"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٢‎٨‎٥] (١٧٨٢/١٤٤٠)

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many hours to live. The end came on the 7th of August before the
hour of mid-day prayer.
Sulaiman Pasha's Government, once firm, had been qualified not long-
before his death by the British Resident at Baghdad as fr imbecile in the
extreme " while he himself was spoken of as having outlived his honour
and his reputation ; but he deserves to be remembered as he was in the
days of his vigour, when his appearance and character answered to the
following description by Sir H. J. Brydges, to whom he was well
known :—
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Suleiman was, perhaps, as 6ne a specimen of a Turkish Pasha as ever existed.
Born a Georgian, he was possesed of great manly beauty—his stature and form were
such as to give the greatest effect to the magnificence of the Turkish dress—his
countenance had a strong exprwsion of reflection and humanity—he was as expert
in all military and field exercises and sports as those who made them their employ
ment and profession—sincereand warm in the exercise and belief of his own religion,
he was as tolerant as a lurk cjuM be towards those whom an article of his own faith
bound him to consider as infidels—exact and economical in his expenses, he was
accused of avarice, but when he considered his country to be in danger, he freely
and readily parted with that which he had amassed slowly and by degrees. I can
vouch (fcr it passed through mine and the Jew Abdullah's hands) to his having sent,
first and last, to the assistance of Easoof Pacha, the Grand Vizier, during his
campaiga in Egypt against the French, half a million of pounds sterling in money.
His corrfc was splendid, and the establishment of his household was on the scale of
that of x great sovereign. I n the early part of his life he had received many favours
and great assistance from the English, and to the very last moment he acknowledged
these, and any favour asked for by an English gentleman travelling through his
I achdlik was sure to be gracefully and cheerfully granted.
Sulaiman tad, also, according to the same authority, a strong sense
of humour.
The trade of the Pashaliq during the period 1789—1802 continued
to be of much the same character as between 17 79 and 1789. In 1800
the average annual value of Indian imports at Basrah was estimated at 30
lakhs of rupees.
External relations of Turkish Iraq, 1789—1802.
Trade frotii
1789 to
1802.
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Disquiet upon the western frontier, occasioned by the irreconcileable
differences between the Turks and the Wahhabis, was the most salient
feature of the external history of Turkish 'Iraq under the later rule of
Sulaiman Pasha. The Wahhabis were in general the active and aggressive
party, and a detailed account of the struggle will be found in the chapter
Invasions
by and
expeditions
against the
Wahhabis,
1789—1802.