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Letter 151 Sir Alexander Grant to the Court of Directors desiring the court to reconsider his letter of 6th December, and permit the three young men (Robert Innes, John Burnett & Ludowick Grant at Bencoolen) to be free merchants as they cannot afford the passage home previously permitted to them.
Scope & Content:
Committee of Correspondence to examine and report.
Letter 81 Consul William Kinloch, at Constantinople to Robert James that he had forwarded on the packet for Mr Wrench at Bassora [Basra]; the firman he had procured for the Company regarding Customs; and regarding affairs between Mr Shaw and Hadgi Eusuph
Letter 144 William Hornby at Bombay to the Court of Directors complaining of his being superceded in the post of Marine Paymaster, with enclosed copies of related papers
Scope & Content:
Committee of Correspondence to examine and report.
Letter 153 William Shaw, late Agent at Bassora [Basra] to the Court of Directors desiring to have access to such papers transmitted from Bombay relating to his affair
Scope & Content:
Joint Committee of Accounts and Correspondence to consider thereof.
Letters 195-196 Memorial of Anthony Merry, on behalf of himself, the owners of the Lord Anson and the widow of George Calbreath deceased, late Commander thereof, relating to the ship Lord Anson's freight and the amount of the Captain's Adventure
Scope & Content:
For the consideration of the Committee of Correspondence
Letter 258 Memorial of Robert Innes, Factor at Fort Marlborough complaining of ill treatment by the Governor in Council there
Scope & Content:
For the consideration of the Committee of Correspondence. The note from Mr Innes, letter 254 (folio 585) most likely originally accompanied this memorial.