Letter 86 Branfill, Goddard & Co, Lisbon to Robert James acquainting the Court with the cirumstances of the Admiral Stevens arrival at Lisbon and Captain Griffin having appointed a different company to oversee its repairs
Letter 87 Consul William Kinloch, at Constantinople, to Robert James regarding the dispatch of the packet for Mr Wrench at Bussora [Basra] and the arrival of a packet for the Court from Aleppo
Scope & Content:
Includes duplicate copy of Consul Kinloch's letter of 1 July 1766. Letter No.17 received overland 18 August 1766.
Letter 88(2) George Clifford & Sons, Amsterdam to Robert James informing the Court of the price 150 chests of Bohea tea sold for at the Dutch Company's recent public sale
Letter 89 John Fremantle, Custom House, London to Robert James that the customs officers involved in the affair with Hasan Syrang and 50 Lascars had been restored to their employ and that further investigation had concluded the items had been removed from Chests and not from the Lascars persons
Letter 91 George Clifford & Sons, Amsterdam to Robert James inclosing the particulars of the Cargoes of two ships arrived at Copenhagen from China and reporting that 14 English ships, 5 Dutch, 4 French, 3 Swedish and 2 Danish ships would sail from there to Europe that season
Scope & Content:
ff. 214-215, particulars in German of the cargoes of the Die Koniginnen Sophia Magdalena and the Juliana Maria.
Account of the sufferings by fire of the inhabitants at Bridge-Town, Barbados and details of the relief fund opened by subscription for them
Scope & Content:
This letter has not been given a letter number in the volume, it sits between Letters 91 and 92. It is also not listed in the index at the back of the volume.
Letter 94 George Clifford & Sons, Amsterdam to Robert James inclosing particulars of the Cargoes of Ten Dutch East India Company Ships
Scope & Content:
ff. 223-224, particulars in French and Dutch of the cargoes of the Dutch East India Company Ships Vredenhoff, Noordbeveland, d'Pallas, Walenburg, Schoonzigt, Blydorp, Damzigt, Lymuyde, Blyswyk and Schagen.