Covering note from William Fraser to C.W. Boughton Rouse of the Board for India Affairs. Encloses extract of a letter from Ainslie to Carmarthen. Dated St James
Covering note from William Fraser to C.W. Boughton Rouse of the Board for India Affairs. Forwards letter from Sir James Harris, British envoy at the Hague, to Carmarthen. Dated St James, 24 December 1785 Received 24 December 1785.
Covering note from William Fraser to C.W. Boughton Rouse of the Commissioners of the India Board. Forwards extract of a letter from Ainslie to Carmarthen. Dated St James, 30 December 1785 Received 30 December 1785.
Copy of letter from George Baldwin to Court of Directors. Reports on Capitan Pasha's campaign against the rebel Beys in Upper Egypt and difficulty in establishing Suez route. Dated Alexandria. (Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha, Turkish High Admiral. 1774-1789, and later Grand Wazir.)
Draft letter to Sir Robert Ainslie via Sir Stanier Porten. Permits Ainslie to offer payment to the Porte for the use of Suez for communications for India. Dated London
Copy of letter from John O'Donnell to Sir Robert Ainslie. Reports that he travelled from Bengal to Suez as a passenger on the Danish ship Nathalia. Relates the subsequent destruction of caravan, his own refuge in Baldwin's house and the imprisonment of his surviving companions. Marked "No.5." Dat...
Copy of a letter from Sir James Harris to the Marquis of Carmarthen. Gives details of a treaty negotiated by the Chevalier Truguet in Egypt. Dated the Hague, 20 December 1785 Received 24 December 1785.