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241. Vol 29, 30, 32, 33: Letters Inward
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- Abstract: The volume consists of correspondence addressed to the Resident in the Persian Gulf in 1823. Initially, Captain John Macleod fills the role of Resident, but he is replaced following his death by Lieutenant-Colonel Ephraim Gerrish Stannus towards the end of the year. This file is made up of correspondence selected from four separate volumes and bound together in chronological order; it is far from a complete set.The content of the correspondence relates to British political relations in the Persian Gulf; more specifically, relations with Oman and Persia, along with matters related to the enforcement of the General Treaty with the Arab Tribes of the Persian Gulf of 1820. It also concerns itself with the restoration of the Banī Bū ‘Alī tribe to their native territory, from which they were removed by a British Expedition against them in 1821.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the title page and terminates at the last folio of text (f 53); these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and can be found in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: The volume contains original pagination in ink. However, it is inconsistent because the letters have been taken from separate volumes, then later combined in chronological order. The pagination therefore does not reflect the order of the present volume.
242. Vols 75 and 76: Letters Outward
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- Abstract: This file consists of contemporaneous copies of outgoing letters from the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Bushire. The Resident at this time was David Anderson Blane. Recipients of the Resident's letters include: Captain John Campbell, Assistant in Charge of the British Mission in Persia; Major Robert Taylor, Political Agent, Bussorah [Basra]; Charles Norris, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay; Commodore William Sowden Collinson, Commander of the Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf; John FitzGibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare, Governor and President in Council, Bombay; Major Hicks, Commander of the Marine Battalion, Bombay; Stratford Powell, Adjutant-General of the Army, Bombay; Edmund Hardy, Quartermaster-General of the Army, Bombay; Lieutenant Samuel Hennell, Assistant to the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire; G S Moore, Brigade Major of the King's Troop. The file contains one letter addressed to the Resident from the Assistant Surgeon at Bushire, James Pringle Riach.Subjects covered in this file include: the Resident's recent visits to the ports of Shargah [Sharjah] and Bahrein [Bahrain]; the recent visit to Bushire of His Royal Highness the Prince of Fars, who met with the Shaikh of Bushire, and later, with the Resident; relations between the British and the Persians; financial and administrative matters relating to the Residency; an outbreak of plague in Bushire, after which the Residency staff are forced to decamp to the Island of Corgo; the response of the Residency to disturbances at Muscat, following the departure of the Imam [Sa‘īd bin Sultān Āl Bū Sa‘īd] for Zanzibar; the alliance between the British Government and the Imam of Muscat; acts of aggression and piracy which have reportedly been committed by Rashid bin Hameed [Shaikh Rashid I bin Humaid Al Nuaimi], Chief of Eyman [Ajman]; the claims of Sultan bin Sughur [Sulṭān bin Saqr Āl Qāsimī, ruler of Ra's al-Khaymah and Sharjah] to places taken by him from the Imam of Muscat.Several of the letters in this volume have been crossed through with red crayon; a small number of these items are incomplete.Physical description: Pagination: There is an original but incomplete pagination sequence, which is written in ink, in the top outermost corners of each page.Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio with content (i.e. text) and terminates at the last folio with content; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. This is the sequence which has been used by this catalogue to reference items within the file.
