"ملخّص يحتوي على معلومات بشأن الاتصال الأول لشركة الهند الشرقية مع الجزيرة العربية التركية، طالما أمكن تتبع ذلك من سجلات حكومة بومباي، بالإضافة إلى أسماء العديد من المقيمين البريطانيين والوكلاء السياسيين الذين عُينوا في بغداد والبصرة في الفترة بين ١٦٤٦ و ١٨٤٦ ميلادي، وبمرافقة معلومات أخرى" [و‎‎٥‎٧] (٢٢٦/١١٥)

WITH TURKISH ARABIA —1646 TO 1846.
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insisted on their leaving- behind them the presents and letters of which
they had been the bearers from Tippoo Sahib for the Sultan. Mr.
Manesty remonstrated but without success against this arrangement, the
Mussaleem stating that he was a servant, and that he might expose him
self to serious danger by not transmitting the letters and presents to
Bagdad, and which he accordingly forwarded to the Pacha.
190. In 1800 Mr. Harford Jones, the Resident at Bagdad, was
seriously indisposed, and there being no European medical adviser at that
place he solicited Mr. Manesty to allow the Surgeon attached to the
Bussorah Residency to proceed to Bagdad for the purpose of attending
him during his illness. Mr. Manesty however feeling himself unable to
comply with the request, Mr. Harford Jones proceeded to Bussorah for
the purpose of placing- himself under the medical treatment of the
Surgeon at that station. In consequence however of a subsequent re
presentation to Government from Mr. Jones of the dang'er to which he
had been exposed from being without medical advice in the early stage
of his illness, and the Pacha having about the same time expressed a wish
that a British medical officer should be permanently located at Bagdad,
that he might have the benefit of his medical advice whenever requisite.
Government, in September 1800, appointed Mr. James Short, a Surgeon
on the Bombay Establishment, Civil Surgeon to the Bagdad Residency.
191. In September 1800 Government complied with an application
preferred by Mr. Jones for having a native guard attached to the
Bagdad Residency, and a Jemadar, with 1 Havildar, 2 Naiks, 25 Sepoys,
and a Drummer and Fifer were sent from Bombay to Bagdad for that
purpose.
192. On the 28th July 1801, Mr. Jonathan Duncan, then Gover
nor of this Presidency, recorded a Minute regarding the expense of the
Civil establishment of the Bombay Presidency in its various branches.
In this Minute Mr. Duncan took the following review of the expenses
of the Bussorah Residency from the year 1788 to the date of his
Minute.
" Bussorali (establishment of) according to the Court of Directors' orders of April
1789
Es. lis.
Resident's diet
Allowance
Servants
1,800
3,600
84
5,484
Joint Factor, diet, servants
Allowance as Accountant
164
600
764
Total per annum
6,252