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1. ‘Persian Gulf. Bahrein. Visit of the special Agent from the Sheik of steps taken to levy a fine on certain places on the Gutter Coast – Vol: 7’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a political letter from the Government of Bombay, which appears in IOR/F/4/2445/134344. The main correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Political Agent in the Persian Gulf; Commander John Porter, Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf; and Lieutenant Frederick Erskine Manners, commanding the East India Company brigantine Tigris. It is the seventh in a series of twenty-one items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns:The movement of people from Wukrah [Al Wakrah] and Fowarit [Fuwairit] to Bahrein [Bahrain] and El Biddah [al-Bid’] on the orders of Mahomed bin Khuleefa [Shaikh Muḥammad bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah of Bahrain]Mahomed bin Khuleefa’s decision to pay the fine the British were imposing on Doah [Doha], Wukrah, and Fowarit because of the ‘piracy’ of Soheil bin Ateish [Suhayl bin ‘Uṭaysh]Plans to seize Soheil bin AteishVisits of British ships to the Guttur [Qatar] Coast and El Adeed [Khawr al ‘Udayd]British surveys of the harbour of El Biddah and the shoals outsideThe movements of Ameer Fysul [Amīr Fayṣal bin Turkī bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Sa‘ūd, ruler of the Second Saudi State].The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft N 34 – 1852’, and ‘Collection No 32’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 176, and terminates at f 197, 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.
2. ‘Persian Gulf. Pirates Soheil bin Atesh Rugragee, Proposed punishment of the Chief – on the Gutter Coast for aiding the – Vol: 6’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, resolutions, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a political letter from the Government of Bombay, which appears in IOR/F/4/2445/134344. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Political Agent in the Persian Gulf; Commander John Porter, Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf; and Hajee Jassim [Ḥājjī Jāsim], British Agent at Bahrein [Bahrain]. It is the sixth in a series of twenty-one items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns:Intelligence of two ‘pirates’, Soheil bin Ateish [Suhayl bin ‘Uṭaysh] and Rugragee [Jāsim bin Jābir al-Raqrāqī] cruising off the Gutter [Qatar] CoastDetails of an attack on a Batinah boat by bin Ateish and the assistance rendered to him by Mahomed ben Sanee [Shaikh Muḥammad bin Thāni al-Thāmir]Hennell’s decision to exact the money taken by the ‘pirates’ from Wukrah [Al Wakrah], Doah [Doha], and Fowarit [Fuwairit], which he believes have been sheltering and supporting them.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft N 34 – 1852’, and ‘Collection No 32’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 166, and terminates at f 175, 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.