IOR/F/4/2376/126162

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 fifteen items on the Persian Gulf.

The item concerns letters about the following events:

• Customs difficulties of a merchant under British protection in Bushire [Bushehr]
• Despatch of East India Company ships to convey officials connected with the commission for settling the boundary between Turkey [the Ottoman Empire] and Persia [Iran]
• The visit of Commodore John Porter, Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf, to the Arabian Coast
• The recent appearance of Suheil bin Ateish [Suhayl bin ‘Uṭaysh] near Bahrein [Bahrain], after he had allegedly captured a vessel from Bahrein with valuable cargo
• The intention of Ameer Fysul [Amīr Fayṣal bin Turkī bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Sa‘ūd] to rebuild the town and fort of Adeed [Khawr al ‘Udayd]
• A dispute over the property of a deceased merchant and banker of Muscat
• Aggression between Debaye [Dubai] and Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi]
• Rumours of a planned attack by Muscat on Rasel Khyma [Ra’s al-Khaymah] and Debaye, and a planned expedition by Ameer Fysul against Oman
• The recovery of Sohar [Suhar] by Syud Humood bin Azan [Sayyid Hamūd bin ‘Azzan al-Bu Sa‘idi] from his son
• Money taken from ‘piratical’ vessels which had plundered ships sailing under British colours being credited to the public treasury in India
• A complaint to Hennell by Alla Rukhee, a woman from Lucknow, concerning her being defrauded at Kerballa [Karbala].

The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 745 of 1850’, and ‘Collection No 5 in 15 volumes’.