IOR/L/PS/5/450, ff 424-440

This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 76 of 1847, dated 31 August 1847. The enclosures are dated 10 May-20 August 1847. There is a note on the abstract stating that enclosures 11 and 12 are ‘Missing. 30 10 1906’.

The primary documents are: a report by Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Secretary to the Government, Bombay; minutes of the Governors in Council; and correspondence between Malet, and Henry Miers Elliot, Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General.

The subjects covered notably include:

• Concerns of the Chief of Bahrein [Bahrain], Shaik Mahomed bin Khuleefa [Shaikh Muḥammad bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah, Shaikh of Bahrain] about disaffected Uttoobee [ʿUtūb] subjects led by Shaik Essa bin Tareef [Shaikh ‘Īsá bin Ṭarīf] who have settled on the Persian [Iranian] island of Kenn [Kish], his solicitation of British naval assistance should the refugees or the ex-ruler of Bahrein, Shaik Abdoollah bin Ahmed [Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Aḥmad Āl Khalīfah], mount an attack on Bahrein; and the Government of Bombay’s authority to Hennell to intervene on behalf of Mahomed bin Khuleefa if the situation warrants
• The Governor-General’s desire that the Bombay Government inform the Home Authorities (in London) of the proceedings of some Turkish [Ottoman] officers at Koweit [Kuwait] and the arrival of a Turkish vessel of war off Bushire [Būshehr].