Abstract: This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 52 of 1841, dated 19 June 1841. The enclosures are dated 5 May to 16 June 1841, and relate to affairs at Aden and the surrounding area, and at Mocha.The enclosures consist of correspondence, and resolutions of the Government of Bombay in the Secret Department. The main correspondents are as follows: the Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines; the Secretary to the Government of Bombay, John Pollard Willoughby; and the Secretary to the Government of India, Thomas Herbert Maddock.The enclosures concern matters including:The state of affairs at Aden and the surrounding area, including the actions of Sultan M’Houssain Fudthill of Lahidge (also spelled Lahedge) [Muhsin ibn al-Fadl al-'Abdali, Sultan of Lahej]The views of the Political Agent at Aden on the inexpediency of reducing any portion of the European troops at Aden, and the relief of the wing of HM 6th Regiment doing duty at AdenThe Political Agent at Aden hiring a house as the post and police office at Aden, and the appointment of a Cazee [kazi, civil judge]The claim of Abdool Russool [Abdul Rasool], the former British Native Agent at Mocha, for indemnification on account of his property stolen by the Sheriff of Mocha, and the policy to be followed in British negotiations with the Imaum of Senna [Imam of Sanaa].Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-18, on folios 107-110. These numbers are repeated for reference on the last verso of each enclosure.
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 19 of 1841, dated 27 March 1841. The enclosures are dated 19 January to 27 March 1841, and relate to Aden and Mocha. They mostly consist of copies of correspondence sent and received by the Government of Bombay.The main correspondents are the Secretary to the Government of Bombay (John Pollard Willoughby), the Political Agent at Aden (Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines), and the Secretary to the Government of India (Thomas Herbert Maddock).The enclosures discuss matters including:The proposal to station a body of fifty cavalry plus horses for two guns at AdenThe increase of ninety nine Rupees and eight annas per month to the staff budget of the Political Agent at Aden being sanctioned by the Governor General of India in CouncilThe plunder of the property of the Native Agent at Mocha, Abdool Russool [Abdul Rasool], stated to have been committed by the authorities at Mocha (also spelled Mokha in this part)The political state of affairs in the Interior of Aden and at MochaThe circumstances which induced the Political Agent at Aden to expel a Frenchman named Lombard and a Corsican named Mariani from the town of Aden, following reports made to the Political Agent by ‘natives’ from the Interior that the men had held private conference with the Sultan of Lahedge [Lahej]The Political Agent at Aden’s request for permission to send three Bedowin [Bedouin] prisoners to the Bombay Presidency, to be confined in one of the Presidency jails, as an example intended to deter others from pursuing a course hostile to the British Government.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-23, on folios 520-523. These numbers are repeated for reference on the last verso of each enclosure.