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CLXVI.
Agent and Council at Basrah to the President and Governor, etc., Council at Bombay.
Hon’blk Sir. and Sirs—
The duplicate of the last address from this Factory to your Honor &o.,
under date the 31st January by the Tartar is enclosed, as also. copies of our
several letters to the llon’ble Company by the way of Aloppo, dated the
8th February, 23rd March and 9th instant and which accompanyed your several
letters by the Solebay, Defiance and Eagle—Your commands of the 23rd Septem­
ber and 23rd November were received the 4th February, by the Solebay, those
of the 15th January by the Dcfiiancc were received the 15th March, by the
Salamander from Bushire and those of the 11th February by the Eagle the
31st ultimo.
Detention or certain In compliance with your Honor &o., commands both of the 15th January
Kbaii'wouit/inaiat and 11th February we now return you the Eagle, with the wounded and invalids
h?m againit^Mecr as list enclosed having distributed her detachment on board the Bombay
Mohan a.
Grab and other vessels stationed at the Ha liar, and as the sending up the Suk
from the Haffar hither is attended with numberless inconveniences, besides a
very considerable expense to the Hon’blc Company, our Surgeon also
representing that there is no absolute necessity for a Surgeon’s proceeding on the
Eagle on account of the invalids now returned — IVc have ordered Mr. Birch
the Surgeon of the Eagle, on board the Grab, and doubt not but the same will
prove agrcablc to your Honor, &c.
Mission of Persian We arc concerned that from the present situation of affairs it is not in our
Ambassador A easy
Kbsn to the Kaab. power to return the Defiance to Bombay as recommended to us, circumstances
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failure. having obliged us tho with reluctance of making the application pointed
out by your Honor &c., to Carim Caun and who by all advices we can get will
insist on our giving him assistance against Mcer Mahunnu in such case little
or nothing could be done without the Defiance and Salamander Bomb,—In
our instructions to Mr. Skipp he is enjoined if possible to avoid touching upon
this subject, but of this we can have little hopes, if any faith can be put in the
report of Thomas Chouse who returned from Schiras in the time of the late
Agent, he was sent thither by the Bashaw previous to the Salam Agasy, aud
his reports are much the same with the advices received from Bushire, in
consequence of the Salam Agasy’s Embassy to the Persian Court, was that on
Mie 13th ultimo be returned hither having first been at Bagdat to make known
his proceedings to tl»c Bashaw in Company with Agasy Caun in quality of
Embassador from Carim Caun to us and the Cliaub ; on the next day Messieurs
Lvstcr and Skipp waited on the Musalecm at the Scrvy ; to know the purport
of the Embassador’s Commissions, who being present, declared Carim Caun had
sent him to require of the Cliaub to deliver up all such property as he had
taken from us, for which purpose he should immediately send a person to
demand the same, which should he not immediately comply with, it would
plainly prove he had no intentions of being subject to either power, and that
when the Caun was advised thereof, lie would take proper measures with him,
he tether informed us the Caun had directed him tc declare to us, that he
himself would be answerable for the whole of the losses wc had sustained by
the Cbaub aud requested that in case the Chaub did not comply with his
demands, that the accounts might be delivered him and a Gentleman sent to
tho Cauu; he was answered that the English were highly sensible of the Cauu’a