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XXXVI.
PUBLIC DEPARTMENT DIARY No. 8 OP 1784-1736.
Bombay Castle.
Entry of T»tnup The Agent in Counoil at Gombroon in a further letter, dated the 20,h
Khan into Burah.
September 1734, stated that in their last advices from the Rosidontat Bussorah
they had been informed that “Thomas Caun after making a magnificont entry
into that City (spreadings being laid in the same manner as for the King) gave
audience to a Turkish Envoy, and presented him with a cullat and two hundred
Tomands in money, which Minister on his taking leavo publicly declared
A that the Grand Seignior would never consent to a peace unless Shaw Thomas
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was again set upon the Throne ; Thomas Caun made answer that he designed
it, and had already sent for him, but be only ordered the King should be
removed from Mazandroon to another Palace.’*

XXXVII.
PUBLIC DEPARTMENT DIARY No. 9 OF .1736-1736.
Bombay Castle, 6 October 1735.
Thrtstenod uoond The Persia advices received by the Robert are now read which gives US a
Pernao expedition
agtinit B»mh. very melancholy account of the state of affairs in that Kingdom and as the gentles
Sc belngdr*g^d*into men by remaining on shore would have more immediately exposed themselves
Ba th#w* to the resentment of Thomas Caun and they might have also been surprised
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Pa when the Persians would have insisted on such terms that we could on no
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Ki account comply with ; whereas by their retiring this evil will not only be
prevented but the Persians convinced of our resolution to leave the Kingdom
when we can no longer remain there with credit, and the clamours of the
merchants may have such an effeot, as to induce Thomas Caun to believe our
continuance is of service to the Kingdom and to hearken to a considerable
treaty for fixing of our privileges ; we think the proceeding of the gentlemen
on this occasion to be prudent and well calculated to avoid the evils as well as
obtain the advantages proposed. But as they are of opinion that the Persians
are fully bent upon a second expedition against Bussorah, and that Thomas
Caun will insist upon our assisting him by sea against the Turks, and that he
will be pacified on no other terms. We are apprehensive that the Agent arriving
there in the Queen Caroline during this confused situation of our affairs
may be at a great loss how to proceed at so critical a conjuncture, and as it is
possible .the Queen Caroline may not yet have passed by this Port iu her pas­
sage to Persia, The President proposes dispatching a boat in quest of her with
positive orders to Captain Wilkie to return into this road, and that copy of the
Persia advices be sent to Mr. Cockell that being apprized of the state of
affairs his experience may furnish us with helps for giving the necessary
orders on this important occasion, proposing to send him to Gombroon as soon
as possible after his arrival, but should the boat not meet with the Queen
Caroline and she have proceeded on her voyage, it will be proper to dispatch a
vessel to Gombroon towards the latter end of this month with such instructions
as shall then seem necessary to be given which being entirely agreeable to
opinion of the several members is unanimously agreed to.