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Monsoon, which if she fails in will Occasion no small disappointment to our
Superiors, besides a detention of her near 4 Months longer, she having on
Hoard a considerable Quantity of Treasure &oJL of the Company & also 6omo
freight belong8 to the Mcrchte & that we are directed to dispatch her finally on
her return from Bushire agreeable to their former Orders on this Head, It
appears also to Us very extraordinary that you shou’d not send Us Copy of the
Caun’s Letter to you wherein ho has apply’d for this assistance, & we cannot
conceive why he did not write the Agent on this Occasion, which is always
Customary, & what wo think you shou’d have apply’d to him for, besides
from what "Wo learn Mccrmanna it is probable may have purchas’d his Peace,
as he did formerly, ero tho Tartar gets down to Bushire hut supposing it
otherwise, it is badly possible the poor force of that Yessell only, even if Shaik
Sadoon joins his fleet, can ho sufficient for the attack of Bunderick or to
Block up the Plaoe, whereas our making a Peintonly we apprehend will rather
hurt our Credit than do us any good & its probable (agrceablfc to our Sentiments
formerly given you on this Hoad) may bring on very fatal Consequences to the
Company & our Trade hither, for if he is not totally destroy’d which we are
afraid will scarce ever be the case even with a greater Sea Force than you
have to send against him at present it is likely he will he so incens’d with
your thus declaring War with him, that it is probable as soon as the Cauns
Army is withdrawn, which cannot make any long stay, he may make a Descent
upon Bushire with a view of seizing on the Companys property, & no doubt
will attack every English Vessel bound up the Gulpli; all which Circumstances
we have esteem’d our duty to point out to You, as well as that we think the
Caun seeing you under an absolute necessity of dispatching the Tartar
immediately, in order to save her Passage to India will take it as a sufficient
excuse for your not being able to comply with his requests ; But on the whole
you are to determine for yourself, & we shall only further add on the Subject
that we have therefore, & in complyance with our Superiors Directions to you,
but the Commander of the Tartar under your Orders as already mention’d.
As you represent tho Prankey is not fitt for any Service being in want of
Repairs & that the Expence thereof wou’d ami. to more than she is worth we
wou’d have you dispose of her at publick Puteny, & acquaints Us what
necessity you have for a small one & what she wou’d Cost when we shall send
you our determinations on this Head.
There are two Seepoys of the new DetachmA, now on Board the Tartar
which you are to receive on shore & os you will then have your full Complem-r
as establish’d by »the Presidency you are to discharge the two you hired in their
Room.
"We are
Sib,
Your Loving Freinds
PETER ELWIN WRENCH
ROBERT GARDEN
DYMOKE LY8TER
Bassoha,
25 March 1765.
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JP.S,—You are to send your Surplus Cash to the Presidency on the Tartar
& Advise our Superiors there of all needfull Ocourrenoes.