Letter (Office: No 99 of 1851) from Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire to Lieutenant Colonel Justin Sheil, HM Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran
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The letter reports on the Feerooz Merza's – the Prince of Fars Province – visit to Bushire, which he departed on 8 April 1851. It notes that throughout the visit the Prince has maintained that the principal object of his visit is the collection of revenue, and the suppression of robberies; the R...
Letter No 409 of 1851 from Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire to Lieutenant Colonel Justin Sheil, HM Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran
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The letter is explaining the Resident's position with regard to the 'vexatious proceedings' of Mirza Hassan Ally Khan, Governor of Bushire. It explains that the Resident has refrained from protesting in order to obtain proof of the Governor's complicity with Abdool Mahomed in establishing a mono...
Letter no.211 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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Covering letter, enclosing a copy of correspondence (not included in the file) from Commodore J P Porter, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, itself enclosing an extract from a letter written by the Officer Commanding the Honourable Company schooner Constance, reporting the return to the Batinah Co...
Letter no.229 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Lt-Col Justin Sheil, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Council of Persia
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Hennell informs Sheil that amongst those vessels deployed in the slave trade by inhabitants of the Arab coast, was a bugla [boat] from a Persian port ('Mogoo'), which landed sixty slaves on the Persian coast.
Letter no.431 of 1851 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay, to Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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Acknowledging receipt of Hennell's previous letters concerning the slave trade, Malet expresses regret that arrangements had not been made earlier for the Honourable Company's schooner Constance to be on the Batinah Coast in time to check the season's slave trade, requesting that future arrangeme...
Letter no.273 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay
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Covering letter accompanying an extract of correspondence (not included) from Lt Leeds to Commodore Porter, on the reasons for the failure to intercept vessels returning from East Africa to the Arab coast with slaves this season, and of the two slave boys landed by the Honourable Company's schoon...
Extract from a despatch from the Honourable the Secret Committee, along with an extract of a letter from Lord Palmerston to Lt-Col Justin Sheil, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia
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Palmerston's letter instructs Sheil to make arrangements with the Persian Government for Persian officers to be placed with Her Majesty's and East India Company ships, to assist in the searching of Persian vessels. Palmerston recommends that suitable persons be based at Bushire, and requests that...
Letter no.164 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Commodore J. P. Porter, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf
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Covering letter to an enclosure: a translated extract of a letter from Moollah Houssein [Mullā Husayn], the British agent at Sharjah, to Hennell, dated 28 May 1851. In his report, Houssein states that he knows all those boats on the Trucial coast departing for Africa, and describes the methods th...
Letter no.231 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay
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Letter enclosing a translated communication from the British Agent at Sharjah (Mullā Husayn), reporting in detail on the slaves imported into the Arab coast of the Gulf this season. Hennell writes that the Agent has knowledge of 495 slaves being imported, but fears the number may be much more. Th...
Letter no.402 of 1851 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay, to Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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Covering letter with two enclosures. The first enclosure (f 34) is a copy of letter no.26 of 1851 from A. Le Messurier, Advocate General at Bombay, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, dated 13 October 1851. It concerns British consular protection and the right of the Bri...
