IOR/L/PS/5/418, ff 105-136

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 29 of 1843, dated 30 April 1843. The enclosures are numbered 3-13 and are dated 8 February to 29 April 1843.

The enclosures relate to the following:

• The state of affairs in the vicinity of Aden, which the Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, describes as ‘tranquil’
• The instructions received by Haines from the Secret Committee that Haines will afford Ali Ben Nasser [‘Alī bin Nāṣir], the Envoy to Queen Victoria from the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat, every attention and assistance he may require on his return to Zanzibar via Egypt
• The murders of British subjects in the Goongoonta [Gungunta?] Pass in the territory of the Sultan of Tajoura [Tadjourah, also spelled Tedjoura in this item] in June 1841, including Haines’s conviction that the brother of the Sultan of Tedjoura is deeply implicated, and the Government of Bombay requesting the instructions of the Governor-General as to the measures to be adopted for ‘obtaining satisfaction’ from the Sultan of Tedjoura for the murders
• The conduct of the Governor of Macculla [Mukalla], Mahomed bin Abdool Hubeeb [Muḥammad bin ‘Abd al-Ḥabīb], towards his Vizier and the members of his late uncle’s family, whom he states had intrigued to take the port of Macculla from him
• The sanctioning of the grant of remuneration to Mr Hatchatoor for the period he was employed on board the Honourable Company’s sloop Clive under the orders of the Assistant Political Agent at Aden
• The Commissary General, Bombay, Lieutenant-Colonel James Henderson Dunsterville, enclosing a statement of stock required for Aden (not included in this item), and seeking instructions as to whether the hay and grain applied for should now be forwarded to Aden, and the Secretary to the Government of Bombay, John Pollard Willoughby, requesting the Political Agent at Aden to report whether it is in his opinion any longer necessary for Government to incur the heavy expense of sending hay and grain from Bombay to Aden.

The correspondence is mostly between the Secretary to the Government of Bombay and: the Political Agent at Aden; the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General, James Thomason. There are also letters to the Governor and President in Council, Bombay, Sir George Arthur, from the Governor of Macculla and the Military Board, Bombay. In addition, there are enclosed letters: from Captain William Cornwallis Harris, on special duty in the Kingdom of Shoa [Shewa], to Haines; from the Commissary General, Bombay, to the Military Board; and between Haines and the Secret Committee.