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Bombay or elsewhere, and your own advices together with those from
Bussorah, but you are to bo very cautious in such advices that nothing
bo inserted therein that occasion any prejudice to’tko company, in case of their
being intercepted and you aro also to givo the Resident at Bussorah directions
of extremely onreful to employ none but the most trusty Messenger.
5. From the information we gave you in your lettor of Season, an Open
War between the British and French Nations might easily bo foreseen, it has
proved so in the evont, His Majesty having proclaimed War against France on
the 18th of May last which was returned in a very short time after on the
Part of the French King, some of His Majesty’s Declarations are now sent for
your Information, not but we hope you will know long before this reaches your
by the Dispatches seut immediately ovorland by His Majesty’s Ministers
and ourselves or if thoy have miscarried by the Triton Man of War and our
own ship the Prince Henry Packet, the first of which left England on the
17th July bound to the Mallabar Coast and the other the 5th of August for
Fort St. George, both charged with the news of the important Event to be
communicated to all our settlements in India.
6. The Frenoh have prepared a great armament at Port L’Orient, and
have embarked a Number of Regular Troops the whole being Destined as there
js the greatest reason to believe for the East Indies, the necessary advices
thereof have been sent to our several Presidencies in order for their being on
their guard the part you are to act for the security of that part of our Estate
which is or shall fall under your management, must greatly depend upon the
advices and orders you may receive from Bombay and your own prudence
and we shall accordingly expect that you take such measures as are the most
likely to answer the desired purpose.
7. Should you by this conveyance or at any time hereafter, receive any
orders or directions from the Secret Committte for the time being you are to
pay the same regard to them as if they were signed by the Court of Directors.
The Gentlemen who compose that Committee at present, are, Peter Godrey,
John Payne, Christopher Burrow, Roger Drake, and Jones Raymond, Esquires
any Three of whom are a Quorum.
8. We herewith transmit for your Information Lists of the ships taken
into our Service for the several Parts of India this Season, and of the Arrival
and Departure of Our Shipping.
9. That you might have an early supply of the Goods proper for the
Persia Market, we have ordered the Prince Edward to be got ready sooner
than the other Bombay ships, and do now accordingly consign her to you with
a Cargo agreeable to the accompanying Invoice and Bill of Lading, consisting
principally of about five hundred and'Fifty-nine Bales of Cloth and Long Ells,
and some few other particulars for Gombroon and for Bussorah about seventy
nine Bales of Cloth and Thirty two Bales of Long Ells.
10. "We have provided the further Quantity of about One hundred and
twenty eight Bales of Cloth, Fifty of which are Medleys, Eighty two Bales of
G Long Ells and Twenty Bales of Shalloons for your Market, and for Bussorah
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a about sixty-eight Bales of Cloth and Thirty two Bales of Long Ells, all which
tb we intend to put on board the other Bombay Ships to be forwarded to you as
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c< conveyances offer from that Place, You are to expect no Drap cloths in this
last Quantitty, all we design this season being laden on the Prince Edward.