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Board oannot approve of tlioir carrying away the Persian Ships with them, for
the reasons givon them in our advices per Shaftesbury.
LXI.
PUBLIC DEPARTMENT DIARY No. 25—1752,
Bomdat Castle, February 17tii, 1762.
Gombroon, Imported the ilajnoody, Captain George England, from Gombroon and by
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her received a letter from tho Agent and Counoil thoro dated the 17th January
advising receipt of ours of the 23rd November por Rose Galley, which imported
there the 21st December, and acquaints us that they had forwarded our
Aoirgbj In PenU> adviocs for the Hon’ble Company to tho 10th ultimo. That tho storos and
Trade at a it and* stationery wo consigned them per Rose Galley turned out agreeable to invoice,
still.
and that they wore sorry to acquaint us, that tho unsettled state of the
country would not admit of their supporting our expeotatS with regard to what
they wrote us concerning woollen goods; at that time they were in hopes of a
successful winter from the advices reoeived from inland of many large oafiilas
being on tho road for that place, but upon their arrival, they found that the
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Government in all parts was grown so bad that most of the noted Merchants
were afraid of risquing their lives and effects under it any longer for which
reason many of them had invested, their money in Jewels, etc., and were gone
with their familes to Mecca, where they proposed to reside untill the Country
was brought under some regular authority. Those that remained behind had
purchased in cloth and perpets to the amount of 60,000 Rupees & had con­
tracted with them for the amount of 50,000 more which would be paid for and
carried away sometime that month. That since the arrival of the above men­
tioned oaffillas it had been currently reported there that the Russians had
KnaaUn trade.
opened a trade in woollen Goods between Astracan and Orange, a City in
Tartary, to which a large navigable river led directly from the Caspian sea, from
which very bad consequences might be expected as it would greatly prejudice
our Hon’ble Masters Trade in the woollen manufacture. That their Carmenia
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Linguist acquaints them in his last advices that there was no likelihood of
procuring any quantity of wool this season as it was extremely scarce in all
the villages round about and not to be bought under 60 Sahees per Maund
whioh would turn out upwards of 110 when picked and cleaned, but that their
endeavours should not be wanting, to procure all they can at the lowest price.
That the Kingdom continues in the same unsettled state as it had done for
some years past. That towards the latter end of September the Hoola Arab
sent over 16 trankeys with a great number of soldiers under pretence of
paying some compliments to Moola Ally Shaw on the marriage of his
Hal* and daughter, but their real design was to carry off the Persian Beet, however he
HU inioloQM by some means or other prevailed upon them to withdraw in a friendly manner
: toward* the taking with them one ship and two Gallivatts, so that Moola Ally Shaw has
English.
now but one ship remaining. Nevertheless the expectations he was in of seeing
his other ships arrive, and well fitted from hence, made him very insolent
towards them • by threatening to force money from the people under their pro­
tection, taking up their servants and encouraging his people to abuse them, but
as Moola Ally Shaw himself made daily mention of the cause from whence it
proceeded, they therefore acquaint us, that Mahomet Beg Shamloo wrote him a
long letter by the Rose Galley, giving him a circumstantial account of our
misfortunes at Surat and Tellichery enlarging greatly on the despicable figure
he says we make in the military way. He therefore desires him not to be any
'The EoglUb.