Copy of Dispatch No. 88 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez, to the Governor-General of India
IOR/L/PS/9/71/192
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The record is made up of 1 item (4 folios). It was created in 12 Mar 1828. 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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Copy of Dispatch No. 88 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez [Tabriz], to the Governor-General of India, of 12 March 1828. Macdonald Kinneir reports his having negotiated for the British Government to pay some of the reparations owed by Persia, as stipulated in the peace treaty ending the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], in return for the immediate evacuation of Azerbijan [Azerbaijan], with the exception of Khoee [Khoy], by Russia and the abrogation of the third and fourth articles of the Definitive Treaty existing between Britain and Persia. Macdonald Kinneir indicates that he has given the Prince Royal, Abbas Meerza [ʿAbbās Mīrzā A title of honour originally applied to princes, later to military leaders, and later still to secretaries, chieftains, and other ‘gentlemen’. Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia], an order on the Chairman 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 East India Company to cover the necessary sum, and also reports that he has been overseeing the payment of the first instalment of the reparations by Persia on behalf of Abbas Meerza, and that the Russians are duly preparing to withdraw from Azerbijan.
The letter originally enclosed copies of a personal bond from Abbas Meerza to Macdonald Kinneir and a letter from General Paskevitch [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia] to Macdonald Kinneir (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/71/193-194).
This document was originally enclosed, numbered 1, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the 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 12 March 1828 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/191).
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Copy of Dispatch No. 88 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez, to the Governor-General of India, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/9/71/192, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100038378586.0x000436> [accessed 4 October 2024]
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- Copy of Dispatch No. 88 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez, to the Governor-General of India
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