'Precis Containing Information in regard to the First Connection of the Hon'ble East India Company with Turkish Arabia, as far as the Same Can Be Traced from the Records of the Bombay Government, together with the Names of the Several British Residents and Political Agents Who Have Been Stationed at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Bussorah [Basra] between A.D. 1646 and 1846, accompanied by Other Information' [‎28r] (57/226)

WITH TURKISH ARABIA A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. —164G TO 1840.
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by the last advices from thence we expect Mr. Dorrill in a short time, who was taken
up in settling his affairs."
The same letter contained the following intellig-ence :—
" Our last letters from up-country advise of Shaw Nadir's return from Callat, and that
he had appointed all his Governors to meet him at Teheran, a place ahout ten days from
Ispahan, from whence he intended to go against the Turks with an army of two hundred
men. During his stay at Ispahan he treated our Resident as civil as could be expected
from the tyrannical disposition he was in the time he was there, but we believe it was
owing to the help of a present amounting to Shahees 70,169-9, which could not be
avoided without running the risk of his resentment."
60. The following is an entry in the diary of the Gombroon
factory An East India Company trading post. , under date the 10th July 1745 :—
" By Dutch Shotters received two letters from Mr. Thomas Dorrill at Bussorah, dated
the 1st March, and the other, the 21st April (1745); the former setting forth the ill-
treatment he had met with from the Government, who had even attempted his life, and
the demands they had made on him for payment of Mr. Frenches debts to the country
creditors by orders they had obtained from the Bashaw An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , for which they seized a large
parcel of goods belonging to the Bombay gentlemen, and embarked them on board the
galleys for Bagdad, which prevented his first resolution of going to Bouchier; for, had
the goods been carried where the creditors were inhabitants, it would be impossible ever
to have recovered them, and, by remaining at Bussorah, could not have obtained justice,
which obliged him to set out for Bagdad, or must have submitted to the paying
Mamoodies 166,005-4-0 goz, the amount of Mr. Frenche's debts to the country
people. Desires orders how to act in case of fresh oppressions, and promises frugality
in conducting his present complaint to the Bashaw An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. . The above letter advises of his
return from Bagdad and kind treatment he met with from the Bashaw An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , who, on his
complaint, turned out the Mussaleem During the eighteenth century this was the third most powerful official in Ottoman Iraq (after the Pasha and the Kiya). The title was given specifically to the Governor of Basra. , and sequestered the effects of those that were of
his Council, and had appointed Yahia Aga again the Governor of that place."
61. On the 21st July 1746 Mr. Grendon, the Resident at Bussorah,
addressed a letter to the Agent in Council at Gombroon—
" stating that the Arabs had latterly given a great deal of trouble to the country
round about Bussorah," and that the " Kiah Bashaw An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. was gone against them, which
had occasioned the roads being stopped," and that no caffilas could in consequence pass."
62. In a further letter dated the October 1746, Mr. Grendon
informed the A^ent in Council at Gombroon that the Kiah Bashaw An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. had
had some intention of proceeding to Bussorah, but finding " Achmet
Bashaw An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. " averse to it, had sent for the people of consequence to attend
him, and, after receiving large presents, had set out for Bagdad. In the
same letter Mr. Grendon stated peace had been concluded " between the
Turks and Persians/'
63. On the 6th April 1747 Mr. Grendon, the Resident at Bussorah,
addressed a letter to the Agent in Council at Gombroon, in which,
amongst other information, he stated that a new Governor had just been
appointed to Bussorah, and that Achmet Bashaw An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. had sent orders to his
Mussaleem During the eighteenth century this was the third most powerful official in Ottoman Iraq (after the Pasha and the Kiya). The title was given specifically to the Governor of Basra. to make a new measurement of all the fruit gardens—
" in order to oppress the Arabs in their tax, whereupon, thinking themselves already
too highly imposed upon, the tribe, called Monteficks, are rebelled, and to secure
themselves and to the Turks all the detriment in their power, they have opened the
banks of the river, which has laid the desert quite under water, to the very walls at
Bussorah ; this accident has put the inhabitants into the greatest consternation, being
now apprehensive lest the disagreeable stench arising from it should cause a pestilential
fever."
64. In the same letter Mr. Grendon stated that, if the Agent in
Council at Gombroon approved of his doing so, he purposed, in order to
escape the calamity occasioned by this inundation, to remove for a time
either to Bagdad, Bushire, Karrack, or Bunderick. In reply, however, he