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List of Papers.
(A.) Correspondence.*
(B.) Memorandum by Mr. Kennedy.
(C.) Memorandum by Sir E. Hertslet.
(D.) Ditto.
(R.) Memorandum by Mr. Plowden.
(F.) Law Officers' Report, 1881.
(G.) Correspondence, 1873-74.
(H.) Memorandum of Interviews.
(I.) Note of Musurus Fasha.
(J.) Memorandum by Sir E. Hertslet, with map.
(K.) Memorandum by Sir L. Felly.
Appendix.
No.
1. Firman, 1834.
2. Vizierial letter, 1842.1
3. Firman, 1834.
4. Firman. 1841.
5. Despatches of Sir Stratford Canning.
6. Vizierial letter, 1846.
7. Vizierial letter, 1801.
8. Note by Mr. Redhouse, Oriental translator.
APPENDIX XXII.
Sir J. Pauncefote to the, T^aw Officers of the Crown and Dr. Deane.
Oentlemen, ^ Foreign Office, March 25, 1884.
I HAVE the honour to transmit to you, by direction of the Secretary of State, the papers
noted in the accompanyiDg list, relating to the question of the navigation of the Tigris and
Euphrates, which was submitted to you in my letter of the 19th ultimo.
The first portion of the enclosed papers relates to the rumoured desire, on the part of the
Ottoman authorities at Bagdad to settle the matters in dispute by buying np the existing Tigris
and Euphrates Navigation Company, and I am to ask whether, in your opinion, any communication
should be addressed to the Porte on the question of this rumoured action of their authorities
at Bagdad.
The second portion of the papers now sent relates to the claims of the company to
compensation for the losses they may have suffered through the action of the Porte; and I am
to ask for an expression of your opinion on the action, if any, which Her Majesty's Government
should take in regard to these claims.
The particulars respecting the company's claims will be found at p. 119 of the printed
correspondence which was enclosed in my above-mentioned letter of the 19th ultimo.
I am to request that you will take the papers transmitted herewith into your consideration,
and that you will, at your early convenience, favour Lord Granville with your opinion on the
questions submitted in this letter, and in my previous letter of the 19th ultimo.
I have, &c.
JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE.
List of Papers.
Lord Dufferin, No. 53, Commercial, March 15, 1884.
Ditto, No. 57, Commercial, March 17, 1884.
Tigris and Euphrates Navigation Company, March 20, 1884.
Ditto, March 5, 1884.
To ditto, March 10, 1884.
APPENDIX XXIII.
The Law Officers of the Crown and Dr. Deane to Earl Granville.—{Received April 10.)
My Lord, Royal Courts of Justice, April 9, 1884.
WE are honoured with your Lordship's commands signified in Sir Julian Pauncefote s letter
of the 19th February last relating to the difficulty which had arisen between Her Majesty s Govern
ment and the Sublime Porte touching the right claimed by the Turkish Government to stop the
traffic of the Tigris and Euphrates Steam Navigation Company. cr t d c *.
We have also the honour to acknowledge the receipt ot a further letter from bir J. raunce o e,
dated the 25th ultimo, stating that he had the honour to transmit to us papers relating .o the
navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates with reference to those then before us.
* This collection of correspondence was subsequently enlarged and printed as Confidential No. 5017. An
exact copy of the collection sent to the Law Officers has not^ been preserved, and e pages q i
Reference do not correspond in all cases with those in Confidential No. 5017.
| This should be 1841. * -pr
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