'Selections from State Papers, Bombay, regarding the East India Company's Connection with the Persian Gulf, with a Summary of Events, 1600-1800' [‎205v] (410/540)

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CCXLIX.
Extract of a despatch from the Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. to the Governor and Council Bombay, dated
15th April 1795.
MaS/sconduot. Having taken into our own consideration the advices and Papers on
Kwy r aTd 0Val tlie sub j ect of tlie dispute between the Pacha of Bagdad, and the Resident
Jones ' and Pactor at Bussora, we are of opinion that so far as respects their
interference with the Mussaleem During the eighteenth century this was the third most powerful official in Ottoman Iraq (after the Pasha and the Kiya). The title was given specifically to the Governor of Basra. in behalf of Risha in the affair of the
murdered Jew, their conduct was highly proper and praiseworthy. But
that after the satisfactory apology which was made to Mr. Manesty by
the principal Jews in the presence of the Mussaleem During the eighteenth century this was the third most powerful official in Ottoman Iraq (after the Pasha and the Kiya). The title was given specifically to the Governor of Basra. , and other officers
of the Turkish Government, and which was deemed by the Resident an
ample atonement for the insults which bad been offered to him in his public
capacity, we are much surprised and greatly displeased that he should have been
induced by any private intelligence from Bagdad respecting a letter written by
the Jew Caja A1 Bulla, to the Pacha's Minister, containing improper sentiments
and expressions regarding him, to renew his determination of demanding
justice and satisfaction from the Pacha for those insults for which an
atonement had been already made and accepted. To this evident want of
judgment and foresight may be attributed all the subsequent disputes and
embarrassments which terminated in the removal of the Company's Factory An East India Company trading post.
from Bussora, and the appeal which Mr. Manesty has since thought it
necessary to make to His Majesty's Ministers for the final settlement of the
disagreement between the Resident and Pactor and the Pacha of Bagdad. It is
on this ground and because there appears no probability of restoring Harmony
between the Pacha and Messrs. Manesty and Jones that we have resolved
upon the removal of the present Resident and Pactor. We therefore direct
that you select from among our covenanted servants fit and proper Persons to
succeed Messrs. Manesty and Jones, as the Company's Resident and Factor, and
that they proceed to Grain without further delay.
As we are convinced of the necessity so strongly pointed out in Mr.
Manesty's late Despatches of the speedy return to Bussora of a Resident and
Factor on the part of the Company it is our direction that immediately after
the arrival at Grain of the Persons you shall nominate to those stations they
address a conciliatory letter to the Pacha acquainting him that disapproving
of some parts of the conduct of the late Resident and Factor towards His
Excellency, we have removed them from their stations and appointed others in
their stead; and that in order to maintain the good understanding which at
present so happily subsists between Great Britain and the Sublime Porte and
to shew our inclination to meet the wishes of the Pacha in this respect, we
have determined that the punishment of the Jews by fine and imprisonment
shall no longer be insisted upon, as the condition of the return of the Company's
Resident to the Bussora Factory An East India Company trading post. , provided the Pacha will perform the promise
he has made, of making such a return by every public token of respect to our
natiom If in consequence of this application to the Pacha, he shall renew his
invitation for the return of our Resident and Factor, they are immediately to
accept thereof, and endeavour by every means in their power to cultivate the
friendship of the Mussaleem During the eighteenth century this was the third most powerful official in Ottoman Iraq (after the Pasha and the Kiya). The title was given specifically to the Governor of Basra. , and other officers of the Turkish Government
should the line here drawn for the guidance of the new Resident and Factor
fail of producing the desired accommodation, they are to state all the circum
stances to His Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople, who will be instructed
by His Majesty s Ministers how to act in consequence.