Letter no.4570 of 1856 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Commander Felix Jones, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter is an acknowledgement of receipt of Jones’s earlier letter relating to arrangements for the despatch of a captured Turkish vessel, found carrying slaves, to the Turkish authorities at Basra. Anderson requests that Jones forward to Government any Turkish Firman or treaty for the suppres...
Letter no.5595 of 1856 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to the Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter is a covering letter, enclosing an extract of paragraph 63 from despatch no.24 of 1856 (folio 12) from the Court of Directors, dated 16 April 1856. The extract relates to an act of piracy committed by a subject of Kuwait upon the Amaieer tribe, and expresses satisfaction that the Resid...
Letter no.2656 of 1856 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to the Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf [Commander Felix Jones]
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The letter is a covering letter, enclosing an extract of paragraph 14 from despatch no.8 of 1856 from the Court of Directors, dated 20 February 1856. The extract states that the Resident (Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball) did right to discourage the Shaikh of Bahrain’s intentions to settle a rival...
Letter no.2651 of 1856 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to the Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter is a covering letter, enclosing an extract of paragraph 6 of extract no.8 of 1856 (folio 16), dated 20 February 1856, from the Court of Directors. The extract relates to the Amaieer chief Humeed bin Mujdel, and praises the actions that naval commanders took against him at Kutiffe [Al-Q...
Letter no.216 of 1856 from Commander Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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The letter and its enclosures relate to the shipwreck of a vessel, its plunder by Bahraini subjects, and the alleged murder of a Banyan trader at Bahrain. Jones encloses a copy of his letter (no.181 of 1856) to Commodore Richard Ethersey, Commanding Officer Persian Gulf Squadron, dated 2 June 185...
Letter no.5593 of 1856 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to the Resident in the Persian Gulf [Commander James Felix Jones]
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The letter is a covering letter, enclosing an extract of paragraph 61 of despatch no.24 of 1856 (folio 27) from the Court of Directors, dated 16 April 1856, relating to an act of maritime piracy committed by tribes from Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi] against a Bahrain vessel. The extract states that the ...
Letter no.3983 of 1856 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to the Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter is a covering letter, enclosing an extract of paragraph 2 of despatch no.32 of 1856 (folio 29), dated 11 June 1856, which concerns the Shaikh of Aboothabee’s [Abu Dhabi] good conduct in recent cases of maritime piracy committed by his subjects.
Letter no.2100 of 1857 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to the Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter is a covering letter, enclosing an extract of paragraph 34 of despatch no.16 of 1857 (folio 33), dated 11 February 1857, which relates to the success the previous year of the British Agent at Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh] in tracing a boat in that port, stolen from Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi]. T...
Letter no.279 of 1856 from Commander Felix Jones, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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The letter and its enclosures concern the recent attack on Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi] by the deposed ruler of that port Sa’id bin Tahnun. Jones writes that he has written to Commodore Richard Ethersey, Commanding Officer Persian Gulf Squadron, the British Agent at Sharjah, Hajjī Yaqoob, and the Shai...
Letter no.5097 of 1856 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Commander Felix Jones, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter is an acknowledgement of receipt of Jones’s earlier letters relating to the attack on Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi] by the deposed Shaikh of that place, Saeed bin Tahnoon [Sa’id bin Tahnun]. The letter encloses a copy of a Resolution by the Board (folios 56-57), dated 6 November 1856, which e...
