IOR/F/4/2238/112362

The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 13 November 1847. A copy of this Political Letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2238/112322, alongside details of further enclosures. The item is the forty-first in a series of fifty-nine items on events in the Persian Gulf.

The item relates to claims for compensation in relation to the plunder of the Company schooner Emily, by inhabitants of the island of Kenn [Kish] in March 1845. One claim is made by Mr J Essai, on behalf of his wife, Mrs Catherine Essai, and his sister, Mrs Mary Johannes Carrapiet (also appears in text as Carapit). Another claim is made by W[illiam?] H Litchfield, Commander of the Sir Charles Forbes and former acting Master of the Emily. Compensation taken from the Sheik [Shaikh] of Kenn is divided up by Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, as shown in a statement found at folios 477-478.

As well as the above, correspondents include the Government of Bombay.

The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘Draft No. 345/48’, ‘Collection No. 2 of No. 139, Vol: 41.’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’. The title page also contains a note that relevant correspondence can be found in Collection No. 7 accompanying despatch from the Government of Bombay, 1 April No. 49 of 1847.