Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and resolutions, cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 28 April 1854, and found at IOR/F/4/2575/152543. It is the ninth in a series of thirteen items about the Persian Gulf.The item contains a letter from Hajee Jassem [Ḥājjī Jāsim], Agent at Bahrein [Bahrain], to Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, dated 18 October 1853. Hajee Jassem reports the alleged plunder of a Lingah [Bander-e Lengeh] vessel by inhabitants of Biddah [Al Bid‘]. Kemball forwards the letter, alongside a report of actions he has subsequently taken, to the Government of Bombay.The title page of the item contains the following references: 'Bombay Political Department', 'P.C. [Previous Communication] 8964', Draft Number '908 [18]54', 'Collection No. 1 of No. 32 of 1854', 'Vol: 9', and 'Examiner's Office'. Originally, the Collection number was given as '9' but this has been crossed out and replaced with '1'.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 329, and terminates at f 332, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.