PERSIA FACTORY RECORDS: LETTERS FROM BASRA, 1753-1773, PT 1 [‎43r] (90/367)

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This item contains correspondence sent to and received from the East India Company Factory An East India Company trading post. at Bussora [Basra] from 17 January 1753 to 19 April 1765. It contains correspondence relating to the following:

• 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. of Bussora’s [ Mutasallim 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. of Basra] arrest of the Dutch Resident [Tiddo Frederik van] Kniphausen on the orders of Soliman Bashaw An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. [Sulaymān Abū Laylā, Pāshā of Baghdad, also written here as Solyman Bashaw An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. ]
• The death of William Fytche and succession of Roger Drake as Governor of Bengal
• The order given by Soliman Bashaw An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. for the execution of his brother-in-law, Achmed Aga [Aḥmad Āghā], for alleged ‘intrigues’ carried out against him at the Ottoman Porte
• The appointment of William Shaw and Alexander Douglass to take charge of the East India Company agencies at Bussora and Gombroon [Bandar ‘Abbas] respectively
• The delayed response to the ‘encouragement & invitations’ of Mir Nasir [Mīr Nāṣir bin Ḥamad al-Zu’ābī, also written here as Meir Nassir, Mir Nassir and Mir Nasser] to the East India Company to send a servant to Bunderick [Bandar-i Rig, also written here as Bundereeck]
• The departure of Soliman Bashaw An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. from Bagdat [Baghdad] with an army of fifteen thousand against ‘a people situated northward of Mussaul [Mosul]’ and his ravaging of the country
• The withdrawal of the Dutch Factory An East India Company trading post. at Bussora to Bushire [Bushehr], by order of their superiors at Gombroon, and the possible cost of the Factory’s relocation and re-establishment
• The grant of a Phirmaund [farmān] from the Grand Senor [Sulṭān Maḥmūd I] confirming Soliman Bashaw An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. in ‘all the governments he formerly held’ together with a gift of a sword and sable coat of honour
• The clashes between Careem Caun [Karīm Khān Zand, Vakīl of Persia] and Azat Caun an offgoon [Āzād Khān Ghiljā’ī, also known as Āzad Khān Afghān, self-declared Ruler of Azarbaijan], and the latter’s support for a claimant calling himself Shaw Sulṭan Hossein [Shāh Sulṭān Ḥusayn], a son of Shaw Thomas [Shāh Tahmāsb], who had recently returned from Muscovy [Russia]
• The Governor-General of Batavia’s [Jacob Mossel] dispatch of Kniphausen back to the Gulf, the latter’s arrival at Carrack [Kharg], ‘a small island contiguous to Bundereeck’, and the attempts of Mir Nasir to mediate between the Dutch and 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.
• The interception of a packet from the Agent at Bussora to the Consul at Aleppo, Alexander Drummond, by ‘one Mutti a Venetian Merchant’ and the Dutch Consul at Aleppo
• The threat from Soliman Bashaw An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. against Mir Nasir, Governor of Bunderick and Shaik Nassir, Governor of Bushire [Shaikh Nāṣir Khān Abū Muhayrī], to ‘chastise them severely’ for continuing to harbour Kniphausen
• The execution of Mir Nasir, Governor of Bunderick, by his youngest son, Mir Mahanna [Mīr Muḥannā, also written here as Meer Mahanna], and the flight of the latter’s elder brother to the Dutch in the ‘adjacent Country’
• The victory of Careem Caun over Azat Caun near Shyrash [Shiraz], and the possibility that both might submit to Ahmed Shaw, King of the Offgoons [Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī], who has already taken part of Khorason [Khurasan]
• The surprise attack by Meer Husson [Mīr Ḥasan bin Nāṣir al-Zu’ābī], eldest son of Mir Nasir, on his brother Mir Mahanna, and the binding of the latter in chains, although it is believed he will not easily quit his ‘pretensions’
• The arrival of a French Commissary on the Coromandell Coast and his dismissal of Governor Duplex [Joseph François Dupleix] and three of his councillors for their ‘Imprudent Conduct’
• The Grand Senior’s [Sulṭān Osmān III] appointment of Ally Basha [Silāḥdār Bıyıklı ‘Alī Pāshā] as Grand Vizier, and the latter’s enmity towards Soliman Bashaw An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
• The battle fought by Colonel [Eyre] Coote against Monsieur Laly [Thomas Arthur, Comte de Lally] and his Moratta [Maratha] allies commanded by Innis Cawn [Yūnūs Khān], the Chief Officer of Mororow [Murari Rao Ghorpade] at Wandiwash [Vandavasi]
• The raising of an army by the Mugull Sha Zada [Mughal Shāhzādah, or Crown Prince, ‘Alī Gawhar, the future Shāh ‘Ālam II] and rumours that he had taken Patna
• The death of Soliman Bashaw An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. and the unanimous appointment of the ‘King’s Treasurer’ by Government officials and the ‘whole body’ of the Janissaries in Bagdat
• The attainment by Carim Caun of such a degree of power as to keep his rivals in the ‘utmost awe and submission’ and ensure his position as the ‘sovereign power’ in Persia [Iran]
• The terms of the agreement between Saddooc Caun [Sādiq Khān Zand], Governor of Shyrash, and William Andrew Price of the East India Company for the latter’s assistance against Mir Mahanna
• The plunder of the English factories at Patna, Dacca [Dhaka], and Cassimbuzar [Kasim Bazar] by Cossim Ally Caun the Nabob An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. of Bengall [Mīr Qāsim ‘Alī Khān Najafī, the Nawwāb An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. of Bengal], the proclamation of Jaffer Ally Caun [Mīr Ja‘far ‘Alī Khān Najafī] as Nabob An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. , and the latter’s taking of the field against Cossim Ally Caun, together with the forces of the English East India Company
• The Articles of Agreement made and concluded between William Andrew Price, Agent for the affairs of the British Nation in the Gulf of Persia, on behalf of the Honourable United English East India Company, and Shaik Saddoon of Bushire [Shaikh Sa‘dūn bin Madhkūr Abū Muhayrī of Bushehr], 12 April 1763 (f 97)
• The imprisonment of Hodgee Esoof Delal Bashee [Hājī Yūsuf Dallāl Bashī], his execution by strangulation, and the discovery of his body at the ‘Corn Market’ in Bussora
• The Company’s appeal to 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. not to dispose of Hodgee Esoof’s large estate, ‘particularly in Lands & Houses’, before his debts to them have been settled
• The retreat of the Nabob An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. Cossim Ally Caun beyond Patna and the massacre of the English gentlemen and soldiers by Sumroos [Walter Reinhardt Sombre] on 6 October 1763
• The victories of the King of Candia [Kirti Sri Rajasinha, King of Kandy] against the Dutch at Ceylon [Sri Lanka], despite their reinforcement with ‘ships and men from Batavia’
• The encampment of Carim Caun’s army at Havisa [Hoveyzeh] and their crossing of the river to attack Shaik Soliman, the latter being indebted to him ‘for a large Tribute’, and Mir Mahanna’s coordinated dispatch of his gallivats to prevent the Chaub [Banū Ka‘b] from escaping
• The killing of Captain Herbert Sutherland and his officers by Arab lascars A term used by the British officials to describe non-European sailors employed on East India Company ships. aboard The Islamabad , and the seizure of four lach [ lakh One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees ] Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. in pearls and treasure.

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