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on your probity and desire to recommend yourself for the article being of the
very first quality and free from any scale or other impurity.
10th. You will take at all times the utiyiost Gave of the Qompcbny 1 s credit
and of the English reputation, and of the saf ety of the property under your
charge, cautiously avoiding the entering into disputes with the Country G-ovem-
menti and preventing the people and sepoys Term used in English to refer to an Indian infantryman. Carries some derogatory connotations as sometimes used as a means of othering and emphasising race, colour, origins, or rank. at the factory An East India Company trading post. either from having
any, or from being injured by the natives, and hoisting the flag at such times
as has always been usual, and in short acting in all things in conformity to the
Hon'ble Company's Rules and privileges at Bushire and in the other parts of
Persia after of the several heads of which you have informed but which we
have to you to attend to the peaceable improvement of circumstances may
admit.
11th. In every letter you will write the particulars not only of your
management but of the state of politics in the countries around you, as far
as the same may come to your knowledge, without interfering in any shape in
the disputes among the Country Powers farther than may prove eventually
requisite to counteract the French or Dutch influence in Persia or for the
purpose of seizing on and sending hither any French or Dutch man with their
papers that may during the war attempt to pass, through or settle in Persia, or
many of the adjoining Countries to which your influence may reach. You will
also keep up a friendly correspondence with the Resident at Bussora, and act
in concert with him in all points of necessary business that may occur
particularly as far as regards the political objects referred to in the latter part
of this Paragraph.
We are, etc.,
(Sd) JONATHAN DUNCAN.
in Council.
Bombay, c
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Srd September 179$.
CCLXI.
Resident at Bushire to the Governor and Council, Bombay.
Hon'ble Sir,
Eevolntion at ^ ^ with extreme regret I inform your Hon'ble Board, that another
revolution has happened at Bushire; particularly so as five months have now
elapsed since Hossein Khullee Khan with his army took possession of the
place. A force suddenly again appearing before the place under the command
of a Persian Officer and Shaik Mahomed, brother to Shaik Nasser, and
seeing no prospect of tranquillity here, for some time to come determined
me to retire with the Hon'ble Company's, and my private property to Carrack
till Bushire became permenently settled or that I could be assured of such
support from your Hon'ble Board as my incoherent situation requires my
reasons for wishing to take this esteps were the result of mature reflection and
such as appeared to me from a retrospective of the subject by far the most
* A nephew of Seikh Nasir. expedient. Saikh Khaunnum* during the
prepotency of his authority in every
instance assidionsly endeavoured to promote my wishes and made an offer to
deliver the island of Carrack entirely up to the Company, at the same time