"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٣‎٨‎١] (١٧٨٢/١٥٣٦)

1881
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U combinations.'''' Major Rawlinson succeeded, through the British
Legation at Tehran, in obtaining the despatch by the Governor of
Kirmanshah of a special Persian officer to the frontier; but the Pasha of
Baghdad, when approached on the subject, declined to send anyone to
co-operate with the Persian Commissioner, alleging that previous
experience forbade him to put any faith in the Persians, and that he
could only take such a step if the British Political Agent would
guarantee a satisfactory result. He wrote to Major Rawlinson on the
subject and asked that translations of his letter might be forwarded to
Constantinople and Tehran, but the letter was worded so offensively
to the Persian Government that transmission was refused.
The lot of Persian subjects in Turkish territory appears, during this
interval of suspense, to have been no enviable one. In 1846 it was
complained by the Persians that irregular internal duties were levied on
their trade j that the fees for interment in sacred soil at Karbala and
Najaf had been enhanced; that a harmful monopoly for the washing of
the dead had been granted at the Holy Cities; that a double toll wag
exacted from Persians crossing the Kufah ferry near Najaf; that duties
were now levied on burials even in the Khaitnahgah at Karbala, where
they had hitherto been free; that a tax was imposed on Persian pilgrims
to Makkah; that Persians, like Europeans, were required to be in
possession of passports; and that Persian pilgrims were not properly
protected, nor even compensated for their losses when the actual offenders
against them were caught. Some of these complaints were not
substantiated, and others were frivolous; but the fact remaias that
Persian subjects were regarded and treated with consistent hostility
by the local Turkish officials. The fault lay, in part at least, with the
Persian Government itself; and in March 1843, the British Political
Agent at Baghdad wrote : " Although upwards of three months have now
" elapsed since the death of the Persian Consul no measures have been
" taken to replace him, and not only have my efforts to protect Persian
' f interests at Baghdad during the interval been unacknowledged and un-
a supported at Tehran, but in some instances they have been actually
" thwarted for no motive that I can conceive but that of jealousy ; at the
" same time every case in which I advocate Persian claims injures my
" position with Nejib Pasha, hampers one in asserting British rights, and
" risks collision with the Consul-General of France, so that I have been
" constrained of late to remain almost passive."
In 1848 a Commission was formed for the delimitation of the frontier
in accordance with the Second Treaty of Erzeroum ; it consisted of
Treatment
of Persian
subjects in
Tuikish
'Iraq, 1839-
47.
Attempted
delimitation
of the