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'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' [37v] (76/226)
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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44 PRECIS OF INFORMATION REGARDING CONNECTION OF E. I. COMPY.
Porte s commands to Bussorah. At length, however, I succeeded. Fortunately I have
found a successful negotiator at the post, and much I hope that this officer will prove as
successful a messenger of the Company's service, and for all parties interested, which
-ii i Wai 1 t Wlttl ea » er im P atien ce to be informed of. From those despatches, too, you
will have learnt that I was still labouring to succeed at the port in that very difficult
pinch of business, so often spoken of already in my former despatches and now at
length happily obtained, I mean a consulary Birat from the Porte for the Company's
Agents at Bussorah. It is a real satisfaction to me thus to have it in my power in the
first letter I write, and in the first opening of my correspondence with you, to congra
tulate you on this event. I have all along looked upon a consulary Birat from^the
Porte as an object of such a high concernment to the Company's "interests in the
Ottoman Dominions at all times, and particularly in the present hour, amidst the present
distractions and irregularities of Government at Bussorah, that I determined to leave
no effort unemployed which could possibly effect my success. It is the surest and
most efficacious means that we know of in this part of the world for protecting the
Company's commerce, their property, and just rights : it secures to them for ever, and
more firmly than anything else can, a permanent and quiet residence at Bussorah for
their future Agents there, it silences for ever that new fangled but dangerous doctrine
of the Porte, the annual change of them."
108. ^ The Birat, or Consular Commission above alluded to, was to
the following effect:—
" We, the Right Hon'ble Henry Grenville, Ambassador to His Majesty the King of
S. (treat Britain, q.t the Ottoman Porte, &c., &c., to all whom
H. G bbntillb . these presents may concern, Greeting—
" Having judged it very proper and necessary to grant this present for the service
of the Hon ble English United East India Company, as also for the better security
and prosperity of their affairs in trade at Bussorah, and also when in the Ottoman
Dominions, as also to secure and assure a protection to all persons in the respective
Residencies of their Agents and Ministers, that fromj thenceforth there be established a
Lonsul, with ample and full power, over all belonging to his charge to execute the
above-mentioned.
" Be it therefore known that we, by virtue of authority granted us by Eoyal Letters
1 atent under the great seal of Great Britain and conformable to an Imperial Birat
granted by the Emperor's Sublime Porte and the Sultan Mustofo, son of Sultan Ahmed,
always victorious, by these presents we declare and acknowledge the illustrious Mr!
Kobert Garden, the present Agent of the said Hon'ble Company (as also their future
Agents), and whoever be Agent in future, and whoever be British Consul for transacting
t leu anairs m the city of Bussorah or other places thereto belonging or dependent
thereon, granting, however, to the said Mr. Robert Garden, or even to any who shall be
Agent in future, full and ample power in all things belonging to his charge, and in this
respect we order all His Britannic Majesty's subjects to acknowledge him in quality of
Biitish Consul praying their Excellencies, the Hon'ble
Bashaw
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
and other officers.
Ministers, and Magistrates of the Ottoman Empire, to whom these presents shall be
shown, to suffer them freely to enjoy and amply and peaceably to enjoy their Consul-
snip, and to aid them with their assistance, protection, and favour whenever their
occasions lead them to have resource to them, conformable to the good and ancient
tnendship subsisting between the Crown of Great Britain and the Sublime Porte, and
conformable to the sacred capitulations.
' In faith of which we have signed these presents with our own hands, and have
caused it to be countersigned by our Chief Secretary, applying thereto the Royal seal
ln our of Pera, at Constantinople, this 29th August
" By Order of His Excellency,
" (Sd.) David Petebs,
" Secretary."
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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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