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205. Bagdad Pachalic Affairs
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- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 117 of 1846, dated 14 October 1846. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 8 August 1846.The enclosure consists of a letter from HM Consul and Honourable Company’s Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, to the Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Political Department, forwarding under a flying seal a letter to the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department enclosing copies of three despatches addressed by Rawlinson to HM Ambassador at Constantinople [Istanbul], Sir Stratford Canning, relating to Bagdad Pachalic [Baghdad Pashalik] affairs.The despatches include an enclosed copy of a letter received by Rawlinson from Messrs Hector & Co, merchants of Bagdad, containing suggestions for the promotion of British trade in the Bagdad Pachalic, accompanied by general remarks by Rawlinson on the operation of the Treaty of Balti Liman [Balta Liman, signed in 1838], the commercial treaty between the Government of the United Kingdom and the Porte [the Government of the Ottoman Empire], in the Baghdad Pachalic, under the headings exports, internal traffic, and imports.Physical description: 1 item (34 folios)
206. Bahrein Affairs
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- 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 69 of 1850, dated 2 December 1850. The enclosures are numbered 3-6 and are dated 18 October to 2 December 1850.The papers relate to the affairs in the vicinity of Bahrein [Bahrain], specifically the alleged intention of the Shaikh of Bahrein [Shaikh Muḥammad bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah] to place himself under the protection of the Ottoman Porte [Government] and the Resident in the Persian Gulf’s request for instructions from the Government of India should this happen, or if any other Arab ruler with whom the British Government has treaty relations indicates the same intention.The correspondents are the Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Governor of Bombay, and the Chief Secretary to the Government in Bombay.Physical description: 1 item (9 folios)
207. Persian Gulf Affairs
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- 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 39 of 1853, dated 18 June 1853. The enclosures are numbered 3-11 and are dated 15 February-3 June 1853.The papers relate to the trade in enslaved person in the Persian Gulf and infractions of treaties between the British Government and HH the Imaum [Imām of Muscat].Correspondents include HM Consul and HC Agent in the Dominions of HH the Imaum of Muscat (Captain Atkins Hamerton); the Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Secret Committee; and the Board of Control.Physical description: 1 item (26 folios)
208. Persian Gulf Affairs
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- Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 58 of 1847, dated 16 June 1847. The enclosures are dated 7 April-27 May 1847 (although some internal copy documents date back to 23 January 1847).The primary documents are letters from Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Secretary to the Government, Bombay, enclosing his correspondence with Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia (in Baghdad), and the Honourable Mr Henry Wellesley, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Constantinople [Istanbul, Ottoman Empire], and other related correspondence and documents.The main subject covered is British efforts for the suppression of the ‘African slave trade’ in the Persian Gulf, notably:The Ottoman Porte’s order of 23 January 1847, (ff 154-155) implying [rather than explicitly granting] powers granted to British and East India Company vessels in the suppression of the slave trade with regard to vessels under the Turkish [Ottoman] flag landing at Turkish ports on the Euphrates river, notably Bussorah [Basra]; the Porte’s desire for secret Anglo-Turkish communications on the matter due to political sensitivities; and the Porte’s request that the new prohibition measures not be put into effect until 1 June 1847 in order to provide sufficient warning for Turkish vesselsRawlinson’s suggestion to the Nejib Pasha [Mehmed Necib Pasha also known as Muhammad Najib Pasha], Governor of Baghdad, and Hennell that the ‘slave cargoes’ of Persian [Iranian] and Arab vessels in Turkish waters be considered ‘contraband’ and therefore subject to measures for the suppression of ‘piracy’Hennell’s report of his success in obtaining the agreement of the Arab Maritime Chiefs for the total abolition of the trade in enslaved peoples from the African coast involving their boats and those of their subjects; empowering British cruisers to detain, examine suspected vessels and seize and confiscate those carrying slaves; and for the agreement to come into force in the next season (10 December 1847 onwards). Includes translation and copy in Arabic of the engagement entered into by Sheik Sultan ben Sugger, Chief of Ras-el-Khymah and Shargah [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī, Ruler of Ra's al-Khaymah and Sharjah] dated 30 April 1847, appended with names of additional signatory sheiks [shaikhs] (ff 180-182)Empowerment of the British authorities to arrange the return of enslaved people to their country of origin on the African coast, due to alleged Turkish lack of desire or resources for the task; logistical arrangements; and suggestion that returnees could be transmitted as labourers on the African coast or to the West IndiesHennell’s concerns about the lack of agreement by the Persian Government to suppress the trade in enslaved people, and possible evasion of British policing measures by Arab Maritime Chiefs and their Persian connections, notably at Mohamerah [Khorramshahr, formerly Mohammerah].Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-7, on folio 146. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure.
