The Sending of Presents from the Malia Rajah of Lahore to Queen Victoria from Bombay to England via Egypt
Date:
1842/1842
Description:
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 133 of 1842.The enclosure is dated 5 November 1842. It consists of a letter from the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General, Thomas Herbert Maddock, to HM Consul at Cairo, stating that presents from the Malia Rajah [Raja] of Lahore to Queen Victoria will be sent from Bombay [Mumbai] to Egypt and from there to England. Maddock requests that HM Consul apply to the Pacha [Pāshā] of Egypt for free permits for the cases of presents, to be ready for the time they arrive by steam ship at Suez, from where they will be conveyed to Alexandria and then to England.Physical description: 1 item (3 folios)