"مذكرة تتعلق بالملاحة في نهري دجلة والفرات". [ظ‎‎١‎١‎٧] (٢٨٤/٢٣٥)

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fluous for Sir S. Canning to conclude the 1912— {cont.)
arrangement of 1840, and for Messrs. Lynch to
obtain the special vizierial letter " renewing to
them in particular the privileges already secuucd
to all British subjects under the arrangement of
1846."' Kemarking that the Turkish Govern
ment had always regarded the company as
enjoying anomalous privileges not treaty rights,
and that His Majesty's Government had been
drawn by force of circumstances and the tem
porary exigencies of negotiations into acquiescence
in the Turkish view, Sir G. Lowther went on
to say that the British case had been vitiated
further by article 10 (article IS in final draft) of
the draft commercial treaty with Turkey, in
which His Majesty's Government showed readi
ness to recognise the right of the Porte to reserve
not only " fluvial cabotage" but also " petit
cabotage" in the Sea of Marmora, the Gulf of
♦Smyrna, &c., to the Ottoman flag, while Messrs.
Lynch's rights on the Tigris between Bagdad and
Bussorah were to be safeguarded in a special
44 protocole final."
Sir G. Lowther was instructed to inlbfm the To Su G .txnrther,
Porte in writing that His Majesty's Government t"." 2C2 V
regarded the vali's notice as an infringement of Ma >' K1 ''
the rights conferred by articles 1 and (> of tlie ' 17M0,12 J-
Austrian 8ened of the 24th February, 1781, but
he feared that to invoke the Soned thus suddenly girG. Lowther,
would arouse extreme suspicion in the Turkish Na 415 '
mind. His action in provisionally withholding the [21308/12],
propped communication was approved.and he was To sir G. Lowther
mfoimed that further instructions would be sent Xo 301 '
to him when the whole question, including its
legal aspects, had been re-examined. [21308/12],
lit ts tofuciktate such a re-examination that this
Chronological Table has been prepared; „
or the correspondence subsequent to
; ) here mereUj for convenience of
jutare referenced]
m£,,n [ T h T BUSSOrah refUSeJ re- ^phratesand
\ 01 Euphrates and Tigris Steam v gris Steam
Navigation Company to replace one of their StT'
foi Z"; bv' J l Ul,la ''' WhiCh llaCl ,,eCn d0Ck<,d ^flf^
P , by a reserve vessel, the ''Jiulbul" C 1 8406 and
A similar difficulty had occurred in June of the 16701/12] -
agent should inform the consul at Bussorah when