Letter no.266 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay
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Kemball updates Malet on the Company steamer Queen's despatch around the Gulf, for the purposes of recovering the plundered indigo from the shipwrecked Centaur, and on redress for the mistreatment of the Sharjah agent Hajee Yacoob at the hands of the Sharjah Governor. Included with the letter is ...
Letter no.2099 of 1852 from Henry Edward Goldsmid, Secretary to the Government Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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Covering letter enclosing an extract of a despatch from the Court of Directors no.9, dated 24 January 1852 (f 146). The extract states that financial compensation for 'piracies, homicides and other injuries' should be paid directly to the injured persons, and not to their rulers. The Council expr...
Letter no.300 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay
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Kemball states that he has written to Sheikh Sultan ben Suggar [Sultan bin Saqr], the ruler of Ra's al-Khaymah and Sharjah, advising him that, as per the Council's orders, compensation to his subjects affected by acts of piracy, murder and other such acts, will be paid directly to the persons aff...
Letter no.317 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay
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Kemball requests from Malet instructions for the disposal of one hundred crowns, which was originally to be paid to Sheikh Sultan ben Suggar [Sultan bin Saqr] of Ra's al-Khaymah, as part of a larger sum of 600 crowns, to be used as indemnity on the part of actions against shipwrecked Indians by o...
Letter no.335 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay
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Covering letter with two enclosures: 1) A translation of a letter (ff 171-73) to Kemball from Sheikh Sultan ben Suggur [Sultan bin Saqr] chief of Rasul Khymah [Ra's al-Khaymah], dated 28 August 1852. Sheikh Sultan writes about the renewal of the Maritime Truce with the sheikhs of the Arab coast...
Letter no.349 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay
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Letter reporting on intelligence from the British agent at Sharjah, Hajee Yacoob, that some of the cargo of indigo plundered from the British vessel Centaur has been reported on the Batinah coast and at Fujeerah [Fujairah]. Kemball encloses a copy of Yacoob's report (ff 179v-80) with his own. Dat...
Letter no.360 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay
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Covering letter sent with two enclosures: 1) Letter no.295 of 1852 (ff 184-85) from Kemball to Commodore George Robinson, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf, dated 3 September 1852. Kemball writes to Robinson, asking whether Sheikh Sultan bin Saqr of Ra's al-Khaymah boarded Robinson...
Letter no.337 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Commodore George Robinson, Commanding Indian Naval Squadon, Persian Gulf
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Kemball writes to Robinson, forwarding a despatch as an enclosure: letter no.9 of 1852 (ff 187-88) from Lieutenant James Tronson, Commmanding the Honourable Company's brigantine Tigris, to Commodore George Robinson, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf, dated 6 September 1852. Tronson ...
Letter no.361 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government Bombay
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Covering letter with an enclosure, letter no.355 of 1852 from Kemball to Major Atkins Hamerton, Her Majesty's Consul and the Honourable Company's Agent in the dominions of His Highness the Imam of Muscat, dated 18 October 1852. In his letter to Hamerton, Kemball writes of the apparent widespread ...
Letter no.176 of 1853, from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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Letter acknowledging receipt of Kemball's previous letter (ff 190-92), and enclosing a copy of letter no.41 of 1852, sent to the Governent of Bombay by Major Atkins Hamerton, Her Majesty's Consul and the Honourable Company's Agent in the dominions of His Highness the Imam of Muscat, dated 20 Dece...
