IOR/L/PS/5/392, ff 519-596

This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 19 of 1841, dated 27 March 1841. The enclosures are dated 19 January to 27 March 1841, and relate to Aden and Mocha. They mostly consist of copies of correspondence sent and received by the Government of Bombay.

The main correspondents are the Secretary to the Government of Bombay (John Pollard Willoughby), the Political Agent at Aden (Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines), and the Secretary to the Government of India (Thomas Herbert Maddock).

The enclosures discuss matters including:

• The proposal to station a body of fifty cavalry plus horses for two guns at Aden
• The increase of ninety nine Rupees and eight annas per month to the staff budget of the Political Agent at Aden being sanctioned by the Governor General of India in Council
• The plunder of the property of the Native Agent at Mocha, Abdool Russool [Abdul Rasool], stated to have been committed by the authorities at Mocha (also spelled Mokha in this part)
• The political state of affairs in the Interior of Aden and at Mocha
• The circumstances which induced the Political Agent at Aden to expel a Frenchman named Lombard and a Corsican named Mariani from the town of Aden, following reports made to the Political Agent by ‘natives’ from the Interior that the men had held private conference with the Sultan of Lahedge [Lahej]
• The Political Agent at Aden’s request for permission to send three Bedowin [Bedouin] prisoners to the Bombay Presidency, to be confined in one of the Presidency jails, as an example intended to deter others from pursuing a course hostile to the British Government.