"مذكرة تتعلق بالملاحة في نهري دجلة والفرات". [ظ‎‎٩‎٩] (٢٨٤/١٩٩)

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built by Englisli owners, or belonging to tliem 1883 (cont.)
and sailing under the Ottoman Mag.
Musurus Pasha was informed of the mistake
arising out of the mention oi Ijieutenant Jj\nch
in the firman of August 18il, and, at the same
time, he was asked to state the 1 urkish ease in
To Musurus Pasha,
December 13.
writing.
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This he proceeded to do in a note on the
28th December, in which he also denied having
confused the Lieutenant Lynch of August 1841
with the company of the same name subsequently
formed. The Turkish argument is briefly that
the sole right of navigation possessed by the
company is derived from the firmans of ]8'34 and
1841. (See Appendix XX.)
Musurus Pasha also forwarded Turkish versions
of the translations of the firmans dated 1834
and 1841. (See Appendix XX, Enclosures 1
and 2.)
Early in the year it was stated in the House of
Commons, in reference to a question relative to
the grant to a Turkish merchant of Bagdad of a
concession for the navigation of the Tigris, that
Her Majesty's Government were desirous that the
Tigris and Euphrates should be opened to naviga
tion by vessels under all flags, but that the
principle of free navigation of rivers established
by the Additional Act of the Treaty »f Vienna
applied only to those flowing through the terri
tories of different States,
In reply to a further question in the House of
Commons, Lord E. Eitzmaurice stated that the
right to navigate the Tigris was not granted by
any firman, but had been exercised under an
arrangement obtained by Sir Stratford Canning in
184fi, and confirmed by vizierial letters addressed
to the Yali of Bagdad in 184C, 1861, and
1862.
In March the Turkish Ambassador enquired as
to the reason for the appearance at Bussorah of Her
Majesty's ship <f Eclipse," and was informed that
although, in deference to the wishes of the Porte,
British ships of war did not proceed farther up the
river than Kurna, Her Majesty's Government
were not aware of any regulation precluding such
ships from visiting Bussorah.
Later in the year the Porte again called atten
tion to the presence of a British ship of war at
Bussorah. The explanation given was to the
effect thst the native assistant of the British
resident in the Persian Gulf, sent temporarily to
Musarus Pasha,
December 28.
Mr. A. Arnold,
Parliamentary
Question,
February 19.
Mr. A. Arnold,
Parliamentary
Question,
July 12.
To Musurus Pasha,
April 21.
To Musurus Pasha,
September 12.