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Tho forty-two rolls and small parcel of raw silk montioned in our letter WwiiwiiandBilk
of tho 16th February to be deposited in tho Factory by Caja Ezra arc now
shipped on board tho Drake at tho request of the Bassora Council, and
consigned to your Honor &ca., as por Bill of Lading enclosed unless the
Commander dolivers them at Muscat which ho is empowered to do on
receiving Treasure Parcel or other Rospondantia there in lieu thereof.
Tho 26th March having received a letter from the Bussorah Council,
dated the 9th, requesting that should tho Drake bring any Woollens from
Bombay for our settlement that we would not dispose of any part of them until
they advised us further regarding them as they were to be included in the
contract tho Gentlemen entered into for 1,000 bales in December evinces the
propriety of our sending the Woollens by her to Bussorah instead of our landing
them here as it would have been to no purpose.
The merchants hero having been very importunate of lato for Perpets
Coarse Medleys and Coarse Cloth wo request your Honour &ca will favour us
with a supply of them as soon as possible, those being the sortments chiefly
demanded hero.
We desire the favour of your Honour &ca to oblige us with a Surgeon for
the use of this Factory and hope that the severity of the hot. seasons and
sudden change of the air here which frequently subjects us to disorders will
plead, in our excuse for this request. We also entreat for two Carpenters which
we have often occasion for as there is not one to be had in the place.
The freight on Treasure shipped on the Drake amounts to R367-0-3 as
P enclosed manifest which being payable in India we shall debt the Agency for
R276-1-8 being three-fortlis thereof. She has taken in no Quiff freight
from hence.
Nothing further has come to our Knowledge respecting the Peace between
the Persians and Turks.
Enclosed you have also our monthly accounts for March and a Quick
and Dead Stook to this day being with the greatest respect.
Hon’ble Sie and Sirs,
Your most obedient humble servants,

(Signed) JOHN BEAUMONT.
( „ ) GEORGE GREEN.
Bushirb;
The 12th April 1778.
Received 7th May following >P. Draie No. 92.

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Extract from letter of the Resident at Basrah to the Governor in Council, dated 28th
May 1779.
. Ohr last respects were dated the 29th December (1778) sorry Late lUtolution at
to inform Your Honour in Council that your Original paoket, per " Eagle ** Bagreh* *£•*“*■
despatched the 31st October, was not received at Aleppo, the 19th January, of
though the duplicate which followed it 19 days after was received at and ^ °* Af'PP°‘
forwarded from Aleppo the 8th and 9th January, we are advised from Bagdad
that the Messengers who carried it had been obliged to proceed to that plaoe
after having been robbed and stript of their Oloaths, Camels and Packet hv
8883 F. D. *