Political Department letter no. 39 from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay
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Covering letter for a letter from Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald, Envoy to the Court of Persia to Stannus, with enclosures, concerning the plunder of a buglow [buggalow] on the coast of Dashtee [Dashti]. The letter is accompanied by the following enclosures: letter from Macdonald to Stannus,...
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to The General Paymaster, Bombay
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Stannus states that there had been a misunderstanding on the part of Lieutenant George Barnes Brucks over the amount to be paid for treasure shipped on board the Honourable Company's Surveying Ship Discovery for Bombay.
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald, Envoy to the Court of Persia
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Covering letter for correspondence between Stannus and Mohumed Zekee Khan [Zakī Khān], Prime Minister of Fars relating to the intention of the Imam of Muscat [Sa‘īd bin Sultān Āl Sa‘īd] to commence hostilities at Bushire. The letter is accompanied by the following enclosures: letter from Stannu...
Political Department letter no. 40 from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay
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Covering letter for correspondence from Zekee Khan [Zakī Khān], Prime Minister of Fars and the Imam of Muscat [Sa‘īd bin Sultān Āl Sa‘īd] concerning the dispute between Muscat and Bushire. A marginal note refers to the enclosures in the foregoing letter in the volume [IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 116v-119].
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to Captain C F Grice, commanding the Honourable Company's Cruiser (HCC) Elphinstone
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Stannus gives Grice the instructions he is to follow while his ship is stationed on the pearl banks, covering general policy toward fishing vessels, piracy, and the course his ship should take.
Political Department letter no. 42 from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay
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Stannus gives his reasons for removing Hajee Hussein from his post of Agent at Sharga [Sharjah].
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to Captain Robert Taylor, Resident at Bussorah [Basra]
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Stannus informs Taylor that the fleet of the Imam of Muscat [Sa‘īd bin Sultān Āl Sa‘īd] had been ordered to proceed from Bushire to Bussorah [Basra] to enforce certain financial claims there, either by means of a blockade or a by a direct attack on the Turkish fleet or the town itself. This woul...