'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' [‎67v] (136/226)

104; PRECIS OF INFORMATION REGARDING CONNECTION OF E. I. COMPY.
The Court concluded this review by expressing- their disapprobation that
after such repeated acts of misconduct and frequent utter disregard to
the orders of the Bombay Government as Mr. Manestv had evinced, he
had been permitted to continue in the situation of Resident at Bussorah.
The Court accordingly directed Mr. Mauesty's removal from that appoint
ment, and prohibited, pending their further instructions, his re
employment "in any diplomatic or foreign missions." The following
is an extract from the Hon'ble Court's despatch containing these
orders:—
" Mr. Manesty has so repeatedly shown a disposition to be guided by other rules
and principles than those with which he has been furnished by his superiors, and has
exhibited such a total want of judgment and discretion on many occasions, that we
feel it to be an indispensable duty to express our disapprobation of your having so lone
permitted his continuance in the situation of Resident at Bussorah, and to direct thai
in case he shall not have resigned or been recalled previous to the arrival of this
despatch, he be removed from that office without delay and be not employed again in
any diplomatic or foreign mission without our further orders."
228. In the same despatch the Hon'ble Court stated that at the
recommendation of the Bight Hon'ble the Governor-General of India
they had come to the resolution of immediately consolidating the
Bagdad and Bussorah Residencies; that the
" Bagdad 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. should be withdrawn, and that whatever communication of a
political nature it might be necessary in future to have with the Pacha of Bagdad
should be made through the medium of the Resident at Bussorah as formerly, or
by his Assistant deputed to Bagdad for that purpose."
The Hon'ble Court in the same despatch directed that Mr. Rich,
the Resident at Bagdad, should, now that they had ordered the aboli
tion of that 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. , be appointed to succeed Mr. Manesty as Resident
at Bussorah.
229. The above orders were on the 2nd March 1810 communicated
by this Government to Mr. Manesty and Mr. Rich. Mr. Manesty was
directed, on his being relieved by Mr. Rich or by Dr. Hine, Surgeon and
Assistant to the Bagdad 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. , or by Dr. Colquhoun, Surgeon and
Assistant to 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. , to " consider himself divested of
the office of Resident at Bussorah." Mr. Rich was at the same time
directed either to proceed himself to Bussorah with the least practicable
delay and receive charge of that 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. from Mr. Manesty, or to
send either of the gentlemen above mentioned to Bussorah forthwith
for that purpose. Mr. Governor Duncan on the same day (2nd March
1810) addressed the following letter to the Pacha of Bagdad, informing
him of these arrangements :—
" It having been provided by the Hon'ble Company, with the view to the promo
tion of greater ease and uniformity in the discharge of the duties and functions of
the hitherto distinct liosidencies at iour Highness' Court and at Bussorah, that after
the respectable Mr. Manesty the permanent charge of both should devolve on, and
be exercised by, the respectable Mr. Claudius .James Rich, in whom the greatest con
fidence is reposed for the able execution of so important a trust, I have the honor now
to inform Your Highness that this projected junction of the two stations, and their
being hereafter blended in one, will immediatel\ take place, and I have to express my
reliance that ) our Highness will be pleased, on this addition of responsibility, as vested
in Mr. Rich, to extend towards this gentleman (who has, I am sure, entirely at heart
the cultivation of the most perfect harmony on his part) a proportionate increase of
Your Highness' beneficial countenance and favorable support for the purpose of
enabling him to acquit himself to the satisfaction of the Government of India and to
his employers at home of the weighty trust thus reposed in him."