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CCXLIX.
Extract of a despatch from the Court of Directors to the Governor and Council Bombay, dated
15th April 1795.
DUapproTM of
Vonntv'i oonduot. Having taken into our own consideration the advices and Papers on
Ordrn tbo rtmorol tbo subject of the dispute between the Paoha of Bagdad, and the Resident
of Uoaootj imd
Jodoi. and Factor at Bussora, wo are of opinion that so far as respects thoir
interference with tho Mussalcetn in bohalf of Risha iu the affair of tbo
murdered Jew, their conduct was highly propor and praiseworthy. But
that after tho satisfactory apology which was made to Mr. Manesty by
the principal Jews in the presence of tho Mussaleom, and other officers
of the Turkish Government, aud which was doemed by the Residout an
ample atonement for the insults which had been offered to him in his public
capacity, we are much surprised and greatly displeased that ho should have been
induced by any private intelligence from Bagdad respecting a letter written by
the Jew Caja A1 Bulla, to tho Pacha’s Minister, containing improper sentiments
and expressions regarding him, to renew his determination of demanding
justioe and satisfaction from the Pacha for those iusults for which an
atonement had been already made and accepted. To this evident want of
judgment and foresight may be attributed all tho subsequent disputes and
embarrassments which terminated in the removal of the Company’s Factory
from Bussora, and the appeal whioh Mr. Manesty has since thought it
necessary to make to His Majesty’s Ministers for the final settlement of the
disagreement between the Resident and Factor and the Pacha of Bagdad. It is
on this ground and beoause there appears no probability of restoring Harmony
between the Pacha and Messrs. Manesty and Jones that we have resolved
upon the removal of the present Resident and Factor. We therefore direct
that you seleot from among our covenanted servants fit and proper Persons to
succeed Messrs. Manesty and Jones, as the Company’s Resident and Factor, and
that they proceed to Grain without further delay.
As we are convinced of the necessity so strongly pointed out in Mr.
Manesty’s late Despatches of the speedy return to Bussora of a Resident and
Factor on the part of the Company it is our direction that immediately after
the arrival at Grain of the Persons you shall nominate to those stations they
address a conciliatory letter to the Pacha acquainting him that disapproving
of some parts of the conduct of the late Resident and Factor towards His
Excellency, we have removed them from their stations and appointed others in
their stead; and that in order to maintain the good understanding whioh at
present so happily subsists between Great Britain aud the Sublime Porte and
to shew our inclination to meet the wishes of tho Pacha in this respect, we
have determined that the punishment of the Jews by tine and imprisonment
shall no longer be insisted upon, as the condition of the return of the Company’s
Resident to the Bussora Factory, provided tho Pacha will perform the promise
he has made, of making such a return by every public token of respect to our
nation. If in consequence of this application to the Pacha, he shall renew his
invitation for the return of our Resident and Factor, they are immediately to
accept thereof, and endeavour by every means in their power to cultivate the
friendship of the Mussaleem, and other officers of the Turkish Government
should the line here drawn for the guidance of the new Resident and Factor
fail of producing the desired accommodation, they are to state all the circum­
stances to His Majesty’s Ambassador at Constantinople, who will be instructed
by His Majesty’s Ministers how to act in consequence.