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XXXIX.
PUBLIC DEPARTMENT DIARY No. 0 OP 1736-1736.

Bombay Castlb, Deo. 1736.
From Gombroon. The Queen Caroline appearing in the offing from Gombroon, the Comr^
sent ashore a letter from the Agent, &c. there dated 1* Decombor acknow­
ledging the receipt of ours of the 25* August by the Quoen Caroline who arrived
there with the Agent the 20* of November, also our letter of the 26* October by
the Prince of Wales Galley, who arrived the 29* & advising that they have
laden on the Queen Caroline one hundred and eighteen bales of Carmenia
to neeSe'iheir"1 ^r°0^ two hundred bags of copper goz, forty bags of lump copper & fifty
factor/ »t chests of Shyrash wine. That the French ship mentioned in their last did not
Gombroon.
sail for Bussorah till the 6* of November, having sold her cargo & paid
four and a half per cent, customs and before the Supra Cargo went away, she
received a letter from Thomas Caun insisting the French to resettle their
factory at Gombroon & as they pay customs will give them great encourage­
ment, & they are afraid this example will in the end induce him to oblige
the Dutch & us to do the same. He has lately sent a strange Rogom to
Mirza Togghy concerning us, wherein it is said we shall be free as far as one
thousand Tomands value per annum or as much more as Mirza Togghy shall
Bogom from think fit. That the Rose Galley sailed the 15* of September to bring the
Tnmiep Kh»n. deoe’* ambassador’s effects with Seffy Caun Begg & Mahmud S’ued Begg on
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i board whom the Commander had orders to treat in the best manner he could
1 and to convey back such boats as they should hire to bring the Elephants and
l horses, notwithstanding which he disagreed with them and returned without
! them or the boats and they on their arrival complaining of this treatment the
i Gentlemen were obliged to make them a present to prevent their complaining
to Thomas Caun which might have had a very ill effect. Their view in this
proceeding is to keep the Persians easy and thereby gain time for recovering
what they can of the Hon’blc Company’s effects and outstanding debts till
they see what turn this storm will take. That they did not think proper
to risque the Woollen Goods sent them on the Queen Caroline ashore, but as
the broker had given them hope to dispose of them in a short time they have
transhiped them on board the Rose. The merchants complaining very much
of the last parcels. They send us two musters of the fine whiob are not better
than the cloths charged fifty per cent, less & the Drabs are very bad. That on
the Agent’s arrival they at first thought of not going ashore till they should
be invited but considering that they might have remained some time on board
& thereby occasioned the Queen Caroline to be very late despatched &
perhaps at last been obliged to come and leave the Hon’ble Company’s broker
&c., and their effects at the mercy of the Persians they went ashore and the
Fenian reqoeat
for ehipo. Agent was visited by the Shawbunder, &o., with abundance of compliments as
if nothing had happened when Mahmad Zamen Beg delivered him letters from
Mahmad Togghy Caun & Mirza Togghy desiring him to supply Thomas
Caun with Shipping for which he would pay the full value they thought it not
proper to disoblige but told them they would write to procure two ships of twenty
Guns each provided they would first deposit the money which would amount
to eight thosand Tomands with whioh answer they 6eemed well satisfied, and
they desired the Agent would write answers to Thomas Caun & Mirza Togghy