'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' [‎52r] (105/226)

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 1846. 73
170. Mr. Manesty^s complaint ag-ainst the Paclia and His Excel
lency's representation above quoted were referred by this Government
for the consideration and orders of the a Governor-GeneraP (Government
of India), and in reply this Government was informed on the 18th
November 1793 that the subject "had been referred in detail 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. "; while this subject was under the consideration of
the Hon'ble Court, the Pacha addressed several letters to Mr. Manesty,
inviting- him to return to Bussorah, but Mr. Manesty refused to accept
this invitation without a promise from the Pacha; that on his doing so his
application for the punishment of the ten Jews above mentioned should be
complied with; with this demand, however, the Pacha refused to comply.
171. On the 15th April 1795 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.
addressed a letter to this Government, in which they reviewed Mr.
Manesty's proceeding's on the above occasion, and expressed disapprobation
of his conduct and directed his removal, and also that of Mr. Harford
Jones (the Joint Factor). The Hon'ble Court at the same time directed
that, after the arrival at Grane of a new Resident and Factor, they
should, subject to certain conditions stated in the following extract from
their despatch, remove to Bussorah and re-establish the Hon'ble Company's
Factory An East India Company trading post. at that place:—
" Having taken into our own consideration the advices and papers on the subject of
the dispute between the Pacha of Bagdad and the Resident and Factor at Bussorah,
we are of opinion that so far as respects their interference with 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. , in behalf
of Risha, in the affair of the murdered Jew, their conduct was highly proper and praise
worthy. But that after the satisfactory apology which was made to Mr. Manesty by
the principal Jews in the presence of 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 other officers of the Turkish
Government, and which was deemed by the Resident an ample atonement for the insults
which had been offered to him in his public capacity, we are much surprised and greatly
displeased that he should have been induced by any private intelligence from Bagdad
respecting a letter written by the Jew, Caja A1 Dulla, to the Pacha's Minister, containing
improper sentiments and expressions regarding him, to renew his determination ot
demanding justice and satisfaction from the Pacha for those insults for which an atone
ment had been already made and accepted. To this evident want of judgment and
foresight may be attributed all the subsequent disputes and embarrassments which
terminated in the removal of the Company's factory An East India Company trading post. from Bussorah, and the appeal
which Mr. Manesty has since thought it necessary to make to His Majesty's Ministers
for the final settlement of the disagreement between the Resident and Factor and the
Pacha of Bagdad. It is on this ground, and because there appears no probability ot
restoring harmony between the Pacha and Messrs. Manesty and Jones, that we have
resolved upon the removal of the present Resident and Factor. We therefore direct
that you select from among our covenanted servants fit and proper persons to succeed
Messrs. Manesty and Jones as the Company's Resident and Factor, and that they
proceed to Grane without further delay.
" As we are convinced of the necessity so strongly pointed out in Mr. Manesty s
late despatches of the speedy retum to Bussorab of a liesident and Factor on the part
of the Company, it is our direction that, immediately after the arrival at Grane ot the
persons you shall nominate to those stations, they address a conciliatory letter to the
Pacha, acquainting him that disapproving of some parts of the conduct of the late Resi
dent and Factor towards His Excellency, we have removed them from their stations and
appointed others in their stead, and that in order to maintain the good understanding
which at present so happily subsists between Great Britain and the Sublime Porte, and
to show our inclination to meet the wishes of the Pacha in this respect, we have deter
mined that the punishment of the Jews by fine and imprisonment shall no longer
be insisted upon as the condition of the return of the Company's Resident to the Bus
sorah Factory An East India Company trading post. , provided the Pacha will perform the promise he has made ot making such
a return by every public token of respect to our nation. If, in consequence ot this
application to the Pacha, he shall renew his invitation for the return ol our Resident
and Factor, they are immediately to accept thereof and endeavour by every means in
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