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325. Letters from Tehran, Turkish Arabia, and the Persian Gulf
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- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 113 of 1842, dated 15 October 1842.The enclosures are dated 16 August to 10 September 1842, and consist of copies of the following correspondence:Copies of despatches from HM Chargé d’affaires at Tehran (Lieutenant Colonel Justin Sheil) to the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Earl of Aberdeen) concerning Persia [Iran], Afghanistan and Herat, including reports of the build-up of Turkish [Ottoman] troops on the Turkish border with Persia. The despatches include: enclosed letters from correspondents including Meerza Abul Hassan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī, Īlchī Kabīr], Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs; a copy of a firman [order or edict] from the Khan of Khiva; and a letter in French from the French Consul General at BaghdadLetters from the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Iraq] (Lieutenant Colonel Robert Taylor) to the Secretary to the Government of India, forwarding copies of correspondence, mainly between Taylor and Sheil, relating to impending hostilities between Turkey [the Ottoman Empire] and PersiaLetters from the Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant Colonel Henry Dundas Robertson) to the Government of Bombay [Mumbai], forwarding copies of correspondence regarding: the proposed withdrawal of the Residency in the Persian Gulf from Bushire [Bushehr]; the circumstances behind the departure of Lootf Ally Khan [Luṭf ‘Alī Khān Lārī], the Commander of the Lar Garrison of Karrack (also spelled Kharg), from Karrack; and news reported from Bahrein [Bahrain] by Mohamed Ali [Muḥammad ‘Alī], Agent at Bahrein, and from Shiraz by Mirza Reeza [Mīrzā Rezā], Agent at Shiraz.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-10, on folios 308-309. These numbers are repeated for reference on the last verso of each enclosure.
326. Factory Records, Persia, Vol 23
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- Abstract: This volume contains letters sent to and from the East India Company Factory at Bussora [Basra] between 22 November 1792 and 11 January 1799, and includes material relating to:The negotiations between the Factor, Harford Jones, and the Bacha of Bagdad [Pāshā of Baghdad, also spelt Bagdat in the correspondence], over the punishment of ‘certain offending Jews’ in BussoraThe command of the Ottoman Emperor [Sultan Selim III] forbidding the appointment of Ottoman citizens as consuls or vice consuls to represent the interests of ‘foreign Christians', and likewise forbidding the latter from purchasing houses and landA consultation held by the Resident, Samuel Manesty and Jones, on relocating the Factory to the town of Grain [Kuwait], and the notification, given by Manesty, to Soliman Bacha of Bagdad [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā]The declaration of war by the French Republic against Britain and Holland, and the need to take measures against the increasing number of French cruisers in the Persian GulfThe complaints of Manesty and Jones to the Governor-General of India, against Captain Guy Hamilton, Commander of the Begum Shaw[Begum Shah], and its ostensible owner, Coja Moses Catcheek [Khwaja Moses Khachik] of Bengal, for proceeding to Bussora instead of carrying a packet to Bombay [Mumbai], and jeopardising the Company’s negotiations with the BachaThe proposals of the Governor-General of India, Sir Charles Cornwallis, and other counsellors at Fort William, toward resolving the dispute between the Resident and the BachaThe transactions between Manesty and Harford Jones and Captain Alexander Foggo, Commander of The Laurel, to deliver a packet from the Court of Directors to the Government of BombayThe