IOR/F/4/2349/123814

This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2349/123808. The main correspondents are: Major Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf; Joseph Malcolm, a Persian [Iranian] merchant; and Prince Bahram Meerza [Bahrām Mīrzā Moʿezz-al-Dawlah], the Governor of Fars Province. It is the seventh in a series of twenty-four items on events in the Persian Gulf.

This item concerns:

• A dispute at Bushire [Bushehr] over Joseph Malcolm’s importation of sugar, on which the Persian authorities demanded that he pay the British rate of import duty, despite his status as a Persian merchant under British protection and not a British subject (see also IOR/F/4/2349/123823)
• A dispute between Hajee Abdool Mahomed [Ḥājī ‘Abd al-Muḥammad] and Shaik Houssein Nasir [Shaikh Ḥusayn Nāṣir Khān Āl Mazkūr], the uncle of Sheik Nasir [Shaikh Nāṣir II Āl Madhkūr] the Governor of Bushire, which led to Hajee Abdool Mahomed being forced to leave the city.

The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 334 of 1850’, ‘Coll[ection] 4’, and ‘Collection No 6 of No 95’.