Letter from Charles Norris, Assistant Deputy Military Paymaster General, Bombay, to Lieutenant Robert Taylor, in Charge of the Residency at Bushire
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Letter states that a bill for supplies made to a detachment of the Marine Battalion, which was attached to the Bushire Residency in June 1812, has been passed by the Military Auditor General.
Letter from John Adam, Secretary to the Government, Fort William, to Lieutenant William Bruce, Acting Resident at Bushire
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Letter concerns a consignment of 17,000 muskets, bound for Bushire on board the ship, Lord Minto, to be transmitted to His Excellency Sir Gore Ouseley, Ambassador to Persia, for the use of the King of Persia [Fat'h Ali Shah Qajar]. Includes an invoice for the muskets, dated 30 November 1812.
Letter from Stephen Babington, Secretary to the Government, Bombay, to Lieutenant William Bruce, Acting Resident at Bushire
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Letter encloses a copy of a petition, dated 19 January 1813, made on behalf from Buxee Khanum, widow of Aga Mahomed Bhebanee (also written as Bebany and Babany elsewhere in the volume), and addressed to Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay. The petition regards Buxee Khanum's...
Letter from James Farish, Secretary to the Government, Bombay, to Lieutenant William Bruce, Assistant in Charge of the Residency at Bushire
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Letter reports that thirty-five bales of gum sent by Bruce have been lost due to a shipwreck. Farish requests that Bruce replaces the quantity of gum that has been lost.
Letter from William Newnham, Secretary to the Government, Bombay, to Lieutenant William Bruce, Assistant Resident in Charge at Bushire
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Letter instructs Bruce to inform the merchants at Bushire that the Rajah of Callipore [Kolhapur] has ceded the port of Malvan to the East India Company.
Letter from Stephen Babington, Secretary to the Government, Bombay, to Lieutenant William Bruce, Acting Resident at Bushire
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Letter informs Bruce that five boxes of medical stores, which have been shipped on board the Benares, are to be landed at Bushire and forwarded to His Excellency Sir Gore Ouseley in Persia.