'Persian Gulf. Proposed dispatch of the Clive to the lower end of the - '

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British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
Data provider:
Qatar National Library
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Title:
'Persian Gulf. Proposed dispatch of the Clive to the lower end of the - '
Date:
1850/1850
Description:
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.
Language:
English
Type:
Archival item
Type (Narrower):
Other Texts
Type (Broader):
Text
Subject:
Bribery
Native Agent, Lingah
Geographic region:
Lingah
Rights:
المُلكية العامة
Identifier:
81055/vdc_100108386881.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100108386881.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2416/130512
IOR/F/4/2416/130512
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