IOR/L/PS/5/447, ff 106-118

This item comprises a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 134 of 1846, dated 14 November 1846. The enclosure is dated 8 September 1846.

The enclosure consists of a copy of a despatch from Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], to Henry Wellesley, HM Minister Plenipotentiary at Constantinople [Istanbul], relating to affairs in the Bagdad Pachalic [Baghdad Pashalik]. The despatch is copied to the Governor and President in Council, Bombay, and the Governor-General of India, for information.

Rawlinson forwards to Wellesley copies of two letters received from Nejib Pasha [Muḥammad Najīb Pāshā], Governor of Bagdad, which the latter wishes to be transmitted to HM Envoy and Minister at the Court of Tehran. In the letters, Nejib Pasha solicits the Envoy’s co-operation in persuading the Persian Government to: issue orders for the removal of ‘rebel’ subjects Ahmed Pasha former ruler of Sulimanieh [Aḥmad Pāshā Bābān of Sulaymaniyah] and Russool Pasha [Rasūl Pāshā], former Governor of Rowanduz [Ruwandiz or Rawandiz], from the Persian frontier town of Ooshney [Oshnaviyeh?]; and to arrange for the appropriate punishment of Abdullah Beg, Sharaf Baini [‘Abdullāh Beg of the Sharaf Baynī tribe, also spelled Sharriff in this item], a Persian subject who previously joined with Ahmed Pasha in attacking Sulimanieh and who has committed many ‘outrages’ in Turkish [Ottoman] territory in the past few years.