Copy of Dispatch No. 17 from HM Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia, Edward Cromwell Disbrowe, in St Petersburgh, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Earl of Dudley
Copy of Dispatch No. 17 from HM Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia, Edward Cromwell Disbrowe, in St Petersburgh, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Earl of Dudley
Copy of Dispatch No. 17 from HM Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia, Edward Cromwell Disbrowe, in St Petersburgh, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Earl of Dudley
Date:
1827/1827
Description:
Abstract: Copy of Dispatch No. 17 from HM Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia, Edward Cromwell Disbrowe, in St Petersburgh [St Petersburg], to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Earl of Dudley, of 16 October 1827 [Old Style]/ 28 October 1827 [New Style]. Disbrowe reports the audiences held between the former HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, and the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count [Karl Robert] Nesselrode, and the Emperor of Russia, in St Petersburgh. He also discusses the offer made by the British Government to provide mediation in the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], and a plan for Willock to transmit reasonable proposals for peace from the Emperor to the Persian Government in Tehran.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 1, in Willock’s letter to the Secretary to the East India Company, Joseph Dart, of 10 March 1828 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/195).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)