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Letter No.1047 (Political Department) from David Greenhill, Secretary to the Government, to Colonel Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf [‎18r] (5/8)

The record is made up of 4 folios. It was created in 19 Sep 1826. 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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The letter relates to the shipwreck and plunder of a bugla Large trading vessel. [boat] off the Persian coast, and is a response to an earlier letter, dated 1 July 1826, sent by the Resident to the Bombay Government. Greenhill writes of the Persian Government’s commitment to assist English vessels in trouble off the coast of Persia, but accepts that the treaty between the Government and Persia are ‘couched in very general terms’, and that it refers to English vessels, and not to vessels belonging to British native subjects. Greenhill requests that the Resident ascertain the precise terms in which the Bushire factory An East India Company trading post. was re-established in 1775, and whether the terms of the original treaty between Britain and Persia remain in force.

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Letter No.1047 (Political Department) from David Greenhill, Secretary to the Government, to Colonel Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf [‎18r] (5/8), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/39, ff 16-19, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023483809.0x000024> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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