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511. IOR/R/15/1/127 f 21

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/127 f 21
Title:
Letter no.211 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay
Scope & Content:
Covering letter, enclosing a copy of correspondence (not included in the file) from Commodore J P Porter, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, itself enclosing an extract from a letter written by the Officer Commanding the Honourable Company schooner Constance, reporting the return to the Batinah Co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jun 1851
Extent:
1 folio

512. IOR/R/15/1/127 f 22

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/127 f 22
Title:
Letter no.229 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Lt-Col Justin Sheil, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Council of Persia
Scope & Content:
Hennell informs Sheil that amongst those vessels deployed in the slave trade by inhabitants of the Arab coast, was a bugla [boat] from a Persian port ('Mogoo'), which landed sixty slaves on the Persian coast.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jul 1851
Extent:
1 folio

513. IOR/R/15/1/127 f 26

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/127 f 26
Title:
Letter no.431 of 1851 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay, to Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Acknowledging receipt of Hennell's previous letters concerning the slave trade, Malet expresses regret that arrangements had not been made earlier for the Honourable Company's schooner Constance to be on the Batinah Coast in time to check the season's slave trade, requesting that future arrangeme...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Sep 1851
Extent:
1 folio

514. IOR/R/15/1/127 f 29

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/127 f 29
Title:
Letter no.273 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay
Scope & Content:
Covering letter accompanying an extract of correspondence (not included) from Lt Leeds to Commodore Porter, on the reasons for the failure to intercept vessels returning from East Africa to the Arab coast with slaves this season, and of the two slave boys landed by the Honourable Company's schoon...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Aug 1851
Extent:
1 folio

515. IOR/R/15/1/127 f 42

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/127 f 42
Title:
Extract from a despatch from the Honourable the Secret Committee, along with an extract of a letter from Lord Palmerston to Lt-Col Justin Sheil, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia
Scope & Content:
Palmerston's letter instructs Sheil to make arrangements with the Persian Government for Persian officers to be placed with Her Majesty's and East India Company ships, to assist in the searching of Persian vessels. Palmerston recommends that suitable persons be based at Bushire, and requests that...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Nov 1851
Extent:
1 folio

516. IOR/R/15/1/127 ff 18-19

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/127 ff 18-19
Title:
Letter no.164 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Commodore J. P. Porter, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Covering letter to an enclosure: a translated extract of a letter from Moollah Houssein [Mullā Husayn], the British agent at Sharjah, to Hennell, dated 28 May 1851. In his report, Houssein states that he knows all those boats on the Trucial coast departing for Africa, and describes the methods th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 May 1851
Extent:
2 folios

517. IOR/R/15/1/127 ff 23-25

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/127 ff 23-25
Title:
Letter no.231 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay
Scope & Content:
Letter enclosing a translated communication from the British Agent at Sharjah (Mullā Husayn), reporting in detail on the slaves imported into the Arab coast of the Gulf this season. Hennell writes that the Agent has knowledge of 495 slaves being imported, but fears the number may be much more. Th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jul 1851
Extent:
3 folios

518. IOR/R/15/1/127 ff 33-35

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/127 ff 33-35
Title:
Letter no.402 of 1851 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay, to Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Covering letter with two enclosures. The first enclosure (f 34) is a copy of letter no.26 of 1851 from A. Le Messurier, Advocate General at Bombay, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, dated 13 October 1851. It concerns British consular protection and the right of the Bri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Nov 1851
Extent:
3 folios

519. IOR/R/15/1/127 ff 36-37

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/127 ff 36-37
Title:
Letter no.313 of 1851 from Major Atkins Hamerton, Her Majesty's Consul and Honourable Company's Agent in the dominions of His Highness the Imam of Muscat, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay
Scope & Content:
Letter relating to Indian subjects involved in the slave trade between East Africa and Muscat. Hamerton states that the involvement of native Indians (Banians) in the slave trade will continue until deportation and strict punishments are imposed.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Aug 1851
Extent:
2 folios

520. IOR/R/15/1/127 ff 38-41

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/127 ff 38-41
Title:
Letter no.463 of 1851 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay, to Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Covering letter with two enclosures. The first enclosure (f 39) is an extract from a despatch from the Honourable the Secret Committee, dated 23 October 1851. The despatch relates to a convention concluded between the British Minister at Tehran (Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil) and the Ameeri Niz...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1851
Extent:
4 folios