"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٤‎٦‎٠] (١٧٨٢/١٦١٥)

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considered that to demand compensation from a Government on account
o£ the misdeeds of criminals within its jurisdiction would be to create an
inconvenient and even dangerous precedent. Accordingly, though Rauf
Pasha had verbally admitted the responsibility of the Porte for affording
compensation in full, and though Colonel Herbert, the British Political
Agent, had already lodged with *Radif Pasha., Rauf Pasha,-"s successor,
a claim for Rs, 10,708 on account of the specie and Rs. 5,553 on account
of the other property unrecovered, as also for Rs. 1,000 as compensation
to the family of the murdered fireman and £200 and £25 as compen
sation to the Clerk and Chief Engineer respectively, no representations
were made at the Porte on the subject, and nothing was obtained.
The settlement of the " Cashmere " case entailed heavy work, extendino-
over many months, on the British representatives in Turkish ; Iraq; on
Colonel Herbert, the Political Agent at Baghdad, to whose energy and
determination the satisfactory result obtained was mostly due; and on
Mr. Robertson, the British Agent at Basrah, by whom the proceedings
at that place and in •'Arabistan were watched, and in part conducted,
under Colonel Herbert's supervision. Good assistance was rendered, in
Turkish 'Iraq, by Rauf Pasha, the Wali of Baghdad ; by Nasir Pasha,
Shaikh of the Muntafik, who had presented himself at Basrah only
four days after the piracy; by Saiyid 'Abdur Rahman Elfendi, Naqib of
Basrah ; and by Qasim-az-Zuhair, Chalabi, President of the Mercantile
Court at Basrah. Colonel Herbert received the thanks of the Government
of India, and was commended by Her Majesty's Government, for his
successful handling of matters ; and the recommendations which he made
on behalf of his principal coadjutors were accepted. Mr. Robertson's
official position was improved by the change of his title from « British
Agent to Assistant Political Agent at Basrah ; the acknowledgments
of the Government of India were conveyed to Rauf Pasha; and in
1874 suitable presents were given to the others, the Muntafik Shaikh
receiving a double-poled tent, and the NaqTb and the Chalabi a gold
watch and chain each. His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador at
Constantinople was directed to thank the Turkish Government for their
satisfactory treatment of the case.
* Radif Pasha was well spoken of after his departure : he " had a way of hangiug
" malefactors who were condemned to death, and doing other unpleasant things with
"promptitude and thoroughness, which gave Mesopotamia a new start in civilization."
(Geary's Through Asiatic Turkey, vol, I, page 138.)