Abstract: This item comprises copies of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 75 of 1847, dated 31 August 1847. The enclosure is dated 16 August 1847 and consists of a letter from Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent at Aden, to Arthur Malet, Secretary to the Government, Bombay, reporting on the state of affairs at Aden and the vicinity, notably the reinstatement of the salary of Sultan Mahomed Houssein Fudthel of Lahidge [Sultan Muḥsin bin Faḍl al-'Abdalī , Sultan of Lahej].Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-3, on folio 421. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure.
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 99 of 1847, dated 15 November 1847. The enclosures, numbered 3-31, consist of correspondence, and minutes of the Government of Bombay. Enclosure numbers 3-29 are dated 13 May to 13 November 1847.The enclosures concern matters including:The Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, reporting that the Arab tribes in the immediate neighbourhood of Aden are in a ‘tranquil’ stateHaines receiving an application from the Sultan of Lahedge [Lahej or Lahij], Sultan M’Houssain Fudthel [Muḥsin bin Faḍl al-‘Abdalī], for the restoration of his stipendAn outbreak of smallpox cases amongst the Somali (also spelled Soomallee in this item) community at Aden, and measures taken by the Political Agent at Aden to prevent it spreadingThe departure of the Assistant Political Agent at Aden, Lieutenant Charles John Cruttenden, to Berbera (also spelled Burberra in this item) on political duty, with Haines issuing him the following instructions: to assist in settling the feud between the Somali tribes, helping to ensure that the annual fair at Berbera is held, which is greatly beneficial to Indian and Aden trade; to make enquiries into the state of the country inland, and especially to ascertain whether a regular supply of meat to Aden over the next few years can be counted on; and to provide information on the proceedings of Ismail Effendi [Ismā‘īl Ḥaqqī Pāshā], the Governor of Mussowah [Massawa], who is reported to have laid claim in the name of Mahomet Ali Pasha [Muḥammad ‘Alī Pāshā al-Mas‘ūd bin Āghā] to the sea ports of Tajoura [Tadjoura], Zeyla [Zeila or Saylac] and BerberaThe circumstances surrounding the dismissal of Ibrahim Pittajee [Ibrāhīm Pitājī, also spelled Ibrahim Pettajee, and in various other ways in this item] from his employment as Town Surveyor at Aden by the Executive Engineer at Aden, Captain James KilnerLieutenant Cruttenden’s request for an increase to his pay and allowances as Assistant Political Agent at Aden.The correspondence is mainly between the following: the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Arthur Malet; the Political Agent at Aden; the Assistant Political Agent at Aden; the Executive Engineer at Aden; Ibrahim Pittajee; Brigadier W Spiller, Commanding at Aden; the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General; the Bombay Medical Board; and the Bombay Military Board.Enclosure Nos. 30-31, listed in the abstract of contents as copies of the
Bombay Times Overland Summaryand the
Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courier, dated 15 November 1847, are not included in this item (they are recorded as missing in a note dated 30 November 1906).Physical description: 1 item (53 folios)
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 101 of 1847, dated 1 December 1847. The enclosures listed in the abstract of contents are numbered 3-5.Enclosure No. 3 consists of a letter from the Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, dated 16 November 1847, regarding the state of affairs at Aden and in the interior. Haines states that the only change which has taken place in the interior of Aden since his last letter (of 30 October 1847) was the sudden arrival of Sultans Nassur and Futhel bin Abdulla Foutheli [Sulṭān Nāṣir and Sulṭān Faḍl bin ‘Abdullāh al-Faḍlī] at Bir Ahmed [Bi’r Aḥmad], with about one hundred mounted followers. Haines reports the effect that the Foutheli [Faḍl] being in the neighbourhood of Aden had on Aden market supplies. Haines also reports the reduction in the number of smallpox cases at Aden and the number of people who have been vaccinated, and includes an enclosed letter to himself from J A Vaughan, Acting Civil Surgeon at Aden.Enclosures Nos. 4-5, listed as copies of the
Bombay Times Overland Summaryand the
Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courier, dated 1 December 1847, are not included in this item (a note dated 30 October 1906 states that they are missing).Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
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 98 of 1848, dated 15 November 1848. The enclosures are numbered 3-10 and are dated 14 October to 10 November 1848. The enclosures consist of correspondence, and minutes by officials of the Government of Bombay. They concern the state of affairs in Aden, mostly the case of two European soldiers of the Madras [Chennai] Artillery who had deserted and fled from Aden to Mocha.The main correspondents are as follows: the Political Agent at Aden (Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines); the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay (Arthur Malet); the Senior Naval Officer at Aden (Captain William Lowe); Lieutenant G N Adams of the Indian Navy, commanding the East India Company ship
Tigris; and Major C Clemons, commanding the Aden Field Force.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatches, numbered 1-10, on folios 201-202. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure.
