"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٦‎٢‎٢] (١٧٨٢/١٧٧٧)

Letter from the R. II. Henry Dundas to the Fash aw of Bagdad,
Copy of a letter from the Right Honourable Henry Dundas, His
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State, Treasurer of His Majesty ; s
Navy, First Commissioner for the Affairs of India, Member of His
Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, etc., to His Highness
Soliman Pashaw of Bagdad and Bussora, etc., etc., etc.
Notification
of H. Jones's
Appoint
ment.
Mr. J ones
sent to
Bagdad to
strengthen
the friend
ship and
good under'
standing
between
the Pasbaw
and the
Hon'ble
Company.
Circums
tances require
the strictest
union and
Concert
between
them.
Illustrious Sir,
The English East India Company under whose Government the
British Territories in India are placed having appointed Mr. Harford Jones
their Resident at your Highness'Court, I have received the Commands of
the King my Master to inform your Highness that this appointment has
met with His Majesty's full and cordial approbation.
It is His Majesty's warmest Wish that Mr. Jones's Residence at
Bagdad may prove agreeable and satisfactory to your Highness, and
that it may in all respects answer the Purpose for which it is intended,
namely, to strengthen and increase the friendship and good understanding
which have so long and so happily subsisted between your Highness and
the English East India Company. This being the object of Mr. Jones'
Mission, 1 feel satisfied that your Highness will honour him with that
degree of Confidence and favour which may tend to render it of mutual
Advantage to your Highness and the East India Company.
1 cannot disguise to your Highness that the present Circumstances
of the World appear to require that the strictest union, concert and
unreserved Friendship and Alliance should be forthwith established
between your Highness and the East India Company for your respective
safety, Happiness and Preservation. Everything that is dear to your
Highness and to them is threatend and coveted by that Enemy to the
Peace, Tranquillity, and Existence of all States and Princes, the
Republican Government of France. This restless and detestable Power,
after exciting the People in all the States immediately surrounding them
to revolt against their lawful Princes and Governors, and having in too
many Instances succeeded in driving these last into Exile, sometimes
even in putting them to death, and in all in robbing them of their
Wealth, Teasures, and Possessions, is now said to have its favorite
General, and an army most notorious for these horrid proceedings,
to execute the same system of devastation and Plunder in the rich and
happy Provinces of the East. It is against these Plunderers and
subverters of all Governments that the King my Master has now been
obliged to defend himself for six Years, during which, by the Vigor of
his Army and the Blessing of God, he has resisted their Plans of des
truction in every part of his vast Dominions. Should these Enemies of