IOR/L/PS/5/449, ff 454-461

This item comprises a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 21 of 1847, dated 16 February 1847. The enclosure is dated 26 December 1846.

The item comprises despatches from Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], forwarding for the information of the Government of Bombay and the Governor General of India, copies of his communications to Henry Wellesley, HM Minister Plenipotentiary at Constantinople [Istanbul], reporting on affairs in the Bagdad Pachalic [Baghdad Pashalik].

The papers cover two matters:

• The orders obtained by Rawlinson, on behalf of Persia [Iran], from Nejib Pasha [Muḥammad Najīb Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad], for the repositioning further southward of the Turkish [Ottoman] guard ship stationed off Mohumra [Khorramshahr, formerly Mohammerah], including a copy of his letter to Joannes Parseigh, the British Agent in Bussorah [Basra], directing him to hand the orders to Khurshid Beg [Khūrshīd Beg], Acting Governor of Bussorah, and see that they are implemented
• The preliminary arrangements, by Rawlinson, for a conference between the Turkish [Ottoman] and Persian frontier authorities to encourage the suspension of the ‘internecine conflicts’ between the Kurds and avert further violence and retaliation, including: the appointment of a Persian Commissioner; Nejib Pasha’s requirement that Abdulla Pasha of Sulimanieh [‘Abdullāh Pāshā of Sulaymaniyah] collect all chiefs implicated in the latest disputes to attend the conference; and Rawlinson’s encouragement of Mohib Ali Khan [Muḥibb ʿAlī Khān], Governor of Kermanshah, to cooperate and collect together the relevant tribes on the Persian side.