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13. Persian Gulf Affairs
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- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay's Secret Department to the East India Company's Secret Committee, Number 7 of 1841, dated 31 January 1841. The enclosures are dated 26 May 1840 to 30 January 1841, and relate to the Persian Gulf.The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence sent and received by the Government of Bombay, as well as copies of memoranda, minutes and resolutions of the Government of Bombay.The main correspondents are as follows: the Political Secretary to the Government of Bombay; the Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Secretary to the Government of India; the British Agent at Muscat; and the Superintendent of the Indian Navy.The enclosures discuss matters including:The concerns expressed by the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat that the French nation intended to take over the Imam’s possessions in the neighbourhood of ZanzibarThe response of the Governor General of India in Council to the request made by Colonel Taylor, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, Baghdad, for a vessel of war to transport the Lieutenant of the Pasha of Baghdad to Bombay for the purpose of arranging his plans for the recovery of the Porte’s [Ottoman Empire’s] influence in ArabiaThe question of the relative positions of authority of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Commodore or officer commanding the Indian Naval Squadron stationed in the Persian Gulf, in relation to the SquadronThe disputes between the Chiefs of Debaye [Dubai, also spelled Debay and Debye in the item] and Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi, also spelled Aboothabie in the item]The policy which should be pursued in the event of Ameer Khaled (also spelled Ameer Khalid) attempting to extend his authority over the province of OmanThe Resident in the Persian Gulf giving a pledge to the Imaum of Muscat to aid him in resisting the invasion of Oman or any of his other territoriesThe visit of the Chief of Sohar [Ṣuḥār] to Bombay.This part of the volume also includes other enclosures relating to places including Shargah [Sharjah], Persia [Iran], and Bahrein [Bahrain].Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-68, on folios 163-176. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure.
14. Persian Gulf Affairs
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- Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 79 of 1841, dated 30 September 1841. The enclosures are dated 14 June-14 September 1841.The principal correspondents are: Captain Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; Commodore George Barnes Brucks, Indian Navy, Commanding the Naval Squadron in the Gulf of Persia, on the EIC [East India Company’s] ship of war Coote; the Acting Secretary to Government, Bombay; and the Secretary and the Officiating Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay.The item covers and includes the following:A letter from the Agent at Shiraz conveying intelligence from that area, including the arrival of Hubeel Olloh Khan [Ḥabīb Allāh Khān, also spelled Habeeb Oolla Khan in this item], Commandant of Artillery at Tuft [Taft], near Yezd [Yazd], en route to Kerman with eight guns and 6000 troops (ff 145-146), ostensibly on a mission which was initially to invade and destroy Kerman and was revised to destroying and plundering only the towns that had sent adherents to Aga Khan [Ḥasan 'Alī Shāh, Āqā Khān-i Awwal] and then to return to FarsHennell’s report of the hostile conduct of Shaik Nasir, Governor of Bushire [Āl Madhkūr, Shaikh Nāṣir II, Governor of Bushehr], towards British government officials there, including: an intimation that no officers from Karrack [Kharg Island, also known as Khark Island, also spelled Karrak and Kharrack in this item] are allowed to visit Bushire; punitive measures taken against the pilot of the Braemarwho sailed to Bussorah [Basra] ignoring Shaik Nasir’s orders for the ship’s detention in Bushire harbour; and the unsuccessful attempts by Shaik Nasir to prevent the transmission of supplies to Karrack (where Hennell is currently stationed)Hennell’s requisitions to Brucks to undertake a tour of the Persian Gulf during the current pearl fishery season (ff 147-153) including instructions for: one war ship to accompany the Coote; the route and the stops Brucks is to take along the Arabian coast from Bahrein [Bahrain] to Muscat, with the war ship calling at Bassadore [Basaidu] and Lingah [Bandar Lengeh] on its return to Karrack; delivering presents to the principal ‘Arabian chiefs’; investigating the political and military situation in Kateef [Qatif]; and for investigating and seeking redress for two acts of ‘piracy’ allegedly committed by subjects of Shaik Abdoolah bin Ahmed [Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Aḥmad Āl Khalīfah, Shaikh of Bahrain] as described in a letter from the Native Agent at Bahrein (ff 154-155). This is followed by a series of reports by Brucks to Hennell (ff 