Governor of Bushire [Bushehr], Shaik Nesr Khan’s [Shaikh Naṣr Khān I Āl Madhkūr] non-compliance with the decrees of Akaw Mahomed Khan [Āghā Muḥammad Khān Qājār]The Bacha’s disapproval of the decision to relocate the English Factory to Grain, and demand that it be rectified by ‘immediately returning in compliance with my wishes to Bussora’The concerns of Manesty and Jones about the Bacha’s ‘false ideas’ being transmitted to the Ottoman Ministry and Sir Robert Ainslie, British Ambassador at Constantinople [Istanbul], and the departure of Jones from Grain on a mission to Aleppo and ConstantinopleThe reduction by British forces of ‘all the French Establishments in India’The Bacha of Bagdad’s expression of willingness to ‘fulfil the Articles of the Arrangement’ with Jones, and his invitation to Manesty to return the Factory to BussoraThe abscondment of John Southall, acting officer on The Princess Royal,and Thomas Mascalls, gunner on The Antelope, and their ‘abjuration of the Christian Religion to embrace that of Mahomed [Muḥammad]’The survey of Grain Harbour and its entrance by Lieutenant William Maughan, and the suggestion by Manesty that surveying the ‘western side’ of the Gulf would allow packet ships to avoid the areas patrolled by French cruisersThe delivery of two memorials by Jones to the Bacha, and his departure on not receiving an answerThe refusal of the Governor of Bombay to sanction Jones’s mission to ConstantinopleThe request of Soliman Bacha from the Grand Vizier and Reis Effendi to arrange the removal of Manesty and Jones from the Factory through the intervention of the British AmbassadorThe victory of Vice Admiral Richard Howe over the French at the Fourth Battle of UshantThe resignation of Jones as Joint Factor and his departure for Bagdad, Constantinople and LondonA request from the Bacha to the Presidency of Bombay for a consignment of gunpowder, the diversion of the consignment by the Resident to Grain, and the arrival of three of the Bacha’s vessels to take chargeThe arrest of Guglielmo Vicenzo Visetti, son of the Venetian Pro-Consul at AleppoThe communications of Jean-Francois Rousseau, the French Consul at Bagdad, with Pierre du Bruix, the French Resident at SuratThe conquest of Holland by France and conclusion of peace with Prussia, Italy and SpainThe outbreak of hostilities between Great Britain and the ‘late Republic of Holland’The return of Manesty on board a Turkish vessel and re-establishment of the Factory at BussoraThe embarkation of a French ‘Gentleman of Rank’, carrying packets from the French Commandant of the Mauritius or Tipoo Sultan [Tīpū Sulṭān, also written here as Tippoo Sahib], together with another Frenchman, Alexis Gain, on a dhow belonging to Shaik Ibrahim Ibn Abdu Rasac [Shaikh Ibrāhīm Ibn ‘Abd al-Razzāq] of Jubarra [Zubarah?]A meeting between John Lewis Reinaud and the Mussaleem [Mutasallim] of Bussora, Abdullah Aga [‘Abd Allāh Āqā], and consultation with Shaik Ahmed Ibn Salama [Shaikh Aḥmad Ibn Salāma] on a plan to seize the French party’s lettersThe briefing, by Jones, of the British Ambassador at Constantinople, Sir Robert Liston, on the dispute between the Bacha and the ResidentThe determination of the Ottoman Government to restrict the trading privileges granted to the Christian powers of Europe ‘by the ignorance of former times’ within the narrowest possible boundsThe arrival of a French Mauritian vessel of ‘considerable size and force’ at MuscatThe preparation of an expedition against Trincamallee [Trincomalee] under Colonel James Stuart, and another against Malacca under Major Roberts, following the outbreak of war between Britain and HollandThe flight of the eldest son of the Nizam of HyderabadThe British expeditions launched from Bengal against Batavia and from Bombay against Cochin [Kochi]The agreement made between Manesty and Shaik Ibrahim Ibn Gaunam [Shaikh Ibrāhim Ibn Ghānim] for