Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence cited in, or enclosed with, letters from the Government of Bombay.The item consists of correspondence regarding an application by the Pasha of Egypt [Muḥammad ʻAlī Pāshā] to procure or purchase two armed ships from the East India Company with the intention of sending an expedition to recover Judda [Jeddah], Mecca and Medina from the Wahabees [Wahhabis]. The application was made through Captain Rudland, British Resident in Mocha, and his assistant John Benzoni, Assistant to the British Agency in the Red Sea. The correspondence also concerns the general desire of the Pasha to strengthen connections with the British Government and the potential advantages and disadvantages of such a relationship.The correspondence consists mainly of letters between Captain Rudland, John Benzoni and the Government of Bombay. The other correspondents are: Governor-General and Council at Fort William; Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay; Court of Directors of the East India Company.The Pasha is alternatively referred to in the item as: Mahomed Ally Bashaw; Bashaw; Pacha; Viceroy of Egypt.Captain Rudland is alternatively referred to in the item as: Agent in the Gulph [Gulf] of Arabia; British Agent in the Persian Gulph.The title page of the item contains the following references: 'Political No. 22, Season 1814/15, Draft 20' and 'Examiner's Office November 1812'.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 145, and terminates at f 154, 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
Physical description: DimensionsMount (external): 349 x 450 mmMount (internal): 200 x 275 mm [landscape]FormatPhotographic print held within window mount in landscape formatMaterialsMottled blue-tinted window mount, card, gelatin silver print, indigo ink (printed), red ink (hand-painted)ConditionMount is extensively bowed, with light staining along all edges, particularly lower and right corner. Very light scuffing and wrinkling is also visible on the paper verso backing, which is under-laid by cotton strips.The print shows very little signs of toning, but is distorted gently throughout lower edge. There are surface losses, linear indentations and some puckering of the upper layer of the print at lower left corner.Foliation6 (143)ProcessGelatin silver print
Physical description: DimensionsMount (external): 345 x 450 mmMount (internal): 202 x 277 mm [landscape]FormatPhotographic print held within window mount in landscape formatMaterialsMottled blue-tinted window mount, card, gelatin silver print, indigo ink (printed), red ink (hand-painted)ConditionMount is mildly bowed, with light staining along all edges and fading along left-hand edge.=. Light staining and scuffing is also visible on the paper verso backing, which is otherwise in good condition.The print is welled towards right, left and lower edge of the image throughout, and shows signs of heavy toning. A surface loss 4.5 cm from lower and 2.5 cm from left has been in-filled. A flower-like white shape 9 cm from lower and 6.5 cm from left is a printing blemish or a flaw at the time of exposure.Foliation12 (149)ProcessGelatin silver print
Physical description: DimensionsMount (external): 346 x 445 mmMount (internal): 202 x 276 mm [landscape]FormatPhotographic print held within window mount in landscape formatMaterialsMottled blue-tinted window mount, card, gelatin silver print, indigo ink (printed), red ink (hand-painted)ConditionMount is mildly bowed, with light staining along all edges, particularly right-hand. Light staining and scuffing is also visible on the paper verso backing, which is otherwise in good condition.The print is welled throughout, but otherwise shows no sign of toning. A tear 2 cm from upper and 8 cm from right has been stabilised.Foliation11 (148)ProcessGelatin silver print
Physical description: DimensionsMount (external): 350 x 446 mmMount (internal): 200 x 275 mm [landscape]FormatPhotographic print held within window mount in landscape formatMaterialsMottled blue-tinted window mount, card, gelatin silver print, indigo ink (printed), red ink (hand-painted)ConditionMount is extensively bowed, with light staining along all edges. Very light scuffing, wrinkling and staining is also visible on the paper verso backing, which is under-laid by cotton strips, while a tear below the print has been stabilised.The print shows no signs of toning and is in excellent condition save for a surface tear approximately three centimetres from lower edge and eight centimetres from right, which has been stabilised. The print has lifted and is short of the lower left corner of the mount by approximately one millimetre.Foliation4 (141) (139) [sic]ProcessGelatin silver print
Physical description: DimensionsMount (external): 350 x 446 mmMount (internal): 200 x 275 mm [landscape]FormatPhotographic print held within window mount in landscape formatMaterialsMottled blue-tinted window mount, card, gelatin silver print, indigo ink (printed), red ink (hand-painted)ConditionMount is extensively bowed and edges are scuffed on the recto, particularly lower left, with light staining along all edges. A sliver of surface material has been excised from the upper right of the internal window. Creasing, scuffing and light staining is also visible on the paper verso backing.The print is bubbled and distorted across the surface, with some loss of glossy surface in the lower left corner as well as sticky residue in the upper left.Foliation2 (139)ProcessGelatin silver print
Physical description: DimensionsMount (external): 350 x 446 mmMount (internal): 202 x 273 mm [landscape]FormatPhotographic print held within window mount in landscape format.MaterialsMottled blue-tinted window mount, card, gelatin silver print, indigo ink (printed), red ink (hand-painted)ConditionMount is extensively bowed and edges are scuffed on the recto, particularly lower left, with staining along all edges. Creasing, scuffing and light staining is also visible on the verso, which consists of a paper backing over cotton strips.The print shows signs of toning, linear indentation as well as bubbling and distortion across the surface.Foliation1 (138)ProcessGelatin silver print
Physical description: DimensionsMount (external): 348 x 445 mmMount (internal): 202 x 276 mm [landscape]FormatPhotographic print held within window mount in landscape formatMaterialsMottled blue-tinted window mount, card, gelatin silver print, indigo ink (printed), red ink (hand-painted)ConditionMount is mildly bowed, with light staining along all edges, particularly right-hand. Some dark spatter-marks extend from the upper left and are unknown in origin. A lengthy crease extends across the upper bar from left-hand edge almost to right-hand edge. Light staining and scuffing is also visible on the paper verso backing, which is otherwise in good condition.The print is welled slightly throughout, but otherwise shows no sign of toning. One small surface loss is visible in the lower right corner. A blemish in the upper right is post-printing.Foliation10 (147)ProcessGelatin silver print
Physical description: DimensionsMount (external): 348 x 445 mmMount (internal): 202 x 276 mm [landscape]FormatPhotographic print held within window mount in landscape formatMaterialsMottled blue-tinted window mount, card, gelatin silver print, indigo ink (printed), red ink (hand-painted)ConditionMount is extensively bowed, with light staining along all edges, particularly upper. Very light scuffing is also visible on the paper verso backing.The print shows very little signs of toning, but is distorted gently throughout. A blemish approximately one and a half centimetres from left and six and a half centimetres from upper probably originates in the printing process and is not a surface loss.Foliation7 (144)ProcessGelatin silver print
Physical description: DimensionsMount (external): 3450 x 445 mmMount (internal): 200 x 276 mm [landscape]FormatPhotographic print held within window mount in landscape formatMaterialsMottled blue-tinted window mount, card, gelatin silver print, indigo ink (printed), red ink (hand-painted)ConditionMount is mildly bowed, with light staining along all edges, particularly lower. Dark spatter-marks extend from the upper left corner to the lower left corner along the left edge and are unknown in origin. There is a slight tear in the surface material along lower edge, four and a half centimetres from lower left corner. Light staining, scuffing and wrinkling is also visible on the paper verso backing.The print shows no sign of toning and is distorted gently throughout.Foliation9 (146)ProcessGelatin silver print