Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, letters from the Government of Bombay regarding numerous issues attended to by the Resident at Bushire, Captain David Wilson. The following topics are covered:An incident in which Aga Hyder Ally [Shirazi, Mirza Haydar ‘Ali, Agha] sought refuge inside the Residency at Bushire, claiming that he was not a servant of the local Governor, Sheikh Nassir [Shaikh Nāsir Āl Mazkūr II], but the carrier of a message from the Prince of Fars [Ḥosayn-ʿAlī Mīrzā]The Prince of Fars’ request for the Resident at Bushire to help secure the return of the ex-Governor of Bushire, Sheikh Abdool Rassool [Shaikh ‘Abd al-Rasūl Khān], from Muscat; the release of Sheikh Abdool Rassool by Sayyid Seid, [Sayyid Saʿīd bin Sulṭān] the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat and the desire of the former to establish firm friendship with the British GovernmentThe recent disturbances at Bushire relating to the conduct of Sheikh Haussein, uncle of Sheikh Nassir and brother of Sheikh Abdool RassoolComments from the Resident at Bushire and the Envoy in Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel McDonald, regarding the feasibility of removing the Residency or strengthening its defences due to the unsettled state of the countryA request by the East India Company's President, William Fullerton Elphinstone, to the Superintendent of Marine, Captain Thomas Buchanan, to enquire about a rock which struck the ship of Captain Grice and has been omitted in a survey of the coast between Sharga [Sharjah] and Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi]Discussions between the Resident at Bushire and the Political Agent at Bussorah [Basra], Captain Robert Taylor, regarding the consequences of either endorsing or advising against the Imaum of Muscat's proposals to aid the Chaub Arabs against the people of BussorahAn incident between Captain Betham of the Honourable Company's Cruizer Clive and Sheikh Nassir, following Captain Betham's attempts to capture a deserter from the Honourable Company's ship Amherst who he believed to be on board a bugalow in Bushire harbour belonging to the Sheikh.Several extracts of correspondence relate to establishing the best procedures to follow in future with relation to people seeking asylum in Residencies and the discovery of deserters. Many of the extracts make reference to the Company's strong desire not to interfere, or to be seen to be interfering, in disputes between local leaders or to cause foreign powers to feel threatened or alarmed by actions of the Company.Correspondents: the Government of Bombay; William Newnham, Chief Secretary of the Government of Bombay; Captain David Wilson, Resident at Bushire; the Secretary to the Supreme Government; the Honourable Company’s Broker at Muscat; William Henry Wathen, Persian Secretary to Government; the General Paymaster; Thomas Buchanan, Superintendent of Marine; Captain Betham of the Honourable Company’s cruiser Clive; Captain Walker of the Honourable Company’s ship Benares; Sayyid Seid, the Imaum of Muscat; the Senior Officer of the Marine in the Persian Gulph [Gulf]; Essai Johannes and Malcolm Arrathoon, persons put in charge of the Residency at Bushire in the Resident’s absence; Captain Robert Taylor, Political Agent at Bussorah; the Prince of Fars; Sheikh Nassir; Sheikh Abdool Rassool Khan; Muiza Mahommed Ally, Wuzeer [Mushir al-Mulk, Mirza Muhammad ‘Ali Khafraki, Vizier of Fars].The item also contains notes of a conversation between Aga Mahomed Kazim, Messenger from the Prince of Fars, and the Resident at Bushire (ff 300 verso – 304 verso).The Resident at Bushire is alternatively referred to as the Resident in the Persian Gulph [Gulf].The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘P.C. 783, Draft 477, 1829/30’, ‘Collection No. 10’ and 'Examiner's Office 1830'.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 202, and terminates at f 327, 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, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. It is the first in a series of two items on Lieutenant Dominicetti and Mocha (the other is IOR/F/4/690/18909). The principal correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant Bartholomew Dominicetti, commander of the
Prince of Wales; Henry Meriton, Superintendent of the Bombay Marine; Muhammed Ali Khan, owner of the
Derria Beggy.The item concerns:The death of Ramsay, the British Resident at Mocha on 16 July 1817The ill-treatment of Dominicetti and other British subjects resident at the Factory by the Dola of Mocha, [Amir Fatih Muhammad]The plunder of the British FactoryExtortion of money by the Dola of Mocha from British ships and the Honourable Company’s BrokerThe refusal of the Imaum of Senna [Mahdi ‘Abdullāh al-Qāsimī, Imam of Yemen] to give up deserters from Company ships who had converted to IslamA discussion of whether Dominicetti’s actions concerning the
Derria Beggywere justified, and a consideration of her ownershipA discussion of the measures the British were prepared to take in response to the aboveThe British decision to blockade Yemen, and then bombard Mocha, if the Imaum’s response to their demands was unsatisfactory.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 38, P.C. [Previous Communication] 61, [Season 18]23/24’ and ‘Examin[er’s Office] Nove[mber]’.Physical description: The documents are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front of the item to the rear.