Reinaud to board Shaikh Ibrāhim's dhow to search and seize the papers of Monsieur GuirardThe cultivation, by Manesty, of Shaik Abdullah Ibn Subbah [Shaikh ‘Abd Allāh Ibn Ṣabāh] of Grain to ‘cause obstruction to the Transmission’ of the public dispatches of the enemies of Great BritainThe confiscation, by Reinaud, of a packet from Monsieur Guirard, containing a letter from the French Ambassador at Constantinople, [Claude-] Emile Gaudin, to Pierre du BruixThe replacement of Manesty and Jones by Nathan Crow and Peter Le MessurierThe arrival of a squadron of French frigates under Commodore Renaud at the ‘Mouth of the Gulph’The proposal from Crow and Le Mesurier to institute a regular service of cruisers to BussoraThe mission of Bruyere [Jean Guillaume Bruguière] and Olivier [Guillaume-Antoine Olivier] to Persia [Iran]The appointment of Abbé Beauchamp [Pierre-Joseph de Beauchamp] as French Consul General at MuscatA warning from the Governor of Bombay, Jonathan Duncan, to the Imaum [Imam of Muscat, Sulṭān bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd] and the Calphaun [Sayyid Khalfān bin Muḥammad Āl Bū Sa‘īd, Walī of Muscat] ‘against giving shelter or preference’ to any European nation at war with Britain, and the need to prevent the French from establishing a presence at Muscat and reaching India and the MauritiusThe return of one of the envoys of Tipoo Sultan from FranceThe re-instalment of Manesty as Resident and departure of Crow and Le MessurierThe declaration of war by Spain on Great Britain, and departure of a Dutch fleet for the ‘East Indies’The capture, by Admiral George Elphinstone, of a Dutch squadron under Admiral Engelbertus LucasThe replacement of the French Commander-in-Chief Villaret [Rear-Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse] with ‘Monsieur Morard de Galls’ [Rear-Admiral Justin Bonaventure Morard de Galles]The ‘vast and dangerous’ French projects in the Mediterranean, and the active involvement of ‘Muradja the Swedish Minister at Constantinople’ [Ignatius Mouradgea d'Ohsson, Minister Plenipotentiary], in extending those projects to the Red Sea and the GulfA plan by Monsieur Ohier [Louis Marie Joseph Ohier de Grandpre] to surprise the East India fleetThe reported march of Akaw Mahomed Khan’s army from Corrasoon [Khurasan] to Tarum [Tarom]The mission of Beauchamp to build alliances with ‘native princes’ of Arabia, Persia, and India to disrupt British communications by ‘land and sea’, and to drive them completely out of their territoriesThe plans of Monsieur Leger to engage Tippoo Sultan to commence hostilities against the CompanyThe plan for Shaik Sultan of Muscat to obtain Bandar Bassi [Bandar ‘Abbas] from Aga Mahomed Khan of Persia to furnish the islands of Mauritius and Bourbon [Reunion] with provisionsThe war between Shaik Sultan and Shaik Suggir Ibn Raschid il Mutter of Raz il Khaima [Shaikh Ṣaqr bin Rāshid al-Maṭar of Ra’s al-Khaymah], Shaik of the Jausomee [Qāsīmī] Arabs and the danger to British vesselsThe capture by the French, under General Napoleon Bonaparte, of Malta and AlexandriaThe procurement of arms by Tipoo Sultan and the Mahrattas [Marathas] at BagdadThe victory of Admiral Horatio Nelson over the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile [Abu Qir Bay]The firman to Eusuf Pasha [Yūsūf Pāshā], Governor of Medina, to allow British ships to cruise the Red SeaThe reluctance of Jazzar Pashaw of Acra [Jazzār Aḥmad Pāshā of Acre], to march against Napoleon Bonaparte in Egypt, following the dismissal of Aptullah [‘Abd Allāh al-Azm] of Damascus.Physical description: The foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 745; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is present in parallel between 261-745 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out. The foliation sequence does not include the front cover. The sequence contains one foliation anomaly, f 215a.
