"مذكرة تتعلق بالملاحة في نهري دجلة والفرات". [و‎‎١‎٢‎٧] (٢٨٤/٢٥٤)

Enclosure 3 in No. 1.
The Grand Vizier to the Pasha of Bagdad, le 6 Rebiul-akhir, 1262 (2 am/, 1846).
[See Appendix X (C) ].
(No. 2.)
Circular to the British Merchants of Bagdad.
Gentlemen, Bagdad, September 12, 1846.
I HAVE the honour to enclose for your information, and for registration in your respective
offices, extract of a despatch addressed to me by his Excellency Sir S. Canning, and copy of
translation in French of a letter addressed to his Excellency Nejib Pasha by the Porte on the
subject of the navigation of the rivers of Mesopotamia by British registered vessels under the
national flag, as well as by Turkish boats, owned by British subjects.
The regulations which have been instituted by the Porte on these subjects respectively have
been duly communicated by his Excellency Nejib Pasha to the Governor of Bussorah and to the
Arab authorities on the river, and may accordingly be considered in force now and hereafter.
I have, &c.
H. C. RAWLINSON,
Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Bagdad.
Enclosure 1 in No. 2.
Extract of a Letter addressed by Her Majesty s Ambassador at Constantinople to
Major H C. Rawlinson, Consul at Bagdad, under date March 25, 1846.
[See paragraphs 1-5 of Enclosure 1 in Appendix XI (No. 1).]
Enclosure 2 in No. 2.
[See Appendix X (C).]
(N.B.—rThe other Enclosures in this letter it is not necessary to print as they only refer
to proceeding in the local courts, &c.)
[The above circular is taken from Major Rawlinson's No. 12 to Sir S. Canning of March 16.
1849. (See Constantinople Archives Record Office No. Foreign Office 195, vol. 334).]
APPENDIX XII.
SIR STRATFORD CANNING'S No. 94 of the 1st June, 1846, enclosed a despatch from
Major Rawlinson, of which the following is an extract:—
c< The formal acknowledgment which your Excellency has succeeded in obtaining of our right
to navigate these rivers under our own flag, and subject to no other charge than a tee toi
anchorage, which is so low as to be merely nominal, cannot but be considered a concession ot
the very highest consequence. I have every reason to believe that the British merchants
connected with this part of the Turkish Empire have been alone deterred from establishing
steam-vessels on the Tigris by the uncertainty which has hitherto prevailed as to a right ot
navigation, and the duties to which such navigation would be liable. ^Now that all question on
the subject is removed, their plans will, no doubt, be carried to matmity.
APPENDIX XIIL
(No. 1.)
Colonel Rose to the Earl of Malmesbury.
CNo -15.) Constantinople, December 7, 1852.
1 y I 0 HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's despatch N o-^
and with reference to it, to enclose to your Lordship Lieutenant-Colonel Rawhnsons despatch
No '24 to me bv which your Lordship will see that that officer had recourse o 1X16 1 'P £
transH dudes YevTabTe on British Jats navigating on the rivers of Mesopotamm, because the
TorXhl; ^TsteThat'the^ i^^ffel^ttweCSe tenonr of the despateh' No. 2
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