Abstract: Copy of a letter, numbered 7, from HM Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], Sir Gore Ouseley, in Tehran, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Marquis Wellesley, of 15 March 1812. The letter concerns Ouseley’s negotiations for the Definitive Treaty between Britain and Persia, detailing the key aim of strengthening Persia as a bulwark to British imperial interests in India, and containing his observations concerning the specific articles of the treaty. The letter also details the rationale behind making the Crown Prince of Persia, Abbas Mirza, a party to the treaty, and the Shah of Persia, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar’s opposition to this. The letter also encloses instructions given by Ouseley to his private secretary Sir William Ouseley for his mission to Mazenderan [Mazandaran] (not included in this item, see IOR/L/PS/9/68/127). The letter was enclosed in Sir Gore Ouseley’s letter to the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the East India Company of 15 March 1812 (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/124), which was received on 8 August 1812.Physical description: 1 item (6 folios)
Abstract: A copy of a letter from Sir Harford Jones, British Envoy Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], to Sir George Canning, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The letter mostly discusses the reported signing of a treaty between Persia and France. Jones also forwards copies of his correspondence (not included in this item) with the Governor-General of Bengal concerning the reasons for Jones delaying his departure from Bombay [Mumbai] to Persia.The letter was enclosed in Jones’s letter to Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control, of 2 June 1808, and was received in December 1808.Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
Abstract: A copy of a letter from Sir Harford Jones, British Envoy Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], to Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal. The letter concerns the question of whether or not Jones should immediately depart from Bombay [Mumbai] for Persia in order to commence negotiations with Persian ministers, in view of Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Envoy of the Supreme Government of India to Persia, most likely arriving in Persia before himself.The letter was enclosed in Jones’s letter to Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control, of 2 June 1808, and was received in December 1808.Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
Abstract: A copy of a letter from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Envoy of the Supreme Government of India to Persia [Iran], sent from a Royal camp near Tabreez [Tabrīz] and dated 14 February 1810. The letter expresses Malcolm’s opinion on the Definitive Treaty being negotiated with Persia and its relation to the defence of India, in particular the question of supporting the formation of a regular Persian army.Part of the letter is written in code and has not been deciphered.Physical description: 1 item (6 folios)
Abstract: A dispatch from Lord Mornington, Governor-General of Bengal, at Fort St George, to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, dated 3 September 1799, regarding: the dispatch of an embassy to the court of Baba Khan [Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār], King [Shah] of Persia [Iran]; the Treaty of Mysoor [Mysore or Mysuru]; an additional regiment of cavalry being raised in accordance with the Treaty of Hyderabad; and the extent to which the military establishments [military staff] of Fort St George and Bombay [Mumbai] should be increased.There is a postscript dated 5 September 1799 concerning the news received from Syria of the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte’s army at St Jean D’Acre [Akko].The letter was received via the ship Earl Howe, 30 August 1800.Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
Abstract: Copy of a letter, numbered 1, from HM Ministers to Persia [Iran], James Morier and Henry Ellis, in Kanaker [now part of Yerevan], to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Castlereagh, of 21 August 1814. The letter encloses a translation of the written agreement between HM Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia, Sir Gore Ouseley, and the Persian Government concerning the terms for the cessation of the subsidy paid by the East India Company to Persia (not included in this item, see IOR/L/PS/9/68/157). Ellis and Morier highlight the difficulties that this agreement poses towards their negotiations with Persia for a revision of the Definitive Treaty agreed by Ouseley in 1813. The letter was enclosed in Morier and Ellis’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 30 November 1814 (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/158), which was delivered by Ellis on 13 March 1815.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Copy of an official note from the British Ministers to Persia [Iran], Henry Ellis and James Morier, in Tehraun [Tehran], to the Ministers of the Persian Government, of 27 November 1814, written during treaty negotiations [for the Definitive Treaty of 1814]. Ellis and Morier propose that commercial relations between Britain and Persia be regulated according to the commercial treaty concluded by John Malcolm in 1800.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 2, in the letter of the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company of 12 October 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/64).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)