243. Vol 65: Letters Inward
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- Abstract: This file consists of correspondence relating to the Indian Navy in the Persian Gulf. Most of the correspondence is addressed to Major David Wilson, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, by the Commanding Officer of the Indian Navy in the Persian Gulf, William Sowden Collinson. In addition, there are several letters addressed to Wilson by other marine officers, plus copies of correspondence between Collinson and some of his fellow marine officers. A significant amount of the correspondence in this file exists in the form of reports of the general proceedings of individual East India Company ships. Each report is divided into two columns: the first column, which has the heading 'Orders Received', consists of instructions issued to the ship's commanding officer, either by the Senior Marine Officer or by the Resident in the Persian Gulf; the second column, which has the heading 'Detail of Execution', contains the commanding officer's account of how the orders have been carried out. The first of these reports (see ff 4-8), which concerns the Honourable Company's surveying ship, the Benares,commanded by Stafford Bettesworth Haines, ranges in date from 30 June 1829 to 14 August 1829. The first set of orders, which appears in the left-hand column, is issued by Thomas Elwon, Senior Marine Officer; the remaining orders are given by Major David Wilson, Resident in the Persian Gulf. Haines's responses to these orders appear in the right-hand column. The next report (see ff 26-27), which relates to the general proceedings of the Honourable Company's brig of war, the Tigris,commanded by John Sawyer, ranges from 12 to 27 March 1830. In addition, there are similar reports for the Euphrates,commanded by William Denton (see f 35 and ff 46-47, dated 30 May-3 June and 15 June-2 July 1830 respectively), and the Elphinstone,commanded by William McDonald (see ff 38-41, dated 13 March-26 May 1830). Other marine officers who feature in this file as correspondents include William Lowe, Henry Windham, Edward Wyburd and John Sawyer. Most of the correspondence is concerned with relations between local Arab rulers. The letters received from the various marine officers consist of accounts of their visits to the Arabian coast. Details found in these letters include:News of fortifications being built at Manamah [Al-Manāmah] and Maharraq [Al-Muḥarraq], Bahrain;References to letters addressed by David Wilson to Abdoolah Ben Ahmed [Shaikh Abdullah ibn Aḥmad Āl Khalīfah] of Bahrain, requesting that the latter relinquish property which has purportedly been taken by his men from vessels belonging to the Chief of Moobat;Reports on relations between the Imam of Muscat [Sa‘īd bin Sultān Āl Bū Sa‘īd] and Abdoolah Ben Ahmed;News of a peace having been concluded between Sooltan Ben Sugger [Sulṭān bin Saqr Āl Qāsimī, ruler of Ra's al-Khaymah and Sharjah] and Sheik Thanoon [Tahnun bin Shakhbut Āl Nahyān, Shaikh of Abu Dhabi];Speculation that the predatory incursions of some Bedouin tribes into the territories of the Imam of Muscat are being encouraged both by Sooltan Ben Sugger and by the opposite branch of the Imam's own family;Reports on the growing power of the Wahabee [Wahabi] Chieftain, Toorkee Ben Sood [Turki bin Abdullah bin Muhammad Āl Sa‘ūd, founder of the Second Saudi State];News of an attack by the Imam of Muscat on the town of Sohar [Ṣuḥār].In addition, there are two letters addressed to Wilson which are not written by marine officers. The first is a letter signed by a number of Armenians from Julfa [Jolfā], in Ispahan [Eşfahān], in which the Resident is thanked for having sent a vaccin inoculator [ sic] to that place. The second item is a statement, addressed to the Bushire authorities by Alexander Ogilvie, Chief Officer of the Poop(and signed by a number of witnesses), in which Ogilvie complains of having been subjected to abusive language by one of the ship's passengers.Physical description: Foliation: There is an incomplete foliation sequence and a complete foliation sequence. The complete foliation sequence is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the last folio of writing, on number 47. This is the sequence which has been used by this catalogue to reference items within the file.