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 29 of 1850, dated 11 May 1850.Enclosure No. 3, dated 28 April 1850, is a letter from the Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Arthur Malet, reporting on affairs at Aden and within its vicinity. Haines states that ‘the several Arab Tribes’ adjacent to Aden are at peace with each other, the roads leading to Aden are ‘unmolested’, daily supplies are regular and abundant, and that no smallpox or other contagious disease exists at Aden or in the neighbourhood.Enclosure No. 4, dated 20 April 1850, is a letter from Haines to Malet, forwarding a report from the Senior Naval Officer at Aden station, Captain John Parke Sanders, commanding the Honourable Company’s sloop of war
Elphinstone, reporting on affairs at Jiddah [Jeddah, also spelled Judda in this item], Hodeida [Al Hudaydah] and Mocha. Sanders reports on matters including complaints from the ‘British Native merchants’ (also referred to as ‘Indian Merchants’) at Jiddah of the (in Haines’s words) ‘impositions, exactions, and other unlawful and arbitrary proceedings’ (folio 5) of the Turkish [Ottoman] Pasha of Jiddah, Haysb Pasha [Ḥasīb Pāshā], towards them, and the perceived lack of support and protection they had received from the British Vice Consul there.Enclosure Nos. 5-6, listed in the abstract of contents as copies of the
Bombay Overland Timesand the
Bombay Overland Telegraphdated 11 May 1850, are recorded as missing in a note dated 31 October 1906.Physical description: 1 item (9 folios)
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 37 of 1850, dated 25 July 1850. The enclosures are numbered 3-8, and are dated 16 June to 15 July 1850.The enclosures consist of a minute from the Government of Bombay, and correspondence. They relate to letters from the Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, to the Government of Bombay, reporting matters including:Daily communication and traffic from the ‘Arab tribes’ adjacent to Aden continuing to be ‘unmolested’, supplies at Aden being abundant, and the inhabitants continuing to be healthyThe ‘Arab’ who murdered the European seaman in the boat belonging to the
Aucklandon 29 May not having yet been secured, and having escaped to the Subeihi [Subaīhī] territory, but the efforts of Sultan Ali M’Houssain [‘Alī I bin Muḥsin al-‘Abdalī, Sulṭān of Lahej] to capture him being ‘strenuous’An enclosed report from Lieutenant Adams of affairs at Mussowa [Massawa] and Abyssinia [the Ethiopian Empire], Hodeida [Al Hudaydah] and Mocha, including the state of trade and duties levied on British Indian merchants, and the Pasha promising to give protection and assistance to all British subjects and those under British protection.The correspondence is between: the Government of Bombay; Haines; the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor General, Sir Henry Miers Elliot; Lieutenant G N Adams, commanding the Honourable Company’s schooner of war
Constance; and HM Consul in Abyssinia [Ethiopia], Walter Plowden.Physical description: 1 item (14 folios)
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay, Secret Department, to the Secret Committee, Number 6 of 1850, dated 4 February 1850.The enclosed papers, dated 15 January to 4 February 1850, concern affairs in the Aden Settlement and Protectorate. They comprise correspondence between Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent at Aden, the Government of Bombay, and the Government of India in Fort William. In his correspondence, Haines gives a general report on the state of affairs in Aden which covers the following matters:Political intrigue in Sana [Sanaa], involving the murder of the Imam [Imām]The closure of roads to Mocha and Hodeida [Al Hudaydah] from the interior due to local opposition to Turkish [Ottoman] ruleAffairs on the East African Coast.Enclosure Nos. 5-6, listed in the abstract of contents as copies of the
Bombay Overland Timesand the
Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courier, dated 4 February 1850, are recorded as missing in a note dated 31 October 1906.Physical description: 1 item (6 folios)
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 32 of 1853, dated 28 April 1853. The enclosures are numbered 3-9 and are dated 31 March-27 April 1853. A handwritten note in red ink indicates that enclosures 7-9 (copies of the overland summaries of the
Bombay Times,
Telegraph and Courierand
Bombay Gazette) are missing.The papers relate to:Attacks on maritime trade involving the Foutheli [al-Faḍlī] tribe and the Sultan of Lahedge [Lahej]Use of HC ship
Elphinstoneto proceed to Jedda [Jeddah] to enquire about excessive duty being levied on goods importedThe return of the HC schooner
Mahifrom Mocha with items of intelligence.Correspondents are the Political Agent at Aden and the Secretary to the Government of Bombay.Physical description: 1 item (15 folios)