209. Persian Gulf Affairs
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- 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 29 of 1853, dated 28 April 1853. The enclosures are numbered 3-10 and are dated 1 December 1852-31 March 1853.The papers relate to affairs in the Persian Gulf including correspondence with the Prince Governor of Fars concerning the importation of slaves at several of the ports of Fars in violation of the convention between Great Britain and Persia [Iran].Correspondents include the Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay, and Her Majesty’s Minister at Tehran.Physical description: 1 item (28 folios)
210. Trucial Coast Affairs
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- 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 48 of 1853, dated 30 August 1853. The enclosures are numbered 3-5 and are dated 11 May-3 August 1853.The papers relate to affairs on the Arabian coast including the conclusion of a permanent Treaty of Peace by the Arabian ‘chiefs’. Arabic and English copies of the treaty are included.Correspondents are the Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay.Physical description: 1 item (18 folios)
211. Yemen, Zeila and Tadjoura Affairs
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- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 10 of 1841, dated 28 February 1841. The enclosures are dated 21 January to 26 February 1841.The enclosures mainly consist of copies of correspondence relating to events in Aden, Mocha (also spelled Mokha in this item), Hodeida [Al Hudaydah], Zeila (also spelled Zeyla), and Tadjoura (also spelled Tajoura and Tedjoura).The main correspondent is the Political Agent at Aden (Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines). Letters from Haines to the Secretary to the Government of Bombay (John Pollard Willoughby) also include enclosed letters from the following: the Imaum of Senna [Imam of Sanaa], Said Mahomed [Al-Hadi Muhammad]; Lieutenant-Colonel G Wilson, Commanding the troops at Aden; and Charles Tilstone Beke.The enclosures relate to matters including:The postponement of the modification of the Treaty with the Chief of Zeila by Haines, due to the unsettled state of affairs at MochaThe minerals and soil of TadjouraHaines having requested the services of the East India Company’s brig of war Euphratesand schooner of war ConstanceCaptain H Stiles, the Bazaar Master, having been shot at by a Bedouin of the Yahmany [Yemeni] division of the Abdali tribe outside the Field Works at Aden, while riding out with several other officers beyond the prescribed limitsThe sanction of the Governor-General of India in Council to the appointment of Mr J Hatchatoor as British Agent at Tadjoura, on a salary of 300 Rupees per month.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-9, on folios 1-2. These numbers are repeated for reference on the last verso of each enclosure.
212. Bokhaurau Affairs
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of letters from Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Stoddart at Bokhaurau [Bukhara, also spelled Bokhara in this item], mostly concerning the desire of the Ameer [Emir] of Bokhaurau for a treaty of alliance with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. Stoddart also gives his opinion on the disposition of the Shauh of Persia [Shah of Iran] towards the ‘English’. The letters are mainly addressed to Lord Palmerston, HM Minister for Foreign Affairs. There are also extracts of letters from Stoddart to Arthur Conolly, a letter to the Secretary to the Government of India, and a letter from Stoddart addressed to his relations, brothers and sisters. In addition, there is translated copy of a letter from the King of Bokhara [the Amir of Bukhara, Nasrullah Khan] to Queen Victoria, dated 16 March 1841.The letters are dated 17 February to 30 March 1841, and the copies were enclosed in a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 47 of 1841, dated 16 June 1841.Physical description: 1 item (29 folios)
213. Affairs in Persia
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- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 6 of 1853, dated 19 January 1853. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 6 November 1852. It consists of a letter from HM Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, to the Chief Secretary of the Government of Bombay (for the information of the Governor in Council), enclosing under flying seals copies of twenty-two despatches addressed by Sheil to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.Sheil’s despatches concern various matters relating to Persian affairs, including: the annexation of Herat by Persia; and the refusal of the Pasha of Baghdad, Namik Pasha [Mehmed Emin Namık Pasha, Governor or Viceroy of Baghdad] to allow Prince Abbas Meerza ['Abbās Mīrzā Mulk Ārā Qājār], the Shah’s younger brother, to enter into Ottoman territory and visit Kerbella [Karbala] unless he is provided with a passport from the Turkish [Ottoman] Ambassador to Persia.The despatches from Sheil include copies of enclosed correspondence, including letters and translated letters from: the Persian Prime Minister, the Sedr Azim [Ṣadr-i Aʿẓam]; the Agent in Meshed [Mashhad]; the Agent in Sheeraz [Shiraz]; and the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Creswicke Rawlinson.One of Sheil’s despatches discusses negotiations between the Austrian Government and Persia for a treaty of commerce and navigation, and includes a copy of a draft of the treaty (folios 84-91), which is in French.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-3, on folio 62. The number 3 is repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of the enclosure.
