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Orders op thf. President and Governor and Council.
Bovibay Castle, 11th February 1775.
Public Department Diary No. 67—1775, pages 182—187.
Tho letters and papers relative to the present situation of affairs in the
Gulph of Persia and tho rise of the difference with Carem Caun, having
been pursued by all tho Members; the advices from the Agency since our last
general directions thither, are now read and considered, in order that we may
reply to them by tho vessels now proceeding thither, and the following resolu­
tions are taken and orders passed unanimously.
As the Drake will not take on board more than three Hundred Bales of a Teasel freighted
Woolens, and as owing to tho detention of Eagle and success at Bussorah by to carry Woollens
thither.
the Agent and Council unnecessarily as we continue to think it, we have at
present no other vessel that can bo sout on that service ; it is therefore agreed
that the remainder, being about 230 Bales (including 30 Bales of Drabs which
are to be sent) be freighted a board a good country Ship now bound to
Bussorah, the owner of which has offered to take them on the usual terms.
Since the rupture with the Maharattas; we have been in greatest distress Detention of the
for the Eagle and Success, which tho Agent and Council detain at Bussorah -™^Jpproved^of'&t"
without sufficient grounds. For so doing it is true they had some latitude for
the detention of the Eagle in case of absolute necessity is only however to be
found in their advices, but their detention of the sucoess is quite unwarrantable
as they have not the least authority for it.
Beside as the remains at Bussorah are no more (according to the Quick
8tock received by the Eevenge dated the 16th November last) than about
1,26,000 rupees. They ought to have considered that it could by no means
answer the Company to be at the charge and expenoe of keeping two Cruizers
in the Gulph constantly to defend it, whose services are so much required at
the Presidency.
However positive Orders must not be sent absolutely to return hither both Positive order to
those vessels, within ten days from tlie receipt of the letter now to be wrote return^ f°r their
them.
The bad terms we have been on with Carem Caun for some time past, The bad situation
which has always been assigned by the Agent and Council as their reason for Guff11 affai” tha
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keeping Cruizers in the Gulph, and the necessity we are nowunder for their a,cribe<1
services here, has again induced us to investigate the cause from whence these
differences arose with the Cause of their at present subsisting, and we are
therefrom the more confirmed in the opinion we gave in our letter of the 27th
of April 1769, namely, that the disagreeable situation of our affairs in the
Gulph was and still is, owing to the unaccountable antipathy which the Agent I
seems to have conceived against Carem Caun to which we may now add that
the Caun in oonsequence seems to have conceived a similar dislike to
Mr. Moore ; however the necessity of our affairs now requires that the troubles
in the Gulph should be brought to a conclusion, and though we can now no t A^d tbomea8nrot
longer expect the advantages from the Caun that he formerly offered to the retr'WTine them. r
Company, yet we still think that a peace may be easily accomplished, so that
our trade may no longer be exposed to insults from t(ie Bundereek or any other
Gallivats in the Gulph; The Agent and Council must therefore be directed :
seriously to set about this business, and we absolutely enjoin the Agent in
particular to lay aside all personal resentment whatever and when they consider