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CLXXIV.
Tho Prosidont and Govornor and Counoil to tho Right W° Henry Moore, Esq”.,
Agont for affairs of the British Nation in the Gulph of Persia, etca.,
Counoil at Bu8sorn.
Gentlemen,
We wrote you under the 11th ultimo by a country vessel bound to your
Deipaloh of a fore*
to redaoe Krruk. place; and transmitted a duplicate of our letter by the Tyger Schooner under
tho 17th November, in which wo owned recoipt of your soveral letters
to that time which wo shall now fully reply to giving you our sentiments
and directions on affairs under your management which you are strictly
to adhere to.
2. In our abovcmentioned letters, you were advised of our intentions to send
the Tartar Snow into tho Gulph, but she proving leaky wo have been obliged
to substitute the Eagle in her stead and the Wolf Ganivat arriving here the
20lb ultimo with tho melancholy account of the Defiance having been by some
unhappy accident blown up near Loft we have deemed it absolutely necossary
to enable you to comply with tho agreements we have ordered you to enter
into with the Caun to determine on sending the Revenge to replace her; that
ship is accordingly now getting ready, and will sail in a few days with theEssue,
a country ship we have freighted to assist in carrying the men and stores
intended you, for the particulars of which we must refer you to the inclosed
accounts, and such others as may hereafter be transmitted you, only here
remarking that the men are intended to compleat the number originally sent
into the Gulph, allowing for those lost on the Defiance, with a further reinforce­
ment of Artillery, and the stores are as nearly conformable to your Indents, as
our own Btook of tho several Articles would admit of our sparing; Captain
Lawrence Nilson will proceed on the Revenge to take upon him the command
of the land, and Captain Elphinstone will of course (in case of Captain Price
being lost in the Defiance) succeed to that of the Marine force, and we doubt
not but by your prudent management, and their united efforts, we shall at
last succeed in the accomplishment of our wishes in the Gulph.
3. The Eagle and Sucoess Snow Fancy Bomb Ketch and the Wolf Ganivat
are now dispatched with part of the men and stores and the Revenge and
Essue, will as above noticed go now in a few days. The Wolf is ordered to
make the best of her way from Muscat with a short letter advising you of the
particular force sent, that you may lodge such orders as you may judge proper
at Bushire, where the vessels are ordered to wait untill directions are received
from you, and whioh, should it not be before done, you will take care to
dispatch without a moments loss of time.

8. It affords us very great satisfaction to perceive you have recovered
Haji E*uf» debt.
part of Hod gee Esooph’s Debt, and we shall rely on your exerting your utmost
endeavours for securing the remainder by every suitable means in your power,
and prevent the Government running in arrears either in the payment of this
money or the sum stipulated for defraying the expences of the fleet in whioh
we shall expect you will attend to obtaining an increase in proportion to the
additional force which may be 6ent more than what was with you when that
sum was fixed.
9. The resolution taken and orders given by you to the Factors at Bushire
in oonsequence of Mr Shiepp’s first letters for committing hostilities against