‘Confidential. Persia’ [‎478r] (5/112)

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Hertslet’* (Persian) Treaties, page 211.
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Ibid, page 211 .
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1839.
Ibid, page 212.
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are from tlie correspondence which passed
in 1838 :—
Count Nesselrode to Count Pozzo di Borgo.
St. Petersburg, October 20 [November 1), 1S38.
(Extract).
“ It will not be without advantage, M. le Comte,
to place again before Lord Palmerston at the
present time the despatch, which at that period he
addressed to the Minister of England at St. Peters-
bnrg, and which the latter was then directed to
communicate to us.
“ Your Excellency will find a copy of it annexed.
With this document in }our hand, you will have
the goodness, M. I’Amha^sadeur, to make known to
Lord Palmerston that the same sentiments which
guided us in 1834, and which led us at the time
to desire a friendly understanding with England
upon the affairs of Persia, are now also the motive
of the present step, and inspire us with the full
confidence of seeing it lead to results fully as satis*
factory An East India Company trading post. as that which preceded it.
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“ Assuredly, it will rest with that Government
alone to re-establish, between the missions of Bussia
and of Great Britain at Tehran, that happy agree
ment of views and of actions which we had so much
at heart to form in 1834, and which had at that
time been attended with consequences so beneficial
for the consolidation of the internal tranquillity of
the Persian monarchy.”
Viscount Palmerston to Count Pozzo di Borgo.
Foreign Office, December 20, 1S38.
(Extract).
“ The despatch from Count Nesselrode, which
Your Excellency has communicated to me, contains
upon these points assurances the most full and com
plete ; and Her Maje?ty’s Government accept as
entirely satisfactory the declarations of the Im
perial Cabinet that it dees not harbour any designs
hostile to the interests of Great Britain in India;
that its own policy with respect to Persia remains
unchanged, and is the same which in 183 4 the two
powers agreed to adopt . 0
4. Again in 1839 the understanding of
1834 was alluded to in the following
[Russian despatch: —
Count Nesselrode to Count Pozzo di Borgo.
St. Petersburg, January 29, 1839.
(Extract)
“The Government of Her Britannic Majesty
has received from us the formal assurance that it
in no wise enters into the views of our cabinet to
desire to direct the slightest hostile combination
against the security of the English possessions in
India; and that, far from that our policy, in res
pect to Persia, has invariably remained the same
as it was in 1834, at the time when a perfect under-
standing was so happily established on this matter
between Russia and England.
“In xeturn for this clear and precise declaration,
we consider that, on our part, we may rely upon
the intention and upon the desire which the British
Cabinet has, on its part, expressed, to the effect of
replacing the order of things in Persia on its
ancient footing, by re-establishing its relations of
friendship and good understanding with that
country,”