Letter from Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident at Bushire to The Officer Commanding the Marine Battalion, Bombay
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Letter reporting that Shaik Abdool Kareem [Shaikh 'Abd al-Karim], a private with the First Company Marine Battalion attached to the Escort at the Bombay Residency was proceeding to Bombay in confinement on board the HC Cruizer Elphinstone, and that a private from the Eighth Company on board the ...
Letter from Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident at Bushire to Captain George Brown Walker, Commanding HC Cruizer Benares or The Senior Marine Officer at Bassidore [Bāsa’īdū]
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Letter enclosing a packet with an urgent despatch from Lieutenant Colonel John Macdonald, which it is hoped will reach Bassidore [Bāsa’īdū] in time for the Elphinstone to take it, and that if not that it could be sent by Cruizer to the care of the Native Agent at Muscat.
Letter No. 6 from Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident at Bushire to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay
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Letter regarding a packet received from Tehran which was being sent to Bassidore [Bāsa’īdū] in the hope that it would catch the Elphinstone there, and that if not it was to be sent to Muscat to be forwarded on from there.
Letter No. 2 from Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident at Bushire to Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald, Envoy to the Court of Persia
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Letter regarding a 'sudden and unfavourable alteration' in the money market in Bushire which had compelled Colonel Stannus to dispose of the Bills drawn by Lieutenant Colonel Macdonald on the Government of India at a reduced rate and prevented the sale of those drawn on the Bombay Government. ...
Letter from Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident at Bushire to Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald, Envoy to the Court of Persia
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Letter informing Colonel Macdonald that once Newab Saeed Ally Kazim [Nawab Sa'id Ali Kazim] had arrived at Bushire steps would be taken to secure the sum of money previously advanced to him by the Colonel.
Letter from Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident at Bushire to The Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone, President and Governor in Council, Bombay
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Brief letter reporting that a set of bills of exchange had been granted by Colonel Stannus on the Honourable Board in favour of Hajee Hossen Cazaroony [Haji Ḥusayn Kazerooni].
Letter from Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident at Bushire to Bazett Doveton, Military Accountant, Bombay
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Letter reporting that Lieutenant Strong, Commanding the Escort at the Bushire Residency had received his arrears of pay and allowance for the ten months from 1 March to 31 December 1826. The letter goes on to state that there had been a delay in sending the abstracts as Lieutenant Nesbitt Strong...