IOR/F/4/913/25778

This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. It is the second in a series of three items on Muscat and the slave trade (the others are IOR/F/4/913/25777 and IOR/F/4/914/25779). The principal correspondents are the governments of Bombay and Bengal; Robert Farquhar, Governor of Mauritius; Fairfax Moresby, Commander of HMS Menai; the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat, [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd].

The item concerns:

• Moresby’s capture of the Industry, a ship engaged in the slave trade
• Agreements with the Imaum of Muscat about the slave trade and port dues
• French attempts to establish a new base at Madagascar
• The state of the slave trade at Zanzibar
• Negotiation of the Moresby Treaty with the Imaum of Muscat, including a map of the Moresby Line (f 214)
• Explanations of the Moresby Treaty and the differences between the English and Arabic versions
• Captain William Fitzwilliam Owen’s survey expedition in HMS Leven and his observations on the slave trade
• Liberation of three Christian women from Bahrein, who had been kidnapped from Mangalore.

Folios 151-257 of the item are duplicates of folios 86-187 of IOR/F/4/746/20306, with some minor insertions, omissions, and alteration of sequence. Folios 263-271 of the item are duplicates of folios 46-53 of IOR/F/4/785/21163.

The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political No. 943, Draft 8, P.C. 423, [Season] 1827/28’.