Abstract: Copies of correspondence and minutes concerning applications for the remuneration for services rendered of HM Minister to Persia [Iran], James Justinian Morier, and Elizabeth Clara Morier on behalf of her late husband, Isaac Morier, agent of the East India Company at Constantinople [Istanbul].The correspondence and minutes relating to James Morier's unsuccessful application are:A letter from James Morier to the Chairs of the Secret Committee of the East India Company, dated 16 October 1816Minutes of a meeting of the Committee of Correspondence of the East India Company, dated 8 November 1816Minutes of a meeting of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, dated 13 November 1816.Also included is a summary of Elizabeth Morier’s successful application for remuneration to the Court of Directors. Annexed with this application are:A copy of a letter from Isaac Morier to the Chairman of the Court of Directors, dated 11 March 1814An extract of a letter from former HM Minister to Persia, Sir Harford Jones, to Isaac Morier, dated 27 March 1810A copy of a letter from Jones to Isaac Morier, dated 30 November 1810A copy of a letter from Jones to the Secret Committee, dated 13 November 1810, an additional extract of which is also included in Elizabeth Morier’s application to the Court of Directors.Also relating to Elizabeth Morier’s application are minutes of a meeting of the Committee of Correspondence, dated 5 December 1817.Physical description: 1 item (13 folios)
Abstract: Copy of dispatch No. 10 from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in Tehran, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Castlereagh, of 10 May 1818. The letter concerns the determination of the Shah of Persia to send a Persian embassy to Britain, detailing Willock’s representations concerning the high cost of the embassy and the fact that it would have to be paid for solely by Persia. The letter also discusses the aims of the embassy, particularly the Shah’s hopes of seeking pecuniary compensation from Britain for territory lost to Russia in the peace treaty of 1813. Willock details the Persian government's belief that Britain had acted in bad faith in this respect, both in their role in negotiating and facilitating the peace treaty, and in subsequent negotiations between Britain and Persia for the Treaty of Tehran in 1814.The letter was enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 25 May 1818 (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/173), which was received on 15 September 1818.Physical description: 1 item (6 folios)