Copy of a Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in camp at Ahar, to the President of the Board of Control, Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn
Copy of a Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in camp at Ahar, to the President of the Board of Control, Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn
Copy of a Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in camp at Ahar, to the President of the Board of Control, Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn
Date:
1826/1826
Description:
Abstract: Copy of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in camp at Ahar, to the President of the Board of Control, Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn, of 19 September 1826. The letter originally enclosed a copy of Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/70/146), which reports his decision to send the former HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, to London to represent the Shah of Persia’s wishes for British mediation in the ongoing war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828] and for a subsidy from the East India Company.In this letter Macdonald Kinneir explains his decision to dispatch Willock to London and details the Shah’s reflections on the war, including his wish to restore peace with Russia with British mediation, and Russia’s treatment of the inhabitants of the regions contested in the conflict.This document was originally enclosed in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 19 September 1826 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/146).Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)