IOR/L/PS/9/71/185

Copy of dispatch No. 83 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Turkoman Shahee [Turkamanchay], to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton, of 31 January 1828. The letter originally enclosed letters from Macdonald Kinneir’s assistant, Dr John McNeill, concerning the views of the Shah of Persia [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār] regarding the payment of the first instalment of the reparations demanded by Russia as part of the peace agreement to end the ongoing war [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828] (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/71/186-187). Macdonald Kinneir reports the departure of money held at Cazevin [Qazvin], describing the arrangements for the journey and the payment of the money to Russia, indicating his belief that the Russians will be eager to accept the payment and to evacuate the occupied Persian territory [the Province of Azerbaijan]. He also discusses the conclusion of the negotiations, which are now due to occur following the Shah’s agreement to ratify the treaty negotiated by General Paskevitch [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia] and the Prince Royal [ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia].

This document was originally enclosed in Macdonald Kinneir’s dispatch No. 30 to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 14 February 1828 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/184).