Copy of a Letter from the Resident at Bushire, William Bruce, in Tehran, to HM Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia, Sir Gore Ouseley
Date:
1814/1814
Description:
Abstract: Copy of a letter from the Resident at Bushire [Būshehr], William Bruce, in Tehran, to HM Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], Sir Gore Ouseley, of 20 March 1814. The letter concerns the affair of the imprisonment of the Vizier of the Governor of Fars, Mahomed Nebee Khan [Muḥammad Nabī Khan] for indebtedness by the Governor of Fars, Hussein Ali Mirza (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/136). The letter details Bruces’s intervention in the affair, at Ouseley’s request, in which he acted as an adjudicator in the dispute and paid off some of Khan’s debts in advance, in order ensure Khan's release and maintain British prestige in Persia.The letter was enclosed in the letter of HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Castlereagh, of 4 December 1818 (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/179), which was received on 29 April 1819.Physical description: 1 item (5 folios)