"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" [ظ‎‎٩‎١] (٢٢٦/١٨٦)

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that for the time to come the tenor of his renewed capitulations should
be of every one observed, and that all men should be careful and re
spectful to the said peace and friendship established and contracted on
both parts, and that no man should presume to violate or to do any act
contrary thereunto, which Ambassador did often declare that the
Caddees and other of our Ministers, in many places and provinces,
contrary to the Imperial capitulations and will of the Imperial Majesty,
have imposed and laid divers taxes, burdens, and monies upon the said
English nation, and those under their banner, for which cause, as it is
above declared, it being- found necessary to make additions of some new
Articles in the said Imperial capitulation, of which the said Ambassador
made declaration in writing, and presented the same to the Imperial
presence, the said Sultan Osman Han, with his Imperial hand and seal
did presently give express order and command that in the time to come
all those Articles and privileges which were already in the Imperial capi
tulation, and those articles which now are therein by our order newly
added, shall be of all our subjects and slaves duly obliged and observed
according to the sincere meaning of these our Imperial capitulations.
XLVIII.
Inasmuch as it is publicly known that certain pirates of Tunis
Against the pirates of Kartory. and Algiers, contrary to onr Imperial
capitulations, mind, and will, do take
and rob in the seas the ships, merchandize, and men subject to His
Majesty of England and of other Kings and States in league with this
our Imperial port to the great damage and injury of the said English
nation, we do command, and by these presents we do ordain that several
Imperial commands be given for the entire restitution of all goods and
merchandize to the English nation so taken away, and that all such
Englishmen as have been taken and made slaves or imprisoned by the
said pirates shall be immediately set free, and after the date of these
our Imperial capitulations, if it should be known that the said pirates
of Tunis and Algiers shall rob them again and shall use and continue
their outrages and will not restore their goods and men, we do command
that the said pirates be not received into any port of our dominions,
especially into the scales of Tunis, Algiers, Modon, or Coron, our
Beglerbeys and other Ministers shall not suffer them to enter, nor
harbour, nor receive them, but the Beglerbeys, Caddees, or other
Ministers, shall persecute, banish, and punish them.
XLIX.
Being informed that in our dominions many of our customers and
t , t . , v . i other officers in Aleppo, contrary to the
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Imperial capitulations under colour or
taking custom and rest upon silk of the English merchants, have
violently taken from the said merchants a great sum of money, and
whereas in the Imperial capitulations it is written that for silk which
the English shall buy in Aleppo they shall pay, as the French and Venetian
merchants do, and no more, notwithstanding the said customers, besides
the two and half per cent, for custom and rest, have taken from that
nation a great sum of money, lately under the name of rest, wherefore