'Precis Containing Information in regard to the First Connection of the Hon'ble East India Company with Turkish Arabia, as far as the Same Can Be Traced from the Records of the Bombay Government, together with the Names of the Several British Residents and Political Agents Who Have Been Stationed at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Bussorah [Basra] between A.D. 1646 and 1846, accompanied by Other Information' [‎54r] (109/226)

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have been ever prone to asanme, whilst, on the other hand, those gentlemen must have
felt disheartened from trying any competition or making even proper resistance, from
the consciousness of the troublesome consequences and abortive issue ot their former
opposition. All the advantages we possess to compensate for our own inferiority and
to force the difficulties with which a Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , so deranged, salutes us, are that we are
independent of any concerns here but yours, free from all prejudices against others,
and exempt from any against ourselves, and perhaps no qualifications can be more
requisite to us in the duties we have to prosecute at this station. From every inspection
we have made into the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , and every view in which we could contemplate its
purposes and relations, we have been early convinced of the necessity of examining all
its parts afresh and of befitting them anew, rejecting whatever we might find useless
or cumbersome, and supplying deficiency wherever we might discover it, which we
have every confidence of being able from our own resources to do without any distant
distracting references to you or to India. The conclusion of our labours. We have
promised ourselves to be a machine simply, yet completely calculated to all your uses
and purposes here, of a structure becoming the dignity of you, its proprietors, of a
beauty, order, and convenience, of which the Pacha might be both admirer and
partaker, and of a happy adaptation to its position and surrounding circumstances that
might make it be viewed with complacency and pleasure by all beholders. This is the
model after which we wish to form your factory An East India Company trading post. ."
179. On the 8th July 1796 the Secretary at the East India House,
by order of the Hon^ble the Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. , addressed a letter to
Mr. Manesty to the effect,
quoted in the margin,
which reached Bussorah
on the 25th September
following, informing him
that the Court had re
stored him to the office of
Resident; the Court at
the same time informed
Mr. Crow that they were
both surprised and dis
pleased that he had not
delivered over charge of the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. immediately on the receipt by
Mr. Manesty of their Secretary^ letter of the 1st January preceding,
alluded to in paragraph 176, and directed that he would now forthwith
do so " without further evasion or delay." Mr. Crow accordingly made
over charge of the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. to Mr. Manesty on the same day that
these orders reached Bussorah (the 25th September) and shortly afterwards
returned to Bombay, accompanied by Mr. LeMessurier. On the 8th
November 1796 Mr. Manesty returned his acknowledgments to the
Hon'ble Court in a letter, from which the following is an extract:—
" I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, on the 25th September, ot your
commands of the 8th July, with its enclosures, and to inform you that on the same day
I received charge of the factory An East India Company trading post. property and affairs in this country of the Hon hie
Company from Mr. Nathan Crow and Mr. Peter LeMessurier, who returned to the
Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. on the Autelope on the 14th October. In communicating intelligence ul
these events, I beg leave, with the plain sincerity of a grateful heart, to offer to you,
Hon'ble gentlemen and to my Hon'ble employers, my most respectful acknowledg
ments for your and their liberality towards me. If in the honor of your seventy,
supported by conscious rectitude and agitated by a laudable resolution to assort my
honor, I ventured with independent spirit to address you in manly, free, and animated
language, I now, rejoicing in your favor, solicit your favorable acceptance ot those
calm and harmonized assurances of uniform devotion to the service and interests ot my
Hon'ble employers, which a mind, restored to happiness and reinvigorated b\ t le
emplovment of returning honor and credit, feels it a pleasant dutj to otter. Ihe
" Enclosed you will receive a copy of a letter I wrote
you, by order of the Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. , on the 1st Janu-
ary last, revoking the orders they had sent for removing
you and Mr. Jones from the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , since which
Messrs. Crow and LeMessurier have addressed the
Court, under date the 5th April last, acknowledging the
receipt of my said letter to you, and replying thereto by
urging the Courts to recall these orders and permit them
to continue in charge of the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. : this letter has
been under the Court's consideration, who have directed
me to communicate to Messrs. Crow and LeMessurier
their positive orders for their immediately delivering
over to you the charge of^the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. ."