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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' [96r] (195/226)
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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might and should import from their own and other foreign countries into
Turkey, and on such as they should export and carry from Turkey into
their own and other foreign countries for sale; and whereas by reason of the
increased prices of all commodities the duties levied according to this
tariff having fallen much below 3 per cent, the Court of Great Britain
in compliance with the desire of the Ottoman Porte and in conformity
to the anxious wishes it feels for the prosperity of the Ottoman Empire
did order a new tariff of customs to be constructed for the English
merchants which was accordingly done in April 1800, fixing the rates of
the standard of three in the hundred, according to the Imperial capitu
lations ; and whereas His Excellency the Right Hon^ble Charles Arbuth-
not. Member of His Britannic Majesty's Privy Council and His Ambas
sador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Sublime Porte has
represented that the rates of certain articles in this new English tariff
are higher than those paid by other Christian powers, and has asked that
an alteration should be made in conformity to the sacred capitulations
which stipulate that equal privileges shall be enjoyed by England as are
or shall be granted to the most favoured nations.
In consequence whereof and in virtue of an Imperial
Firman
A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’).
issued
to that effect, the rates of certain articles have been reduced and fixed
through the medium of Mr. Pisani, English Drogoman, and of the
English merchants on the one stand and by His Excellency Hassan Aga,
Head Customer, and one of the Imperial Chamberlaines on the other, and
the list following in this book containing the rates and all that part of
the tariff settled in 1800, which has not now been altered has been signed
and sealed to serve as a permanent rule. The arrears of the suspended
payments to be settled after the terms of the present book dating from
the 29th October 1801.
Ahmed Yassif Rois Effendi. Charles Arbuthnot.
(L. S.) (L. S.)
Imports.
Aspers.
Tin
per kintal
210
Lead
45
Tin plate
„ case containing 225
75
Loaf sugar and sugar in powder
„ kintal ../
120
Pepper
„ oque
4
Shalloons
„ piece of 45 piks
110
Cochineal
„ oque
120
Farnabang Dal bacam portocal
„ kintal
120
Item French or campech...
120
Item violet called Sr. Martha
» •••
72
Moka coffee ...
„ oque
9
Item American
•••
4
Ginger, white and black ...
„ kintal
80
Amomunyeni Bahao
„ oque
3
Amamon of Treish
» • • •
20
Item Dutch
» » •••
36
India yarn ...
99 •••
50
Cotton yarn from England
9} 99 •••
27
Muslins called menghis, agabanies, sur-
beti, mermeri, keba, mermeri, hazine
mermeri, howmayoon.
Kebir Hasse
Bafta and Saccan cun ...
„ piece
70
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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).
Condition: the volume is disbound and has lost its front cover.
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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'
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- front, front-i, 1r:84v, 84ar:84av, 85r:110v, back-i, back
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