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 Saeed bin Tahnoon, Shaik of Aboothabee [Sa‘īd bin Ṭaḥnūn Āl Nahyān, Shaikh of Abu Dhabi]. It is the sixth 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/4/2181/106061, IOR/F/4/2181/106062, 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 an accusation, later fully retracted, by Saeed bin Tahnoon that Moollah Houssein [Mullā Ḥusayn], British Agent at Shargah [Sharjah, written as Sargah in the title], has been taking bribes to conceal information from Hennell. The item also briefly mentions the deterioration in relations between Aboothabee and Debaye [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 6 of No 140’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 954, and terminates at f 965, 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, 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 Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Saeed ben Guzeeb, [Sa‘īd bin Qāzib], Governor of Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh]. It is the eleventh in a series of twenty-one items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns the exoneration of the British Agent at Lingah from a charge of having accepted a bribe from the owner of two enslaved people.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 222, and terminates at f 226, 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 part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay, Secret Department, to the Secret Committee, Number 15 of 1850, dated 16 March 1850.The enclosed papers, dated between 15 and 17 January 1850, concern affairs in the Ottoman Pachalic [Pashalik] of Bagdad [Baghdad]. They comprise a despatch sent by Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Acting Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq] to the Government of India, Foreign Department, enclosing copies of Kemball's letters to Sir Stratford Canning, British Ambassador to the Ottoman Government, Constantinople [Istanbul].Several matters are covered by the papers, including:The alleged financial malpractices of Nijib Pasha [Mehmed Necib Pasha, or Muḥammad Najīb Pāshā], former Ottoman Governor of BagdadThe perceived apathy and indolence of the current Governor, Abdi Pasha [Abdul-Karim Pasha, or ‘Abd al-Karīm Pāshā]Administration of the tribes in the Hindieh [Al-Hindiyah] districtRequired repairs for the Hindieh dike [dyke].Physical description: 1 item (9 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 19 of 1850, dated 3 April 1850.The enclosed papers, dated between 9 January and 14 February 1850, concern affairs in the Ottoman Pachalic [Pashalik] of Bagdad [Baghdad]. They comprise correspondence between Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Acting Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq]; the Government of Bombay; the Government of India, Foreign Department; and Sir Stratford Canning, British Ambassador to the Ottoman Porte, Constantinople [Istanbul].The papers cover several matters, including:Kemball's recent request for the presence of East India Company ships at Mohamrah [Khorramshahr] to support the work of the Turco [Ottoman Iraq]-Persian Boundary CommissionThe return of Abdi Pasha [Abdul-Karim Pasha, or ‘Abd al-Karīm Pāshā], the Governor of the Pachalic to Bagdad from Hindieh [Al-Hindiyah]The financial malpractices of former Governor, Nijib Pasha [Mehmed Necib Pasha, or Muḥammad Najīb Pāshā]The announcement by the Ottoman Government of a full census of the population of the Pachalic and the suspicions of the people about the Government's motivation for doing so.Physical description: 1 item (11 folios)