Aden Affairs

This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, 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 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 [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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