"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" [ظ‎‎٧‎٩] (٢٢٦/١٦٠)

128 PRECIS OF INFORMATION REGARDING CONNECTION OF E. I. COMPY.
ing accurate information of passing events, but of establishing such an influence in tbe
Pacha's Councils as will be requisite for the efficient discharge of the duties properly
belonging to bis office. The common duties at Bussorah can, we conclude, be easily
performed by the Resident's European Assistant, if he has one, or if not, by a Native
Agent under bis (the Resident's) direction."
280. On the 12th June 1831 Daood Pacha of Bagdad, who had
filled that office for a period of 14 years and 3 months, was deposed by
the Sublime Porte and was succeeded by Ilajee Ali Reza Pacha. Daood
Pacha had determined to oppose by force the order for his deposal, but
on the approach of a large body of troops he sought shelter in the house
of " Mahomed Aga/' who promised him an asylum, but who immediately
afterwards delivered him up as a prisoner, when Hajee Reza Ali was, by
order of the Sultan, declared " Pacha of Bagdad, Aleppo, Diarbekir, and
Mosul/'
281. On his succeeding to the dignity of Pacha, Hajee Ali Reza
issued the following " Booyooroldi" confirming all the privileges
hitherto enjoyed by the British in Turkish Arabia. This " Booyooroldi"
on its reaching the Mussaleem (Governor) of Bussorah was by his order
publicly read in the Divan and afterwards registered " in the archives of
the Mehkemeh of the Kadhee and the Chancellery of the Dufturdar."
" Translation of a Booyooroldi from Ills Highness Ilajee A li JRcza, Pacha of
Bagdad, Aleppo, Diarbekir, and Mosul, to the Political Agent at Bussorah,
dated the 27th Rubee-atb-tbanee, A.H. 1247, or 2nd October 1831 A.D.
" To the spiritual leader of Islam, the Lieutenant (of the Jadhee of Constantinople)
at Bussorah; to His Excellency the Muftee Eftendi of Busra, whose
piety and excellence be increased; to the Chief of the Exalted Ministry
and Government the Mutesellim Agha, be his rank and station increased;
and to the elders and men of weight of the Council and country, whose
dignity be magnified. In reference to all affairs supervening at
Bussorah and relating to the excellent Resident of England, the high
and exalted Mr. Taylor, Balecar Beg, residing with our eternal Government, and in
observance of his rights and those of his Agents, interpreters, and all his proteges and
dependents, and of all the subjects of his Government and the merchants and ships
arriving from Hindoostan, according to the stipulations and treaties which have been
arranged and ratified with our exalted State, as they have been held in times preceding,
to which we adhere, and for which we even exceed the former regard out of a wish to
protect their rights: so you also the Nayeb Effendi and Muftee Eflendi and Mutesellim
Agha and Ayan (inferior Ministers) will in likewise deport yourselves towards, and protect
the rights and regard the just claims of the dignified Mr. Taylor, Beg, his Agents, inter
preters, proteges and dependents, and the subjects of the Government arriving from
Hindoostan, an 1 their ships and merchants, and all others so ever conformably to what
we have promulgated in this our Booyooroldi, which you will on no account infringe,
and thus be it known unto you."
282. On the 1st July 1831 the Hon'ble the Secret Committee
forwarded to this Government copy of a despatch, from which the follow
ing is an extract, which that authority had on the same day addressed to
the Right Hon'ble the Governor-General of India in Council, containing
instructions for the guidance of the public conduct of the Political Agent
in Turkish Arabia, and for the regulation of his various public relations :—
" Our Agent in the Pachalic of Bagdad is not to regard himself as the Plenipoten
tiary at the Court of a Sovereign and independent Prince. He is not to consider it as
part of his ordinary duty to'mix himself with the local duties and civil contentions of the
restless and unscrupulous Chiefs by whom he is surrounded. He is not at liberty to
enter at his own discretion, and without instructions, into negotiations and political
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