IOR/F/4/2575/152544

The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 28 April 1854, and found at IOR/F/4/2575/152543. It is the second in a series of thirteen items about the Persian Gulf.

The item contains a report, dated 29 December 1853, from the Agent at Shargah [Sharjah] to Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf. The Agent's report includes mention of:

• The recent departure of Abdullah bin Fysul [‘Abdullāh bin Fayṣal], Wahabee [Wahhābī] commander, from Brymee [Buraymi] for Nedjd [Najd]
• Lieutenant Ahmed bin Mahomed ul Sudeyree [Aḥmad bin Muḥammad al-Sudayrī] assuming charge from Abdullah bin Fysul and sending letters to: Sheikh Sultan bin Suggur [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī]; Humaid bin Rashid [Shaikh Ḥumayd bin Rāshid al-Na‘īmī]; Abdullah bin Sultan [Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Sulṭān]; and Saeed bin Butye [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Buṭṭī]
• The recent dispute between the Monasir [Manāṣīr] tribe on one side, and the Beni Kuttub [Banī Qitab] and Durua [al-Durūʿ] tribes on the other.

Kemball forwards the report, along with his own comments, to the Government of Bombay, who in turn forward it to the Government of India and the Court of Directors.

The title page of the item contains the following references: 'Bombay Political Department', 'P.C. [Previous Communication] 8964', Draft Number '908 [18]54', 'Collection No. 1 of No. 32 of 1854', 'Vol: 2' and 'Examiner's Office'. Originally, the Collection number was given as '2' but this has been crossed out and replaced with '1'.