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formerly Assistant to the Political Ag-ent in Turkish 'Iraq, whose name
has more than once appeared in our narrative. Basrah proper was reduced
to a Native Agency, but the Political Agent continued for some years
to reside there.
In 1 824 another administrative change was made, whereby the British
Political Agent in Turkish ; Iraq became subordinate, but only partially so,
to the authority of the British Resident at Bushehr. He was ordered, in
all matters relating to the maritime Arabs or to the Persian Coast, to
deal with the Resident at Bushehr and to comply with such instructions
as he might receive from that officer; and he was also to supply the
Resident with copies of his despatches; but in matters affecting the
Baghdad Pashaliq alone his responsibility and powers remained unaltered.
Without the sanction of the Resident at Bushehr, however, no measures
in regard to Turkish 'Iraq which might re-act upon other parts of the
Persian Gulf were to be taken by the Political Agent; and the sus
pension of British trade with the Pashaliq was specially cited as an
example in point.
During some years the headquarters of the Political Agent in
Turkish ^Iraq continued to vary with circumstances, being sometimes
at Baghdad, the administrative and political capita^ and sometimes
at the commercial port of Basrah. In 1828 the orders of 1812,
issued at the time of the first institution of the Political Agency,
were repeated by the Government of Bombay under instructions from
the Court of Directors, authorising the Political Agent to reside at
Baghdad or at Basrah as he found convenient; and it was suggested by
the Court that, in case of the absence of the Political Agent at Baghdad,
his duties at Basrah might be performed by a European Assistant, There
appear, however, to have been objections on the part of the Indian author
ities to the Agents' leaving Basrah ; for in 1830, when he visited Baghdad
at the express request of the Pasha, he had first to obtain permission for
his journey from the Government of Bombay. In the same year the Pasha
asked that Major Taylor, the Political Agent, might be permanently
stationed at Baghdad instead of Basrah, but the Governor of Bombay
replied that, in the interests of trade, he could not assent to His High
nesses proposal. At the same time, however, an assurance was given to
the Pasha that Major Taylor would be allowed frequent opportunities
of visiting the capital. On the 12th May 1831, plague having broken
out at Baghdad, the Political Agent, who had then been at Baghdad for
about a year and had witnessed at that place the displacement of Dawud
Pasha by Haji 'Ali Riza Pasha, left again for Basrah; his brother-in-law,
Partial sub
ordination of
the Political
Agency in
Turkish
'Iraq to the
Residency at
Bushehr,
1824.
Changes of
headquarters
of the Politi
cal Agent
in Turkish
'Iraq, 1828-32.
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