327. PERSIA FACTORY RECORDS: LETTERS FROM BASRA, 1753-1773, PT 1
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- Abstract: This item contains correspondence sent to and received from the East India Company Factory at Bussora [Basra] from 17 January 1753 to 19 April 1765. It contains correspondence relating to the following:The Mussaleem of Bussora’s [Mutasallim of Basra] arrest of the Dutch Resident [Tiddo Frederik van] Kniphausen on the orders of Soliman Bashaw [Sulaymān Abū Laylā, Pāshā of Baghdad, also written here as Solyman Bashaw]The death of William Fytche and succession of Roger Drake as Governor of BengalThe order given by Soliman Bashaw for the execution of his brother-in-law, Achmed Aga [Aḥmad Āghā], for alleged ‘intrigues’ carried out against him at the Ottoman PorteThe appointment of William Shaw and Alexander Douglass to take charge of the East India Company agencies at Bussora and Gombroon [Bandar ‘Abbas] respectivelyThe delayed response to the ‘encouragement & invitations’ of Mir Nasir [Mīr Nāṣir bin Ḥamad al-Zu’ābī, also written here as Meir Nassir, Mir Nassir and Mir Nasser] to the East India Company to send a servant to Bunderick [Bandar-i Rig, also written here as Bundereeck]The departure of Soliman Bashaw from Bagdat [Baghdad] with an army of fifteen thousand against ‘a people situated northward of Mussaul [Mosul]’ and his ravaging of the countryThe withdrawal of the Dutch Factory at Bussora to Bushire [Bushehr], by order of their superiors at Gombroon, and the possible cost of the Factory’s relocation and re-establishmentThe grant of a Phirmaund [farmān] from the Grand Senor [Sulṭān Maḥmūd I] confirming Soliman Bashaw in ‘all the governments he formerly held’ together with a gift of a sword and sable coat of honourThe clashes between Careem Caun [Karīm Khān Zand, Vakīl of Persia] and Azat Caun an offgoon [Āzād Khān Ghiljā’ī, also known as Āzad Khān Afghān, self-declared Ruler of Azarbaijan], and the latter’s support for a claimant calling himself Shaw Sulṭan Hossein [Shāh Sulṭān Ḥusayn], a son of Shaw Thomas [Shāh Tahmāsb], who had recently returned from Muscovy [Russia]The Governor-General of Batavia’s [Jacob Mossel] dispatch of Kniphausen back to the Gulf, the latter’s arrival at Carrack [Kharg], ‘a small island contiguous to Bundereeck’, and the attempts of Mir Nasir to mediate between the Dutch and the MussaleemThe interception of a packet from the Agent at Bussora to the Consul at Aleppo, Alexander Drummond, by ‘one Mutti a Venetian Merchant’ and the Dutch Consul at AleppoThe threat from Soliman Bashaw against Mir Nasir, Governor of Bunderick and Shaik Nassir, Governor of Bushire [Shaikh Nāṣir Khān Abū Muhayrī], to ‘chastise them severely’ for continuing to harbour KniphausenThe execution of Mir Nasir, Governor of Bunderick, by his youngest son, Mir Mahanna [Mīr Muḥannā, also written here as Meer Mahanna], and the flight of the latter’s elder brother to the Dutch in the ‘adjacent Country’The victory of Careem Caun over Azat Caun near Shyrash [Shiraz], and the possibility that both might submit to Ahmed Shaw, King of the Offgoons [Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī], who has already taken part of Khorason [Khurasan]The surprise attack by Meer Husson [Mīr Ḥasan bin Nāṣir al-Zu’ābī], eldest son of Mir Nasir, on his brother Mir Mahanna, and the binding of the latter in chains, although it is believed he will not easily quit his ‘pretensions’The arrival of a French Commissary on the Coromandell Coast and his dismissal of Governor Duplex [Joseph François Dupleix] and three of his councillors for their ‘Imprudent Conduct’The Grand Senior’s [Sulṭān Osmān III] appointment of Ally Basha [Silāḥdār Bıyıklı ‘Alī Pāshā] as Grand Vizier, and the latter’s enmity towards Soliman BashawThe battle fought by Colonel [Eyre] Coote against Monsieur Laly [Thomas Arthur, Comte de Lally] and his Moratta [Maratha] allies commanded by Innis Cawn [Yūnūs Khān], the Chief Officer of Mororow [Murari Rao Ghorpade] at Wandiwash [Vandavasi]The raising of an army by the Mugull Sha Zada [Mughal Shāhzādah, or Crown Prince, ‘Alī Gawhar, the future Shāh ‘Ālam II] and rumours that he had taken PatnaThe death of Soliman Bashaw and the unanimous appointment of the ‘King’s Treasurer’ by Government officials and the ‘whole body’ of the Janissaries in BagdatThe