Abstract: This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 52 of 1841, dated 19 June 1841. The enclosures are dated 5 May to 16 June 1841, and relate to affairs at Aden and the surrounding area, and at Mocha.The enclosures consist of correspondence, and resolutions of the Government of Bombay in the Secret Department. The main correspondents are as follows: the Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines; the Secretary to the Government of Bombay, John Pollard Willoughby; and the Secretary to the Government of India, Thomas Herbert Maddock.The enclosures concern matters including:The state of affairs at Aden and the surrounding area, including the actions of Sultan M’Houssain Fudthill of Lahidge (also spelled Lahedge) [Muhsin ibn al-Fadl al-'Abdali, Sultan of Lahej]The views of the Political Agent at Aden on the inexpediency of reducing any portion of the European troops at Aden, and the relief of the wing of HM 6th Regiment doing duty at AdenThe Political Agent at Aden hiring a house as the post and police office at Aden, and the appointment of a Cazee [kazi, civil judge]The claim of Abdool Russool [Abdul Rasool], the former British Native Agent at Mocha, for indemnification on account of his property stolen by the Sheriff of Mocha, and the policy to be followed in British negotiations with the Imaum of Senna [Imam of Sanaa].Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-18, on folios 107-110. These numbers are repeated for reference on the last verso of each enclosure.
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 70 of 1841, dated 31 August 1841. The enclosures, numbered 3-59, are dated 25 June to 31 August 1841, and are mostly copies of letters sent and received by the Government of Bombay, relating to Aden and its hinterland, and to Mocha. There is a note in pencil on folio 277 stating: ‘Time would not admit of an abstract of contents being copied out’.The correspondence consists of letters from the Political Agent at Aden reporting on the state of affairs at Aden, and correspondence relating to matters including:The murder of Ahmed Eidaha (also spelled Eidahee), the Interpreter at the Field Works at Aden by a group of armed men, which according to the Political Agent at Aden was made up of Sultan Ahmed Abdulla Foudthli, three of his brothers, nine followers, and his cousin Shaikh MarakshaThe proposal of the Political Agent at Aden for an increase to the Aden Police ForceArrangements for the relief by two hundred men from HM 17th Regiment of the troops of HM 6th Regiment and the 1st European Regiment at AdenThe Government of Bombay’s disapproval of the actions of the Political Agent at Aden after he learnt of allegations that some officers of the Aden garrison had used defamatory language against himThe question of whether or not the provisions on board the ship
Palinuruswere required for the use of HM troops and vessels at AdenThe despatch from Bombay of 60,000 German Crowns requested by the Political Agent at Aden.The main correspondents are as follows: the Secretary to the Government of Bombay and the Acting Secretary to the Government of Bombay; the Political Agent at Aden; the Secretary to the Government of India; the Deputy Accountant General; the Military Board; and the Superintendent of the Indian Navy.Physical description: There is no abstract of contents of the despatch. The enclosures are numbered 3-59 on the last verso of each enclosure, and are arranged in numerical order.
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 19 of 1841, dated 27 March 1841. The enclosures are dated 19 January to 27 March 1841, and relate to Aden and Mocha. They mostly consist of copies of correspondence sent and received by the Government of Bombay.The main correspondents are the Secretary to the Government of Bombay (John Pollard Willoughby), the Political Agent at Aden (Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines), and the Secretary to the Government of India (Thomas Herbert Maddock).The enclosures discuss matters including:The proposal to station a body of fifty cavalry plus horses for two guns at AdenThe increase of ninety nine Rupees and eight annas per month to the staff budget of the Political Agent at Aden being sanctioned by the Governor General of India in CouncilThe plunder of the property of the Native Agent at Mocha, Abdool Russool [Abdul Rasool], stated to have been committed by the authorities at Mocha (also spelled Mokha in this part)The political state of affairs in the Interior of Aden and at MochaThe circumstances which induced the Political Agent at Aden to expel a Frenchman named Lombard and a Corsican named Mariani from the town of Aden, following reports made to the Political Agent by ‘natives’ from the Interior that the men had held private conference with the Sultan of Lahedge [Lahej]The Political Agent at Aden’s request for permission to send three Bedowin [Bedouin] prisoners to the Bombay Presidency, to be confined in one of the Presidency jails, as an example intended to deter others from pursuing a course hostile to the British Government.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-23, on folios 520-523. These numbers are repeated for reference on the last verso of each enclosure.
