Letter from Henry Willock, HM Chargé d'affaires at the Court of Persia, Tehran to William Bruce, Resident at Bushire
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The letter is enclosing Willock's dispatch to the Governor of India, dated 2 May 1817, for the Resident's information. The dispatch, No. 10, concerns an agent to the Imam of Muscat being appointed to the Court of Persia and a firman signed between the Shah and the Imam of Muscat with regards to ...
Letter from Edward Barnard, Captain of HMS Conway, anchored off the Island of Karack to William Bruce, Resident at Bushire
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The letter is enclosing correspondence in relation to an incident in which a Bahraini ship was seized by HC Cruizer Antelope on 23 August 1818. Three enclosures: 1. A copy of a letter from Lieutenant J Arthur, Commander of the HC Cruizer Antelope. It is a statement describing the encounter betw...
Letter from Henry Willock, HM Charge d'affaires at the Court of Persia, Tehran to William Bruce, Resident at Bushire
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The letter is transmitting a dispatch to Major General Sir William Grant Kier. The subject of the dispatch is a boat captured by HM Sloop Curlew on 21 May 1819 and legal proceedings to be taken to determine how to dispose of said boat along with associated property; currently the boat is being h...
Letter from William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, Writing from HMS Curlew, at Anchor off the Island of Khen [Qeys], to Major General Sir William Grant Keir
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In this letter, William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, encloses the following letters (not included): copies of two of his letters to the Governor in Council, Mounstuart Elphinstone, regarding Rahma Ben Jauber [Rahma bin Jabir] and a copy of his letter of 14 February 1820 to Francis Warden. Bruce re...
Letter from John MacLeod, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Captain Frederick Faithfull of the Honourable Company's Marine in the Gulf of Persia
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The letter encloses two Arabic letters (not included) and requests that they will be delivered by the officer stationed off Aboo Thabee [Abu Dhabi] to Shaikh Tahnoon [Ṭaḥnūn bin Shakhbūṭ Āl Naḥyān], and that the shaikh's answer should be procured. After which the officer is to proceed towards See...
Letter from John MacLeod, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Captain Frederick Faithfull, Senior Officer of Marine in the Gulf of Persia
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The letter informs Faithfull that the Teignmouth has been sent to Muscat with despatches from Bussora [Basra]. MacLeod encloses an extract from a letter from Captain Taylor (not included).
Letter from John MacLeod, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Major Henry Willock, in Charge of His Britannic Majesty's Mission, Tabriz
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The letter informs Willock that three sergeants and one corporal of HM 20th Regiment of Foot have arrived at Bushere [Bushire] from Bombay en route to Tabriz to relieve the men of His Majesty's 65th Regiment. MacLeod informs him that they will march tomorrow and he has advanced them money which h...
Letter from John MacLeod, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Captain Frederick Faithfull, Senior Officer of Marine in the Gulf of Persia
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MacLeod acknowledges receipt of Faithfull's letter dated 24 March 1823. He comments on Faithfull's actions with regards to the conflict between Sooltan bin Suggur [Sulṭān bin Ṣaqr Āl Qāsimī] and the Shaikhs of Ummul Guwyn [Umm al-Qaywayn, i.e. ‘Abdullāh bin Rāshid Āl Mu‘allā] and Ejmaun [Ajman, ...
Letter from Captain Henry Hardy, in Charge at Bushire to Major George Willock, Secretary in Charge of HM British Mission, Tabrize [Tabriz]
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The letter is forwarding communications from Bombay, and is informing Major Willock that Lieutenant-Colonel Ephraim Gerrish Stannus has been appointed Resident in the Gulf.
