IOR/F/4/2238/112329

The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 3 July 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 eighth in a series of fifty-nine items on events in the Persian Gulf.

The item contains letters from the Government of Bombay to Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, responding to his earlier reports on his tour of the Gulf.

The item also contains correspondence regarding:

• Commanding Officer of the Company ship, Mahi, Lieutenant Macdonald's intervention in a ‘piratical’ attack against a bugla by members of the Chaab [Banū Ka‘b] tribe
• Potential inconveniences of affording assistance to British subjects who loan money to local authorities and governors in Persia [Iran], as discussed by Hennell and Lieutenant Colonel Sheil, HM Minister at the Court of Tehran
• Requests by merchants of Bombay [Mumbai] for protection of their merchant ships when travelling to Bahrein [Bahrain], copies of which can be found at folios 289-290 and 291-292
• Discussions between Hennell and the Government of Bombay with regards to arrangements for the trial of Ahmed Dad Kurreem [Aḥmad Dād Karīm], and in particular whether he should be tried by the authorities in Muscat or tried in Bombay at the High Court of Admiralty.

Copies of the above correspondence are forwarded by the Government of Bombay to the Government of India, along with Hennell’s proposal that Lieutenant Arnold Burrows Kemball should replace Major Rawlinson during his temporary absence from the Baghdad Residency.

The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘Draft No. 345/48’, ‘Collection No. 2 of No. 87, Vol: 8.’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.