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in future the like may not happen that you should appear to have forgot me
but consider me as one of yoursincero friends and oblige me with frequent
communications of your welfare and any business which you may I shall be
happy to exeoute as by this our friendship will become firmly established.

CCLXXXVII.
Translate of a letter from Mahomed Hussein and Khaja Aratoon in charge of the factory at
Bushire dated the oth of February and received from Bombay Frigate the 4th of March
1S00.
A. C.
Th* Bhthi's
projected expedition On the 1st of this month the very respectable and worthy Captain
agiinit Feme.
Malcolm arrived here. Whatever was suitablo of proper to be done for him
we have performed and shall continue so to do for which it is probable he may
given you intimation.
By His Majesty’s Ship L a Fute we had the pleasure of forwarding to your
address some letters from Medhi Ali Khan which we hope havo been received.
The particu lars relative to Mehdi Ali Khan’s mission we transmitted to you
Sir by the La Fute and Capt. Stevenson of the Panther from the perusal of
which all matters will have become known to you. From that period to the
present day we have not been favoured with a letter from that respectable
person such as may hereafter we shall forward to you.
T Thanks be to the Almighty the intelligence from Iran is favourable and
2 everything in that quarter is in the peace tranquility. It has been resolved as
in the presence of the King of Persia to convey grain to Bhovisang after the
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Noruz. His Majesty will move towards that country for the purpose of subduing
Zeman Shah.
The following intelligence has been received at Constantinople that the
rench have evacuated Cairo, some of whom* are missing whilst others have
taken Port in Alexandria but that shortly they will all desert to their native
country , These accounts are written from the Merohants of Syria and Aleppo
o w ch we have repeated for your information. We hope you will at all
imes oblige us with kind communication of your welfare and command our
services by which we shall be highly honoured.

CCLXXXVIII.
Capt.uk Malcolm to tbe Earl op Mornington, Governor-General, &c., &c., &c.,
5 My Lokd, Fort William.
oMdiogx^at'Maikat. 1. I had the honor of addressing Your Lordship from Muscat, under
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«So»d date the 8th ultimo, and of informing you of my intention to proceed to the
lxaun- Island of Hormuz for the purpose of seeing the Imaum not meeting with him
at that Port, I sailed for a Harbor between the Islands of Angar and Kishma,
where I found him on the 17th ultimo on board the Qanjava, his principa
ship of War, at Anchor.
2. I immediately advised him of my mission, and repaired on board nex
morning and had the honor of presenting Your Lordship’s letter, and some
articles of value, which were received with every sense of Friendship.
3. After a short, but explicit conversation, in the course of which,
explained in a concise manner, the late events in India, and the principles w io
had dictated Your Lordship’s policy particularly as it related to Teppoo Sultaun^
The Imaum expressed in the warmest terms his sense of the power an
justice of the English Government, and his conviction that the prosperity o

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