Abstract: This item consists of a copy of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 29 October 1873 and received in the India Office Secret Department on 27 November 1873, forwarding a copy of papers relating to the proceedings of the Political Agent, Muscat, in connection with the purchase there of four 'slaves' by an officer of a Turkish vessel; making certain enquiries relative to cases of sale of 'slaves' at Muscat to Persian or Turkish ships; and requesting a copy of any treaties or conventions which may have been entered into since 1857 by Turkey for the suppression of the slave-trade. Only one enclosure appears to be present, comprising a letter from the Under Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, 27 October 1873, to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 49, and terminates at f 50, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains one foliation insertion anomaly: f 49a.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 31 January 1873 and received via Brindisi on 24 February 1873, forwarding papers relative to the proffered co-operation of the Rao of Kutch in the efforts now being made for the suppression of the trade in enslaved people.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 336, and terminates at f 341, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains two foliation anomalies: f 336a and f 339a.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 14 February 1873 and received in the India Office Secret Department on 25 June 1873, forwarding copies of papers relating to the capture of a slave ship off the Somali coast, bound from Pemba to Muscat, by HMS
Wolverene.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 28, and terminates at f 32, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.The sequence contains one foliation insertion anomaly: f 28a.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 14 February 1873 and received via Brindisi on 10 March 1873, forwarding copies of papers regarding the trade in enslaved people between Sonakin [Sawakin], Suez and Jedda [Jeddah], and the proposed appointment of a Consul and Agent for the Red Sea, in continuation of Despatch No. 10 of 17 January 1873, and with reference to No. 10 of 6 January 1872.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 58, and terminates at f 61, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.The sequence contains two foliation insertion anomalies: f 58a and f 59a.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 14 February 1873 and received via Brindisi on 10 March 1873, forwarding copies of papers regarding the trade in enslaved people between Sonakin [Sawakin], Suez and Jedda [Jeddah], and the proposed appointment of a Consul and Agent for the Red Sea, in continuation of Despatch No. 10 of 17 January 1873, and with reference to No. 10 of 6 January 1872.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 33, and terminates at f 36, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.The sequence contains two foliation insertion anomalies: f 33a and f 34a.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 21 February 1873 and received via Brindisi on 18 March 1873, forwarding a copy of a further letter from the Government of Bombay regarding the purchase of the Zanzibar slave market by a British-protected subject of Kutch, in continuation of Despatch No. 216 of 10 October 1872.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 116, and terminates at f 119, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.The sequence contains 2 foliation insertion anomalies: f 116a and f 118a.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 2 April 1874 and received in the India Office Political Department on 27 April 1874, forwarding a copy of a further letter from HM Minister at Teheran [Tehran] to the address of Lord Granville, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on the subject of a proposed Treaty with the Shah of Persia [Iran] for the suppression of the trade in enslaved people.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 307 and terminates at f 311a, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains five foliation anomalies: f 307a, f 308a, f 309a, f 310a, and f 311a.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 24 April 1873 and received in the India Office Secret Department on 25 June 1873, forwarding papers relating to the capture by HMS
Vultureof a slave buglah [buggalow] off Soor [Ṣūr], on the Arab Coast, in the month of September 1872.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 197, and terminates at f 206, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains two foliation anomalies: f 197a and f 202a.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India's Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 14 July 1873 and received by the India Office's Political Department on 11 August 1873, forwarding copies of a letter from the Political Agent and Consul at Zanzibar, regarding a man from Madras [Chennai] named Arnasallo, who was reportedly convicted of complicity in the trading of enslaved persons.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 251, and terminates at f 254a, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains four foliation insertion anomalies: f 251a, f 252a, f 253a, and f 254a.
