"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٣‎٣‎٥] (١٧٨٢/١٤٩٠)

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At the same time they prohibited the e.uplojment of Mr. Manesty on
any foreign or diplomatic mission whatever, without further orders from
themselves. It will be remembered that Mr. Manesty had twice, in
17 91-95 and again in 1803, come into serious collision with the Pasha,
Governor of Baghdad, that in 1804 he had unwarrantably assumed the
character of an Envoy to the Court of Persia, and that in 1805 he had
drawn large bills upon the Government of Bombay in the absence
both of authority and of funds, and had left his station to visit
Bombay without the permission of Government. In these circumstances
the action of the Court can hardly be regarded as too severe, nor can we
do otherwise than share their surprise at the leniency with which the
Bombay Government had treated * him. Mr. Manesty made over charge
of the Basrah office to Dr. Colquhoun, the Residency Surgeon, on the
13th June 1810; but at the same time he announced his intention of
remaining at Basrah on account of his private affairs until the 1st
September, when he would proceed to England via Constantinople with
out resigning the service. He was informed in reply that he must
conform with the regulations which required him to resign the service
in the East before proceeding home, but that the Government of Bombay
would recommend him for re-employment, should he so desire. Mr.
Manesty, on receiving this intimation, formally and finally resigned the
service, having " determined to accept the offer of an annuity which had
" been made to him by the Committee of Management of the Bombay
" Civil Fund," but permission for proceeding beyond Constantinople was
withheld until he should have furnished Government with certain
papers connected with his accounts, which had already been called for,
and had satisfied all public demands against him. The conclusion of his
case is not recorded.
On the 23rd September 1813, in accordance with a recommendation
made by the Government of India, the Court of Directors of the East
India Company ordered a change by which the nominal organisation in
Turkish ^Iraq was brought into harmony with the actual. In fact the
" Resident at Hasrah " was made " Political A gent in Turkish Arabia,^
and was expressly empowered to reside at Basrah or Baghdad as circums
tances might require, and to depute his Assistant from either place for
duty at the other. As Mr. Rich, however, the holder of the appointment
until 1831, continued to reside at Baghdad, he did not cease to be
* Mr. Manfsty had, no doubt, some ledeeming qualities. He was patriotic aud
hospitable, and he lived at Basrah in thestvle of au English country gentleman. HU
wife was an Armenian lady, aud ihey had a promising family.
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Couverston of
the Residency
at Basrah
into a Politi
cal Agency
in Turkish
'Iraq, 1812.
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