IOR/L/PS/5/452, ff 198-201

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 101 of 1847, dated 1 December 1847. The enclosures listed in the abstract of contents are numbered 3-5.

Enclosure No. 3 consists of a letter from the Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, dated 16 November 1847, regarding the state of affairs at Aden and in the interior. Haines states that the only change which has taken place in the interior of Aden since his last letter (of 30 October 1847) was the sudden arrival of Sultans Nassur and Futhel bin Abdulla Foutheli [Sulṭān Nāṣir and Sulṭān Faḍl bin ‘Abdullāh al-Faḍlī] at Bir Ahmed [Bi’r Aḥmad], with about one hundred mounted followers. Haines reports the effect that the Foutheli [Faḍl] being in the neighbourhood of Aden had on Aden market supplies. Haines also reports the reduction in the number of smallpox cases at Aden and the number of people who have been vaccinated, and includes an enclosed letter to himself from J A Vaughan, Acting Civil Surgeon at Aden.

Enclosures Nos. 4-5, listed as copies of the Bombay Times Overland Summary and the Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courier, dated 1 December 1847, are not included in this item (a note dated 30 October 1906 states that they are missing).