Letter from James Farish, Secretary to the Government, Military Department, Bombay to Captain William Bruce, Resident at Bushire
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The letter is informing the Resident that the Governor of Bombay has authorized a grant for Captain Litchfield, 2nd Regiment of Light Cavalry, for the purchase of horses.
Letter from James Henderson, Secretary to the Government, Political Department, Bombay to Captain William Bruce, Resident at Bushire
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The letter is acknowledging the receipt of a communication from the Resident, dated 22 June 1819, regarding the boat recently captured by HM Sloop Curlew. In response to a claim being made by Shaikh Mohumed ben Qunzsab, Governor of Singuah, it is stated that the Government requires additional inf...
Letter to William Bruce, British Resident at Bushire
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The letter is informing the Resident that Captain Henry Lindsay of the Madras Artillery has entered into an agreement to supply the Madras Government with 300 horses. The Resident is instructed to provide assistance to facilitate their successful transportation to Bombay.
Letter from Captain Robert Taylor, Assistant in Charge at Bussora [Basra] to William Bruce, Resident at Bushire
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The letter is informing the Resident that a box packet for the Governor of Bombay is being conveyed to Bushire by the HC Cruizer Psyche. It requests that the Resident finds some other eligible, but speedy means of forwarding the packet to Bombay; it is explained that Mr Taylor would like the Psy...
Letter from a Secretary to the Government, Military Department, Bombay to Captain William Bruce, Resident at Bushire
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The letter is acknowledging the receipt of a communication from the Resident, dated 22 July 1819, which informed the Bombay Government of the death of Assistant Surgeon Dabzell.
Letter from James Henderson, Secretary to the Government, Political Department, Bombay to Captain William Bruce, Resident at Bushire
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The letter is acknowledging the receipt of communications from the Resident, dated 26 July and 4 August 1819, which concerned the Lingua [Bandar-e-Lengeh] boat captured by HMS Curlew.
Letter from Andrew Jukes, on board the HC Cruizer Benares in Muscat Cove to William Bruce, Resident at Bushire
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The letter is informing the Resident that Sa‘īd bin Sultān Āl Sa‘īd, the Imam of Muscat, is prepared to render every assistance to the British expedition to suppress piracy in the Gulf; this includes military aid to support the attack on Ruselkhima [Ra's al-Khaymah]. Mr Jukes further informs th...
Letter from John Wedderburn, Accountant General, Political Department, Bombay to Captain William Bruce, Resident at Bushire
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The letter is a circular, which reminds recipients of instructions relayed in an earlier circular, dated 10 April 1818, regarding the submission of certain accounts.