IOR/F/4/895/23290

This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. It is the third in a series of three items about a negotiation by William Bruce (the others are IOR/F/4/894/23288 and 23289). The principal correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Lieutenant John McLeod, Resident in the Persian Gulf.

The item concerns the following subjects:

• The potential hostilities between Muscat and Persia
• Muscat’s capture of Meerza Baukir Auhee [Mirza Baqir Ahi], a minister of the Prince-Governor of Fārs, and the governors of Bunder Abbass ['Bandar-e ʻAbbās] and Minan
• The enforcement of the General Treaty of Maritime Peace of 1819, particularly the system of registers and the difficulty of distinguishing piracy from maritime warfare
• Complaints of Sooltan bin Suggur [Shaikh Sulṭān bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī], ruler of Ra's al-Khaymah and Sharjah, at having to destroy his fortifications
• Negotiations between Persia and Muscat over leasing Bunder Abbass and attacking Bahrein [Bahrain] in conjunction with bin Suggur
• Moving the rendezvous for cruisers from Moghoo Bay [Moghūyeh] to Bassedar [Bāsaʻīdū]
• The deaths of McLeod, Dr Edward Milward, Captain John F Soilleux and Mr Sturmey, and the appointment of Lieutenant Colonel Ephraim Gerrish Stannus to succeed McLeod, R C Money’s appointment as his assistant, and J P Rich’s appointment as surgeon to the Residency, succeeding Milward.

The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘[Political] No. 2, Draft 293, P.C. 362, [Season] 26/7’.