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us perfect satisfaction in his negociations at Schurasb, and in every respect
since he has been in the service, it is unanimously agreed to take off his sus­
pension and restore him to his standing but he must bo required to make good
the difference on the price of the Shalloons and tho amount of Mr. Lyster’s
debt to the ware-house, which as warehouse-keeper ho becomes accountable for.
Tho Petition from tho American and other merchants at Bussorah complain­
k ing of their not being furnished with an annual freight ship from Surat and
other Hardships in respect to their trade from thence being now taken into con­
sideration, the President declares that part which relates to him is an absolute
;
Falsity as he never gave orders to, or ever wrote a syllable to Mr. Prico on the
I subject as tho merchants allcdgc that, gcntloman informed their constituents
and in regard to what they alledge against Mr. Price, he must be called upon
to reply to it, when proper measures will be taken to prevent all complaints of
this kind in future by making some necessary Regulations in respect to Freight
ships in general. We caunot however close this subject without remaking our
surprize at the Agent and Council having referred the above Petition imme­
diately to our Hou’blc Masters, as translations of this nature ought to be
submitted to us as their immediate superiors and through us to the Hon’ble
Company. Acting otherwise is directly contrary to their and our Orders, and
the General Rules prescribed for Advices to Europe.

CLXXXV.
Consultation of the President and Governor, etc., in Council.
Bombay Castle, $l*1 October 1769.
Public Department Diary No. 54 of 1769.
_ . . . , We feel an equal concern with our Hon’blc Masters for the distressed and
to Karim Khaa disgraceful situation of affairs in the Gulph of Persia which is not a little
reeeubliibmeot of aggravated by their ascribing it to our having been deceived by Mr. Skipp into
faotorj at Bwhire. M con£dcncc in Carem Caun which they allcdgc has been the source of all the
errors in these affairs. Our minutes in Consultation the 24th April last and our
letter to Bussorah in consequence fully point out the reasons to which in our
opinions the whole of our misfortunes in the Gulph are really to be ascribed and
notwithstanding that letter is entered at length in our outward Letter Book that
will be transmitted home by the ships now under Dispatch yet as we find by
the Bussorah General Letter to the Hon’ble Company under the 16th July, the
Agent and Council did not communicate to them the Purport of that letter
with that precision and impartial exactness as we directed or they ought Ordered
than an attested copy of that Letter be now transmitted as a Paper apart in each
of the Ships Packets now under dispatch which we flatter ourselves will induce
them to alter their opiuion on this subject.
Notwithstanding the Hon’ble Company in the 69lh Paragraph of their
Commands of the 31st March seem to recommend the withdrawing from
Bushire, yet as in the sequel they strongly urge the Importance of procuring
Ghilar Raw Silk which can be provklcd.nowhere so well as at that place wc think
it will be proper to send a gentleman again to Carem Caun to endeavour to settle