commander John Porter, Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf; Moollah Houssein [Mullā Ḥusayn], British Agent at Shargah [Sharjah] and Lieutenant James Tronson. It is the fifth in a series of twenty-one items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns reports by Moollah Houssein and James Tronson about the Arabian Coast. Their reports discuss:The tranquillity of the GulfCommunications between the shaikhs of the Arabian CoastThe inaccessibility of the town of Koomya [Kumzar, also written Coomya and Coomza in the item].The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft N 34 – 1852’, and ‘Collection No 32’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 158, and terminates at f 165, 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.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2376/126162. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Commodore John Porter, Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf. It is the fifth in a series of fifteen items on the Persian Gulf.The item concerns Porter’s report of his cruise around the Persian Gulf, including relations between the shaikhs of Debaye [Dubai], Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi] and Bhrymee [Al Buraymi], and the future intentions of Fisal bin Turky [Amīr Fayṣal bin Turkī bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Sa‘ūd]. The item also mentions an enslaved man who ran away from an Aboothabee boat, and two Joasmee [al-Qawāsim] boats which were forced by bad weather to put in at Khor Fakaun [Khawr Fakkan] and subsequently detained there by forces belonging to the Imam of Muscat.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 745 of 1850’, and ‘Coll[ection] No 5’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 65, and terminates at f 69 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.
Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, an extract of a Political letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 31 March 1852. It is the first in a series of eight items about the Persian Gulf.The letter makes brief references to recent events in the Gulf. Related enclosures can be found at: IOR/F/4/2475/138724; IOR/F/4/2475/138725; IOR/F/4/2475/138726; IOR/F/4/2475/138728; IOR/F/4/2475/138729; IOR/F/4/2475/138730; and IOR/F/4/2475/138731.The item also contains correspondence from Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to the Government of Bombay regarding his imminent departure from the role of Resident and his last tour of the Arabian Coast of the Gulf, on which he is accompanied by his successor, Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball. Hennell's correspondence includes reports on his conversations with numerous rulers on the coast, including:Shaik Sultan bin Sugger, Joosmee 'Chief', of Shargah [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī, Leader of al-Qawāsim tribe, of Ra’s al-Khaymah and Sharjah]Shaik Abdoollah bin Rashed, leader of Amulgavine [Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Rāshid al-Mu’allā, Shaikh of Umm al-Qaywayn]Syed Saeed, Imam of Muscat [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd, Imām of Muscat]Shaik Saud bin Thanoon, Chief of Aboothabee and Shaik of the Bunyas [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Ṭaḥnūn Āl Nahyān, Shaikh of Abu Dhabi and the Banī Yās tribe]Shaik Mukhtoom of Debaye [Shaikh Maktūm I bin Buṭṭī Āl Bū Falāsah, Shaikh of Dubai].The conversations cover several topics, notably:Acts of 'piracy' committed by Abdool Ruheem bin Sabir [‘Abd al-Raḥīm bin Ṣābir] and Soheil bin Ateesh [Suhayl bin ‘Uṭaysh]The upcoming expiration of the current maritime truceComplaints by Shaik Abdool Ruhman of Kishm [Shaikh ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Ṣaqr al-Mu‘īnī, Shaikh of Qeshm]Relations between past and current rulers of Bahrein [Bahrain]Recent tensions between Syed Saeed and Syed Ges bin Azan of Sohar [Sayyid Qays bin ‘Azzān Āl Bū Sa‘īd of Suhar].The item also contains minutes by the Governor of Bombay, as well as a copy of Hennell's instructions for James McAllister, Civil Surgeon, who is in charge at Bushire [Bushehr] during Hennell and Kemball's absences.Hennell is also referred to as the Resident at Bushire. There are multiple spellings for individuals’ names and place names.The title page of the item contains the following references: 'Bombay Political Department', 'Draft No. 733 of 1852', 'Collection No. 7 (in 8 volumes)', 'Vol: 1', and 'Examiner's Office'. Originally, the Collection number was given as '1 of No. 35' but this has been crossed out.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 917, and terminates at f 934, 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.
Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 28 November 1853, and found at IOR/F/4/2536/147461. It is the sixth in a series of seven items about the 'slave trade' [trade in enslaved people].The item relates to reports from Hajee Yacoob [Ḥājjī Ya‘qūb], Native Agent at Shargah [Sharjah], to Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, about 'slave trade' activity between Zanzibar, Amulgavine [Umm al-Qaywayn], Rusul Khymah [Ra’s al-Khaymah], and the Batinah coast of Oman. His reports include:Details of the vessels involved and the numbers of enslaved people taken onshoreCopy of a letter to him from the Imaum [Imām] of Muscat on the subject of the 'slave trade'Communications he has had with: Sheik Abdullah ben Rashid [Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Rāshid al-Mu’allā], Sheik of Amulgavine; Abdullah ben Sultan [Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Sulṭān], Sheikh of Shargah; and other 'chiefs' of areas involved in the tradeGeneral updates from Shargah regarding Sheik Sultan ben Suggur [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī], Ameer Fysul [Amir Fayṣal bin Turki bin Abdullāh Āl Sa‘ūd], and Sheikh Saeed ben Tahnoon [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Ṭaḥnūn Āl Nahyān].Kemball forwards these reports on to the Government of Bombay with his own comments on the 'slave trade' activity and how to suppress it. The Government in turn forwards the above to Sir Henry John Leeke, Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy, requesting information on efforts to suppress the trade.The title page of the item contains the following references: 'Bombay Political Department', Draft Number '161 1854', 'Collection', 'Vol: 6', and 'Examiner's Office'. Originally, the Collection was described as 'No. 1 of No. 108 of 1853' but this has been crossed out.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 838, and terminates at f 849, 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.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2416/130506. It is the eighth in a series of twenty-eight items on the Persian Gulf.The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Commodore John Patterson Porter, Commanding the Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf.The item contains Commodore Porter’s report of his tour of the Arabian coast of the Gulf, with details of his interviews with a number of the rulers, or their representatives, and with Moollah Houssein [Mullā Ḥusayn], the Agent at Shargah. Topics discussed include the situation in Braimee [Al Buraymi], and a dispute between dependents of the rulers of Debaye [Dubai] and Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi].Also included are:Commodore Porter’s instructions to Lieutenant James Tronson, commanding HC brig
Euphrates, for proceeding to Bahrein [Bahrain], which Porter was unable to do during his tourA list of the presents given to the rulers of the Arabian coast in 1850.The item contains a table of contents (f 511), and the title page (f 510) contains the following references: ‘Dft. No. 424 of 1851’, Collection No. 1, Vol. 8’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 510 and terminates at f 522, 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.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2174/105546. It is the twenty-seventh in a series of forty-five items on the Persian Gulf.The correspondents are: Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; Moollah Hussein [Mullā Ḥusayn], Native Agent at Shargah [Sharjah]; and Commodore John Croft Hawkins, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns:The death of Shaik Suggur bin Sultan [Shaikh Ṣaqr bin Sultān al-Qāsimī], following an attack on Amulgavine [Umm al-Qaywayn], and the request of Shaik Sultan bin Suggur [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī] for Hennell to mediate between the different tribesThe arrival of Commodore Hawkins at Shargah, and the brokering of a truce between Shaik Sultan bin Suggur and the rulers of Debaie [Dubai], Ejmaun [Ajman], and Amulgavine. It includes a copy of the truce, concluded on 19 April 1846.The item contains a table of contents (f 528), and the title page (f 527) contains the following references: ‘P C [Previous Communication] 5507, Coll. 7, Vol. 27’, ‘D/t 197/47’, ‘Collection No. 3 of No. 75’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 527 and terminates at f 538, 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.