Aden and Red Sea Affairs [‎496v] (6/26)

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This part of the volume consists of 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 18 of 1850, dated 3 April 1850.

The enclosed papers, dated between 18 February and 30 March 1850, concern affairs in Aden and the Red Sea. They comprise correspondence between 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. , Aden; 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. ; Captain John Parke Sanders, Senior Naval Officer, Aden; Commodore Stephen Lushington, Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy; and the Government of India. Also included are minutes by the Governor of Bombay, Lord Viscount Falkland [Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland].

The papers concern general updates on the state of affairs in Aden, Mocha, Hodeida [Al Hudaydah], and the Abyssinian [East African] coast, and Haines's request for the services of East India Company ships, Constance and Elphinstone for the purposes of delivering packets and protecting British trade.

Enclosure Nos. 10-11, listed in the abstract of contents as copies of the Bombay Overland Times and the Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courier dated 3 April 1850, are recorded as missing in a note dated 31 October 1906.

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