Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 69 of 1847, dated 6 August 1847. The enclosures are dated 13 April-2 August 1847 (although some internal copy documents date back to 26 December 1846).The primary documents are: letters from Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Captain Indian Navy and Political Agent in Aden, to Arthur Malet, Secretary to the Government, Bombay, with related correspondence; Malet’s forwarding letters to Henry Miers Elliot, Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General; and minutes of the Governor in Council.The subjects covered notably include:An unsuccessful attempt by the Chief of the Ameer tribe [Banu ‘Amir?] to extract tribute from the (British) Aden revenue based on a 200-year old documentDespatch of Haines’s assistant, Lieutenant Charles John Cruttenden on the Honourable Company (HC) steam frigate
Auckland, to investigate the veracity of reports of the arrival of a large body of Turkish [Ottoman] troops at Mocha and Hodeida [Al Hudaydah]Haines’s application for an HC steam vessel (schooner) of war to proceed to Mocha, Hodeida and Museowah [Massawa, also spelled Mussowah in this volume], to see what changes have taken place in the sea port towns of the lower part of the Red Sea; observe if Turkish troops have re-occupied them; and liaise where necessary with Turkish authorities to protect British and Indian interestsCaptain Haines’s arrangement and funding of a passage on an American ship for Syed Omar, cousin and ambassador to the King of Johanna [Anjouan, also known as Ndzuwani or Nzwani], and his party, from Aden to Zanzibar, including a letter of thanks to the British authorities from Syed Omar; a testimonial from a French traveller ‘rescued’ by Syed Omar at Jedda [Jeddah]; and bills of expenses submitted by Haines to Bombay for the assistance providedProgress reports of Captain J Kilner, Executive Engineer at Aden, on the various works connected with the defences of Aden up to 28 February 1847 (ff 339-340)Measures taken by the Military Board for protecting the town of Aden from floods of rain water from the landward side of the town; and Military Board’s criticism of how unsatisfactorily the instructions and works at Aden have been carried out, notably the conduct of Captain Kilner and Colonel Grant, and the lack of cordiality between Haines and Kilner (ff 344-351) (see also IOR/L/PS/5/450, ff 198-202).Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-25, on folios 305-308. 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 85 of 1847, dated 1 October 1847. The enclosures are dated 15 July-28 September 1847.The primary correspondents are: Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Captain Indian Navy and Political Agent at Aden; the Secretary to the Government, Bombay; and the Military Board, Bombay. Relevant enclosures include: correspondence between Haines and Captain James Kilner, Executive Engineer, Aden; letters from Kilner to the Brigade Major, Aden, the Superintending Engineer at Aden and the Superintending Engineer at Poona [Pune]; letters from Brigadier W Spiller, Commanding the Aden Field Force, to the Quartermaster-General of the Army, Poona, and from the latter to the Secretary to the Government, Military Department, Bombay. The item also includes several minutes of the Governor and President in Council and the members in Council, Bombay.The documents chiefly relate to a dispute between Haines and Kilner regarding the latter’s method of procuring kirby [stalks of the bajra grass, or pearl millet, also spelled ‘kurbee’ in this item] for the Engineer Department at Aden (ff 223-252).Haines complains that Captain Kilner has:Acted contrary to the civil and military orders by purchasing forage, especially kirby, directly from the local inhabitants of Lahidge [Lahej, also spelled Lahedge in this item] outside the Turkish Wall (boundary wall of the Aden settlement) instead of at the Aden marketUsed a contractor (a ‘Mr Weiss’, the ‘Coral and Sand Contractor’) to arrange kirby procurement, and to purchase articles arriving by boat without obtaining the necessary customs permitsCaused potential tensions between the local inhabitants and the British and ‘injured’ the Aden market.Kilner counter-complains about Haines, notably stating that:There is no explicit prohibition on purchasing outside the walls or from the interiorHaines interfered unduly in having Lieutenant Charles John Cruttenden, the Political Assistant, interrogate Mr Weiss at the police officeHis methods actually save money for the Government, especially since prices in the Aden market are more than double what he pays and the quality of market kirby