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‘Report of Mr Forbes the Agent at Mocha relative to Mr Mungo Park.’
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This item consists mostly of copies of correspondence cited in, or enclosed with, letters to and from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The primary subjects are: Reports of the appearance of a lone European in Abyssinia [the Ethiopian Empire] who is travelling in the direction of the Red Sea, a...
This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. It is the third in a series of eleven items about the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/2050/93533, 93534, 93536, 93537, 93538, 93539, 93540...
‘Persia. Claims of British Officers against the Government of.’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, an extract of a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 31 March 1846. The item relates to the settlement of claims...
This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2324/120974. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Political Residen...
‘Case of the Persian Nobleman Agha Khan Mehlatee. Vol: 2’
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This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, memoranda, resolutions, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2388/127592. The main correspondents are: the Government of India; the Governm...
Operations of the Naval and Military Forces employed against the Joasmee Pirates and An application from the Imaum of Muscat for protection against the danger which threatens him from the Wahabees for the part he took in that Expedition
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The item consists of correspondence regarding the Persian Gulf campaign of 1809, a British naval effort to subdue the activities of the Joasmee [Āl Qāsimī] in the Gulf with the assistance of the Imam of Muscat. Folios 6-25 contain discussions of strategy and detailed accounts of engagements in...
‘Mirrors consigned for the King of Persia – Conduct of Lt. Maillard, Commander of the Company’s Cruizer Thetis in having thrown 35 cases overboard in consequence of the ship’s having sprung a leak on her passage from Bombay to Bushire, has been approved by a Court of Enquiry’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, letters to and from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The item relates to an incident in which thirty-five cases containing mirrors for the Shah of Persia [Iran], while being transported on the...
Additions made to the Table Allowances of the Residents of Cutch & Bushire & of the Political Agents at Bussora & Mocha.
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The item consists of collected correspondence and minutes from September 1824 regarding increases made to the table allowances of the Residencies at Cutch [Kutch] and Bushire and of the Political Agencies at Bussora [Basra] and Mocha. It also contains correspondence and minutes from 1826 regardi...
‘Correspondence respecting the prohibition on the part of Ibrahim Pasha, of the sale of Coffee at Mocha to British Merchants’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of enclosures to political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] to the East India Company Court of Directors. The item relates to: The prohibition on the part of Ibrahim Pasha [Ibrāhīm Pasha Kavali], Commander in Chief of the Egyptian army in Ye...
‘Persian Gulf Report by the Resident in the – of a charge of bribery preferred against the Government Native agent at Sargah – Vol: 6’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, British Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Saeed bin Tahnoon, Sh...
