"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" [ظ‎‎٤‎٧] (٢٢٦/٩٦)

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always experienced their friendship towards me. I have now wrote a phirraan to
Ally Mahomed Caun, Governor of Bussorah, and have ordered him to behave in such a
manner towards you and your people that you may be entirely contented and carry on
your business to your satisfaction, both you and the people that are under you. 1 have
ordered that no person whatever shall molest them in any shape, that every one shall
behave towards them so that they may be free to carry on their business to their satis
faction. I have also wrote a phirman regarding the Jews and Armenians at Bussorah,
ordering that they shall be well treated; that except the head-money not a pence shall
be taken from them; and that if any of the Jews or Armenians want to go to any part
of the Gulf for the sake of trade, they shall have liberty to do so with the knowledge of
Coja Yacoob or Coja Aratoon. These orders, which I have given Ally Mahomed Caun,
must be obeyed by him, and I desire that you will always depend that my friendship
towards you is very great."
148. On the 6th May 1777 the Agent in Council at Bussorah
informed the Hon'ble the Court of Directors that they had received
information from Bagdad to the effect, that the Turks were making great
preparations for penetrating into Persia by five different ways as soon as
the season would admit; that the Pacha of Bagdad had received large
supplies of men and money from Constantinople, and intended shortly
marching against Bussorah. The inhabitants of Bussorah, it was stated
in the same letter, were looking forward with delight to the expected
approach of the Pacha's army in the hope of being restored to a milder
and more secure Government than the Persian rule.
149. On the 16th June 1777 the Agent in Council at Bussorah
received the following additional phirman from Curim Caun, Vakeel
of Persia;—
" You have desired some settled rule by which your nation may come and go and trade
to Bussorah. On account of the friendship which subsists between the English nation and
me, agreeable to your desire 1 have wrote a phirman to Ally Mahomed Caun, Governor
of Bussorah, and have ordered that the customs on the English goods, imported
and exported, shall be the same as in the time of the Mussaleemship of Soliman Aga,
not more and not less, and in every respect that your people shall be treated in the
same manner as they were at that time. With respect to the Jewish and Armenian
merchants residing at Bussorah, I have given orders to Ally Mahomed Caun that if
they want to go for trade near Bussorah, or far from Bussorah, if you desire that they
shall go, they must go, and that these orders must be obeyed. You must rest assured
that my friendship and favor towards you are very great. You must go according to
what I now write you, and give courage to your people; and if you desire any of the
merchants as above to go from Bussorah, you will inform Ally Mahomed Caun, that he
may not prevent them ; if you have any other business, write to me."
150. On the 2nd August 1778 this Government, under the au
thority contained in the following extract from a despatch from the
Hon'ble the Court of Directors, dated the 4th July of the preceding
year, directed the withdrawal of all the Company's servants from Bussorah,
with the exception of one, on whom it was resolved to bestow the appel
lation of Resident:—
"We have lately received such advices from Bussorah, dated the 24th January and
23rd February 1777, complaining much of the oppressions from the Persians on the
merchants and subjects, as give us very little prospect of the revival of trade there,
consequently an addition of servants and expenses would be only increasing the pre
sent burthen of that settlement, for which reason we now order that Mr. Moore be
admitted to a seat at the Board agreeable to his standing. We are very apprehensive
when the Persians find that the merchants and inhabitants have no more money
they will begin with our servants, which happened some years past in Persia, by which
the Company were very considerable sufferers. As the Agent and Council seemed to
think that the Persians would not permit them to leave the place, they applied to