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The record is made up of 1 item (2 folios). It was created in 28 Oct 1827. 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. 17 from HM Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia, Edward Cromwell Disbrowe, in St Petersburgh [St Petersburg], to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Earl of Dudley, of 16 October 1827 [Old Style]/ 28 October 1827 [New Style]. Disbrowe reports the audiences held between the former HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, and the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count [Karl Robert] Nesselrode, and the Emperor of Russia, in St Petersburgh. He also discusses the offer made by the British Government to provide mediation in the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], and a plan for Willock to transmit reasonable proposals for peace from the Emperor to the Persian Government in Tehran.

This document was originally enclosed, numbered 1, in Willock’s letter to the Secretary to the East India Company, Joseph Dart, of 10 March 1828 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/195).

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Copy of Dispatch No. 17 from HM Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia, Edward Cromwell Disbrowe, in St Petersburgh, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Earl of Dudley, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/9/71/196, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100038378586.0x00043a> [accessed 28 August 2024]

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