"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" [و‎‎٩‎٦] (٢٢٦/١٩٥)

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might and should import from their own and other foreign countries into
Turkey, and on such as they should export and carry from Turkey into
their own and other foreign countries for sale; and whereas by reason of the
increased prices of all commodities the duties levied according to this
tariff having fallen much below 3 per cent, the Court of Great Britain
in compliance with the desire of the Ottoman Porte and in conformity
to the anxious wishes it feels for the prosperity of the Ottoman Empire
did order a new tariff of customs to be constructed for the English
merchants which was accordingly done in April 1800, fixing the rates of
the standard of three in the hundred, according to the Imperial capitu
lations ; and whereas His Excellency the Right Hon^ble Charles Arbuth-
not. Member of His Britannic Majesty's Privy Council and His Ambas
sador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Sublime Porte has
represented that the rates of certain articles in this new English tariff
are higher than those paid by other Christian powers, and has asked that
an alteration should be made in conformity to the sacred capitulations
which stipulate that equal privileges shall be enjoyed by England as are
or shall be granted to the most favoured nations.
In consequence whereof and in virtue of an Imperial Firman issued
to that effect, the rates of certain articles have been reduced and fixed
through the medium of Mr. Pisani, English Drogoman, and of the
English merchants on the one stand and by His Excellency Hassan Aga,
Head Customer, and one of the Imperial Chamberlaines on the other, and
the list following in this book containing the rates and all that part of
the tariff settled in 1800, which has not now been altered has been signed
and sealed to serve as a permanent rule. The arrears of the suspended
payments to be settled after the terms of the present book dating from
the 29th October 1801.
Ahmed Yassif Rois Effendi. Charles Arbuthnot.
(L. S.) (L. S.)
Imports.
Aspers.
Tin
per kintal
210
Lead
45
Tin plate
„ case containing 225
75
Loaf sugar and sugar in powder
„ kintal ../
120
Pepper
„ oque
4
Shalloons
„ piece of 45 piks
110
Cochineal
„ oque
120
Farnabang Dal bacam portocal
„ kintal
120
Item French or campech...
120
Item violet called Sr. Martha
» •••
72
Moka coffee ...
„ oque
9
Item American
•••
4
Ginger, white and black ...
„ kintal
80
Amomunyeni Bahao
„ oque
3
Amamon of Treish
» • • •
20
Item Dutch
» » •••
36
India yarn ...
99 •••
50
Cotton yarn from England
9} 99 •••
27
Muslins called menghis, agabanies, sur-
beti, mermeri, keba, mermeri, hazine
mermeri, howmayoon.
Kebir Hasse
Bafta and Saccan cun ...
„ piece
70