attainment by Carim Caun of such a degree of power as to keep his rivals in the ‘utmost awe and submission’ and ensure his position as the ‘sovereign power’ in Persia [Iran]The terms of the agreement between Saddooc Caun [Sādiq Khān Zand], Governor of Shyrash, and William Andrew Price of the East India Company for the latter’s assistance against Mir MahannaThe plunder of the English factories at Patna, Dacca [Dhaka], and Cassimbuzar [Kasim Bazar] by Cossim Ally Caun the Nabob of Bengall [Mīr Qāsim ‘Alī Khān Najafī, the Nawwāb of Bengal], the proclamation of Jaffer Ally Caun [Mīr Ja‘far ‘Alī Khān Najafī] as Nabob, and the latter’s taking of the field against Cossim Ally Caun, together with the forces of the English East India CompanyThe Articles of Agreement made and concluded between William Andrew Price, Agent for the affairs of the British Nation in the Gulf of Persia, on behalf of the Honourable United English East India Company, and Shaik Saddoon of Bushire [Shaikh Sa‘dūn bin Madhkūr Abū Muhayrī of Bushehr], 12 April 1763 (f 97)The imprisonment of Hodgee Esoof Delal Bashee [Hājī Yūsuf Dallāl Bashī], his execution by strangulation, and the discovery of his body at the ‘Corn Market’ in BussoraThe Company’s appeal to the Mussaleem not to dispose of Hodgee Esoof’s large estate, ‘particularly in Lands & Houses’, before his debts to them have been settledThe retreat of the Nabob Cossim Ally Caun beyond Patna and the massacre of the English gentlemen and soldiers by Sumroos [Walter Reinhardt Sombre] on 6 October 1763The victories of the King of Candia [Kirti Sri Rajasinha, King of Kandy] against the Dutch at Ceylon [Sri Lanka], despite their reinforcement with ‘ships and men from Batavia’The encampment of Carim Caun’s army at Havisa [Hoveyzeh] and their crossing of the river to attack Shaik Soliman, the latter being indebted to him ‘for a large Tribute’, and Mir Mahanna’s coordinated dispatch of his gallivats to prevent the Chaub [Banū Ka‘b] from escapingThe killing of Captain Herbert Sutherland and his officers by Arab lascars aboard TheIslamabad, and the seizure of four lach [lakh] Rupees in pearls and treasure.Physical description: 1 item (180 folios)
328. PERSIA FACTORY RECORDS: LETTERS FROM BASRA, 1753-1773, PT 2
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- Abstract: This item contains correspondence sent to and received from the East India Company Factory at Bussora [Basra] from 20 April 1765 to 24 August 1766. It contains correspondence relating to the following:The displeasure of Carim Caun [Karīm Khān Zand] with the Mussaleem [Mutasallim], Solliman Aga [Sulaymān Āghā], for the latter’s tardiness in joining his expedition against the Chaub [Banū Ka‘b], and Carim Caun’s ‘ungenteel reception’ of the envoys from Bussora and their dismissal without any presentsThe progress of the Mussaleem’s army, supported by the fleet of the Captain Bashaw [Kapūdān Pāshā] and the Company ship The Fanny, down the Shatt al-Arab and their skirmishes with the ChaubThe complaints of Shaik Soliman Chaub [Shaikh Salmān bin Sulṭān al-Ka‘bī] against Mr Shaw for taking his date trees at Magyl [Al-Ma‘qil] and Silik [al-Sikk?] and keeping many of his subjects as ‘Hamalls’ [porters]The surrender of Souja Dowla [Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥaydar Khān Shujā‘ al-Dawlah Nishāpurī, Nawwāb of Awadh] to Lord [Robert] Clive [1st Baron Clive of Plassey] near AllahabadThe defeat of the fleet dispatched by Shaik Sadoon [Shaikh Sa‘dūn bin Madhkūr Abū Muhayrī of Bushehr] and the Dutch from Karreck [Kharg] by the men of Meer Mahanna [Mīr Muḥannā, also written as Meer Manna] ‘clothed with Coats of Mail’ on the Island of Corgo [Khargu]The negotiations conducted by Siad Mahomed [Sayyid Muḥammad] and Abdulla Beg [‘Abd Allāh Beg] with Shaik Soliman on behalf of the Bashaw of Bagdat [Pāshā of Baghdad]Carim Cawn’s ‘disgust’ with the Company’s lack of assistance against Meer Mahanna, and reversal of his ‘High Opinion’ of the English, as a result of the Chaub’s capture of several English vesselsThe siege and capture of the fortress of Karreck by Meer Mahanna, the escape of the Dutch Resident to Bushire [Bushehr], and his request for assistance from the East India CompanyThe threats of the Company against Shaik Soliman to persuade him to enter negotiations towards the release of