Copy of a Letter from Lieutenant Benjamin Basil Shee, in Meana, to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir
Date:
1828/1828
Description:
Abstract: Copy of a letter from Lieutenant Benjamin Basil Shee, in Meana [Mianeh], to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, of 1 March 1828. The letter concerns the delivery of reparations payments to Russia as part of the peace treaty negotiated to end the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828]. Lieutenant Shee reports that the sixth crore of tomans intended for payment to Russia has arrived at Meana. He also indicates that Meerza Abul Hussan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī, Foreign Minister of Persia] remains at Meana and is in a ‘very bad humour at being detained’, and that Baron Rosen [Grigory Vladimirovich Rozen] has been directed by General Paskevitch [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia] to remain at Meana until further orders.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 5 in enclosure No. 14, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 16 March 1828 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/201).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)