"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" [و‎‎٦‎٢] (٢٢٦/١٢٥)

WITH TURKISH ARABIA —1646 TO 1846.
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arrived at Bussorah on the 3rd July following, and received charge of the
Residency and Factory from Lieut. Bellasis. Mr. Law, however, died
shortly after his arrival, when Lieut. Eatwell of the Bombay Marine,
who was then at Bussorah, took and remained in charge of the Residency
and Factory until the return of Mr. Manesty on the 13th June 1806.
205. In a letter dated the 11th May 1805, Mr. Jones, the Resident
at Bagdad, gave the following account of the then condition of the
Pachalic:—
" The present state of this Government and of this country is most wretched,
and everything appears hastily and rapidly approaching to confusion and revolution.
In addition to the embarrassments the Pacha labours under from a quarrel which
took place between the Gerba and Alabage Arabs, we yesterday received the un
pleasant information that Abduraham Pacha, the principal Pacha of Coordistan, had
put to death Mahomed Pacha, Pacha of the Koos Sangae, the Pacha of Coordistan,
second in rank, dependent on this Government. Both these Pachas had but a few
days before taken leave of His Highness to proceed to Coordistan for the purpose of
bringing troops to assist the Pacha in an attack he meant to have made on the Alabage
Arabs and their confederates for the defence of the Arabs of the tribe of Gerba.
Abduraham Pacha on the road invited Mahomed Pacha to drink coffee with him in
his tent and put him to death, after which, it is said, a skirmish ensued between the
troops of these Pachas, which ended in Abduraham's making himself master of all the
deceased's baggage, &c."
A further letter from Mr. Jones, dated the 27th of the same month
(May 1805), contained the following additional information:—
" Early in the present month the Chief Pacha of that part of Coordistan annexed to
the Pachalic of Bagdad, without the orders of this Government, put to death one of the
secondary Pachas of that country, and afterwards proceeded to various other acts
of rebellion and contumacy. Shortly after the first of these events took place the
Pacha deposed and imprisoned in the castle of Bagdad Khalat Beg, his Kia or Minister,
together with Abdoolla Aga, connected with the Kia by marriage, and formerly
Mussaleem of Bussorah.
" The Pacha is at present preparing to march against AbduA,ham Pacha, the
rebel Pacha of Coordistan, and it is reported he will quit Bagdad in all the present
month."
206. In September 1804 a disagreement took place between
Mr. Jones and the Pacha in consequence of a slight offered by His
Highness to Mr. Jones' linguist. The Pacha refused to afford the
redress Mr. Jones demanded, and subsequently His Highness declined
having any further official intercourse with that gentleman. Finally, in
November 1805, the Pacha addressed a letter to the Right Hon'ble
Charles Arbuthnot, His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador at Constanti
nople, and also to the Sultan, requesting that Mr. Jones might be removed
from the office of Resident at Bagdad. The Sultan's Minister, after the
receipt of these letters at Constantinople, informed the British Ambassa
dor that the Ottoman Government was determined to insist on Mr.
Jones' immediate removal. The Minister at the same time informed the
Right Hon'ble Charles Arbuthnot that if Mr. Jones any longer remained
at Bagdad, the Sultan would not be responsible for his personal safety.
The Ambassador accordingly, in a letter to Mr. Jones dated the 16th
November 1805, advised him forthwith to withdraw from Bagdad pend
ing further instructions from His Britannic Majesty's Government, for
whose orders. His Excellency stated, he had referred. The Ambassador
concluded his letter to Mr. Jones with the following instruction :—
" Although I should have wished extremely that you had been able to act in such
a manner as might have prevented the quarrel between you and the Pacha from