"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٢‎٣‎٠] (١٧٨٢/١٣٨٥)

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1230
Bombay/-' The subsequent experiences of Messrs. Beaumont and Green
and the employment of the " Tyger " by the Persians are described in the
chapter on the history of the Persian Coast. The passeng-ers who reached
Bombay in the " Drake " were apparently Messrs. Moore, Lewis and
Latouche ; it is not clear whether Mr. Reilly, the Agency Surgeon, ever
left Basrah, and he was certainly there again at the middle of October
1773, more than two months before the return of the Agent and other
members of the staff.
No reference has been made in this section to a case which formed
the subject of much correspondence between the Agency ind the Turkish
Government from 1765 to 1768, as it arose out of the conduct of two
of the Company's servants (Messrs. Shaw and Garden) ind is discussed,
for that reason, in a later paragraph.
Trade of the East India Company in Turkish 'Iraq, 1757—73,
The trade of the East India Company at Basrah ^as considerable
during this period ; but their representatives seem to ha\e obtained but
little business at Baghdad, even during the existence of a Residency at
that place.
The chief article of import, here as in Persia, was voollen cloth of
various sorts ; and Mr, Shaw, on his visit to Baghdad in 1759, besides
arranging—as he believed—for the future transit of the Company's goods
to that place free of inland duties, actually disposed on the spot of 100
bales of coarse cloth at 7'4 Mahmudis per gaz and of 30 bales of fine
cloth at 17 Mahmudis per gaz. He found that there was still a con-
siderable importation of cloth from Aleppo to Baghdad ; but this trade he
hoped, by means of improved arrangements, entirely to " oversetIn
February 1768 there were " heavy remains 11 at Basrah; but 100 bales of
broad cloth worth Rs. 30,569, consisting partly of coarse cloth and partly
of coloured, had been consigned from Bombay and were expected to
facilitate the disposal of the unsold stock. In 1771, there was a great
accumulation of woollens, intended for sale in the Persian Gulf, both at
Basrah and Bombay ; and the Court of Directors, as a special measure,
sanctioned their exchange for Gilan raw silk, and less than | of the
price of the silk to be paid in woollens, after which the purchase of silk
was to be discontinued. From 1763 to 1773, however, the average
annual number of bales of Indian piece-goods imported at Basrah was
3,000 to 3,500. These were mostly the property of merchants settled in