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2. The tenor of the first mentioned of these letters has likewise afforded Commanding
mo iu the perusal the highest satisfaction from observing the marked honour service*,
where with you have been treated by the King of Persia through your own
able and judicious conduct joined to tho good reputation that you enjoyed
there and all which appear to have enabled you to settle and arrange the
Company’s concerns committed to your charge in a manner that I cannot
sufficiently express my sense of but if it pleases God your good conduct iu the
respect will be the theme of praise as well in India as in England.
Por the rest I can and am ready to admit that the details you have entered , Ho should now
jnto in your letter of tho 31st of December as to the advantages and disadvant- Makolm^nd return
to India with
ages of which you deem my friend Captain Malcolm’s mission susceptible have Persian envoy.
proceeded from a genuine scope of duty on your part in thinking it necessary
to submit the points you have adverted to the consideration and notice of the
Hon’ble Company’s Governor General. But as you are not apprized in detail
of the particular motives and reasons in which that mission is founded nor of
the nature and extent of the political and incomentous affairs affecting the
wellfare of both states led to this embassy the truo road you have to pursue
is implicitly to adopt and follow up all the directions in this important
measures contained in the several letters I have written to you from the
17th September to the present period and especially in the instruction to you
on this head that went along with Captain Malcolm to whom rendering every
assistance and service to the utmost of your power you are not without that
gentleman’s leave to return to Bombay but to prooeed again with Gentleman
to the Court of the Persian Monarch whence you will hereafter come back
with him with honour aud fame and in his company direct your course to
India together with Hejy Abdul Kheleel Khan or whoever else His Majesty
Baha Khan may honour with the appointment of his envoy, to this Quarter.
These instructions are calculated for the common and united advantage of
you all and their observance will particularly tend to gain you the approbation
and good will of the Right Hon’ble the Earl, of Mornington the Governor
General.

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From—Mr. Bagle,
To—The Governor of Bombay and Council.
Hon’ble Sir,
By a vessel which sails this evening for Bombay I have the honor to
acknowledge your letter dated Jany. 29th 1800 which I received about an
hour ago on my landing from the Imaum ship the Ounjava.
I had the honor to apprize you on the 30th ultimo of my intention to set g^ed SulUn.8
out from Muskat on the day following with the view to join Syed Sultaun at projectedexpedition
Ormuz in consequence of his having intimated a wish to that purpose.againit the
Contrary winds however detained me here till the 6th current and on the 12th
I reaohed that Island where I found His Highuess on board the ship Ounjava,
After a few days stay there, I at Augam occupied in making some necessary
arrangements he proceeded towards Muskat but landed at Bushire 30 or 40
miles distant from this place in order to collect in that neighbourhood for his
intended expedition against the Sheikh of Julfar, whose late piracies in the
Persian Gulph have materially injured the trade of this port. In about three
weexs tms expedition will be ready to proceed as I shall agaiu accompany tbe