Copy of Dispatch No. 70 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton
Copy of Dispatch No. 70 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton
Copy of Dispatch No. 70 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton
Date:
1827/1827
Description:
Abstract: Copy of dispatch No. 70 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez [Tabriz], to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton, of 8 October 1827. Macdonald Kinneir relates news from the Prince Royal [ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia] of the capture of the fortress of Sirdarabad [Sardari Berd, or Sardar’s Fortress] by Russia, and the renewed siege of Erivan [Yerevan] by General Paskevitch [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia]. Macdonald Kinneir reports that he will, at the Prince Royal’s request, travel to Khoee [Khoy], and indicates his belief that the Prince Royal has no option but to quickly accede to the peace terms offered by the Russians at Abbasabad [ʿAbbasabad] (see IOR/L/PS/9/71/34 and 37).The letter also originally enclosed copies of letters from the Prince Royal (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/71/76-82).This document was originally enclosed in Macdonald Kinneir’s dispatch No. 26 to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 5 November 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/72).Physical description: 1 item (1 folio)