Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, memoranda, resolutions, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Government of India; Thomas MacKenzie, Acting Assistant in Charge of the Residency, Bushire [Bushehr]; and Sheik Nassir [Shaikh Nasir Al Mazkur II], Governor of Bushire. It is the seventh in a series of ten items on the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/1767/72461, IOR/F/4/1767/72462, IOR/F/4/1767/72463, IOR/F/4/1767/72464, IOR/F/4/1767/72465, IOR/F/4/1767/72466, IOR/F/4/1767/72468, IOR/F/4/72469, and IOR/F/4/1767/72470).The item concerns the persistent ill-treatment of the shroff [banker] at the Bushire Residency by the residents of Bushire, and the measures taken by the Resident to compel Sheik Nassir to punish the offenders.The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 550, 1839, P.C. [Previous Communication] 2491’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 832 and terminates at f 848, as it was originally 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 consists of chronological diary entries containing transcripts of correspondence sent and received, and notes on the arrival and departure of vessels at Bushire. The Resident during the period covered was William Bruce (acting).The correspondence sent is entered under the date the letter was written; that received is entered under the date of receipt at Bushire. The correspondence is mostly between the Resident and other East India Company officials, particularly officials of the Government of Bombay; the Resident at Bagdad [Baghdad] (Harford Jones); the Resident at Muscat (David Seton); officials in charge of the Residency at Bussora [Basra] (John Law and Lieutenant William Eatwell); and commanders of ships of the Bombay Marine (the East India Company's navy).The records of shipping consist of a note of the day of arrival and departure of ships of the Bombay Marine and country ships (privately-owned merchant ships, which operated under licence from the East India Company), and information on their port of origin and destination. The term 'imported' is used to indicate the arrival of a vessel.General topics covered in the volume include:political developments in the Gulf;movements of ships;piracy;sale of East India Company merchandise;appointments;personnel matters;accounting and financial matters;administrative matters;relations with the Court of Persia;relations with local rulers and Persian officials;the activities of the French in the region;reports of political and military developments in Europe.Specific topics include:correspondence concerning the activities and whereabouts of a French officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexandre Romieu, former minister at Corfu, who had made his way from Constantinople into Persia on a mission the objectives of which were unclear, entries for 27 September - 22 November 1805 (folios 14-32v);correspondence relating to the recovery of cargo from the merchant ship
Hector, 29 October - 22 November 1805 (folios 23v-32v);letter from Lieutenant W Eatwell, Bombay Marine, commanding the
Fury, at Bussora, dated 20 October 1805, reporting the death of John Law, Resident of the Factory at Bussora and stating that he had taken temporary charge of the Residency there (entry for 31 October 1805, folio 28v)correspondence from the Political Department of the Government of Bombay concerning the Persian Embassy, particularly relating to an affray that had taken place on a road near Bombay in November 1805 between an East India Company officer cadet and two servants of the Persian Ambassador, 26 January 1806 (folios 60-89v).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1A on the front cover and terminates at 92 on the back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto page of each folio. Foliation anomalies: ff. 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E, 1F; ff. 21, 21A; ff. 35, 35A.Pagination: an original pagination sequence written in ink numbered 1-178 is present between ff. 1F-89. These numbers appear in the top right or top left corners of each page.Condition: there is a hole measuring approximately 60x50mm in the top centre of folio 1F, probably caused by the oxidisation of iron gall ink. This hole reappears, diminishing in size, in the following nine folios (to f. 10). The holes have caused loss of text between ff. 1F-9. There is also minor damage to the edges of some folios, but this has not caused any serious loss of text. The entire volume was conserved, probably in the 1980s, in the form of an appliqué-coated guard book.
Abstract: This file contains correspondence regarding an incident in June 1948 in which a Persian [Iranian] taxi driver was assaulted by a group of men at the Royal Air Force (RAF) camp in Muharraq.According to a report of the incident written by Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain and Commandant of the State Police (folio 2), the group – which had attended the RAF Cinema – was composed of a number of Jews and one Anglo-Indian .The file also contains an account of the incident written by G E Lewis, the RAF's Air Staff Liaison Officer in Bahrain (folio 4).Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 9; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. It is the first in a series of two items on Lieutenant Dominicetti and Mocha (the other is IOR/F/4/690/18909). The principal correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant Bartholomew Dominicetti, commander of the
Prince of Wales; Henry Meriton, Superintendent of the Bombay Marine; Muhammed Ali Khan, owner of the
Derria Beggy.The item concerns:The death of Ramsay, the British Resident at Mocha on 16 July 1817The ill-treatment of Dominicetti and other British subjects resident at the Factory by the Dola of Mocha, [Amir Fatih Muhammad]The plunder of the British FactoryExtortion of money by the Dola of Mocha from British ships and the Honourable Company’s BrokerThe refusal of the Imaum of Senna [Mahdi ‘Abdullāh al-Qāsimī, Imam of Yemen] to give up deserters from Company ships who had converted to IslamA discussion of whether Dominicetti’s actions concerning the
Derria Beggywere justified, and a consideration of her ownershipA discussion of the measures the British were prepared to take in response to the aboveThe British decision to blockade Yemen, and then bombard Mocha, if the Imaum’s response to their demands was unsatisfactory.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 38, P.C. [Previous Communication] 61, [Season 18]23/24’ and ‘Examin[er’s Office] Nove[mber]’.Physical description: The documents are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front of the item to the rear.
