IOR/F/4/2416/130510

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/4/2416/130506. It is the fifth in a series of twenty-eight items on the Persian Gulf.

The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; Commodore John Patterson Porter, commanding the Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf; and Lieutenant Frederick Erskine Manners, commanding the Honourable Company’s brigantine Tigris.

The item concerns the reported plunder, by a group from the Huwajir [al-Hawājir] tribe, of a vessel belonging to a Bushire [Bushehr] merchant at the mouth of the Euphrates river. Lieutenant Manners seeks to locate the ‘pirate boat’, going first to Mohumrah [Khorramshahr, also rendered as Mohumerah in the item], then to Grain [Kuwait, also rendered as Grane and Koweit in the item] and finally to Katiffe [Al-Qatif, also rendered as Katiff in the item], where he is able to seize the boat. Included is a list of the articles found on board.

The item contains a table of contents (f 482), and the title page (f 481) contains the following references: ‘Dft. No. 424 of 1851’, Collection No. 1, Vol. 5’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.