Abstract: Précis of the 1871-1872 Turkish Expedition to Nejd [Najd], compiled by Philip Durham Henderson, Under Secretary to the Foreign Department, Government of India, March 1872. The précis has been divided into sections which discuss:Origin of the Expedition;First report of an intended expedition;Design of the expedition revived;Position of parties in Nejd;Expedition temporarily postponed. Enquiries made from the Porte regarding it;Earlier instructions given to Colonel Lewis Pelly;Preparations for Expedition resumed;Complications in the Persian Gulf;British policy in the Persian Gulf, and how it might be affected by the Nejd Expedition;Explicit assurances of the Porte;Midhut Pasha confirms assurances of the Porte;Instructions to Colonel Lewis Pelly;Report to Secretary of State with views of Government;Colonel Lewis Pelly directed to proceed to Bahrein [Bahrain];Secretary of State's instructions with regard to preventing Trucial Chiefs from aiding either party;Pasha promises non-interference with littoral Arabs;Porte promises non-interference with Trucial Arabs, but claim to accept their services when offered;Observations of Midhut Pasha on the instructions given to Colonel Lewis Pelly;Expedition prohibited by Pasha from approaching Bahrein;Enquiries from Persia regarding Expedition;Non-interference in political questions enjoined on Colonel Charles Herbert;Narrative of events in Nejd up to date of landing of the Expedition;Narrative of the Expeditionary force up to date of landing in Nejd;Observations of the Grand Vizier on the policy of the British Government. Remarks of the Government of India thereon;Porte informed Indian Government disclaim countenancing Arabs;Turkish designs on Gwuttur [Qatar];Increase of the Turkish Naval Force in Persian Gulf;Representation addressed to Home Government regarding the above;Movements of British vessels;Case of the
Snipe(believed to be a British vessel carrying Turkish troops);Murder of a so-called Turkish messenger at Bahrein;Demand on Bahrein Chief for surrender of two boats;Reasons for non-interference of British Government in operations by land;Further narrative of the Expedition and Affairs in Nejd;Attitude of Bahrein Chief. Evidence of Turkish designs against Bahrein;Kowait [Kuwait] Chief. Assistance rendered by him to the Turks and his intrigues.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at folio 66 and terminates at folio 98, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The main foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
Abstract: The file is a précis of correspondence related to affairs at Zanzibar between the years 1856 and 1872, prepared by Captain Philip Durham Henderson of the Foreign Department in the Government of India. The contents of the précis, which includes reports from Christopher Palmer Rigby, the British Consul at Zanzibar, and Sir William Marcus Coghlan, relate to: the death in 1856 of the Sultan of Muscat Syed Saeed [Sa‘id bin Sulṭān al-Sa‘id] without a direct heir; the succession struggle between Syed Thoweynee [Thuwaynī bin Sa‘id al-Sa‘id] and Syed Majid [Sa‘id Majid bin Said al-Sa‘id]; British arbitration in the dispute; succession arrangements at Muscat and Zanzibar; the slave trade between Zanzibar and Muscat. The précis is organised into six chapters (labelled I to VI), as follows:I – Events preceding the arbitration by the Government of India;II – Arbitration of the Government of India;III – Proceedings subsequent to the arbitration relating to the question of subsidy;IV – Events at Zanzibar from the arbitration to the death of Syed Majid;V – Events in Zanzibar from the death of Syed Majid;VI – Slave Trade.The contents page lists four appendices (labelled A to D) that are not included in this copy of the précis.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at f 81, and terminates at f 137, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right hand corner of the recto side of each folio. An additonal foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 6-192; these numbers are also written in pencil but, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.Pagination: The file also contains an original printed pagination sequence 1-105.