244. Vol 66: Letters Inward
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- Abstract: This file consists of correspondence received by the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, Major David Wilson, from various officials at the Government of Bombay. Correspondents include: Charles Norris, Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay; Robert Cotton Money, Acting Persian Secretary to Government and Secretary to the Bombay Native Education Society; and John Pollard Willoughby, Acting Secretary to Government, Bombay. One of Willoughby's letters (no. 2348, ff 6-9) is followed by enclosed copies of three letters, addressed to Colonel Samuel Goodfellow, Chief Engineer, Major Stratford Powell, Acting Adjutant General, and the President and Members of the Medical Board respectively.The first letter of the file (see ff 2-5), from Charles Norris, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, includes copies of a proclamation (in English, Arabic and Hindi), dated 31 December 1829, issued by Norris on behalf of the Honourable Governor in Council, John Malcolm. The proclamation refers to a recent Government Act which prohibits British subjects from serving under any foreign flag employed against the Turks, in any part of India or the Red Sea.Most of the items in this file are circular letters which relate to matters across the Bombay Presidency and beyond. The prominent theme in these letters is education. Topics of discussion include the following: the Governor of Bombay's decision to reform the Engineer Institution under the new name, 'Government Institution', and place it under the control of the Government of Bombay, rather than that of the Chief Engineer; changes to the way in which the Native Medical institution is regulated; the circulation of a list of the Bombay Native Education Society's publications.In one of only two letters addressed directly to the Resident in the Persian Gulf (see ff 28-29), David Wilson is given authorisation to warn local Arab chieftains that the British Government will not permit any acts which attempt to weaken the power of the Imam of Muscat [Sa‘īd bin Sultān Āl Bū Sa‘īd]. Enclosed with this letter are copies of two letters addressed to the Honourable Governor of Bombay, John Malcolm: a substance of a letter from Syyud Mahomed bin Salim, Regent of the Imam of Muscat (see ff 30-31); a translation of a written communication from the Imam of Muscat's Agent at Bombay, Agha Mahomed Shoostury (see ff 32-33).In the second letter addressed directly to the Resident (no.1098, f 34), Willoughby includes a copy of a letter to Norris from Richard Clive, Acting Chief Secretary to the Government of Fort Saint George, in which it is requested that the Resident procure a variety of plants and seeds and send them to Tellicherry [Thalassery], Calicut [Kozhikode] or any other port on the coast, so that they can be taken to the Neilgherry Hills and cultivated in the gardens there.Physical description: Pagination: There is a pagination sequence which is written in ink, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio and in the top left corner of the verso of each folio. The sequence is inconsistent: some of the pages have not been paginated and the sequence is not complete.Foliation: The foliation sequence is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the last folio of writing, on number 40. It should be noted that in this sequence f 20 is followed by f 20A; the sequence then resumes on f 21. This is the sequence used by this catalogue to reference items within the file. Foliation errors: f 20 is followed by f 20A.
245. Vol 77: Native Letters Inward
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- Abstract: This file consists of contemporaneous copies or summaries of letters received by the Resident in the Persian Gulf (usually based at Bushire but temporarily residing on the Island of Corgo, following an outbreak of the plague) from a number of East India Company native agents, including those at Shargah [Sharjah], Muscat, Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh] and Shiraz. Named correspondents include Moollah Houssein [Mullā Husayn], Native Agent at Shargah, and Mirza Ally Ackbar [Mirza Ali Akbar], Native Agent at Shiraz. Most of these letters are in fact summaries (in the file they are referred to as 'substances') of letters, rather than complete copies of letters, which have been produced by a member of the Residency staff.In addition, there are a number of substances or extracts of letters from local rulers, including: Sultan bin Suggur [Sulṭān bin Saqr Āl Qāsimī, ruler of Ra's al-Khaymah and Sharjah]; Shaik Tahnun [Shaikh Tahnun bin Shakhbut Āl Nahyān] of Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi]; and Saood bin Ally [Saud bin Ali], Governor of Burka [Barkā’, Oman].Subjects covered in this file include: the imprisonment of the Imam of Muscat's [Sa‘īd bin Sultān Āl Bū Sa‘īd's] son and nephew by Saood bin Ally; relations between Sultan bin Suggur and Shaik Tahnun; an outbreak of plague in Bushire; the British Government's alliance with the Imam of Muscat; the reported seizure by Sultan bin Suggur of three forts on the Batinah [Al-Bāṭinah] coast belonging to the Imam of Muscat.The file includes one item of outgoing correspondence: a copy of a letter (see ff 8-11), dated 25 May 1832, from Samuel Hennell, Assistant to the Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Charles Norris, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, in which Hennell recounts his recent visits to Sohar [Ṣuḥār], Sowek [As Suwayq], Burka and Muscat.Physical description: Pagination: There is an original but incomplete pagination sequence, which is written in ink, in the top outermost corners of each page.Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio with content (i.e. text) and terminates at the last folio with content; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. This is the sequence which has been used by this catalogue to reference items within the file.
