Copy of a Letter from HM Ambassador to Persia, Sir Gore Ouseley, in Tehran, to the Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William, Lord Minto
Date:
1813/1813
Description:
Abstract: Copy of dispatch No. 9 from HM Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], Sir Gore Ouseley, in Tehran, to the Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William, Lord Minto, of 9 May 1813. The letter concerns a dispute regarding a pensioner of the East India Company, Mahommed Nebe Khan [Muhammad Nabi Khan], the Vizier of the Governor of Fars, Prince Hussein Ali Mirza, in which Khan was made the public defaulter on the Governor’s debts and taken prisoner. Ouseley gives an account of his interference in the dispute, so as to uphold the prestige of the East India Company, including his nomination of Acting Resident at Busheer [Bushehr], William Bruce, to serve in a joint Anglo-Persian commission to arbitrate in the dispute. The letter encloses a letter from Ouseley to Bruce, of 8 May 1813, in which Ouseley nominates Bruce to serve on the arbitration commission.The dispatch was enclosed in Ouseley’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 16 July 1813 (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/140), which was received on 24 January 1814.Physical description: 1 item (6 folios)