Enclosures no. 2-3 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Bombay [Mumbai] Castle, dated 28 February 1848. The enclosures are dated 7 December 1847-15 January 1848. The enclosures consist of copies of despatches from the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia relating to affairs in and around Bagdad...
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 2 of 1853, dated 3 January 1853. The enclosures listed in the abstract of contents are numbered 3-8. Enclosure numbers 3 and 5 consist...
'Translation of the Preliminary Treaty with Hassan bin Rahmah'
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Translation of the Preliminary Treaty signed between Major-General Sir William Grant Keir, on behalf of Great Britain, and Hassan bin Rahmah [Shaikh Ḥasan bin Raḥma al-Qāsimī], the Ruler of Ras al Khymah [Ra’s al-Khaymah], signed on 8 January 1820. The treaty was enclosed in Keir’s letter to HM...
'Translation of the Preliminary Treaty with Sultan bin Soggur'
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Translation of the Preliminary Treaty between Major-General Sir William Grant Keir, on behalf of Great Britain, and Sultan bin Soggur [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī], signed at Ras il Khyma [Ra’s al-Khaymah] on 9 January 1820. The treaty was enclosed in Keir’s letter to HM Chargé d’Affaire...
This item contains two letters written in French: 1. A copy of a letter from the Secretary of the British Legation in Persia [Iran], Captain John Nicholl Robert Campbell, to Jean Paskevitch, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian troops in the Caucasus [Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor...
Copy of a letter, written in French, from Jean Paskevich [Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia] to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, sent from Nacktchivan [Nakhichivan] and dated 10 October 1827 (Old Style) [22 ...
A translation of a letter from Mirza Abdul Wahab [Mīrzā ‘Abd al-Wahhāb Nishāṭ Iṣfahānī Mu‘tamid al-Dawlah], Persian Minister, to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran] Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir. In response to Macdonald Kinneir’s letters to the Shah [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār...
Letter from the Koim Makam [Mīrzā Abū al-Qāsim Farāhānī, Qāʾim-Maqām, the Vizier of the Crown Prince of Persia] to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, of 11 January 1828. The letter concerns the payment of reparations to Russia as part of the...
Dispatch No. 101 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to George Swinton, Chief Secretary of the Government of Bengal, sent from camp near Aleabad [Aliabad] and dated 29 May 1828. Macdonald Kinneir forwards a letter from the Count of Eriv...
Dispatch No. 102 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to George Swinton, Chief Secretary of the Government of Bengal, sent from Tehraun [Tehran] and dated 2 June 1828. The letter reports the arrival of Abbas Meerza [‘Abbās Mīrzā Qājār, C...