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2174/105546. It is the twenty-sixth in a series of forty-five items on the Persian Gulf.The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns Kemball’s report of his tour of the Arabian coast of the Gulf. This includes:The relations of the tribes of the Arabian coast with Saad bin Mootluk [Sa‘d bin Muṭlaq al-Muṭayrī]The construction by Sultan bin Suggur [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī], the Joasmee [al-Qawāsim] Chief, of a fort near to Debaie [Dubai], and the formation in response of an alliance between the rulers of Debaie, Ejman [Ajman], and Amulgavine [Umm al-Qaywayn]The formation of an alliance between Sultan bin Suggur and Sheikh Saeed ben Tahnoon of Aboothabee [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Ṭaḥnūn Āl Nahyān, Ruler of Abu Dhabi]Kemball’s efforts to deter Saeed bin Guzeeb [Sa‘īd bin Qāzib], Governor of Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh], from getting involved in the disputes between the tribes of the Arabian coastAn enquiry from the Government of Bombay as to why Kemball went on this tour, and not Hennell.The item contains a table of contents (f 506), and the title page (f 505) contains the following references: ‘P C [Previous Communication] 5507, Coll. 7, Vol. 26’, ‘D/t 197/47’, ‘Collection No. 2 of No. 75’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 505 and terminates at f 526, 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.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2416/130506. It is the twenty-first in a series of twenty-eight items on the Persian Gulf.The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; Moullah Houssein, Agent at Shargah [Sharjah]; Commodore John Patterson Porter, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf; Lieutenant James Tronson, commanding HC brig
Euphrates; and Commander Archibald Macdonald, commanding HC steam frigate
Auckland.The item concerns an attack carried out by a party of the Beniyas [Banī Yās] tribe against two boats from Himreyah [Al Hamriyah, also rendered as Himreya in the item], which were anchored along the coast between Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi] and Debaye [Dubai, also rendered as Debai in the item]. Hennell demands reparation from Sheik Saeed ben Tahnoon [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Ṭaḥnūn Āl Nahyān], ‘Chief’ of Aboothabee [also referred to as the ‘Beniyas Chief’], and sends the vessels
Tigris,
Euphrates,and
Aucklandto Aboothabee to enforce this.Other topics discussed in this item include:Further attacks on vessels carried out by subjects of the rulers of Aboothabee and DebayeThe activities of Sheik Saeed ben Tahnoon at Brymee [Al Buraymi]The seizure, by some subjects of the Sheik of Debai, of a letter and presents sent by Hennell to Sheik Saeed ben TahnoonThe acts of ‘piracy’ committed by Soheil ben Ateish [Suhayl bin ‘Uṭaysh, also referred to as Sahib bin Hatish and Sahib bin Atish in the item].The item contains a table of contents (f 635), and the title page (f 634) contains the following references: ‘Dft. No. 424 of 1851’, Collection No. 1, Vol. 21’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 634 and terminates at f 653, 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.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2174/105546. It is the thirty-seventh in a series of forty-five items on the Persian Gulf.The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; the Government of India; Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; Moollah Houssin [Mullā Ḥusayn], Agent at Shargah [Sharjah]; Shaik Mukhtoom bin Butye [Shaikh Maktūm I bin Buṭṭī Āl Bū Falāsah], Chief of Debaye [Dubai]; and Captain Sir Robert Oliver, Superintendent of the Indian Navy.The item concerns the hostile relations existing among the rulers of the tribes of the Arabian coast of the Gulf, with Shaik Sooltan bin Suggur [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī], the Joasmee [al-Qawāsim] Chief and Shaik Saeed bin Tahnoon [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Ṭaḥnūn Āl Nahyān], Chief of Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi] forming an alliance against the rulers of Debaye [Dubai], Ejman [Ajman] and Amulgavine [Umm al-Qaywayn]. Hennell reports that hostilities, so far, have not spread to the sea, and the Government of Bombay considers what might be done to ease tensions.The item contains a table of contents (ff 640-641), and the title page (f 639) contains the following references: ‘P C [Previous Communication] 5507, Coll. 7, Vol. 37’, ‘D/t 197/47’, ‘Collection No. 6 of No. 119’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 639 and terminates at f 660, 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.
