Correspondence Regarding the Naval Powers in the East Indies and the Gulph of Persia [‎71r] (81/162)

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Home correspondence of the East India Company (EIC) related to the request of naval assistance for the Company in order to use against its maritime enemies in the Gulph [Gulf]. The correspondence includes:

• A ‘Narrative of the Rise and Progress of the Troubles in the Gulph of Persia [Iran].’ The narrative is about Chaub Shaik Soliman’s [Shaikh Sulaymān, Head of Banū Ka‘b] maritime force interrupting the trade of Bussorah [Basra]; Kerim Khan [Karīm Khān Zand, King of Persia] asking for the Company’s naval help to protect his port towns; and the commercial privileges the Company would receive in return of its help (ff 38-40)
• An ‘account of the Maritime Force of the several Indian maritime powers’ covering the Persian Gulph; Bunderick [Bandar-e Rig, also spelled as Bundereck] and Bushire [Bushehr, also spelled as Abooshehr]; Coasts of Scindy and Guzarat [Sindh and Gujarat]; and the Coast of Malabar (ff 43-44)
• The status of the EIC’s maritime force at Bombay [Mumbai]
• The memorial of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Company covering accounts of: the seize of Company ships in Bussorah, the status of the woollen goods trade sale, French military and naval activities, and an extract of a letter from the President and Select Committee at Bengal to the Company’s Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. (ff 47-70)
• Intelligence report covering the war with Hyder Ally [Ḥaydar ‘Alī, Sulṭān of Mysore]; the Company’s acquisition of sailing frigates; and a petition of Francis Douglas, free merchant in Bengal, whose ship was attacked and detained by the Shaick [Shaikh] of Bunderick (ff 107-110).

The main correspondents are Lord Viscount Weymouth [Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath], Secretary of State for the Northern Department, and Robert Wood, the Under-Secretary of State to Lord Weymouth.

This part of the volume includes duplicates of correspondence that are part of IOR/G/29/25, ff 452-478. These are as follows: folios 38-40, 41-42, 43-44 and 51-53 corresponding to folios 469-472, 477-478, 475-476 and 453-455 respectively.

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