Aden Affairs: A Difference of Opinion between the Agent at Aden and Captain Kilner, the Executive Engineer at Aden
Date:
1847/1847
Description:
Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 59 of 1847, dated 18 June 1847. The enclosures are dated 3-22 March 1847.The primary document is a letter from the Under-Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General, to the Secretary to the Government, Bombay, relating to a difference of opinion between Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, the Agent at Aden, and Captain J Kilner, the Executive Engineer at Aden, who refuses to furnish for the inspection of Commodore Sir Henry Martin Blackwood plans of the fortifications of Aden, including the Governor-General’s admonishment of Captain Haines for not dealing with the matter.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-4, on folio 199. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure.