Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald, Envoy to the Court of Persia
IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 89-91
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The record is made up of 3 folios. It was created in 10 Jun 1826. 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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Stannus asks Macdonald to use his influence with the Shiraz Government to obtain remuneration for the losses sustained by merchants at Bombay, who had insured the cargo of a bugla Large trading vessel. [ buggalow Large trading vessel. ] from Bombay that had been plundered by the inhabitants of Bordekhan. The boat of Syeed Hamza of Johanna, on whose behalf Macdonald had already intervened, had been plundered in the same place. Stannus encloses a statement from the nackoda [nakhoda] of the bugla Large trading vessel. and draws attention to the similarity of such acts among the people of Dashty [Dashti] to the systematic piracy that had formerly prevailed in the Gulf, which the British were bound to suppress by treaty and policy.
The letter encloses a statement relating to the wreck and plunder of the bugla Large trading vessel. , dated at Bushire 10 June 1826, which contains an account of the incident, a summary of the vessel's cargo, and a list of those items that were known to be insured.
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Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald, Envoy to the Court of Persia, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 89-91, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/node/9492> [accessed 23 February 2025]
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- IOR/R/15/1/36, ff 89-91
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- Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf to Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald, Envoy to the Court of Persia
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- 89r:91v
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