IOR/F/4/2349/123824

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: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Commander John Porter, commanding the Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf. It is the seventeenth in a series of twenty-four items on events in the Persian Gulf.

The item concerns:

• An alleged seizure of a vessel belonging to a merchant who had seceded from Bahrein [Bahrain] and then returned there by Hassan ben Abdoollah [Ḥusayn bin ‘Abdullāh], the Governor of Charrack [Shaikh of Bandar-e Charak], and the return of the vessel and cargo
• The delay of two Bahraini boats at Charrack due to a lack of men to crew them
• Porter’s tour of the Trucial States of the Gulf and his observations on the relations between the shaikhs, especially the refusal of Muscat to pay Saad bin Mootluk [Sa‘d bin Muṭlaq] tribute and internal events in Bahrein.

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 2 of No 127’.