Factory Records, Persia, Vol 21, Pt 2

Content

This volume contains correspondence sent to and from the East India Company Factory An East India Company trading post. at Bussora [Basra] between 6 December 1775 and 4 October 1779 including the following:

• The correspondence between the East India Company agents at Bussora, William Digges Latouche and George Abraham and Soliman Aga the Mussaleem During the eighteenth century this was the third most powerful official in Ottoman Iraq (after the Pasha and the Kiya). The title was given specifically to the Governor of Basra. of Bussora [Haji Sulayman Agha, Mutasallim During the eighteenth century this was the third most powerful official in Ottoman Iraq (after the Pasha and the Kiya). The title was given specifically to the Governor of Basra. of Basra], Carim Caun [Karim Khan Zand, Vakil Elected representative or attorney, acting in legal matters such as contracting marriage, inheritance, or business; a high-ranking legal official; could also refer to a custodian or administrator. of Persia], Mirza Jaffir [Mirza Muhammad Ja’far Isfahani, Vizier of Persia] and Shaik Nassir of Bushire [Shaikh Nasir Al Mazkur, Hakim of Bushehr]
• The fleet sent by the Imaum of Muscat [Imam of Muscat] to assist in the defence of Bussora
• The apparent expansion of the siege of Bussora, by Sadoo Can [Sadiq Khan Zand], into a full blockade
• The reports from Latouche and Abraham to 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
• The correspondence between the British Consul at Aleppo John Abbott, British Agent at Bussora residing in Bushire Henry Moore, and British Agent at Constantinople [Istanbul], Anthony Hayes regarding Bussora
• The abstracts of the ‘charges general’ from the Bussora General Books listing expenditures
• A packet dispatched from Cairo to George Abbott in Constantinople and forwarded to the Directors
• The surrender of the Mussaleem During the eighteenth century this was the third most powerful official in Ottoman Iraq (after the Pasha and the Kiya). The title was given specifically to the Governor of Basra. Soliman Aga to the Persian general Sadoo Can and the fall of Bussora
• The advices on ‘some interesting points’ sent to the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. of Bombay through Aleppo, and in duplicate through Alexandria and Cairo to be forwarded by the Consul George Baldwin
• The negotiations between Abraham and the ruler of Persia Carim Caun at Schyraz [Shiraz]
• The Phirmaund [ Firman A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’). ] of Carim Caun to Latouche, received by Abraham on 23 August 1776
• The ‘translates [i.e. translations] of sundry Phirmaunds’ from Carim Caun received on 16 June 1777
• The correspondence of Latouche and Abraham with Sir Robert Ainslie, His Majesty’s ‘Embassador at the Porte’ [HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire]
• The expenses incurred by Captain Francis McKenny in conveying a packet to Bussora for the Company
• The commercial transactions of Latouche and Abraham with Coja Ezra bin Yacoob [Khwaja ‘Uzayr bin Ya’qub], Coja Ezekiel bin Ibrahim [Hizqiyal bin Ibrahim] and Coja Yacoob Aaron [Ya’qub Harun]
• The translation of another ‘Phirmaund’ from Carim Caun received at Bussora on 17th June 1778
• A letter from Colonel James Capper to the Secretary of the East India Company Peter Mitchell
• The correspondence between Latouche and Abraham and the French emissary Captain Borel du Bourg
• A letter from Luke Pocock and Charles Mordaunt to the Chairman, Deputy Chairman, and Members of 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. , and
• The correspondence of Latouche and Abraham with P D Bonnevaux and George Banks.

Extent and format

1 volume (183 folios)

It is part of

Factory Records, Persia, Vol 21, Pts 1-3

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Ref: IOR/G/29/21

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival item

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/G/29/21/2

History of this record

Date(s)

6 Dec 1775-4 Oct 1779 (CE, Gregorian)

Places

MuscatSchyraz

People & organisations

Mīrzā Muḥammad Ja‘far al-Iṣfahānī

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