The second part of a bulletin written by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], and dated 20 September 1802. The bulletin describes a struggle for power in Bagdad between Ally Pasha [‘Alī Pāshā al-Kahyah] and the Janissary Aga [Commander of the local Janissary corps], culminating in the ...
A letter in Farsi from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to the Basha [‘Alī Pāshā al-Kahyah, Governor of Baghdad], dated 19 June 1803. The letter concerns the detention of an Egyptian woman living with a British sailor in Bussora (see IOR/L/PS/9/76/299). An English version of this le...