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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/290/6519
Title:: ‘Pension granted to the Family of a Native Carpenter who was killed on board the Sylph Cruizer in an encounter with the Pirates, on his passage to join Sir H. Jones’s Mission at Bushire’
Scope & Content:: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, letters to and from the Government of Bombay. The item is concerned with the Government of Bombay's decision to pay a pension of 10 rupees per month to the two widows and child of Seuram Suntag...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2 May 1806-15 Apr 1809
Extent:: 1 item (6 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/343/7959
Title:: Mr W. C. Bunce appointed Resident at Muscat and granted an extra allowance of 150 R p m [Rupees per mensem] towards enabling him to maintain a yacht
Scope & Content:: This item consists of copies of correspondence and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and the British Resident in Muscat, William Chichely Bunce. The item concerns the appointment of Bunce as B...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18 Aug 1809-31 Jan 1810
Extent:: 1 item (9 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/343/7960
Title:: The Residencies of Muscat and Bushire consolidated in the person of Mr N. H. Smith, who has in consequence been granted an additional allowance of 500 R p m [Rupees per mensem]. Messrs Babington and Jas. Williams appointed his Assistants.
Scope & Content:: This item consists of copies of correspondence and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Governments of Bombay and Bengal. The principal correspondent is the Government of Bombay. The main event discussed is the consolidation of the Political Residency at Muscat and...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 Feb 1808-29 Aug 1810
Extent:: 1 item (32 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/343/7961
Title:: Engagement between the Teignmouth Cruizer commanded by Lieut. Hewitson and a French Privateer
Scope & Content:: This item consists of copies of correspondence and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the governments of Bombay and Bengal. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; the Superintendent of the Bombay Marine, William Taylor Money; Lieutenant William Hewitson, co...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18 Aug 1809-31 Jan 1810
Extent:: 1 item (10 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/343/7962
Title:: Operations of the Naval and Military Forces employed against the Joasmee Pirates – and An application from the Imaum of Muscat for protection against the danger which threatens him from the Wahabees for the part he took in that Expedition
Scope & Content:: This item consists of copies of correspondence and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the governments of Bombay and Bengal. The principal correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain John Wainwright; Brigadier General John Malcolm; the Residents at Muscat, Da...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1 May 1809-20 Aug 1810
Extent:: 1 item (147 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/344/7963
Title:: Operations of the Naval and Military Forces employed against the Joasmee Pirates and An application from the Imaum of Muscat for protection against the danger which threatens him from the Wahabees for the part he took in that Expedition
Scope & Content:: The item consists of correspondence regarding the Persian Gulf campaign of 1809, a British naval effort to subdue the activities of the Joasmee [Āl Qāsimī] in the Gulf with the assistance of the Imam of Muscat. Folios 6-25 contain discussions of strategy and detailed accounts of engagements in...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 9 Nov 1809-11 Aug 1810
Extent:: 1 item (151 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/344/7967
Title:: Referring to a Correspondence with Admiral Drury respecting the advantages that might result from a Ship of War occasionally visiting the Gulph of Arabia
Scope & Content:: The item consists of correspondence between the Government of Bombay and Rear Admiral William O’Brien Drury, Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station, regarding a proposal for increased British naval presence in the Gulf of Arabia [Red Sea] in order to resist French influence in the region.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16 Feb 1810-14 Apr 1810
Extent:: 1 item (8 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/344/7968
Title:: Suggesting that the official designation of Mr Rich the Resident at Bussorah should be "Political Agent in Turkish Arabia"
Scope & Content:: The item consists of correspondence between the Government of Bombay and the Board of Control regarding the proposed closure of the Residency at Baghdad and the transferal of its responsibilities to the Residency at Bussorah [Basra]. It includes a proposal from Bombay that the position of ‘Politi...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 7 Sep 1808-14 Apr 1810
Extent:: 1 item (8 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/415/10276
Title:: ‘Dispatch of Three Cruizers to the Persian Gulph [Gulf] for the Suppression of Pirates.’
Scope & Content:: The item consists of copies and extracts of Political Consultations and Political Letters sent to and from the Government of Bombay. The item relates to attacks on merchant ships by the Joasamee [Āl Qāsimī] and the numerous counterefforts made by the East India Company and others over several ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 29 Aug 1810-16 Jan 1813
Extent:: 1 item (29 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/416/10286
Title:: ‘Territorial settlement in Abyssinia – inexpedient’
Scope & Content:: The title given above is an amended title. The original title, ‘Prohibition of a Trade with Abyssinia and the Governor of Tigrée, on the part of the Company’, which is written in ink, has been partly crossed out, and the title given above has been added in pencil. The item consists of copies an...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18 May 1809-29 Oct 1811
Extent:: 1 item (29 folios)

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