is particularly poorCustoms permits should not be required for ‘trifling articles’ such as mats and basketsHaines has recently made specific arrangements to prevent locals bringing articles from the interior for the Engineer Department.Ultimately the authorities in Bombay communicate that whilst Kilner must conform with the rules of the Political Agent for procuring supplies, the price of kirby has now risen so high it is impossible to purchase it and ‘Government looks to [the Political Agent] to take secure measures to avert such complaints of excessive dearth’ and ensure that plentiful supplies find their way to the Aden market (f 249).Other matters covered in the item are as follows:The visit of Mahomed Eschreff Bey [Muḥammad Sharīf Beg], Commissioner from the Sublime Porte [Government of the Ottoman Empire] to the sea port towns of the Arabian coast, including: Haines’s concern that the extension of [Ottoman] Egyptian and Turkish influence in the area (notably at Hodeida [Al Hudaydah] and Mocha) may affect Aden’s trade with Zeyla [Zeila] and Berbera (notably the trading fair at Berbera); and Haines’s request, approved by the authorities in Bombay, that a vessel of war be dispatched to monitor the spread of Turkish influenceThe plundering of the ‘Interior Kafilah [caravan]’ due to various members of the Agribi [‘Akrabī], Subei [Subaīhī] and Azeibi [‘Uzaybī] tribes ‘retaliating each other in consequence of some petty feud between them’ (f 221)Rumours that Sultan Hamed Abdalla Foutheli [Aḥmad bin Abdullāh al-Faḍlī] will meet Sultan Hamed M’ Houssain [Aḥmad bin Muḥsin al-‘Abdalī] of Lahidge at ‘Sheik Othman’ [Shaykh Uthman] to settle their disputes including over Sheik Hydra ibn Maidee of Bir Ahmed [Shaikh Ḥaydarah bin Mahdī of Bi’r Ahmad].Note: The last two enclosures, the
Bombay Timessummary of Intelligence and
Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courier, are noted as ‘Missing 30.10.1906’.Physical description: 1 item (45 folios)
Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 36 of 1856, dated 12 May 1856. The enclosures are dated 9 April-10 May 1856.The papers concern events on the north east coast of Africa, as reported to the Government of Bombay by Brigadier William Marcus Coghlan, Political Resident at Aden. They specifically cover the following matters:Reports by Raffaello Barroni, Agent to Walter Chichele Plowden, HM Consul in Abyssinia [now Ethiopia], of disorder alleged to be fostered by the Governor of Mussowah [Massawa] and the resultant plunder carried out by Egyptian soldiers in nearby Abyssinian provinces, and the trafficking of prisoners taken by Egyptian troops on the ‘slave market’ at MussowahProceedings relating to Haj Shermarkie [Ḥājjī Sharmārkī ‘Alī Ṣāliḥ, also spelled Shermarkay and Shurmarkie in this item], the deposed Governor of Zailah [Saylac, or Zeila, Somalia, also spelled Zeylah in this item], including: Coghlan’s deputation of his assistant, Lieutenant Robert Lambert Playfair, to travel on the HC [Honourable Company’s] steam vessel
Queento investigate Shermarkie’s alleged ‘piracy’ and attempts to blockade and re-take Zailah; Playfair’s account of his visits to the coastal ports of Zailah, Ain Tarad [El Darad, or Ceel Dhaarand], Berbera and Tajourah [Tadjoura], including a description of the mediation he conducted on board the
Queenbetween the mutually hostile Shermarkie and the new Governor of Zeylah, Haj Aboo Bekr bin Ibrahim [Ḥājjī Abū Bakr bin Ibrāhīm, also spelled Aboo Bukur Dunklee in this item]; and the offer of asylum at Aden to Haj Shermarkie on condition that he does not leave without permission from the Political Resident or use Aden as a base to organise further attacks on ZailahThe trade in enslaved persons in Zailah and Tajourah and Playfair’s opinion that it will never be suppressed unless British vessels have permission to search Turkish [Ottoman] vessels at sea and land enslaved persons on shore.Coghlan also reports on the water shortages at Aden, reduced water allowances, and continuing efforts to improve the water supply.The principal correspondents are Coghlan and the Government of Bombay. Coghlan’s despatches contain numerous enclosures including letters and reports from: Playfair; Barroni; the Governor of Yemen; and Haj Shermarkie (letters written in September 1855, in which Shermarkie complains of his recent deposition and reminds Coghlan of his previous acts of loyalty towards Britain).Physical description: 1 item (24 folios)
