IOR/L/PS/9/71/159

Copies of translated correspondence between the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, and Meerza Abdull Wahab, the Moatumud oo Dowleh [Mīrzā ‘Abd al-Wahhāb Nishāṭ Iṣfahānī, Mu‘tamid al-Dawlah]. The correspondence comprises two letters from Macdonald Kinneir to the Moatumud oo Dowleh, and one letter from the Moatumud oo Dowleh to Macdonald Kinneir. It concerns the payment of reparations by Persia to Russia as part of the peace agreement to end the war between the two states [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828]. In one letter, Macdonald Kinneir stresses the importance of paying the first instalment of the reparations on time. In his other letter, he argues against the reported intention of the Persian Ministers of paying the reparations only after the Russian evacuation of the province of Azerbijan [Azerbaijan], as this would be in contravention of the terms agreed between Abbas Meerza [ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia] and General Paskevitch [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia].

This document was originally enclosed, numbered 3 in 79, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 21 January 1828 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/154).