Mss Eur F126/40, ff 66-70

Letter confidentially enclosing papers which the Bombay Government had been due to send Pelly on 15 January 1871 and regarding their recent grevious loss.

Enclosed with the letter are:

• Letter from Sir John William Kaye, Secretary, Political and Secret Department, India Office to Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, 8 Dec 1871 regarding the proceedings of the Turkish authorities in the Persian Gulf and enclosing correspondence regarding assurances given by the Porte that they have no intention of obtaining supremacy over Bahrein.
• Letter from Herman Merivale, Under Secretary of State for India to the Right Honourable Edmund Hammond, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Office, 1 December 1871, regarding turkish proceedings in the Persian Gulf and in particular Bahrein and requesting that the Ambassador at Constantinople be instructed to impress upon the Porte the necessity of moderation being observed by their authorities in the Persian Gulf.
• Letter from Lord Enfield, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Herman Merivale, Under Secretary of State for India, 5 December 1871, enclosing a copy of a despatch from Sir Henry Elliot on the subject of the assurances given by the Porte that she has no intention of obtaining supremacy over Bahrein, Muscat or the independent tribes of Southern Arabia and expressing the hope that the Duke of Argyll will find the assurances sufficiently explicit.
• Letter No. 399 from His Excellency Sir Henry Elliott, HM's Ambassador at Constantinople in Therapia, to the Right Honourable Earl Granville, 14 November 1871, reporting on a conversation with Sewer Pasha regarding affairs in the Persian Gulf and stating that his excellency had renewed the assurances that they had no intention of obtaining supremacy over Bahrein, Muscat or the independent tribes of Southern Arabia but that an Ottoman General had recently been waylaid and murdered upon the mainland by the Shaikh of Bahrain and that the Porte could not abstain from exacting reparation which would consist of the punishment of the persons concerned in the incident and a precuniary fine to be paid.
• Letter No. 115P written at Fort William, 16 January 1872 stating that a copy of the correspondence had been forwarded confidentially to the Government of Bombay and requesting a copy be communicated to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf
• Letter No. 116P (undated) states that a copy has also been sent to the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia for information.