Abstract: Enclosures Nos. 3 and 4 to Despatch No. 2 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 9 January 1860. The Enclosures are dated 4-17 December 1860. Received 3 March 1860.The Enclosures consist of reports from Brigadier William Marcus Coghlan, Political Resident and Commandant, Aden, concerning the affairs of Aden and its vicinity. The reports include: French ambitions to increase their influence in the Red Sea, and the need for British representation at Massowah [Massawa, Eritrea].Physical description: 1 item (10 folios)
Abstract: This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 23 dated 2 April 1856. The enclosures are dated 29 November 1855-2 April 1856.The primary correspondents are Brigadier William Marcus Coghlan, Political Resident and Commandant, Aden; and the Secretary to the Government, Bombay. The item also includes: Resolutions of the Board; minutes of the Governor and President in Council; and minutes of the members in Council.The papers chiefly cover the following matters:Intelligence (ff 412-415) conveying: the departure of the force of the Asseer [‘Asīr, also spelled Aseer in this item] tribe from Yemen, following an outbreak of cholera which has purportedly killed between 3,000 and 15,000, in camp and on their return home; and the destruction of the town of Zaidiah [Zaidiyyah?], and alleged atrocities committed on its inhabitants, merchants and Banians [Banyans, Indian merchants], by soldiers who had originally been sent by the Governor of Yemen to burn the houses outside the town after hearing that the Asseer had arrived thereUncertainty regarding the role and involvement of the prisoner ‘Mahomed Ali’ (recently brought to Aden) in the party that attacked Lieutenant Richard Burton’s Somali Expedition; Coghlan’s opinion that the arrest and the 150 deaths caused by a conflict between two branches of the Habr Owel [Habr Awwal] tribe over the prisoner’s culpability, is sufficient to end the blockade; Coghlan’s belief that he can secure the Habr Owel’s agreement to his terms for ending the blockade, including the abolition of slavery, and the concurrence of the Board providing that ‘ample reparation’ is ‘demanded from and conceded by the Habr Owel’ (f 419); and agreement by the Governor and members in Council that the man said to be ‘the actual murderer of poor Lieutenant Stroyan’ (f 420), should still be pursuedThe situation regarding the slave trade on the ‘non-Persian’ side of the Red Sea, including Coghlan’s: statement that he is unable to provide an update due to the withdrawal for other purposes of vessels which would otherwise have toured the ports, and that the majority of the trade continues in places under the government of the Ottoman Porte, despite the recent Imperial Firman abolishing it; and belief that the exportation of enslaved persons from Africa into Arabia could be stopped if he was granted sufficient powers of search and detention by the [Ottoman] Turkish authorities with regard to Turkish vessels and Turkish ports, as well as an adequate naval force at AdenViews of Coghlan and the Government of Bombay on the desirability of establishing a lighthouse on the island of Perim [also known as Mayyun], notably: that it would command the entrance to the Red Sea and ‘cut off the slave vessels which ply between Zailah and Tajourra [Zeila and Tadjoura] and the various ports of Yemen’ (f 429); that it would command the straits of Babelmandeb [Bab-el-Mandeb] and therefore be of major strategic importance should ‘Mr de Lesseps [Ferdinand de Lesseps] succeed in… cutting a ship canal through the Isthmus of Suez’ (f 432); that it would be of commercial and nautical benefit for steamers sailing new routes from Suez; and that it would probably become a telegraphic station. Also included are Coghlan’s views on fortification of the lighthouse and the supply of fresh water, and his intention to survey the island providing he has a vessel and assistance from the Bombay Marine Department.Physical description: 1 item (32 folios)
Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 26 of 1847, dated 15 March 1847. The enclosures are dated 4 January-13 March 1847.The item chiefly comprises communications between Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent at Aden; the Secretary to the Government, Bombay; and the Secretary to the Government of India. Also included are several minutes of the President and Governor in Council, Bombay, concurred with by members in Council or the Board.The papers cover the following matters:The general peaceful state of affairs in the vicinity of Aden and the resulting good communications with the interior and well stocked marketsReports that the Imam of Sana [Sana‘a ] has marched to Taaez [Taiz, also spelled Taez in this item] since the Sherriff [Sharif] of Mocha has made peace with Sheik Ali Homeida [Shaikh ‘Alī Ḥumaydah], that