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Tho Muscatters in their bolialf, urge, that the ship was a lawful purchase,
made by them, of Shaik Abdalla, thoShaikof Ormuzo, for which lliey exchanged
several Galivats, and paid the balance in cash ; that they have been at a great
oxpencc in repairing the ship, that she had been long their property, aud that,
givo her up they would not—that with respect to the annual tribute, paid
Nadir Shah, ho was too powerful a tyrant to contend with, and it was therefore
paid him; not as tribute of right, but as a tribute that it would be very impoli­
ticly to rofuse him. Nadir Shah however, and Carem Caun, they said were powers
widely different, tho one they dreaded, the other they rather despised ; the one
was tho conqueror of all Persia, the other only Vaokeel of two or three of its
provinces—if therefore Carem Caun thought proper to persist in his demands,
thoy would answer him by Cannon and ball, if ho made use of that kind of
argument with them.
The Beneshroff and Suree Coffee fleet, are all arrived we hear at Muscat
from Mocha, but the Imaum it is said has prevented their coming up to Bussora,
on account the troubles subsisting between him and Carem Caun.
Several Turkish Gallies uudor tho command of the Captain Bacha, with
nine Galivats belonging to the Ckaub (that arrived in the night from tho
Haffarly) with about 1,500 fighting men on board, are gone up the river against
a tribe of Arabs in alliance with the Montificks, called the Kholt Arabs, and
who are situated on the Persian side of the river between this and Coorna.
Fourteen sail of the Chaub's Galivats, aro now on Turkish service, five at
an anchor off Menavi, and the nine mentioned above to be with the Captain *
Bacha up the river.
Itlis a galliug circumstance to have the Chaub’s Galivats, under the very
muzzles of our Cruizers, and not dare to touch them, to thiuk of it would be
madness considering tho Chaub’s present connection with the Turks, and our
present situation.
The Bacha and Mussaloem have both of them sent the Khoran with their
signets to the Chaub, as pledges for the security of his Galivats, now engaged in
the Turkish cause.
It is said the now Chaub begins to be heartily tired of his Persian connec­
tions, and that Carem Caun has fleeced him more during the three years, that
he has been a Persian subject at Dooraok, than he paid the Turks in a dozen,
when he was a Turkish subject.

CLXXXVIII.

Bombay Castle, 10th November 1769.

Honourable Sir and 8irs,
In consequence of your Honour etc.’s orders to us dated the 2nd Instant, Letter from
we called on Messrs. Morley and Skipp, who having each of them resided some- IppSnt^to**
time both in Turkey and Persia, were we apprehended capable of giving us JJfSin***? «ne
much light into the subject matter of the enquiry recommended to us by yourRt Bu,^lre- 8 7
Honour, etc. They positively affirm and in which we agree them that the great­
est assumption of Woolens in the Kingdom, of Persia, and that having a settle­
ment at Bushirc, on other secure and convenient place on the sea coast of that
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