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boon able to procure; and will, wo trust, when aided by your own local
Enquiries, leave you at no Loss for every necessary Detail to guide your
Judgment in this Branch of your Mission.
We have not yet roooived the Particulars required on this subject from
Mehedy Aly Khan, contained in the 5i-h Para, of our original Instructions to
him, under date tho 3!? 8eptr- 1798; but it is our intention to repeat our
Requisition to him on this Head, by tho opportunity of the next Packet to
the Gulph : desiring him, at the same time, to communicato to you on your
arrival a Copy of such Answer, as he may have prepared; & in general, to
keep you advised of the States and Progress of his Transactions, as Commercial
Resident at Busbire, during tho Period of your Sojourn in Persia; besides,
placing himself under your orders in your Political Capaoity ; respecting
which, it has been already intimated to him ; and he will again bo expressly
informed, that you are, according to the orders of the Supreme Government!
to direct his future Motions, Duties, & Stations.
We have great Reason to be satisfied with the Services of Mehedy Aly
Khan, as Commercial Resident at Bushire, in which Station he has realised
the Expectations expressed on his appointment in the 4li Para, of our letter
of the 3? Septl above noticed, by disposing of all the Company’s Staples at
a Price in general as much above the Invoice rate, as for several years before
they had sold below it.
The Court of Directors have accordingly, from the hopes we early expressed
to them of the good effects of this Nomination, considerably increased their
Bushire Consignments, as we have been advised, by the Ships lately arrived
at this Presidency.
We have the pleasure to forward a copy of our address, of this date, to
the Supreme Gov!: on the subject under consideration & to remain—
Sir,
Your most obedt. humble Servants,
JON?. DUNCAN,
&c. COUNCIL.
Boxbat Castle ;
9g Dec! 1799.
CCLXXXII.

Fro m Captain Malcolm to the Governor of Bombay & Council.
Sia,
I have the honor to acknowledge the Receipt of your letter of the
8* Instant, with its Enclosures.
The Imam's The application from the Imaum for a European Surgeon is, in my
application for a
8urgeon. opinion, extremely fortunate. The Gentleman, whom your Hon’ble Board may
select for the occasion, can, as you suggest, proceed with me in the Intrepid;
& should I find the Imaum inclined to admit of a Person residing at Muscat,
as a private medium of Communication, The Medical Gentleman you send
- ; may, (if it meet your approbation), be named in that Capaoity; & his having
i suoh a Designation will not only increase his Influence, but make the Prince
-
more guarded in his Conduct towards him. Should I, on the contrary, find that
either from Jealousy, or any other motive, the Imaum is averse to any Person
residing in such a Capacity, I shall carefully avoid intimating the most dis­
tant Idea of employing the Surgeon with me in any line, but that of his