he is levying contributions from the ‘mountain chiefs’, and that his force is reputedly 7000 men strongAffairs concerning the tribes of the neighbourhood, including: a recent disturbance between a number of tribes caused by a ‘misunderstanding concerning transit duties’ (f 574); and an apparent attack by the Azeibies [‘Uzaybī?] on Futhel ibn Hyder [Faḍl bin Ḥaydar] of Seyla and his return attackA report that the Sultan of the Ourlghi tribe has issued orders for his tribe to march westward, causing great concern to the ‘agriculturists’ (farmers) surrounding Lahidge [Lahej] and the Sultan of Lahidge, and Haines’s hope that an invasion will not happen as this would affect the Aden marketThe return to Aden of the HC [Honourable Company’s] Schooner of War
Constancefrom Mussowah [Massawa, also spelled Mussowa in this item] and a copy of the commander’s report to Haines (ff 592-594), of his proceedings regarding settlement of the dispute between the Banian merchant and the Turkish [Ottoman] Governor of Mussowah to the satisfaction of both parties. Also included is Haines’s justification for sending the
Constanceto Mussowah (f 599), following a request for further particulars from the Bombay GovernmentHaines’s report that he has requested the HC Schooner
Tigristo convey Lieutenant Charles John Cruttenden, Assistant Political Agent at Aden, on a tour around the different ports and within the gulf of Aden, whom he has instructed, amongst other things, to: proceed to Berbera and Bulharr [Bulhar] to visit the ‘feuding’ Somali tribes on the African coast and to persuade the Elders into amicable settlements since the feuds are impeding the coastal trade with Aden; investigate obtaining supplies from Maculla [Makalla] in case of an emergency; obtain the property of the late Reverend Thomas Brochman at Shahr [ash-Shihr]; visit Socotra to enquire into the movement of French vessels which have apparently surveyed the island in detail recently; and enquire into the trade in enslaved persons in the region (ff 587-589)The view of the Governor-General of India that the stipend of the Sultan of Lahidg should be forfeited as he was the ‘leader and fomenter of the recent hostilities at Aden’, and should only be renewed after ‘a period of approved good conduct’ (f 581)Soundings taken, by the commander of the
Constance, on two sides of the Zebaya [Zubayr] Islands and confirmation that no change in the depth of water there has been found (subsequent to the recent volcanic eruption there) (f 597)The ‘Proposed Draft of Instructions for the guidance of the Political Agent at Aden’ (ff 607-609) regarding police rules, and their transmission to Haines to report how far, in his opinion, they can be made applicable to AdenIn response to Haines’s request for instructions, the Bombay Government’s agreement that the Johannese Chiefs [ruling princes of Anjouan] who are expected to return to Aden next July should be entertained at government expense, but that Haines should arrange a ‘Bugla, or other country craft’ (f 613) to return them to their country as there is no justification for using a government vessel.Physical description: 1 item (45 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 31 of 1850, dated 25 May 1850. Enclosure Nos. 3-29, dated 27 December 1849 to 24 May 1850, consist of correspondence, and minutes of the Government of Bombay.The enclosures cover matters including:The Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, reporting that the ‘tranquillity’ of the neighbourhood of Aden had been threatened by a serious quarrel between the Sultan of Lahedge [Lahej or Lahij, also spelled Lahidge in this item], Sultan Ali M’Houssain [‘Alī I bin Muḥsin al-‘Abdalī], and his brother Abdullah, but that it has been settledHaines requesting the sanction of the Government of Bombay for a bill for 156 Rupees one Anna and ten Pies for the pay of an Interpreter employed at the request of the Senior Naval Officer at Aden, Captain John Parke Sanders, commanding the Honourable Company’s sloop of war
Elphinstone, to accompany him to Judda [Jeddah], Hodeida [Al Hudaydah] and MochaHaines reporting the return to Aden from Mussowah [Massawa, also spelled Mussowa in this item] of the Honourable Company’s schooner