the captured English vesselsThe demand of the Mussaleem and Shaik Dervis [Shaikh Darvīsh] that the Company join them in their war against Shaik Soliman, on account of his deceitfulness and potential for undermining the reputation of the English with the Grand Signor at ConstantinopleThe victory of Captain Lesley Baillie against the fleet of the Chaub, and Benjamin Hollamby’s request from Carem Caun not to offer asylum to Shaik SolymanThe arrival of Zakey Caun [Zakī Khān Zand], brother of Carem Caun, with an army at Ginova [Bandar-i Ganaveh, also written as Ginouva], on a mission aimed at the ‘destruction’ of Meer MahannaThe proposal of Shaik Sadoon to the Company for a joint naval attack against Shaik Soliman, the success of Zaki Caun’s campaign against Meer Mahanna at Ginova, and the suggestion that Shaik Sadoon and the Company assist in transporting Carim Caun’s troops to KarrackA parley between Shaik Anum [Shaikh Ghānim bin Salmān al-Ka‘bī] and Captain Andrew Nesbitt, during which the latter, suspecting an ambush, decided to attack first, ‘dangerously’ wounding the Shaik, and killing three of his ‘Most Principal Men’.Physical description: 1 item (178 folios)
329. PZ 7769/1934 'Supply of maps to the political resident in the Persian Gulf'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence, notes, supply notes, and an air consignment note, relating to the supply of maps to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.It includes correspondence between Trenchard Craven William Fowle, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and John Gilbert Laithwaite, India Office, and between Laithwaite and Arthur Robert Hinks and others at the Royal Geographical Society, regarding Fowle’s requests to be sent copies of the map in Bertram Thomas’s ‘Arabia Felix’, and the map in Philby’s ‘Rub al Khali’. It also includes correspondence between Fowle and M J Clauson, India Office, and between Clauson and Hinks, concerning Fowle’s request for three additional copies of Bertram Thomas’s map to be sent to himself at the Residency, Bushire, and to the Political Agents at Bahrain and Muscat. This correspondence is dated 27 November 1934 to 28 December 1936.Correspondence and other papers dated 27 May 1940 to 9 May 1946, relate to the supply of a complete set of the charts of the Persian Gulf, up to and including the Shatt al Arab, and copies of replacements of charts which may be issued from time to time, to Charles Geoffrey Prior, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. These papers include a telegram from Prior to the Secretary of State for India, and correspondence between J P Gibson, India Office, and the Superintendent of the Admiralty Charts Supplies Division.The file does not contain any papers for the period between 29 December 1936 to 26 May 1940.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 38; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
330. PZ 7248/33 'Persian Gulf: Jewish school at Bushire; q[uestio]n of financial assistance from Anglo-Jewish Association'
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- Abstract: Thefile contains correspondence regarding a request by the Jewish community inBushire for assistance in funding a school, and the consideration of thisrequest by the Anglo-Jewish Association. The primary correspondents are:Secretary, Anglo-Jewish Association; Colonial Office; Political Resident,Persian Gulf.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 42, and terminates at f 55, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
331. Political No. 14 of 1874, Forwarding Copies of Papers Regarding the Demands Made by the Persian Local Authorities at Bushire for Salvage on Account of Goods Landed from the Mesopotamia
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of a General Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, in continuation of No. 20 of 2 June 1873, regarding the demands made by the Persian [Iranian] local authorities at Bushire [Būshehr] for salvage on account of goods landed from the Mesopotamia, forwarding a copy of two further letters on the subject from HM Minister at Teheran [Tehran] and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 508 and terminates at f 513, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains two foliation anomalies: f 508a and f 511a.
