Affairs in Aden

Title:

Affairs in Aden

Date:

1842/1842

Description:

Abstract: This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 114 of 1842, dated 15 October 1842. The enclosures are dated 26 September to 15 October 1842, and consist of copies of correspondence relating to affairs in Aden and the surrounding area, including Mocha.The correspondence is mainly between the following: the Political Agent at Aden (Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines); the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]; and the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor General (Thomas Herbert Maddock). There is also a letter from Haines to the Secretary to the Secret Committee.The correspondence discusses British relations with local rulers, including Sultan M’Houssain Fudthel of Lahidge [Muḥsin bin Faḍl al-‘Abdalī, Sultan of Lahej], whom Haines reports had issued an order prohibiting supplies of grass being sent to the town of Aden. The correspondence also concerns the restoration of the stipend formerly received by the Foudthelee Chief [the Fadhli Sultan, Aḥmad bin Abdullāh al-Faḍlī] from the British Government.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-8, on folios 370-372. These numbers are repeated for reference on the last verso of each enclosure.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival item

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Foreign relations
Stipends
Sultan of Lahej
Sultan of Fadhli

Geographic region:

Aden
Mocha

Rights:

رخصة حكومة مفتوحة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100129648765.0x000007_ar
81055/vdc_100129648765.0x000007_en
IOR/L/PS/5/413, ff 370-387
IOR/L/PS/5/413, ff 370-387

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