Copy of Dispatch No. 91 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton
Copy of Dispatch No. 91 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton
Copy of Dispatch No. 91 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton
Date:
1828/1828
Description:
Abstract: Copy of dispatch No. 91 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez [Tabriz], to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton, of 26 March 1828. The letter concerns the agreement between Macdonald Kinneir and Abbas Meerza [ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia] for the abrogation of the third and fourth articles of the treaty existing between Britain and Persia [Definitive Treaty of 1814] (see IOR/L/PS/9/71/192-193). Macdonald Kinneir indicates that he offered Abbas Meerza the opportunity to reconsider the agreement and return the 200,000 tomauns [tomans] paid to him by the British ‘in case of repentance’, whereupon he received a reply from Abbas Meerza indicating that the money has already been paid to Russia for the evacuation of the Province [the Province of Azerbaijan].This document originally enclosed Macdonald Kinneir’s above communication with Abbas Meerza, and also correspondence between Macdonald Kinneir and the Shah of Persia [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār] (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/71/255-257).This document was originally enclosed in Macdonald Kinneir’s dispatch No. 34 to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 28 March 1828 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/253).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)