Confidential Papers Acquired by the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, from his Secret Informant at the Camp of the Prince Royal of Persia, Abbas Mirza
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Confidential Papers Acquired by the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, from his Secret Informant at the Camp of the Prince Royal of Persia, Abbas Mirza
- Date:
- 1827/1827
- Description:
- Abstract: Confidential papers acquired by the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, from his secret informant at the camp of the Prince Royal, Abbas Mirza [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār] (see IOR/L/PS/9/71/35). The document contains the substances of the following letters:Mirza Saleh [Mīrzā Ṣāliḥ Shīrāzī] to the Prince Royal, detailing his meeting with General Peskavitch [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia] at Abbasabad [‘Abbasabad], during which Peskavitch refused to accede to armistice terms agreed between the Prince Royal and Peskavitch’s private secretary, Grebiodoff [Alexander Sergeyevich Gribodoyev] (see IOR/L/PS/9/71/34) and indicated the terms he would be willing to accept for peacePeskavitch to Abbas Mirza, in which he refuses Abbas Mirza’s request for either himself or his son, Mahomed Mirza [Muḥammad Mīrzā], to travel to St Petersburgh [St Petersburg] to discuss the war with the Emperor of Russia, and indicates that he himself is invested with full powers to agree peaceGrebiodoff to Mirza Mahomed Ali Osteurre [Mīrzā Muḥammad ʿAlī Khān Shīrāzī], indicating that Peskavitch has refused to accede to the proposal for an armistice of ten months but has agreed to a ceasefire of five weeks.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 4, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 20 August 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/33).Physical description: 1 item (6 folios)
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Letter
- Type (Narrower):
- Letters
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Armistices
Diplomacy
Russo-Persian War (1826-1828) - Rights:
- غير معروف
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100038378586.0x00039b_ar
81055/vdc_100038378586.0x00039b_en
IOR/L/PS/9/71/37
IOR/L/PS/9/71/37