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 enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 22 of 1847, dated 16 February 1847. The enclosures are dated 2-4 February 1847.The item comprises two reports by Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent at Aden, to the Secretary to the Government, Bombay, on the state of affairs in Aden. The reports cover the following matters:The arrival of a French Corvette, the Voltigeurbark, on 1 February, bringing despatches for France from Bourbon [Réunion island] ‘in charge of a Capitaine de Vasseau “Boudet” who will proceed by the next mail steamer’, and on his departure the apparent intention of the Voltigeurto sail to Pondichery [Puducherry], including details of the vessel's tonnage and guns, and the reported total number of French vessels in the Indian OceanThe peaceful state of affairs between the local tribes and the consequent ‘unmolested’ inland trade with Aden and well supplied marketsReported peace between Sheik Ali Homeida [Shaikh ‘Alī Ḥumaydah] and the Sherriff [Sharif] of Hodeida [Al Hudaydah] and MochaReports, about which Haines is sceptical, that the Imam of Sana [Sana‘a] has retired to Taez [Taiz]Reports that the ‘Chief’ of Lahidge [Lahej] has not fully recovered from his illness and that government is in the hands of his eldest sonLosses in the 2nd European Regiment due to ‘old fever and liver cases’ (f 464).Physical description: 1 item (6 folios)
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Sultan of Lahej
Imam of Yemen - Geographic region:
- Aden
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100156754476.0x000012_ar
81055/vdc_100156754476.0x000012_en
IOR/L/PS/5/449, ff 462-467
IOR/L/PS/5/449, ff 462-467