Factory Records, Persia, Vol 22, Pt 2 [‎303r] (209/417)

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This volume contains letters sent to and from the East India Company Factory An East India Company trading post. at Bussorah [Basra, also spelt Bussora in the volume] between 9 October 1785 and 4 October 1787, and covers the following:

• The correspondence of the Agent at Bussorah, Samuel Manesty, with the Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. and Secret Committee Pre-1784, the Committee responsible for protecting East India Company shipping. Post-1784, its main role was to transmit communications between the Board of Control and the Company's Indian governments on matters requiring secrecy. of the Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. of the Company
• The movements and possible instructions of the French vessels visiting Muscat and the Persian Gulph [Gulf], and the potential for the French to intercept British communications through the Gulf in the event of a war
• The departure of Captain Matthew Jenour of HM 102nd Regiment from Bussorah for Aleppo
• The conclusion of a peace, by Mahomed Beg, between Bagdat [Baghdad] and the Chaub [Banū Ka’b]
• The cultivation of friendly relations between Manesty and Shaik Gathban [Shaikh Ghaḍbān al-Ka’bī]
• The correspondence between Manesty and Soliman Bacha [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā] of Bagdat
• The appointment of William Gamul Farmer as Resident at Bussorah and his arrival on the King George , and the relinquishment of his appointment by Farmer and replacement with John Griffith
• The struggle between Jaffier Khan [Ja’far Khān Zand] and Mahomed Khan [Āqā Muḥammad Khān Qājār], Governor of Mazanderan [Mazandaran], over possession of Ispahan [Isfahan], and the apparent reconciliation between the Zand claimants Sciat Morat Khan [Ṣayd Murād Khān] and Jaffier Khan
• The arrival of four ships belonging to Tippoo Sultan [Tipū Sulṭān] at Muscat en route to Judda [Jeddah]
• A letter from the Grand Vizier Jussef Pashaw [Koca Yūsif Pāshā] to Suleiman Pashaw [Sulaymān Pāshā]
• The hostilities between the Mahrattas [Marathas] and Nizam Ally [Nizām ‘Alī] against Tippoo Sultan
• The arrival of four of Tippoo Sultan’s ‘vakeels’ [vakīls, representatives] in Bussorah, with the apparent intention to proceed to Bagdat and Constantinople [Istanbul], and thereafter to France and England
• The resignation of his post by Griffith, and handover of charge for the factory An East India Company trading post. to Manesty
• The revolt of Hodjee Soliman Bey [Ḥādjī Sulaymān Bey al-Shāwī], Shaik of the Bey [‘Ubayd] Arabs
• The departure of an army of Montifick [Muntafiq], Benuchalid [Banū Khālid] and Anisa [‘Anizzah] Arabs on an expedition against Abdulul Whahab [‘Abd al-Wahhāb], Shaik of the Whahabee [Wahhabī]
• The seizure, by Shaik Swiney [Shaikh Thuwaynī bin ‘Abdullāh al-Sa‘dūn], of the town of Bussorah
• The entertainment by Shaik Swiney of Hodjee Soliman Bey, and his son Daud Bey [Dāwūd Bey]
• The reception of Hodjee Soliman Bey’s brother, Mahomed Bey [Muḥammad Bey al-Shāwī] at Bagdat
• The intelligence from Persia [Iran] on the return of Jaffier Caun to Schyras [Shiraz] on 18 April [1785]
• The departure of Charles Watkins to replace Edward Galley as the Resident at Bushire [Bushehr]
• The defection of Shaik Ahmood son of Tamar [Shaikh Ḥammūd bin Thāmir al-Sa‘dūn] to the Bacha of Bagdat
• The Bacha’s appointment of Ahmood as Shaik, and his preparations for war against Swiney
• The requests of Soliman Bacha for assistance from the Company and the Imaum [Imam of Muscat]
• The directions of Soliman Bacha to the Shaik of the Chaub to engage and destroy the fleet of Bussorah
• The correspondence between Manesty and Captain Peter Scott of the Snow ‘Begler Beg’ [ Beglerbeg ]
• The confirmation of Soliman Bacha’s appointment as Ottoman Vizier of Bagdat and Bussorah
• The victory of Soliman Bacha against Shaik Swiney, and Swiney and Hodjee Soliman Bey’s subsequent escape.

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1 volume (203 folios)

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English in Latin script

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