"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" [و‎‎٥‎٣] (٢٢٦/١٠٧)

WITH TURKISH ARABIA 1G46 TO 184G. 75
LeMessurier made the following remarks in regard to the then posture
of the Hon'ble Company's affairs at Bussorah :—
" Of the state of the Hon'hle Company's credit and interests in Bussorah we cannot
presume to speak with any confidence, until, from a longer residence, we may acquire
more leisure, than we have yet heen able to command, to explore the mutilated docu
ments and unconnected records of preceding times, to examine the foundation of our
establishment here, and its rights, and to unravel the perplexity of recent transactions,
and until we may derive more experience and opportunities to determine the present
temper of the Government: this much we can decisively pronounce, that the influence
and dignity of this Residency has suffered a shock, and that a jealousy and distrust
seem to form the Turkish aspect as near as we have yet been able to contemplate it."
176. On intelligenee reaching the Hon'ble the Court of Directors
that the differences with the Pacha had been adjusted, and that Mr.
Manesty had in consequence returned to Bussorah, and re-established the
Hon'ble Company's Factory at that place, they rescinded their pre
vious order for the recall of Mr. Manesty and Mr. Harford Jones. The
following is an extract from the letter from Mr. Ramsay, then Secretary
at the India House, to the address of Mr. Manesty, dated the 1st Ja
nuary 1796, containing this decision :—
" The Court of Directors have received your several letters to the 9th of October
last, and I am ordered to express their satisfaction at the establishment of the Com
pany's factory at Bussorah, in consequence of the final adjustment of the long depend
ing dispute with the Pacha of Bagdad, and it is peculiarly pleasing to them that
our return to that place in your official capacity as Resident has been distinguished
y every possible mark of respect to our nation. As a perfect reconciliation has
happily taken place between you and the Pacha, of which there appeared no pro
bability when the Court communicated their orders to the Government of Bombay, of
the 16th April last, for a new arrangement of the Residency, and as they have every
reason to be satisfied with your general conduct, and that of Mr. Jones, in your
collective capacity of Resident and Factor, they have been induced to revoke the
orders contained in that despatch for your removal, there being a possibility of this
reaching you before those orders shall have been carried into execution."
177. The above letter reached Bussorah on the 3rd April 1776,
at which time Mr. Crow had been in charge of the Bussorah Residency
for upwards of three months, but Mr. Manesty was still remaining at
Bussorah on account of his pi'ivate affairs. In forwarding to Government,
on the 5th April, a copy of the above letter, Mr. Crow and Mr.
LeMessurier made the following remarks :—
" In company with the packet from the Hon'ble the Court of Directors which we
now despatch, we have received two official letters to the Residency from the
Secretary at the India House, addressed to the name of the preceding Resident
(" Mr. Manesty"), of which we deem it incumbent on us to transmit you copies.
Should these letters convey to your superior judgment what we have not conceived
from them, namely, a suspension of our functions, or should further orders, contained
in the packet we now forward, distinctly direct a recall of the gentlemen appointed
here by you, and a reinstatement of those we replaced, it becomes our duty to apprize
you that we have from our short experience here every reason to be confident that
such a restoration would be attended with the most destructive consequences to the
surviving portion of national credit we retain here, and to the interests of the East
India Company in this establishment, and that the Pacha would regard such an
instability in our public measures with contempt and indignation."
178. Messrs. Crow and LeMessurier on the same day addressed
a despatch to the Hon'ble the Court of Directors, in which they stated
that they considered that it would be in the highest degree injurious to
the interests of the Hou'ble Company that Mr. Manesty should be re-