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay, Secret Department, to the Secret Committee, Number 84 of 1842, dated 18 July 1842.The enclosed papers comprise minutes, correspondence, and memoranda, and concern affairs in Aden and the Red Sea. The correspondence is principally between Stafford Bettesworth Haines, the Political Agent at Aden; Lieutenant-Colonel Stratford Powell, Adjutant General of the Army, Bombay; Captain Robert Oliver, Superintendent of the Indian Navy; the Government of Bombay; and the Government of India.Several matters are covered by the papers, including:Affairs within the Aden Settlement and Protectorate, including relations with the tribes in the hinterlandThe status of military forces at Aden and the need to strengthen fortificationsAffairs at Mussowah [Massawa], Tedjoura [Tadjoura], and Mocha, including the plan to depose the Ruler of Mocha by the Ottomans, with British assistanceTurkish non-observance of the obligations of the commercial treaty between the Ottomans and the British [Treaty of Balta Liman, 1838] at various Red Sea ports.Physical description: 1 item (61 folios)
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay, Secret Department, to the Secret Committee, Number 16 of 1850, dated 16 March 1850.The enclosed papers, dated between 13 June 1849 and 13 March 1850, concern affairs in Aden and the Red Sea. They comprise correspondence between Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent, Aden; the Government of Bombay; Charles Murray, British Consul General in Egypt; Second Lieutenant H W B Bell, Acting Executive Engineer, Aden; Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Waddington, Commanding Engineer, Aden; and the Military Board, Bombay. Also included are minutes by the Governor of Bombay, Lord Viscount Falkland [Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland].Several matters are covered by the papers, including:Assurances from the Ottoman Government regarding the enforcement of the conditions set out in the recent Anglo-Ottoman commercial treaty [Treaty of Balta Liman, 1838] at Red Sea ports under Ottoman jurisdictionThe plans and proposal for a new treasury and guard room at Aden, to replace the current one that is in disrepairGeneral updates on the state of affairs in the Aden Settlement and Protectorate.Enclosure Nos. 17-18, listed in the abstract of contents as copies of the
Bombay Overland Timesand the
Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courierdated 16 March 1850, are recorded as missing in a note dated 31 October 1906.Physical description: 1 item (33 folios)
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay, Secret Department, to the Secret Committee, Number 26 of 1850, dated 1 May 1850.The enclosed papers, dated 28 November 1849 to 14 April 1850, concern affairs in Aden and the Red Sea. They mostly comprise despatches from Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent in Aden, to the Government of Bombay. These despatches often contain enclosures consisting of correspondence from diplomatic and naval officers in the Red Sea region. Also included is correspondence between: the Secretary to the Government of Bombay; the Marine Board of the Government of Bombay; Commodore Stephen Lushington, Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy; and the Government of India.Several matters are covered by the papers, including:The death of the Ottoman Governor of Hodeida [Al Hudaydah]The poor state of British trade at Red Sea ports under Turkish [Ottoman] rule and suspected reasons for itThe removal of Captain William Lowe as Senior Naval Officer, Aden, due to his refusal to grant Haines's request for the services of East India Company Ship
Elphinstone.Enclosure Nos. 15-16, listed in the abstract of contents as copies of the
Bombay Overland Timesand the
Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courierdated 1 May 1850, are recorded as missing in a note dated 31 October 1906.Physical description: 1 item (39 folios)
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay, Secret Department, to the Secret Committee, Number 18 of 1850, dated 3 April 1850.The enclosed papers, dated between 18 February and 30 March 1850, concern affairs in Aden and the Red Sea. They comprise correspondence between Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent, Aden; the Government of Bombay; Captain John Parke Sanders, Senior Naval Officer, Aden; Commodore Stephen Lushington, Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy; and the Government of India. Also included are minutes by the Governor of Bombay, Lord Viscount Falkland [Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland].The papers concern general updates on the state of affairs in Aden, Mocha, Hodeida [Al Hudaydah], and the Abyssinian [East African] coast, and Haines's request for the services of East India Company ships,
Constanceand
Elphinstonefor the purposes of delivering packets and protecting British trade.Enclosure Nos. 10-11, listed in the abstract of contents as copies of the
Bombay Overland Timesand the
Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courierdated 3 April 1850, are recorded as missing in a note dated 31 October 1906.Physical description: 1 item (13 folios)