‘Vol: 2 - Relative to the disgraceful treatment experienced by Lieut Dominicetti of the Marine from the Dola of Mocha and others, and to the plunder of the Company’s Factory at that place in 1817 – also Proceedings of the Expedition which was in consequence dispatched against the Town of Mocha.’
‘Vol: 2 - Relative to the disgraceful treatment experienced by Lieut Dominicetti of the Marine from the Dola of Mocha and others, and to the plunder of the Company’s Factory at that place in 1817 – also Proceedings of the Expedition which was in consequence dispatched against the Town of Mocha.’
‘Vol: 2 - Relative to the disgraceful treatment experienced by Lieut Dominicetti of the Marine from the Dola of Mocha and others, and to the plunder of the Company’s Factory at that place in 1817 – also Proceedings of the Expedition which was in consequence dispatched against the Town of Mocha.’
Date:
1820/1821
Description:
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 second in a series of two items on Lieutenant Dominicetti and Mocha (the other is IOR/F/4/690/18908). The principal correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain John Richard Lumley of HMS
Topaz, Senior Officer in the Red Sea; and Captain William Bruce, Government Agent.The item concerns:The punitive expedition against Mocha on account of the treatment of Lieutenant Bartholomew DominicettiAn account of the blockade and bombardment of Mocha, including a return of those killed or injured in the action (ff 264-265 and ff 316-317)The negotiations between Bruce and the new Dola [Governor] of Mocha, Ameer Futhullah el Mahdee [Amir Futhullah al-Mahdi]The treaty between the British and the Imaum of Senna [Mahdi ‘Abdullāh al-Qāsimī, Imam of Yemen] which covers: rights of British subjects in Yemen; rights of the Resident at the Factory in Mocha; duties payable by British subjects at MochaA discussion of the influence of the Ottoman Empire through the Viceroy of Egypt on YemenThe appointment of Lieutenant George Robson as Acting Resident at Mocha, and instructions to him.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 ‘Examiner’s Office November 1821’.Physical description: The documents are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front of the item to the rear.