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'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' [‎98v] (200/226)

The record is made up of 1 volume (111 folios). It was created in 1874. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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xxviii j
X.
English patents of protection shall not be granted to dependants or
merchants who are subjects of the Sublime Porte, nor shall any passport
be delivered to such persons on the part of Ambassadors or Consuls
without permission previously obtained from the Sublime Porte.
XL
As ships of war have at all times been prohibited from entering the
canal of Constantinople, viz., in the Straits of the Dardanelles and of the
Black Sea, and as this ancient regulation of the Ottoman Empire is in
future to be observed by every Power in time of peace, the Court of
Great Britain promises on its part to conform to this principle.
XII.
The ratifications of the present Treaty of Peace between the high
contracting parties shall be exchanged at Constantinople in the space of
ninety-one days from the date of this Treaty, or sooner if possible. In
faith of which, and in order that the ratification of the twelve Articles of
this Treaty (which has been happily concluded by the assistance of god,
and in the sincerity and good faith of the two parties) may be exchanged,
I, Plenipotentiary of the Sublime Porte, have, in virtue of my full powers,
signed and sealed this instrument, which I have delivered to the Pleni
potentiary of His Britannic Majesty in exchange for another instrument
exactly conformable thereto, written in the French language, with a
translation thereof, which has been delivered to me on his part agreeably
to his full powers.
Done near the Castle of the Dardanelles, the 5th of January 1809,
which corresponds with the year of the Hejira 1223, the 19th day of the
Moon Zilkaade.
(Sd.) Syud Mahomed Emin Vahid Effendi. (L.S.)
(Sd.) Robert Ardair. (L .S.)
Appendix E.
Memorandum on the present condition of the Pachalic of Bagdad and the
means it possesses of renovation and improvement.
The extent of disorganization and depression which at present reigns
in the Pachalic of Bagdad has rarely, if ever, been exceeded. Its popula
tion has decreased almost beyond belief; its cultivation is more than
proportionally diminished; its canals of irrigatiQn are daily suffered to
choke up, and the lands they watered to run to waste, and its most fertile
districts, which once were covered with villages and gardens and fields of
grain, are abandoned to the Arab tribes, who were confined to the desert
tracts around. Every source of revenue appears to be fast drying up, and
a decay which threatens utter ruin seems approaching with rapid strides.
The causes of this decay are to be found in the total incapacity and
misgovernment of the present Pacha, who has neither strength to

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The volume is Precis Containing Information in regard to the First Connection of the Hon'ble East India Company with Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. , 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 (Calcutta: Foreign Department Press, 1874).

The volume includes a five paragraph introduction stating that the record had been compiled following a request to 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. from the Government of India (folio 15). The information is a mixture of précis and direct quotation, with comments. The sources are correspondence; minutes; extracts from proceedings; treaties; lists; the diary of the Bombay Government; the diaries of Surat and Gombroon [Bandar Abbas]; reports; committee reports; dispatches to the Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. ; statements from the Military Auditor-General; and firmans.

The record includes selected information on appointments; personnel; treaties; trade; relations with the Ottoman authorities; diplomatic contacts; political developments; climate and health; administration; and naval and martime affairs.

Five appendices at the rear of the volume (folios 85-109) give transcripts of treaties between England/the United Kingdom and the Government of the Ottoman Empire (the Sublime Porte), signed 1661-1809; and a 'Memorandum on the present condition of the Pachalic [Pachalik] of Bagdad and the means it possesses of renovation and improvement' dated 12 November 1834.

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1 volume (111 folios)
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There is an index on ff 2-15. The index gives the following information in parallel columns: year; miscellaneous information regarding Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. (ff 2-11); appointments etc. in Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. commencing with the year 1728 (ff 12-14); Euphrates expedition and flotilla (f 15); paragraph of summary; and page. Entries in the index refer to the numbered paragraphs that compose the main body of the text (headed 'Summary').

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the first folio bearing text and terminates at 109, on the last folio bearing text. The numbers are written in pencil and enclosed in a circle and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. There is also an original printed pagination, numbered i-xxviii (index); [1]-137 (main body of text); [i]-xlix (appendices).

Condition: the volume is disbound and has lost its front cover.

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'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' [‎98v] (200/226), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/20/C30, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023252872.0x000001> [accessed 1 May 2024]

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