246. Vol 78: Miscellaneous Letters Inward
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- Abstract: This file consists almost entirely of letters received by the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire. The Resident at this time was David Anderson Blane. The principal correspondents are the following: Commodore William Sowden Collinson, Commander of the Indian Navy in the Persian Gulf; Charles Norris, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay; John Bax, Secretary to the Government of Bombay; Samuel Hennell, Assistant to the Resident in the Persian Gulf.Two of the letters contain enclosures. In his letter of 27 August 1832, John Bax encloses a copy of a letter from Charles Malcolm, Superintendent of the Indian Navy, to John FitzGibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare, Governor and President in Council, Bombay, together with a copy of Bax's reply to Malcolm.In his letter of 3 July 1832, Samuel Hennell encloses copies of his correspondence with Shaik Rashid ben Hamed [Shaikh Rashid I bin Humaid Al Nuaimi], Chief of Eyman [Ajman], and Henry Wyndham [Windham], Commander of the Honourable Company brig of war the Tigris, respectively.Subjects covered in this file include: the state of confusion in Muscat, following the departure of the Imam [Sa‘īd bin Sultān Āl Bū Sa‘īd] for Zanzibar; the imprisonment of the Imam of Muscat's son and nephew by Soud Bin Ally Bin Saif [Saud bin Ali bin Saif], Chief of Burka [Barkā’, Oman]; the effects of the outbreak of plague in Bushire; the reported seizure by Sultan bin Suggur [Sulṭān bin Saqr Āl Qāsimī, ruler of Ra's al-Khaymah and Sharjah] of three forts on the Batinah [Al-Bāṭinah] coast belonging to the Imam of Muscat; details of Samuel Hennell's efforts to recover property reportedly plundered from some of the Imam's subjects by dependents of Rashid ben Hamed; the British Government's alliance with the Imam of Muscat; the movements and states of repair of various Indian Navy ships (including a list of ships employed by the Indian Navy).Physical description: Pagination: There is an original but incomplete pagination sequence, with gaps present in the file between folios 1 and 28. The numbers are written in ink and are located in the top outermost corners of each page.Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio with content (i.e. text) and terminates at the last folio with content; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. This is the sequence which has been used by this catalogue to reference items within the file.
247. Vol 67, 68: Native Letters Inward
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- Abstract: This file consists mostly of translations of letters received by the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, Major David Wilson, from a number of East India Company native agents. The letters concern developments on both sides of the Gulf. The most prominent correspondents are the following: Goolab [Gulab Anandadas], Native Agent at Muscat; Mirza Ally Akbar [Mirza Ali Akbar], Native Agent at Shiraz; and Moollah Houssein [Mullah Husain], Native Agent at Sharjah. In addition, there are letters from native representatives at Bahrein [Bahrain], Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh] and Isfahan. Aside from the aforementioned correspondence, this file contains a small number of translations of letters addressed to the Resident (and in the case of two letters, to Captain William Sowden Collinson and William Bentick, Governor General of India, respectively) from local rulers, including the following: His Highness the Imam of Muscat [Sa‘īd bin Sultān Āl Bū Sa‘īd, Sultan of Muscat and Oman]; Sooltan bin Suggur [Sulṭān bin Saqr Āl Qāsimī, ruler of Ra's al-Khaymah and Sharjah]; Shaik Abdool Russool Khan [Shaikh ‘Abd al-Rasūl Khān, Governor of Bushire]; Shaik Tahnoon [Tahnun bin Shakhbut Āl Nahyān, Shaikh of Abu Dhabi]; Shaik Abdoollah bin Ahmed [Shaikh Abdullah ibn Aḥmad Āl Khalīfah, Shaikh of Bahrain]; His Royal Highness the Shah of Persia [Fatḥ ʿAlī Shāh Qajar]; and His Royal Highness the Prince of Shiraz [Ḥusayn ‘Alī Mīrzā]. These letters appear either as attachments to the native agents' letters, or as singular items.Recurring themes found throughout the letters from the various native agents include relations between local rulers (both friendly and hostile) and the numerous visits undertaken by those rulers. The letters also discuss topics which are specific to the agent's region or location: agents writing from the ports of the Gulf report on the arrival and departure of ships (including French brigs); the Acting Agent at Bahrein provides updates on the pearl diving season; Mirza Ally Akbar [Mirza Ali Akbar], writing from Shiraz, relays information on the effects of the cholera outbreak in Tabreez [Tabrīz] and discusses relations between the Prince of Shiraz and the Russians.Physical description: Pagination: There is a pagination sequence which is written in ink, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio and in the top left corner of the verso of each recto.Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. This sequence begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the last folio of writing, on number 79. This is the sequence used by this catalogue to reference items within the file.Condition: Some of the folios in this file have been damaged at the edges; as a result, some of the text has been lost.
