IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 36-46

This part of the volume consists of copies of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 3 of 1853, dated 13 January 1853. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 4 November 1852.

The enclosure consists of a despatch from HM Consul General at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, addressed to the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department, forwarded under flying seal to the Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Political Department. This despatch contains copies of two despatches from Rawlinson to HM Chargé d'Affaires at Constantinople [Istanbul], Colonel Hugh Rose, dated 19 October and 3 November 1852 (the latter despatch includes enclosed correspondence between Rawlinson and HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Persia [Iran], Colonel Justin Sheil). These despatches concern the opposition of Namik Pasha [Muḥammad Amīn Nāmiq Pāshā, Governor or Viceroy of Baghdad] to the entry of Prince Abbas Mirza [ʿAbbās Mīrzā Mulk Ārā Qājār] into Turkish [Ottoman] territory; Namik Pasha's objection being overruled by the Ottoman Ambassador at Teheran [Tehran], and the latter sanctioning the Prince's residence in the Baghdad Pashalic [Pashalik, also spelled Pachalic in this item].