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respecting them to the before mentioned suggestion to the Mussaleem, and my
present Re presentation to you.
I have the honor to transmit Copy of a Letter to Harford Jones, Esq.,
dated the 29th Ultimo, from which you will observe the departure for Bagdat
of Mr.- Raymond and the Gunners Draper and Kirby the former having under
his Charge, for delivery to Mr. Jones, the Military Stores per Panther intended
for the use of the Bacha.
I have also the honor to transmit Copy of a letter from Rear-Admiral
Blankctt, dated the 5tli August, and received here on the 2nd Instant.
I have also the honor to transmit at the request of His Excellency
John Spencer Smith, convoyed to me in a private Letter which l received on
the 7th Instant, an extract from a private Letter from the Right Hon’ble Lord
Minto to that Minister, dated Vienna, the 16th August and several miscellaneous
papers.
I have also the honor to transmit a packet for the Hon’ble the President
“ on service ” received on the 9th instant, from Harford Jones, Esq., with his
Letter to me of the 2Sth Ultimo, by a Government Chowdar.
I have also the honor to transmit you the Lloyds Evenings Post, from
the 12th to the 29th July, and Journal de Erancfort from the 22nd July to
the 9th August, containing very interesting Intelligence, to which I beg leave
to make a respectful reference.
I have the honor to be with the greatest respect,
Hon’ble Sir,
Your very obedient humble Servant,
SAMUEL MANESTY.
Bussora. ;
The 10th October 1799.

CCLXXII.
To
The Right Hon’ble theEabl op MORN1NGTON,
Governor-General, &c., &c., &c., in Council at Fort William.
(In the Political Department.)
My Lord,
I have the honor to pcknowledge the Receipt on the 15-~- Ultimo per Tippu'i
Antilope via Bombay, of Your Lordship’s Commands of the 8ii August, enclo-^ India,
sing a Letter in duplicate to the address of Hussum Alii; and I consequently
most sincerely rejoice that I had previously paid requisite attention to the
circumstance of the arrival here, on their way to Constantinople of Embasadors
from the late Tippu Sultan to the Ottoman Emperor.
Erom the accompanying Copies of the 4 ;j, & 6* paragraphs of my
address to the Hon’ble the President in Council, in the Political Department,
of the 10 ft Instant, Your Lordship will please to observe the detention here of
the Embassadors in question by Abdulla Aga, the Mussaleem of Bussora, at
my suggestion.
On the 15 Ultimo the Embassadors (by name Seiad Ali Mahomed Kandree
& Seiad Madar-il-Deen), their Secretary Hussun Ali,’ and their attendants, were
residing hero by the permission of the Mussaleem in the late Erench Factory,
in eager expectation of the Receipt by the Mussaleem from Bagdad of .orders
from the Bacha respecting them, and actively exerting themselves to persuade