Abstract: 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 96 of 1848, dated 11 November 1848.The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 18 September 1848. It consists of copies of two despatches from HM Consul in Bagdad [Baghdad] and Political Agent in Turkish Arabia (Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson) to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Viscount Palmerston), dated 18 September 1848, forwarded under flying seal to the Secretary to the Government of India.The despatches concern affairs in the Bagdad Pachalic [Pashalik] and Persia [Iran] following news of the death of the Shah of Persia [Mohammad Qajar], including a confidential agent of Assef-ed Dowlah [Allahyar Khan Asif al-Dawlah Qajar Davallu, also spelled Assef-ed Dawlah in this item] visiting Rawlinson and informing him of Assef-ed Dowlah's aspirations to be the new Shah of Persia.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-2, on folio 151. The number 2 is repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of the enclosure.
Abstract: 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 [Mehmed Emin Namık Pasha, Governor or Viceroy of Baghdad] to the entry of Prince Abbas Mirza ['Abbās 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].Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-3, on folio 37. The number 3 is repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of the enclosure.
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 33 of 1850, dated 25 June 1850. The enclosures, numbered 3-5 and dated 28 July 1849 to 10 May 1850, relate to the affairs of the Baghdad Pashalik [also spelled Bagdad Pachalic in this item]. Enclosure No. 3 consists of two letters from the Acting Consul at Baghdad and Acting Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Arthur Malet, forwarding under a flying seal a despatch to the address of the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department, forwarding copies of despatches addressed by Kemball to HM Ambassador at Constantinople [Istanbul], Sir Stratford Canning.The despatches concern:Maashook Pasha [Ma‘shūq Pāshā, also spelled Mooshook Pasha in this item], the newly appointed Governor of Bussorah [Basra], leaving Baghdad for the seat of his government. The boundaries of his jurisdiction being declared to be identical with those which defined Bussorah when it existed formerly as a separate and independent Pashalic, and the executive government of Bussorah being placed in financial and military subordination to Baghdad, but with the new Governor being empowered to correspond directly with ConstantinopleKemball stating that in the course of the two or three interviews he had with Maashook Pasha during his stay Baghdad, the latter displayed ‘the least possible knowledge’ of the commercial and productive resources, the character, and the population of the district he is going to ruleKemball writing to Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, the Resident at Bushire [Bushehr], to advise him of the appointment of Mooshook Pasha, and warn him to be on his guard against any ‘intrigues’ for the extension of Turkish influence along the shores of the Persian GulfThe river in Baghdad [the Tigris] having risen to an unusual height, causing the land beyond the city walls to become flooded in every direction, stopping the passage of caravans, destroying property, and leading to the spread of a fever which threatens to decimate the populationThe arrival at Sulimanieh [As Sulaymaniyah] of Namik Pasha [Muḥammad Amīn Nāmiq Pāshā] following the repulsion of an attack upon the town by Kurdish rebels with considerable loss to the Kurds, his reported declaration of a general amnesty and release of the majority of prisoners, and Kemball’s view that such leniency is calculated to conciliate the Kurds, restore confidence, and hasten the submission of the Kurdish levies, and that Turkish authorities seem to consider the ‘troubles’ in the Kurdish mountains to now be at an end.Enclosure Nos. 4-5 consist of related correspondence: from the Secret Committee to the Governor in Council of Bombay, forwarding a copy of a letter from HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Palmerston, to the President of the Board of Control; and from Malet to the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson.Physical description: 1 item (9 folios)
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 101 of 1848, dated 28 November 1848. The enclosures are numbered 3-4 and are dated 28 September to 14 October 1848.The enclosures consist of copies of despatches from the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia (Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson) to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Viscount Palmerston) and HM Ambassador at Constantinople [Istanbul] (Sir Stratford Canning), forwarded under flying seals to the Secretary to the Government of Bombay. The despatches concern affairs in the Bagdad Pachalic [Baghdad Pashalik] and Persia [Iran], including the views and actions of the Assef-ed-Dowlah [Allahyar Khan Asif al-Dawlah Qajar Davallu] in relation to the Persian succession, following the death of the Shah [Mohammad Qajar].Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatches, numbered 1-4, on folio 297. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure.
