!['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' [‎34r] (69/226)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100000000884.0x00013b/IOR_L_PS_20_C30_0069.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'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' [‎34r] (69/226)")
'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' [34r] (69/226)
The record is made up of 1 volume (111 folios). It was created in 1874. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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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.
1G46 TO 1846. 37
before issued an order for the payment at Bussorah of a duty of five per
cent, on all European goods landed at that place. Mr. Shaw, however,
subsequently succeeded in inducing the
Bashaw
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
to relinquish this demand.
The following is an extract from Mr. Shaw's report on this subject:—
" A very extraordinary affair which happened a few days after the Swallows arrival
has unfortunately been the means of detaining her thus long, which was a demand
made by the
Bashaw
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
for five per cent, on all European goods, which they pretend is in
consequence of an order from Shambole, but I rather imagine, owing to the multi
plicity of European ships arrived, and expected here this season, and his great scarcity
of ready money at this juncture, which has occasioned him to change his
Kia
A deputy or lieutenant of the governor in Ottoman Iraq, with additional responsibilities as a high-ranking provincial judge.
,* and
depose and plunder several of his other considerable officers of late. However, the case
is, he first wrote down hither 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.
, and soon after backed it with a public
order to demand the above five per cent; but 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.
, who is a prudent man,
and much our friend in particular, instead of publishing the same, sent privately for
me, and acquainted me therewith, and at the same time advised me forthwith to write
to the
Bashaw
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
of Bagdad about it, and that he would on his part keep the thing a
secret here, and represented the evil consequence of a proceeding so discrelitable to the
Europeans, who would all rather leave the place (by which its trade would be entirely
ruined) than agree to any innovations of this nature; and as they had actually
proceeded so far at Bagdad as to cause several goods belonging to the Lnglish, French,
and Venetian gentlemen of Aleppo there to pay the said five per cent, even under the
care of Europeans. He advised me in a friendly manner to detain the Swallow here,
purposely on that account that he might thereon ground an agreement to his master
for retracting this order, as he would urge that 1 detained this Company's fighting
vessels here purposely to carry their flag and their effects away, in case the five per
cent, was insisted on. I accordingly wrote to the
Bashaw
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
regarding it, when a proposal
was made to my Attorney at Bagdad of finishing it for a present, which 1 rejected
as a bad precedent, and insisted on the English capitulations, whereupon they desired
them to be produced, which I did accordingly, and yesterday I have advices from my
attorney at Baghdad that they were resolved to drop the aff.ir and countermand their
former orders, it being only the effect of this new
Kia
A deputy or lieutenant of the governor in Ottoman Iraq, with additional responsibilities as a high-ranking provincial judge.
's enmity to the Christians in
general."
93. From the following- extract from a despatch addressed by Mr.
Shaw on the 30th August 1760 to the Hon'ble the
Court of Directors
The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs.
,
it appears that about that time the Agent in Council at Gombroon
appointed Mr. Shaw the Resident at Bussorah, and his Assistant,, Mr.
Garden :—
"to act jointly with the Resident in the management of the Hon'ble Company's affairs.
Under date the 23rd instant, Mr. Shaw paid his respects to Your Honors" duplicate of
which is enclosed, also triplicate of the address which preceded it, and on the 17th June
came to hand the enclosed packet from Gombroon by the Lively Ketch, when the
Agent in Council were pleased to appoint Mr. Robert Garden to act jointly with the
Resident in the management of Your Honors' affairs here, as he has "some time
commenced factor, in the discharge of which trust he begs leave to assure Your Honors
ol his fidelity, and that it shall be his study at all times to convince you thereof) by
his assiduity and steady attachment to the Hon'ble Company's interest."
94. In a despatch from the Hon'ble the
Court of Directors
The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs.
to the
Bombay Government, dated the 25th April 1760, that authority com
plained of apparent inattention on the part of Mr. Shaw in forwardino-
to them overland intelligence in regard to their affairs in India, &c.
The following is an extract from this despatch :—
" We have hitherto had a very good opinion of Mr. William Shaw, our Resident
at Bussorah : we esteemed him a deserving servant that would merit our favour, and
accordingly at the request of his friends we indulged him with the option of the Resi-
deuce of Scindy if he preferred it to Bussorah. But as the important channel for
overland advices is almost lost, and we very seldom hear from this gentleman, we
* Minister.
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The volume is Precis Containing Information in regard to the First Connection of the Hon'ble East India Company 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. , 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 (Calcutta: Foreign Department Press, 1874).
The volume includes a five paragraph introduction stating that the record had been compiled following a request to the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. from the Government of India (folio 15). The information is a mixture of précis and direct quotation, with comments. The sources are correspondence; minutes; extracts from proceedings; treaties; lists; the diary of the Bombay Government; the diaries of Surat and Gombroon [Bandar Abbas]; reports; committee reports; dispatches to the Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. ; statements from the Military Auditor-General; and firmans.
The record includes selected information on appointments; personnel; treaties; trade; relations with the Ottoman authorities; diplomatic contacts; political developments; climate and health; administration; and naval and martime affairs.
Five appendices at the rear of the volume (folios 85-109) give transcripts of treaties between England/the United Kingdom and the Government of the Ottoman Empire (the Sublime Porte), signed 1661-1809; and a 'Memorandum on the present condition of the Pachalic [Pachalik] of Bagdad and the means it possesses of renovation and improvement' dated 12 November 1834.
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- 1 volume (111 folios)
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There is an index on ff 2-15. The index gives the following information in parallel columns: year; miscellaneous information regarding 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. (ff 2-11); appointments etc. in 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. commencing with the year 1728 (ff 12-14); Euphrates expedition and flotilla (f 15); paragraph of summary; and page. Entries in the index refer to the numbered paragraphs that compose the main body of the text (headed 'Summary').
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the first folio bearing text and terminates at 109, on the last folio bearing text. The numbers are written in pencil and enclosed in a circle and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. There is also an original printed pagination, numbered i-xxviii (index); [1]-137 (main body of text); [i]-xlix (appendices).
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