Letter from Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushere [Bushire], to Peter Elwin Wrench, East India Company Agent at Bussora [Basra]
Scope & Content:
The letter questions a couple of rumours from various sources. The first that Sheikh Soliman of the Ka‘b tribe has taken an English sloop and Captain Phillips of the Sally. The second that a fleet of Company ships has arrived at Muscat with the mission of retrieving the lost treasure of the Isla...
Letter from Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushere [Bushire], to Charles Crommelin, President and Governor at Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter is a follow up to the previous one of the 20 July 1765 [IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 74v-75] and contains the news that Carem Khaun [Karim Khan] is heading to Schirass for the summer, and the unconfirmed reports that the Sally has been taken by the Chaub [Banu Ka‘b] and a fleet of Company ships h...
Letter from Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushere [Bushire], to Peter Elwin Wrench, East India Company Agent at Bussora [Basra]
Scope & Content:
The letter discusses the confirmed report that the Sally has been taken by the Chaub [Banu Ka‘b] and new reports that the Fort William has been taken too. Whether to take action is discussed, as well as what ships are available for this purpose.
Letter from Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushere [Bushire], to the Commander in Chief of the Honourable Company's Cruizers in the Gulph of Persia [Persian Gulf]
Scope & Content:
The letter is an order to proceed to Bussora [Basra] to take revenge for the recent loss of the Sally and the Fort William to the Banu Ka‘b.
Letter from Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushere [Bushire], to Peter Elwin Wrench, East India Company Agent at Basra
Scope & Content:
The letter is an explanation that the tin sent to Bussora [Basra] was all weighed and correct when it left Bushire, and suggests that any missing might have been stolen when landed.