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141. IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 12v-13

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 12v-13
Title:
Letter from William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone, President and Governor in Council, Bombay
Scope & Content:
In this letter, William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, encloses copies of letters (not included) which he received the previous day from Major General Sir William Grant Keir. Bruce states that he will comply with Keir's letters by joining the force off the Island of Khen [Qeys]. Bruce refers to Keir...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Feb 1820
Extent:
2 folios

142. IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 13v-14

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 13v-14
Title:
Letter from William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to James Bruce Simson, Secretary to the Government
Scope & Content:
In this letter, William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, acknowledges the receipt of Government circular demands, dated 17 December 1819, and agrees to comply with their request that casualties among the medical gentlemen of the army who are employed in civil and marine capacities should in future be ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Feb 1820
Extent:
2 folios

143. IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 15v-19

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 15v-19
Title:
Letter from William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, Writing from HMS Curlew at Anchor off the Island of Khen [Qeys], to Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay
Scope & Content:
In this letter William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, responds to commands for information on Sultan bin Sugger [Sulṭān bin Saqr Āl Qāsimī]. Bruce provides details of how Sultan bin Sugger lost control of Rasselkhyma [Ra's al-Khaymah] and sought the protection of the Imam of Muscat [Sa‘īd bin Sultā...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Feb 1820
Extent:
5 folios

144. IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 19-20

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 19-20
Title:
Letter from William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, Writing from HMS Curlew, at Anchor off the Island of Khen [Qeys], to Major General Sir William Grant Keir
Scope & Content:
In this letter, William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, encloses the following letters (not included): copies of two of his letters to the Governor in Council, Mounstuart Elphinstone, regarding Rahma Ben Jauber [Rahma bin Jabir] and a copy of his letter of 14 February 1820 to Francis Warden. Bruce re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Feb 1820
Extent:
2 folios

145. IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 20-22

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 20-22
Title:
Letter from William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, Writing from HMS Curlew, off Charrack, to Major General Sir William Grant Keir
Scope & Content:
This is a letter in response to William Grant Keir's request for information regarding acts of piracy committed on the Persian shore of the Gulf. William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, recounts an act of piracy committed by the people of Charrak [Bandar-e Charak] in 1814 and describes Stephen Watso...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Feb 1820
Extent:
3 folios

146. IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 23v-24

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 23v-24
Title:
Letter from William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay
Scope & Content:
In this letter, William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, reports that the artificers who arrived at Bushire on board the Honourable Company cruiser, the Teignmouth, on 21 February, had lost over board their tools, their copper cooking utensils and their own private clothing. Bruce asks for the lost to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Feb 1820
Extent:
2 folios

147. IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 24v-25

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 24v-25
Title:
Letter from William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay
Scope & Content:
In this letter, William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, encloses a transmission of a dispatch to the Persian Secretary to the Supreme Government, dated 26 February. The dispatch, which is addressed to George Swinton, precedes this letter. In the dispatch, Bruce acknowledges the receipt of Supreme Gov...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Feb 1820
Extent:
2 folios

148. IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 26v-27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 26v-27
Title:
Letter from William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay
Scope & Content:
This letter relays accounts received from the broker at Katife [Al-Qatif]. According to the broker, the young pretender to the Wahabee [Wahhābī] chieftainship is expected daily at Saheessa [Al-Ahsa?]. William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, reports that the former Governor of Katife, Shaik Saddoon, s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Mar 1820
Extent:
2 folios

149. IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 27v-28

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 27v-28
Title:
Letter from William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone, President and Governor in Council, Bombay
Scope & Content:
In this letter, William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, states that a private correspondent has informed him that His Royal Highness the Prince, who is assembling troops for the expedition to Bahrain, has received instructions not to allow any of his troops to embark until His Highness has agreed to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1820
Extent:
2 folios

150. IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 29v-30

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 29v-30
Title:
Letter from William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone, President and Governor in Council, Bombay
Scope & Content:
In this letter, William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, reports the loss of the Honourable Company cruiser Ariel, which foundered in a squall about fifteen miles south east of Karrack [Jazīreh-ye Khārk], on its way from Bussora [Basra] to Bushire, on the morning of 18 March 1820. Bruce states that on...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Mar 1820
Extent:
2 folios

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