248. Coll 40/13 ‘Royal Family. Coronation of H.M. King George VI. Invitations to the Sultan of Muscat and the Sheikhs of Bahrain and Koweit, and King of the Yemen.’
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- Abstract: This file contains correspondence on the coronation of King George VI. The correspondence is primarily between the following: the Secretary of State for India; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Secretary of State for the Colonies; the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India; and the Resident at Aden. It includes material relating to the following matters:The journey of Prince Seif-uyl-Islam al-Hussein [Sayf al-Islām al-Ḥusayn bin Yahyā Ḥamīd al-Dīn] of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen from London to Paris and RomeThe invitation to the Sultan of Muscat [Sulṭān Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd], the Sheikh of Bahrein [Sheikh of Bahrain, Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah], the Sheikh of Koweit [Sheikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir al-Ṣabāh], and the King of Yemen [Al-Imām al-Mutawakkil Yahyā Muḥammad Ḥamīd al-Dīn] to attend the coronation ceremony of King George VI in LondonThe invitation from the Colonial Office to the Sultan of Lahej [Sulṭān ‘Abd al-Karīm II bin al-Faḍl al-‘Abdalī] and the Sultan of Shehr and Mokalla [Sulṭān of Shihr and Mukalla, Sulṭān Ṣāliḥ bin Ghālib al-Qu‘ayṭī] to attend the coronation ceremony of King George VIThe decision to invite the Arab rulers of the Gulf to the ceremony in light of Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven William Fowle’s view ‘as to the local importance of not allowing it to be thought in the Gulf that these rulers had been forgotten and the consequent desirability of extending to them some form of invitation though they might not avail themselves of it’.The file also includes ‘Minutes of the 1st Meeting of the Sub-Committee of the Coronation Executive Committee set up to consider questions arising in connection with the invitation of, accommodation for, and entertainment of persons from outside the United Kingdom who are to be treated as either Royal or official Guests for the Coronation’ (folios 101-111).Physical description: The foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at 112; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
249. British Agents
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- Abstract: The volume contains correspondence relating to the employment and activities of British Agents responsible to the Persian Gulf Residency at Bushire. The correspondents include: Felix Jones, British Resident at Bushire; the Government of Bombay; Captain Christopher Palmer Rigby, British Consul and Agent at Zanzibar; Syed Thuweynee [Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Sultan of Muscat; the British Agency at Muscat; Commanders of the Persian Gulf Naval Squadron; the British Agency at Sharjah; the British Agency at Shiraz; Prince Tahmasp, Governor of Fars; Charles Murray (later Charles Alison), British Minister at Tehran; and Lieutenant R W Whish, Commander of the Mahi.The volume is organised into sections, each relating to a different topic, as follows:Subject 1: Relates to the British Agent at Muscat, covering the following matters:the dismissal of Heskael bin Yusuf as Agent due to lack of communication and inefficiency;the appointment by Jones of Henry Chester as Agent, and his subsequent removal because of the need for officers of his rank in the navy;the argument, put forward by Jones, for the need for a British-born agent at Muscat because of the sensitive political situation (the political split between Zanzibar and Muscat), a new