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/4/2280/116915. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the British Agent at Bahrain [Ḥājī Jāsim]; and Syed Soweney [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Governor of Muscat. It is the second in a series of five items on the trade in enslaved people.The item concerns:Syed Soweney’s request for the release of five buggalows [baghlahs] captured because they were carrying enslaved peopleThe difficulty in distinguishing enslaved people being employed as sailors and enslaved people being transported on ships for saleThe growth in the trade in enslaved people on the Persian Coast, particularly at Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh], and possible measures to combat it.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 154/49’, and ‘Collection No 1 of No 33’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 412, and terminates at f 425 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 seventh 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 Sheik Saeed ben Guzeeb [Sa‘īd bin Qāzib], Governor of Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh].The item concerns:Hennell’s instructions for HC Sloop
Cliveto be stationed at the lower end of the Gulf, in response to the ‘disturbed state of affairs on the coast of Batinah [Al Batinah]’A letter from Sheik Saeed ben Guzeeb accusing Ahmed ben Houssein [Aḥmad bin Ḥusayn], the Agent at Lingah, of receiving a bribe from the owner of two enslaved people.The item contains a table of contents (f 506), and the title page (f 505) contains the following references: ‘Dft. No. 424 of 1851’, Collection No. 1, Vol. 7’, 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 509, 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, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 13 November 1847. A copy of this Political Letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2238/112322, alongside details of further enclosures. The item is the thirty-fourth in a series of fifty-nine items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item relates to the recent declaration by Sheik Saed ben Guzeeb, Sheik of Lingah [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Qaḍīb, Shaikh of Bandar-e Lengeh], that all vessels from his port which travel to India should be treated as Persian [Iranian] and therefore granted the benefits given to Persian subjects under the current treaties existing between Great Britain and Persia. He states that all vessels from his port will be given a register with his seal as proof of identity.The item contains the Government of Bombay’s response to this news and their subsequent instructions to Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, and to the Collector of Customs.The item also contains a copy of the rukum supplied by the Governor of Shiraz to Sheik Saed, dated April 1847, confirming that he should be granted the same privileges as a Persian subject (folios 437-438).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 435, and terminates at f 439, 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, consultations, 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 Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Saeed ben Guzeeb, [Sa‘īd bin Qāzib], Governor of Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh]. It is the eleventh in a series of twenty-one items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns the exoneration of the British Agent at Lingah from a charge of having accepted a bribe from the owner of two enslaved people.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 222, and terminates at f 226, 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 resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, an extract of a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 28 August 1855. The enclosures are dated 22 November 1854-8 August 1855.The item relates to information supplied by Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to the Government of Bombay. Kemball provides details on the fine levied against the vendor of two enslaved children, who had been sold at Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh] to a group of pilgrims from Lucknow.The title page of the item contains the following references: 'Bombay Political Department', Draft Number '1199 [18]55', 'Collection No.1', 'Vol: 2', and 'Examiner's Office'. Originally, the Collection number was given as '3 of No. 86 of 1855.' but this has been crossed out.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 526, and terminates at f 530, 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/4/2302/118727. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Commander John Croft Hawkins, Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf; and Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. It is the third in a series of fifty-one items on the Persian Gulf.The item concerns Croft’s report of a cruise he undertook of the Persian [Iranian] Coast, including the following incidents:A demand by a Hindu merchant on the Shaik of Bahrein [Shaikh Muḥammad bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah, Shaikh of Bahrain]The sinking of the
