Letter from William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, to Stephen Babington, Secretary to Government at Bombay, Political Department
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The letter confirms that Stephen Watson Henshaw has been paid 800 rupees for his help in recovering East India Company property from the shipwrecked Ahmed Shah.
Letter from William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, to Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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Letter details an account of six boats, mostly from Muscat, that had been captured by a fleet of boats from Ras el Khima [Ras al-Khaimah] and their crews killed. The letter also states that the horses that had been on board the bugulah Darabee, captured by pirates in January 1815, had been sent ...
Letter from William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, to Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Government at Bombay
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Letter enclosing a copy of a letter to the British Minister at the Court of Persia, for the information of the Governor of Bombay (letter not enclosed).
Letter from William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, to James Farish, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Commercial Department
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Letter acknowledging the Bombay Government's request for sulphur for the gunpowder departments and stating that he hopes to be able to send some by the next ship.
Letter from William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, to Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Government at Bombay
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Letter reporting a reply received from remonstrations made to Rehma ben Jauber [Rahma bin Jabir] regarding a boat captured by him (the bugulah Darabee, captured in January 1815). Rehma ben Jauber claimed that he attacked the boat under the impression it belonged to his enemy Shaikh bin Rizk [Rizq...