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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' [24r] (49/226)
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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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.
1646 TO 184-6.
17
desist from their demands of the arrears of customs; and told them as soon as he had
taken Bagdad, he would grant our gentlemen a renewal of all their ancient privileges.
They moreover advise us that they had ordered Mr. Geekie, in case the Turks should
march to Ispahan, to retire to Gombroon with all the Company's ragoms, books,
papers, and valuable moveables, but not to quit the city until they were sure of their
being near. The troubles at Bussorah occasioned by the neighbourhood of the Persian
Army has, they say, prevented a bale of goods being landed out of any of the ships, so
that there will be little or no consulage this season."
43. The Agent in Council at Gombroon in a further letter, dated
the 20th September 1734, stated that in their last advices from the
Resident at Bussorah they had been informed that—
" Thomas Caun, after making a magnificent entry into that city (spreadings being
laid in the same manner as for the king), gave audience to a Turkish Envoy, and pre
sented him with a callat and two hundred
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
in money, which minister, on his
taking leave, publicly declared that the Grand Seignior would never consent to a peace
unless Shaw Thomas was again set upon the throne. Thomas Caun made answer that
he designed it, and had already sent for him, but he only ordered the king should be
removed from Mazandroon to another palace."
44. The following entry occurs in the Diary of the Bombay
Government for the 6th October 1735 :—
" The Persia advices, received by the Robert, are now read, which gives us a very
melancholy account of the state of affairs in that kingdom ; and as the gentlemen by
remaining on shore would have more immediately exposed themselves to the resentment
of Thomas Caun, and they might have also been surprised when the prisoners would
have insisted on such terms that we could on no account comply with, whereas by
their retiring this evil will not only be prevented, but the Persians, convinced of our
resolution to leave the kingdom when we can no longer remain there with credit, and
the clamours of the merchants, may have such an effect as to induce Thomas Caun to
believe our continuance is of service to the kingdom, and to hearken to a considerable
treaty for fixing of our privileges, we think the proceeding of the gentlemen on this
occasion to be prudent and well calculated to avoid the evils as well as obtain the
advantages proposed. But as they are of opinion that the Persians are fully bent upon
a second expedition against Bussorah, and that Thomas Caun will insist upon our
assisting him by sea against the Turks, and that he will be pacified on no other terms,
we are apprehensive that the Agent, arriving there in the Queen Caroline during this
confused situation of our affairs, may be at a great loss how to proceed at so critical a
conjuncture; and as it is possible the Queen Caroline may not yet have passed by this
port in her passage to Persia, the President proposes despatching a boat in quest of
her, with positive orders to Captain Wilkie to return into this road, and that copy of
the Persia advices be sent to Mr. Cockell, that, being apprized of the state of affairs, his
experience may furnish us with helps for giving the necessary orders on this important
occasion, proposing to send him to Gombroon as soon as possible after his arrival; but
should the boat not meet with the Queen Caroline, and she have proceeded on her
vo _y a g e ! it will be proper to despatch a vessel to Gombroon towards the latter end of
this month, with such instructions as shall then seem necessary to be given, which,
being entirely agreeable to the opinion of the several members, is unanimously agreed
45. On the 9th October 1735 the Governor in Council, Bombay,
wrote letters to the Presidencies of Bengal and Fort St. George, inform
ing them of the unsettled state of affairs as described in the foregoing
extract, and requesting, therefore, that they would not, pending further
advices, despatch any ships from either of those Presidencies to Bussorah,
" ^ ie Persians/' it was observed, " seeming resolved upon a second
attempt upon it."
46. On the 22nd October 1735 a Special Council was held by the
Bombay Government for the purpose of determining upon the measures
which it would be proper to adopt as regarded the Hon'ble Company's
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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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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).
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