IOR/F/4/2302/118727

This item consists of copies of political letters from the Governments 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 fifty-one items on the Persian Gulf.

The item concerns:

• News of cruises made by British ships in the Gulf
• Reports of interviews between Captain Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the shaikhs of the Gulf
• Intelligence from the British Agent at Muscat
• An unsuccessful attempt by the Governor of Shargah [Sharjah] to capture Ejman [Ajman]
• Papers carried by British vessels and those departing from ports belonging to the Imam of Muscat
• The projected arrival of a French consul at Zanzibar
• Mercantile affairs
• Defeat of bin Mootluk [Sa‘d bin Muṭlaq] against Sohar [Suhar]
• ‘Piratical’ proceedings off Bahrein [Bahrain]
• Capture of Brymee [Al Buraymi] by the Chiefs of Sohar and Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi], and the subsequent intention to regain Brymee by a confederation of Omani tribes and the Chief of Rasul Khyma [Ra’s al-Khaymah]
• Agreements between Gulf states and Ameer Fysul [Amīr Fayṣal bin Turkī bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Sa‘ūd]
• Relations between the new and old chiefs of Bahrein
• Discontent with Muscat at Soor [Sur]
• Cholera at Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh]
• Death of Shaik Abdool Azeez bin Rashid [Shaikh ‘Abd al-‘Aziz bin Rāshid al-Na‘īmī, Shaikh of Ajman].

The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Collection No 17’ and ‘Draft no 465 of 49’.