Abstract: The file contains a note written by John Gilbert Laithwaite of the India Office introducing enclosed correspondence between the Secretary of State for India, the Government of India, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf concerning the Trucial Coast policy of His Majesty's Government.Consisting of:views of Sir Frederick Johnston, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, 23 April 1929. Johnston considers a policy of interference in terms of successions and supporting shaikhs, assesses the current setup of the Residency Agent and the need to post a full-time Political Agent at Dubai, and recommends reviewing policy with regard to actual conditions and needs.paraphrase telegrams between the Secretary of State for India and the Viceroy, Foreign and Political Department regarding Johnston's despatch on Trucial Sheikhdoms, and the need to wait for Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett to take over as Political Resident.recommendations of Colonel Barrett, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, 5 September 1929. In includes the following: a discussion of the system of succession by murder; a response to the views expressed in Johnston's correspondence; an assessment both of the post of current Resident Agent and of its present incumbent; the attitude of Arab chiefs; the appointment of a British Political Agent; and the policy to be adopted.views of the Government of India pertaining to the recommendations of Colonel Barrett, paraphrase telegram from Viceroy, Foreign and Political Department, to Secretary of State for India, 22 October 1929.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at f 100, and terminates at f 104, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
Abstract: The volume contains copies of letters sent by Major Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, mainly to Arthur Malet, Secretary (later Chief Secretary) to the Government of Bombay in the Secret Department, at Bombay Castle.Their correspondence discusses events in the Persian Gulf between 1847 and 1849 and their significance for British foreign policy, relations and interests in the region. The main topics of discussion are: anti-slavery measures and the ambitions of both the Ottoman Turkish Government and the Persian Government, to extend their influence and authority over Bahrain and other Arab Maritime Chiefdoms of the Trucial Coast.Many of the enclosures referred to by the Resident in his letters to the Bombay Government and others, are present in the volume. Copies of the Resident’s Arabic correspondence with British Government native agents and ruling sheikhs, as well as his copies of correspondence between Ottoman Turkish and Persian officials, are in the form of English translations only and comprise:Letter of friendship from the Ottoman Governor of Bussorah [Basra] to Sheikh Mahomed bin Khuleefa [Shaikh Muḥammed bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah] the Chief of Bahrein, inviting the latter to put himself under the protection of Turkey (folios 10-11);Letter from Hajee Yacoob, British Government Pilot at Kharg [Khārk], reporting the intelligence gathering activities of Ottoman Turkish officials in Koweit [Kuwait] (folios 11-12);Letter from the Governor of Bunder Abass [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] enquiring about an alleged request made by the Imam of Muscat, to transfer to British protection, Bunder Abass and other lands in the Persian Gulf leased to him by Shah of Persia (folio 31);Letters from the British Government Native Agent at Muscat, reporting cases of public sale and purchase of slaves in the ports of Muscat, in contravention of the anti-slavery provisions of the Treaty of 1845 between Muscat and Great Britain (folios 36-38, 48-49);Letters from Mirza Abdool Jubbar [Mirza Abdul Jabbar], the Persian Consul at Bagdad [Baghdad] to Abdullah ben Ahmed [‘Abdullāh bin Aḥmad Āl Khalīfah] the former Chief of Bahrein, to Ali and Mahomed [Alī bin Muḥammed Āl Khalīfah and Muḥammed bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Khalīfah] the sons of the present ruler of Bahrein, Sheikh Mahomed ben Khuleefa about the desire of the Persian Government to establish its authority over Bahrein (folios 51-55);Letter from the British Government Native Agent at Shargah [Sharjah] reporting the renewed importation of slaves into Lingah, in contravention of the Imperial firmans (royal decrees) and orders issued by the Persian authorities, prohibiting the maritime slave trade in their ports on the Persian Gulf (folios 61-62);Exchange of letters between the British Political Resident