'Précis of correspondence regarding the affairs of the Persian Gulf, 1801-1853' [‎35r] (69/344)

Part II—Chap. XV.
You are positively restricted from carrying on any commercial dealings on your own
account or for your 'personal benefit or as agent for others, confining' your sole attention to the
promotion of the political interests for your charge, in the course of which you will keep the
Governor in Council constantly advised of the changes that may occur among the Native
Powers on either side of the Gulph, and the interior of the country, fully satisfying ourselves of
the authenticity of the intelligence you may receive and apprizing Government in occasions
where you may doubt its accuracy.
With the view of conducting the Department of supplies to the detachment proceedino-
on service on as economical principles as practicable, I am instructed to require you to certify
to all purchases which the Commissary of Provisions may make, that the rates of purchase
correspond with those in the market, including those that may be made by the Ao-ent
Mr. Henshaw on furnishing the supplies that may be required by the cruizers attached kTthe
armament, which is committed to ivlr, Henshaw on the terms of his agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. ,
I am further directed to inform you that on your occasional supplies to cruizers visiting
Muscat your bills must be also supported by the certificates of soma respectable merchants
purporting that your rates do not exceed the market prices, a rule that is in force at Bussorah
and i3ushire under the supplies made by the Resident.
I enclose copy translate of a letter from the Honourable the Governor to the Imaum and
convey the directions of Government that in the event of His Highness recurrino- at any W
to an application he formerly preferred to be supplied with convoy for the Arab trade for
Muscat to Bengal, you communicate to him in general terms that His Excellency Rear-
Admiral Drury had ordered Commodore Byng to dispatch a vessel to the Gulph for that
purpose; that Captain Wainwright had previously directed the Comwallis to sail with the
trade from Bussorah on the Ibthof June, and after collecting the ships at Bushire and Muscat
to repair to Bombay. That Captain Montague in pursuance of this ord^r called at Muscat
early in July and after staying a sufficient time to receive advices from the Resident, then
at Burka, sailed for the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. , having had no application for convoy from the Imaum
Should His Highness express any serious disappointment at this uncertain state of the
convoy, you wi 1 communicate with Captain Wamwnght as to the best means of affording h-m
satisfaction, when it perhaps maybe in the power of the Commander of the Chiftonne to
detach to Bengal either one of His Majesty's frigates or of the Honourable Company's
cruizers, with such of the Muscat ships as may be still waiting at that port, and unwilUno- to
proceed on their voyage without such protection. 3
pi.Lieutenant William Bruce reported from Bushire that he had
received intelligence from Mahomed Nubi Khan at Shiraz. savin" that TTk
Eojal Highness the Prince of Shiraz intended sending a bodv of' tmnm „ J Mr. Brwe'. letter
against the Joasmi settlements on the Persian Coast and that the^vould be « d 8ep ^
ready foi that seivice in the month of Ramazan or as soon as ever the weithpr ^® CIet an ^ ^ ,0 ^•
became sufficiently cool for them to proceed. Nasrulla Khan, the Prince's n / s W o F isoq
Prime Minister, was expected to have the command. The number of the pp -' 11189 - luau:
troops intended to be sent on this service was not mentioned and their crossing
over to Ras-ul-Khima was to depend upon circumstances at the time.
^S. The projected Persian expedition never reached the coast," if it ever
129. The troops sent from Bombay landed, and took possession of the
pirate town and port ot Kas-ul-Khima on the 13th November 1809 the f w7
boats and stores were all destroyed and his town ransacked nml fm'™ ^ \
to eighty of these vagabonds were killed; on our side we lost Captain Dansey
of His Majesty s 65th Hegiment, who was killed by a spear November 1809.
130. Lieutenant-Colonel Smith expressed greatest obligations to Cantiin ''
TUinwnght, Commanding the Squadron, for his able assistance and 00-0™^ na
tion in every arrangement relating to the troops, particular]v for the ranid
manner in which he enabled the force to land, in which the guns were landed
and sent forward, and the orderly manner in which the re 'embarkation was
«,and acknowledged especially the assistance of the Royal Marines of
the Chiffone and Caroline Frigates under the command of Lieutenant Drurv
as most \aluable reinforcement.
Captain Pasley and the gentlemen of his suite proceeding on a mission to
the Court of 1 ersia (see Chapter IV above) joined the armament of Jlaskit
and most handsomely volunteered their services on shore with the exnedition
where they were present during the whole of our operations. euuion
131. We have already noted the operations of the expedition a-.inst
Linga ami Luft. The expedition returned to Maskat, and the force was
reduced by 534 men of the native infantry as well as a proportionate rxtent o
the tonnage. The armament left had in view still to continue the ope afions
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