Hashmeeand the conduct of the Shaik of Assaloo [Bandar-e Asaluyeh] and his family on this occasionDisputes between Assaloo and Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh]The case of a man who owned an eighth part of a vessel but sold the vessel without the consent of the other seven partnersThe complaints of the Shaik of Congoon [Shaikh Ḥusayn bin Jubārah of Kangan] against his neighboursThe visit of an officer of the Crown Prince of Persia to CongoonA conversation between the Reverend Henry Stern of the Jewish London Missionary Society, and the shaikhs of Bahrein.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Collection No 2 of No 129’, ‘Coll[ection]: 17’ and ‘Draft no 465 of 49’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 344, and terminates at f 358, 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/4/2302/118727. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. It is the forty-third in a series of fifty-one items on the Persian Gulf.The item concerns a visit by Sheik Ally bin Khuleefa [Shaikh ‘Alī bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah], a brother of the ruler of Bahrein [Bahrain], to Hennell. Sheik Ally’s purpose was to persuade Hennell to induce the Chief of Lingah, Sheik Saeed ben Guzeeb [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Qāzib of Bandar-e Lengeh], to allow the al boo Someit [Āl Bū Ṣamad] tribe to leave Lingah and settle at Bahrein without the Shaikh of Bahrein having to first pay off all their debts.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Collection No 5 of No 4’, ‘Coll[ection]: 17’ and ‘Draft no 465 of 49’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 652, and terminates at f 657, 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/4/2302/118727. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. It is the fifth in a series of fifty-one items on the Persian Gulf.The item concerns the results an interview between Hennell and the Shaikh of Lingah [Bander-e Lengeh], Shaik Saad bin Guzeeb [Sa‘īd bin Qāzib], in which they discussed:A complaint by Shaik Saad about customs duty at Muscat being incorrectly applied to one of his shipsRelations between Lingah and Nabend [Damagheh-ye Nay Band]The proposed relocation of the al boo Soomut tribe [Āl Bū Ṣamad] from Lingah to Bahrein [Bahrain].The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Collection No 4 of No 129’, ‘Coll[ection]: 17’ and ‘Draft no 465 of 49’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 365, and terminates at f 370, 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, 31 January 1848. A copy of this Political Letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2238/112322, alongside details of further enclosures. The item is the fiftieth in a series of fifty-nine items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item contains a letter, dated 12 November 1847, from Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to the Government of Bombay on the subject of cholera at Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh]. The item also contains the government's reaction and subsequent orders.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘Draft No. 345/48, Coll: 2, Vol: 50’, ‘Collection No. 6 of No. 21’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 557, and terminates at f 560, 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 volume’s correspondence covers three subjects, as follows:Affairs at Bahrain (folios 2-165): the hostilities between Shaikh Muḥammad bin Khalīfah, the Ruler of Bahrain, and Shaikh Muḥammad’s estranged relatives based at Dammām, in cohort with Fayṣal ibn Turki’s forces at Al-Qaṭīf; naval operations against the fugitive Humud bin Mujdell off the coast of Al-Qaṭīf;Arab Coast and Muscat (folios 166-298): including sporadic incidents of maritime hostility on the Arab coast; rumours of a tax on British subjects at Muscat; the shipwreck and plunder of a ship carrying coal off the coast at Ra’s al Ḥadd; the preparation of maps of the Arab coast with Arabic place names; reports on the people and places of the Persian Gulf, and in particular the Arab coast; allocation of the Persian Gulf squadron’s naval resources.Slave Trade (folios 299-388): the import of slaves into the ports of the Persian coast, in particular Charrack [Bandar-e Chārak], Kelat and Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh]; fines levied against the shaikhs of the ports of the Persian coast; measures to suppress the slave trade between Zanzibar and the Gulf.Physical description: Foliation: The letterbook, which is split into two volumes, is foliated from the first subject cover sheet to the last letter, using circle numbers in the top-right corner of each recto. There is an earlier pagination system, using numbers written in ink, running through both volumes. The first volume of the letterbook ends on folio 204. The second volume of the letterbook begins on folio 205. The front cover, front three flyleaves, rear flyleaf and inside back cover of the first volume of the letterbook are unfoliated. The front cover, front flyleaf, rear flyleaf and inside back cover of the second volume are unfoliated. The following foliation anomalies occur: 1A, 1B, 173A, 173B, no 173.
