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thorn which cannot bo the Case unless the pricoof Wool can be greatly reduced
so as to allow of purchasing larger Quantities than you arc now limited to.
19. We sco with Coucorn the apprehensions you were under by your la9t
advioos of having Money or Goods extorted from you by Moolally Shaw, but
we aro in hopes you have persisted in your Resolution to comply with his
Demands for as you very rightly observe if they should be tamely submitted
to, there would nover be an End to thorn and perhaps those of other Arabs in
time, you have taken tho proper step in representing your situation to your
superiors who will doubtless consider of the proper measures and give their
directions accordingly for the securing Our property on this occasion.
20 So soon as you have received all the Cargo consigned to you on this
ship and have laden what goods are ready or will bo so shortly either of the
Company’s or on Freight for Bombay, you are without loss of time to give
the Commaudor his Dispatches in writing to make the best of his way thitiher
accordingly, and follow the president and Council’s Orders for his further and
future proceedings.
21. You are to give the Commander Orders to be well on his Guard from
the time of his Arrival to his Departure, and also in his passage from Persia to
Bombay you are likewise to commuuioate to him whatever Intelligence and
advice may be necessary for his Information and any way tending to the
security of the ship and Cargo from the Attempts of the Enemy if there is the
least danger to be apprehended either thro’ surprize or by an open attack.
22. Notwithstanding what is before directed you may send the Admiral
Watson to Bussorah with the Goods designed for that Residency if you find
it safe and necessary to be dispatched from thence to Bombay or returned to
Gombroon according to Circumstances, but you are to observe that her deten-
tion either at one or both places be as short as possible as We shall depend
upon her early Arrival at Bombay.
23. His Majesty having been most graciously pleased to order the Grafton
of 70 and the Sunderland of 60 guns to proceed to the East Indies to join the
squadron already there the time of their departure with the ships which have
the benefit of their Couvoy will appear by the accompanying List.

We are,
Your loving Friends,
JOHN PAYNE. HENY. HADLEY.
LAU. SULIVAN. CHARLES OHAMBERS.
P. GODFREY. J. RAYMOND.
CHRISTO. BURROW. JOHN DORRIEN.
M. IMPEY. JOHN BROWNE.
G. STEEVENS. John Raymond.
HEN. Y. SAVAGE.- TIMOTHY TULLIE.
M. WESTERN. GEO, DUDLEY.
THOMAS PHIPPS. ROB. JONES.
JOHN MANSHIP. THOS. ROUS.

London;
29th March 1758.