Letter from Henry Le Poer Wynne to Colonel Lewis Pelly, Bushire [‎69v] (8/10)

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Letter confidentially enclosing papers which the Bombay Government had been due to send Pelly on 15 January 1871 and regarding their recent grevious loss.

Enclosed with the letter are:

• Letter from Sir John William Kaye, Secretary, Political and Secret Department, India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. to Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, 8 Dec 1871 regarding the proceedings of the Turkish authorities in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and enclosing correspondence regarding assurances given by the Porte that they have no intention of obtaining supremacy over Bahrein.
• Letter from Herman Merivale, Under Secretary of State for India to the Right Honourable Edmund Hammond, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Office, 1 December 1871, regarding turkish proceedings in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and in particular Bahrein and requesting that the Ambassador at Constantinople be instructed to impress upon the Porte the necessity of moderation being observed by their authorities in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
• Letter from Lord Enfield, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Herman Merivale, Under Secretary of State for India, 5 December 1871, enclosing a copy of a despatch from Sir Henry Elliot on the subject of the assurances given by the Porte that she has no intention of obtaining supremacy over Bahrein, Muscat or the independent tribes of Southern Arabia and expressing the hope that the Duke of Argyll will find the assurances sufficiently explicit.
• Letter No. 399 from His Excellency Sir Henry Elliott, HM's Ambassador at Constantinople in Therapia, to the Right Honourable Earl Granville, 14 November 1871, reporting on a conversation with Sewer Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. regarding affairs in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and stating that his excellency had renewed the assurances that they had no intention of obtaining supremacy over Bahrein, Muscat or the independent tribes of Southern Arabia but that an Ottoman General had recently been waylaid and murdered upon the mainland by the Shaikh of Bahrain and that the Porte could not abstain from exacting reparation which would consist of the punishment of the persons concerned in the incident and a precuniary fine to be paid.
• Letter No. 115P written at Fort William, 16 January 1872 stating that a copy of the correspondence had been forwarded confidentially to the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. and requesting a copy be communicated to the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
• Letter No. 116P (undated) states that a copy has also been sent to the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. for information.

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English in Latin script

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