IOR/L/PS/9/70/146

Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in camp near Aher [Ahar], to the Secret Committee of the East India Company, of 19 September 1826, which was received on 25 November 1826. The letter reports the wish of the Shah of Persia [Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār], as per treaty arrangements between Britain and Persia, to seek mediation from Britain in the war that has broken out between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], and to seek a subsidy from the East India Company. Macdonald Kinneir indicates that he has secured an agreement from the Shah to avoid the dispatch of an ambassador by Persia to Britain by sending the former HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, to represent the Shah’s wishes to the British Government in London, and indicates that he believes that Persia has ‘strong arguments’ in support of its claim for subsidy.

The letter originally enclosed copies of letters from Macdonald Kinneir to the President of the Board of Control, Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn, and to Willock (catalogued respectively as IOR/L/PS/9/70/147 and 148).