IOR/L/PS/5/422, ff 383-406

This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 53 of 1843.

The enclosure consists of the following:

• A letter from HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, to the Secretary to the Government of Bombay, dated 13 May 1843, regarding the complaint of the Persian Consul at Bombay [Mumbai], Aga Mahomed Rahim Khan Sheerazee [Āghā Muḥammad Raḥīm Khān Shīrāzī, also written as Hajee Mahomed Raheem Khan Maleektoojar in this item], to the Persian Government, that since his appointment to that office he does not receive the kindness and attention from the Government of Bombay to which he considers himself entitled
• The response of the Government of Bombay, dated 17 July 1843, that the Governor in Council is not aware that Mahomed Rahim Khan Sheerazee has any just grounds for complaint, and that the Governor is ‘desirous of extending to him any civility or attention that may be usual and proper, in order to mark the high respect of this Government towards his Majesty the King [Shāh] of Persia’ (f 386)
• Copies of correspondence of the Government of Bombay with Mahomed Rahim Khan Sheerazee, and in relation to him, enclosed in the Government of Bombay’s response to Sheil, so that Sheil is fully aware of the treatment which Mahomed Rahim Khan Sheerazee has received from the Government of Bombay
• A letter from the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay forwarding copies of the above two letters to the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General.

In addition to Sheil, the Government of Bombay, and Mahomed Rahim Khan Sheerazee, other correspondents are: Sir John McNeill, HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Persia; Mahomed Jaffer Khan [Muḥammad Ja’far Khān], bearer of the firman from the Shah of Persia appointing Mahomed Rahim Khan Sheerazee Persian Consul at Bombay; the Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Dundas Robertson; and the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General, Thomas Herbert Maddock. The item also includes a translation of the firman from the Shah of Persia, Mahomed Shah [Muḥammad Shāh Qājār], to Hajee Mahomed Raheem Khan Maleektoojar.