IOR/L/PS/5/392, ff 1A-30

This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 10 of 1841, dated 28 February 1841. The enclosures are dated 21 January to 26 February 1841.

The enclosures mainly consist of copies of correspondence relating to events in Aden, Mocha (also spelled Mokha in this item), Hodeida [Al Hudaydah], Zeila (also spelled Zeyla), and Tadjoura (also spelled Tajoura and Tedjoura).

The main correspondent is the Political Agent at Aden (Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines). Letters from Haines to the Secretary to the Government of Bombay (John Pollard Willoughby) also include enclosed letters from the following: the Imaum of Senna [Imam of Sanaa], Said Mahomed [Al-Hadi Muhammad]; Lieutenant-Colonel G Wilson, Commanding the troops at Aden; and Charles Tilstone Beke.

The enclosures relate to matters including:

• The postponement of the modification of the Treaty with the Chief of Zeila by Haines, due to the unsettled state of affairs at Mocha
• The minerals and soil of Tadjoura
• Haines having requested the services of the East India Company’s brig of war Euphrates and schooner of war Constance
• Captain H Stiles, the Bazaar Master, having been shot at by a Bedouin of the Yahmany [Yemeni] division of the Abdali tribe outside the Field Works at Aden, while riding out with several other officers beyond the prescribed limits
• The sanction of the Governor-General of India in Council to the appointment of Mr J Hatchatoor as British Agent at Tadjoura, on a salary of 300 Rupees per month.