'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' [53r] (107/226)
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 184G. 75
LeMessurier made the following remarks in regard to the then posture
of the Hon'ble Company's affairs at Bussorah :—
" Of the state of the Hon'hle Company's credit and interests in Bussorah we cannot
presume to speak with any confidence, until, from a longer residence, we may acquire
more leisure, than we have yet heen able to command, to explore the mutilated docu
ments and unconnected records of preceding times, to examine the foundation of our
establishment here, and its rights, and to unravel the perplexity of recent transactions,
and until we may derive more experience and opportunities to determine the present
temper of the Government: this much we can decisively pronounce, that the influence
and dignity of this
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
has suffered a shock, and that a jealousy and distrust
seem to form the Turkish aspect as near as we have yet been able to contemplate it."
176. On intelligenee reaching 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.
that the differences with the Pacha had been adjusted, and that Mr.
Manesty had in consequence returned to Bussorah, and re-established the
Hon'ble Company's
Factory
An East India Company trading post.
at that place, they rescinded their pre
vious order for the recall of Mr. Manesty and Mr. Harford Jones. The
following is an extract from the letter from Mr. Ramsay, then Secretary
at the India House, to the address of Mr. Manesty, dated the 1st Ja
nuary 1796, containing this decision :—
" The
Court of Directors
The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs.
have received your several letters to the 9th of October
last, and I am ordered to express their satisfaction at the establishment of the Com
pany's
factory
An East India Company trading post.
at Bussorah, in consequence of the final adjustment of the long depend
ing dispute with the Pacha of Bagdad, and it is peculiarly pleasing to them that
our return to that place in your official capacity as Resident has been distinguished
y every possible mark of respect to our nation. As a perfect reconciliation has
happily taken place between you and the Pacha, of which there appeared no pro
bability when the Court communicated their orders 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.
, of
the 16th April last, for a new arrangement of the
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
, and as they have every
reason to be satisfied with your general conduct, and that of Mr. Jones, in your
collective capacity of Resident and Factor, they have been induced to revoke the
orders contained in that despatch for your removal, there being a possibility of this
reaching you before those orders shall have been carried into execution."
177. The above letter reached Bussorah on the 3rd April 1776,
at which time Mr. Crow had been in charge of the Bussorah
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
for upwards of three months, but Mr. Manesty was still remaining at
Bussorah on account of his pi'ivate affairs. In forwarding to Government,
on the 5th April, a copy of the above letter, Mr. Crow and Mr.
LeMessurier made the following remarks :—
" In company with the packet 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.
which we
now despatch, we have received two official letters to the
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
from the
Secretary at the India House, addressed to the name of the preceding Resident
(" Mr. Manesty"), of which we deem it incumbent on us to transmit you copies.
Should these letters convey to your superior judgment what we have not conceived
from them, namely, a suspension of our functions, or should further orders, contained
in the packet we now forward, distinctly direct a recall of the gentlemen appointed
here by you, and a reinstatement of those we replaced, it becomes our duty to apprize
you that we have from our short experience here every reason to be confident that
such a restoration would be attended with the most destructive consequences to the
surviving portion of national credit we retain here, and to the interests of the East
India Company in this establishment, and that the Pacha would regard such an
instability in our public measures with contempt and indignation."
178. Messrs. Crow and LeMessurier on the same day addressed
a despatch 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.
, in which they stated
that they considered that it would be in the highest degree injurious to
the interests of the Hou'ble Company that Mr. Manesty should be re-
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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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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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