Persia Affairs

Title:

Persia Affairs

Date:

1850/1850

Description:

Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay, Secret Department, to the Secret Committee, Number 21 of 1850, dated 15 April 1850.The enclosed papers, dated 1 December 1849 to 14 February 1850, concern affairs in Persia [Iran]. They comprise despatches from Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, British Envoy and Minister to the Court of Persia, to Viscount Palmerston [Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston], Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Copies of these despatches are sent to the Government of Bombay and the Government of India.Several matters are covered by the papers, including:News of British officers Colonel Charles Stoddart and Captain Arthur Conolly, imprisoned at Bokara [Bukhara, also spelled Bokhara in this item], rumours of their execution, and diplomatic efforts to secure their releaseInsecurity and disorder in Yezd [Yazd] and Ispahan [Isfahan]Russian demands to build a naval hospital on Persian territory and relations between Russia and Persia more generallyThe treatment of Armenians in Tabreez [Tabriz]Civil war in Khorassan [Khorasan]The state of the country around Bushire [Bushehr] following the lifting of the siege of that townMeasures taken to protect the Nestorian Christian community in Azerbijan [Azerbaijan]A request for war vessels to be sent to either Bussorah [Basra] or Mohemmera [Khorramshahr] to support the work of the Turco [Ottoman Iraq]-Persian Boundary CommissionA proposal to appoint a British Consul at Asterabad [Gorgan]The trafficking of enslaved peoples into Persia via Bushire.Physical description: 1 item (43 folios)

Language:

English

Type:

Archival item

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Slave trade
Civil unrest
Charles Stoddart
Arthur Conolly

Geographic region:

Persia

Rights:

غير معروف

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100149251877.0x000011_ar
81055/vdc_100149251877.0x000011_en
IOR/L/PS/5/463, ff 549-591
IOR/L/PS/5/463, ff 549-591

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