Extract of a letter from Sir Robert Ainslie to the Marquis of Carmarthen. Reports that Baldwin approached the French consul in Egypt in an attempt to procure a passage through Suez for a Mr Clarke. Ainslie, as Ambassador, does not want to be held responsible for Baldwin's transactions. Dated Cons...
Notes on a meeting of the Court of Directors Announces appointment of Baldwin as Consul General in Egypt and orders Committee of Correspondence to decide whether or not to use Baldwin as Company packet agent
Extract of a letter from George Baldwin to the Marquis of Carmarthen. Forwards copy of a treaty made on the part of Warren Hastings with the Beys of Egypt by John Shaw, 1775. Dated Falmouth
Copy of letter from Sir Robert Ainslie to the Levant Company. States that he has not received any information from England about opening a route to India via Suez and that the Porte would be hostile to such moves. Marked "U.P."
Copy of letter from George Baldwin to the Marquis of Carmarthen. Reports arrival in Egypt and Egyptian recognition of his commission Reports French preparations for establishing on overland route should Beys be victorious. Baldwin has sent Capitan Pasha a memorial of demands and assumes the backi...
Copy of cipher letter from Sir Robert Ainslie to the Marquis of Carmarthen. Reports on continuance of plague and current state of European relations with the Porte. Fears war between Turkey and Russia over a disputed claim to Georgia. Lack of contact with Cairo due to Egyptian rebellion. Marked "...
Covering note from William Fraser to C.W. Boughton Rouse for Board for India Affairs. Forwards letter from Ainslie to Carmarthen. Dated Whitehall, 12 July 1787 Received 13 July 1787.