"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" [و‎‎٨‎٣] (٢٢٦/١٦٧)

WITH TURKISH ARABIA —1616 TO 1846.
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Bombay on the 31st October following- in tow of the steamer Semiramis,
and after being- repaired were, by order of the Government of India,
despatched for service on the River Indus.
299. The remaining-, steamer the Nitocris, continued on the
Euphrates and Tigris rivers, under the command of Lieutenant Jones, of
the Indian Navy, until the 4th May 1846, when, by order of the Right
Hon'ble the Governor-General of India, she was brought to Bombav
for the purpose of being repaired, and arrived in this port on the 16th
of the same month. His Lordship has lately referred for the instructions
of the Hon'ble the Secret Committee whether, when the repairs to this
vessel have been completed, she is to be sent back to the River Euphrates.
300. The total cost of the maintenance of the Euphrates Flotilla
from January 1837, when the Euphrates steamer was transfernnl from
Her Majesty's to the Hon'ble Company's service up to the 30th April
1843, independently of the original cost of the four vessels above alluded
to, up to the period of the withdrawal of the three vessels abovemen-
tioned, amounted to Rupees 3,42,348-1-4, independently of Rupees
89,547-10-9, disbursed between February 1838 and April 1843 in the
maintenance of a dromedary post establishment between Bussorah,
Damascus, and Beiront, formerly established in connection with the
Euphrates Flotilla. According to a statement lately furnished to this
Government by the Military Auditor-General, the average total annual
expense incurred in the past maintenance of the steamer Nilocris on the
Euphrates has been Rupees 55,098-5 per annum, being at the monthly
rate of Rupees 4,591-8-5.
• 301. On the 10th August 1841, Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor, the
Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, was appointed by Her Majesty's
Government British Consul at Bagdad. The following is an extract
from the Right Hon'ble Viscount Palmerston's letter to Lieutenant-
Colonel Taylor, informing him of this appointment and communicating
instructions for his guidance in the conduct of his duties in that capa^
city:—
" Her Majesty's Government has judged that it will be advantageous to the public service
that Consular power and rank should be conferred upon you ; 1 have to acquaint you
that the Queen has been graciously pleased to sign a commission appointing you Her
Majesty's Consul at Bagdad. This commission will be forwarded to Her Majesty's
Consul-General at Constantinople, in order that the necessary exequater may be ob
tained from the Sublime Porte, recognizing you as Her Majesty's Consul and Mr.
Cartwright will transmit those documents to you ; I have, however, to acquaint you
that it is not intended by this commission to interfere with your present position as
the last India Company's Resident at Bagdad, further than to place under your super
intendence the British Vice-Consul, who has lately been appointed to reside at Mussoul,
and Mr. Hassan will be instructed to consider himself under your superintendence, and
to attend to the instructions which you may from time to time give him for the guid
ance of his official conduct."
302. On the 7th March 1843, Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor, the
late Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, submitted to this Government,
with his favourable recommendation, an application from the Pacha
of Bagdad, soliciting that he might be furnished from Bombay on his
defraying their cost with 20,000 cannon shot of different sizes, and
with an iron steamer similar in all respects to those (lately) employed on
the Euphrates. This steamer, the Pacha stated, be intended as the
foundation " of a small fleet" he proposed to establish on the rivers of