156-173) notably describing: the state of affairs in Katiff [Qatif] and Nedged [Najd]; a ‘war’ on the coastal area between Rass-ul-Khyma [Ras Al Khaimah] and Abothabbee [Abu Dhabi]; his actions regarding the two cases of ‘piracy’; his intentions in relation to the trade in enslaved persons allegedly carried on between the Lingah ‘chiefs’ and the families of the ‘chiefs’ of Rassul Khyma [Ras Al Khaimah] and Amulgaveen [Umm Al Quwain]; and the state of the pearl fisheriesThe agreement of the Government of India with the Government of Bombay that it is inexpedient at present to withdraw the European part of the force from the Island of Karrack, in view of the purported intentions of Persia [Iran] towards Afghanistan (f 174)Correspondence regarding: arrangements for the conveyance of an important packet (letter), in duplicate, from the Government of India to Sir John McNeill, HM Envoy to Persia, via the Government of Bombay and Hennell, utilising both HMS Endymionand the HC [Honourable Company’s] schooner Emily; and arrangements for the receipt of McNeill’s reply, emphasising the importance of its arrival at Aden in time for the November mail. The letter instructs McNeill to ascertain the attitudes and plans of Persia towards Afghanistan and gives him authority to withhold the order to evacuate Karrack ‘until perfectly satisfactory assurances shall be obtained from the Shah in these respects’ (f 178) (ff 174-196)Hennell’s views regarding the need for an enhanced naval presence in the Gulf to increase British influence over the maritime Arabian states (ff 197-199), and the Government of Bombay’s confirmation that it cannot make any permanent addition to the Gulf Squadron but that HMS Endymionhas recently proceeded to the GulfInstructions by Hennell and Brucks for surveillance of Asseeloo boats [Bandar-e Asaluyeh, also spelled Assaloo in this item] which are suspected of intercepting supplies to the Island of Karrack and interrupting ‘the free navigation of the Gulf’ (f 203).Physical description: 1 item (69 folios)
15. Vol 147 Letters inward
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- Abstract: The file contains letters received by Captain Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, in 1844.Most letters are from British naval officers in the Persian Gulf Squadron, reporting on maritime affairs along the Trucial Coast in 1844 (folios 2-3, 7-14, 16-21, 37-40, 43-46). A few of these naval patrol reports are addressed to Captain A H Nott, Senior Marine Officer in the Persian Gulf, rather than to the Resident. The reports are from the following officers: Commander James Fitzjames, aboard Her Majesty’s sloop Clio; Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball aboard the East India Company sloop of war Elphinstone; Captain John P Porter, commanding the Elphinstone; Lieutenant A MacDonald commanding the East India Company schooner Mahi; Captain A H Nott, aboard the East India Company schooner Coote; Commander H A Cruisby aboard the East India Company cruizer Auckland.The reports mention meetings and other communications with the Arab Chiefs of the Trucial Coast sheikdoms about the state of relations between them, including:Relations between the Sheik of Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah, with the Sheiks of Ajman, Dubai and Umm al-Qaiwain;Disputes over pearl fishing rights;Seizure and plundering of boats and the making of reparations for these and similar acts of piracy committed by subjects of the Sheikh of Dubai against those of Sharjah and other similar cases, committed by subjects of the Sheikhs of Abu Dhabi and Bahrain;Terms of the Maritime Truce in relation to Arab Chiefs transporting men and military stores by boat along the shore from port to port to support land attacks;Use of force at sea to compel the return of fugitive debtors seeking refuge with another Arab Chief.The file also contains letters received from Lieutenant Colonel Justin Sheil, British Minister at the Court of Tehran, Persia, about various Persian affairs and especially the rights of the Persian Government to charge British merchants additional import duties, particularly with regard to goods landed or transhipped at the Persian port of Bushire. This correspondence includes the opinion of Lord Aberdeen, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, London and a translation, partly in French and partly in English, of an undated commercial treaty between Russia and Persia, May to July 1844 (folios 5-6, 24-35).Physical description: Foliation: numbered 2-19, 20, 20A and 21-48, from the front to the back of the file. The numbering is written in pencil on the recto, in the top right corner and encircled. The front of the file cover is numbered 1.Most of the 18 letters and their enclosures were originally numbered in ink, usually on the recto of the folio only, in the top right corner, as follows: 38-41, 90-92, 113, 142-143, 165-167, 178-179, 181, 183, 185, 187, 189, 191, 193, 195-196, 218, 220, 222, 224, 266-267, 291, 341, -343, 377, 379. There are many gaps in the number sequence.
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