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one Agn Tarr arrived there as the King’s & Beglcrbeggy’s Merchant &
brought a letter desiring the Gentlemen to supply him with a largo quantity
of Cloth & Perpeta but as he proposed no otbor way of paying for it but by
Bills on the Shawbundcr, they refused hearkening to any contract with him
tho. the Duoli & some of the Merchants sold him goods to the amount of
fifteen hundred tomands to be paid iu that manner. That they will send up
as much Cloth & Perpets to Carmenia as will bo sufficient for that Market
being as they judge about two thousand Tomands worth per annum, but they
think it will be better to send it at once than in small Paroells tho. they
i believe it would be more for tho Company’s interest to dispose of it all at once
at Gombroon provided tho money could be got for it in any reasonable time,
which is impossible as Copper and Goz are so very scarce that neither the
Broker or Merchants would be able to pay for tho quantity now sent iu those
species those two years. Nor could they obtain such prices to be paid in
Abasse and Mahmoodies as would be equivalent to tho difference of
Exchange which is fifty per cent. & they are afraid should the King’s Merchant
return as expected he will offer to pay them in white money & expect the
woolen goods cheaper than they were formerly sold to the Broker, but tho.
Y he may give them trouble upon their refusing the King’s Coin at the Current
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rate they are resolved not to consent. That the new King seems hitherto
Nadir Shah »eema very favourably inclined towards our Nation & they hope that now wo have
favourablr inclined
toward* the sent them so fine a ship as the Cowan to be sold to him, be will without delay
English, and
haring received a renew the remaining principal rogoms without expecting any new agreement
thin from them
will likelj renew from them or assisting the Muscattees, etc. They have sent the President’s
their privileges. congratulatory Letter to the New King with another from the agent desiring
2 him to order his officers to take Charge of the Cowan & hopiug His Majesty
would be pleased to send the remaining rogoms bis answer to which will let
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1 them see what his real intentions are, for if he does not comply now they have
satisfied his desires in every respect they think he never will. That they are
again called upon to transport another Embassadour to Scindy one Mirza,
Mossein a relation of Sadat Caun the Mogul’s Vizier, this service was also
required of the Dutoh, but they not being able to furnish a ship & our gentlemen
thinking it would be imprudent at this critical juncture to disoblige the King
& that it might have furnished him with a pretenoe for delaying the Rogums
they consented to let them have the Robert, tho. they have remonstrated the
unreasonableness of being continually obliged to transport Embassadours at a
great Expence without ever being paid any thing for it. That when Aga Tarr
Tfti
*oc came to Gombroon he brought with him an obligation given the late
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Ne Mahumud Ali Caun wheu Beglerbeggy of Tars, &c., under the Hon'ble
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Co Company’s seal to pay him one hundred Tomands on his giving a Telligaw to
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th< receive our fine proportion of one thousand tomands per annum out of the
tot freight brought on the drake from Bengali but only five hundred tomands being
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received out of said freight they offered fifty to the relations of said Mahmud
Ally Caun, (who was then gone Embassadour to India) which they refused
& the said obligation being now in Muhamud Toggy Caun’s possession they
fear they shall he obliged to pay the whole. That the repairs of the Factory
would have been finished if a sufficient quantity of timber had been sent them.
They enclose an indent of what is still wanting which however they will
endeavour to supply themselves with from the Dutch & advise us in their
next. They desire a supply of two writers, there being sufficient of Council
for other stations.