Letter no.171 of 1853 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government, Bombay
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The letter reports the recent seizure at Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh] of thirty-six slaves, carried out by the ruler of the town at the instigation of the British Agent at Bandar-e Lengeh. Kemball informs Malet that the slaves have been dispatched on the Honourable Company's brig Euphrates to the Pre...
Letter no.183 of 1853 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government, Bombay
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The letter and its enclosures relate to the seizure by Captain Stradling of the Honourable Company's schooner Constance of two slavers sailing under the flag of the Imam of Muscat. Kemball writes that the monsoon season is too far advances to allow the emancipated slaves to be sent to Bombay, an...
Letter no.209 of 1853 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government, Bombay
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The letter and its enclosures relate to the earlier emancipation of thirty-six slaves at Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh]. A number of enclosures are included with the letter: 1. Letter no.181 of 1853 (folios 335-36) from Kemball to William Taylour Thomson, His Majesty's Chargé D'Affaires at the Court ...
Letter no.217 of 1853 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government, Bombay
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The letter and its enclosures relate to the seizure by Lieutenant Tronson, Commanding Officer of the Honourable Company's Brigantine Tigris, of two slaves from a Persian vessel, and the application for 'head money' for the slaves from Commodore George Robinson, Commanding Officer Persian Gulf Sq...
Letter no.4787 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government, Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter relates to Kemball's earlier enquiry (folio 343) over whether Acts of Parliament stipulating the head money payable for captured slaves from the Arab coast, applies also to slaves captured on the Persian coast. Malet writes that he regrets the head money cannot be paid for those slaves...
Letter no.218 of 1853 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government, Bombay
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The letter and its enclosures relate to the importation of slaves into the Arab coast from Zanzibar. The letter includes a translation of a report (folio 352) sent to Kemball by the British Agent at Sharjah, Hajee Yacoob, dated 26 June 1853, with reports that a number of boats carrying slaves had...
Letter no.239 of 1853 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government, Bombay
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The letter relates to the importation of slaves into the Arab coast of the Gulf. Kemball encloses with his letter translated extracts of an intelligence report (folios 357-59) received by him from the British Agent at Sharjah, Hajee Yacoob, dated 16 July 1853. In his report, Yacoob reports of the...
Letter no.250 of 1853 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government, Bombay
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The letter and its enclosures relate to the seizure of a Bahraini vessel travelling from Aden to Bandar-e Lengeh, carrying slaves, by the Honourable Company's Brigantine Tigris. The following enclosures are included with Kemball's letter: 1. Letter no.87 of 1853 (folio 371) from Commodore Georg...
Letter no.361 of 1853 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government, Bombay
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The letter and its enclosures relate to the importation of slaves onto the Persian coast, and the determination of the whereabouts of those slaves. Kemball's letter has two main enclosures, each of which retain their own enclosures: 1. Letter no.265 of 1853 (folios 396-98) from Kemball to Willi...
Letter no.4247 of 1854 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter is an acknowledgement of Kemball’s previous letter relating to Humeed bin Mujdell’s removal from Gurmah Island to al-Katiff [Al-Qaṭīf], approving of Kemball’s suggestion that while Humeed remains in Wahabee [Wahhābī] territory, the British should do nothing. Anderson adds that His Lord...