332. Political No. 225 of 1874, Forwarding a Copy of Correspondence with the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf Regarding the Alleged Evasion of Customs Duties at Bushire by Persian Subjects who are Employed as Agents of British Merchants
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- Abstract: This item consists of a copy of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 25 December 1874, forwarding for information a copy of correspondence with the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf regarding the alleged evasion of customs duties at Bushire [Bushehr] by Persian [Iranian] subjects who are employed as Agents of British merchants.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 601, and terminates at f 604, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains one foliation anomaly: f 601a.
333. Political No. 64 of 1873, Forwarding Copies of Papers Relating to the Claim of Messrs Malcolm of Bushire to British Protection
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 10 April 1873, forwarding papers relating to the claim of Messrs [Arsham and Tigranes Joseph] Malcolm of Bushire [Būshehr] to British protection.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 129, and terminates at f 134a, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains four foliation anomalies, f 129a, f 132a, f 133a, and f 134a.
334. Pol. External Dept 16640/48 'Transfer of the Church of the Epiphany at Bushire'
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- Abstract: This file contains correspondence relating to the intended de-consecration and sale of the Church of the Epiphany at Bushire in 1948. The majority of the papers discuss the need to dispose of the building as the rest of the Residency compound is put up for sale. Some papers discuss means of preserving the church despite the sale of the other buildings in the compound by transferring its buildings to the ownership of the Church in Iran.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 31; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
335. Persian Gulf Affairs
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- Abstract: This item consists of a despatch to the Secret Committee, 31 July 1839, from John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government, Bombay [Mumbai]. The despatch itself (not included) is numbered 1 and is followed by an abstract of contents, numbered 2. The abstract of contents is followed by despatches, numbered 3-24, which are chiefly from John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government, Bombay [Mumbai], to the Secretary with the Governor-General of India, (with some responses from the latter), and from Willoughby to Captain Samuel Hennell, Political Resident, Persian Gulf. Other despatches comprise minutes of the Governors in Council, Bombay, and single despatches to the Bombay Government from: Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick Maitland, Naval Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies; Lieutenant-Colonel Stratford Powell, Adjutant-General of the Army; and (the final despatch) Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Campbell, HM Consul-General in Egypt, based in Alexandria.The main subjects covered are:Observations, approbation and instructions by the Government of Bombay and Government of India relating to the actions that Hennell and the Assistant Resident, Lieutenant Thomas Edmunds, have recently undertaken in the Persian Gulf (as described in IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 279-409) with regard to halting the perceived encroachments of Egypt in the Persian Gulf, in particular efforts to effect the expulsion from Shargah [Sharjah] of Syed bin Mootlook [Sa‘d bin Mutlaq al-Muṭayrī], the self-professed agent of Korshid Pasha [Khūrshid Pasha, also spelled Khorshid, Kurshid, and Kourschid Pacha in this item], Commanding the Egyptian Forces in Nedgd [Najd, also known as Nejd], and encouragement of the Chief of Bahrein [Bahrain] to break his treaty agreement with Kurshid PashaThe removal of the Residency from Bushire [Bushehr] to the island of Karrack [Kharg, also known as Khark, also spelled Kharrack in this item] following a dispute with Mirza Assad, Governor of Bushire, including: approbation of the actions of Rear-Admiral Maitland, on the Wellesley; Hennell’s