"ملخّص يحتوي على معلومات بشأن الاتصال الأول لشركة الهند الشرقية مع الجزيرة العربية التركية، طالما أمكن تتبع ذلك من سجلات حكومة بومباي، بالإضافة إلى أسماء العديد من المقيمين البريطانيين والوكلاء السياسيين الذين عُينوا في بغداد والبصرة في الفترة بين ١٦٤٦ و ١٨٤٦ ميلادي، وبمرافقة معلومات أخرى" [ظ‎‎٣‎٣] (٢٢٦/٦٨)

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theirs, and the customs which from hence to Bagdad on woollens will turn out to them
about 13 per cent. We shall by this means free them of using the same method as we
do in India, the risque to be theirs; but we to deliver them free of all charges and
customs at Bagdad, which will, to be sure, extend our woollen trade considerably there,
and I hope entirely overset the Alleppo trade to that place, which I found was still
considerable on my arrival there, and I have accordingly now sold (100) one hundred
bales of coarse cloth at 7-4 mamodies per guz, and (30) thirty bales fine cloth at 17
mamodies per guz, to be cleared in four months from my arrival here, in which case to
allow a discount of six per cent., and if in six months, three per cent., and if longer
delayed, to be resold publicly on the proprietors' account and risque. The Bashaw on my
departure from Bagdad expressed the highest marks of content in this visit, and honored
me with very extraordinary compliments. He even favoured me with his own row galley
and two others to attend here, and here we were received by the Governor in a singularly
honorable manner, who is a new man, the Bashaw having thought proper to change
the late one."
90. The phirman alluded to in the above extract was to the
following' effect:—
" To the Chief of the Siads, Tons, and Freeholders, our Aga, the Mussaleem of Busso-
rah for the time being (whose state God increase). Be it known unto you that my commands
are as follow —In the city of our Great Sultan, called Bussorah, there is an English
Balias or Chief of the merchants, &c.; his nation being in peace with our high Port
(whose grandeur God continue everlastingly), therefore there is in his hands the high
and respectable capitulations of our lofty Port to which all submission must be paid,
and it behoves all men to obey the orders therein contained : Therefore in the manner
that it is commanded and ordered in said high capitulations, article by article,
whether regarding the customs, and all things relative thereto, or whether regarding
other matters, or whether the respecting, favouring, assisting, and protecting the said
English Balias and his effects agreeable to the said high capitulations, you must, as
ordered by our Great Sultan, in all things conform and pay obedience thereto. And you
must not in any the least respect depart from, or act contrary to, said respected capitula
tion. And this our Bourally or order I send you for this purpose, when it arrives you.
Be it known unto you, that it is by us directed that, conformable to said high capitula
tions which are the commands of our Great Sultan the English Balias, you are to aid,
assist, and protect, and in all other respects you are to pay obedience thereto, and from
the letter of said high capitulations you must not in any respect depart. And agree
able to this our order or Bourally you are commanded to act."
91. Mr. Shaw remained at Bagdad from the 15th June to the
latter end of August (1759), when he returned to Bussorah, and reached
that place the middle of September, " where ^ (Mr. Shaw stated in a
letter he wrote to the Hon^ble the Court of Directors on the 27th of the
following month)—
" I have the pleasure to find the Government entirely inclined to favour us; the
merchants and citizens seem also entirely attached to us, as well from the favour they
find we are in with the Bashaw, as upon account of several grievances they formerly
laboured under, which I have had the good fortune to get redressed by means of Your
Honors' influence with our Bashaw."
92. In a letter to the Agent in Council at Gombroon, dated the
26th August 1760, Mr. Shaw stated that the Bashaw had a short time
♦ A. D. 1759.