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Letters 82-83 William Kinloch, Consul at Aleppo to Robert James reporting that the vessel engaged to take the Company's packet to Bassora [Basra] had been attacked en route by Arabs and plundered and he had little hope of the packet's recovery
Scope & Content:
Enclosed with the letter is a duplicate copy of Consul Kinloch's letter to Robert James of 28 March 1765.
Letter 20 Lord Sydney, Whitehall to the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the East India Company that he sees no reason to disapprove of draft of a Letter to Bengal
Scope & Content:
The letter was originally dated 14 July 1784 and the author has corrected it to 14 June 1784.
Letter 25 Extract of a Letter from Monsieur de St Saphorin in Vienna to the Earl Stanhope relating to the Emperor's patents employing English vessels to sail from Ostend to the East Indies.
Scope & Content:
Dated 18 Jan 1718/19 Referred to the Committee of Correspondence.
Letters 4-6 Earl of Halifax at St James's to the Court of Directors enclosing a copy of a memorial from the Sardinian minister on behalf of an Apostolick vicar in Bombay
Scope & Content:
Committee of Correspondence to prepare an answer. Enclosures: Copies of the memorandum in French and English.
Letter 76 Jacob Blaguiere, Shorter's Cowes to the Court of Directors relating to 12 Bills of exchange drawn by Mr Herbert at Batavia of which the Court have received no advice
Scope & Content:
The Bills to be accepted on Mr Blaguire's giving the Company an indemnification.
Letters 96-97 Samuel Bowen to the Court of Directors to be paid what is due to him from the ship Pitt informable to an enclosed agreement with Captain William Wilson
Scope & Content:
To be paid what appears to be due. Folio 185: enclosed agreement with Captain Wilson.
Letter 128 Mann Horner at Canton to R J Harrison of the ship Glatton listing the quantities and values of cargo aboard the Glatton and accusing the pilot of the Juk of having deliberately run her on shore to steal the 2000 dollars sent aboard her
Scope & Content:
Secretary's note: Mr Mann Horner's Letter to R J Harrison of the ship Glatton & received of the Secretary's officer this day 6 November 1764. Humbly laid before the Honble the Directors of the United East India Company.