Abstract: The journal of the East India Company ship
Phoenixby Captain William Moffat Esq from 24 February 1800 to 24 July 1802. The journal contains:A ‘List of Ships Company Phœnix 6th Voyage 1800’ (ff 2 and 3)Lists of Troops belonging to His Majesty’s Regiments, Women and Children accompanying the Detachments, and Recruits belonging to different Regiments in India (ff 2-3 and ff 4-6)List of Private Passengers for India embarked on board at Portsmouth (f 3), Lists of Invalids embarked on board for Bombay, those embarked on board for England (ff 6-7), and List of Discharged Soldiers received on board at St Helena (f 7)The daily entries for the voyage from Deptford to Gravesend (23 March 1800), Beachy Head (7 May 1800), Mother Bank (8 May 1800), Torbay [Tor Bay] (25 May 1800), the Lizard (29 May 1800), Saint Anthony [Ilha de Santo Antão] (24 June 1800), Table Bay (6 September 1800), Island of Apaluria (20 October 1800), Great Nicobar (1 November 1800), Car Nicobar (5 November 1800), Little Andaman (7 November 1800), South Channel (22 November 1800), Kedgiree [Khejuri] (25 November 1800), Culpi [Kulpi] (6 December 1800) and Diamond Harbour (7 December 1800)The daily entries for the voyage from Diamond Harbour to Culpee [Kulpi] (7 January 1801), Saugor [Sagar] (9 January 1801), Point Palmiras (15 February 1801), Trincomalie [Trincomalee] (24 February 1801), Point de Galle (27 February 1801), Columbo [Colombo] (5 March 1801), Cape Cormorin [Kanyakumari] (7 March 1801), Calicut [Kozhikode] (14 March 1801), Mangalore [Mangaluru] (18 March 1801), Pigeon Island [Netrani Island] (22 March 1801), Goa (26 March 1801) and Bombay [Mumbai] (2 April 1801)The daily entries for the voyage from Bombay to Cape Gardafui [Guardafui] (11 July 1801), Mount Felix (13 July 1801), Cape St Peter (14 July 1801), Burnt Island (20 July 1801), Aden (2 August 1801), Babel Mandel Island [Jazirat Mayyun] (14 August 1801) and Mocha (24 August 1801)The daily entries for the voyage from Mocha to Pilot’s Island (21 September 1801), Cape Aden (23 September 1801), Black Point (25 September 1801), Reiden [Raida] (2 October 1801), Halabi Island (7 October 1801) and Bombay (17 October 1801)The daily entries for the voyage from Bombay to St Mary’s Rocks (20 November 1801), Tellicherry [Thalassery] (23 November 1801), Anjanga [Anchuthengu] (4 January 1802) and Quillon [Kollam] (5 January 1802)The daily entries for the voyage from Quillon to Anjanga (21 January 1802), Cape Cormorin (24 January 1802), Cape Lagullas [Cape Agulhas] (20 March 1802), False Cape [False Bay] (21 March 1802); St Helena (5 April 1802), Island of Ascension (18 April 1802); St Mary’s Island (21 May 1802), Praule Point [Prawle Point] (6 June 1802), Beachy Head (7 June 1802), Dungeness (8 June 1802), the Nore (9 June 1802), Gravesend (11 June 1802), Halfway Reach (24 June 1802) and Deptford (25 June 1802).The journal contains daily entries in six printed columns: H [Hour], Courses, K [Knots], F [Fathoms], Winds & c., and Week Day, Calendar Date and Observations. The entries consist of remarks only when the ship is at anchor. The journal provides navigational information, notes on sightings of other vessels, and other observations during voyages. The journal records the
Phoenix’s capture of the French privateer
General Malarticon 10 November 1800. It describes the
Malarticas sailing ‘close to us, her Tops and Rigging manned for boarding’, but that having given her ‘part of our starboard broadside... they called out they had surrendered’ (f 56 verso). Moffat later took on board Major General David Baird and his staff at Sagar in Bengal (f 63 verso). Baird and his staff transferred to the gunboat
Waspbound for Bombay on 25 March 1801 (f 73 verso). Moffat subsequently met with the
Griffinand part of the 80th Regiment of Foot at Aden, learned about the arrival of the expeditionary ships the
Anna Maria,
Wellesleyand
Londonat Socotra, and news that ‘the whole French Army near Cairo have surrendered to the British' (f 95 verso). He later ‘gained intelligence of the preliminaries of peace between France and England being signed 10th October last [i.e. 1801]’ (f 119).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 1, and terminates at f 162; it is part of a larger physical volume of different shelfmarks in which this shelfmark has been given its own separate foliation sequence, i.e. non-consecutive; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 93 - 162; these numbers are also circled and have been superseded and therefore crossed out.