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No 140
Secret Department
From
S. llennell
Resident in the Persian Gulf
To
L. R. Reid Esquire
| Acting Chief Secretary to Govt.
Bombay
Dated 27th December 1839
Sir
i Adverting to my letters No 133 in this Department,
under date the 17th instant, on the subject of the proposed
removal of Esa bin Tareef and his followers from Aboothabee,
to Wukra I have the honor to report for the information of
the Honorable the Governor in Council, that on the 26th
instant, this Chief again visited me, on board the Clive.
His object in seeking another interview was to inform me
t,
that His Highness the Imam had from some reason with which
! • he was altogether unacquainted, most unexpectedly declined
acting upon his promises to him, and had moreover refused
;
to send his relation Hillal bin Mahomed to Aboothabee to
assist the Alii Ally in getting away from that place, as
had been arranged - that deprived of the looked for support
of the Imam
it was probable that he would be under the
necessity of quitting the Bencyas Port, in opposition to
the inclinations of Shaik Khaliefa bin Shakboot, who no
longer restrained by the influence of His Highness, would
not unlikely instigate the Chief of Bahrein to join him in
harrassing, if not openly attacking the Alii Ally in their
new location of Wukra - that under these circumstances, he
(Shaik Esa), and his followers, could not venture to take up
their residence on the Guttur Coast, unless the British
Government would
eneaee to prevent Shaik Abdoollah bln Ahmed,
the Beneyas Chief, from committing any aggressions upon
tnem.
I replied to Shaik Esa that however desirous I felt
(sustaine:
to assist him, in consideration of the wrongs he had enstained
and the prudence and moderation he had displayed throughout
these trying circumstances, still I could not give such a
promise as he then asked, unless under the special sanction
of the Government.
On receiving this answer Esa bin Sareef
said that this being the case, he and his Tribe would settle
themselves upon the Island of Ges (or Kum), off tho Persian
Coa6t, the Shaik of which
:•* place, would gladly receive them.

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