suspension of communications with the Government of Fars; the honouring, by the Shah of Persia [Iran] of Mirza Assad for his recent actions and consequent British suspicions concerning the Shah's professed desire for the restoration of friendly relations with BritainThe removal of Sheik Nassir [Shaikh Nāṣir Āl Mazkūr II, a former Governor of Bushire] from Bushire, notably concern that Lieutenant-Colonel James Shirreff [also spelled Sheriff in this item], Commanding the Field Force at Kharrack, acted beyond his powers; and the Governor-General’s recommendation that Hennell arrange compensation for Sheik Nassir, maintain his residency on Karrack in good condition and inform him of the possibility of his return to the island in futureIntelligence relating to the condition and movements of the Persian ArmyThe removal to India of the British military detachment recently serving in Persia under Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin Shee, and whether the Government of Bombay should have first consulted Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, HM Chargé d’Affaires in PersiaThe vesting in Shirreff of powers of courts martial and capital punishment, authorizing the execution of death sentences in certain circumstances, on condition of consultation with the Political ResidentThe communication, obtained by HM Consul-General in Alexandria, from Mehemet Ali [Muḥammad ‘Alī Pasha al-Mas‘ūd bin Āghā, Governor of Egypt] to Kourschid Pasha to suspend military interference in the island of Bahrein, including a copy in [Ottoman] Arabic and translation (into French) of the order (ff 653-655).Physical description: 1 item (53 folios)
336. Persian Gulf Affairs
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- Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 27 of 1844, dated 30 March 1844. The enclosures are dated 31 January-30 March 1844.The enclosures chiefly comprise correspondence, with relevant enclosures, between Captain Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire [Bushehr]; John Pollard Willoughby, Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay; and Frederick Currie, Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General.The subjects covered are:The complaint brought by the Persian [Iranian] Yawur, or Commandant, of the Bushire Garrison against Hajee [Haji] Yacoob, the Honourable Company’s Coal Agent at Karrack [Kharg Island], of being an ‘evil disposed and intriguing character’ (f 497) who has misappropriated money collected from the island’s inhabitants and caused many of them to flee, and a request by the Ameer [Amir] of Shiraz to Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, HM Chargé d’Affaires at the Court of Persia [Iran], for the dismissal of the agentThe investigation by Hennell and the Assistant Resident, Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, which finds the charges against the Coal Agent unproved and groundless (including enquiry statements on ff 507-511), and the decision, nevertheless, that the agent should be redeployed as his ‘obnoxious…attachment to British interests’ (f 518) has irritated the native authorities at Karrack, and that since the coaling station is of insufficient strategic importance it should be removed in order to conciliate Persian anger over British occupation of the island and to alleviate concerns of the Persian Prime Minister that the station sets a pretext for Russia to establish a similar operation on one of the islands near Asterabad [Astarabad]. Includes copies of Hennell’s correspondence with Sheil and a minute of the Governors concurring in the removal of the coal depot from KarrackPersian plans, by the Shah’s architect, for the construction of fortifications at Bushire, notably Hennell’s concerns that they may impinge on the landing space opposite the Residency Gate that the British have traditionally used since 1810 when the Residency moved to its locationThe arrival in Bushire of Shaik Abdoolla Bin Ahmed [Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Aḥmad Āl Khalīfah], the ex-Chief of Bahrein [Bahrain] and British policy regarding his aim of obtaining Persian support to recapture the island.Physical description: The enclosure numbers 3-10 are written on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure, which also contain an abstract of the contents of the enclosure.