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much inhanced the price of that, article as rendorod it impracticable for Ml
Savage to purchase any within a tolerablo reach of tho limitation, Advices from
England in May mention the equipment of a Portugueze Elect for these
parts. Tim death of their Surgeon Mr. Rose occasions tho request of another
as useful in his stead.
The Purauna
grfally agiutod Ai the same time came to hand another of the of last month with a
at an English
ship taking a nils Postscript of tho 13~. Thoy own tho receipt of our letters of tho 12th Nov­
from Imam ot ember 13$ & 14!* December last and esteem our precautions in regard to the
Maskat and at tho
•ale of an English Futtee Doulett Grab highly neoessary to he continued. The Sardar having
vessel to him.
heard the English ships had taken the Jmautn of Muscatts Pass was greatly
enraged & asked the Agent whether we thought the friendship of suoh an in­
considerable Person more eligible than that of his master’s ? As he was greatlv
dissatisfied with the fruitless proceedings of the Dutch, ho urged many rea-
sons for our assisting them against the Rebells and said that wo must look
upon the ships thus run away with as taken from ourselves, who ought to ho
accounted for every thing that passes in the Gulph according to former agree­
ments, & more especially now as we had no alliances to infringe, or friends to
quarrell with but a parcel of weak inconsiderable wretches, whose mention he
•V was almost ashamed to use in Discourse of two such mightly Rings, as ours
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& his. The King has sent positive orders for the Europeans to assist all in
The King’, demand their power, which the Sardar said could be only done through us providing
^dfoK^m^b t ^iem ^ °*sa*e f°r the present, the payment whereof lie made
the Arabs. no scruplo to promise on Delivery. But on a difficulty being offered to this
proposition he added that we must then aid him with our Eloet. Upon a
disagreement of two Shaiks who put themselves at the head of the Revolted
Arabs, a Ship and Grab were delivered to the Imaum of Muscat, which hav*
increased his Fleet (a growing nuisance) to nine Top sail Vessels. The Dutcli
having been taken notice of by the King for being so extremely ready to help
the reduction of the Arabs & particularly distinguished by the Sardar, They
do not stick to say that there is a ship nowon her passage purely for His
Majesty’s Servioe & that they have waited thus long inactive to be joined
by our Ships which when the King had no occasion for were always in the
Gulph, but now had deserted him. The Treatment our Gentlemen have met
with of late at Gombroon has left them no room of Complaint, as the disposi­
tion of the Government seems to he much changed, and the good of the subject
more considered than before. The King was returned from Tartary & at
Ta Arreck where he has ordered a general meeting of his Carnes, whose accounts
see were to betaken and beheaviour examined into during his absence and the late
on
2V« Beglerbeggy still continues in great favour with him. The demands for Wool­
ret
Co len goods as yet remain large, but the means of their Transport they leave to
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th- us, altho’ they think it would be better secured in a defensible Vessel, which
toi should also serve to bring back their returns in moneys. They enclose State
eui
of the Resident’s (at Bussorah) charges and appointments, by which the latter
appears deficient of the former. Thirteen Thousand Eighty Eight (13,088)
mamoodies, besides an unavoidable Expense, He must be at in Horses, Furni­
ture, Ec. On assuming the Post, which the advantage of the Customs oolleotod
there of late does not requite & his place otherwise giving him no Superior­
ity in Trade above a private merchant makes the preeminence very costly
and not to be born without loss. They have detained Gattivat Detaching and
in its stead returned the seapoys. Their Postscript of tho 13!-!i was occasioned
by a message the Surdar had sent them Importing that he had certain pdvice