Letter No. 179 of 1850 from Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay
IOR/R/15/1/123, ff 12-13
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The record is made up of 2 folios. It was created in 2 May 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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The letter is a report of a slave trading incident on the Muscat coast. The letter encloses translated extracts from a report received by the Government Agent at Muscat, Khojeh Hiskael [Khojah Hiskal], describing the detention of a bugla Large trading vessel. [ buggalow Large trading vessel. ] from Bahrain, under British colours at Muscat, which was carrying four Abyssinian female slaves via the Red Sea. Samuell Hennell writes that Lieutenant Foulerton, Commanding Officer of an East India Company schooner, did not feel authorised to take action in the detention of the bugla Large trading vessel. . Hennell is concerned that such inaction might be taken advantage of by slave traders, and writes 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. for further instructions.
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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/R/15/1/123, ff 12-13
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Letter No. 179 of 1850 from Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/123, ff 12-13, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100028714542.0x00000d> [accessed 8 July 2026]
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- IOR/R/15/1/123, ff 12-13
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- Letter No. 179 of 1850 from Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay
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- 12r:13v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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