"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٣‎٠‎٤] (١٧٨٢/١٤٥٩)

Quarrel
between Mr.
Jones and
Ali Pasha,
1804-05, and
enforced
r etirement of
the former
from
Baghdad,
January
1806.
Visit of Mr.
Jones to
Constantino
ple, May to
October 1806.
Political
position in
IrSq after
the rupture
in Europe
between
Britain and
Turkey,
1807.
1304
December 180o a new table, free from this objection, was adopted for use
under an -igreement between Britain and Turkey.
Id IS04 a dispute arose at Baghdad between Mr, Jones and 'Ali
Pasha, the cause being the uncivil treatment by the Pasha of the Linguist
of the British Residency. Mr. Jones demanded reparation, which the
Pasha refused, and official relations between them ceased. In November
1805 the Pasha wrote to the British Ambassador at Constantinople, and
also to the Sultan of Turkey, asking that arrangements might be made
for the removal of Mr. Jones from Baghdad; and, as the Porte strongly
supported this request,—not because they were convinced of its justice,
but because the} were afraid to offend a far-off and semi -independent
Governor,—and as they declined to be responsible for Mr. Jones's
personal safety if he should remain any longer, Mr. Charles Arbuthnot,
knowing well that His Majesty's Ministers at home would not press'
the case on account ol the alliance then existing between Britain and
Turkey, advised Mr. Jones to quit Baghdad. The latter accordingly
made orer charge of his duties to Dr. Hine, the Civil Surgeon, and left
Baghdal early in January 1806 ; in February he was at Musal; and on
the 21si of May he reached Constantinople.
Mr. Jones was fortunate enough to win the good opinion of the
British Ambassador there, who invited him to remain for a time and to
lend his services, in the event of an expected Persian Embassy to France
passing through the Turkish capital, in obtaining information with
regard to its objects. On the 13th October 1806 the Sultan of Turkey
made it clear, by investing him with the Order of the Crescent of the
Second Class, that he entertained no personal objections against Mr.
Jones; and six days later that gentleman left Constantinople for
England, charged with important despatches from the Ambassadoi, In
August 1807 Mr. Jones, either in recognition of his political work during
eight years at Baghdad, which had been commended by the Ambassador,
or in preparation for a Mission on which he was shortly afterwards sent
to the Court of Persia, received a baronetcy*.
If proof were needed of the practical independence of the Pasha of
Baghdad at this time in his dealing with foreign powers, it would be
sufficient to cite the conduct of 'Ali Pasha in 1807, when war broke out
in Europe between Great Britain and Turkey. The Pasha at first
informed the British Residents at Baghdad and Basrah that they must
withdraw from their charges; but on second thoughts he pressed them
to remain, promising them full protection in their public and private
* Heat tirst called himself Sir Harford Jones ; but later, perhaps after his retire
ment. assumed the surname of Brydges.