Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, an extract of a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 28 August 1855. The enclosures are dated 26 February 1855-22 August 1855.The item contains correspondence between: Lawford Acland, Acting Company Solicitor, Bombay; Richard Spooner, Officiating Commissioner of Customs, Salt and Opium; and the Government of Bombay. They discuss what should be done with two ships, the
Saiad[
Sa‘īd] and the
Futtool Mombaruk[
Fatḥ al-Mubārak], which were seized by the Company due to their involvement in the 'slave trade' [trade in enslaved people]. What to do with the cargo they were carrying is also discussed.There are multiple spellings for both ships' names in the text.The title page of the item contains the following references: 'Bombay Political Department', Draft Number '1199 [18]55', 'Collection No.9', and 'Examiner's Office'. Originally, the Collection number was given as '7 of No. 86 of 1855.' but this has been crossed out.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 631, and terminates at f 637, 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, consultations, and resolutions, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2416/130506. It is the fourteenth in a series of twenty-eight items on the Persian Gulf. The main correspondents are: the Government of Bombay and Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns several petitions presented to the Governor of Bombay by Aga Ali Akbar Kazranee [Āqā ‘Alī Akbar Kāzirunī, also rendered as Agha Ally Akbar Cazeroony in the item] regarding his vessel
Futhool Rahmon[
Fatḥ al-Raḥmān. Multiple spellings for this name are present in the item], which ran aground near Jask in May 1848. Aga Ali Akbar Kazranee accuses Meer Hajee [Mīr Maʿṣūm, popularly known as Mīr Ḥājjī], the Governor of Jask, of carrying away the cargo and stores of the vessel. Hennel investigates, and decides there are not sufficient grounds to make a claim. The item includes letters to Hennell from Sheik Syf ben Nubhan [Shaikh Sayf bin Nabhān al-Mu‘awali], Governor of Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbas], and Ally ben Houssein [‘Alī bin Ḥusayn], nakhoda [nākhudā] of the
Futhool Rahmon.The item contains a table of contents (f 586), and the title page (f 585) contains the following references: ‘Dft. No. 424 of 1851’, Collection No. 1, Vol. 14’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 585 and terminates at f 600, 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. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2376/126162. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Moollah Houssein [Mullā Ḥusayn], British Agent at Shargah [Sharjah]; and Lieutenant Foulerton, commanding East India Company schooner
Mahi. It is the ninth in a series of fifteen items on the Persian Gulf.The item concerns:Small acts of aggression by the subjects of Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi] and Debaye [Dubai] against each other, including seizing enslaved people from each other’s boats, and fleeing from one port to the other in vessels borrowed from the original port and refusing to return themFoulerton’s proceedings at Aboothabee and Debaye to restore property seized unlawfullyThe alliances and factions of the shaikhs of the Gulf and the tribesThe proposed movements of Ameer Fysul [Amīr Fayṣal bin Turkī bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Sa‘ūd].The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 745 of 1850’, and ‘Coll[ection] No 5’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 113, and terminates at f 131 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, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2349/123808. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Moollah Houssein [Mullā Ḥusayn], British Agent at Shargah [Sharjah]; and Lieutenant Alan Hyde Gardner, Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf. It is the sixth in a series of twenty-four items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns Gardner’s tours of the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf in the East India Company sloop of war
Elphinstone, and his communications with the shaikhs of Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi] and Debaye [Dubai], whose subjects had plundered each other’s property at sea.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 334 of 1850’, ‘Coll[ection] 4’, and ‘Collection No 5 of No 95’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 170, and terminates at f 186 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. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2302/118727. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the British Agent at Shiraz [Mīrzā Muḥammad]; and Mollah Houssin [Mullā Ḥusayn], British Agent at Shargah [Sharjah]. It is the nineteenth in a series of fifty-one items on the Persian Gulf.This item concerns:An attack on a fishing boat from Bahrein [Bahrain] and a ghooncha [ghanja] from Koweit [Kuwait] by some men from the Howajer [al-Hawājir] tribe and the group’s capture by Shaik Alli bin Khuleefa [Shaikh ‘Alī bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah]The reconciliation of the Governor of Fars, Houssein Khan [Muḥammad Ḥusayn Khān Muqaddam Marāgha’i] with the Eel Begee [I̅l-Begī, deputy to the leader of the Bakhtīyarī tribe]The siege of Brymee [Al Buraymi] by Saeed ben Tahnoon [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Ṭaḥnūn Āl Nahyān of Abu Dhabi]Plans by Sheik Sultan ben Suggur [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī of Ra’s al-Khaymah] and Sheik Mukhtoom [Shaikh Maktūm I bin Buṭṭī Āl Bū Falāsah of Dubai] to relieve Brymee, which were not executedReinforcements sent to Brymee by Ameer Fysul bin Turkee [Amīr Fayṣal bin Turkī bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Sa‘ūd].The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Collection No 2 of No 144’, ‘Coll[ection]: 17’ and ‘Draft no 465 of 49’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 480, and terminates at f 493, 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. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2174/105546. It is the thirty-fourth in a series of forty-five items on the Persian Gulf.The main correspondents are: the Government of Bombay and Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns:Hennell’s efforts to obtain redress for alleged attacks carried out, respectively, by the people of Congoon [Bandar-e Kangan], Cheroo [Bandar-e Chiru’iyeh], and Aseloo [Bandar-e Asaluyeh] on ships under British protectionAn attack on Shaik Yousuf bin Suggur [Shaikh Yūsuf bin Ṣaqr], the owner of a British merchant ship, by the followers of the uncle of the Governor of Bushire [Bushehr]Reports that Syed Humood bin Azan [Sayyid Ḥammūd bin ‘Azzān al-Būsa‘īdī] has been seeking to persuade certain tribes to end their allegiance to the Imam of Muscat.The item contains a table of contents (f 613-614), and the title page (f 612) contains the following references: ‘P C [Previous Communication] 5507, Coll. 7, Vol. 34’, ‘D/t 197/47’, ‘Collection No. 3 of No. 119’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 612 and terminates at f 630, 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. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2174/105546. It is the thirty-first in a series of forty-five items on the Persian Gulf.The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Godfrey Lee Farrant, Senior Magistrate of Police; and Justin Sheil, Her Majesty’s Minister at the Court of Persia [Iran].The item mostly concerns the investigation into items allegedly taken from the East India Company’s schooner
Emilyafter it was wrecked on the island of Kenn [Kish, also rendered in the item as Ges]. It includes:The depositions of William Henry Litchfield, former commander of the
Emily, and Mary Johannes Carapit, who travelled on the ship as a passengerRecords of the examinations of Khojah [also rendered as Cajah] Dawood [Khvājah Dāʾūd], Ameen Yacoob [Amīn Yaʿqūb], and Shaik Adum vd Hossein [Shaikh Ādam valad Ḥusayn], former crew members of the
Emily.The item also contains:A letter from Sheil reporting that the Persian Government has issued a firman directing the Governor of Fars to recover any property taken from the
Emilythat is being held by the Sheik [Shaikh] of Charak [Bandar-e Charak]Letters referring to earlier correspondence from Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, relating to a tour of the Arabian coast of the Gulf carried out by Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf, and to the conclusion of a truce between Soultan bin Suggur [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī] and the rulers of Debaye [Dubai], Ejman [Ajman] and Amulgavine [Umm al-Qaywayn].The item contains a table of contents (f 552), and the title page (f 551) contains the following references: ‘P C [Previous Communication] 5507, Coll. 7, Vol. 31’, ‘D/t 197/47’, ‘Collection No. 1 of No. 78’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 551 and terminates at f 567, 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 and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2416/130506. It is the twenty-fourth in a series of twenty-eight items on the Persian Gulf. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns instances of ‘Bedowins’ [Bedouins] visiting Bahrein [Bahrain], who have subsequently committed ‘piracies’ while travelling on vessels belonging to the ruler of Bahrein or his subjects. A particular case of a group belonging to the Monasir [al-Manāṣīr] tribe is reported on.The item contains a table of contents (f 663), and the title page (f 662) contains the following references: ‘Dft. No. 424 of 1851’, Collection No. 1, Vol. 24’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 662 and terminates at f 668, 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. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2416/130506. It is the twentieth in a series of twenty-eight items on the Persian Gulf. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Justin Sheil, HM Minister at the Court of Persia [Iran].The item concerns a ‘piracy’ committed upon a vessel from Congoon [Kangan] by the subjects of Sheik Yoosoof ben Moobaruk [Shaikh Yūsuf bin Mubārak Āl Haram] the ‘Chief’ of Nabend [Damagheh-ye Nay Band]. Hennell sends a letter to Sheik Yoosoof ben Moobaruk asking him to return the articles plundered from the vessel. He also, on the instructions of Sheil, makes preparations for adopting ‘coercive measures’.The item contains a table of contents (f 628), and the title page (f 627) contains the following references: ‘Dft. No. 424 of 1851’, Collection No. 1, Vol. 20’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 627 and terminates at f 633, 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. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2416/130506. It is the twenty-first in a series of twenty-eight items on the Persian Gulf.The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; Moullah Houssein, Agent at Shargah [Sharjah]; Commodore John Patterson Porter, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf; Lieutenant James Tronson, commanding HC brig
Euphrates; and Commander Archibald Macdonald, commanding HC steam frigate
Auckland.The item concerns an attack carried out by a party of the Beniyas [Banī Yās] tribe against two boats from Himreyah [Al Hamriyah, also rendered as Himreya in the item], which were anchored along the coast between Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi] and Debaye [Dubai, also rendered as Debai in the item]. Hennell demands reparation from Sheik Saeed ben Tahnoon [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Ṭaḥnūn Āl Nahyān], ‘Chief’ of Aboothabee [also referred to as the ‘Beniyas Chief’], and sends the vessels
Tigris,
Euphrates,and
Aucklandto Aboothabee to enforce this.Other topics discussed in this item include:Further attacks on vessels carried out by subjects of the rulers of Aboothabee and DebayeThe activities of Sheik Saeed ben Tahnoon at Brymee [Al Buraymi]The seizure, by some subjects of the Sheik of Debai, of a letter and presents sent by Hennell to Sheik Saeed ben TahnoonThe acts of ‘piracy’ committed by Soheil ben Ateish [Suhayl bin ‘Uṭaysh, also referred to as Sahib bin Hatish and Sahib bin Atish in the item].The item contains a table of contents (f 635), and the title page (f 634) contains the following references: ‘Dft. No. 424 of 1851’, Collection No. 1, Vol. 21’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 634 and terminates at f 653, 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, a political letter from the Government of Bombay.The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay and Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns an alleged act of ‘piracy’ committed by a dependent of Sheik Abdolla bin Khalfan [Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Khalfān], the Governor of Aseeloo [Bandar-e Asaluyeh], upon a ship from Nabend [Damagheh-ye Nay Band]. It includes Hennell’s report of the incident sent to Lieutenant Colonel Justin Sheil, HM Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia [Iran].The item contains a table of contents (f 393), and the title page (f 392) contains the following references: ‘P C [Previous Communication] 5507, Coll. 7, Vol. 15’, ‘D/t 197/47’, ‘Collection No. 3 of No. 53’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 392 and terminates at f 397, 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. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2416/130506. It is the fourth in a series of twenty-eight items on the Persian Gulf.The main correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Hajee Jassem [Ḥājjī Jāsim], Agent at Bahrein [Bahrain].The item concerns the plunder of a boat belonging to the people of Karrak [Jazireh-ye Khark, also rendered as Karrack in the item], by a group from the Huwajir [al-Hawājir, also rendered as Huwajee and Howejier in the item] tribe. Hennell demands compensation from Sheik Mahomed ben Khuleefa [Shaikh Muḥammad bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah], the Ruler of Bahrein, who he deems to be responsible for the group who carried out the attack. The item includes a statement by Abdool Rahman [‘Abd al-Raḥmān], the nakhoda [nakhuda] of the plundered boat, and a letter from Sheik Mahomed ben Khuleefa.The item contains a table of contents (f 464), and the title page (f 463) contains the following references: ‘Dft. No. 424 of 1851’, Collection No. 1, Vol. 4’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 463 and terminates at f 480, 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.