Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to Captain Robert Taylor, Resident at Bussorah [Basra]
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Stannus informs Taylor that the fleet of the Imam of Muscat [Sa‘īd bin Sultān Āl Sa‘īd] had been ordered to proceed from Bushire to Bussorah [Basra] to enforce certain financial claims there, either by means of a blockade or a by a direct attack on the Turkish fleet or the town itself. This woul...
Enclosures nos. 4-6 to Political Department letter no. 32 from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay [IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 91v-97]
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The enclosures are as follows: Enclosure no. 4: translation of a letter from Sultan Bin Suggur [Sulṭān bin Saqr], Sheikh of Shurga [Sharjah] to Stannus, dated 23 April 1826, asking Stannus for justice and the exaction of a blood fine following the killing of a member of one of his boats, and the...
Letter from Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident at Bushire, to Lieutenant Colonel John Macdonald, Envoy to the Court of Persia
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Informs Macdonald of his intended tour of the Arab littoral of the Persian Gulf from 5 September until 15 October and that local duties will be taken care of by three Armenian members Residency staff: Essai Johannes, treasurer; Arratoon Malcolm, linguist; and Catchatoor Johannes, native agent.
Letter from Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident at Bushire, to Lieutenant Colonel John Macdonald, Envoy to the Court of Persia
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Letter reporting that he had disposed of all the Bengal bills, transmitting a statement of Colonel Macdonald's accounts with the Residency, and reporting that the money in the accounts were currently available in Tomans but could be made available in Rupees if required.
Letter No. 65 from Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident at Bushire, on board HC Cruizer Clive, Muscat to William Newnham, the Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay
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Letter reporting that he had hired the services of Moola Hussen [Mullā Ḥusayn] at Sharga [Sharjah] as agent on the Arabian Coast, as from 1 September 1826, stating that his intelligence gathering activity would make him particularly useful in that area, and reporting that he would commence looki...
Letter No. 66 from Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident at Bushire, on board HC Cruizer Clive, Muscat to William Newnham, the Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay
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Letter reporting that the Imam of Muscat had intimated, in conversation, his intention to blockade the port of Bussorah [Basra] as his negotiations with the authorities there had failed to 'do him justice'. The letter also states that the Imam had agreed to give notice of his intentions, should ...
Letter No. 67 from Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident at Bushire, on board HC Cruizer Clive, Muscat to William Newnham, the Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay
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Letter reporting on his trip to the Arabian Coast to attempt to resolve the issues arising from the Sooeedan [Sūwaydān] tribe's refusal to abandon their settlement at Derah [Dayrah]. The letter includes report of a conversation with Shaikh Sooltan ben Sugger [Sultan bin Saqr] who had taken up r...
