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heir upon proper Terms and when we take the Persia Affairs into consideration
we shall givo such instructions to the Agent and Council at Bussorah as may
be judged suitable on the occasion.
Tho* the Agent and Council has been pleased to represent Bussorah as thelonSport
only Proper Market in the Gulph for woolens (which wc hope has not pro-®n Baarah or
cocdcd from self-interested motives) yet wo have reason to believe from what Bush,rofo]raseDoy*
wc experienced at Bushire before the trouble between the Caun and 8haiks of
that Place that a much larger quantity of Woolens may be sold and to greatcr
advantage in Porsia and consequently that if the agency was removed to
Buehiro and Bussorah made a Residency as formerly it would be more for our
Hon’ble Mastors interest but in order to be enabled to give our Hon’ble Masters
the best information in our Power on this subject, it is agroed to appoint a
committee of Messrs. Wrench Jervis and Martyn to collect and point out to ug
the advantages and Disadvantages of each as well from their own Knowledg­
es from any information they may be able to obtain from Individuals report­
ing the same to us as soon as possible.

CLXXXVI.
Bombvy Castle, 5th November 1769.
Public Department, Diary No. 54 of 1769,
Wednesday 8.—Imported the Admiral Watson from Bussorah with a letter Buaaoreh. Letur
from the Agent and Council and one from Mr. Robert Garden, The former from.
bore date the 25,h September, acquainting us that they dispatched to us this Karim Khan
ship that by the last intelligence they had from Bushire Carem| Caun had exJfditUjn^ainst
ordered his fleet to be got ready to proceed down the Gulph to act offensively ^^'{ot
against the Muscatters as the Imuum had refused his consent to some demands Coffee Fleet,
made on him by the Caun but that, however, the tranquility of the Gulph
might be interrupted by this rupture they should not interfere not only because
our orders were positive against commencing hostilities against the Caun but I
that it would impede their plan of drawing the Trade of Persia to Bussorah
and that however, they might wish the safe arrival of the Muscat Coffee Fleet
both on account of the Benefit which the Hon’ble Company received from the
Government Customs on the Coffee and the desire they had of obliging the
Bussorah merchants together with the friendship which subsisted betwixt us
and the Muscatters, Yet they did not think these considerations of sufficient
weight to hazard a rupture with the Caun they should not therefore order a
Convoy to bring up the above Fleet more especially as they apprehended the
Imaums own vessels would be sufficient to proteot it even if the Caun’s Fleet
were joined by that of the Chaub as it was imagined it would be that in case
the Coffee Fleet could not procure a Convoy from the Imaum it was probable
they would then wait at Muscat until the arrival there of the Drake or any
other of our cruizers from the hope of a Convoy from them, they therefore
stated the following question— Whether our cruizers were to give Convoy and
protection to the Ships and Vessels of any Power whatever if at variance with
the Caun unless suoh Ships and Vessels were furnished with English Passes and
Colours and how far the furnishing such ships and vessels with suoh passes