Abstract: Enclosures nos. 3-4 to dispatch no. 16 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 27 April 1861. The enclosures are dated 2-25 March 1861. Received 24 May 1861.The first enclosure is a letter from the Solicitor to Government, Bombay, advising the Government of Bombay not to proceed with a suit for the confiscation of a captured slave vessel belonging to the port of Muscat. The second is a letter from Captain Robert Lambert Playfair, Assistant Political Resident, in charge of the Residency, Aden, recommending that Mr Barroni, who had been acting as British Consul at Massowah [Massawa], Abyssinia [Ethiopia] should be presented with a year's salary in recognition of his services in providing information to the British concerning affairs in Abyssinia.Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 122 of 1846, dated 15 October 1846. The enclosures, numbered 3-26 and dated 3 June to 13 October 1846, relate to Persian Gulf affairs.The enclosures consist of correspondence, and minutes of the Government of Bombay. They concern matters including:The intention of the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat to blockade the Port of Bushire [Bushehr] in retaliation for ‘injurious’ actions by Persian [Iranian] authorities against his dependents, following the despatch of a body of troops by the Government of Fars against Bunder Abas [Bandar Abbas] with the object of exacting a large sum of money from the Imaum’s deputy there, the Governor of Bunder Abas, Sheik Syf ben Nubhan [Shaikh Sayf bin Nabhān al-Mu‘awali], and the seizure by the Acting Governor of Bushire, Mirza Hidayul Oollah [Mīrzā Hidāyat Allāh], of six boxes of indigo sent for sale to that port by Syed Mahomed ben Salim [Sayyid Muḥammad bin Sālim], the nephew of the ImaumThe Resident in the Persian Gulf, Major Samuel Hennell, forwarding a copy a letter from the Imaum of Muscat, Syed Saaed bin Sultan [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd], enclosing a copy of a proclamation which the Imaum has addressed to Shaik Sultan bin Suggur [Shaikh Sulṭān bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī, Ruler of Ra’s al-Khaymah and Sharjah] and the other ‘Maritime Chiefs’ on the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf, informing them that their subjects will face the disapprobation of the British Government should they embark ‘slaves’ [enslaved persons] on their vessels, following the conclusion of the agreement (dated 2 October 1845) between Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and the Imaum for the suppression of the importation of enslaved persons from the Imaum’s African territoriesThe Resident in the Persian Gulf stating that the Native Agent at Sharjah, Moulla Houssein [Mūllah Ḥusayn], has reported that all vessels belonging to the ‘Maritime Arabs’ which had proceeded to the African coast during the last season have returned laden with enslaved persons, and that the ‘Chiefs’ on the coasts of Oman, Batimah [Al Batinah], and Persia have received a circular letter from the Imaum of Muscat to the effect that after that year (1846) none of the ‘Arab Tribes’ are to take away enslaved persons from the Imaum’s territories or embark them in their vessels, otherwise British war ships would seize their cargoes and destroy their vesselsThe arrival of Shaik Musharee [Shaikh Mushārī], the son of Saed bin Mootluck [Sa‘d bin Muṭlaq al-Muṭayrī], at Shargah [Sharjah] and Brymee [Al Buraymi]The disposal of the sum of 165 Tomans paid by the ‘Chief’ of Kenn [Kish Island] and Charrack [Bandar-e Charak] as compensation for the treasure belonging to Persian subjects plundered from the schooner
Emilyafter the vessel was wrecked off the coast of Kenn in March 1845, and the failure of that Chief to keep his promise to pay the remainder of the first instalment of 500 Tomans out of a total of 1500 Tomans which he had entered into a written agreement to pay as compensationThe Resident in the Persian Gulf forwarding a letter from the Governor of Fars, Hoosein Khan [Ḥusayn Khān], requesting the assistance of British vessels of war stationed in the Gulf to punish the ‘piratical’ proceedings of certain ports of the Persian coast and to enforce restitution of property plundered by their inhabitants on several occasions from dependents of the British Government.The correspondence is mainly between the following: the Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Arthur Malet; HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Justin Sheil; the Governor of Fars; HM Consul and Honourable Company’s Agent in the Dominions of the Imaum of Muscat, Captain Atkins Hamerton; and the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General, Frederick Currie.Physical description: 1 item (54 folios)
Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 89 of 1847, dated 28 October 1847. The enclosures are dated 9 September-25 October 1847.The item chiefly comprises communications of the Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay, to: Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Officiating Political Agent, Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq]; the Secretary to the Government of India; and Commodore Sir Robert Oliver, Superintendent of the Indian Navy. Also included are: single communications from the Secretary to the Government of India and Hennell to the Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay; two minutes of the President and Governor in Council and the members in Council, Bombay; and a copy (as published in the
Bombay Gazette21 October 1847) of the engagement entered into with the British Government by the ‘six Maritime Arab Chiefs…binding themselves to prevent, from and after the 10th December next, the exportation of slaves [enslaved persons] from the African Coast or Elsewhere on board of their vessels and those of their subjects’ (ff 288-289).The communications are brief and largely administrative. They cover the following matters:Approval of Hennell’s negotiations with the Maritime Arab Chiefs and authorisation of the publication of the agreement in English, Arabic and Persian in the government
GazetteThe request, subsequent to a letter by Hennell, for the opinion of Commodore Oliver as to the best measures to follow up the treaties already in force for the suppression of the trade in enslaved persons from the east coast of AfricaConcurrence in concern regarding the amended instructions issued by the Turkish [Ottoman] Government to the Pasha [Governor] of Baghdad regarding the disposal of enslaved persons liberated under the convention recently signed by the [Ottoman] PorteApproval of Hennell’s intention to quickly remove ‘rescued slaves’ from Bussorah [Basra] who do not wish to remain in Ottoman territoryA translated extract of the report by the Agent at Shargah [Sharjah] on the recent ‘number of Abyssinian [Ethiopian] slaves imported into Oman’ (f 300) and approval of Hennell’s intention to rigorously enforce the terms of the convention when it comes into force ‘with equal strictures in the case of the importation of Abyssinians as in that of Negroes [Black Africans] and Soomalees [Somalis]’ (f 299).Physical description: 1 item (27 folios)