telegraph station at Muscat that requires the expertise to operate, the slave traffic in Oman, and the growing influence of foreign powers (France) in the country;the appointment of William Pengelley as Political Agent at Muscat.The section contains (folios 24-32) detailed instructions for new agents at Muscat and a discussion of the protection to be given to banyans (Indian traders) in the region and the extent of British jurisdiction.Subject 2: relates to friction and disagreement between Jones and Hormuzd Rassam, appointed temporarily as British Agent at Muscat, caused by the former communicating directly with the Sultan of Muscat and the latter considering himself under the authority of the Residency at Aden, not Bushire.Subject 3: relates to Hajee Yacoob [Ḥājī Ya‘qūb], British Agent at Shargah [Sharjah], including praise and reward for his good service, and compensation paid to the family of Hajee el-Mir [Ḥājī al-Mīr], a munshi who drowned off Sharjah and was employed at the Agency.Subject 4: also relates to Ḥājī Ya‘qūb, specifically the transferral of a boat in store at Bassadore [Bāsaʻīdū] to Sharjah for the use of the Agent.Subject 5: relates to the position of British Agent at Shiraz after the Anglo-Persian War. Matters covered include:the re-appointment of Meerza Mahomed Hussun Khan [Mīrza Moḥamad Ḥasan Khān] as agent by Jones and his subsequent dismissal in favour of Hajee Mahomed Khuleel [Ḥājī Moḥamad Khalīl], who had been appointed by Charles Augustus Murray, British Minister at Tehran;the disagreement between Jones and Murray following these events;the routes of communication with India to be used and whether, if Shiraz is bypassed, to retain an agent there.Subject 6: relates to the resignation of Ḥājī Moḥamad Khalīl as agent at Shiraz and a cholera epidemic affecting the city.Subject 7: relates to the appointment of E N Castelli as British Agent at Shiraz, his retirement shortly afterwards, and the re-appointment of Moḥamad Ḥasan Khān. Also briefly covers Charles Murray's return to Europe on sick leave.Subject 8: consists of correspondence between the Resident at Bushire and Castelli, Agent at Shiraz, on miscellaneous topics, including the case of a Persian merchant in Bombay, naturalised as a British subject, seeking legal protection in Persia, and the death of Mirza Mahomed Ali Khan [Mīrza Moḥamad ‘Ali Khān] Nawabi Hindi.Subject 9: relates to the work of several munshis employed by the British Government, including:interpreter Meerza Mahomed Jawad [Mīrza Moḥamad Jawād] joins a mission to Muskat [Muscat];praise for the work of Abdool Kurrem [‘Abdul Karīm];Abdool Cassim [‘Abdul Qāsim] transferred from the Cliveto the Aucklandto be appointed the Commodore's munshi.Subject 10: relates to a claim by Khulfan Rattonsee on the estate of the deceased brother of Moolla Ahmed [Mullā Aḥmad], British Agent at Lingah and complaints made about former Muscat Agent, Hezkiel.Subject 11: relates to leave granted to Khodadad bin Mahomed [Khudādād bin Moḥamad], Slave Agent at Bāsaʻīdū, in order to perform the pilgrimage to Mecca.Physical description: Foliation is written in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on the first folio of writing, on number 2, and ends on the inside of the back cover, on number 303. There are the following irregularities: f 55 is followed by f 55A; f 90 is followed by f 90A; f 106 is followed by ff 106A-B; f 158 is followed by f 158A; f 162 is followed by f 162A; f 195 is followed f 195A; f 207 is followed by f 207A; f 218 is followed by f 218A; f 237 is followed by f 237A; f 238 is followed by f 238A; f 255 is followed by f 255A; f 267 is followed by f 267A; f 278 is followed by f 278A; f 280 is followed by f 280A; f 286 is followed by f 286A.
