Letter No. 77 from Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident at Bushire to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay
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Letter regarding his having received private confirmation from Captain Robert Taylor of the satisfactory settlement of the misunderstanding between the Imam of Muscat (Saʻīd bin Sulṭān) and the Bussorah [Basra] government, and that as a result of this the blockade had been lifeted and the Ima...
Letter No. 85 from Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident at Bushire to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay
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Letter reporting on a incident between Rahma ben Jabir [Rahma bin Jabir] and a Bahrein [Bahrain] Buglow, which resulted in both vessels being destroyed by fire. The letter reports that Rahma ben Jabir was sailing from Daman [Dammām] to secure support from allies elsewhere in the Gulf against t...
Letter No. 2 from Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident at Bushire to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay
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Letter regarding proceedings relative to the Fort of Derah [Ad Dir‘īyah], tand he measures the Imam of Muscat (Saʻīd bin Sulṭān) intended to take to bring about its demolition. The letter encloses a series of letters and translations which demonstrate the difficulties being faced by the Ima...
Letter No. 3 from Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident at Bushire to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay
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Letter enclosing a translation of a letter from the late Rahma ben Jabir [Rahma bin Jabir] to Sooltan ben Suggar [Sultan bin Saqr] as an example of the character of Rahma ben Jabir. The letter notes that the enclosed translation was forwarded by the Agent at Sharga [Sharjah] and differs consider...
Letter No. 1 from Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident at Bushire to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government, Military Department, Bombay
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Letter reporting that Shaik Abdool Kareem, a private in the 1st Company Marine Battalion attached to the Bushire Residency Escort, had been placed in confinement and was being taken to Headquarters as a prisoner on board Elphinstone as the charges against him were of a criminal and serious natur...
Letter No. 3 from Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident at Bushire to Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald, Envoy to the Court of Persia
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Letter regarding dispataches sent from Tehran which had been forwarded to Bombay on HC Cruizer Elphinstone, and a later dispatch which arrived shortly after the Elphinstone's departure and which had been forwarded on to Bassidore [Bāsa’īdū] in the hope it might catch up with the Elphinstone there.
Letter No. 4 from Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident at Bushire to Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald, Envoy to the Court of Persia
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Letter regarding packages which had been detained at the Customs House in Shiraz, and which had now been given to Mirza Alli Ackbar [Mirza Ali Akbar], following an order from the Prince of Shiraz, who in turn had forwarded them on to Isfahan. The letter continues by noting that these packages ...
Letter No. 7 from Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident at Bushire to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay
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Letter reporting on a counter revolution which took place the night of 3 February 1827 by the people of Bushire and men from the Beni Hadjer [Banī Hājir] Tribe, all led by Shaik Hossen [Shaikh Ḥusayn Khan] (brother of Shaikh ‘Abd al-Rasūl Khān). The letter goes on to describe the actions of th...
Letter No. 551A from William Newnham, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Captain David Wilson, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf
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William Newnham writes in reference to his previous letter no. 542 of the same date regarding the affairs of Bushire and encloses for Wilson's information a copy of his letter no. 543 to the Colonel John MacDonald Kinneir, Envoy to the Court of Persia, on the same subject.
