Copy of Dispatch No. 19 from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, in Yankijah, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Canning

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Copy of dispatch No. 19 from HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in Yankijah [Yengejeh], to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Canning, of 4 September 1825. The letter concerns the ongoing negotiations between Russia and Persia for the demarcation of their frontier in the Caucasus. Willock gives his appraisal of the motives of the Prince Royal, Abbas Mirza [Crown Prince of Persia, 'Abbās Mīrzā Qājār], in his ‘procrastination’ of the settlement of the frontier, and gives an account of the communications and negotiations concerning the settlement of the frontier that occurred while the Court of the Shah of Persia was at Sultanieh [Solţānīyeh]. Included are details of:

• Willock’s representations to the Prince Royal and the Shah encouraging the settlement of the frontier
• Communications between the Shah and the Governor-General of Georgia, General Yermoloff [Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov] concerning the ratification of a settlement previously agreed
• Negotiations between the Persians and the Russian Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Mazarowitch [Semyon Mazarovich]
• The Shah’s request for the British to mediate in the dispute.

The letter originally enclosed a translation of a letter from General Yermoloff to the Shah (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/70/47), and a copy of a letter from Major William Monteith to Willock (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/70/48).

This document was originally enclosed, numbered 1, in Willock’s letter to 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. of the East India Company of 10 September 1825 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/45).

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1 item (14 folios)

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Letter

Access & Reference

Original held at

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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Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/9/70/46

History of this record

Date(s)

4 Sep 1825 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

FrontiersDiplomacy

People & organisations

HM Chargé d'Affaires to PersiaSecretary of State for Foreign AffairsCrown Prince of Persia

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Copy of Dispatch No. 19 from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, in Yankijah, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Canning, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/9/70/46, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100038378586.0x0002bd> [accessed 8 August 2026]

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