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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' [58v] (118/226)
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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86 PRECIS OF INFORMATION REGARDING CONNECTION OF E. I. COMPY.
witli the facts of the case would mark its displeasure of His Excel
lency's conduct, and adopt effectual measures for preventing its Represen
tative at his Court being a second time subjected to similar ill-treatment.
The Pacha shortly afterwards sent for Mr. Jones and requested him to
forget what had passed, promising that for the future he should have
nothing to complain of in His Excellency^ treatment of him. Mr.
Jones, however, peremptorily refused to resume his functions of Resident
until he had received a written apology from the Pacha, and an admission
that His Excellency was satisfied that the accusation which had been
made against him was altogether groundless. The Pacha refused to
comply with this demand, and Mr. Jones therefore withdrew from
Bagdad and proceeded to " Cootee/ situated on the banks of the
Euphrates river, pending instructions from the Right Hon'ble the
Governor-General of India, or from the home authorities, in regard to
his further proceedings. Before, however, these instructions reached
Mr. Jones, the Pacha, on the 20th October 1801, addressed the following
note to Mr. Jones, containing the concession he required. Mr. Jones
accordingly returned to Bagdad, where, on his arrival on the 20th
November (1801), he was received by the Pacha with the usual honors,
and resumed his functions as Resident at His Excellency's Court: —
" Having now minutely and faithfully examined the accusations which were here
tofore brought against you, on surmise, we have found them to be false, and to be
nothing more than idle reports, on this account we esteem it incumbent on ourselves
to acknowledge the same to you, in order that you may on every account and on
every respect be satisfied and at ease, and we call God to witness that from hence
forward you shall be esteemed and regarded by us more than ever, and that our con
fidence in you shall be greater than ever, and that your credit and consideration with
us shall be greater than ever, and whatever business or affairs you may have hereafter,
our desire to execute them to your satisfaction shall outstrip your own wishes."
194. In a letter, dated the 18th April 1802, Mr. Jones reported
that vaccination had just been successfully introduced into Bagdad by
the Civil Surgeon 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.
, by means of some vaccine matter
which he had received from Vienna, on the 30th of the preceding month.
During the following month vaccination was also successfully intro
duced at Bussorah from vaccine matter received from the Civil Surgeon
at Bagdad.
195. In the early part of April 1802 the plague made its appear
ance at Bagdad, and rapidly assumed a very alarming form in con--
sequence of the Pacha having, on the first intelligence reaching him that
this disease had appeared, withdrawn in consternation from the city, and
adopted no measures for checking its progress.
196. In a letter to the address of the Right Hon'ble the Gover
nor-General of India, dated the 9th May 1802, Mr. Harford Jones after
describing the character of the Pacha, Solyman,* who had filled that
office for a period of about 20 years, as being imbecile in the extreme,
and that he had outlived his honor and reputation, gave the following
history of Bagdad, and that Pachalic generally, and its then condi
tion :—
" The fortifications of Bagdad, although most truly contemptible in the eyes of
European, are nevertheless sufficient to defend it against the efforts of any Eastern
» Solyman Pacha died on the 7th August 1802, being t iree months after the date of
this letter.
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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).
Condition: the volume is disbound and has lost its front cover.
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