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...
Enclosures nos. 4-6 to Political Department letter no. 32 from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay [IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 91v-97]
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The enclosures are as follows: Enclosure no. 4: translation of a letter from Sultan Bin Suggur [Sulṭān bin Saqr], Sheikh of Shurga [Sharjah] to Stannus, dated 23 April 1826, asking Stannus for justice and the exaction of a blood fine following the killing of a member of one of his boats, and the...