Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench and Robert Garden, Agent and Council at Bussorah [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter is a further complaint that copies of commands from Bombay are not being forwarded to Basra, and that news of Karim Khan's offers and demands should also have been sent to Basra first. It covers a supply of stationery, orders that accounts are to be sent every month, and advises that ...
Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench and Robert Garden, Agent and Council at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter questions Jervis' excuse for a lack of communication, arguing that there were vessels available and two sailed from Bushire to Basra recently. A complaint is made about a lack of news on the linguists visit to Ispahaun [Isfahan] to get confirmation of the Company's grants. The need fo...
Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench and Robert Garden, Agent and Council at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter discusses the mistake the linguist made when having the Company's grants confirmed by Carem Caun [Karim Khan] by inserting the name Busheab instead of Bushire. The order is given for him to return to Isfahan and have this rectified immediately.
Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench, Robert Garden, and Dymoke Lyster, Agent and Council at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter goes through the logistics of getting a shipment of goods to Basra via the Tartar and a packet to Bombay either aboard the London or via Muscatt [Muscat]. There is a request for updates on Carem Caun's [Karim Khan] movements around Cormooge [Khormoj].
Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench and Dymoke Lyster, Agent and Council at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter responds to Jervis' detention of the Tartar for use in assisting the Caun [Karim Khan] against Meer Mahanna [Mīr Muhanna]. He argues that the matter should be referred to the President and Council at Bombay and that, according to reports in Basra, Mīr Muhanna has now made peace with K...
Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench and Dymoke Lyster, Agent and Council at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter discusse the employmeny of the Tartar, which is detained at Bushire. The author asks why it was not sent to Khish [Kish Island] to try and recover the goods stolen from the Islamabad. Also reports that Carem Caun's forces are still in the Basra area with the intention of attacking the...
Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench and Robert Garden, Agent and Council at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter informs that Robert Garden is sailing to India with Captain Grady and there is no need to send the Tartar to Basra, but it should instead be dispatched to Bombay as soon as possible. A postscript reports that Coja Sarkees [Sarkis], the kalantar (representative) of the Armenians in Pe...
Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench, East India Company Agent at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter expresses disapproval at the lack of information given in Jervis' previous letter. It discusses the case of Lewis Baretto D'Souza, a former Company employee at Basra who was charged with spying for the Ottoman authorities. An explanation is asked for as to why he was allowed to disemb...
