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‘Aden. Compensation to the Jews residing at – for the removal of their Houses – Mr Plowden a traveller in Abyssinia – Vol: 4’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent at Aden; the Government of India; the Cou...
‘Persia Claim of the Government of- to certain property in the custody of Hajee Mahomed Sadik a Persian Merchant in Bombay-’
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 to the East India Company Court of Directors, 28 January 1854. The item relates to a claim against Hajee Mahomed Sadick...
‘Persian Gulf. Plunder of a Zanzibar Bateel by a Bugla belonging to a native of Ras-el-Khyma. Complaint of the Joasmee Chief to the effect of the crew of one of his vessels having been causelessly muleted and maltreated at Lamoo.’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, resolutions, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, an extract of a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 14 October 1854. The enclosures are dated 11 February 1854-October 1854. The ma...
‘Persian Gulf Proceedings on the subject of an insult offered to an Officer of the Indian Naval Squadron at Bushire by a Persian Soldier.~’
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The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, extracts of a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 26 April 1856. A copy of this letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2661/176320, alongside de...
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/4/2203/108134. The main correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Major Samuel Hennell, Political ...
The French Brig La Vigilante with her Crew delivered over to the Imaum of Muscat to enable him by her restoration to appease the resentment of the French excited by his having compelled the Brig to leave the Cove of Muscat which led to her capture by His Majesty's Ship Concorde
Scope & Content:
This item consists primarily of copies of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, letters from the governments of Bengal and Bombay. The letters are principally directed between the Government of Bombay, the Government of Bengal, and the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat [Āl Bū...
‘Muscat. Complaint of His Highness the Imaum, of the annoyance occasioned to his people at the Indian Custom Houses’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, extracts from a Bombay [Mumbai] Political Consultation, 2 July 1845. The papers contained in this item are partial enclosures to a Political Letter sent from the Government of Bombay to the East In...
‘Africa. The Agents of the Church Missionary Society on the Eastern Cost of- recommended to the protection of the Imaum of Muscat.’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence cited in, or enclosed with, a letter from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] to the East India Company Court of Directors, 10 June 1845, which provides an update on previous instructions received from the Court. The previous instructions...
‘Reports of Journeys made into the S.E. Coast of Arabia by some officers of the Surveying Brig “Palinurus”’
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The item consists of copies of correspondence enclosed with an extract Marine Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 30 September 1847. The item contains a letter from the Superintendent of the Indian Navy to the Governor of Bombay, dated 7 Augu...
‘Persian Gulf Treaty between Captain Bruce and the Prince of Shiraz Disavowed by the Governor of Bombay.’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, extracts from a Bombay [Mumbai] Political Consultation, 28 May 1845. The papers contained in this item are partial enclosures to a Political Letter sent from the Government of Bombay to the East In...
