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13. If any damage or short delivery shall appear on any part of fch o
Hectors Cargo, you must adjust the same at Gombroon agreeable to the
charter party and receive the amount of Capt. John Williams or the Com-
mauder for the time being.
14. Having laden on this ship many particulars for our Presidency of
Bombay, and there being soveral recruits on board for our Military Porcoa
there, you must take care that no time is lost either in delivering the oargo
Consigned to you, or her receiving what treasure and goods you shall think
proper to send on board you are then give the Commander Orders to make
the beRt of his way to Bombay, and follow all such Orders a9 be shall receive
from the President and Council for his further Proceedings.
15. We hope you will be able to forward to Bombay by this conveyance
a good proportion of the Oarmenia Wool which may have been provided in
consequonoo of the Order you repeatedly receivo from tho Presidency, and We
recommend to your attention the purchasing to the utmost of your orders any
Quantities of this commodity whenever it to be procured at reasonable prices.
Los* of paatat*.
16. Since writing t lie boforegoiug, We have received through tho hands
of Mr. Drummond at Aleppo, Your Letter of the 27th of December 1754
and 6th of March following, as likewise our Resident Shaw’s Letter dated
at Bussorah the 20th of May and 27th of July last. One of the packets now
received Mr. Drummond informs us was accidently found in the Desart and
brought to an imperial subject who came along with tho Caravan, which arrived
at Aleppo on the 30th of November last, whence he concluded the messenger
had died or been killed upon the road. This accident led us to the observa­
tion made in the 1st paragraph and although you are excused thereby from
negleot, yet We expect the directions therein given are carefully and punctually
complied with.
W&r b*twe«n7Great 17.- Hostilities are still carried on between tbe British and French nation
Britain and France. .
Precaution*to b« *n Amerioa His Majesty s ships continue to take there as well as in Europe
taken in tbe gulf. r
all the ships of that nation they meet with, by way of reprisal great numbers
of which now lay in the several ports of His Majesty’s dominions, but none
are yet condemned ; The French are using their utmost diligence to fit out a
great Marine Force, and are drawing down to the Sea Coasts numbers of their
Troops with which they threaten an invasion. The British nation on the other
hand was never better prepared to baflle their attempts as well as protect its
honour and trade than at this time both by land and sea. Nothwithstanding
all this no Declaration of War is made by either nation, no Commissions for
privateers or letters of Marque have been issued or granted here nor are We
informed that any have been issued on tbe Part of France. All British
Merchant Ships were suffered to go in and come out of their Ports without
any hindrance or molestation until the end of the last month, when it is said
all the English vessels at Dunkirk (about nine small ones in the whole) were
stopped, but we do not hear whether the like has been done in the other ports
of that kingdom, or that they have made any o.ther reprisals in Europe since
the commencement of the present differences. It cannot well be imagined
G.
L. that affairs will remain long in this situation therefore in all events you must
A stand well upon your guard; and you are to give such informations. to the
th
E commander of the Hector if any occur, as may be necessary for the aafoty of
C< the ship and cargo in her passage from Gombroon to Bombay.