IOR/F/4/706/19083

This item consists primarily of copies of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the governments of Bombay and Bengal. It is the second in a series of three items on Bussora [Basra] and Bagdad [Baghdad] (the others are IOR/F/4/706/19082 and 19084). The main correspondents are the Government of Bombay; Bombay merchants; the Ambassador at Constantinople [Istanbul], Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford; the Advocate General of Bombay, Ollyett Woodhouse; the Advocate General of Bengal, Robert Spankie.

The item consists of the following topics:

• The requests for compensation and consideration of the legality of the trade embargo imposed on British ships arriving in Bussora [Basra] (for a fuller account of the embargo, see IOR/F/4/706/19082)
• The death of the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, Claudius James Rich, on 5 October 1821 at Shirauz [Shiraz], of cholera
• The possibility of moving the Residency from Bussora
• Political relations of the Ottoman Empire with Russia
• The Wallachian Uprising of 1821
• The Greek War of Independence, including a description of Smyrna [İzmir] by John Cartwright, Consul General of the Levant Company.

This item includes a contents page, and the title page contains the following references: ‘Political No. 10, vol 2, P C 80, Draft 102, Season [18]23/4.’