IOR/L/PS/9/71/243

Translation of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to Manoocher Khan [Manūchihr Khān Gurjī, Mu‘tamid al-Dawlah]. The letter is a duplicate of another letter sent to Meerza Abul Kassim, the Kaim Makam [Mīrzā Abū al-Qāsim Farāhānī, Qā’im-Maqām]. Macdonald Kinneir acknowledges the receipt of Manoocher Khan’s letter reporting the movement of instalments of the reparations to be paid to Russia as part of the peace treaty negotiated to end the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828]. He reports that the Russian General-in-Chief [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia] has indicated that he will not take less than six and a half crores of tomans in payment, and urges the swift transport of the remaining money from Zinjan [Zanjan]. He also reports that Turkomanshahee [Turkamanchay] has been nominated as the location for the signature of the peace treaty.

This document was originally enclosed, numbered 3 in enclosure No. 12, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 16 March 1828 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/201).