Copy of Official Statement by HM Ministers to Persia, James Morier and Henry Ellis, to Persian Plenipotentiaries
Date:
1814/1814
Description:
Abstract: Copy of an official statement by HM Ministers to Persia [Iran], James Morier and Henry Ellis, to the Persian plenipotentiaries Mirza Shafi [Mirza Muḥammad Shafī‘ Māzandarānī], Mirza Buzurg [Mirza ‘Isá Khan Farāhānī, Mirza Buzurg] and Mirza Abdul Wahab [Mirza ‘Abdul Wahhāb Nishāṭ Iṣfahānī] written during the negotiations for the revision of the Definitive Treaty, of 22 November 1814. The statement concerns the decision to allow two officers from the British military mission training Persian troops, which is to be withdrawn, to remain in Persia. The statement also refers to the sensitivity of the Persian claims that British officers were engaged against the Russians during the battle at Aslandooz [Aslanduz] (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/162).The statement 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).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)