Letter from Stephen Babington, Deputy Secretary to the Government, Bombay, to Lieutenant William Bruce, Acting Resident, Bushire
Scope & Content:
Letter concerns Bruce's letter of 8 December 1811, which gave his reasons for not sending English translations with the Persian receipts for guns delivered to the Governor of Bushire.
Letter from Stephen Babington, Deputy Secretary to the Government, Bombay, to Lieutenant William Bruce, Acting Resident, Bushire
Scope & Content:
Letter states that the Governor in Council approves of Lieutenant Robert Taylor being placed in temporary charge of the Bushire Residency during Bruce's absence.
Letter from Stephen Babington, Deputy Secretary to the Government, Bombay, to Lieutenant William Bruce, Acting Resident, Bushire
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Letter discusses the Government's policy towards pirates in the Gulf. It states that all pirate vessels should be regarded as enemies of the fair traders, and should therefore be attacked and destroyed by the East India Company's cruisers. Babington adds that this includes those classes of pirate...
Letter from Robert McIntosh, Acting Commissary of Stores, Bombay, to Lieutenant Robert Taylor, British Resident at Bushire
Scope & Content:
Letter states that 150,000 musket flints, packed in eight chests, have been consigned to Bushire for transmission to the Ambassador at the Court of Persia.
Letter from Stephen Babington, Deputy Secretary to the Government, Bombay, to Lieutenant William Bruce, Acting Resident, Bushire
Scope & Content:
Letter encloses a duplicate receipt, from the Commander of the Benares, regarding eight chests containing 150,000 musket flints. Babington instructs Bruce to report the chests' arrival to His Excellency Sir Gore Ouseley, who will give orders as to how the consignment is to be forwarded to Tabriz....