![Letter No. 351: Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, to His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran [‎139r] (3/4)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100000000193.0x00005e/IOR_R_15_1_121_0281.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "Letter No. 351: Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, to His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran [‎139r] (3/4)")
Letter No. 351: Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, to His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran [139r] (3/4)
The record is made up of 2 folios. It was created in 13 Sep 1850. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: 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. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Samuel Hennell informs Justin Sheil of two recent actions performed by the Squadron of the Indian Navy: the handing over of 100 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. as compensation for the crew of a Karrak [Bandar-e Chārak] boat after their vessel was plundered and detained at sea by members of the Huwajir tribe; and the recovery of cargo belonging to a Bushire buteel, which had been plundered by pirates off the entrance to the river Euphrates. This letter is followed by an enclosure: a translated substance of a note, dated 11 September 1850, from the Acting Governor of Bushire, Sheik Abdoollah, to Hennell, regarding the two aforementioned actions.
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Letter No. 351: Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, to His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran [139r] (3/4), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/121, ff 138-139, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023513887.0x000052> [accessed 28 March 2025]
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- Letter No. 351: Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, to His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil CB, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia, Tehran
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