"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" [و‎‎٥‎٠] (٢٢٦/١٠١)

WITH TURKISH ARABIA 164-6 TO 1846.
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to that authority, to proceed for the recovery of his health, either to
Bagdad, Aleppo, or England. Under this permission Mr. LaTouche left
Bussorah for England, via Bagdad and Aleppo, on the 6th November
1784, and made over charge of the Residency to his Assistant, Mr.
Manesty. Mr. Manesty remained in charge of the Bussorah Residency
from the 6th November 1784 to the 7th March 1786, when he was
relieved by Mr. John Griffith, who had been appointed Resident in
succession to Mr. LaTouche. Mr. Manesty was at the same time
re-appointed Assistant to the Resident, with the privilege, as he had
attained the rank of factor, of signing conjointly with the Resident all
letters addressed from the Bussorah factory to Government. Mr. Griffith
arrived at Bussorah on the 7th March 1786, and on the 10th of the same
month assumed charge of his appointment as Resident at Bussorah.
On the 5th December of the same year, however, Mr. Griffith was com
pelled from ill health to return to Bombay, again leaving Mr. Manesty
in charge of the Residency.
162. In a letter dated the 20th February 1787 Mr. Manesty
communicated the following intelligence to Government:—
" Some months ago Hadjee Soliman Beg, who is the Shaik of the Tye Arabs, a very
powerful tribe in the vicinity of Bagdad, and who with his family have resided many
years at the Pacha's Court, was discovered by the Pacha to be engaged in a dangerous
correspondence with a person who, for reasons unknown to me, had incurred the
Pacha's displeasure. On this discovery, the Pacha immediately ordered Hadjee
Soliman Beg with his family to quit Bagdad, and he seized his property
there to a very considerable amount. Hadjee Soliman Beg instantly obeyed
the order, retired from Bagdad with his family to the Arabs of which he is the Shaik,
and has since openly taken up arms against the Pacha and his Government. Hadjee
Soliman Beg's party is a powerful one, and the Pacha has some time ago sent a con
siderable army under the command of the Kia to punish the rebel. Various engage
ments have happened between the two armies, and various have been the accounts
which have been received of them here. About twenty days ago the Mussaleem sent
to me to inform me that the Pacha's army had gained a complete victory over that of
Hadjee Soliman Beg, and that Hadjee Soliman Beg was reduced to extremities. A
few days past, however, letters were received from Bagdad containing the disagreeable
intelligence that Hadjee Soliman Beg had routed the Pacha's army and taken prisoner
the Pacha of Coordistan, who had joined the army by order of the Pacha. The above
is the present state of affairs in the vicinity of Bagdad, which does not fail to give
great concern to the Pacha, and injuriously to affect the general trade of this country.
Some time ago, whilst the Mussaleem and the inhabitants of Bussorah were anxiously
expecting to receive advice of the issue of Hadjee Soliman Beg's rebellion, a report was
spread here, and which was supported by letters from many persons of consequence, both
at Bagdad and Aleppo, that Hadjee Soliman Beg had been appointed by the Ottoman
Emperor a Pacha of three tails and Pacha of Bagdad. The Pacha himself believed
that the appointment had actually taken place ; he sent for Coja Marcar, the Hon'ble
Company's Agent at Bagdad, and in his presence ordered a letter to be written to His
Majesty's Ambassador at the Porte, in which he in the warmest terms entreated his
friendly support and good offices at the Porte to set aside the appointment which he
supposed had been given to Hadjee Soliman Beg, and acknowledged his many serious
obligations to the English. I am now happy to inform you that I have every reason
to suppose that the report of Hadjee Soliman Beg having been appointed Pacha of
Bagdad is totally without foundation. I have not, however, received any intelligence
from the Ambassador on the subject. Revolutions in the Government of these coun
tries are generally attended with so much confusion, and have generally such evil
consequences, that the report of Hadjee Soliman Beg's appointment as Pacha of Bag
dad gave me considerable concern. I however indulged the hope, that the very
extensive influence which the English now fortunately enjoy, and the very strict friend
ship which without an exception they now are in with every person of consequence in
the country, might, in the event of a revolution, give security to the Hon'ble Company's
factory servants and dependents here, and I also indulged the hope that Hadjee