IOR/L/PS/5/392, ff 173-381

This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 15 of 1841, dated 28 February 1841. The enclosures are dated 14 November 1840 to 28 February 1841, and mostly consist of copies of correspondence sent and received by the Government of Bombay.

The main correspondents are as follows: the Political Secretary to the Government of Bombay (John Pollard Willoughby); the Secretary to the Government of India (Thomas Herbert Maddock); the Political Agent in Lower Sinde; the Quarter Master General of the Bombay Army; and the Bombay Military Board.

Many of the enclosures concern military affairs in Sinde [Sindh, also spelled Scinde in the item], including the purchase of camels for the use of the troops in Upper Scinde, and the distribution of the Sinde Field Force under the command of Major-General G B Brooks.

The enclosures also discuss matters including:

• Custom duties at the Port of Soomeeanee [Sonmiani, also spelled Sonmeeanee in this part]
• The arrival of a Bombay merchant at Hyderabad bearing letters to Meer Nusseer Khan, Ameer of Sinde [Amir of Sindh], labelled as being from Syud Mahomed Bakur Rushte Isfahnee, head Moollah [Mullah] of the Persian [Iranian] Court
• The establishment of depots at Poona [Pune] and Ahmedabad for the accommodation of the families of Native troops employed in service beyond the British Frontier
• The despatch of a gun and ammunition as a present to the Dewan of Pahlunpoor [Palanpur, also spelled Pahlunpore in this item]
• The inconvenience experienced by boats entering the Harbour of Kurrachee [Karachi] being compelled to report their arrival to the officer commanding the vessel stationed off that Port, and the view of the Political Agent in Lower Sinde that such a measure was unnecessary for the prevention of the importation of slaves, as only boats which had come from the Coast of Arabia were ever likely to contain any slaves, and those boats were liable to be stopped on the high seas
• The request of Meer Nusseer Khan, Amir of Sindh, for a passage in the first steam ship to Suez for a confidential attendant of his late brother Meer Noor Mahomed Khan, to perform the Hadj [Hajj] to Mecca on his behalf
• Recent events in Herat.

This part also includes newsletters from the Government of India, reporting intelligence received from various places including: the North West Frontier, Gwalior, Mysore, and other areas of India, and Afghanistan, China, and Nipal (Nepal).