Minutes of a Court of Directors meeting. Announces appointment of Baldwin as Consul General in Egypt and orders Committee of Correspondence to decide whether or not to use Baldwin as packet agent.
Minutes of a Committee of Correspondence meeting. Decision to attempt reopening of Suez communications and to use Baldwin as Company packet agent in Cairo.
Letter from George Baldwin to the Court of Directors. Proposals and estimated costs of establishing a communications route through Egypt. Dated Piccadilly, 25 May 1786. Read in Court
Extract of a letter from George Joseph Brandi to Sir Robert Ainslie. Encloses copy of the French commercial treaty with the Egyptian Beys. Dated Alexandria
Copy of letter from George Baldwin to Court of Directors. Reports on Capitan Pasha's campaign against the rebel Beys in Upper Egypt and difficulty in establishing Suez route. Dated Alexandria. (Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha, Turkish High Admiral. 1774-1789, and later Grand Wazir.)