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forward for your Notice Copies of ono I havo just received from him, of the 1st
of Rcbby essany togotlior with my answer of this date, and the ono to the
Imoum of Muscat therein reforrod to undor date tho 28th of January last,
together with the Imauin’s Roply thereto on which I desiro to havo your
sentiments how far you understand tho sentiments therein expressed to bo
conformable to your senso of the Letter and Spirit of the Cowlnama or
Convention you concluded with the Imaum—you will also write whether you
clearly explained to tho Imaum or to Shaikh Seif that tho Salt shipped by tho
Imaum was to bo accompanied by a Letter or Certificate from our Broker at
Muscat to ascertain it’s being that Prince’s own Property as from the answers
now received from them—and particularly tho ono from Shaikh Seif it seems
inferriblo that they considered the Imaum’s own writing to be a sufficient
attestation in that respeot—as appears more particularly from the P. S. to
Shaikh Seif’s Letter wherefore it becomes tho more necessary that you should
advise whether, and if so, in what manner tho Condition in question as to the
English Vakeel’s Letter boing necossary was clearly notifiod to the Imaum and
Sheikh Seif or either of them, according to the intimation to this Effect in your
Letter of the 4th of December 1798.
The Bill mentioned in your Letter of tho 2nd August was transmitted to
Bengal on the 6th of that Month, to which no answer has yet been received ;
but there is no doubt it has been duly accepted,
The Exertions you made on the supposition of the arrival of a Erench Ship
of war in your neighbourhood, were very commendable, as has been your
general oonduot as Resident throughout and if you can now advantegeously
dispose of the largo quantity of Woolens which tho Hon’ble Company have
in Confidence they have placed in your assurances, Eent out this year for your
factory to a much larger amount than for many years before (as per Invoice
thoreof already forwarded) your Commercial Credit with them will be as
fully established as has already been your political Dexterity : I depend there­
fore in this respect on your most cordial Exertions.
Dated_29th September 1800.

CCXCV.
To
The Most Noble Maeqcis Wellesley, Governor General.
Fort William.
Mr Loan,
I had last the honor of addressing your Lordship under date the 12th
Reporting about
«dew!StPerf?*clDd* ^roni Teheraun, stating my having succeeded in concluding two
Treaties, one of a political and the other of a Commercial nature, and of in­
forming your Lordship at the same time of my resolution to' march imme­
diately for Baghdaud a resolution not only in conformity to what I had before
expressed, but which was the only mode I had left of bringing to a speedy
conclusion a negotiation that became every moment more difficult, and which
would, if I had consented to remain at Court, have been (from the easy dis­
position of the King, and the intriguing spirit of his ministers) probably pro­
tracted to a remote period, if not altogether_defeated.
2$4. As I did not receive the original Treaties till a few hours before I
left Teheran, it was impossible for one to transmit Copies of them to Your
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