Aden Affairs
IOR/L/PS/5/449, ff 462-467
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The record is made up of 1 item (6 folios). It was created in 16 Feb 1847. 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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This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from 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. Secret Department to the Secret Committee Pre-1784, the Committee responsible for protecting East India Company shipping. Post-1784, its main role was to transmit communications between the Board of Control and the Company's Indian governments on matters requiring secrecy. , Number 22 of 1847, dated 16 February 1847. The enclosures are dated 2-4 February 1847.
The item comprises two reports by Stafford Bettesworth Haines, 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. at Aden, to the Secretary to the Government, Bombay, on the state of affairs in Aden. The reports cover the following matters:
- The arrival of a French Corvette, the Voltigeur bark, on 1 February, bringing despatches for France from Bourbon [Réunion island] ‘in charge of a Capitaine de Vasseau “Boudet” who will proceed by the next mail steamer’, and on his departure the apparent intention of the Voltigeur to sail to Pondichery [Puducherry], including details of the vessel's tonnage and guns, and the reported total number of French vessels in the Indian Ocean
- The peaceful state of affairs between the local tribes and the consequent ‘unmolested’ inland trade with Aden and well supplied markets
- Reported peace between Sheik Ali Homeida [Shaikh ‘Alī Ḥumaydah] and the Sherriff [Sharif] of Hodeida [Al Hudaydah] and Mocha
- Reports, about which Haines is sceptical, that the Imam of Sana [Sana‘a] has retired to Taez [Taiz]
- Reports that the ‘Chief’ of Lahidge [Lahej] has not fully recovered from his illness and that government is in the hands of his eldest son
- Losses in the 2nd European Regiment due to ‘old fever and liver cases’ (f 464).
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- 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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- IOR/L/PS/5/449, ff 462-467
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- No. 22 of 1847
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- 16 Feb 1847 (CE, Gregorian)
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- IOR/L/PS/5/449, ff 462-467
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- Aden Affairs
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- 462r:467v
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