Enclosure 114/3 to letter of 5 Oct 1828
IOR/L/PS/9/71/288
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The record is made up of 1 item (3 folios). It was created in 14 Aug 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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A copy of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to Meerza Abul Hassan Khan [ Mīrzā A title of honour originally applied to princes, later to military leaders, and later still to secretaries, chieftains, and other ‘gentlemen’. Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī], Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, sent from Tabreez [Tabriz] and dated 14 August 1828.
The letter concerns the local Government of Azerbijan’s [Azerbaijan] need for a sum of money to secure the withdrawal of Russian troops from Khoee [Khoy] in accordance with the Treaty of Toorkmanchaee [Turkamanchay]. Macdonald Kinneir offers to contribute 200,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. in return for the ratification of the abrogation of the third and fourth articles of the Definitive Treaty, which concern British subsidies and military aid to Persia.
This document was originally enclosed, numbered 3 in dispatch No. 114, in Macdonald Kinneir’s dispatch No. 36 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 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 of 5 October 1828 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/262).
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- Enclosure 114/3 to letter of 5 Oct 1828
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