IOR/L/PS/5/385, ff 1093-1244

This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 56 of 1840, dated 22 August 1840. The enclosures are numbered 3-45 and are dated 6 April to 22 August 1840.

The enclosures mostly consist of correspondence relating to Persian Gulf affairs. The enclosures concern matters including:

• Intelligence regarding the evacuation of the Egyptian force under Khorshid Pasha [Khūrshīd Pāshā] from Nedgd [Najd, also spelled Negd in this item]
• The views of the Imam [Imām, also spelled Imaum in this item] of Muscat on a potential expedition to take possession of the Island of Bahrein [Bahrain]
• The arrival at Muscat of the French warship La Dordogne, with letters from the Governor of Bourbon [Réunion] and the Minister of the King of the French to the Imam of Muscat (which are enclosed in a letter from the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Captain Samuel Hennell, and are in French), regarding the establishment of a consular agent at Zanzibar
• The Native Agent at Shargah [Sharjah], Moollah Hussain [Mullā Ḥusayn], reporting events which had taken place on the Arabian Coast subsequent to the departure of the Resident in the Persian Gulf in May 1840
• Hennell forwarding: a copy of a report from Commander Anthony H Nott, detailing his proceedings while on a cruise on the Arabian Coast, in the Honourable Company’s brig of war Tigris; and translations of letters from the Native Agent at Shargah, the ‘Chief’ [Hakim] of Debay [Dubai, also spelled Debay in this item], Mooktoom [Maktūm I bin Buṭṭī Āl Bū Falāsah], and the Acting Governor of Aboothabie [Abu Dhabi, also spelled Aboothabee in this item], Sultan ben Shakboot [Shaikh Sulṭān bin Shakhbūṭ Āl Nahyān], regarding some aggressions which have taken place at sea between subjects of the latter two ‘Chiefs’
• Hennell instructing Commodore George Barnes Brucks, the officer commanding the Squadron of the Indian Navy in the Persian Gulf, as to the steps to be taken for resolving the dispute between the shaiks [shaikhs] of Debaye and Aboothabee
• Hennell’s recommendation to the Governor in Council of Bombay that the field detachment of troops recently stationed at Karrack [Kharg Island] be granted extra allowance in recognition of their conduct
• The movements of the Shah of Persia [Iran] with his army
• Brucks being requested by Hennell to instruct that all official communications with the Imam of Muscat by officers of the Squadron of the Indian Navy in the Persian Gulf should be made through Captain Atkins Hamerton, following his appointment as British Agent at Muscat, rather than through the Native Agent, Khojah Reuben [Khawājah Rūbin]
• The Government of India requesting the Government of Bombay to direct Hennell and the Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, to monitor the movements of the agent from the Ameers of Scinde [Amīrs of Sindh] to the Shah of Persia
• A letter addressed to the Imam of Muscat from the Governor-General of India, to be forwarded to him by the Government of Bombay, in reply to a letter from the Imam, regarding matters including the ‘encroachments’ of the ‘Chiefs of Negd’ in the surrounding territory.

The main correspondents are Hennell and the Government of Bombay. Other correspondents include: the Secretary to the Government of India; Brucks; the Imam of Muscat, Seid Said bin Sultan [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd]; Hamerton; Moollah Hussain; Mirza Ruza [Mīrzā Rizā], the Reporter of Shiraz; and the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Taylor.