Abstract: Translation of an official note from the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Meerza Abul Hassan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī], to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, dated 1 Zechujeh [Dhū al-Qaʿdah] AH 1242 [27 May 1827] (the original note in Persian is catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/71/18). In the note, Meerza Abul Hassan Khan discusses the treaty relations existing between Britain and Persia, including the British commitment to mediating between Russia and Persia in the case of aggression from the former, or else providing the latter with financial assistance. Referring to the ongoing war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], Meerza Abul Hassan Khan remonstrates against the failure of the British Government to facilitate peace or to provide assistance to Persia, and indicates that on account of this it is the intention of the Persian Government to send an envoy to Britain to ascertain the views of the British Government.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 2, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 25 June 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/17).Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
Abstract: Translation of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Moatemed ed Dowleh [Mīrzā ‘Abd al-Wahhāb Nishāṭ Iṣfahānī, Mu‘tamid al-Dawlah]. The letter is in reply to the Moatemed ed Dowleh’s letter announcing the intention of the Shah of Persia [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār] to send the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mirza Abul Hassan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī] as an envoy to England, and to dispatch Mirza Abdul Hoosain Khan [Mīrzā ‘Abd al-Ḥusayn Khān Shīrāzī] first to announce this intention (see IOR/L/PS/9/71/53). Macdonald Kinneir reports the imminent arrival of the former HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, in Persia, carrying answers to letters addressed by the Persian Government to the British Government, and recommends that the plan to dispatch Mirza Abdul Hoosain Khan be delayed until Willock has arrived. A postscript indicates that a note to the same effect has been addressed to Mirza Abul Hassan Khan.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 3 in dispatch No. 65, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 22 September 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/50).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Translation of a letter from Mirza Abdul Wahab, the Moatemed ed-Dowleh [Mīrzā ‘Abd al-Wahhāb Nishāṭ Iṣfahānī, Mu‘tamid al-Dawlah], to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, which was received at Tabriz on 11 September 1827. Mirza Abdul Wahab reports the intention of the Shah of Persia [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār] to send the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mirza Abul Hassan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī] to London, and that Mirza Abdul Hoossein [Mīrzā ‘Abd al-Ḥusayn Khān Shīrāzī] is to be sent first to announce this intention (see IOR/L/PS/9/71/51). He reports that the latter will accompany the former to Tabriz, from where he will prepare to depart, and requests that Macdonald Kinneir assist him with the necessary papers and letters.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 2 in dispatch No. 65, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 22 September 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/50).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, British Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Moollah Houssein [Mullā Ḥusayn], British Agent at Shargah [Sharjah]. It is the eighth in a series of twenty items on the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/2180/106055, IOR/F/4/2180/106056, IOR/F/4/2180/106057, IOR/F/4/2180/106058, IOR/F/4/2180/106059, IOR/F/4/2180/106060, IOR/F/4/2181/106061, IOR/F/4/2181/106063, IOR/F/4/2181/106064, IOR/F/4/2181/106065, IOR/F/4/2181/106066, IOR/F/4/2181/106067, IOR/F/4/2181/106068, IOR/F/4/2181/106069, IOR/F/4/2181/106070, IOR/F/4/2181/106071, IOR/F/4/2181/106072, IOR/F/4/2181/106073, and IOR/F/4/2181/106074).The item concerns:The alliance of Sheik Saeed ben Tahnoon, Chief of Aboothabee [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Ṭaḥnūn Āl Nahyān, Shaikh of Abu Dhabi], and Sheik Sultan ben Suggur, Chief of Rasul Khyma [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī, Shaikh of Ra's al-Khaymah], and their proposed attack on Debaye [Dubai]A refund paid to the Shaik of Kishm [Sheikh ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Saghar Al Mu‘ini, Shaikh of Qeshm] for money he paid into the Bushire Residency on account of theft from a shipwreck in 1838Departure of Samad Aga [Ṣamad Āghā] from Bushire, after his attempts to obtain justice for the mistreatment of Yoosoof bin Suggur [Yūsuf bin Ṣaqr]A proposed alliance between Sheik Mahomed ben Khuleefa, Chief of Bahrein, [Shaikh Muḥammed bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah, Shaikh of Bahrain] and Sheik Mukhtoom of Debaye [Shaikh Maktūm I bin Buṭṭī Āl Bū Falāseh, Shaikh of Dubai].The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 282/47, P.C. [Previous Communication] 5573, Coll[ection]: 10, Collection No 1 of No 11’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 12, and terminates at f 34, 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 volume also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2302/118727. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Commander John Croft Hawkins, Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf; and Commander Thomas Grere Carless. It is the fifty-first in a series of fifty-one items on the Persian Gulf.The item primarily consists of Hawkins’s report of his tour of the Persian [Iranian] coast of the Gulf to remind the shaikhs on that coast of the recent treaty with the Persian Government abolishing the trade in enslaved people, including visits to:Congoon [Bandar-e Kangan]Assoloo [Bandar-e Asaluyeh]Cheroo [Bandar-e Chiru’iyeh]Charrack [Bandar-e Charak]Mogoo [Moghuyeh]Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh]Bassadore [Basaʻidu]Shargah [Sharjah]Muscat.His report also mentions:An advance of 200 rupees to a son of the King of Johanna [Anjouan] to enable him to reach Ceylon [Sri Lanka]A shipment of Assyrian marbles to Bombay [Mumbai]Disputes between the shaikhs of Charrack and MogooA dispute over a battila claimed by the people of Nabend [Damagheh-ye Nay Band]A description of the capture of Brymee [Al Buraymi] by Sheik Saeed bin Tahnoon [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Ṭaḥnūn Āl Nahyān of Abu Dhabi] and Syed Saif ben Hamood [Sayyid Sayf bin Hamūd Āl Bū Sa‘īd of Suhar], and the reaction of Shaik Sooltan ben Suggur [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī of Ra’s al-Khaymah] and Sheik Muctoom [Shaikh Maktūm I bin Buṭṭī Āl Bū Falāsah of Dubai]His investigation into complaints by Bahman bin Sudda [Bāman bin Sādh bin Amardās] against Khojah Hiskael [Khawājah Ḥizqīl bin Yūsuf], British Agent at Muscat.The item also includes a report from Carless including another description of the capture of Brymee and a description of the people who moved from Bahrein [Bahrain] to Kenn [Kish Island].The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Collection No: 17’ and ‘Draft no 465 of 49’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 725, and terminates at f 749, 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.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, minutes, and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The main correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant Colonel Henry Robertson, Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf; Hajee Yacoob [Haji Yakub], British coal agent at Kurruck [Khark/Kharg]; Hajee Jassim [Haji Jasim] Native Agent at Bahrein [Bahrain].The item concerns:The question of Hajee Yacoob being appointed British coal agent while still holding the position of Persian Magistrate, and his right to fly the British flagRobertson delivering charge of the Residency in the Persian Gulf to his assistant Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball on 17 April 1843The war fought by Mahomed bin Khuleefa [Shaikh Muhammed bin Khalifah Al Khalifah], supported by Esai bin Tareef [Shaikh ‘Isa bin Hamad bin Tarif Al Bin ‘Ali Al-‘Utbi], against Abdoola bin Ahmed [Shaikh ‘Abdullah bin Ahmad Al Khalifah] for control of Bahrein, including fighting in Guttur [Qatar]The plunder of a boat carrying the British flag anchored at Monama [Manama]The cost of raising the East India Company Schooner
Emilyafter sinking her to kill verminRumours of a military force being assembled in the Nedgd [Najd or Nejd].The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 727, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4107, [Season 18]43’, ‘Collection No. 11’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 643 and terminates at f 717, 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 volume also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: Enclosures nos. 2-40 to a dispatch from the Secret Department, Bombay [Mumbai] Castle, dated 28 February 1840. The enclosures are dated 29 December 1839-28 February 1840. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to affairs in the Persian Gulf, including:The possible establishment of a Political Agency or Residency at Muscat, and lessons learned by the failure of an earlier Residency thereA prohibition on any trade or communication with Karack [Kharg] by the Governor of Bushire [Bushehr], and a Persian [Iranian] blockade of Bushire after the murder of the previous GovernorRelations between the Imam of Muscat and Seid Humood bin Azan [Sayyid Syf bin Hamud Al Bu Sa’id], Chief of SoharA mission by Captain Atkins Hammerton [or Hamerton] to facilitate a reconciliation between the Shaik of the Beni Kuttub [Beni Qitab] and the Shaik of Brymee [Al Buraimi], in order to better resist the advance of Khorshid Pasha, General of Egyptian ForcesConsideration of the poor state of the Imam’s forces and that he may require British aid in order to resist Khorshid Pasha.The primary correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Government of India. Other correspondents include: Captain Hammerton; the Superintendent of the Indian Navy; the Native Agent, Lingah [Bandar Lengeh]; the Native Agent, Muscat; and the Imam of Muscat.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 464, and terminates at f 584, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of political letters from the Governments of Bombay to the Court of Directors of the East India Company. The enclosures to these letters are contained in the subsequent items. It is the first in a series of fifty-one items on the Persian Gulf.The item concerns:News of cruises made by British ships in the GulfReports of interviews between Captain Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the shaikhs of the GulfIntelligence from the British Agent at MuscatAn unsuccessful attempt by the Governor of Shargah [Sharjah] to capture Ejman [Ajman]Papers carried by British vessels and those departing from ports belonging to the Imam of MuscatThe projected arrival of a French consul at ZanzibarMercantile affairsDefeat of bin Mootluk [Sa‘d bin Muṭlaq] against Sohar [Suhar]‘Piratical’ proceedings off Bahrein [Bahrain]Capture of Brymee [Al Buraymi] by the Chiefs of Sohar and Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi], and the subsequent intention to regain Brymee by a confederation of Omani tribes and the Chief of Rasul Khyma [Ra’s al-Khaymah]Agreements between Gulf states and Ameer Fysul [Amīr Fayṣal bin Turkī bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Sa‘ūd]Relations between the new and old chiefs of BahreinDiscontent with Muscat at Soor [Sur]Cholera at Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh]Death of Shaik Abdool Azeez bin Rashid [Shaikh ‘Abd al-‘Aziz bin Rāshid al-Na‘īmī, Shaikh of Ajman].The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Collection No 17’ and ‘Draft no 465 of 49’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 312, and terminates at f 324, 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.