"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" [ظ‎‎٩‎٨] (٢٢٦/٢٠٠)

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X.
English patents of protection shall not be granted to dependants or
merchants who are subjects of the Sublime Porte, nor shall any passport
be delivered to such persons on the part of Ambassadors or Consuls
without permission previously obtained from the Sublime Porte.
XL
As ships of war have at all times been prohibited from entering the
canal of Constantinople, viz., in the Straits of the Dardanelles and of the
Black Sea, and as this ancient regulation of the Ottoman Empire is in
future to be observed by every Power in time of peace, the Court of
Great Britain promises on its part to conform to this principle.
XII.
The ratifications of the present Treaty of Peace between the high
contracting parties shall be exchanged at Constantinople in the space of
ninety-one days from the date of this Treaty, or sooner if possible. In
faith of which, and in order that the ratification of the twelve Articles of
this Treaty (which has been happily concluded by the assistance of god,
and in the sincerity and good faith of the two parties) may be exchanged,
I, Plenipotentiary of the Sublime Porte, have, in virtue of my full powers,
signed and sealed this instrument, which I have delivered to the Pleni
potentiary of His Britannic Majesty in exchange for another instrument
exactly conformable thereto, written in the French language, with a
translation thereof, which has been delivered to me on his part agreeably
to his full powers.
Done near the Castle of the Dardanelles, the 5th of January 1809,
which corresponds with the year of the Hejira 1223, the 19th day of the
Moon Zilkaade.
(Sd.) Syud Mahomed Emin Vahid Effendi. (L.S.)
(Sd.) Robert Ardair. (L .S.)
Appendix E.
Memorandum on the present condition of the Pachalic of Bagdad and the
means it possesses of renovation and improvement.
The extent of disorganization and depression which at present reigns
in the Pachalic of Bagdad has rarely, if ever, been exceeded. Its popula
tion has decreased almost beyond belief; its cultivation is more than
proportionally diminished; its canals of irrigatiQn are daily suffered to
choke up, and the lands they watered to run to waste, and its most fertile
districts, which once were covered with villages and gardens and fields of
grain, are abandoned to the Arab tribes, who were confined to the desert
tracts around. Every source of revenue appears to be fast drying up, and
a decay which threatens utter ruin seems approaching with rapid strides.
The causes of this decay are to be found in the total incapacity and
misgovernment of the present Pacha, who has neither strength to