'Selections from State Papers, Bombay, regarding the East India Company's Connection with the Persian Gulf, with a Summary of Events, 1600-1800' [‎108v] (216/540)

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Public Department Diary No. 34—1760.
Bombay Gantlet 21st April 1760.
At a Consultation present:
The Hon'ble Charles Crommelin , Esquire, President and Governor,
The Wo. Thomas Byeeld , Esqr. William Hornby.
John Spencer. Samuel Hough.
* * « Eobert Holeord.
Charles Waters Indisposed.
Bead and approved our last Consultation of the 14th instant.
Likewise the advices received from the agent and Council at Gombroon
them*. 0 Iore8tRU and the ship Godolphin above extracted, the passing any remarks on which
is deferred, as there is nothing which requires an immediate answer, but there
being a Country vessel bound to Muscat, and we learning from private hands,
that the Dutch have a design of taking the Island of Ormuse, Resolved that
we communicate this Intelligence to the Agent and Council, and order that if
they can concert proper measures with Nasseir Caun or any other fit person,
for getting possession oE the Port and Islands for our Hon'ble Masters, and
have an opportunity of carrying the same into execution, with the Force they
now have, that they accordingly embrace it, without waiting for further
Directions, provided that they judge it will prove for our Hon'ble Masters
interest in which light it appears to us,
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Dutch design to
occupy Ormux and
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Public Department Diary No. 35,
Bombay Castle, 14th October 1760.
Gombroon, Came in the Eose^Galley James Douglas Commander from the Gulph of
Persia.
Beceived by her a letter from the Agent and Council at Gombroon, dated
the 16th ultimo acknowledging receipt of ours of the 25th April and 27th
May, and advising the Swallows having left that place for Bussorah the 30th
April with positive orders to the Besident for being immediately returned, but
she was not then come back, nor could they account for her detention as they
only know she remained at Bussorah the 16th August on the 23rd of which
month they were advised by the Broker Often a local commercial agent in the Gulf who regularly performed duties of intelligence gathering and political representation. at Muscat of five Prench ships being
in the Gulph which they directly communicated again on learning from the
Broker Often a local commercial agent in the Gulf who regularly performed duties of intelligence gathering and political representation. that the Eeport was false. That only one Dutch ship was arrived in
the Gulph, the Commander of which had wrote the Agent that he left Batavia
the 13th June when the French under Command of the Count D'Estain had
taken possession of all our settlements on the West Coast from whence several
English gentleman and ladies were come to Batavia and that it was not known
whether the Trench ships would go there or return to the Islands. That they
were concerned to observe their sales were not near so large as they expected
a