IOR/L/PS/5/395, ff 459-577

This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 58 of 1841, dated 17 July 1841. The enclosures are dated 3 April to 9 July 1841, and concern affairs in the Persian Gulf and Persia [Iran].

Most of the correspondence consists of copies of letters from the Resident in the Persian Gulf at Karrack [Kharg], Samuel Hennell, to the Secretary to the Government of Bombay, John Pollard Willoughby, with copies of enclosed correspondence. There are also copies of letters from Willoughby to Sir William Hay Macnaghten, Envoy and Minister at the Court of Shah Shooja Ool Moolk [Shuja Shah Abdali Durrani], and Thomas Herbert Maddock, Secretary to the Government of India, and from Colonel Justin Sheil to Willoughby.

The enclosures relate to matters including:

• News from Persia, including the arrival of the Prince of Shiraz at Brozgoon [Borazjan], about forty miles from Bushire [Būshehr]
• The state of affairs at Bahrein [Bahrain], communicated in a letter from the Native Agent at Bahrein
• News reported in letters from the News Writer at Shiraz, including the expulsion of the British forces from Herat and the offer of Kerman Shah to place himself under the protection of the Shah of Persia, and news reported by the Agent at Lingah [Bandar-e-Lengeh]
• The view of the Resident in the Persian Gulf on the unsuitability of Grane or Koweit [Kuwait] as a location for a military station
• News in letters from James Pringle Riach, including the fortress of Ghorian [Ghurian] being evacuated by the Persian troops and given up to the Herat Government
• The survey of the Karoon [Karun] river
• The question of whether the European troops should be removed from Karrack during the ‘unhealthy’ part of the year
• The Resident in the Gulf’s tour of the Arabian Coast for the purpose of making arrangements for the renewal of the maritime truce for the ensuing year.