250. The ‘Slave Trade’
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- 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 35 of 1850, dated 25 June 1850. The enclosures, numbered 3-18 and dated 25 October 1849 to 24 June 1850, relate to the ‘slave trade’ [trade in enslaved people].The enclosures consists of correspondence, and minutes of the Government of Bombay. They cover matters including:HM Consul and Honourable Company’s Agent at Zanzibar, Major Atkins Hamerton, reporting the destruction by the boats of HMS Castorof a ‘slave’ establishment at Angosh [Angoche], and the permission accorded by the Imam of Muscat for British vessels of war to enter ports, bays, creeks, and rivers between Songa Manara [Songa Mnara Island] and Cape Delgado in pursuit of vessels engaged in the ‘slave trade’ and destroy all barracoons and establishments erected for the purpose of the ‘slave trade’Hamerton reporting that he has made a ‘friendly remonstrance’ to the Imam on the ‘glaring violations’ of the treaty for the suppression of the ‘slave trade’ between the British Government and the ImamHamerton stating that he has brought the subject of purchases of enslaved women to the notice of the Imam, with a view to the prohibition of this, in response to a letter from the Government of Bombay relating to the purchase an ‘African female’ at Muscat by a ‘Mussulman’ [Muslim] of Kutch. However, Hamerton states that it would be very difficult to stop such purchases, because he claims that the practice is widespread amongst ‘Banian’ and Indian Muslim men resident in the Imam’s territories.. Hamerton adds that he is now bringing the subject to the attention of the British Secretary of State for Foreign AffairsA report by Hamerton on the type of vessels which should be employed for the suppression of the ‘slave trade’, the localities in which they should cruise, and the time of year they should be employedA draft of instructions for the guidance of officers in command of vessels of the Indian Navy prepared by the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy, Captain Stephen Lushington, in communication with the Advocate General, to carry out the provisions of the Act of Parliament of 1 August 1849 ‘for carrying into effect engagements between Her Majesty [Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom] and certain Arabian Chiefs in the Persian Gulf for the more effectual suppression of the Slave Trade’.The correspondence is mostly between the following: Hamerton; the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Arthur Malet; the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor General, Sir Henry Miers Elliot; and the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy.Enclosure No. 3 also includes enclosed correspondence: between Hamerton and the Commander-in-Chief, Cape Good Hope Station, Commodore Christopher Wyvill; and from the Imam of Muscat, Said bin Sultan [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd], to Hamerton.Physical description: 1 item (40 folios)
251. The Slave Trade between the East Coast of Africa and Various Ports in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea
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- 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 1842, dated 30 March 1842. The enclosures are dated 17 January to 30 March 1842, and consist of correspondence concerning the trade in enslaved people between the East Coast of Africa and various ports in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea.The correspondence is mainly between the Secretary and Acting Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay and the following: the Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Secretary to the Government of India; the Advocate General, Bombay; and the Senior Magistrate of Police, Bombay.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-15, on folios 4-6. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure.
252. Ext 4226/43 ‘Compensation to Arabic Shaikhdoms for Losses by Enemy Action (Sinking of S.S. Dhafu); Sinking of dhows belonging to KOWEIT, QATAR, MUSCAT (Grounding of "Star of Mex")’
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- Abstract: The file contains policy papers discussing whether the British Government should pay out compensation for dhows lost by the Persian Gulf States as a result of enemy action. The file also discusses whether compensation should be paid to coolies killed as a result of the sinking of the Norwegian vessel SS Dahpuin Muscat harbour by a Japanese submarine on 28 June 1943; the British Government had given the Sultan of Muscat assurances that his state would be protected from external aggression.A single post-war incident has been included in the file: the looting of the Alexandria Steam Navigation Company ship Star of Mexin February 1947. The ship was stranded near Ra‘s al Khabba: see folios 21-22 for a detailed report on the incident by Andrew Charles Stuart, Political Agent and Consul at Muscat. The majority of the papers are concerned with establishing whether the Muscat Government is liable for paying out compensation.The file does not contain any papers for the years 1945-1946.The main correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant Colonel William Rupert Hay) and officials of the India Office – Commonwealth Relations Office from August 1947. The file also contains input from the Foreign Office, the Government of India, and the Treasury.The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 70; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.