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Hon'blo Company's Hospitals iu India, will as has been beforemeulioned reap considerable
Advantage, tho Hou’blc Company, will be enabled to export annually larger quantities both
of tho Manufactures and Natural Productions of Great Britain, than they do at present, aud
it may reasonably bo supposed, now tho Passage from India to Europe is reduced, to a
certainly, that they will bo ablo to send many Articles, the produce of Persia to tho different
markets in Europo nt a much cheaper rato, than thay can be brought there from auy other
quarter.
Withaviow of promoting a Schemo, apparently so beneficial in its conscquonces
tho Framers of this report, bog leave to submit to tho consideration of the British Govern--
mont in India, tho means which in their opinion sooin best calculated, to promote tho
success both of it, and of the wishes, which the Hon'blo Company have expressed, to receive
an annual Supply of Carmeuia Wool,
It is presumed, that tho first step necessary to bo taken, for this Purpose is for the British
Government at Bombay, to order one of the civil Servants upon that Establishment to proceed
into persia, without Loss of Time ; and to give him Instructions to pooetrato into the
different Provinces of the Empire, as far as the situation of Affairs will admit, to inform
himself as minutely as possiblo of *the natural Productions of each Province, of the special o£
our Manufa:tures of which it may stand most in Need, of tho probable annual Amount
of the consumption of the same, and of the present state of its Government. By these means
the Iudeuts which it will bo necessary to transmit to Europe, will bo framed with a great
degree of Precision ; o >rrcspoudencies will be formed with the different principal Merchants at
each place, the necessary forms will be adjusted with Government, and the Gentlemen to
whose care, the Management of tho Ilon'ble Company's Affairs in Persia, may bo eutiusted will
be furnished, with authentic Materials for the conduct and measures, which it may be necessary
for them to perauo. A commission of this nature, or of Jone similar to it, if performed with
Fidelity, and Accurateness, will provo a Task of no small difficulty ; and it will bo indispen­
sably necessary in case the sentiments thereon above expressed, are meant to be carried into
Execution, that the Person, so sent, to a competent knowledgo of the Persian Language should
also join a knowledge of the Manners, and Customs of tho People, with whom in the course
of his commission, he may have to negotiate, or of whom he may be obliged to se<-k for
information. With every possible Advantage ou his side, it is conceived from Experiencc.that
he must, and will, have greater reason to solicit the indulgent reception of tho fruits of his
Enquiries, than to hope that they will produce him any addition of Famo,
Another measure, wieh appears to the framers of this report, to be a necessary one
and which they accordingly with respect reoommend to be adopted by”the British Govern­
ment at Bombay is an alteration in tho present Establishment of tho subordinate of Bushire.
The Framers of this report conceive that not only in respect to the Prosecution of tho Plan
aforementioned, but in respect to the general commerical Interests of the Hon'ble Company
in Persia, it would bo adviseable to give the Title of tho Hon'blo Company's, ** Resident in
Persia " with au Authority to reside occasionally as he may judge most proper either at
Scherauze or Bushire, to the Gentleman to whom the Management of their Affairs in that
Country may be entrusted, and also to encrease the Establishment of covenanted Servaut
in Persia, by appointing to the Assistance of the Resident a Writer, always to remain
at Bushire; and a Surgeon will skilled in the qualities of medicinal Drugs, for the purpose
of inspecting those which the Resident may wish to procure on account of tho Hon'ble
Company. On its present Establishment, the Hon'ble Company in the opinion of the
framers of this report, do not derive any, or if any, very little advantage from the Factory
at Bushire. On the plan abovementioned, although the Expenses of the Establishment must
neoessarily be encrea6ed, there is a great Probability that the Hon'ble Company will receive
advantages more than adequate thdteto. The late and present Government at Scherauze, was
and is according to the firmauns received by the Resident at Bussora, very anxious for the ex­
tension of British commerce in Persia. In the year 1787 when Mr. Jones visited Scherauze
for the benefit of his Health, Jaafcr Khan repeatedly, in the several Audiences to which that
Gentleman was admitted, expressed his desire of seeing Europeans settled at Scherauze; and if
the Matter has not been misrepresented he was at the time of hie Assassination on tho point, of
causing Application to be made at Bombay, for an alteration of tho Establishment of tho
Factory at Bushire. A firmaun from Lutf Ally Khan, the present Ruler at Scherauze, to the

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