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XXXIV.
PUBLIC DEPARTMENT DIARY No. 4- OF 1731.
Bomba* Cadi', the 21-1 November 1731. Subdance of a letter to the Chief Sf factor at
Gombroon.
The Phirmaund obtained by Mr. French from the Bashaw of Bussorah
for the English paying only tlirco per cent, customs on all goods sold at that Mr^Frenoh at
Port, will be highly advantageous to private trade, and as he has been at so
large an expense in obtaining it purely out of regard to the public good. We
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are willing to grant him all the Relief we can, and we direct them to order
him to open a head on the Bussorah books of charges in procuring a lhir-
maund in favor of the English Trade debiting it for the whole amount of the
expense with the growing interest thereon, and in that expense let be included,
3,000 crus as a gratuity for Mi French’s trouble, and let him credit the said
acoount by accountant consulage for the consulage annually collected, until
the Principal and Interest is paid; by this means the debt contracted for
procuring the Phirmaund becomes the Company’s and for their reimbursement
we direct an additional Duty of one per cent, be laid on all trade carried on
by the English to the Port of Bussorah as well by the Company as private
persons trading under their protection until the said sum iu Principal and
Interest thereon, according to the custom of the place, is fully cleared and no
longer.

XXXV.
PUBLIC DEPARTMENT DIARY No. 6 OF 1733.
Bomba* Castle.
On the 30th August 1733, the Agent in Council at Gombroon, informed
Letter from
the Bombay Government that they had just received a letter from the Resident§«£ito!Th0mM
at Bussorah containing the following intelligence; '‘The Grand Vizier had(Tamasp) Khan
defeated Thomas Caun near Bagdat and killed 50,000 men on the spot shah)!™** *****
that the engagement lasted with great fury several hours, and that the Troops,
Thomas Caun left to Blockade Bagdat were almost all cut off by a sally made
from the Town by Ahmud Bashaw, a small party excepted, with their General
Mahmud Caun Bullouch, and that the Vizier had sent a Bashaw with a detach­
ment of horse to pursue Thomas Caun as far as Ahmadoon and there to
stay until further orders; about a month before this news came they had, they
say, received Thomas Caun’s answer to Mr. Home’s remonstrance and the
Agent’s letter, couched in very complaisant terms, in which he sent an order
to the Shawbunder and Supravisors to desist from their demands of the arrears
of customs and told them as soon as he had taken Bagdat he would grant our
gentlemen a renewal of all their ancient privileges. They moreover advise us
that they had ordered Mr. GeeHie in case the Turks should march to Spahaun
to retire to Gombroon with all the Oompany’6 Rogoms, Books, Papers and
valuable moveables, but not to quit the city until they were sure of their being
near. The troubles at Bussorah occasioned by the neighbourhood of
the
Persian Army has, they say, prevented a bale of goods being landed out of any
of the ships, so that there will be little or no Oonsulage this season **
2578 F. D.