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attention and civility to bo shown to my Vessels and Nokbadas : all tbo ships
tlio property of this Sircar are yours, for the purpose of giving you information
have I written this as between the two States and me, there is no difference,
neither will Chore be, and do you Sir consider it in the same manner.
Horeafter whatever nows on intelligence I hear I will write you of it.
I am very anxious to come and pay my respects to you, hut His
Highness Syed Sultaun is not willing that I should travel. I am here the
Well wisher of your Sircar: do you look on me as belonging to your Sircar—
do not, you over believe the Words of the Malignant but on investigating the
matter let me bo appretiated.
A disturbance has lately evinoed itself between the people of Kbarak,
and those parts : it is Syed Sultaun’a intentions to send a force on the Futta
Islam and other ships towards that place, for your information this is written.

CCLXXVII.
Translation of a letter from filSHENDAS Bathedoo, Broker at Mutkat, to the Hon’ble the
Governor of Bombay, dated 16 Nov. 1799, received 2 Dec. 1799.
I have already had the honor several times of .laying before you the The jm»r^diipoi«d
8tate of affairs in this quarter, & shall be happy to find, that all my Com- wuufthe
munications have reached you safe: particularly my last containing some very
particular Intelligence which I sent to the Botella of Sheikh Jomaeh "Bin
Sultan Soory, the same which carried a Cargo of Horses to Mr. Smith. Let
me beg as the greatest Instance of your favor & Indulgence to your faithful
& humble Servant that you will occasionally honor him with a Reply.
The news of the day (since I wrote your Honor as I did instantly, about
the Capture of the Resident at Bussorai Ship & her arrival at Muskat in the
hands of the French) is as follows. Syed Sultan had at one time an intention,
of sending a vessel to the Mauritius to recover a ship of Khulfan Bin Salim
who is a subject of the Imams ; & for this purpose had taken two ship officers
from the French who understood the Navigation of that quarter. . Reflecting*
however, that the English might hear of this, he has altered his intention;
& dismissed the two Frenohmen to go where they please; The enclosed letter
from-Syed Sief Mohammed will explain to you this ciroumstance more
fully.
Syed Sultan, I beg leave to assure your honor, is most sincerely &
anxiously disposed to. cultivate the good Will of the English Gov5?. He
is constantly heard to say, that lie considers the Interests of the Company,
both now, & <?ver after as altogether inseparable from his own, with many
other expressions of the same sinoere, and amicable Import.
He begs me, in the present instance, to offer you his Kindest Regards;
& to assure you that he is the most devoted friend & Servant of the Hon’ble
Company. He is much in want of a domestic Physician, the most able
& experienced in his Profession, & has desired me to communicate his earnest
request, that you would order a Person of this Description to attend him. I The »PpH-
have obeyed bis Highness’s orders in conveying to you this desire of his; it iVhjicUn”*"*11