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matter with charaoteristic exuberance, writing as follows to the Court
of Directors :—
If in the hour of your severity, supported by conscious rectitude and actuated by
a laudable resolution to assert my honor, I ventured with independeat spirit to
address you in manly, free and animated language, I now, rejoicing in jour favor,
solicit your favorable acceptance of those calm and harmonized assurances of uniform
devotion to the service and interests of my Hon'ble employers, which a mind restored
to happiness, and reinvigorafced by the enjoyment of returning honor and credit,
feels it a pleasant duty to offer. The Hon'ble Company know me well, and they
shall find me, if my abilities equal my integrity, and my constitution enables me to
prosecute my riewa and wishes, a servant worthy of their applause, attention and
support.
British official correspondence continued to be forwarded regularly
across the desert between the Basrah Residency and the Aleppo Con
sulate ; and, during the wars with France, which began during- the
period, this overland route, owing to its directness and its security from
the interference of European nations, possessed a higher value than at
any time before or after. While the Residency was located at
Kuwait there was tampering, * at times, with the mails by Wahhahis
or under Wahhabi instigation j but the service was never seriously
interrupted. In 1798 the Resident felt some anxiety in regard to the
effect which the Turkish expedition against the Wahhabis, then about
to be undertaken, might produce; but his influence seems to have
proved, as he himself anticipated that it might, a sufficient protection
to the carriers whom he employed. The news of the battle of the Nile
reached India by way of Basrah ; and in 1801 the Resident at Basrah,
Mr. Manesty, received the thanks of the Government of India for
having maintained rapid communication between them and the British
forces in Egypt.
The establishment in 1798 of a Residency at Baghdad, independent
of that at Basrah, has been mentioned already, with the considerations
that led to it, as among the important facts of the British connection
with Turkish ^Iraq at this time.
In 1800 Mr. Jones, the Resident at Baghdad, fell ill; and as
Mr, Manesty, the Resident at Basrah, declined to let the Basrah
Surgeon go to bis assistance, Mr. Jones was obliged to come all
the way to Basrah for treatment. On Mr. Jones representing to
* Ihere is some discrepancy, in regard to the immunity of the mails from inter-
farence, between the account given by Sir H. J. Brydges (Mr. Jones) in his Wahauly
(pages 15—16) and that of Mr. Beinaud as reported in von Zach's Monatliche
Correspondenz for July to December 1806 (pages 234—235). See also the footnote
OB page 1005 of this volume in tho history of Kuwait.
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