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Experiment, and Grab, induoe us to think wo must hear from you; wo have
long despaired of every assistance from the Caun and sorry indeed should wo
be if your Honour, &ci, have doponded on any; whatever Conveyance may
have been sent with your orders, or whatever may be sent with them, we hope
the Conveyance is a rospcctablo one, or the Meor’s Galivats wo fear may
interrupt hort wo havo lodged a letter at Muscat to inform all the Commanders
coming up the Qulph, of the risque thoy are to run from the Mcer’s Galivats.
7. Wo have not received any letters from our Hon’blo Employers since
our last to your Honour, &ci except it be a triplicate of their commands of
the 2ni March ; forwarded from Sleppo the 9th September, and received here
the 18J!,1 instant.
8. The Eagle, Fancy and Dolphin now give convoy to the Nancy as far as
Bushire, from whence she will be convoyed untill Captain Farmer thinks there
is no further resquo from the Meor’s Galivats; if tho Galivats aro not at
Carrack, of course the Couvoy will proceed beyond Verdistan.
9. No money has as yet been paid in on account the Government’s or our
own Customs for the sales of the Bengal Barconnah, or the Nancy’s Mocha
Coffee, Cargoe; a great part of tho former however wo hear aro sold, and the
whole of the latter; shortly wo therefore doubt not of receiving their respeotivo
amounts, and we flattor ourselves also with some share of the Governments
Customs on tho Muscat Coffee fleet now here.
10. The alotment of our business and causes for its backwardness aro now
submitted to your Honour, &o.i ’s, consideration, in our Diaiy under the 2Qt.!1
instant, we .will do all we can to bring it up, but health in this inclement season
is too precarious to fix any particular period for it.
11. Inclosed we forward the necessary accounts of our Settlement, and
our Quick Stock to the day : as before observed, Mr. Skipp’s Account Current
with the Hon’ble Company is also enclosed.
12. Wo once more hope your Honour, &o*, will forgive us for not being
more particular in this letter; but had we health and time (as we transmit our
Diary) it would in our opinions be needless—in that light we flatter ourselves
your Honour, &c!L, will consider it.
13; As we think it of importance our Hon’ble Employers being acquainted
with the tenor of our last letter to them of the 24th instant;' we despatch a
duplicate of it in a few days, accompanied by its several relatives.
Where with respeot,
H’NBLE SIR & SIRS,
Your obedient humble servants.
Bussora. ;
The 30th October 1786.
CLXXXI.
James Morley, Resident at Bushire, to the Presidency.
Honourable Sir and Sirs,
I now despatch this letter to Congoon to be forwarded from thence to your
honour and by the way of Muscat, in order to advice you of a revolution which
has lately happened on Carrack of my proceedings in consequence thereof. Freight of Meer
The Meer having confined one Durbass, a person of the greatest note in his Mohan* from
Karrak.
service, and treated him with’ the utmost severity for 6ome trivial offence, the
heads of the most considerable tribes of Arabs on the Island wore so much
alarmed at this proceeding as to apprehend themselves in a very dangerous

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