Letter from John McKenley, to James Morley, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter explains that the vessels currently anchored in the shelter of the Bushire bay were brought there due to high winds and insufficient sails. The author also predicts that the coming two months are going to bring unsettled weather.
Copy of the General Orders of the President and Council of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies [East India Company], in Bombay
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This document comprises of several paragraphs copied from other letters and papers, covering several miscellaneous subjects. The beginning of the original document is not present, thus this one begins mid-sentence. It can be confidently assumed that this was part of the general orders and Compan...
Letter from Samuel Manesty, East India Company Resident at Bussora [Basra], to Edward Galley, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter contains the news that some of the Turkish officers that were ousted by the Muntafiq tribe's seizure of Basra are being shipped to either Bushire or Muscat. Directions are given to treat them well.
Letter from Rawson Hart Boddam, Andrew Ramsay, and Robert Sparks, at Bombay Castle, Publick [Public] Department, to Charles Watkins, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter gives notice that instructions will soon come from Bussora regarding plant specimens needed for a new botanical garden at Bengal. An extract of a Company command, dated 7 April 1768, is included. It is an order for all Company settlements to give details of all exports from their res...
Letter from Samuel Manesty and Harford Jones, at Bussora [Basra], to Charles Watkins, Resident at Bushire
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The letter discusses a number of subjects: the availability and price of Carmenia [Kirmān] wool at Basra and Bushire; there is mention of peace between the British and the French [the Eden Treaty?] a request for passage to Bombay for Colonel James Hartley, travelling from England, to be secured;...
Letter from Samuel Manesty and Harford Jones, at the East India Company Residency in Bussora [Basra], to Charles Watkins, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter discusses the conduct of Sheikh Nasir [Nāsir], specifically his demand that the English pay customs duties at Bushire. The bulk of the letter consists of extracts from a letter from Manesty to the Political Department of the Bombay Presidency, undated. They discuss the need to negoti...
Letter from Samuel Manesty and Harford Jones, at the East India Company Residency in Bussora [Basra], to Charles Watkins, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter relates to the relationship between the East India Company and Sheikh Nāsir of Bushire. The letter discusses the Sheikh's recent conduct and contains translations of a letter exchange between him and Samuel Manesty. The first translation is from Sheikh Nāsir to Samuel Manesty and is ...
Letter from Samuel Manesty and Harford Jones, at Bussora [Basra], to Charles Watkins, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter is a request for the delay in forwarding a letter from the Bombay Presidency to Jaafer Khan [Ja‘far Khan Zand] until the former receives a letter from Basra on the subject. The reasons will be given in time.
Letter from Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushere [Bushire], to William Andrew Price, East India Company Agent at Bussorah [Basra]
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The letter gives details of recent purchases of Carmenia [Kirmān] wool, discusses the current state of trade in Bushire, and makes a request for scarlet perpets.