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1. ‘Visit of Lieut’t Cruttenden, Assistant Political Agent at Aden, to Berbera’
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- Abstract: Enclosures no. 2-6 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Bombay [Mumbai] Castle, dated 13 January 1848. The enclosures are dated 24 November 1847-6 January 1848. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to a visit to Berbera by Lieutenant C J Cruttenden, Assistant Political Agent at Aden, with the hopes of improving relations with and between the Aial Ahmed and Aial Unus [Reer Ahmed Nur and Reer Yunis Nur, sub-clans of the Habr Awwal], and to meet with Hadi Ali Shermarkhi Saleh [Haji Shermarke Ali Saleh], Governor of Berbera and Zeyla [Zeila]. The correspondence also references efforts to end the trade in enslaved persons in the Gulf, including the seizure of a ship believed to belong to Shermarkhi. The primary correspondents are the Political Agent and Assistant Political Agent at Aden, and the Government of India.Physical description: 1 item (14 folios)
2. ‘Affairs at Aden’
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- Abstract: Enclosure nos. 2-8 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 17 January 1852. The enclosures are dated 17 December 1851-17 January 1852.The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to affairs in Aden, particularly the arrival from Berbera of Hadji Ali Shermarke [Ḥājjī Sharmārkī ‘Alī Ṣāliḥ, also written as Ali Shermarkhi within the item], former Governor of Berbera, aboard the East India Company ship Mahi, and his agreement to withdraw from Berbera to end the unsettled state of affairs there.The primary correspondents are: the Political Agent, Aden; the Commander of the Mahi; and the Government of India.Physical description: 1 item (11 folios)
3. ‘Affairs at Aden’
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- Abstract: Enclosure nos. 2-6 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 3 February 1852. The enclosures are dated 12-27 January 1852.The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to affairs in Aden, particularly the arrival from Berbera of the East India Company ship Mahiwith reports of an attack by the Hebrowul [Habr Awwal] tribe on a fort belonging to Shumarkhi [Ḥājjī Sharmārkī ‘Alī Ṣāliḥ], former Governor of Berbera, and that his followers were allowed to evacuate unharmed. The item also mentions the gift of a horse received by the Political Agent, Aden, from Ali M Houssain [‘Alī I bin Muḥsin al-‘Abdalī], Sultan of Lahidge [Lahej].The primary correspondents are the Political Agent and the Commander of the Mahi.Physical description: 1 item (10 folios)
4. ‘Affairs at Aden’
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- Abstract: Enclosure nos. 2-10 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 17 February 1852. The enclosures are dated 3 January-11 February 1852.The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to affairs in Aden, including: reports of a grounded vessel in the vicinity and a boat sent out to assist being unable to locate it; the arrival, for use as ballast, of stones from the destroyed fortifications in Berbera of Sheik Shermarkhi Ali [Ḥājjī Sharmārkī ‘Alī Ṣāliḥ], the former Governor; and a request from Ali M Houssain [‘Alī I bin Muḥsin al-‘Abdalī], Sultan of Lahidge [Lahej], for a supply of fuses.The primary correspondents are the Political Agent, Aden, and the Government of India.Physical description: 1 item (15 folios)
5. Aden Affairs
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- Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 33 of 1856, dated 28 April 1856. The enclosures are dated 14-26 April 1856.The enclosures comprise copies of reports and correspondence relating to the deployment of the HC [Honourable Company’s] sloop of war Elphinstoneand steamship Queento the Arabian and African Red Sea coasts, targeted at intimidating insurgent forces and quelling disturbances in: Mecca and Juddah [Jeddah, also spelled Jedda and in this item]; Hodeida [Al Hudaydah, also spelled Hodeidah in this item]; Mussowa [Massawa, also spelled Massowah and Massowa in this item]; and Zeylah [Saylac, or Zeila, Somalia].The papers notably include:Letters and reports by Captain John James Frushard, Indian Navy, Senior Naval Officer, Aden, on the Elphinstoneto: Stephen Page, HM Acting Vice-Consul and Officiating Agent at Judda, requesting Page to forward any proclamation made by the British Government and the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire abolishing the trade in enslaved persons in the Hedjaz [Hejaz]; Camil Pacha [Muḥammad Kāmil Pāshā, also written Mehmed Kiamil Pacha in this item] Governor of the Hejaz, announcing his arrival at Juddah to assist in quelling the disturbances in Mecca; William Marcus Coghlan, Political Resident, Aden, describing proceedings of the Elphinstoneand Queenat Hodeida and with Mahmud Pasha, Governor of Hodeida, against the Assyr [‘Asīr tribe], and reporting the small French presence in the Red Sea portsLetters and reports by Lieutenant G N Adams, Indian Navy, Commanding the Queen, to Coghlan and Rear Admiral Sir Henry John Leeke, Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy, reporting his proceedings at Mocha and Hodeida, Juddah, and Mussowa, including conditions on board ship and running aground on the way to AdenLeeke’s commendation of Frushard and Adams, notably for their ‘zeal and energy’ which saved Hodeida from being ‘cruelly murdered and robbed’ (f 146) by the AssyrCoghlan’s instructions that the Queenconvey the Assistant Political Resident, Lieutenant Robert Lambert Playfair, to Zeylah to investigate reports that Haj Shermarkay [Ḥājjī Sharmārkī ‘Alī Ṣāliḥ], former Ruler of Zeylah, has blockaded the port and committed acts of ‘piracy’ in the vicinity, and to take any necessary action to prevent the interruption of supplies.The principal correspondents are: Coghlan, Frushard, Adams and Leeke.Physical description: 1 item (19 folios)