and Syed Soweynee [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd] Governor of Muscat, regarding alleged Persian aggression against Bunder Abass and other lands on the Persian coast of the Gulf, belonging to the Imam of Muscat (folios 66-68);Exchange of letters of friendship between the British Political Resident and Sheikh Mahomed ben Khuleefa, Chief of Bahrein (folios 74-76, 84);Exchange of letters between the British Political Resident and Sheikh Syed Humood ben Azan [Ḥamūd bin Azan Āl Bū Sa‘īd] the Chief of Sohar [Ṣuḥār] and the agreement with the British Government, signed by his son Syed Syf ben Humood [Sayyid Syf bin Ḥamūd Āl Bū Sa‘īd] on 22 May 1849, prohibiting the African slave trade in the ports of Sohar (folios 79-81).The volume also contains copies of several letters from the Resident to: Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, British Political Agent for Turkish Arabia at Baghdad; Lieutenant-Colonels Justin Sheil and Francis Farrant, British Minister Plenipotentiary and British Chargé d’Affaires respectively, at the Court of the Shah of Persia, Tehran; Commodore Hawkins, commanding the Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence discusses similar topics, including the merits of seeking an extension of the anti-slavery orders issued by the Ottoman Porte, to allow for the confiscation of foreign Persian and Arab slave ships in Turkish waters, as well as native Turkish slave ships.Physical description: Foliation: the contents are numbered 2 to 140, from the front to the back of the volume. The numbering is written in pencil on the recto, in the top right hand corner and encircled. Folios 42, 71, 87-133 and 136-140 are blank. The front cover of the volume and the inside back cover of the volume are unnumbered. This is the main numbering system and should be used for referencing this volume.Pagination: the contents were originally numbered 1-101, 103-167, from the front to the back of the volume. Pages 78-80 and 136-138 are blank. The number 102 has been omitted, resulting in an unnumbered page between pages 101 and 103. The numbering is written in ink in the top right or left corner of the recto and verso respectively. Unnumbered pages: the index at the front and back of the volume and the numerous blank pages towards the end of the volume.Condition: broken spine cover. Folio 26 and the unnumbered folio adjoining it have been stuck together at the corners. This does not obscure any text, since the inaccessible side of both folios is blank.
Abstract: The volume of private and secret letters contains correspondence from successive Residents in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, including Captain Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Captain David Wilson, Dr John MacNeil, Lieutenant Samuel Hennell and David Arnold Blane. The correspondence is to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to the Government of India; Lieutenant-Colonel McDonald, Envoy to the Court of Persia; Charles Morris, Acting Chief of Sectary to the Government of Bombay; and W S Collinson, Commander and Senior Marine Officer in the Persian Gulf, Bassadore [Bāsa‘īdū]. There are various enclosures included in the correspondence, including translations of letters and notes from: Shaik Ahmed of Bushire [Shaikh Aḥmad]; the Prince of Shiraz; Shaik Russool [Shaikh ‘Abd al-Rasūl], the Governor of Bushire; Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd, the Imam of Muscat, and his agent, Hajee Abdool Ameer [Ḥājjī ‘Abd al-Amīr]; and Shaik Abdoollah ben Ahmed [‘Abdullāh bin Aḥmad Āl Khalīfah], chief of Bahrain. In addition, an enclosure (folio 18) is a 'Table showing the entire operations of 4 Cruizers destined for Services connected with the Persian Gulf'.There is an index of letters on folio 2v-3. A note on folio 2r states that 'interesting titles' are marked with a blue cross in the index. Subjects included within the file include: British influence in the Persian Gulf, including relations with Persia, the Wahhabis, Muscat, Bahrain and the Shaikhs on the Arab coast; the movement of vessels and naval issues; movements of native and merchant ships; maintaining the maritime peace; legal claims and disputes; ports in the Persian Gulf and their suitability for steamers; arms trafficking; visits to various locations on the Arab coast, including Sharjah and Bahrain.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates at the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and can be found in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: An original pagination sequence written in ink is present in the volume between ff 4-95.