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 6 of 1841, dated 31 January 1841. The enclosures are dated 31 October 1840 to 28 January 1841.The enclosures mainly consist of copies of correspondence between the Secretary to the Government of Bombay and the Political Agent at Aden (Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines), and between the Government of Bombay and the Secretary to the Government of India. They mostly relate to Aden and Mocha.Matters discussed in the enclosures include: the situation in Aden, Mocha, and the interior of Yemen; the seizure by the authorities at Mocha of the property of Abdool Russool bin Mahomed Ali Suffer [Abdul Rasool bin Mohammed Ali Safar], the Native Agent at Mocha; the decision to abolish the position of Native Agent at Mocha; and the appointment of a British Agent at Tajoura [Tadjoura, also spelled as Tedjoura, Tadjoura and Tedjourah in this item].Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-30, on folios 74-81. 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 17 of 1853, dated 1 March 1853. The enclosures are numbered 3-9. Enclosure numbers 3-6 are dated 3 to 24 February 1853.Enclosure number 3 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 that he has requisitioned the East India Company’s schooner
Mahito proceed to Mussowa [Massawa or Mitsiwa] with despatches for HBM Consul at Abyssinia [the Ethiopian Empire], and requested that its Commander, Lieutenant King, stop at Hodeida [Al Hudaydah] and Mocha on its return and report to Haines on the state of political and commercial affairs at each port. The letter includes an enclosed copy of the requisition letter from Haines to the Senior Naval Officer at Aden. Enclosure number 4 is a minute by the Governor of Bombay concurred in by the Board, approving Haines’s actions.Enclosure number 5 is a letter from Haines to Malet reporting on the state of affairs at Aden and in its vicinity. Haines reports matters including:The intention of the Sultan of Lahedge [Lahej or Lahij], Sultan Ali M Houssain [‘Alī I bin Muḥsin al-‘Abdalī], to build a small fort at Sheik Othman [Ash Shaikh Outhman] to protect the roads leading to Aden, opposition to this from Sultan Hamed Ibn Abdulla Foutheli [Aḥmad bin Abdullāh al-Faḍlī] and Haines informing the Sultan of Lahedge that in his opinion he had the right to erect any building he wished on his territory and to prevent other tribes entering and crossing his territoryThe sea port towns of Mocha, Hodeida and Loheiha [al Luhayyah] being in danger of attack from the Bedouin divisions of the Beni Yam [Banī Yām] tribe‘Mahomed’ Pashah [Kürt Mehmed Pasha] reaching Hodeida with a firman from the Sublime Porte [the Government of the Ottoman Empire] as Supreme Pashah over all the Turkish possessions in Yemen, and that finding on his arrival all the interior roads closed on their seaport towns and the inhabitants in great alarm, he has been collecting together all the Turkish soldiers he can, and that therefore news of a conflict may be expected.Enclosure number 6 is a minute by the Governor of Bombay concurred in by the Board, stating that a copy of Haines’s letter (enclosure No. 5) is to be sent to the Government of India and the Secret Committee.Numbers 7-9, listed in the abstract of contents as copies of overland summaries of the
Bombay Times, the
Bombay Telegraph & Courier, and the
Bombay Gazettenewspapers, dated 1 March 1853, are noted as missing.Physical description: 1 item (10 folios)
Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 55 of 1856, dated 29 July 1856. The enclosures are dated 19 June-12 July 1856.The enclosures comprise:Reports by Brigadier William Marcus Coghlan, Political Resident in Aden, to the Government of Bombay, on: the recent dispute between the Sultan of Lahej [Sulṭān ‘Alī I bin Muhsin al-‘Abdalī] and the ‘Chief’ of the Azaiba [a sub-tribe of the ‘Abdalī] over fees for the use of the water wells at Shaik Othman [Shaykh Uthman]; the poor relations between the Abdali and Foudelie [Faḍlī, also spelled Foutheli in this item] tribes; and the Sultan of Lahej’s message to Coghlan that he has concluded a one-year peace with the FoudelieA report by Stephen Page, HM Acting Vice-Consul and Officiating Honourable Company’s Agent at Juddah [Jeddah], to the Government of Bombay, that the former Scerriff of Mecca, Abu Montallib [Sharīf ‘Abd al-Muṭṭalib bin Ghālib bin