"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٢‎٧‎٨] (١٧٨٢/١٤٣٣)

1782-84.
Eelations of
the British
with influen
tial natives of
the countrv,
1779—89.'
1278
among the most influential personages there, including- the Sultan's
mother, the Vazir, and numerous high officials ; and the desired result
was attained. An item in the account afterwards furnished to the
Pasha, however, showing that about #2,00C had been paid "to a person
whose name it was not proper to mention/' attracted his attention; and
to the end of his life he was accustomed to insinuate, whenever anything
had put him in ill-humour with the British, that this sum had been
appropriated by their Ambassador.
During the years 1782 and 1783 Sulaiman Pasha was supplied, on
payment of the eost price and the expenses of carriage only, with 1,300
■saiu o arms and a quantity of gunpowder and camion shot from
Bombay; and about the same lime, in compliance with a request from
urn w neb the Turkish Government at Constantinople snbseqnentlv
supported, six armed Gallivats were built at Bombay and delivered to
him at Basrah. One object of Mr. Latouehe in travelling to Europe
by way of Baghdad at the end of 1784, ^ already mentioned in another
^connection, was " to take leave of Sniaiman Pasha, whom he had been
very instrumental in placing in that Pachalik, and with whom he
' nad large accounts to settle/'
In 1787 when it was generally stated that the leader of the local
lehelhon which occurred m that year had been chosen by the Porte to
supplant Sulaiman Pasha in the Paahaliq, the Pasha, who himself
believed the report, " sent for Coja Marcar, the Hon'ble Company's
" t "p- \t ag , ad ' and m h,s presence ordered a letter to be written
^ t, His Majesty s Ambassador at the Porte, in which he in the
warmest terms entreated his friendly support and good offices at the
7 ;T r. aS he supposed had been given to
JUdjee Sohman Beg, and acknowledged his many serious obligations
c Inglish In the same year Mr. Mancsty, the British J>gent
asiah stated it as his opinion that Sulaiman Pasha, although his
th ft .r tl t T rlr' 76001,98 ''"e been expected after
th favoms hat he had received at the hands of the Prithh, was
a y partia o them, and that by considerate treatment he had
g ven the merchants more encouragement than any of his predecessors.
f h / e Um esK]entat Basrah and the members of his staff seem
ave maintained, apart from their dealings with the Turkish officials,
friendly intereourse with the Arab chiefs and other notables of the
country, 1 he motive of Mr. latcucbe's visit to Thuwaini in 1784 was
to deliver a present to the Muntafik chief, apparently in recognition of
h. S good conduct with reference to the British Desert Mail, the working