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evidences being present, & arc sorry to say ho has not acted liko au honest
sory!. to the Hon’ble Company. That after finishing & drawing out their
remarks from tho two examinations, they secured his Effects, which being
only iiis wearing apparel & superfluous horse ornaments &c., will not
amount to a quarter part of what they deem him answerable to tho
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Hon’blo Company. By the first conveyance they shall send it all to
Bombay with Copy of their examination, &o. That the shores with their King
Aohmat Shaw have boon so successful as to take Shyrash, which gave so
much oredit to their alfairs that thousands joined thorn from all parts, this
gave them great apprehensions tho’ Gombroon lay at so groat a distanco
for from tho usage Messrs. Graves & Dalrymple received at Spahaun, they had
no reason to expect any ourtosey would be shown them, should they come that
way, & soon after chappars arrived there with orders to take great quantitya
of grain & money from the Hoad People in Government & 60,000 Tomands,
SurNidj/st.*?!’* or ten Lack of Rupees from them & the Dutch, but the Drake Ketch & a
6babcaptuMSbir**. large Dutch ship being in the harbour, they had not as then made their demand
IKrTorHMMd public. This, however, obliged them to come to an agreement with the Dutch
^lUrooo * Mulah Ally Shaw for their common safety, which was that the Europeans
tb£.une<i. The should ship off all their most valuable effects on board the Drake, & Dutch
igenej pirptr* w ^ were not capable of taking them all in, then Mulah Ally
Shaw should lend them one of the Persian Ships to take in tho remainder,
& to be manned with English and Dutch sailors also that all their subjects
whether Europeans or others should have liberty to transport their effects to
the islands for security and then to remain in their respective habitation till
the enemy draw near. That on the 13th December arrived there one Abdulla
Caun, with orders to receive the aforesaid money, but having only ten men
with him, he had not dared to give the least disturbance, nevertheless as he
was a sharp Cunning Fellow he had so far prevailed on Moolah Ally Shaw as
to make him entirely alter his notion of the shores, & were preparing a
petition to his Majesty representing the poverty of the subjects thereabouts,
& that they are unable to pay the whole amount laid on them, but would
consent to pay one year’s revenue, from which proceedings they judged he
is entirely flown off from his engagements with them & the Dutch & they
bad therefore come to a resolution to put him in mind of bis promise to lend
them one of the Persian ships, by which they shall at least see how he stands
effected, &io case he denies them, wait till they have a conveyance from
Bombay or a large Dutch Vessel daily expected from Bussorah unless the near
approaob of the enemy obliges them to pursue other measures. That by the
freshest advices the Bactiary’s had subdued, Fessan Dorab & Taroon all
places of great strength and held the Bulwork of tho hot Oountrys
which gave them no hopes to expeot they’ll not come that way, nor
do they see any hopes of relief before summer. That the breditors are
still there and very uneasy at the delays they meet with, they therefore
deeire our determination on this head as soon as possible, & as the present
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an prospeot of subsisting Troubles gives great room to apprehend they shall
at l&st be obliged to leave the shore, they request we will immediately
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a transmit them Orders how to act, whether to proceed to Bombay or repair to
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h« any of the Islands in the Gulph. The Dutoh give out they will go away for
India immediately on embarking tho* by private information they find they
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have thoughts of seizing upon the Island of Carrnck near Bouchier, & this