Musā‘ad], left Tayf [Taif] on the 19 June under Turkish [Ottoman] custody, for Cosseir [El Qoseir] en route to Constantinople [Istanbul].Physical description: 1 item (5 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 20 of 1853, dated 14 March 1853. The enclosures are numbered 3-8. Enclosure numbers 3-5 are dated 28 February to 11 March 1853.Enclosure number 3 is a letter (with enclosures) from the Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Arthur Malet, regarding the state of affairs at Aden and within its vicinity, including:Secret information Haines has received, corroborated by an enclosed translation of a letter from the Chief of Lahidge, Ali M Houssain Foudthel El Abdali [the Sultan of Lahej, ‘Alī I bin Muḥsin al-‘Abdalī], that the Foutheli [Fadhli] Sultan had instructed certain men to try to kill any men practising their guns on the Isthmus, or any of those who accompany the artillery unarmed to watch their practice; Haines states that the intention of the Foutheli Chief is ‘no doubt to annoy the Chief of Lahidge by if possible, involving him in difficulty with the English in Aden’News received in a letter from Hodeida [Al Hudaydah] of a ‘skirmish’ between ‘the Turks’ and Arabs of the Beni Yam [Banī Yām] tribe, resulting in the defeat of the latter, but leaving the inhabitants of Mocha and Hodeida still in fear of an attack from ‘the Arabs’, and their trade at a standstill due to the roads to the interior being closedThe arrival of the French man of war steamer the
Caimanat Aden, which is awaiting the arrival of the French Admiral ‘Jaines’ in the frigate
Jeanne D’Arc, who it is believed intends to visit Suez, Judda [Jeddah], Mussowa [Massawa], Hodeida, and Mocha.The arrival of the
Caimanat Aden is also reported in a letter from the Commander in Chief of the Indian Navy, Henry John Leeke, to the President and Governor in Council, Bombay, Lord Viscount Falkland (enclosure No. 4, which includes an extract of a letter from the Senior Indian Naval Officer at Aden).Enclosure number 5 is a letter from the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay to the Officiating Secretary to the Government of India, forwarding copies of the above letters from the Political Agent at Aden and the Commander in Chief of the Indian Navy, for submission to the Governor-General of India in Council.Numbers 6-8, listed in the abstract of contents as copies of the
Bombay Timesoverland newspaper, the
Bombay Telegraph and Courier,and the
Bombay Gazette, all dated 14 March 1853, are noted as missing.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-8, on folios 452-453. 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 2 of 1853, dated 3 January 1853. The enclosures listed in the abstract of contents are numbered 3-8.Enclosure numbers 3 and 5 consist of letters from the Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Arthur Malet, dated 14 and 18 December 1852 respectively. The letters report on affairs at Aden and in its vicinity, mostly Haines's actions in relation to the apparent threat posed by the Foutheli [Fadhli] Sultan (the potential destruction of the Abdali grain crops and the prevention of supplies from entering Aden), including the actions which he advised the Sultan of Lahidge [Lahej or Lahij] to take.Enclosure number 4 is a minute by the Governor of Bombay, dated 29 December 1852, directing that Haines's reported proceedings in his letter of 14 December be approved, and that a copy be sent to the Government of India and the Secret Committee.Numbers 6-8, listed in the abstract of contents as copies of the
Bombay Overland Times, the
Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courier, and the
Bombay Overland Gazettenewspapers of 3 January 1853, are noted as missing.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-8, on folios 29-30. 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 9 of 1853, dated 29 January 1853. The enclosures are numbered 3-7. Enclosure numbers 3-4 are dated 14 to 28 January 1853.Enclosure number 3 is a letter from the Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, consisting of a general report on the state of affairs at Aden and within its vicinity, including relations between tribes, and the death of the murderer of Captain Milne.Enclosure number 4 is a minute by the Governor of Bombay subscribed to by the Board, directing that copies of Haines’s letter be sent to the Government of India and the Secret Committee.Enclosures 5-7, listed in the abstract of contents as copies of the
