'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' [‎61r] (123/226)

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. —164-6 TO 1846,
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communication informed Mr. Jones (the Resident at Bag-dad) that he
would order an immediate investigation into Mr. Manesty^s complaint,
and that the most ample redress should be afforded, if the result of the
enquiry corroborated the representation made by that gentleman.
200. The Pacha subsequently removed the Mussaleem During the eighteenth century this was the third most powerful official in Ottoman Iraq (after the Pasha and the Kiya). The title was given specifically to the Governor of Basra. of Bussorah
on the plea of incapacity, and ordered him to repair to Bagdad to answer
the charge preferred against him by Mr. Manesty of having instigated
the attack on Captain Whitens house; the Pacha at the same time ordered
the new Mussaleem During the eighteenth century this was the third most powerful official in Ottoman Iraq (after the Pasha and the Kiya). The title was given specifically to the Governor of Basra. , whom he appointed to Bussorah, to try and punish,
on conviction, all persons whom Mr. Manesty might charge with having
taken an active part in the above outrage, and to cause all property
which had been taken from Captain Whitens residence to be restored.
The Pacha, however, declined to issue orders for the restoration of the
female to Captain White, on the plea that his doing so would be opposed
to the Mahomedan religion, in consequence of the female having, as was
alleged, declared, previously to the outrage, in the presence of several
Mussulmen that she intended to renounce the Christian, and embrace the
Mahomedan, faith. Mr. Manesty, however, peremptorily refused to listen
to any arrangement in which the restoration of the female was not made
one of the conditions. The Pacha on receiving this intimation expressed
himself to Mr. Jones as aggrieved by the uncourteous terms in which
Mr. Manesty^s letter to him had been addressed, and refused to have
any further correspondence with him on this or any other subject. On
further consideration, however, the Pacha in the month of July following
(1803) directed the Mussaleem During the eighteenth century this was the third most powerful official in Ottoman Iraq (after the Pasha and the Kiya). The title was given specifically to the Governor of Basra. at Bussorah to make the above female over
to Mr. Manesty, and on his receiving her, he sent her round by the first
vessel proceeding to Calcutta to Captain White, who had intermediately
proceeded to that port. This female having been surrendered and
the other demands made by Mr. Manesty having been complied with, he
rehoisted the British flag at Bussorah on the 23rd July 1803, and
re-opened the factory An East India Company trading post. .
201. On the 16th February 1804 " Soliman Aga" arrived in Bombay,
en route to Calcutta, as Ambassador from the Pacha of Bagdad on a
Mission to the Right Hon'ble the Marquis Wellesley, then Governor-
General of India. In conformity with instructions furnished to this
Government by His Lordship, the Ambassador was received with the
highest honors, and during his stay in Bombay was entertained at the
public expense, and treated with marked respect. On the 3rd April fol
lowing the Ambassador left Bombay for Calcutta in the Ship Upton
Castle, in which vessel a passage had been provided by Government for
himself and suite.
202. On the 5th March 1805 Mr. Manesty proceeded to Bombay
(on his own private account, and without previous reference to Govern
ment), leaving Lieutenant E. H. Bellasis, of the Bombay Engineers, in
temporary charge of the Bussorah 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. . In reporting his arrival in
the Bombay Harbour in a letter dated the 10th April 1805, Mr. Manesty
stated that for some time past
"he had been oppressed by the discovery that after a painful service in Arabia of
more than 24 years' duration his longer stay in that country holding the office of
British Resident at Bussorah, on the injurious and totally inadequate terms to which
his public zeal had hitherto influenced him to submit, must have inevitably operated