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next month; nor oven then could she ho expected to arrive there from the
earliness of the Season before one dispatched hence the beginning of November.

(8d) THOMAS AND HODGES.
(„) P. E. WRENCH.
(„) D. DRAPER.
(„) JAMES RYLEY.
(„) K. H. BODDAM.
(„) B. JERVIS.
( „) THO. MOSTYN.
(„) NATH. STACKHOUSE.

CLXIX.
To—Tho Hon’blc the Court of Directors for affairs of the United Company of
Merchants of England trading to the East Indies.
Honblb Gentlemen
utter from Ageut 1. The duplicate of our last advices dated the 12th and I3th September,
Bimh.0UDCI 1,1 with duplicate extracts from our Diary and Consultations to that time, are
inclosed—we inclose also the continuation of those extracts brought down to
tenD’’ the present date, and shall now lay before you the reasons for this despatch.
2. Under the 30th of last month we received by the rout of Bushirc two
letters from Mr. Skipp adviseing us thatCarim Caun had at length consented to
the paying us the demand we made on him of fivo lacks of Rupees, and that
it should be delivered to whomsoever, we might appoint to receive it; as soon as
we informed him thnt our squadron was ready to proceed against Mecr
Mahanna of Carrack—'1 he Caun has withdrawn also his protection from the
Chaub, and gives us free liberty to attack him (but anassisted by the Turks)
at any time or any place that we may think proper to attack him in the grand
point however, which is the delivery up of the Uhaub’s Gallivats’, and which
we must even think a point of the greatest consequence still remains uncon­
quered however, as the Caun by the most solemn written engagement is willing
to be responsible for their inactivity—nay even assures us of his detestation
of the Chaub and r.liat the Gallivats shall still bo ours, though his present
connection witli the uhaub will not in honor admit of their being immediately
so and promises to repay us not only ten fold in case they ever again molest
but also to destroy the Chaub, and all his possessions if they should, we have
thought it for your Honors interests, so far to temporize with the Caun, as to
give him reason to expect though not by direct promise, that he should shortly
receive the assistance he requires of us : that is, if the Governor and Council at
Bombay approve of our giveing it to him
3. The matter of consideration with us has been, whether the delivery up
of the Chaub’s Gallivats was an article still to be insisted on, or whether we
had not better relax somewhat of our demands, than commence the hostilities
we intended.
Moore’* ■Negation 4. From the .whole tenor of the Caun’s proceedings ever since we have been
againat Karim
Kbao. in negotiation with him, ho has shewn himself a character in regard to us, by far
too wavering and capricious to have the least reliance on his promisscs in case
wo would assist him against Mecr Mahanna, seem to us as already observed to
be unbounded, to be realy valuable : and though we have on tho Caun’s term
renounced that article of our demands which insisted upon tho delivery up of the