Letter from James Pringle Riach, Acting Resident, Bushire to Captain George Herne, the Honourable Company's Cruiser Benares
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Riach thanks Herne for his account of events at Bahrine [Bahrain], in which a slave of Rahma bin Jauber [Raḥmah bin Jābir], was said to have been killed attempting to set fire to the town. He also regrets that there was no news relating to the blockade of Katiffe [Al-Qaṭīf], but as it was suppose...
Political Department letter no. 7 from James Pringle Riach, Acting Resident, Bushire to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay
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Covering letter for a copy of a letter [not transcribed] from Mr Willock to the Secretary of the Bengal Government. The contents of the original were considered to be so important that Riach had decided to send a copy by a different method from that by which the original had been forwarded.
Political Department letter no. 8 from James Pringle Riach, Acting Resident, Bushire to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay
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The letter concerns the loss of the baglow [buggalow] of Syeed Hamza, Prince of Johanna [Nzwane], which was plundered near the village of Bordaghan. Riach praises Hamza and his people for the consideration they had always shown towards British vessels that landed in their country, and asks the G...
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to Captain G Walker, Commanding HCC (the Honourable Company's Cruiser) Elphinstone and Senior Marine Officer in the Gulf, Persia
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The letter is written from HCC (the Honourable Company's Cruiser) Amherst, Muscat Cove. Informing him that the Antelope was not required in the Gulf and could proceed to Bombay without touching at Bushere [Bushire].
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to Captain C B James, Military Paymaster, Bombay
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Covering letter for remittance lists from the pay of Assistant Surgeon James Pringle Riach dating from 1824 and 1825 with a view to correcting a mistake in the administration of his pay.
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to The Members of the Native Pension Fund Committee, Bombay
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The letter relates to subscribers to the Pension Fund on the establishment of the Residency and arrears due by those subscribers who wished to claim pensions for previous service.
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to John Wedderburn, Accountant General, Bombay
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Reporting an alteration in the silver coinage of Persia: the replacement of the real [rial] or new Persian rupee with a new coin worth an hazar deenar [1000 dinar], of which ten made a toman. Stannus sends twenty rupees of the new coinage to be assayed.
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to the Officer in Command of the Marine Battalion, Bombay
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The letter encloses a roll and pay certificate for the guard detatchment of the Residency, which had been relieved and was proceeding by the Honourable Company's Cruiser (HCC) Antelope to rejoin the battalion at Bombay. Stannus testifies to the good conduct of the detatchment as a whole, and sin...
Political Department letter no. 29 from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay
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Stannus reports the death of Shahee Jan, one of the widows of Mahomed Houssein Khan, who was a pensioner of the Residency. The husband of the deceased was the only legitimate son of Mehdy Ali Khan, formerly Resident at Bushire, and received a pension in respect of his father's services to the Re...
