Letter no.164 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Commodore J. P. Porter, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf
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Covering letter to an enclosure: a translated extract of a letter from Moollah Houssein [Mullā Husayn], the British agent at Sharjah, to Hennell, dated 28 May 1851. In his report, Houssein states that he knows all those boats on the Trucial coast departing for Africa, and describes the methods th...
Letter no.231 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay
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Letter enclosing a translated communication from the British Agent at Sharjah (Mullā Husayn), reporting in detail on the slaves imported into the Arab coast of the Gulf this season. Hennell writes that the Agent has knowledge of 495 slaves being imported, but fears the number may be much more. Th...
Letter no.402 of 1851 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay, to Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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Covering letter with two enclosures. The first enclosure (f 34) is a copy of letter no.26 of 1851 from A. Le Messurier, Advocate General at Bombay, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, dated 13 October 1851. It concerns British consular protection and the right of the Bri...
Letter no.313 of 1851 from Major Atkins Hamerton, Her Majesty's Consul and Honourable Company's Agent in the dominions of His Highness the Imam of Muscat, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay
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Letter relating to Indian subjects involved in the slave trade between East Africa and Muscat. Hamerton states that the involvement of native Indians (Banians) in the slave trade will continue until deportation and strict punishments are imposed.
Letter no.463 of 1851 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay, to Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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Covering letter with two enclosures. The first enclosure (f 39) is an extract from a despatch from the Honourable the Secret Committee, dated 23 October 1851. The despatch relates to a convention concluded between the British Minister at Tehran (Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil) and the Ameeri Niz...
Letter no.224 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to James McAlister, Civil Surgeon, Bushire
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Letter requesting that McAlister instruct the apothecary Mr Hayward to supply the assistant surgeon Mr Brown, with as many leeches as can be spared from the Residency dispensary, for use on the Company's ship Clive.
Letter no.264 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to His Excellency Lt-Col Justin Sheil, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia
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Letter reporting the appearance of cholera in Bushire, and stating that the outbreak has assumed the 'epidemic form of Asiatic cholera.' Hennell estimates that at the outbreak's peak, twenty-five people per day were dying, including members of Bushire's Armenian community.
Letter no.328 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to James Grant Lumsden, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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Covering letter sent with copies of recent correspondence between Bushire Assistant Surgeon James McAlister, Commodore John Patterson Porter of the Indian Naval Squadron, and himself, relating to McAlister's personal complaint against Porter, arising from an 'uncourteous' message received by McAl...
Letter no.84 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Commodore John Patterson. Porter, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf
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Hennell writes that he approves of Lt Manner's suggestion of showing the two vessels under his command at Kateef [al-Qatif] (f 37), but points out that 'amicable relations subsist' between Ameer Fysul [Amir Faisal], the Wahhabi ruler of the Nedjd [Najd] region, and the British Government, so no a...
Letter no.108 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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Covering letter with enclosure (a report from Commodore Porter, Commanding Officer of the Indian Naval Squadron) reporting on the squadron's activities on the coast of Qatar. Hennell reports that the squadron's visit to El Adeed [al 'Udayd], and the exploration of its backwaters, had an 'excellen...