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 54 of 1843, dated 18 July 1843. The enclosures are numbered 3-43 and are dated 21 March to 17 July 1843.The enclosures mostly consist of correspondence, minutes of the Governor of Bombay subscribed to by the Board, and audits of disbursements, relating to affairs of Aden and the Northeast African coast. They concern matters including:The Political Agent at Aden, Stafford Bettesworth Haines, reporting that relations between the Arab tribes in the neighbourhood of Aden continue to be ‘tranquil’, that supplies into Aden are plentiful, and that the three convicts who escaped from confinement had not yet been apprehendedHaines reporting the return of the Honourable Company’s brig of war
Tigrisfrom Zanzibar and the north-east coast of Africa, and submitting a report by the commander of the
Tigris, Lieutenant William Christopher, of his proceedingsThe approval of the Governor of Bombay in Council of Christopher’s proceedingsThe Government of Bombay enquiring of the Government of India whether there is any objection to the Government of Bombay publishing a portion of the journal which would promote commerce with the places at which Christopher ‘met with a friendly reception’Haines making a requisition on the Senior Naval Officer at Aden, Lieutenant Young, for the services of one of the Honourable Company’s vessels of war to proceed to Mussowah [Massawa or Mitsiwa], and from there to visit all ports along the Northeast African coast as far as Bunder Gassim [Bosaso]The proposal of the Governor of Bombay in Council, George Arthur, for the reduction of the Garrison at Aden by the withdrawal to Bombay of the detachment of the 16th Regiment Native Infantry, without reliefHaines submitting the names of persons who have received grants of land for building upon at Aden, his opinion that those people are hesitant to erect permanent buildings until a final decision has been passed by Government regarding the camp limits at Aden, and his proposals for the amount of Quit Rent to be leviedAn investigation by Haines into the conduct of the Aden Police Jemedar [Jemadar], and a party of Police, resulting in the Jemedar being found not guilty of theft, but guilty of assault on the Duffedar [Dafadar] of the Poona [Pune] Auxiliary Horse, Bahadoor Singh [Bahādur Singh], and the opinion of the Governor of Bombay in Council on the punishment which should have been imposed on the JemedarAudits by the Civil Auditor, Bombay, Edward Eden Elliot, on the disbursements of the Political Agent at Aden during the periods May to October 1841, 1 November 1841 to 31 January 1842, and 1 February to 31 April 1842The Government of Bombay commenting on certain items in Haines’s disbursements and cautioning him to limit his expenditure on the entertainment of different ‘Chiefs’ visiting Aden, and on presents given to visiting ‘Chiefs’, as much as possibleHaines being informed by the Government of Bombay that it does not approve of the tone of a letter from him, in which he provides an explanation for expenditure on the entertainment of ‘Chieftains’ visiting Aden, and on presents for themHaines’s explanation, requested by the Government of Bombay, for debiting to Government 250 Rupees per month for the salary of Shaik Tyeb Ibrahimjee [Shaikh Ṭayyib Ibrāhīmjī, also spelled Sheikh Tyeb Ibramjee in this item] during the period he was employed as Coal Agent at Aden, and also charging to Government the same rate of salary when Shaik Tyeb Ibrahimjee was sent by Haines to Maculla [Mukalla] to purchase provisions.The main correspondents are the following: Haines; the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, L R Reid; the Secretary to the Government of Bombay, John Pollard Willoughby; Lieutenant William Christopher, commanding the Honourable Company’s brig of war
Tigris; and HM Consul and Honourable Company’s Agent in the Dominions of the Imaum [Imām] of Muscat, Captain Atkins Hamerton. Other correspondents include Seid ibn Sultan [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Imaum of Muscat.Physical description: 1 item (219 folios)
Abstract: The file contains case correspondence, including several witness statements and a few Kuwait Political Agency court proceedings, relating to the investigation and prosecution of several criminal offences. These are mainly cases of assault and theft committed in Kuwait against Indian and Persian foreign residents and reported by the victims to the Political Agent. Both the perpetrators and victims of these crimes include Government of India staff employed at the Kuwait Political Agency and the Kuwait Post Office. The main correspondents are Major James Carmichale More, Political Agent, Kuwait and Shaikh Salim ab-Subah [Āl Ṣabāḥ, Shaikh Sālim bin Mubārak], Emir of Kuwait, whose letter exchanges are in Arabic, together with English translations. Some of the petitions and letters of complaint submitted by the victims to the Political Agent, are written in Arabic and in a very few cases, in Persian.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 211; 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 between ff 1-210; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.