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Interests but I shall fully report all particulars on leaving this, but this much
you arc to represent that if it please God I shall write fully by another letter,
of my having sottled everything, and I hope then also to send the Imaum’s
Cowlnama under his seal. But they will never suffer the English Elag to ho
hoisted at Muscat, which, receiving at tho sourco of much mischief I have
desisted from. Everything else is and will be adjusted if this vakeel will only

CCLXIII.
Bombay Castle, 20th October 179S.
Resolution of the Governor and Council.
From the tenor of tho above address as well as the before recorded one to Tho Company’s
the address of the Governor as it would appear in concurrence also, with former bo removed,
indications, that tho Company’s Broker at Muskat is a person on whose
attachment or attention to the Company’s iuterest no reliance can bo placed ;
since as he is at least known to bo equally devoted to the service of the French,
and Butch as of our Company the Board resolve to order the removal from his
present situation and to request tho Governor will prepare and answer ^°Mhod. Ar Kh
Mehedy Ali Khan to the purport of what the latter has suggested in the view to appoint a
of employing a Gomastah on his part at Muscat in tho room of the aforesaid auhafport! reSlde
broker.
Besolved also that the Resident at Bussorah be advised of the progress of The Resident at
Mehedy Aly’s negotiation at Muscat and of the removal in consequence of advised^/tt*
Narrotum from any interference iu tho Company’s affairs in that Quarter ; tochans«8-
which end he -will be furnished with copies of the above recorded papers from
Mehedi Aly.
Tho Superintendent of the Marino likewise to be directed to furnish gratis Propowi of tho
the boat dispatched by Mehedi Aly Khan with water, and to report his opinion Jc'fcrred to'the
on the latter’s further proposal of watering and wooding all other of the
Imaum’s own vessels at the Company’s expenco at this port, iu consideration of
our vessels being similarly treated at Muscat.

CCLXIV.
Translation of a letter from Melicdy Ally Khan written on the 3rd of the 1st Jemady on the
14th of October to the Governor of Bombay.
Under tho auspices of the Honorable Company, and of your good fortune, The Couinama
whatever tho views of Government were at Muscat, have been attained and i^^ViTk t
some what more, as will be rendered evident to you and to the Council by the
letter from the Imaum and the Couinama ho has entered into.
I say nothing of the various efforts to gain even small points, that tho
English Gentlemen have hitherto failed in the attainment of at this Place,
whilst, in the space of ten days I have obtained, and fixed their rights at this
Place, to wbat they were before this never entitled, as will be, certified to you
by the Voucher under the Imaum’s Seal; that I again repeat that whatever has
taken place, has boen the effect of, and iuduced by the Government’s happy
auspices.
• Ti e Couinama printed in Aitcbiaon’s Treaties, Yol. XI.
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