'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' [‎78r] (157/226)

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. —1646 TO 1846.
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European Infantry.
1 Subaltern.
2 Non-Commissioned Officers.
Artists.
1 Gunsmith to direct the manufacture and stocking of muskets.
1 Indigo planter and manufacturer.
Ships of War.
1 Three-masted vessel of 600 tons, with 48 guns in the upper and lower deck.
1 Ditto of 300 tons, single tier of guns.
1 Ditto of 250 tons, ditto ditto.
Arms and Ammunition.
3,000 Muskets, bayonets, cross belts, cartridge boxes, &c., complete.
400 Barrels of powder.
276. The Pacha agreed to defray all expenses to which the Bombay
Government might be subjected in complying with the above requests,
and stated that as long as they might continue in his service each of the
officers and non-commissioned officers he had applied for should receive
half the field pay and allowances of the rank immediately superior to
his own, besides one toman 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. a day for personal subsistence and forage for
two horses, also a horse in garrison and a tent with carriage in the field.
These requests were, on the 3rd April 1828, referred for the instructions
of Ihe Government of India, accompanied by the strong recommendation
of this Government in favor of a compliance therewith. Mr. Francis
"Warden, then a Member of this Government, alone dissenting from this
recommendation, on the ground that the history of British connection
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. from the earliest period exhibited a series of insults
and reconciliations without a redeeming advantage, political or commercial,
and that the less therefore this connection was increased the more advan-
taireous it would be for British interests.
277. The Government of India, however, for reasons which were
explained in a letter from that Government, dated the 2nd May 1828, con
sidered that it would be inexpedient to comply with the Pacha's requests,
and directed therefore that they should be courteously negatived, but that
an Agent whom the Pacha had deputed to Bombay should be permitted
to purchase whatever military stores he chose. On these proceedings
being reported by the Government of India to the Hon'ble the Secret
Committee, that authority in a despatch to the Right Hon'ble the
Governor-General in Council, dated the 2nd December 1828, of which a
copy was with a letter of the same date furnished to this Government
by the Secret Committee Pre-1784, the Committee responsible for protecting East India Company shipping. Post-1784, its main role was to transmit communications between the Board of Control and the Company's Indian governments on matters requiring secrecy. " for information and guidance," expressed their
regret that the application of the Pacha to be furnished with some
British commissioned and non-commissioned officers had not been com
plied with; this letter which also contained rules for the guidance of the
Government of India in the event of any future similar application being
preferred by the Pacha was to the following effect:—
" We now proceed to reply to your letter, dated the 6th of June 1828, enclosing a copy
of a letter addressed by you to the Hon'ble the Governor in Council of Bombay on