Copy of a Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Khoee, to the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armies in Georgia, General Paskevitch
Copy of a Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Khoee, to the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armies in Georgia, General Paskevitch
Copy of a Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Khoee, to the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armies in Georgia, General Paskevitch
Date:
1827/1827
Description:
Abstract: Copy of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Khoee [Khoy], to the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armies in Georgia, General Paskevitch [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia], of 12 October 1827. Macdonald Kinneir announces his intention, at the behest of Prince Abbas Meerza [ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia] and the Prime Minister [Allāh Yār Khān Qājār Davallū, Āṣaf al-Dawlah, the Grand Vizier of the Shāh of Persia], of sending his assistant, Captain John Nicholl Robert Campbell, to General Paskevitch’s camp, charged with proposals for the agreement of peace in the ongoing war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828]. He indicates that the Persian Government are prepared to make ‘large sacrifices’ to agree peace, and that should the proffered terms be acceptable, the details can be discussed at General Paskevitch’s convenience.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 7 in dispatch No. 70, 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 (2 folios)