IOR/L/PS/9/71/258

Copy of Dispatch No. 92 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez [Tabriz], to the Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, Andrew Sterling, of 27 March 1828. The letter concerns the request of the Government of India to reduce the expenditure of HM Mission to Persia. Macdonald Kinneir accounts for the Mission's expenditure, detailing how the money is spent, including:

• The monthly allowances of Major Isaac Hart and other officers in the service of Abbas Meerza [ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia]
• The salaries of Persian agents working for the mission
• The salaries of the treasurer and clerks
• The rent of the Residency at Tabreez
• Travelling expenses
• Messengers.

Macdonald Kinneir comments upon this expenditure, noting that should the British officers attached to Abbas Meerza be recalled, they will be replaced by Russian officers, and arguing that the expenditure of the Mission has only come under scrutiny because while previously the mission was paid for by both the Government of India and the British Government in London, it is now paid for by the former only.

This document originally enclosed documents pertaining to the Mission’s expenditure (enclosures Nos. 1 and 2 are not included in this item; enclosure No. 3, listing the British soldiers attached to Abbas Meerza is now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/71/259).

This document was originally enclosed 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).