IOR/L/PS/5/464, ff 10-16

This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 30 of 1850, dated 23 May 1850. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 15 April 1850.

The enclosure consists of a letter from the Acting Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, to the Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Political Department, forwarding under flying seal a despatch to the address of the Secretary to the Government of India, forwarding a copy of a despatch addressed by Kemball to HM Ambassador at Constantinople [Istanbul], Sir Stratford Canning.

The despatch concerns military affairs in the Bagdad Pachalic [Baghdad Pashalik], including:

• The movement of a detachment from Kirkook [Kirkuk] to Sulimanieh [As Sulaymaniyah], where it entered the town without opposition, in response to the ‘critical position’ of Ismail Pasha [Ismā‘īl Pāshā] becoming known
• The movement of Namik Pasha [Muḥammad Amīn Nāmiq Pāshā], with all the troops at his disposal, to Kirkook, and his successful interception and defeat of the first party of Kurdish levies who had escaped their barracks
• A lack of definite information about the movements or intentions of the Kurdish nobles, who remain encamped in the districts
• News of the defection of the Kurdish regiments and the withdrawal of the Turkish [Ottoman] garrison to form the expedition to Sulimanieh having led to an uprising by the Maadan Arabs [Maʻdān or Marsh Arabs] in the Hindieah [Hindiyah] districts.