Letter no.228 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Commodore George Robinson, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf
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Letter acknowledging receipt of Robinson's reports on his enquires regarding the act of piracy committed at Zanzibar (see ff 101-103). Kemball also comments on investigations into the maltreatment of the Sharjah British agent's servants (ff 115-116), instructing Robinson to issue orders to Lt Tro...
Letter no.3160 of 1852 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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Covering letter with an enclosure: letter no.2968 of 1852 (f 128) from Malet to Major Atkins Hamerton, HM's Consul and HC's Agent in the Dominions of His Highness the Imam of Muscat, dated 3 July 1852. In the enclosure, Malet writes with reference to the recent grounding and plunder of the Britis...
Letter no.14 of 1852 from Major Atkins Hamerton, HM's Consul and Honourable Company's Agent in the Dominions of His Highness the Imam of Muskat, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay
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Hamerton reports on the grounding of the British ship Centaur, which occurred in thick fog on 4 May 1852. He states that the next morning the 'natives' threatened to kill all crew if they did not leave the vessel. The crew arrived 'destitute' at the Muscat Agency on 19 May. The Centaur is reporte...
Letter no.3159 of 1852 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay, to Major Atkins Hamerton, HM's Consul and HC's Agent in the dominions of His Highness the Imam of Muscat
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Letter enclosing a copy of a representation made by the owners and underwriters of the lost British ship Centaur. Malet requests that Hamerton enlist the help of the Imam of Muscat in identifying and punishing the perpetrators of the Centaur's plundering, and recovering any of the cargo of indigo...
Letter from the underwriters of the cargo of the British ship Centaur, to Charles Allen, Secretary to the Government of India
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Letter enclosing a narrative from Captain Salmon, describing the loss and plunder of the Centaur. The narrative states that the Centaur was sailing from Calcutta to Bushire and Bassorah [Basra], and carrying rice, sugar, and 1645 chests of indigo. At the end of the narrative is a list of the insu...
Letter no.265 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to Government Bombay
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Kemball writes that he has contacted his agents, the Arab coast chiefs, and the Prince Governor of Fars, enlisting their help in the recovery of indigo from the plundered British ship Centaur.
Letter no.241 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Colonel John Taylor, Her Majesty's Consul and the Honourable Company's Agent at Basra
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Kemball writes to request that Taylor inform the British and Turkish authorities that they report back to him in the event of any indigo being imported into Basra, in light of the grounding of the Centaur off the Arab Coast and the theft of its cargo of indigo.
Letter no.266 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay
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Kemball updates Malet on the Company steamer Queen's despatch around the Gulf, for the purposes of recovering the plundered indigo from the shipwrecked Centaur, and on redress for the mistreatment of the Sharjah agent Hajee Yacoob at the hands of the Sharjah Governor. Included with the letter is ...
Letter no.2099 of 1852 from Henry Edward Goldsmid, Secretary to the Government Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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Covering letter enclosing an extract of a despatch from the Court of Directors no.9, dated 24 January 1852 (f 146). The extract states that financial compensation for 'piracies, homicides and other injuries' should be paid directly to the injured persons, and not to their rulers. The Council expr...
Letter no.300 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay
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Kemball states that he has written to Sheikh Sultan ben Suggar [Sultan bin Saqr], the ruler of Ra's al-Khaymah and Sharjah, advising him that, as per the Council's orders, compensation to his subjects affected by acts of piracy, murder and other such acts, will be paid directly to the persons aff...