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of political letters from the Government of Bombay to the Court of Directors of the East India Company. The enclosures to these letters are contained in the subsequent items. It is the first in a series of twenty-four items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns:Information given by Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, about the actions of the regime at Bahrein [Bahrain] and those who had seceded from itHostilities between pro-Wahabee [Wahhābi] shaikhs [those allied to the Second Saudi State] and Sheikh Saed bin Tahnnon of Aboothabee [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Ṭaḥnūn Āl Nahyān of Abu Dhabi], and between ships belonging to Aboothabee and Debaye [Dubai]Communications between Hennell, Major Henry Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq] and Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Farrant, Her Majesty’s Chargé d’Affaires at TehranUnfounded rumours of the death of Captain Atkins Hamerton, British Consul and Agent in the Dominions of the Imaum [Imam] of MuscatAn attack on the town of Bushire [Bushehr] by Meerza Mehdy Khan [Mīrzā Mahdī Khān]Attacks on the territory of Muscat by Syf bin Humood [Sayyid Syf bin Hamūd Āl Bū Sa‘īd] of Sohar [Sohur] and Shaik Sultan bin Suggur of Rasel Khyma [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī of Ra’s al-Khaymah].The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 334 of 1850’, and ‘Coll[ectio]n 4 in 24 vols’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 134, and terminates at f 141 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.
Abstract: Memorandum of the conferences between John McNeill, the assistant to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, and Abbas Meerza [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār]. In the memorandum McNeill reports having informed Abbas Meerza of intelligence regarding Russian preparations for a renewed offensive in the Caucasus [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], and of the text of the Declaration of War made by Russia. The memorandum also details McNeill’s recommendation that Persia send an ambassador to St Petersburgh [St Petersburg] to negotiate for peace, and attendant discussion of the likelihood of Persia receiving acceptable terms, whether Abbas Meerza might receive assistance from the British Government, the possibilities for further military action, and the deleterious effect losing the war might have on Abbas Meerza’s position as heir to the throne of Persia. McNeill also details the ambition of Meerza Mahommed Allee [Mīrzā Muḥammad ʿAlī Khān Shīrāzī] to lead the mission to St Petersburgh, and reports his having recommended to Abbas Meerza that the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Meerza Abul Hassan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī], be charged with the mission instead.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 1 in enclosure No. 1, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 23 December 1826 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/156).Physical description: 1 item (8 folios)
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. It is the sixth in a series of seven items on the trade in enslaved people (the others are IOR/F/4/2014/89996, 89997, 89998, 89999, 90000, and 90002). The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Major Atkins Hamerton, Her Majesty’s Consul and Agent in the dominions of His Highness the Imam of Muscat.This item concerns the visit of Jules-Charles-Marie Le Mauff de Kerdudal, Lieutenant de Vaisseau, from Bourbon [Réunion] to Muscat, and his negotiations with the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd]. This resulted in an agreement which is reproduced in French in the item about labourers from the Imaum’s territories working in the French colonies. Hamerton had concerns that this agreement would perpetuate the trade in enslaved people.The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 666, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4079, [Season 18]43’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 243 and terminates at f 255, 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 volume also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2349/123808. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Heskeal bin Yusoof [Ḥizqīl bin Yūsuf], Acting British Agent at Muskat [Muscat]. It is the ninth in a series of twenty-four items on events in the Persian Gulf.This item concerns information sent from Muskat to the Government of Bombay by Heskeal bin Yusoof, including:The movement of ships to and from MuskatThe movements of Syud Thooenee [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd, Governor of Muscat]Rumours concerning the political dealings of Saad bin Mootluk [Sa‘d bin Muṭlaq]A request for repayment of money which Heskeal had lent to Captain Hook.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 334 of 1850’, ‘Coll[ection] 4’, and ‘Collection No 8 of No 95’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 245, and terminates at f 251 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.