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proceeding wliich has from time to time met with opposition on the part of the local authorities
at Bagdad.
The second question is of a more general character, and has reference to the right of foreign
vessels to navigate those rivers alleged to have been concededin 1846, in pursuance of an arrange
ment entered into between Sir S. Canning and the Porte, which resulted in a vizierial letter
addressed to the Pasha of Bagdad instructing him to cany out the same.
Document 1 transmitted herewith contains a full exposition of the question and a resume
of the correspondence on the subject.
Document 2 contains a memorandum on the question by Mr. Plowden, Her Majesty's
consul-general at Bagdad.
Document 3 contains a copy of a despatch from Lord Granville to Mr. Goschen, No. 44 of
the 16th May, 1881, instructing his Excellency to remind the Porte of the arrangement entered
into in 1846 with Sir S. Canning; and copies of a correspondence between Mr. Plowden and the
Governor-General of Bagdad.
Document 4 contains copies of the firmans and vizierial letter referred to in the other
enclosures.
Among the papers transmitted herewith you will find (Nos. 6 and 7) Mr. St. John's despatch
No. 44 of the 29th December, 1880, and the letter of the company to the Foreign Office of the
20th May, 1880, referred to in Lord Granville's despatch to Mr. Goschen (Enclosure 3), and
(No. 5), a recent despatch from Her Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople (No. 68 of the 25th
July last), in which Lord Dufferin holds out some hope that these questions may be satisfactorily
adjusted. A copy of the Capitulations and of the British treaty of 1861, referred to in
Mr. Plowden's memorandum (document 2), is likewise transmitted herewith.
I am to request that you will take these papers into your consideration, and favour Lord
Granville with your opinion ;—
1. As to how far the general right to navigate the Euphrates and Tigris can be claimed for
British vessels under the arrangement of 1846.
2. Whether the right claimed by the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company to
-tow barges on those rivers can properly be maintained.
I have, &c.
CHARLES W. DILKE.
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List of Papers.
Memorandum by Sir E. Hertslet, March 27, 1881.
Consul-General Plowden, No. 2, March 28, 1881.
To Mr. Goschen, No. 44, May 16, 1881.
Consul-General Plowden, Nos. 3 and 4.
Firman of 1834 and vizierial letters.
Lord Duflerin, No. 68, July 25, 1881.
Mr. St. John, No. 4^, December 29, 1880.
Letter of Company, May 20, 1880.
British treaty with Turkey of 1861, and Capitulations (Hertslet s
Trade (Turkey)," pp. 8 and 41),
APPENDIX XVII.
" Treaties relative to
I mw Officers of the Crown and Dr. Deane to Earl 6 ranville.
7 ^ or( j Temple, November 18, 1881.
* WE were honoured with your Lordship's commands signified in Sir Charles Dilke's letter of
the 17th September last, stating that he had to transmit to us, by your Lordship s direction, the
papers respecting the navigation of the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates by British vesse s.
That the first question which arose had reference to a claim put forward by the Euphrates
and Tigris Steam Navigation Company to tow barges on those rivers as a matter of right, a
proceeding which had from time to time met with opposition on the pari of the local auth mties
at gecon(i question was of a more general character, and had reference to the right of
foreign vessels to navigate those rivers, alleged to have been conceded in 184b, m pmsuance of
an arrangement entered into between Sir S. Canning and the Porte which resulted m a vizienal
letter addressed to the Pasha of Bagdad instructing him to carry out the same.
That document 1 transmitted therewith contained a full exposition of the question and a
dt—rcttw f—ndu m on the question by Mr. Plowden. Her Majesty
COnS That n document 3 contained a copy of a despatch from your Lordship to Mr. Goschen, No. 44
of the 16th May 1881, instructing his Wllency to remind the Porte of the arrangement entered
fnto hi 1846, with Sir S. Canning; and copies of a correspondence between Mr. Plowden and the
GOVe S'doTumlf4 B cTntLd copies of the firmans and ymerial letters referred to in the other
^TbaT'amonK the papers transmitted therewith we would find (Sos. 6 and 7) Mr St. John's
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