"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" [ظ‎‎٥‎٨] (٢٢٦/١١٨)

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witli the facts of the case would mark its displeasure of His Excel
lency's conduct, and adopt effectual measures for preventing its Represen
tative at his Court being a second time subjected to similar ill-treatment.
The Pacha shortly afterwards sent for Mr. Jones and requested him to
forget what had passed, promising that for the future he should have
nothing to complain of in His Excellency^ treatment of him. Mr.
Jones, however, peremptorily refused to resume his functions of Resident
until he had received a written apology from the Pacha, and an admission
that His Excellency was satisfied that the accusation which had been
made against him was altogether groundless. The Pacha refused to
comply with this demand, and Mr. Jones therefore withdrew from
Bagdad and proceeded to " Cootee/ situated on the banks of the
Euphrates river, pending instructions from the Right Hon'ble the
Governor-General of India, or from the home authorities, in regard to
his further proceedings. Before, however, these instructions reached
Mr. Jones, the Pacha, on the 20th October 1801, addressed the following
note to Mr. Jones, containing the concession he required. Mr. Jones
accordingly returned to Bagdad, where, on his arrival on the 20th
November (1801), he was received by the Pacha with the usual honors,
and resumed his functions as Resident at His Excellency's Court: —
" Having now minutely and faithfully examined the accusations which were here
tofore brought against you, on surmise, we have found them to be false, and to be
nothing more than idle reports, on this account we esteem it incumbent on ourselves
to acknowledge the same to you, in order that you may on every account and on
every respect be satisfied and at ease, and we call God to witness that from hence
forward you shall be esteemed and regarded by us more than ever, and that our con
fidence in you shall be greater than ever, and that your credit and consideration with
us shall be greater than ever, and whatever business or affairs you may have hereafter,
our desire to execute them to your satisfaction shall outstrip your own wishes."
194. In a letter, dated the 18th April 1802, Mr. Jones reported
that vaccination had just been successfully introduced into Bagdad by
the Civil Surgeon of the Residency, by means of some vaccine matter
which he had received from Vienna, on the 30th of the preceding month.
During the following month vaccination was also successfully intro
duced at Bussorah from vaccine matter received from the Civil Surgeon
at Bagdad.
195. In the early part of April 1802 the plague made its appear
ance at Bagdad, and rapidly assumed a very alarming form in con--
sequence of the Pacha having, on the first intelligence reaching him that
this disease had appeared, withdrawn in consternation from the city, and
adopted no measures for checking its progress.
196. In a letter to the address of the Right Hon'ble the Gover
nor-General of India, dated the 9th May 1802, Mr. Harford Jones after
describing the character of the Pacha, Solyman,* who had filled that
office for a period of about 20 years, as being imbecile in the extreme,
and that he had outlived his honor and reputation, gave the following
history of Bagdad, and that Pachalic generally, and its then condi
tion :—
" The fortifications of Bagdad, although most truly contemptible in the eyes of
European, are nevertheless sufficient to defend it against the efforts of any Eastern
» Solyman Pacha died on the 7th August 1802, being t iree months after the date of
this letter.