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of these related to Muscat : of which place if you wish for a lease from the King
it is at your Service ; with troops also, upon .condition of providing them with
a conveyance.
8hejkh Nuir It is hut a week ago since Sheik Nusser, in pursuance of the Royal Com.
•ptarep
mands, went to take possession of Kharek Island at the head of 1500 men
collected from the vicinity of Bushire. Shaik Nusser has succeeded in this
Service, recovered the Island from Syed Sultaun who had but a short time before
seized upon it in person. The Uttoobies of Behrein have also commenced
hostilities against Muscat : so that, if we were to an open rupture, we could not
wish for a more favourable concurrence of circumstance and time. If on the
Contrary it should be considered as a desertion of our real interest to do so, his
Lordship will I am sure see in it’s true light the propriety of otherwise of exas­
perating or Confirming them in their Spirit of enmity, as in the late instance of
their Salt being seized upon by orders of Government.

Enclosure 1.

Translate of a Letter from Seif Bin Mahomed, to Mehedy Ali Khan dated the 2 7th of Zelhiy
1214- Hijreeor the 22 nd May 1800-A. C.
T Complaining of Your friend has, prior to this written you several Letters, containing the
o tbe lery of pilot
pi fee on 2of imam’s particulars of the accounts of this place, and is in hopes those epistles have been
■W tolp B^gth^whlch received and you have been acquainted with tbe Contents. From tbe friendship
tl
p TxSjptiwJ’^der^ which is established between us, I have long been in anxious expectation of
licenie of tho Goter- receiving a reply from you informing me of your welfare, but have not as yet
aor-Gcneral.
been favored with the receipt of a Single line at the time of my writing this the
27th of Zelhiy or 22nd May, no Letter of Consolation has been received from you
what can be the reason of this want of kindness ? I trust in God no other
than your having too much business. What is past ought not to be
recolleoted.
Our intimacy and friendship is not of a recent date but of a very long
standing, and I trust as long as we live, that good understanding will contin ue
and be daily increasing as I cannot imagine there can be a distinction between
us, and I hope you are of the same way of thinking.
You, according to the rules of kindness, and from favour and friendship,
made a representation relative to permission for Salt being sent in the Imaum’s
Ships—after some time the Honb’le the Governor was graciously pleased to
order, a letter to be written in Persian, which he signed and sent to my Master
Sied Sultaun in which is written, thqt oonformable to his wish, if ten thousand
Maunds of Salt is embarked on board of two of the Sircar’s Ships, and sent to
Bengal no person will prevent it ; when I received this letter, My Master
Seid Sultaun was absent with his own fleet, for the purpose of carrying on war
against the tribe Jewassims. I forwarded that Letter to Seid Sultaun, and
mentioned to him the permission which the Honb’le the Governor had grantedi
in compliance with your request, and stated to him that whatever orders I
received from him by those I should'act—I received an Order from my Master
Seid Sultaun to put on board of two of my Ships ten thousand Maunds
Bengal weight of salt, l'he names of which were Futta Ooomance and Futta
Endroossee— and in each- Ship lading five thousand Maunds to send them to

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