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 18 of 1853, dated 10 March 1853. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 10 March 1853.The enclosure consists of a letter from HM Consul at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, to the Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Political Department, sending under flying seals (to the address of the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department) copies of two despatches regarding affairs in the Bagdad Pachalic [Baghdad Pashalik] and Persia [Iran].The first despatch, from Rawlinson to HM Chargé d’Affaires at Constantinople [Istanbul], Colonel Hugh Rose, encloses with comments a copy of a despatch from Rawlinson to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs concerning the effect of the recent change of Governor in Bagdad from Namik Pasha [Mehmed Emin Namık Pasha] to Reshid Pasha [Mehmed Reshid Pasha Gözlüklü], with the latter’s first act being to address conciliatory letters to various ‘Arab Chiefs’ promising them amnesty for past ‘offences’ and generous treatment for the future. Rawlinson states that all the great tribal chiefs have come to Bagdad to give homage to the Governor.The second despatch encloses copies of two despatches from Rawlinson to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, regarding:The mother of Prince Abbas Mirza ['Abbās Mīrzā Mulk Ārā Qājār] (brother of the Shah) expressing ‘the strongest desire’ that her son should spend a few years in England and receive an English education, and Rawlinson’s views on the possible advantages which might result from this if Abbas Mirza were to succeed to the Persian throne, for the consideration of the Secretary of StateMilitary arrangements and movements taking place in Bagdad ‘of a very serious character’, threatening hostilities between the Governments of Turkey [the Ottoman Empire] and Persia.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-3, on folio 426. The number 3 is repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of the enclosure.
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 3 of 1853, dated 26 March 1853. The enclosure is numbered 21 and is dated 15 February 1853.The enclosure consists of a letter from HM Consul at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, to the Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Political Department, forwarding under a flying seal a copy of a despatch to the address of the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department, enclosing copies of two despatches addressed to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Lord John Russell, concerning affairs of Persia [Iran] and the Bagdad Pachalic [Pashalik].In the first despatch to Lord Russell, dated 14 February 1853, Rawlinson states that the mother of Prince Abbas Mirza ['Abbās Mīrzā Mulk Ārā Qājār] has learned that the Shah expresses much regret at having allowed her and her son to leave Persia, and that great efforts will now be made to compel them to return. Rawlinson reports that, fearing for her son’s life, she has implored Rawlinson to bring the case under the special consideration of Lord Russell, and to solicit that if the Porte [the Government of the Ottoman Empire] should rescind permission for Abbas Mirza to reside in Turkish [Ottoman] territory, then he should be allowed to proceed either to England or to India.The second despatch to Russell, dated 15 February 1853, encloses copies of despatches addressed by Rawlinson to HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Tehran, Colonel Justin Sheil, and HM Chargé d’Affaires at Constantinople [Istanbul], Colonel Hugh Rose, relating to the march of the Prince of Kermanshah on Zohab [Sarpol-e Zahab]. Rawlinson states in his letter to Rose that there is nothing to indicate hostile intentions towards Turkey [the Ottoman Empire] on the part of the Persians, but that they appear to be planning ‘some engineering operations’. Rawlinson also discusses a difficult situation which has resulted from the Kurdish tribe the Ja’af [Jaff], which is subject to Turkey but which usually encamps in the pastures of Zohab, going much further into Persian territory than has been the custom, and many ‘refractory’ Persian chiefs taking refuge in the Ja’af camp.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-3, on folio 462. The number 3 is repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of the enclosure.
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 13 of 1853, dated 24 February 1853. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 15 December 1852.The enclosure is a letter from the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay. The letter reports the arrival of the East India Company’s steam frigate
Cometat Baghdad (also spelled Bagdad in this item) on 6 December 1852, and forwards a letter addressed to Rawlinson from the Commander of the ship and Surveyor in Mesopotamia [Iraq], James Felix Jones, which includes the news of the arrival of the ship and also reports on the state of affairs in the southern part of the Baghdad Pashalic [Pashalik], including at Bussorah [Basra], Mohumrah [Khorramshahr], Hawizeh, and on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. It also discusses: tribal affairs, including the position of Saleh, the Chief of the Montefik [al-Muntafiq tribal confederation]; and the ‘slight foundation’ to the complaints made by an employee of Messrs Hector and Company in September 1852.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-3, on folios 291-292. The number 3 is repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of the enclosure.