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Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R/15/1/36

131. IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 31-32

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 31-32
Title:
Political Department letter no. 6 from James Pringle Riach, Acting Resident, Bushire to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter gives news of the movements of the Honourable Company's cruisers Benares and Nautilus, and of the seizure of boats at Bedda by people belonging to Sheikh Tannoon been Shackboot [Tahnun bin Shakhbut], who had in turn complained about the seizure of ten of his pearl boats by one of his s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Feb 1826
Extent:

2 folios

132. IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 32-33

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 32-33
Title:
Letter from James Pringle Riach, Acting Resident, Bushire to Captain George Herne, the Honourable Company's Cruiser Benares
Scope & Content:
Riach thanks Herne for his account of events at Bahrine [Bahrain], in which a slave of Rahma bin Jauber [Raḥmah bin Jābir], was said to have been killed attempting to set fire to the town. He also regrets that there was no news relating to the blockade of Katiffe [Al-Qaṭīf], but as it was suppose...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Feb 1826
Extent:

2 folios

133. IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 34-36

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 34-36
Title:
Letter from James Pringle Riach, Acting Resident, Bushire to Captain Thomas Elwon, the Honourable Company's Cruiser (HCC) Antelope
Scope & Content:
Riach instructs Elwon to proceed to Bahrine [Bahrain] to investigate the seizure of several boats belonging to Bedda by people under the authority of Sheikh Tannoon [Ṭaḥnūn bin Shakhbūṭ Āl Nahyān, Ruler of Abu Dhabi], who had previously reported the seizure of ten of his pearl boats by a subject...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Feb 1826
Extent:

3 folios

134. IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 36v-37

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 36v-37
Title:
Political Department letter no. 7 from James Pringle Riach, Acting Resident, Bushire to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay
Scope & Content:
Covering letter for a copy of a letter [not transcribed] from Mr Willock to the Secretary of the Bengal Government. The contents of the original were considered to be so important that Riach had decided to send a copy by a different method from that by which the original had been forwarded.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Feb 1826
Extent:

2 folios

135. IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 37v-38

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 37v-38
Title:
Letter from James Pringle Riach, Acting Resident, Bushire to Henry Willock, His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, Tehran
Scope & Content:
The letter informs Willock of the forwarding to India of two packets of correspondence from him.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Feb 1826
Extent:

2 folios

136. IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 39v-40

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 39v-40
Title:
Letter from James Pringle Riach, Acting Resident, Bushire to John Wedderburn, Accountant General, Bombay
Scope & Content:
Covering letter for a register [not transcribed] of one set of bills of exchange drawn by Henry Willock, His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Tehran for subsidiary payment by the Bombay Government. The bills were in connection with His Majesty's mission [to Persia]. Riach explains that Catchatoor ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Mar 1826
Extent:

2 folios

137. IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 40v-44

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 40v-44
Title:
Political Department letter no. 8 from James Pringle Riach, Acting Resident, Bushire to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter concerns the loss of the baglow [buggalow] of Syeed Hamza, Prince of Johanna [Nzwane], which was plundered near the village of Bordaghan. Riach praises Hamza and his people for the consideration they had always shown towards British vessels that landed in their country, and asks the G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Mar 1826
Extent:

5 folios

138. IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 45v-47

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 45v-47
Title:
Letter from James Pringle Riach, Acting Resident, Bushire to Lieutenant McDonald, commanding HCC (the Honourable Company's Cruiser) Nautilus
Scope & Content:
Riach regrets that it was not possible for the Nautilus to obtain replacement anchors at Bushire. He recommends instead that McDonald either proceed to Bassidore, or try to borrow one from Captain George Herne of the Benares.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Mar 1826
Extent:

3 folios

139. IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 50-51

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 50-51
Title:
Letter from James Pringle Riach, Acting Resident, Bushire to Henry Willock, His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, Tehran
Scope & Content:
Riach forwards a detailed account [not transcribed] of the money transactions that had taken place at that Presidency on account of subsidiary payments, the receipts of those who had received payment of his drafts, all the bills on the Bengal and Bombay Governments remaining unsold, and other rel...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Mar 1826
Extent:

2 folios

140. IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 54v-55

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 54v-55
Title:
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to Captain G Walker, Commanding HCC (the Honourable Company's Cruiser) Elphinstone and Senior Marine Officer in the Gulf, Persia
Scope & Content:
The letter is written from HCC (the Honourable Company's Cruiser) Amherst, Muscat Cove. Informing him that the Antelope was not required in the Gulf and could proceed to Bombay without touching at Bushere [Bushire].
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1826
Extent:

2 folios

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