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Wellesley Papers No. 22

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IOR/H/478

Title

Wellesley Papers No. 22

Date

1801

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(1) pp. iii-ix, List of Contents. (2) Jonathan Duncan. pp. 1-6, 81-2, 101-3, 109-11, 131-3, 145-7, 153-4, 173-5, 189-90, 211-5, 223-5, 247-52, to Marquis Wellesley 1st Sept. to 11th Nov. 1801, Mehdy Ali Khan and the Shereef of Mecca, Proposals to take over the Island of Patta in Africa and the Kingdom of Junagarh in Gujarat; pp. 185-6, to Hajy Kheleel Khan 19th Oct. 1801; p. 219, to Peter Speke (Deputy Governor and Vice President, Bengal) 16th Oct. 1801. (3) pp. 9-60, Replies and rejoinders by Mehdy Ali Khan and the Shereef of Mecca relative to Sir Home Popham's account of their differences--May to 13th July 1801. (4) Lieut. William Bruce (Volunteer in the Marine) to J. A. Grant 8th Sept. 1801, Account of the ill-behaviour of the Vizeer and insults offered to the English at Jedda, Reported forcible conversion of Europeans and others to Mahommedanism, with letters from Mehdy Ali Khan to Capts. Hardyman and Dalrymple; pp. 135-42, 21st Sept. 1801, Defective mussucks supplied to the Egyptian Expeditionary Force with Correspondence with Mehdy Ali Khan, J. A. Grant, John Hector Cherry and Simon Halliday (Superintendent of Police). (5) pp. 73-8, J. Wilson (Persian Translator) to J. A. Grant 8th Sept. 1801, Account of interview with Mehdy Ali Khan relative to ill-treatment of the Shereef's people at Bombay; pp. 85-91, Correspondence between Mehdy Ali Khan, Gen. Baird and Governor Duncan on the same subject 1st June to 28th July 1801. (6) pp. 105-7, Sunderjee Shuvjee (Agent for the purchase of horses in Cutch) to Duncan 11th Sept. 1801. (7) pp. 113-30, 157-65, Samuel Manisty (Resident at Bussora) to Duncan 14th Aug. to 11th Sept. 1801. (8) p. 149, Moofarah Aga, Nokhada of Shereef Ghalib's ship, to Major Samuel Wilson 28th Sept. 1801, Freedom of the Shereef's property from Customs charges. (9) p. 169, William Ramsay (Secretary, India House) to Robert Rickard 19th June 1801. (10) pp. 177-83, Mullick Uttijar Kheleel Khan (Persian Ambassador) to Duncan, Bushire, 14th Sept. 1801, Mahmood Shah's victory over Zemaun Shah, Capt. Spence's visit to Bushire. (11) Harford Jones (Resident at Bagdad). pp. 193-8, 203, 227-9, 235-43, to Jonathan Duncan 30th Aug. to 10th Sept. 1801, with, pp. 203-8, Account of affairs in Georgia; pp. 230-1, to David Scott (Chairman of Directors) 19th Aug. 1801; pp. 231-2, to Samuel Manisty 28th Aug. 1801. (12) pp. 193, 232-5, 243-5, Peter Tooke (Company's Agent at Constantinople) to Harford Jones 1st and 19th Aug. 1801. (13) pp. 198-200, John Barker to Harford Jones, Aleppo, 31st Aug. 1801. (14) pp. 229-30, Lord Elgin to Harford Jones 31st July 1801. (15) pp. 255-6, Capt. David Seton (Resident at Muskat) to Duncan 28th Oct. 1801. (16) pp. 259-63, Abubukr, Sultan of Patta in Africa, to Duncan September 1801, asking protection from the French; Sied Ylva Ameer Bihar of Puttee or Mombassee to Duncan 13th Sept. 1801, requesting despatch of ships to Hinzowan, Petition of Abubukr's Vakils to the Company to take possession of Patta. (17) pp. 267-74, Account of the Kingdom of Junagarh in Gujarat and request for its annexation by Callian Bey, Dewan of the Nawab Baby or Ahmed Cawn.

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