"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٧‎٤] (١٧٨٢/٣١٧)

and Mlrza
Muhammad
Eiza 5 Treaty
of Finkin-
skin ) and
British
rupture with
the Porte,
1801-1807.
Relations of
France with
the 'Omau
Sultanate,
1803-1808.
Second
mission of
(General)
by the Persians. In 180^ a proposal by France for joint action by
herself and Persia against Russia, with whom Persia was now at war,
was still rejected by the Shah, although properly authenticated. The
reason for its rejection may have been a lingering hope of British
assistance, which he would have preferred, on the part of the Shab. In
1 ^05 Colonel Romieu visited Tehran on a regular mission from Napoleon •
and he was followed in the next year by M. Jaubert, who induced the
Persian monarch to send a high official, named Mirza Muhammad
Riza, to Europe to treat with Napoleon. The result of Mirza Muham
mad Riza^s mission was the treaty of Finkinstein, whereby, in May
1807, France and Persia became allies on equal terms against their
common enemy Russia; but in 1807-1808, the Persian Government
twice took measures to persuade the British Resident at Bushehr that
their close relations with France did not imply any unfriendliness
towards Britain.
Early in 1807 a rupture occurred between Britain and the Porte
in oonsequenoe of an intimacy which had sprung up between the
urkish and the French Governments, and in Europe Britain and Turkey
were nominally at war until the beginning of 1809 ; but the Pasha of
ag .dad, partly perhaps on account of the despatch of a strong British
naval squadron to the Persian Gulf in 1807, decided to ignore the quarrel
e ween us master and the British power, and in Turkish 'Iraq matters
remained on a perfectly amicable footing.
i . ma i' also the I reni li entertained political views, which were no
doubt connected with their larger schemes in Persia; but their policy
here was at first frustrated by the steady adbereoce of Saiyid SmtL to
r 's o£ 1,98 "id 1800 with Britain. In 1803 M. de
Cava.gna,, was specially deputed to Masqat by Geueral de Caeo. the
Polrttl A 0 ™" 01 . Mauriti ™. » establish a French Consulate and
and h Sult5n de<!lil ' ed t" discuss the matter,
1807 lfi(K 'T' emifisar . 1 turned disappointed to his head-quarters. In
entered + Sai ^ Sultan's son and successor Saiyid Sa'ld
was b 8t I't ti0ne With IW ' an ' 1 a Consular Agency
J Masqat under M. Dallons,
Gover 6 ^7^ ^ FrenCl1 Wl " tl1 the Shkh P laced His Majesty^
G-ernmeut and the Government of India both on the alert, a.d the *
^
that in 1808 the ^er ' la,, Golf field 5 bnt ^ m!x y be mentioned
I^abul and Sind. All rf fi 1 ? n ' 1,a 8en ^ m, ' ss ' ons also to the rulers of Laliore,
and the treaties concluded bvtWt at . first, to the ^PPO^d French danger;
to Sind was begun bv C f • c " 0 contained anti-Frfnch articles. The mission
"»» carried through bv Mr v' "n at Mo3 ? a b "h" mitraaoaged it, and
K«h»l m i 39 i„„, wereh /, ' ' „ Evident at Bs.hchr. The More and
6 hea ' W ^ Metcalfe and Elphimtone respeclirelj.