IOR/L/PS/5/395, ff 106-148

This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 52 of 1841, dated 19 June 1841. The enclosures are dated 5 May to 16 June 1841, and relate to affairs at Aden and the surrounding area, and at Mocha.

The enclosures consist of correspondence, and resolutions of the Government of Bombay in the Secret Department. The main correspondents are as follows: the Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines; the Secretary to the Government of Bombay, John Pollard Willoughby; and the Secretary to the Government of India, Thomas Herbert Maddock.

The enclosures concern matters including:

• The state of affairs at Aden and the surrounding area, including the actions of Sultan M’Houssain Fudthill of Lahidge (also spelled Lahedge) [Muhsin ibn al-Fadl al-'Abdali, Sultan of Lahej]
• The views of the Political Agent at Aden on the inexpediency of reducing any portion of the European troops at Aden, and the relief of the wing of HM 6th Regiment doing duty at Aden
• The Political Agent at Aden hiring a house as the post and police office at Aden, and the appointment of a Cazee [kazi, civil judge]
• The claim of Abdool Russool [Abdul Rasool], the former British Native Agent at Mocha, for indemnification on account of his property stolen by the Sheriff of Mocha, and the policy to be followed in British negotiations with the Imaum of Senna [Imam of Sanaa].