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therefore hope for Your Excellency’s immediate order for that purpose. The
Governor of Bombay directed mo to salute your Excellency on his part on ray
arrival, and to assure you he lias great pleasure in sending you the two vessels
already mentioned with wishes therefore for your Excellencys* health and proa-
perity, I subscribe myself respoofully.

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The Pashas' reply, dated the 15th February 1774.
A»k« agency to I have received the letter you wrote me and am very glad to hear of your
S^.?MdDf^«oh-<' arrival at Bussora ; your anxiety for my health is very pleasing to me, believe
▼oy for Maakat me I am equally anxious for your’s on account the gfoat hurry we are in
coflip# fleet. Cararan
to go from Baghdad, J cannot send you my usual mark of favour upon your arrival, hut I will do
it by some other opportunity. I am muoh obliged, and thank you much, for
the two vessels that you have brought me from Bombay; for the proper
management of these vessels I must depend on you, aud my Mussaleem, and
to employ them in suoh manner as you may think best for my interest, by
which means I hope the river will be kept clear, in order that the Country may
benefit. The permission that I gave you in April last, for the Caravan to
depart from Bussora to Alepho, was on account of the sickness that raged
at that timo, aud because I thought it would be good for the Merchants, but
we are again all in good health owing to the providence of God, and many
merchants are now here ready to purchase goods, I think that for the good of
my Country, the Caravan must now be despatched directly to Aleppo, from
heuce—if you have therefore prepared a Caravan, I beg of you to put as stop to
*t that the goods may go this way.
‘*1 beg of you to consider on some proper method of getting up to Bussora,
he goods brought to Muscat by the Benishroff and Alasoor fleetB, as it will
conduce much to the good of trade in my Country.

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Mr. Moore's letter to tlje Pasha, dated the 20th February 17 74.
Threatened attack I have been honored with your Excellency’s letter by the return of our
•( Baarah by the
Perslana. Mussuleem Soleman Aga*s chooadar, and am very much pleased to find that I
still possess your friendship and good opinion, you may be assured I will
always endeavour to cultivate these, and to render mysnlf aud Countrymen
agreeable to you and your Government; Your Excellency will act regarding
the Caravan for Aleppo in such manner as seemefch best unto you, what I wrote
you on the subject was what I thought for the good of your Country, and for
the commerce of this place in particular, as your Exoellency however thinks
it more for your interest that the Caravan should proceed from Bagdat, and
not from Bussora, I presume to urge nothing further on the subject; Regard­
ing the two Turkish vessels, it is not in my power to man them properly at
present agreeable to your Mussaleem’s request to me when I wrote for them,
they had only just stores and Lascars enough in them to bring them to
Bussora ; I wrote, however, yesterday to Bombay on the subject, when I
receive the orders of my Superiors regarding it, Your Excellency shall he
immediately acquainted therewith, in a day or two however I will speak to
your Mus8aleem regarding this matter I suppose your Mussaleem ttOlO