"مذكرة تتعلق بالملاحة في نهري دجلة والفرات". [ظ‎‎٤‎٨] (٢٨٤/٩٧)

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a critical spirit the exact extent of rights
conferred upon Mr. Lynch {i.e., the Euphrates
and Tigris Steam Navigation Company) aud the
conditions attached to the privileges eiijo\(d,
and the examination might show that those
rights had been too liberally interpreted in the
pro-memorid, and that the conditions had been
altogether forgotten. With respect to the
instructions to strike out specific reference to the
company in order that the permission accorded
should be extended to the British flag in general,
Mr. Wrench referred to the demand already
made in the course of the commercial treaty
negotiations (Confidential 6158, pp. 20 and 34)
to secure the right of navigation to the British
flag, and rejected by the Turkish commissioner,
who would only admit that the exclusive
privilege accorded to Mr. Lynch personally
should be prolonged.
The substance of Sir C. Ford's despatch and
enclosures above mentioned was communicated
to the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation
Company, and they were informed that it was
not proposed to move further in the matter.
It is necessary and convenient to give here the
history of the pro-Tnemorid referred to in the
preceding paragraphs, and an account of
Article 1G of the proposed commercial treat v.
It was to Article] 6, "Cabotage" Article, that
the ■pro-memorid was appended.
Hip Anglo-Turkish commercial treaty of 1861
was denounced by the Porte in October 1882, and
terminated in October of the following year.
Negotiations were carried on from that date to
arrange a tariff for British imports kto Turkey
and to conclude a new commercial treaty, and in
1890 Messrs. Law and Wrench were appointed as
British delegates to negotiate a treaty of com
merce and navigation. They experienced
difficulty i„ persuading their Ottoman col-
eagues to accept the word " navigation" in
" existed * the treaty of
1861 (Article 1), and Sir W. White remarked
m relerence to this incident: ^ White,
«66,
e experience we have had a few years Comin e»ciAU
regard to the difficulties thrown in the way of tf ^ ^ im
gation of Mr. Lynch's shim on t> Ar UaV1 '
and etui more recently in the Gulfs ofT^^T riTere '
andCa-andra ,and with British
Trojan have made me con«iM« .u and
navigation on rivers and ' cabota'- 'T qUe8tiot " , of
dealt with with gl l; at cauW" g " ^ ^