Letter from Samuel Manesty to the Secret Committee
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A copy of a letter from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from Bussora and dated 19 November 1803. The letter concerns the transit of mail.
A copy of a letter from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdat [Baghdad], sent from Bussora and dated 28 November 1803. The letter concerns messengers carrying mail between Aleppo and Bussora. Manesty alleges fraudulent practice on the part of some mes...
A copy of a letter from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Bussora and dated 18 September 1803. Manesty defends his conduct in chartering private ships owned by himself to carry dispatches to Bombay [Mumbai] at the East Indi...
An extract of the Governor of Bombay’s commands to Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], dated 13 April 1801. The commands concern expenditure on conveying mail from Bussora to Bombay [Mumbai] on a private ship owned by Manesty.
A copy of a letter from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay, sent from Bussora and dated 14 August 1803. Manesty contests the expenditure allowed by the Governor for the conveyance of mail from Bussora to Bombay [Mumbai] on a private ship owned by...
A copy of a letter from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay, sent from Bussora and dated 20 September 1801. Manesty defends his conduct in chartering private ships owned by himself to carry dispatches to India at the East India Company’s expense.
A letter in Farsi from Samuel Manesty, Acting Envoy to Persia [Iran], to the Bacha [‘Alī Pāshā al-Kahyah, Governor of Baghdad], dated 12 October 1804. An English version of this letter is catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/356.
This item contains copies of three letters: 1. A letter from John Raymond, Conductor of Stores in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], sent from Bagdad and dated 27 September 1804. Raymond describes a quarrel between himself and Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad, fo...
Copies of letters from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to: Captain Edward Stephenson, Commander of the Queen; Lieutenant Robert Budden, Commander of the Antelope; and Lieutenant Charles Gilmour, Commander of the Mornington; sent from Bussora and dated 2 January 1805. The letters co...
Copy of a letter (No.30) from Colonel John Macdonald to the Secret Committee with enclosures No.42, 43 , and 44 to Secretary George Swinton
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Enclosure in No.43: translation of a letter addressed by Colonel John Macdonald to the Kaim Mukam [Qā'im'maqām]. Enclosure in No.44: translation of a letter addressed by the Kaim Mukam to Colonel John Macdonald.