214. Tehran Affairs
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- Abstract: This item is comprised of copies of secret letters, despatches, memoranda, translations of letters, and intelligence reports relating to events in Persia [Iran].Topics discussed include:Correspondence with the Sedr Azim [Ṣadr-i Aʿẓam] about investigations with the authorities at Fao concerning the landing of enslaved people in the ship MahmoodeeA letter of congratulations that the Shah had changed the title of the Sedr Azim from Excellency to Altesse(Highness) and the decoration of the order of Nooeean [Nuian]Arrangements for a pension for the widow of Mr Reed who was the confidential clerk and accountant to the Tehran MissionLetters from the Political Agent, Meshed [Mashhad] (translated by Ronald F Thomson), concerning meetings in Meshed to persuade the Ruler of Herat to form a contractOutbreak of cholera in Meshed and its dissemination to Tehran by pilgrims returning from MeshedTranslation of the articles of a secret treaty of friendship (ff 126-127) said to have been negotiated at Tehran between Nicolai Anilchkoff [Anichkov] and the Persian Government, concerning relations between Persia and Russia and other powersCorrespondence between Taylour Thomson, HM Consul, Tehran, and the Sedr Azim concerning the attitude of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Government of Persia to requests made by the head of the British delegation.Translation from a letter written by Cazee Mahomed of Herat, a native of Punjab, residing in Meshed, to the Russian Minister at Tehran.Correspondents include: Taylour Thomson, HM Envoy and Charge d'Affaires, Tehran; the Earl of Clarendon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, London; Political Agent, Meshed; Political Agent, Asterabad [Astarabad, i.e. Gorgān]; Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Political Resident, Persian Gulf; H L Anderson, Secretary to Government, Bombay [Mumbai]; the Sedr Azim.Physical description: 1 item (133 folios)
215. Aden and Red Sea Affairs
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- 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 16 of 1850, dated 16 March 1850.The enclosed papers, dated between 13 June 1849 and 13 March 1850, concern affairs in Aden and the Red Sea. They comprise correspondence between Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent, Aden; the Government of Bombay; Charles Murray, British Consul General in Egypt; Second Lieutenant H W B Bell, Acting Executive Engineer, Aden; Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Waddington, Commanding Engineer, Aden; and the Military Board, Bombay. Also included are minutes by the Governor of Bombay, Lord Viscount Falkland [Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland].Several matters are covered by the papers, including:Assurances from the Ottoman Government regarding the enforcement of the conditions set out in the recent Anglo-Ottoman commercial treaty [Treaty of Balta Liman, 1838] at Red Sea ports under Ottoman jurisdictionThe plans and proposal for a new treasury and guard room at Aden, to replace the current one that is in disrepairGeneral updates on the state of affairs in the Aden Settlement and Protectorate.Enclosure Nos. 17-18, listed in the abstract of contents as copies of the Bombay Overland Timesand the Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courierdated 16 March 1850, are recorded as missing in a note dated 31 October 1906.Physical description: 1 item (33 folios)
216. Kabul Affairs
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- Abstract: Correspondence consists of a secret letter with a treaty concluded with Ameer Dost Mahomed [Dōst Moḥammad Khān Bārakzay], Khan of Cabool [Kābul], in connection with telegraphic matters.Physical description: 1 item (3 folios)