IOR/L/PS/9/71/107

Dispatch No. 75 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Deheraghon [Azarshahr], to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton, of 9 December 1827. The letter concerns the negotiations for peace in the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828]. In the letter, Macdonald Kinneir reports the meeting of Prince Abbas Meerza [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār], and the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian forces, General Paskevitch [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia], during which Abbas Meerza accepted a modified version of the peace terms offered by Russia (see IOR/L/PS/9/71/99). Macdonald Kinneir also reports that he has sent his second assistant, Captain John Campbell, to Britain via Russia to inform the authorities about the war and the peace negotiations. Macdonald Kinneir also discusses the ongoing military occupation of Persian territory [the province of Azerbaijan], detailing the military situation and speculating about what may happen should the King [Shāh of Persia, Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār] refuse to pay the reparations agreed to by Abbas Meerza.

Originally enclosed with this letter was an extract from Macdonald Kinneir’s diary about the negotiations (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/71/108) and copies of the dispatches transmitted to Britain by Campbell (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/71/109-128).