Constance; his immediately sending to Egypt and England the despatches of HM Consul for Abyssinia [the Ethiopian Empire] at Mussowah, Walter Plowden; and Haines stating that he intends to send the vessel back to Mussowah for the protection of British interests thereThe Governor of Bombay in Council confirming that as the ‘Arab Contractor’ Ali Boo Bucker [Alī Abū Bakr, also spelled Ali Boo Bukur in this item] is willing to carry out repairs to the bridge over the Khore Muksa [Khawr Maksar] creek at Aden at his own expense, the superintendence of the Executive Engineer may be dispensed with, and it is not necessary to erect another bridge while that one lasts. The correspondence on this subject includes a letter from the Executive Engineer at Aden to the Commanding Engineer at Aden, with an enclosed ‘PLAN ELEVATION & SECTION of the Old Arab Bridge across the “Khore Maksa”’ (folio 54)Haines submitting an audit to the Government of Bombay on the stipends paid by him in German Crowns to the Sultan of Lahidge and other ‘Arab Chieftains’, and questions raised about whether these stipends should be paid in Company’s Rupees or German Crowns in future, and the rate of exchange of Rupees to German Crowns which should be used.The correspondence (including enclosed correspondence) is between the following: the Government of Bombay; the Political Agent at Aden; the Civil Auditor, Bombay, William Simson; the Military Board, Bombay; the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General; Lieutenant G N Adams commanding the Honourable Company’s schooner
Constance; HM Consul for Abyssinia; the Executive Engineer at Aden, Captain William Swainson Suart; the Commanding Engineer at Aden; and the Senior Naval Officer at Aden.Enclosure Nos. 30-31, listed in the abstract of contents as copies of the
Bombay Overland Timesand the
Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courierdated 25 May 1850, are recorded as missing in a note dated 31 October 1906.Physical description: 1 item (53 folios)
Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 2 of 1847, dated 2 January 1847. The enclosures are dated 10 December 1846-2 January 1847.The correspondents are: Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent at Aden; the Secretary to the Government, Bombay; and the Under-Secretary to the Government of India. The item also contains a minute of the President and Governor and the members in Council, Bombay.The papers notably cover the following matters:The reported ‘tranquility’ among the Arab tribes in the neighbourhood of Aden and consequent open roads and flourishing marketsThe attitude of rapprochement between the recently ‘quarrelling’ Abdali [‘Abdalī] and Foutheli [Faḍlī] chiefsThe report that the ships
Larkinsand
Elizawith the wing of HM’s 94th Regiment on board have been detained by strong currents to the westward of Aden, and report of the return of the ship
Recoveryto Aden HarbourHaines’s report that he has sent the HC [Honourable Company’s] schooner of war
Constancefrom Aden to the Zebayr [Zubayr] Islands in the Red Sea to observe any changes since the volcanic eruption on one of the islands and the results of the earthquake felt at Mocha and Hodeida [Al Hudaydah] for many miles distant at the time; the ship is then to go to Mussowah [Massawa] to investigate a ‘misunderstanding’ between a British Indian merchant and the Turkish [Ottoman] authoritiesThe view of the Government of India that it would be inexpedient to use coercive measures against the Foutheli tribe for their ‘continued acts of aggression towards Aden’ (f 27).Physical description: 1 item (14 folios)
Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 80 of 1847, dated 11 September 1847. The enclosures are dated 20 August-6 September 1847. There is a note on the abstract stating that the last two enclosures, Bombay intelligence and newspapers, are ‘Missing 30.10.1906’.The primary documents are letters from Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Captain in the Indian Navy and Political Agent in Aden, to Arthur Malet, Secretary to the Government, Bombay, relating to the return of the Honourable Company [HC] brig of war
Euphratesfrom Mocha, Hoodeida [Al Hudayydah, also spelled Hodeida in this volume], and Mussowah [Massawa], on completion of its political mission, under Commander Lieutenant James Rennie; and the contents of Rennie’s report, dated 17 August 1847 (copy included, ff 481-483), which includes:The departure from Hodeida of the Turkish [Ottoman] commissioner with a large amount of German Crowns, his sojourn with Sherriff Hussein [Sharif Hussain], Governor of Mocha (who was then residing in Hodeida), and terms of the latter’s future tribute to the Ottoman PorteIntelligence on Turkish activities and policy at these portsNews of a French agent in Mussowah attempting to obtain 200 Abyssinian labourers to send to Bourbon [Island of Reunion, Indian Ocean?].Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-7, on folio 476. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure. The last two enclosures are recorded ‘Missing 30.10.1906’.
