IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 28-35

This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 2 of 1853, dated 3 January 1853. The enclosures listed in the abstract of contents are numbered 3-8.

Enclosure numbers 3 and 5 consist of letters from the Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Arthur Malet, dated 14 and 18 December 1852 respectively. The letters report on affairs at Aden and in its vicinity, mostly Haines's actions in relation to the apparent threat posed by the Foutheli [Fadhli] Sultan (the potential destruction of the Abdali grain crops and the prevention of supplies from entering Aden), including the actions which he advised the Sultan of Lahidge [Lahej or Lahij] to take.

Enclosure number 4 is a minute by the Governor of Bombay, dated 29 December 1852, directing that Haines's reported proceedings in his letter of 14 December be approved, and that a copy be sent to the Government of India and the Secret Committee.

Numbers 6-8, listed in the abstract of contents as copies of the Bombay Overland Times, the Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courier, and the Bombay Overland Gazette newspapers of 3 January 1853, are noted as missing.