Aden Affairs [‎279v] (8/10)

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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 88 of 1847, dated 15 October 1847. There are two enclosures: one is dated 29 September 1847; the other is undated. Two other enclosures listed in the abstract, copies of the Bombay Times Summary of Intelligence and the Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courier are not present.

The item comprises a report on affairs in Aden, by Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Captain Indian Navy and 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, approved by a minute of the members in Council. Haines’s report covers the following matters:

• The continued good relations with ‘our neighbours’
• The regular supplies to the market from the interior
• Continuing dissensions between the Abdali [al-‘Abdalī], Azeibi [‘Uzaybī], Agribi [‘Akrabī] and Subei [Subaīhī] tribes
• The meeting between the Abdali and Foutheli [Fadhlī] chiefs at Sheik Othman [Shaykh Uthman] has not yet taken place
• The [Ottoman] Turkish Commissioner Eschreff Beg [Muḥammad Sharīf Beg] has reached Judda [Jeddah] and the firman A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’). [order] he gave to Sherriff Hussein ibn ali Hyder [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī Haydar, Sharif of Mocha and Al Hudaydah] is reported to be a forgery written by a merchant at Hodeida
• Rain showers in Aden.

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