‘Persia. On the subject of Persian vessels being allowed to carry British Colors.’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Persia. On the subject of Persian vessels being allowed to carry British Colors.’
- Date:
- 1852/1853
- Description:
- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2550/149197. It is the eighth in a series of sixteen items on the Persian Gulf.The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; the Government of India; Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, Her Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Persia [Iran]; Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf; Mirza Hassan Ally Khan [Mīrzā Ḥasan ‘Alī Khān], Governor of Bushire [Bushehr]; Richard Spooner, Acting Collector of Customs, Bombay [Mumbai]; Commodore Sir Henry John Leeke, Commander in Chief of the Indian Navy; Captain John James Frushard, Master Attendant, Bombay; and Augustus Smith Le Messurier, Advocate General, Bombay.The item concerns cases of Persian vessels carrying British flags in the port of Bushire, and the disagreement between the Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Governor of Bushire regarding the protection and immunity this entitles these vessels to. This leads to a wider discussion about whether the Government of Bombay should have been granting licenses to Persian vessels allowing them to carry British flags. It includes a ‘list of vessels carrying British pass and colors trading between Bushire and Bombay’ (ff 531-532).The item also contains correspondence referring to other matters of contention between the Resident and the Governor.The item contains a table of contents (ff 511-512), and the title page (f 510) contains the following references: Draft Number ‘358 - 1854’, ‘Collection No. 10 of No. 84 of 1853. Vol. 8’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’. The collection number was originally given as ‘6’ but this has been crossed out and replaced with ‘10’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 510 and terminates at f 548, 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:
- Flags
- Geographic region:
- Bushire
- Rights:
- المُلكية العامة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100108905368.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100108905368.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2550/149204
IOR/F/4/2550/149204