Factory Records, Persia, Vol 23

Title:

Factory Records, Persia, Vol 23

Date:

1792/1799

Description:

Abstract: This volume contains letters sent to and from the East India Company Factory at Bussora [Basra] between 22 November 1792 and 11 January 1799, and includes material relating to:The negotiations between the Factor, Harford Jones, and the Bacha of Bagdad [Pāshā of Baghdad, also spelt Bagdat in the correspondence], over the punishment of ‘certain offending Jews’ in BussoraThe command of the Ottoman Emperor [Sultan Selim III] forbidding the appointment of Ottoman citizens as consuls or vice consuls to represent the interests of ‘foreign Christians', and likewise forbidding the latter from purchasing houses and landA consultation held by the Resident, Samuel Manesty and Jones, on relocating the Factory to the town of Grain [Kuwait], and the notification, given by Manesty, to Soliman Bacha of Bagdad [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā]The declaration of war by the French Republic against Britain and Holland, and the need to take measures against the increasing number of French cruisers in the Persian GulfThe complaints of Manesty and Jones to the Governor-General of India, against Captain Guy Hamilton, Commander of the Begum Shaw[Begum Shah], and its ostensible owner, Coja Moses Catcheek [Khwaja Moses Khachik] of Bengal, for proceeding to Bussora instead of carrying a packet to Bombay [Mumbai], and jeopardising the Company’s negotiations with the BachaThe proposals of the Governor-General of India, Sir Charles Cornwallis, and other counsellors at Fort William, toward resolving the dispute between the Resident and the BachaThe transactions between Manesty and Harford Jones and Captain Alexander Foggo, Commander of The Laurel, to deliver a packet from the Court of Directors to the Government of BombayThe Governor of Bushire [Bushehr], Shaik Nesr Khan’s [Shaikh Naṣr Khān I Āl Madhkūr] non-compliance with the decrees of Akaw Mahomed Khan [Āghā Muḥammad Khān Qājār]The Bacha’s disapproval of the decision to relocate the English Factory to Grain, and demand that it be rectified by ‘immediately returning in compliance with my wishes to Bussora’The concerns of Manesty and Jones about the Bacha’s ‘false ideas’ being transmitted to the Ottoman Ministry and Sir Robert Ainslie, British Ambassador at Constantinople [Istanbul], and the departure of Jones from Grain on a mission to Aleppo and ConstantinopleThe reduction by British forces of ‘all the French Establishments in India’The Bacha of Bagdad’s expression of willingness to ‘fulfil the Articles of the Arrangement’ with Jones, and his invitation to Manesty to return the Factory to BussoraThe abscondment of John Southall, acting officer on The Princess Royal,and Thomas Mascalls, gunner on The Antelope, and their ‘abjuration of the Christian Religion to embrace that of Mahomed [Muḥammad]’The survey of Grain Harbour and its entrance by Lieutenant William Maughan, and the suggestion by Manesty that surveying the ‘western side’ of the Gulf would allow packet ships to avoid the areas patrolled by French cruisersThe delivery of two memorials by Jones to the Bacha, and his departure on not receiving an answerThe refusal of the Governor of Bombay to sanction Jones’s mission to ConstantinopleThe request of Soliman Bacha from the Grand Vizier and Reis Effendi to arrange the removal of Manesty and Jones from the Factory through the intervention of the British AmbassadorThe victory of Vice Admiral Richard Howe over the French at the Fourth Battle of UshantThe resignation of Jones as Joint Factor and his departure for Bagdad, Constantinople and LondonA request from the Bacha to the Presidency of Bombay for a consignment of gunpowder, the diversion of the consignment by the Resident to Grain, and the arrival of three of the Bacha’s vessels to take chargeThe arrest of Guglielmo Vicenzo Visetti, son of the Venetian Pro-Consul at AleppoThe communications of Jean-Francois Rousseau, the French Consul at Bagdad, with Pierre du Bruix, the French Resident at SuratThe conquest of Holland by France and conclusion of peace with Prussia, Italy and SpainThe outbreak of hostilities between Great Britain and the ‘late Republic of Holland’The return of Manesty on board a Turkish vessel and re-establishment of the Factory at BussoraThe embarkation of a French ‘Gentleman of Rank’, carrying packets from the French Commandant of the Mauritius or Tipoo Sultan [Tīpū Sulṭān, also written here as Tippoo Sahib], together with another Frenchman, Alexis Gain, on a dhow belonging to Shaik Ibrahim Ibn Abdu Rasac [Shaikh Ibrāhīm Ibn ‘Abd al-Razzāq] of Jubarra [Zubarah?]A meeting between John Lewis Reinaud and the Mussaleem [Mutasallim] of Bussora, Abdullah Aga [‘Abd Allāh Āqā], and consultation with Shaik Ahmed Ibn Salama [Shaikh Aḥmad Ibn Salāma] on a plan to seize the French party’s lettersThe briefing, by Jones, of the British Ambassador at Constantinople, Sir Robert Liston, on the dispute between the Bacha and the ResidentThe