"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٢‎٠‎٤] (١٧٨٢/١٣٥٩)

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the local
officia/s at
Basrah 1761.
Collection of
docoments
bearing on
British
grants and
privileges
1752-54.
Instructions
to the Reai-
dent at
Basrah,
1753.
Civility of
Sulaiman
Pasha to the
Resident at
Basrah, 1754.
complained to Sulaiman Pasha ; and the latter administered " so very
effectual :j a reprimand to his subordinate that the business of the
British Factory was thereafter carried on without the least hindrance or
molestation.
In 1752 the Resident at Basrah was ordered to furnish translations
which had been called for by the Presidency of Bombay, of all the
grants^ etc., under which the British enjoyed privileges in 'Iraq, The
required documents could not all be obtained at Basrah, and the Resident
accordingly referred to the Ambassador at Constantinople; but up to
February 1754 the necessary papers had not been received at Basrah.
In 1753 Mr. Shaw was appointed Resident at Basrah and received
some general instructions from the Agent and Council at Bandar 'Abbas
in which they remarked : " We are likewise to acquaint you that the
" Hon'ble Company will admit of no excuse for lending monev to the
a Government, or selling their goods to them, without first receiving the
" amount; as by this means they are sure to sustain no loss from bad
" debts."
In July 1754 Sulaiman Pasha of Baghdad, possibly influenced by the
trouble he was experiencing from the Dutch at K harag, made friendly
advances to Mr. Shaw, the British Resident at Basrah, and sent him a
fine Turkish sabre, with a very noble horse, richly caparisoned with
" gilt furniture, with very extraordinary letters of compliments from the
" Bashaw, his Kia (or First Minister), and Cuzenedar, or Master of the
" Household, and Shahbunder, etc., expressing the particular satisfaction
" they received from the regular decent conduct of our nation at all times
(f in the Bashaw's Government, and therein expressed their readiness, not
" only to confirm all former grants and favours, but even to add to them.
if need were, as they found at all times made so proper a use thereof as
" to render us daily deserving of additional instances of their particular
affection and esteem. The Resident, on receiving these presents and
compliments at a large assembly in the Sarai, " failed not to muster
all the little rhetoric he was master of;" and subsequently he asked to be
allowed to charge the cost of the return presents to the Company
"as it is the custom at all other places on such public occasions,"
Trade, consulage and other dues of tlie East India Company in
Turkish 'Iraq, 1730—54.
Trade proper,
1730—54. The official records contain few notices of the East India Company's
tmle at Basrah during this period. In 1733 the markets of Turkish