"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٢‎٨‎٨] (١٧٨٢/١٤٤٣)

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—the'Omani ruler in July 1798 prepared to operate by sea against
Hasrah and, as a preliminary to doing so, opened negotiations with his
enemy the Qasimi Shaikh of Ras-al-Khaimah for a peace, and even for
an alliance. Sulaiman Pasha, who was by this time aware of the
French invasion of Egypt and who was now about to launch his first
expedition against the Wahhabis, feeling that any addition to his perplexi
ties would be inconvenient, sent on the 20th August 1798 for Mr. Reinaud,
an agent whom the British Resident at Basrah had deputed to Baghdad
on business, and requested through him the good offices of the Relidenl
in dissuading the Saiyid of 'Oman and the Qasimi Shaikh fron
violent action. To this proposal Mr. Manesty, the Resident, very
readily assented, but he found on enquiry that the Mutasallim of
Basrah was already in correspondence with both of the other parties.
Direct negotiations followed between the Mutasallim and Mulla Ibrahim
'Ah, the commander of the annual Masqat coffee fleet, then lying at
Bushehr ; and in the end the dispute was adjusted, for the time being,
and the 'Omani ships paid their accustomed friendly visit to Basrah.
British political relations with Turkish 'Iraq, 1789-1802.
It remains to notice the relations of Britain, as represented by the
East India Company and their agents, with Turkish Iraq during the
later years of Sulaimau Pasha's administration.
In March or April 1791 Mr. Manesty, the British Resident at Basrah,
intervened in proceedings before the Mutasallim against a Christian in
habitant of Basrah named R is ha, not apparently a British subject el
even a European, who was taxed with the murder of a Jew. The
ground of the Resident's interference seems to have been that parte
evidence only had been taken in the case, and that the prisoner had
not been allowed a fair trial ; and, though he was unable to withhold
the Mutasallim from finding the accused guilty and sentencing him to
death, he succeeded in preventing the infliction of the extreme penalty.
eanw i e thi eats of lesorting to personal violence against the British
Resident and of cutting down the East India Company's flagstaff had
eenuse y members of the Jewish community at Basrah, among
w om the case had caused great excitement ; but they were compelled to
apo ogise o . r. Manesty, in the presence of the Mutasallim and other
Turkish officials, for what they had said; and Mr. Manesty at first
accep e eir apology. Subsequently, however, on learning from a
private source that the head of the local Jewish colony had written of