IOR/F/4/2376/126167

This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2376/126162. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Hajee Jassem [Ḥājjī Jāsim], British Agent at Bahrein [Bahrain]; and Moollah Houssein [Mullā Ḥusayn], British Agent at Shargah [Sharjah]. It is the sixth in a series of fifteen items on the Persian Gulf.

The item concerns:

• The history and actions of Suheil ben Ateish [Suhayl bin ‘Uṭaysh], a ‘pirate’ accused of seizing a vessel from Bahrein and taking its cargo and four enslaved members of the crew, and the attempts of Sheik Saeed bin Tahnoon of Aboothabee [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Ṭaḥnūn Āl Nahyān, Shaikh of Abu Dhabi] to capture him
• An attempt by Saeed bin Tahnoon to mediate between Syed Soweynee [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Governor of Muscat and Saad ben Mutluk [Sa‘d bin Muṭlaq], an agent of Ameer Fysul [Amīr Fayṣal bin Turkī bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Sa‘ūd]
• The intention of Sheik Sultan ben Sugger of Rasul Khyma [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī of Ra’s al-Khaymah] to attack Khor Fakaun [Khawr Fakkan], held by the Governor of Muscat
• The murder of Sinan ben Suleyman [Sinān bin Sulaymān] by Saad ben Mutluk
• The deterioration of the friendship between Sheik Abdullah ben Rashid of Amulgavine [Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Rāshid al-Mu’allā of Umm al-Qaywayn] and Sheik Mukhtoom of Debaye [Shaikh Maktūm I bin Buṭṭī Āl Bū Falāseh of Dubai].

The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 745 of 1850’, and ‘Coll[ection] No 5’.