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which he daied not disobey, for forwarding* them on their way. Mr.
Manesty then sent Agha Muhammad Nabi with the Factory Lin
guist and a factory Janissary to the Ambassadors; and this deputa
tion enlarged with such effect on their position and obligations as
servants of a conquered state, on the hardships to which they would
probably be exposed at Constantinople, where the Sultan on account of
his alliance with Britain would not be able to befriend them, and on his
own positive determinatioa not to let them pass, but on the contrary to
compel them to return to Bombay in the « Antelope " then setting sail.
that in the end some hint of rewards having also been thrown out
they acknowledged themselves British subjects and promised to comply
with the Resident's wishes. The presents and letters which they had
brought for the Sultan, however, were taken from them by the
Mutasallim, notwithstanding a protest by Mr. Manesty; but this was
probably an unavoidable concession by 'Abdullah Agha to the opinion of
his Council, who were strongly in favour of the Ambassadors being
encouraged to proceed to Constantinople.
Captain J. Malcolm, in returning to India from his first mission to Visit of
the Persian Court, paid a short visit to Turkish Iraq, to the Pasha of "
which province also he was formally accredited. On the 15th March
1801, travelling from Hamadan, he reached the ill-defined boundary
between Pereia and Turkey; and soon afterwards he arrived on the
banks of the Tigris, where, in consequence of the alarm of the Pasha of
Baghdad at the large number of Persians accompanying the mission, he
discharged all his Persian attendants with princely gratuities. Sulaiman
Pasha refused to let Captain Malcolm pay for the local supplies furnished
to the mission, showing himself in this respect more hospitable than the
authorities in Persia, where payment had been accepted ; but he was not
free from strange suspicions, and on one occasion he sent specially to
request that swords might not be drawn by the British Envoy's escort
while m Turkish territory. The Pasha was anxious for an alliance with
the British, and he even expressed his regret that he had not been brought
as a third party into the arrangement lately concluded between Britain
and Persia by Captain Malcolm. Official dealings with him were con
fined, however, to one grand ceremonial visit, at which a letter from the
Governor-General of India was delivered, accompanied by rich gifts. On
the 31st March Captain Malcolm left Baghdad for Basrah in a river boat
supplied by the Pasha; but on the 8th April he transhipped to a vessel
belonging to Mr. Manesty, the British Resident at Basrah, which met
him near Qurnah, as did also a state barge belonging to the Pasha. On
t\e Uth of April, having resided for part of the time with Mr. Manesty
Captain
Malcolm to
Turkish'Iraq.
1801.
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