Aden Affairs
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Aden Affairs
- Creator:
- Author: President and Governor of Bombay in Council
- Date:
- 1848/1848
- Description:
- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 109 of 1848, dated 16 December 1848. The enclosures are numbered 3-4 and are dated 29 November and 12 December 1848 respectively.Enclosure No. 3 consists of a letter from the Political Agent at Aden (Stafford Bettesworth Haines) to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay (Arthur Malet), reporting on the state of affairs in Aden and the surrounding area, including a party of 'subies' [of the Subayhi 'tribe'] attacking the kafila [travelling party with camels] intended for Aden, capturing eleven camels and their loads and killing two men, and the action taken in response by the Sultan of Lahidge [Lahej].Enclosure No. 4 is a minute by the Governor of Bombay concurred in by the Board, commenting on Haines's letter and instructing that a copy of it should be sent to the Governor-General of India and the Court of Directors of the East India Company.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatches, numbered 1-4, on folios 462-466. 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:
- Sultan of Lahej
- Geographic region:
- Aden
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100122005753.0x000004_ar
81055/vdc_100122005753.0x000004_en
IOR/L/PS/5/458, ff 462-466
IOR/L/PS/5/458, ff 462-466