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1. ‘Persian Gulf – Pirate – Ghuleeta – Surrender of – Demand from the Sheik of Bidda. Vol: 4’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, resolutions, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant Colonel Henry Robertson, Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf; Captain Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; Commander Anthony Nott, Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf; and Lieutenant Winn of the East India Company Schooner Clive. It is the fourth in a series of six items on the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/2005/89510, IOR/F/4/2005/89511, IOR/F/4/2005/89512, IOR/F/4/2005/89514, and IOR/F/4/2006/89515).The item concerns two missions carried out by Lieutenant Winn. These are:To demand that the Sheik [Shaikh] of Bidda, Sulman bin Nasser Soowedie [Salmin bin Nasir al-Suwaidi] surrender a ‘pirate’ named GhuleetaTo ask Sheik Mukhtoom of Debaye [Shaikh Maktum I bin Butti Al Bu Falaseh of Dubai] to punish some of his subjects who had allegedly stolen some property from Bassadore [Basaʻidu].The same missions are referred to in IOR/F/4/1912/81799.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 612/43, P.C. [Previous Communication] 3902, Collection No 11’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 873 and terminates at f 881, 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.
2. ‘Persian Gulf – Surrender of a Pirate demanded from the Governor of Bidda and the Chief of Debaye called upon to punish some of his people who had committed a robbery at Bassadore.’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. It is the seventh in a series of seven items about the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/1912/81793, 81794, 81795, 81796, 81797, and 81798). The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Captain Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns two missions given to Commander Anthony H Nott, of the East India Company’s Sloop of War Clive. These are:To demand that the Governor of Bidda, Sulman bin Nasser Soowedie [Salmeen bin Nāṣir Āl-Suwaidī] surrender a "pirate" named Ghuleta, who had plundered a boat from Bussorah [Basra]To ask Sheik Mukhtoom of Debaye [Shaikh Maktūm I bin Buṭṭī Āl Bū Falāseh of Dubai] to punish some of his subjects who had stolen some property from Bassadore [Bāsaʻīdū].The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Col [Collection] 12, [Previous Communication] 3227’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 407 and terminates at f 416, 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.
3. ‘Persian Gulf – Wreck of the Hon’ble Company’s Schooner “Emily” – property plundered from the – and irregular and unfriendly conduct of the Inhabitants of Ges on this occasion – Vol: 10’
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- 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; Captain Samuel Hennell, British Resident in the Persian Gulf; Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, Her Majesty’s Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia; Meerza Reza [Mīrzā Reżā], British Agent at Shiraz; Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Manochehr Khan Mootamud-ood Dowlah [Manūchihr Khān Gurjī, Muʿtamid al-Dawlah], Governor of Isfahan. It is the tenth in a series of fifteen items on the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/2131/101199, IOR/F/4/2131/101200, IOR/F/4/2131/101201, IOR/F/4/2131/101202, IOR/F/4/2131/101203, IOR/F/4/2131/101204, IOR/F/4/2131/101205, IOR/F/4/2131/101206, IOR/F/4/2131/101207, IOR/F/4/2131/101209, IOR/F/4/2131/101210, IOR/F/4/2131/101211, IOR/F/4/2131/101212 and IOR/F/4/2131/101213).The item concerns:Efforts by the British Government to bring the individuals they believe to have been involved in plundering the wreck of the East India Company schooner Emilyto Shiraz from the island of Ges [Kish]Disputes over the amount taken from the Emilyand liability of the parties involved for the loss.The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 252/46, P.C. [Previous Communication] 5171, Collection No 4 of No 119’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 717, and terminates at f 735, 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.
4. ‘Muscat. Intelligence.’
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- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence cited in, or enclosed with, extracts most likely from a Bombay [Mumbai] Political Consultation, June 1845. The papers contained in this item are partial enclosures to a Political Letter sent from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 14 July 1845. A copy of this Political Letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2122/100076, alongside details of further enclosures.The item contains a letter from Heskeal bin Yusoof [Ḥizqīl bin Yūsuf], (Acting) Native Agent at Muskat [Muscat], to the Persian [Iranian] Secretary for the Government of Bombay, dated 12 May 1845. Heskeal bin Yusoof reports that:A ‘gang robbery’ has been committed at Burka [Barka]Most of the participants were from the Mueen [al-Na‘īm?] tribeThe act was committed with a view to forcing the inhabitants of Burka to follow Saad bin Mootluk [Sa‘d bin Muṭlaq al-Muṭayrī]His report is forwarded on to the Government of India.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘P.C. [Previous Communication] 5061, Draft 29/46, Coll[ection]: 23, Vol: 15’, ‘Collection No. 3 of No. 76’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 530, and terminates at f 532, 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.
5. Turkish Arabia Affairs
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- Abstract: This item comprises a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 8 of 1847, dated 23 January 1847. The enclosure is dated 13 November 1846.The item comprises despatches from Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], forwarding, for the information of the Government of Bombay and the Governor General of India, copies of his communications with Henry Wellesley, HM Minister Plenipotentiary at Constantinople [Istanbul], reporting on affairs in the Bagdad Pachalic [Baghdad Pashalik, also spelled Baghdad Pashalic in this item], with relevant enclosures.The papers cover the following matters:1) Welleseley’s enquiry to Rawlinson regarding his knowledge of any cases of the ‘injurious bearing of the Mahomedan law of evidence on the lives and property of H[er]. Majesty’s subjects residing within the limits of the Ottoman Empire’ and Rawlinson’s response incorporating his critical assessment of Islamic religious law in general and the Hanifeh [Hanafi] Code (school of Islamic jurisprudence) (ff 85-88).2) Orders issued (at the request of Nejib Pasha [Muḥammad Najīb Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad]) by the Persian [Iranian] Government to the Prince Governor of Azerbijan [Iranian Azerbaijan] and the Governor of Ooroomeeya [Urmia, also spelled Orumiyeh in this item] for the removal of the ‘refugee chiefs’ of Sulmanieh [Sulaymaniyah, also spelled Sulimanieh, Sulemanieh and Sooloomanneh in this item] and Rowanduz [Rawandiz, also spelled Rowandiz in this item] from the Turco-Persian frontier.3) A cholera outbreak within the Baghdad Pashalic, which Rawlinson estimates over the last forty days has killed ‘at least 30,000 souls’ (f 89).4) The recent ‘outrage’ committed by ‘a party of Persian marauders’ (f 88) (‘the freebooter Abdulla Beg Sharof Baini’ (f 93) [‘Abdullāh Beg Sharaf Baynī, also spelled Sharaf Baine and Shorof in this item], his followers (refugee subjects of Sulemanieh residing in Kermanshah) and a force of Sinjabis [Sanjâbi tribe, also spelled Sinjabees]) on the Wermazier tribe (dependents of the Jaaf [Jaff] tribe), and responses to the situation including:A petition by the heads of the Wermazier tribe to Abdulla Pasha [‘Abdullāh Pāshā] of SulemaniehAbdulla Pasha’s plea to Nejib PashaNejib Pasha’s complaint to Rawlinson of the ineffectiveness of Mohib Ali Khan [Muḥibb ʿAlī Khān], Governor of Kermanshah, in restraining, punishing and removing Abdulla Beg ‘from his obnoxious position on the frontier’ (f 94), the insecurity of the frontier Turkish tribes who are ‘harassed and tormented beyond all endurance’ (f 95) and intimation that he would not be able to prevent equally violent reprisals occurring in Persian territoryRawlinson’s concerns about the disorganisation on the frontier and suggestion that a complaint needs to be made by the Porte itself in order to make the Persian Government take the matter seriously and put realistic pressure on the Governor of Kermanshah.Physical description: 1 item (18 folios)
6. 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 148 of 1846, dated 12 December 1846. The enclosures are dated 26 October-9 December 1846.The enclosures mainly relate to British relations with the ‘Arab Chieftans’ of the vicinity, in particular:Haines’s account of the continued hostility and intractability of Sultan M’Houssain Fudthel of Lahidge [Sulṭān Muḥsin bin Faḍl al-‘Abdalī, Sulṭān of Lahej] and the consequent suspension of the monthly stipend paid to him by the BritishThe apparent eagerness of several other local ‘chiefs’, including Sultan Ahmed Abdulla Foutheli [Sulṭān Aḥmad bin ‘Abdullāh al-Faḍlī], to agree terms of peace with the British and obtain the removal of the British blockade of their portsThe resumption of kafilahs [caravans carrying supplies] entering Aden townThe Government of Bombay’s opinion that a division between the Foutheli and Abdali tribes might be to their benefitHaines’s condition of peace that the Sayud Ismail [Sayyid Ismā‘īl] be removed to a distant country and be prohibited from returning to the vicinity of AdenReports received by Haines that Sultan M’Houssain Fudthel intends to come to Aden after Eyed [Eid] to sign peace termsHaines’s report of the Sultan of Lahidge’s attempt to seize Foutheli camels returning from the Aden market, the resulting deaths and capture of Foutheli prisoners, and the intention of the Foutheli to retaliate against the AbdaliA report by Haines of the death of Sallem bin Sallah [Sālim bin Ṣāliḥ] who was wounded by a Foutheli raiding party, and the incidental wounding by grape shot, fired from the Aden field works, of three men of the kafilah who received medical treatment at Aden.The principal correspondents are Haines, the Government of Bombay, and the Government of India.Physical description: 1 item (30 folios)
7. Coll 28/79 ‘Persia. attacks by brigands. etc. on foreign subjects in Persia.’
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- Abstract: Correspondence and papers relating to incidents in which foreigners in Persia [Iran], specifically British subjects, were subjected to attacks or break-ins, and in some cases badly injured. The file’s principal correspondents are: HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran; the Foreign Office; Government of India. Incidents covered in the file are as follows:In 1933, an attack by three individuals described by British officials as ‘natives’, upon an employee of the Imperial and International Communications Company Limited at Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām] (ff 133-147)In 1934, an attack and theft upon a car carrying the British Vice-Consul at Meshed [Mashhad], Collett William Hart, his wife and child, and two Persian servants, while travelling through Khorasan. Subsequent correspondence chiefly deals with attempts to extract compensation to cover medical costs from the Persian Government, for injuries sustained to Mrs Hart (ff 27-132)In 1935, insecurity on the Meshed to Zahidan [Zahedan] road (ff 19-26)In 1937, a break-in by an Iranian soldier into the Zahidan Vice-Consulate. Papers include an account of the break-in, with a plan of the Vice-Consulate and the intruder’s route through its rooms, prepared by J Campbell, HM’s Vice-Consul at Zahidan (ff 3-18).The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 148; 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 2-147; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
8. Extract of Letter from Samuel Manesty to Lord Wellesley
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- Abstract: An extract from a letter from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, dated 31 October 1803.The letter reports that a messenger employed by Manesty has been plundered en route to Aleppo by members of the Shummer [Shammar] tribe, who sent the captured mail to the Whahabee Sheik [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin Muḥammad Āl Sa‘ūd, Emir of Diriyah], and describes Manesty’s efforts to recover the captured mail.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)