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800 Rupoes for the passage of Messrs. Ramsay and Elpinstone on your Dhingy
Bhorsingar. I am very sorry that your exertions have not been able to
recover any part of the Hon'ble Company’s coffee that was on board the Fyjz
Kadree.
Respecting your application for importing salt into Bengal, wore it not
contrary to the standing and confirmed Regulations of the Government of
that Country both the Governor General and I would be willing to gratify
you in this respect, but as the confining the importation of this articlo from
Muscat to Calcutta within the present limitod quantity in each vessel has
already been attended with considerable difficulty and as the granting a
priviledgo to you as the Company’s Broker which we have not been able to
allow to the Imaum himself and to all the Arab merchants might justly
afford ground of jealousy and offence to the latter, which as a servant and well
wisher to the Company you would yourself, I am persuaded, wish to avoid
I must therefore request of you to dispense with this request and to show
you that it is only from a view to publick expediency that it is not complied
with, I hereby settle upon you a salary of one hundred Rupees a month
whioh you may take credit for and draw for annually or from time to time,
as you think fit, and which you shall continue to receive as long as you
prove deserving of it in promoting the Hon’ble Company’s and the English
interest at Musoat and by opposing by every means in your power the
proceeding of their enemies such as the French and Dutch during the present
war, concurring which you will endeavour by every means in your power
to prevent these Nations* ships sailing to and from Muscat under Arab and
particularly the Imam’s color to whom and to the Gulphon I have by this
opportunity written on the subject, and you must join with the Company’s
< Officer who Commands the present ship in procuring suitable answers in
< compliance with my suggestions on this important subject, for it is not surely
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3 proper that our enemies should derive protection from the flag of our friends
and yet that such has been the case appears from your letter of the 13th of
October above replied to but I firmly rely on your exertions to seeing so great
an impropriety put an end to.
The packet that you dispatched by October of \Ir. Manesty from Bussora
§p mentioned in your letter of the 15th December arrived safe and the
freight has been paid as has also the receipt for Rs. 561-2*0 granted by
Messrs. Ramsay and Elphenstone, and the further packet forwarded by
Mr. Manesty thr6 you by your letter of the 31st January has likewise corpe to
hand and the freight on that account also has been paid, and the letter you
forwarded from Mr. Smith at Bushire has also come to hand as likewise
the 3rd packet from Mr. Manesty. mentioned in your letter of the 19th
February the freight and Enam for which as you specify the same has been
discharged on all future occasions of this kind of your having dispatches to
forward from Bussora or otherwise, I rely on your using as much ecconomy
in settling for the freight as possible, without however delaying the dispatch
of the packets which you are always to oonsidcr as of the first consequence,
and omit no opportunity of letting me hear from you whether you have
packets to send or not, giving me constantly all the news of Europeans or
others in your quarter or whatever you may learn or hear from Bussora.
In writing to the Imam and Qulphan of the French and the Dutch ships
having his flag I have been careful not to say any thing that oan lead them