Abstract: This item comprises copies of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 73 of 1847, dated 28 August 1847. The enclosure is dated 25 July 1847.The document is a report from Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Captain in the Indian Navy and Political Agent at Aden, to Arthur Malet, Secretary to the Government, Bombay, covering the following subjects:The return of the Honourable Company [HC] schooner of war
Tigrisfrom Hodeida [Al Hudaydah] with a letter conveying compliments from the recently arrived Turkish commissionerHaines’s instructions to the Senior Naval Officer, (24 July, copy included) for another vessel to proceed to Mussowah [Massawa] and also Mocha, Hodeida and Loheia [Al Luhayyah], in order to obtain commercial and political intelligence on the extent of Turkish ‘interference’ at those places; and, at Mussowah, to investigate a reported meeting between Abyssinian chiefs and a French official in relation to the state of affairs in Northern Abyssinia [Northern Ethiopian Empire].Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-3, on folio 406. 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, Secret Department, to the Secret Committee, Number 84 of 1842, dated 18 July 1842.The enclosed papers comprise minutes, correspondence, and memoranda, and concern affairs in Aden and the Red Sea. The correspondence is principally between Stafford Bettesworth Haines, the Political Agent at Aden; Lieutenant-Colonel Stratford Powell, Adjutant General of the Army, Bombay; Captain Robert Oliver, Superintendent of the Indian Navy; the Government of Bombay; and the Government of India.Several matters are covered by the papers, including:Affairs within the Aden Settlement and Protectorate, including relations with the tribes in the hinterlandThe status of military forces at Aden and the need to strengthen fortificationsAffairs at Mussowah [Massawa], Tedjoura [Tadjoura], and Mocha, including the plan to depose the Ruler of Mocha by the Ottomans, with British assistanceTurkish non-observance of the obligations of the commercial treaty between the Ottomans and the British [Treaty of Balta Liman, 1838] at various Red Sea ports.Physical description: 1 item (61 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 16 of 1850, dated 16 March 1850.The enclosed papers, dated between 13 June 1849 and 13 March 1850, concern affairs in Aden and the Red Sea. They comprise correspondence between Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent, Aden; the Government of Bombay; Charles Murray, British Consul General in Egypt; Second Lieutenant H W B Bell, Acting Executive Engineer, Aden; Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Waddington, Commanding Engineer, Aden; and the Military Board, Bombay. Also included are minutes by the Governor of Bombay, Lord Viscount Falkland [Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland].Several matters are covered by the papers, including:Assurances from the Ottoman Government regarding the enforcement of the conditions set out in the recent Anglo-Ottoman commercial treaty [Treaty of Balta Liman, 1838] at Red Sea ports under Ottoman jurisdictionThe plans and proposal for a new treasury and guard room at Aden, to replace the current one that is in disrepairGeneral updates on the state of affairs in the Aden Settlement and Protectorate.Enclosure Nos. 17-18, listed in the abstract of contents as copies of the
Bombay Overland Timesand the
Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courierdated 16 March 1850, are recorded as missing in a note dated 31 October 1906.Physical description: 1 item (33 folios)