"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٣‎٠‎٣] (١٧٨٢/١٤٥٨)

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Mr. Jones, the British Resident at Baghdad, that he would enquire
carefully into the case ; and, after some time, he not only removed tue
Mutasallim for incapacity and summoned him to Baghdad to answer to
the charge of having caused the emetcte, but also directed that official's
substitute to try, and on conviction to punish, all the persons who might
be charged by Mr. Manesty with active participation in the outrage, and
to make good to Captain White the material losses that he had sustained.
He declined, however, to discuss the restoration of the woman, professing
to consider that it would be contrary to the principles of his religion ;
and, when Mr. Manesty in reply refused to treat with him upon any
other basis, he broke off the correspondence altogether. Eventually in
July 1803, Mr. Manesty still standing firm, the Pasha caused the woman
to be given up, and the Resident forwarded her after Captain White to
Calcutta. All demands having thus been satisfied, the British flag was
again hoisted and the Factory reopened upon the 23rd of the month.
'Ali Pasha had no doubt been a witness of Mr. Manesty^s successful
bout with his old master, Sulaiman Pasha, in 1793-95, and preferred to
avoid a contest to the bitter end with a gentleman so tenacious in matters
of personal importance.
About the end of 1803 'Ali Pasha sent an Ambassador to the Gover- p a8 b a 's
nor-General of India in the person of one Sulaiman Agha. This indivi- Embassy
dual arrived in Bombay on the 16th February 1804), and was pro\ided by Governor,
the Government of B ombay with passages to Calcutta for himself and of
his suite on the ship " Upton Castle " which sailed on the 3rd of April.
The object of the Embassy is not recorded, nor the result; and it is
therefore net improbable that the duties of the Ambassador ware of a
purely ornameiital character, such as the offering of congratulations.
The principle governing the customs tariff of the Ottoman Empire with
reference to Great Britain continued to be that of the Capitulations, viz.,
that the duty levied should not exceed 3 per cent, of the market value of
the msrehandise ; but it bad been found convenient to assume fixed values
for aII classes of goods and to draw up a scale of authorised duties, by weight
and quantity, calculated from the fixed values on the 3 per cent, principle.
Such a table had been framed in 1794 j but by 1800, in consequence of
a rise in the price of all commodities, the authorised duties had fallen
below the 3 per cent, ad valorem level j and in that year, with the
consent of Great Britain, the table was revised in a manner favourable to
the Porte. Subsequently it was found that the duties paid by British
merchants under the revised table were higher in some cases than those
paid by the merchants of other Christian nations j and on the 13tk
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