"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" [و‎‎٣‎٩] (٢٢٦/٧٩)

WITH TURKISH ARABIA— IG^G TO 1846.
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111. On receipt by the Agent in Council at Bussorah of the
Hon'ble Court's order, alluded to in paragraph 103, to send Mr. garden
down to Bombay, that gentleman, who a short time before had been
sent to Bagdad with a representation to the Bashaw in order to eftect
some sales of the Hon'ble Company's goods, was recalled and Mr
Dymoke Lyster, one of the Council at Bussorah, was ordered to proceed
on to Bagdad and relieve Mr. Garden. The Agent in Council at Bussorah
about this time made a recommendation that for the future one ot the
Hon'ble Company's servants should permanently reside at Bagdad.
This arrangement was approved by Government on the 15th January
1766, and Mr. James Morley, then in Bombay, was appointed Kesident
at Bagdad, where he arrived on the 2nd May following, when Mr.
Dymoke Lyster returned to Bussorah. The Honble the Cour 0
Directors having, however, disapproved of this arrangement, Mr. JV oi ey
was, on the 23rd November 1766, recalled by the Bombay Government
from Bagdad.
112. On the 8th July 1766 the Hon'ble Company's establish
ment at Bussorah was as shown in the following Statement:
No. Names.
Esq.,
2. Mr. Dymoke Lyster
3. „ George Skipp
4. „ Benjamin Hollamby
5. „ William Walker
113
Bussorah,
On the 31st January 1767
consequence of ill health, delivered over
Designation.
Salaries per
annum.
h.
£
.. Agent
100
.. Senior Merchant
30
.. Factor
15
.. Writer
5
.. Surgeon
36
Mr. Wrench,
the Agent at
in
charge of the
1_J LlOCiUl tXU y 111 W— s __ —'
Hon'ble Company's affairs at that place to Messrs. Dymoke Lyster and
Georo-e Skipp and proceeded to Bombay. On the 11th February 1767
Mr ^Henry Moore, then in Bombay, was appointed by Government to
succeed Mr. Wrench, Mr. William Diggs Latouche was at the same
time appointed to succeed Mr. Benjamin Hollamby as assistant, who
was ordered to return to Bombay, and Mr. John Yockly Botham was
appointed Secretary. These gentlemen arrived at Bussorah on the 31st
March 1767, and on the following day assumed charge of their
respective appointments.
114. In a despatch dated the 19th April 1767 the Agent in Coun
cil at Bussorah communicated the following intelligence to the Hon'ble
the Court of Directors :—
" We forward this address to Your Honors by the way of Aleppo to give cover
to a packet received the 31st ultimo from the Presidency by the Eagle, at the same
time to enclose a duplicate letter from this factory bearing date the 23rd ot last month.
In consequence of the orders received from the Presidency by the Eagle, we now trans
mit Your Honors the best accounts we can collect as to the rise of the troubles with the
Shaik Shack Soliman. The Chaub is originally a subject of the Turks, and has tor many
years possessed a considerable territory within their dominions bordering upon the
Persian empire, for which he ought, and did tor some years, annually to pay a large sum
of money into the Treasury of this Pachaship. A few years after the death ot a adir
Shah, and in the troubles that followed it, he also got possession of a territory m the