Aden Affairs
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Aden Affairs
- Date:
- 1847/1847
- Description:
- Abstract: This item comprises copies of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 73 of 1847, dated 28 August 1847. The enclosure is dated 25 July 1847.The document is a report from Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Captain in the Indian Navy and Political Agent at Aden, to Arthur Malet, Secretary to the Government, Bombay, covering the following subjects:The return of the Honourable Company [HC] schooner of war Tigrisfrom Hodeida [Al Hudaydah] with a letter conveying compliments from the recently arrived Turkish commissionerHaines’s instructions to the Senior Naval Officer, (24 July, copy included) for another vessel to proceed to Mussowah [Massawa] and also Mocha, Hodeida and Loheia [Al Luhayyah], in order to obtain commercial and political intelligence on the extent of Turkish ‘interference’ at those places; and, at Mussowah, to investigate a reported meeting between Abyssinian chiefs and a French official in relation to the state of affairs in Northern Abyssinia [Northern Ethiopian Empire].Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-3, on folio 406. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Political intelligence
- Geographic region:
- Red Sea
- Rights:
- غير معروف
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100118977838.0x000014_ar
81055/vdc_100118977838.0x000014_en
IOR/L/PS/5/450, ff 405-409
IOR/L/PS/5/450, ff 405-409