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'MEMORANDUM RESPECTING THE NAVIGATION OF THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES.' [23r] (46/284)
The record is made up of 1 file (42 folios). It was created in 24 Apr 1913. 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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subsequent written agreement could be construed
as bearing out the contention of the Porte that
the vessels to be employed were restricted to two
or any other specified number.
No 162^' ^ r ' ^ tuart re pli e( i that there was no trace m
December 21, the embassy archives of any written agreement
having been signed by Sir S. Canning with the
Porte in 1816, but that there was a translation
of a letter from the Grand Vizier to the
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
of
Bagdad giving the substance of the agreement^'
come to, which contained no mention of the
number of British ships to be allowed to navigate
the rivers. He remarked that, although the
firman
A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’).
of 1831 limited the number of British
ships to be employed on the Euphrates to two,
there was no sign of the limitation having been
renewed in 1846, nor could he find any other
foundation for the Porte's assertion that the
number of vessels so to be employed had been
restricted.
No instructions to combat the Porte's conten
tion as to the limitation to two of the number of
steamers to be employed upon the Mesopotamian
rivers appear to have been given in reply to this
Enclosure in despatch, and Mr. Plowden, writing in 1881,
Plowden's^a 2 remarked that the persistency with which the
Commercial, Turkish authorities in 1864 reiterated the state-
March 28, 1881. , ,, , , • j .- n i
ment that under existing nrmans only tvro
British steamers were permitted to navigate the
Tigris apparently ended in securing its undisputed
acceptance.
Enclosure in addition to the " Comet " there was at this
Lord Lyons's time on the Tigris the other Government steamer,
No 36
November 22, the " Satellite," which had been sent to relieve
1865, the "Comet." The "Satellite" was originally
brought to
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.
by Lieutenant-Colonel
Stewart w r ith vessels engaged in laying the cable,
and retained for purposes connected with the
jnaintenance of the Mesopotamian line of tele
graphs. The company's steamer " City of
London" becoming temporarily disabled in
February 1865, Namick
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
refused to allow
the " Satellite " to be employed in place of the
disabled steamer for the carriage of mails, and
Mr. Stuart was instructed to urge the Porte to
issue positive orders to the
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
not to interfere
* Copies of the memorandum communicated by Sir S.
Canning to the Porte, the report by the Ottoman Grand
Douanier, and the vizierial letter of April 2, 1846, which
may be regarded as constituting the agreement of 1846, are
printed in Appendix X.
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Memorandum, written by Richard William Brant and Edward Parkes of the Foreign Office, Apr 1913 regarding navigation on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The memorandum is divided into four parts:
- Historical Memorandum respecting the navigation of the Mesopotamian rivers. The memorandum describes the history of British relations 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. and the progress of their relations in order to determine the rights that Great Britain possesses which allow it to participate in the trade and navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The memorandum covers both the period where rights were acquired by the East India Company (1579-1859) and from 1860s onwards where rights and special privileges were acquired and maintained on behalf of the Tigris and Euphrates Steam Navigation Company (folios 8-66);
- British rights by treaty with regard to the navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates, which looks at the rights accrued by Great Britain through treaties with the Ottoman Government and through the Ottoman Empire's treaties with other nations (folios 67-70);
- Conclusions, which summarises the conclusions that can be drawn from the information provided in both the historical memorandum and the treaties sections (folios 71-74);
- Chronological Table covering the period 1759 to 1912, with annual entries from 1873 onwards (folios 75-119) ;
- Annex: Instances where the employment of British steamers in the navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates has been asserted or admitted to be limited by the Firmans of 1834 and 1841;
- Appendices: 34 items which are listed on folio 122, and include extracts and copies of Treaties, Firmans, Memorandum, Circulars and other relevant documents covering the period 1718 to 1912.
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- 1 file (42 folios)
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Foliation: The main foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio (except for the front cover where the folio number is on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. ). An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between folios 4-139; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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