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CLXXXIV.
Bombay Castle, 24tii April 1709.
Public Departraent.Diary No. 53-1769.

At a Consultation present.
The Honorable Thomas Hodges Esquire, President and Govcrs.
• • • • James Ryley. Dawson Hart.

Boddani Benjamin Jervis.

* Nathaniel Stackhouse.
Brioe Fletoher.
The Wo. William Domby Esquire, Indiposed and Thomas Mostyn at the
Hot Wells.
Read and approved ours last consultation of the il6t instant.
Proceeding* of Met purposely to take into consideration the several Advices from the
OounuUondtmned. Agent and Council at Bussorah not hitherto replied to, the whole of which are
now read and the following Remarks made and Reduction taken thereon.
Their letters of the 20th December 1767, 8th March, and 21st April 1768
seem from beginning to end to be an attempt to indicate measures, which We
had before disapproved, and which We still continue to disapprove notwithstand­
ing the further Reasons the Agent has thought proper to assign in vindication
of them.
Withdrawal of Heat The whole of their letters are filled with accounts of the negotiations with
baaed on wrong
aa»omption. Carom Caun whose Troops the Agent and Council seem to have set it down for
certain would not maroh, and in oonsequence of this opinion, which has since
appeared to be without foundation, returned the vessels, and best part of our
force to India, a step we have long ago disapproved, and the event has verified
the justness of our opinion for the Caun’s Troops did actually march from
Schyrash, and arrived at Genova a very few days after the vessels sailed for
India, but oven the march of the troops the Agent and Council seem to think
was merely calculated to amuse. We are at a loss to conceive what reason they
can have for such an idle supposition, for is it reasonable to imagine the Caun
would be at the trouble, and expenoe of marching so large a body of Troops
to such a distance merely with a view to deceive, especially if he is the avari-
tious man they represent him to be when the troops did oome down ? It seems
very extraordinary indeed that the Agent and Council did not send the remain­
J
( ing vessels to assist in transporting them to Carrack. Their reasons for which
are by no means satisfactory, for tho. we should have been extremely glad had
they succeeded in their demand of having fifteen thousand Rupees (16,000)
Tomaunds paid at Bussorah, yet at all events, whether we succeeded in procur­
ing favorable terms from the Caun or not, it would certainly then have been for
our Hon’ble Masters’ interest to have had Meor Mahana destroyed, who in
oonsequence of the attack upon Carrack was become our avowed and inveterate
enemy.
Mr. Skipp in his letter of the 28th August from Sohyrash particularly
mentions the terms offered by the Caun, which the Caun in a letter from