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The record is made up of 1 item (2 folios). It was created in 5-10 Feb 1802. It was written in English and French. 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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An extract from the records of the Bagdad [Baghdad] Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , consisting of correspondence of Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad, with Soliman Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] and Jean-François Rousseau, French Consul in Bagdad, dated 5-10 February 1802.

The correspondence concerns the placing of seals [locks] by the Government of Bagdad on the house of the late Giuseppe Leoni, a subject of the Emperor of Germany [Holy Roman Empire], which is protested by Jones and Rousseau. The correspondence includes an extract of the Capitulations between Britain and the Porte [Government of the Ottoman Empire].

The extract was enclosed in Jones’s letter to Charles Mills, Chairman 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, dated 19 February 1802 (catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/218).

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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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IOR/L/PS/9/76/216

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Extract of the Bagdad Residency Records, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/9/76/216, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100109378874.0x000001> [accessed 27 August 2024]

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