Bombay Overland Times, the
Bombay Overland Telegraph & Courier, and the
Bombay Overland Gazette, dated 29 January 1853, are noted as missing.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-7, on folio 273. 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 11 of 1853, dated 12 February 1853. The enclosures listed in the abstract of contents are numbered 3-6. Enclosure number 3 is dated January 1853.Enclosure number 3 is a letter from the Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, consisting of a general report on the state of affairs at Aden and within its vicinity, mostly concerning relations between the local tribes, in relation to the quarrel between the Foutheli [Fadhli] Sultan and the Sultan of Lahedge [Lahej or Lahij].Numbers 4-6, listed in the abstract of contents as copies of the
Bombay Overland Times, the
Bombay Overland Telegraph & Courier, and the
Bombay Overland Gazettenewspapers, dated 12 February 1853, are noted as missing.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-6, on folio 280. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure.
Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 4 of 1847, dated 15 January 1847. The enclosures are dated 9 November-15 January 1847.The item comprises resolutions on letters from the Secret Committee received by the HC [Honourable Company’s] steamer
Aucklandon 2 January 1847, and subsequent correspondence between: Secretary to the Government, Bombay; the Secretary to the Government of India; and the Post-Master General, Bombay. Also included is a minute of the President and Governor and the members in Council, Bombay.The papers cover the following matters:A document entitled ‘Heads of Instructions for the Police Magistrate at…’ (not included), forwarded by the Secret Committee, requesting the authorities in India to ascertain if the guidance can be made applicable to AdenAn enquiry, by the Secret Committee, as to whether the authorities in India have received any communication from the King of Johanna [Anjouan] regarding his claim to the Island of Mayotte now occupied by FranceConfirmation by the Post-Master General that he has received from England forty spare lids for the iron mail boxes (passing between England and India and through France), that he intends to request a further supply, and requesting instructions concerning the disposal of 155 old lids.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 32 of 1842, dated 31 March 1842. The enclosures are dated 24 February to 31 March 1842. They consist of a general report by the Political Agent at Aden, and other correspondence, on the state of affairs in Aden and its hinterland, the Gulf of Aden, and the lower part of the Red Sea Coast.The enclosures discuss matters including:British relations with the tribes around Aden, including relations with the Sultan of Lahidge [Lahej]The reason why orders were issued deferring the transportation of fifty Irregular Horse to AdenThe recommendation of the Political Agent at Aden that two Arab prisoners, previously sent from Aden to one of the East India Company's jails in the Bombay Presidency, be sent back to Aden to be released with a warning regarding their future conductThe view of the Political Agent at Aden that it was inadvisable to send Mr Hatchatoor to again reside as an Agent at Tedjoura [Tadjoura]The Political Agent at Aden having despatched the HC [Honourable Company] schooner Constance to Mussowah [Massawa] for the purpose of obtaining information about the state of affairs in Northern Abyssinia [the Northern Ethiopian Empire] and Arabia, at the request of HM Agent and Consul General in EgyptMeasures undertaken by the Political Agent at Aden for the protection of trade on the coast of AbyssiniaThe request of the former Native Agent at Mocha, Hajee Abdool Russool [Haji Abdul Rasool], that a decision be made by the Government of Bombay regarding his case, and that he be granted an allowance until his property at Mocha is restored to himStatements of stipends granted to different Arab 'chiefs' in the interior of Aden.The primary correspondents are the Political Agent at Aden and the Secretary and Officiating Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-28, on folios 365-371. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure.