Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, reports, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2203/108134. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. It is the sixteenth in a series of thirty items.The item concerns instructions to Commodore John Croft Hawkins, Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf, to land at Asseeloo [Bandar-e Asaluyeh] and extract the compensation owed by the Shaikh of Asseeloo for acts committed by his subjects.The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 700/47, Coll[ectio]n: 18, Collection No 18 of No 49’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 724, and terminates at f 729 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 [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 98 of 1847, dated 15 November 1847. The enclosures relate to Persian Gulf affairs. They are numbered 3-6 and are dated 15 September to 4 November 1847.Enclosure No. 3 is a letter from the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Arthur Malet, to the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Major Samuel Hennell, approving of his proceedings reported in certain despatches addressed by him to HM Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, connected with Persian Gulf affairs.Enclosure No. 4 is a letter from Hennell to Malet, forwarding copies of correspondence between Sheil and himself, regarding the question of the degree of responsibility the Chief [Governor] of Asseeloo [Asaluyeh, also spelled Assaloo in this item] should bear for the ‘piratical’ destruction of a bugla [baghlah] belonging to a dependent of the British Government by the residents of the inland town of Khirrah [Kheyaru? Also written as Khiva in this item], in November 1845.Enclosure No. 5 is a letter from Malet to the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor General, submitting a copy of No. 4.Enclosure No. 6 is a letter from Malet to Sheil, providing instructions for his guidance with reference to the proceedings of certain Turkish [Ottoman] functionaries in the Persian Gulf.Physical description: 1 item (11 folios)