IOR/L/PS/9/70/177

Copy of dispatch No. 30 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tehran, to the Chief Secretary to the Supreme Government of India, George Swinton, of 28 December 1826. The letter originally enclosed the translation of a letter from Daoud Khan to Abbas Meerza [Crown Prince of Persia, 'Abbās Mīrzā Qājār], a copy of which was acquired by Macdonald Kinneir’s secret informant at Tabreez [Tabriz] (not included in this item). The letter also details proceedings in Persia relating to the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], including:

• Abbas Meerza’s communications to the Shah detailing the weakness of the Russian position in Georgia and arguing against the opening of negotiations for peace, and Macdonald Kinneir’s views concerning the veracity of Abbas Meerza’s communications
• Private reports of the opening of negotiations for peace between Abbas Meerza and General Madadoff [General Valerian Madatov]
• The possibility of Abbas Meerza making communications with powers in Europe, including instructions for Daoud Khan to communicate with the French and Austrian ambassadors at Constantinople [Istanbul]
• The ‘disturbed state of mind’ of the Shah.

This document was originally enclosed in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 17 January 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/175).