"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٣‎٠‎٢] (١٧٨٢/١٤٥٧)

Difficulty
between the
Resident at
Basrah and
the Turkish
authorities,
arising from
the case of
Captain
White, 1808.
1802
Jones was recognised as British Consul, according to the Capitulations,
at Baghdad; his right to protect British merchants and travel
lers and to regulate the departure o£ British vessels was admitted ■ the
public servants under his orders, his Assistants, and bis " slaves " were
declared exempt from various taxes and forms of contribution to the
Turkish revenues, while he was made free in his personal capacity of
liability to pay customs and excise; the immunity of the Consul
himself from arrest, and of his bouse from closure, search and billeting
of troops, was clearly established ; complaints against him were ordered to
be referred to the Sultan of Turkey and not to be disposed of by any
other authority; the Consul was to be at liberty to travel about
in the country without molestation; native vessels, on payment
made, must carry his stores for him " according to the prevailing regu
lations/' presumably those governing forced labour; in dangerous
parts of the country be should be allowed to wear •' a white turban,
sabre, bow, or other warlike instruments;" and the officials of
the Turkish Empire were ordered to assist and protect him everywhere
and to deal with him, in all circumstances, according to the Capitulations
The British Residency at Baghdad, in its origin a temporary mission to
the Pasha, was thus placed upon the same regular footing that the
Residency at Basrah occupied under the "Consulary Hirat" of 1764.
A second serious colliaion, not unlike that of 1798, now occurred
between Mr Manesty, the British Resident at Basrah, and the authorities
of the Pashahq. On the 4th of April 1803 a native mob at Basrah broke
into the house of Captain White, the commander of Mr. Manesty's
private trading vessel " Recovery, " and carried off a woman, an Oriental
nstian of Cairo, who was living there under his protection, and in
regard to whom it was popularly asserted that she either was already a
Muhammadan or had admitted in the presence of Mnhammadans a desire
to become one The house, too, was plundered. Mr. Manesty at once
applied for redress to the Mutasallim of Basrah, whom he suspected of
being the instigator of the riot, but in vain; so on the next dayLstruck
the ° ate ° f the Factory to be bricked n P , and
prohibited intercourse between the town and British ships then lying in
t r t e ^ ^ he ^ 40 ^ ^a of Baghdad Land-
of CaptZ Wh 0 te f 1 th r 0n ; an 40 Captain White ' the i^emnification
leaders in the attLk wTth ^ punisl ™ eut of the
and he tWaf^nori i ^ on ' lm P riso nment and other penalties;
clut and ttere t Un eSS SatisfaCtion w -e afforded, to withdraw to
India The Path; L ' a "'^I'lamt before the Governor-General of
indta. Ihe Pasha, on rece.vmg Mr. Manest/s communication, mformed