IOR/L/PS/9/70/46

Copy of dispatch No. 19 from HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in Yankijah [Yengejeh], to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Canning, of 4 September 1825. The letter concerns the ongoing negotiations between Russia and Persia for the demarcation of their frontier in the Caucasus. Willock gives his appraisal of the motives of the Prince Royal, Abbas Mirza [Crown Prince of Persia, 'Abbās Mīrzā Qājār], in his ‘procrastination’ of the settlement of the frontier, and gives an account of the communications and negotiations concerning the settlement of the frontier that occurred while the Court of the Shah of Persia was at Sultanieh [Solţānīyeh]. Included are details of:

• Willock’s representations to the Prince Royal and the Shah encouraging the settlement of the frontier
• Communications between the Shah and the Governor-General of Georgia, General Yermoloff [Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov] concerning the ratification of a settlement previously agreed
• Negotiations between the Persians and the Russian Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Mazarowitch [Semyon Mazarovich]
• The Shah’s request for the British to mediate in the dispute.

The letter originally enclosed a translation of a letter from General Yermoloff to the Shah (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/70/47), and a copy of a letter from Major William Monteith to Willock (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/70/48).

This document was originally enclosed, numbered 1, in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 10 September 1825 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/45).