Copy of Dispatch No. 87 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez, to the Governor-General of India
Copy of Dispatch No. 87 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez, to the Governor-General of India
Copy of Dispatch No. 87 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez, to the Governor-General of India
Date:
1828/1828
Description:
Abstract: Copy of Dispatch No. 87 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez [Tabriz], to the Governor-General of India, of 10 March 1828. Macdonald Kinneir reports that he has ‘indefatigably laboured’ to facilitate the conclusion of the peace treaty recently signed [Treaty of Turkamanchay] to end the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], and encloses copies of communications from General Paskevitch [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia] and Abbas Meerza [ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia] as testimony (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/71/200). On the basis of his conduct he requests permission to wear the Order of the Lion and the Sun, conferred upon him by the Shah of Persia [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār] over a year previously.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 1, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 11 March 1828 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/198).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)