Copy of Dispatch No. 25 from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, in Tabriz, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Castlereagh
Copy of Dispatch No. 25 from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, in Tabriz, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Castlereagh
Copy of Dispatch No. 25 from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, in Tabriz, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Castlereagh
Date:
1818/1818
Description:
Abstract: Copy of dispatch No. 25 from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in Tabriz, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Castlereagh, of 4 December 1818. The letter concerns a Persian claim for payment of the sum of 80,000 tomans, on account of the subsidy previously paid by the East India Company to Persia. The letter forwards an official note from Willock to the Grand Vizier of the Shah of Persia detailing the illegality of the claim (not included in this item, see IOR/L/PS/9/68/180), and five other enclosures relating to the matter for Castlereagh’s information (not included in this item, see IOR/L/PS/9/68/181-185).The letter was enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 7 December 1818 (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/178), which was received on 29 April 1819.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)