Letter from Dr John McNeill, in Tehraun, to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir
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1827/1827
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Abstract: Letter from Dr John McNeill, in Tehraun [Tehran], to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, of 20 November 1827. In the letter McNeill reports his having received communications from representatives of Ghilan [Gilan], Isfahan, Fars and Yezd [Yazd], and from some of the ‘principle people of the Court and country’, requesting the protection of the British Government. McNeill offers some comments on the proposals, indicating that the subject of British protection has been much discussed in Persia, particularly in Tehraun, and has been influenced by the treatment of Muslim populations in the Persian provinces conquered by Russia. He also indicates that he has rejected all such proposals and discouraged any hope of British involvement.This document was originally enclosed in Macdonald Kinneir’s dispatch No. 76 to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton, of 10 December 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/142).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)