IOR/L/PS/9/71/255

Translation of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez [Tabriz], to Abbas Meerza [ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia], of 18 March 1828. The letter concerns the agreement between Macdonald Kinneir and Abbas Meerza for the abrogation of the third and fourth articles of the treaty existing between Britain and Persia [Definitive Treaty of 1814] in return for the sum of 200,000 tomauns [tomans] from Britain (see IOR/L/PS/9/71/192-193). Macdonald Kinneir advises on the payment of the bills for the money, and indicates that he has reported discussions between himself and Abbas Meerza concerning the latter’s wish for the payment of a sum larger than 200,000 tomauns to his superiors but cannot be held responsible for the outcome. He also states that Abbas Meerza may return the money and annul the agreement should he so wish.

This document was originally enclosed, numbered 1 in dispatch No. 91, in Macdonald Kinneir’s dispatch No. 34 to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 28 March 1828 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/253).