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had takon up 12,000 Rupees of tlio Agent payable to Messrs. Draper and
Boddam. That they learn by advise from Carmeniaof Carom Cauns Governor
oppressing tlio inhabitants in which they wcro sorry to acquaint us our
Linguist was not exempted. Therefore the Agont would write to Cnrcm Caun
about it and order tho Linguist to forward tlio wool investment with expedi­
tion, and if ho should find impracticable to live there in any Degreo of security
lie might by his sending away tho Wool bo roady to embrace tho first
opportunity of returning thore. That Cnrcm Caun had ordorod twenty
thousand Tomaunds to bo taken from Carmonia to pay the Military, five
thousand for himself, nud five thousand for his Choppars: That when tho
distribution came to bo mado, it was found to bo seven times moro than tho
usual Tax; That the Kingdom seemed to go very fast unto Ruin the Great Men
paying no regard to tho Subject, but only tho gratifyiug their soldiers and
Dependents and they much feared the Ruin of Trade would be tho conse­
quence: That affairs there continued in the same Situation as wo last learned
from them.

cix.
Public Diary No. 36 of 1751.

Bombay Castle, 1st May 1761.
Came in tho Monmouth Ketch from the Gulph of Persia by whom
Gombroon, Letter
from. received a Letter from the Chief aud Council at Gorabroou dated tho 9th ultimo,
wherein they acknowledged our’s by the Swallow which Vessel they had
dispatched to Bussorah. -That they judging by the Orders for getting Posses­
sion of Orinus being of a prior dato which he now desired might bo deferred
Removal from till his return from Bussorah as he intended viewing all the Islands some of
Gombroon.
which he imagined would be better than the Continent where daily Importations
and the Hon’ble Company’s Property being unsafe rendered it too heavy an
expense for the Profits arising on the Woollen Trade and if they could not carry
on affairs without a Military Force a loss in tho end must ensue, and even on
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an Island they thought it would not be secure without some force especially on
The Dutch at their first settling. That the Dutch by the best accounts they could get, had
Eamk. always at Carrack about 160 Europeans with some Coffrees : They remarked
if Jaffer Caun the least suspected their Design of removing he would use the
utmost of his power to prevent it, therefore should wo on the Hon’ble
Company fix on any particular spot they requested such a Force as would
prevent the Government there seizing either the Hon’ble Company’s or their
property : That the Loan made to Nassir Caun they begged leave to assure us
was not thro’ choise but necessity to prevent the whole of the Company’s
Property being put to a Risque as they were convinced if it was refused he
would have given his Brother leave to have attached them, thus affairs were
situated there thro’ the avafitious disposition of the present Government whom
they endeavoured to keep on terms with, but which they found impossible
unless they at times complied with his demands, or could they tell how to
avoid it and notwithstanding their utmost care lie was 3,718 Rupees and 18
Shahees in their Debt: That it having always being a Custom for all