‘Transcript of a letter from the British Envoy to H. R. Abbas Meerza’
IOR/L/PS/9/71/220
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The record is made up of 1 item (1 folio). It was created in Feb 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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Transcript of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to 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]. Macdonald Kinneir reports that General Paskevitch [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia] has indicated his preference for the meeting place for the signature of the peace treaty to end the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828] to be at a village in the vicinity of Meana [Mianeh], as opposed to Macdonald Kinneir’s preference for Maragha [Maragheh]. Macdonald Kinneir also indicates that he hopes that the Province [of Azerbaijan] might be evacuated by Russia at the cost of six and a half crores of tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. in reparations from Persia, owing to Abbas Meerza’s good faith.
This document was originally enclosed, numbered 7 in enclosure No. 5, 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 the East India Company of 16 March 1828 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/201).
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