IOR/L/PS/9/68/152

Copy of a letter, numbered 5, from HM Ministers to Persia [Iran], James Morier and Henry Ellis, in Tehran, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Castlereagh, of 30 November 1814. The letter encloses ‘the estimate of the expenditure under the head of establishment’ of the British mission to Persia (not included in this item, see IOR/L/PS/9/68/148). Ellis and Morier recommend substituting the position of Minister Plenipotentiary in Persia with an inferior position, on the basis of the high cost of maintaining such a position, and also recommend Henry Willock for the position of Persian interpreter. The letter also highlights the fact that the previous Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia, Sir Gore Ouseley, had been charging his expenses to the Government of Bengal and the East India Company, instead of HMG.

The letter was enclosed in Morier and Ellis’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 30 November 1814 (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/158), which was delivered by Ellis on 13 March 1815.