"ملخّص يحتوي على معلومات بشأن الاتصال الأول لشركة الهند الشرقية مع الجزيرة العربية التركية، طالما أمكن تتبع ذلك من سجلات حكومة بومباي، بالإضافة إلى أسماء العديد من المقيمين البريطانيين والوكلاء السياسيين الذين عُينوا في بغداد والبصرة في الفترة بين ١٦٤٦ و ١٨٤٦ ميلادي، وبمرافقة معلومات أخرى" [و‎‎٣‎٧] (٢٢٦/٧٥)

WITH TURKISH ARABIA 1646 TO 1846.
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and restore him to the service until our Hon'ble masters pleasure can be known
regarding him, and as Mr. Price represents he may he serviceable in their attairs at
Bussorah, we permit of his continuing to ju;t in his station there, but we cannot think
of confirming him as second, until his further behaviour shall induce us entirely to
look over his past misconduct, and convince us he merits so great an indulgence-
103. On these proceedings however being reported to the Hon'ble
Court, they directed that Mr. Shaw should be dismissed from the Hon'ble
Company's service, and that Mr. Garden should no longer be employed
at Bussorah. The following is an extract from the Hon'ble Court's
despatch, dated the 8th November 1764, containing these orders
" Mr William Shaw having left Bussorah without any leave from his superiors at
Bombay, and notwithstanding it appears he has been at Aleppo for a considerable time
past he has not thought fit to write one line to inform us oi his motives for so doing,
or indeed to give us any account of his proceedings, we have thought proper to dismiss
him from the Company's service. You are, therefore, incase of his being at Bussorah, to
signify the same to him, and at the same time to acquaint him we require his return to
England forthwith, to answer for his conduct in general, which has been very unsatis
factory to the Court. As Mr. Eobert Garden was joined with Mr. Shaw m the manage-
ment of the Company's affairs at Bussorah, we do not think it is proper he should
continue there any longer, he is therefore to return to Bombay by the first proper
conveyance that oilers."
104. Mr. Price having completed the enquiry into the conduct of
Messrs. Shaw and Garden, he, in conformity with instructions he had
received from Government, left Bussorah on the 14th January 1764, and
returned to Bombay, leaving Mr. Dymoke Lyster in charge of the Com
pany's Factory.
105. On the 12th February 1764, Mr. George Skipp was sent
from Bombay to Bussorah for the purpose of keeping the factory books.
The following is an extract from the letter addressed by Government to
the Agent in Council at Bussorah, informing him of this arrangement:—
" The return (to Bussorah) of this vessel (the Drake Ketch) has given Mr. George
Skipp, whom we have appointed to keep the books of your Settlement, an opportunity
of proceeding thither accordingly; he has received his salary to the 1st ultimo (J anuary
1764), diet money for this month, and an allowance for his passage: he is to have an
allowance of 20 rupees per month for keeping the books."
106. On the 16th April 1764, Mr. Peter Elwin Wrench (then in
Bombay) was appointed by Government the Ilon'ble Company s Agent
for all affairs of the British nation in the Gulf of Persia, &c., in Council
at Bussorah. Mr. Wrench arrived at Bussorah on the 10th July 1764, and
assumed charge of the Agency at that place on the following day.
107. On the 5th September 1764, the Right Hon'ble Henry
Grenville, His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople,
addressed a letter to Mr. Wrench, informing him that His Excellency
had after considerable difficulty obtained from the Sublime Porte " a con-
sulary Birat" for the English East India Company's Agent at Bussorah.
The following is an extract from the Ilon'ble Mr. Grenville s letter tor-
warding the Birat:—
" You will have learnt the difficulties I have had to encounter at the 1 orte, the scenes
of entanglements which I found myself engaged in with the Vizier, ere 1 could work
out an accomplishment of the great object in view, and obtain leave tor dispatching
away an officer of distinction from the Porte, and making him the bearer of the