Abstract: Copy of dispatch No. 2 from HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in Tehran, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Canning, of 17 February 1826. The letter reports Persia’s intention of sending an embassy of condolence and congratulation to St Petersburgh [St Petersburg] following the death of the Emperor of Russia, Alexander, and the succession of a new Emperor, Constantine [Konstantin Pavlovich], and the recall of the mission of Mirza Saudik [Mirza Muhammad Sadiq Marvazi] from Tiflis [Tbilisi] following Emperor Alexander’s death. Willock also details the wishes of the Shah of Persia [Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār] for the Persian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Meerza Abul Hassan Khan [Mirza Abu'l-Hasan Khan Shirazi] to write to Canning concerning the ongoing frontier dispute between Russia and Persia in the Caucasus with a request that the British Ambassador at St Peterburgh assist in settling the dispute.This document was originally enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 17 February 1826 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/66).Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
Abstract: Copy of dispatch No. 22 from HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in Tabriz, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Canning, of 24 October 1825. The letter details tensions on the frontier between Russia and Persia at the shores of the lake of Gokcha [Lake Sevan], territory which is the subject of an ongoing dispute between the two sides. Correspondence concerning these tensions was originally enclosed with this letter (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/70/52-54). The letter also reports the assassination of Lieutenant-General Leesanowich [Dmitri Lisanovich] and General Gerkoff [Nikolai Grekov], during conflict between Russia and the Chichens [Chechens].This document was originally enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 3 December 1825 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/50).Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
Abstract: Copy of dispatch No. 24 from HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in Tehran, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Canning, of 28 November 1825. The letter concerns the ongoing frontier dispute between Russia and Persia regarding land bordering on the lake of Gokcheh [Lake Sevan], where a force of Russian soldiers have re-occupied a contested position, detailing:The Russian justification for the occupation on the grounds of an unratified agreement made at Tiflis [Tbilisi]The Persian desire for Great Britain to mediate in the disputeThe Persian plan to send an embassy to St Petersburgh [St Petersburg]The hopes of the Prince Royal [Crown Prince of Persia, 'Abbās Mīrzā Qājār] for receiving a subsidy from the BritishThe complaints of the Prince Royal concerning the tone of communications from the Governor-General of Georgia, General Yermoloff [Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov] (see IOR/L/PS/9/70/56)The Prince Royal’s hope for assistance in the dispute from the new East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir.The letter also originally enclosed instructions from the Prince Royal and the Shah of Persia, [Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār], to the Persian envoy being sent to Tiflis to discuss the frontier dispute, Meerza Saudik [Mirza Muhammad Sadiq Marvazi] (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/70/57). Also originally enclosed was correspondence concerning the dispute (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/70/56, 58-59).This document was originally enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 3 December 1825 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/50).Physical description: 1 item (6 folios)
Abstract: Copy of dispatch No. 6 from HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in Tehran, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Canning, of 31 March 1826. The letter originally enclosed correspondence between the Russian and Persian authorities concerning the ongoing frontier dispute between Russia and Persia over land on the shores of the lake of Gokcha [Lake Sevan] (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/70/77-80). The letter discusses the contents of the correspondence and other matters pertaining to the dispute, detailing:The failure of the mission of Mirza Saudik [Mirza Muhammad Sadiq Marvazi] to Tiflis [Tbilisi] to settle the disputeThe Russian refusal to withdraw from the contested territory on the basis of an agreement made between Russia and the Persian envoy Futteh Ali Khan [Fath-‘Ali Khan Rashti] at Tiflis, which the Shah of Persia [Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār] has not ratified, being considered binding by RussiaThe desire of the Prince Royal of Persia [Crown Prince of Persia, 'Abbās Mīrzā Qājār] to precipitate a war with Russia on the basis of the failure to settle the disputeThe desire of the Shah for the British Government to be apprised of details of the dispute.This document was originally enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 2 April 1826 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/75).Physical description: 1 item (6 folios)
Abstract: Copy of dispatch No. 9 from HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in Tehran, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Canning, of 20 May 1826. The letter details relations between Russia and Persia pertaining to the ongoing frontier dispute concerning land on the shores of the lake of Gokcheh [Lake Sevan], concerning which the Persian government is considering going to war with Russia over, detailing:The Prince Royal of Persia, Abbas Mirza [Crown Prince of Persia, 'Abbās Mīrzā Qājār], having obtained a sum of 45,000 tomans from the Shah [Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār]The mission of the Russian envoy Prince Minchakoff [Prince Aleksandr Sergeevich Menshikov] to Persia and the Prince Royal’s request to negotiate with Prince MinchakoffWillock’s representations to the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Meerza Abul Hassan Khan [Mirza Abu'l-Hasan Khan Shirazi], concerning negotiating with Prince MinchakoffA letter from General Wilhemenoff, deputy to the Governor-General of Georgia, General Yermoloff [General Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov], to the Shah, which was originally enclosed with this letter (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/70/88)The Shah’s willingness to cede lands in Carabaugh [Karabakh] in return for the cession of Gokcheh from Russia to Persia.This document was originally enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 21 May 1826 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/86).Physical description: 1 item (6 folios)
Abstract: Copy of a letter from the former HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in London, to the President of the Board of Control, Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn, of 9 December 1826. The letter originally enclosed Willock’s ‘summary of the case of Persia’, with respect to the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828] (not included in this item), in which he has endeavoured to represent the sentiments of the Persian Court. The letter also originally enclosed an extract from Willock’s dispatch No. 19 to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Canning, of 4 September 1825 (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/70/166), in which is discussed proposals for the mutual occupation of lands on the shores of the lake of Gokcha [Lake Sevan] by Russia and Persia, and which Willock believes to suggest that Russia’s conduct towards Persia has been neither ‘conciliatory nor accommodating’.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)