IOR/F/4/2349/123808

This item consists of copies of political letters from the Government of Bombay to the Court of Directors of the East India Company. The enclosures to these letters are contained in the subsequent items. It is the first in a series of twenty-four items on events in the Persian Gulf.

The item concerns:

• Information given by Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, about the actions of the regime at Bahrein [Bahrain] and those who had seceded from it
• Hostilities between pro-Wahabee [Wahhābi] shaikhs [those allied to the Second Saudi State] and Sheikh Saed bin Tahnnon of Aboothabee [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Ṭaḥnūn Āl Nahyān of Abu Dhabi], and between ships belonging to Aboothabee and Debaye [Dubai]
• Communications between Hennell, Major Henry Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq] and Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Farrant, Her Majesty’s Chargé d’Affaires at Tehran
• Unfounded rumours of the death of Captain Atkins Hamerton, British Consul and Agent in the Dominions of the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat
• An attack on the town of Bushire [Bushehr] by Meerza Mehdy Khan [Mīrzā Mahdī Khān]
• Attacks on the territory of Muscat by Syf bin Humood [Sayyid Syf bin Hamūd Āl Bū Sa‘īd] of Sohar [Sohur] and Shaik Sultan bin Suggur of Rasel Khyma [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī of Ra’s al-Khaymah].

The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 334 of 1850’, and ‘Coll[ectio]n 4 in 24 vols’.