The Arrival of the Cometat Baghdad, and Affairs in the Southern Part of the Baghdad Pashalic
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- The Arrival of the Cometat Baghdad, and Affairs in the Southern Part of the Baghdad Pashalic
- Date:
- 1853/1853
- Description:
- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 13 of 1853, dated 24 February 1853. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 15 December 1852.The enclosure is a letter from the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay. The letter reports the arrival of the East India Company’s steam frigate Cometat Baghdad (also spelled Bagdad in this item) on 6 December 1852, and forwards a letter addressed to Rawlinson from the Commander of the ship and Surveyor in Mesopotamia [Iraq], James Felix Jones, which includes the news of the arrival of the ship and also reports on the state of affairs in the southern part of the Baghdad Pashalic [Pashalik], including at Bussorah [Basra], Mohumrah [Khorramshahr], Hawizeh, and on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. It also discusses: tribal affairs, including the position of Saleh, the Chief of the Montefik [al-Muntafiq tribal confederation]; and the ‘slight foundation’ to the complaints made by an employee of Messrs Hector and Company in September 1852.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-3, on folios 291-292. The number 3 is repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of the enclosure.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Tribal relations
Muntafiq (Tribe) - Geographic region:
- Baghdad
Pashalik of Baghdad - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100129828648.0x00000c_ar
81055/vdc_100129828648.0x00000c_en
IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 290-300
IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 290-300