"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٢‎٠‎٣] (١٧٨٢/١٣٥٨)

1203
The sieg-e of Basrah by the Persians in 1743 led, as we had already Ill-treatment
seen, to a serious affront to Mr. Dorrill, the Resident; and the general Residen^and
behaviour of the Mutasallim and the other officials towards him, as also lis ^- ases
their demands for loans, had become so outrageous that in 1744 he
proposed, if Ahmad Pasha neglected his complaints, to retire on board
ship and^ if his grievances still remained unredressed, to leave Basrah.
The authorities at Bombay, however, advised him to remain, provided he
could do so by " submitting only to a small expense," and matters seem
to have been temporarily adjusted. In 1745 there was fresh trouble
between the Uesident and the Mutasallim, arising partly out of
Mr. French's estate against which claims amounting to 166,005
Mahmudis had been brought by native creditors, and Mr. Dorrill had
prepared to retire to Bushehr ; but the Turks seized goods belonging to
some of the Company's Bombay servants and shipped them for Baghdad,
obliging him instead to repair in haste to the capital, where the creditors
resided. On this occasion the Resident was well received by Ahmad
Pasha, who removed the Mutasallim of Basrah, replacing him by Yahya
Agha, a former satisfactory governor, and caused the property of some
members of the Mutasallim's council to be sequestrated.
In 1747, in consequence of the inundation deliberately caused in Suggested
that year by Arab rebels against the Pasha's authority and of the pesti- of^te^&Li-
lence by which he apprehended that it would be followed, Mr. Grendon, ^ ent ^ f rom
the Resident at Basrah, sought permission to withdraw for a time to 1747,
Baghdad, Kharag, Rig or Bushehr; but his request was refused by the
Agent and Council at Bandar ' Abbas.
In June 1748 Mr. Grendon, who appears not to have liked Basrah, Basrah Resi-
suddenly made over charge of the Residency to Mr. Pompet, Writer, charge 6 of ^a
and left for Bombay on private affairs, without first obtaining permission Writer, 1748.
from his superiors. The Agent and Council at Bandar 'Abbas animad
verted severely on his conduct, and they considered it to be the more
reprehensible because Husain Pasha, a new Mutasallim, who was one of
the debtors to Mr. French's estate, had arrived at the time of his departure
within a few days' march of Basrah.
In April 1749, Sulaiman Pasha having marched from Basrah to Threatened
attack the Pasha of Baghad, his Kehiyah, whom he had left behind,
demanded a loan from the Resident in addition to one already given, dent from
The Resident, however, struck his flag and threatened to leave Basrah, Basrah, 1749.
whereupon the Kehiyah desisted and sent an influential deputation to beg
him to stay.
In 1751 the Mutasallim of Basrah was again guilty of violent Renewed
trouble witb
measures and extraordinary behaviour" towards the Resident, who roa e W1
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