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IOR/L/PS/9/76/70
- Record Id:
- 041-003710978
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000544463
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100109378701.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100128086737.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/9/76/70
- Title:
- Letters from Constantinople
- Scope & Content:
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This item contains two documents:
1. A letter from John Spencer Smith, Minister Plenipotentiary in Constantinople [Istanbul], to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Constantinople and dated 10 April 1799.
Spencer Smith forwards a packet of letters to Jones, including an Arabic copy of the Ottoman manifesto against France. The letter also mentions that the British Legation and Spencer Smith’s house in Constantinople were destroyed by a fire, and that the Supreme Vizier [Yūsuf Ẓīa al-Dīn Pāshā, Grand Vizier to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire] is preparing personally to travel to the front against the French forces in Syria.
2. Copies of two French letters concerning the French Revolutionary Wars:
A letter from Alexandre de Soutzo [Alexandros Soutzos], Chief Dragoman of the Porte [senior interpreter of the Ottoman Government], to M De Wallembourg [Wallenburg], Chief Interpreter to the Internuncio of the Holy Roman Empire in Constantinople. The letter reports two decisive defeats of French forces
A translated extract of a letter from the Prince of Wallachia [Alexander Mourozis] to the Sublime Porte [Government of the Ottoman Empire] dated 9 Zilkaadé [Dhū al-Qa’dah] 1213/14 April 1799. The letter describes the defeat of French forces on the Rhine and in Grisons [Switzerland].
The letters were copied by Harford Jones.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000544463
037-000544535
040-003710908
041-003710978 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/9 : Correspondence relating to areas outside India
IOR/L/PS/9/67-78 : Secret Letters and Enclosures from Persia, Iraq, Syria, etc.
IOR/L/PS/9/76 : Letters from Iraq 1781-1805
IOR/L/PS/9/76/70 : Letters from Constantinople - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0009]/036-000544463[0005]/037-000544535[0010]/040-003710908[0070]/041-003710978
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item (4 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100109378701.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1799
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 10 Apr 1799-14 Apr 1799
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)