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Part II—Chop. XV. 49
You oro positively restricted from carrying on any commercial dealings on your own
account or for your personal benefit or as agent for others, confining your sole attention to the
promotion o£ tho political interests for your chnrjjo, in the courso of which you will keep the
Governor in Council constantly advised of tho changes that may occur among tho Native
Powors on cither sido of tho Gulph, and tho interior of the country, fully satisfying ourselves of
tho authenticity of tho intelligence you may rccoivo uud apprizing Government in occasions
where you may doubt its accuracy.
With tho view of conducting tho Department of supplies to the detachment proceeding
on sorvico on as economical principles as practicable, I am instructed to require you to certify
to nil purchases which tho Commissary of Provisions may make, that tho rates of purchase
correspond with tlioso in tho mnrkot, including thoso that may be made by the Agent
Mr. Ilcnsbaw on furnishing tho supplies that may bo required by tho cruizers attached to the
armament, which is committod to Mr. llcnsliaw on tho terms of his agency.
I am further directed to inform you that on your occasional supplies to cruizers visiting
Muscat your bills must bo also supported by tho certificates of some respectable merchants
purporting that your rates do not exceed tho market prices, a rule that is in forco at I3u6sorah
and Bushiro under tho supplies made by tho Resident.
I enclose copy translate of a lotter from the Honourablo tho Governor to the Imaum and
convoy the directions of Government that in the event of His Highness recurring at any time
to an application ho formerly preferred to bo supplied with convoy for tho Arab trado for
Muscat to Bengal, you communicate to him in general terms that His Excellency Rear-
Admiral Drury had ordorod Commodoro Byng to dispatch a vessel to tho Gulph for that
purpose; that Captain Wainwright had previously directed tho Cornwallis to sail with the
trade from Bussorah on the 15th of Juno, and after collecting the ships at Bushiro and Muscat
to repair to Bombay. That Captain Montague in pursuance of this ord*>r called at Muscat
early in July, and after staying a sufficient time to receive advices from tho Resident, then
at Burka, sailed for the Presidency, having had no application for convoy from the Imaum.
Should His Highness express any serious disappointment at this uncertain state of the
convoy, you will communicate with Captain Wainwright as to the best meaus of affording him
satisfaction, wiion it perhaps maybe in tho power of the Commander of tho Chiffonnc to
detach to Bengal either one of His Majesty's frigates or of tho Honourable Company's
cruizers, with 6uch of tho Muscat ships us may be siill waiting at that port, and unwilliug to
proceed on their voyage without such protection.
127. Lioutenant William Bruce reported from Bushiro that he had
received intelligence from Mahomed Nubi Khan at Shiraz, saying that His M B . , ,,
Royal Highness the Princo of Shiraz intended sending a body of troops to aotdlt'od 22ud SeptJm-
against the Joasmi settlements on tho Persian Coast and that they would be ber 1809.
ready for that service in the month of Ramazan or as soon as over the weather iSuDhfry *l'
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became sufficiently cool for them to proceed. Nasrulla Khan, the Prince's NoP347 of 1809,
Prime Minister, was expected to have tho command. The number of thepp*11189*11190*
troops intended to be sent on this service was not mentioned and their crossing
over to Ras-ul-Khima was to depend upon circumstances at the time.
128. Tho projected Persian expedition never reached the coast, if it ever
started at all.
129. The troops sent from Bombay landed, and took possession of the
pirate town and port of Ras-ul-Khima on the 13th November 1809, the dows,
boats and stores were all destroyed and his town ransacked and from seventy Liautenant-Colonsl’*
to eighty of these vagabonds were killed; on our sido we lost Captain Dansey report dated
of His Majesty’s 65th Regiment, who was killed by a spear. 8«>reUnd Poll.*
130. Lieutenant-Colonel Smith expressed greatest obligations to Captain £eptil?iafy1S(W
Wainwright, Commanding the Squadron, for his able assistance and oo-opera- pp°. iii71-11173.’
tion in every arrangement relating to tho troops, particularly for the rapid
manner in which ho enabled the force to land, in which the guns were landed
and sent forward, and the ordorly manner in which the re-embarkation was
effected, and acknowledged especially the assistance of the Royal Marines of
the Chiffone and Caroline Frigates under the command of Lieutenant Drury,
as most valuable reinforcement.
Captain Pasley and the gentlemen of his suite proceeding on a mission to
the Court of Persia (see Chapter IV above) joined the armament of Maskat
and most handsomely volunteered their services on shore with the expedition
where they were present during the whole of our operations.
131. We have already noted the operations of the expedition against
Linga and Luft. The expedition returned to Maskat, and the foroe was
reduced by 634 men of the native infantry as well as a proportionate extent of
the tonnage. The armament left had in view still to continue the operations