determination of the Ottoman Government to restrict the trading privileges granted to the Christian powers of Europe ‘by the ignorance of former times’ within the narrowest possible boundsThe arrival of a French Mauritian vessel of ‘considerable size and force’ at MuscatThe preparation of an expedition against Trincamallee [Trincomalee] under Colonel James Stuart, and another against Malacca under Major Roberts, following the outbreak of war between Britain and HollandThe flight of the eldest son of the Nizam of HyderabadThe British expeditions launched from Bengal against Batavia and from Bombay against Cochin [Kochi]The agreement made between Manesty and Shaik Ibrahim Ibn Gaunam [Shaikh Ibrāhim Ibn Ghānim] for Reinaud to board Shaikh Ibrāhim's dhow to search and seize the papers of Monsieur GuirardThe cultivation, by Manesty, of Shaik Abdullah Ibn Subbah [Shaikh ‘Abd Allāh Ibn Ṣabāh] of Grain to ‘cause obstruction to the Transmission’ of the public dispatches of the enemies of Great BritainThe confiscation, by Reinaud, of a packet from Monsieur Guirard, containing a letter from the French Ambassador at Constantinople, [Claude-] Emile Gaudin, to Pierre du BruixThe replacement of Manesty and Jones by Nathan Crow and Peter Le MessurierThe arrival of a squadron of French frigates under Commodore Renaud at the ‘Mouth of the Gulph’The proposal from Crow and Le Mesurier to institute a regular service of cruisers to BussoraThe mission of Bruyere [Jean Guillaume Bruguière] and Olivier [Guillaume-Antoine Olivier] to Persia [Iran]The appointment of Abbé Beauchamp [Pierre-Joseph de Beauchamp] as French Consul General at MuscatA warning from the Governor of Bombay, Jonathan Duncan, to the Imaum [Imam of Muscat, Sulṭān bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd] and the Calphaun [Sayyid Khalfān bin Muḥammad Āl Bū Sa‘īd, Walī of Muscat] ‘against giving shelter or preference’ to any European nation at war with Britain, and the need to prevent the French from establishing a presence at Muscat and reaching India and the MauritiusThe return of one of the envoys of Tipoo Sultan from FranceThe re-instalment of Manesty as Resident and departure of Crow and Le MessurierThe declaration of war by Spain on Great Britain, and departure of a Dutch fleet for the ‘East Indies’The capture, by Admiral George Elphinstone, of a Dutch squadron under Admiral Engelbertus LucasThe replacement of the French Commander-in-Chief Villaret [Rear-Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse] with ‘Monsieur Morard de Galls’ [Rear-Admiral Justin Bonaventure Morard de Galles]The ‘vast and dangerous’ French projects in the Mediterranean, and the active involvement of ‘Muradja the Swedish Minister at Constantinople’ [Ignatius Mouradgea d'Ohsson, Minister Plenipotentiary], in extending those projects to the Red Sea and the GulfA plan by Monsieur Ohier [Louis Marie Joseph Ohier de Grandpre] to surprise the East India fleetThe reported march of Akaw Mahomed Khan’s army from Corrasoon [Khurasan] to Tarum [Tarom]The mission of Beauchamp to build alliances with ‘native princes’ of Arabia, Persia, and India to disrupt British communications by ‘land and sea’, and to drive them completely out of their territoriesThe plans of Monsieur Leger to engage Tippoo Sultan to commence hostilities against the CompanyThe plan for Shaik Sultan of Muscat to obtain Bandar Bassi [Bandar ‘Abbas] from Aga Mahomed Khan of Persia to furnish the islands of Mauritius and Bourbon [Reunion] with provisionsThe war between Shaik Sultan and Shaik Suggir Ibn Raschid il Mutter of Raz il Khaima [Shaikh Ṣaqr bin Rāshid al-Maṭar of Ra’s al-Khaymah], Shaik of the Jausomee [Qāsīmī] Arabs and the danger to British vesselsThe capture by the French, under General Napoleon Bonaparte, of Malta and AlexandriaThe procurement of arms by Tipoo Sultan and the Mahrattas [Marathas] at BagdadThe victory of Admiral Horatio Nelson over the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile [Abu Qir Bay]The firman to Eusuf Pasha [Yūsūf Pāshā], Governor of Medina, to allow British ships to cruise the Red SeaThe reluctance of Jazzar Pashaw of Acra [Jazzār Aḥmad Pāshā of Acre], to march against Napoleon Bonaparte in Egypt, following the dismissal of Aptullah [‘Abd Allāh al-Azm] of Damascus.Physical description: The foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 745; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is present in parallel between 261-745 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out. The foliation sequence does not include the front cover. The sequence contains one foliation anomaly, f 215a.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

War of the First Coalition (1792-1797)
Armenian commercial networks
Trading privileges
Louis Marie Joseph Ohier

Geographic region:

Muscat
Bagdad
Grain

Rights:

غير معروف

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000001251.0x000374_ar
81055/vdc_100000001251.0x000374_en
IOR/G/29/23
IOR/G/29/23

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