Abstract: The volume's correspondence and other papers document British officials' attempts to suppress the slave trade in the Gulf, and their procedures for dealing with liberated slaves. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Captain Felix Jones), Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government in Bombay, and representatives of the Persian Gulf Squadron of the Indian Navy, primarily Commodore Griffith Jenkins, Commanding Officer of the Persian Gulf Squadron. Correspondence is grouped under subject numbers as follows:Subject no. 11 (folios 3-43) contains correspondence relating to the apparent inaction of the Persian slave commissioner at Bushire, over the importation from Sharjah of twenty slaves, and the reluctance of British naval officials to stop and search vessels suspected of carrying slaves at Bushire, for fear that they would be contravening international law (folios 18-19). In his covering letter to the Secretary to the Government in Bombay, dated 17 November 1858, Jones expresses his opinion that the various slave trade suppression treaties need greater clarification in order to be properly effected (folios 3-8);12: Seizure of a 'Joasmee [Qasimi] vessel' carrying one male slave and five female slaves, in the Bushire roads (folios 47-54);13: Miscellaneous papers relating to the slave trade in Persia (folios 58-80), including the appointment of Persian assistants to accompany British vessels (folios 58, 60), and a report from Lieutenant P W Tendall, the British slave agent at the Bassidore [Bāsa‘īdū] slave depot (folios 63-66);14: Correspondence relating to Commodore Jenkins's opinion that the Persian authorities are not fulfilling their obligations with regard to the Anglo-Persian slave trade suppression treaty (folios 84-111). In a letter to the Secretary to the Government in Bombay, dated 24 August 1859, Jones writes that he believes the port at Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh] has become the entrepôt for slaves brought from Africa (folios 87-88);15: Correspondence concerning the apparent lack of co-operation from the Persian slave commissioner's assistant, in a case of a slave found on a Persian boat (folios 115-61). A letter dated 16 May 1859, from Lieutenant Chester of Her Majesty's sloop
Falklandwritten to Commodore Jenkins, reports the incident (folios 119-20), leading to the incident being taken up by British officials at the Court of Persia;16: Correspondence from the Secretary of State for India related to the slave trade, forwarded to the Residency by the British Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson (folios 165-70). The enclosed letter, written by C Wood of the India Office, dated 15 December 1859, contains an overview of recent correspondence concerning the suppression of the slave trade, between the Persian Gulf Resident, British officials in Persia, and Indian naval authorities (folios 167-70);17: Female attendant for female slaves at Bassidore (folios 173-77);18: Suspension of the post of European slave agent at Bassidore (folios 181-87). In a letter dated 25 July 1859, Jones writes to Commodore Jenkins, stating that he is abolishing the appointment of a European slave agent at the slave depot in Bassidore, in light of there being too few slaves and no one with sufficient time to keep the post. The post at Bassidore will instead be filled by a native agent (folios 181-82);19: The chief of Debaye [Dubai] implicated in, then acquitted of, the kidnap of Somalee [Somalian] slaves (folios 192-95);20: Correspondence relating to a boat carrying slaves from Somalia, belonging to the Sheikh of Amulgavine [Umm al-Qaywayn]. The boat was captured off the Aden coast by Her Majesty's Steamer
LadyCanning, under the charge of Captain Playfair. Sixty-three slaves were liberated. (folios 199-210)The file is a continuation of 'Vol 259 Slave Trade' (IOR/15/1/171), which contains subjects 1-10. Further subjects (numbered 21-27) are contained in the file 'Vol 255 Slave Trade' (IOR/15/1/168).Physical description: Foliation: The file is foliated from the first to last page of writing with pencil numbers enclosed in circles in the top-right corner of the recto of each folio. Foliation anomalies: 20A, 45A, 55A, 69A, 109A, 162A, 164A, 164B, 178A, 196A.
Abstract: This file contains translations of letters sent to David Wilson, the Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire.The letters contained in the file are from Britain's native agents (based at Bahrain, Muscat, Sharqah [Sharjah] and Lingah) and from several local rulers including the Chief of Bushire, the Imam of Muscat, Shaik Sooltan Bin Suggur [Sulṭān bin Saqr Āl Qāsimī, the Ruler of Sharjah], Shaik Abdoolla of Kishm [Shaikh Abdullah of Qeshm] and the Chief of Lingah.The letter discuss a number of topics related to political and trade developments in the region and to Britain's relations with local rulers.Physical description: Condition: A bound letter book, the covers of which have come loose.Pagination: The file has a pagination sequence, which is written in the top right corner of each recto and the top left corner of each verso. It begins on the front cover, on number 1A, and ends on the last page of writing, on number 183.