"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٣‎٣‎٨] (١٧٨٢/١٤٩٣)

ihhmflnm
Reserve
enjoined on
the Political
Agent in his
relations with
the Pasha of
Baghdad,
1831-32.
Proposed
absorption of
the Political
Agency in
Turkish 'Iraq
into that in
1338
who accompanied him died of the disease hv the wav t„ T.
1832 plague appeared at Basrah, and Major Taylor, at the request o{7 e
new Pasha, then returned to Baghdad. Soon afterwards the Court, of
Directors of the East India Company expressed a wish that the Political
the ^ Naming accurate information and the better to
establish his mterest with Haji 'Ali Riza Pasha, should "fix his resides
chiefly at Baghdad/' while his routine duties at Basrah InTd" Z
charged by a European Assistant, or, it there were none, by a Native
Agent In consequence of these orders the Political Agent thereafter
resided niostl, at Baghdad; and a suggestion that he'niadeinS
under which, if accepted, he might have absented himself from the
as as Court for considerable periods to watch the proceedings of the
us,sians on the northern frontier of the Pashaliq, was, as we have
already seen, negatived by the Government of Bombay.
ISS^nd 0 ^ ^ DireCt0rS , 0f the EaSfc India C0m P an y laid
^■^nt l 1 .l SO r e .r prmcip e 0rthegui,lauce0£ the britiih
g uikish Xiaq, u is not clear whether their action in this
espect was occasioned by an observed tendency on the part of the Agent
to overact his part, or whether it was suggested by some general reriew
the relations subsisting between the British and the Ottoman power.
as 1 1 f Sent ^ eX1,reSSly CautioneiJ a e ain st regarding the Pasha
c urt'a TL tS0V r iSn0rhimSe,fa8 a P'^ipotentiary at a foreign
upon thTp ^ : Xh0rted t0 bear iD mind dependence of the Pash.
r^rw^TeTrr 11 ^ 116 ^ a " -
, i • i . , . •itter he was to correspond freely in all
Turkev • he ' ,nH ™ aCe the fe' eneral relations of Britain with
CO 7 ' WaS r FP y the of Bombay with copies of his
Hon o^ TT. ^ ^ Amba ^ : be wast'o await the iustruc
ion of that Government in all matters in which they had not them.
he was 'to * T ^ diSOreti0n - 111 the ab6ence 0 " f ^
^ 0 ° afine i 1US atteation to that might properly be under-
^ •"
entan p-lincr },• 1^ ■ . political information, and he was to avoid
fpin b m affairS ' eXternal 01 intemal ' of
EnvorarTehr 666 6 ^ t0 ^ « by the advice of the British
T " ^ki6,1
in view fl « « A*- ki , acfcuaUy ordered in 1823, had been kept
1827 Mr Fl h" I " JeUt ^ the Briti8h authorities in India. In
Mi. Elphinstone, Governor of liombay, considered that the