'A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.' [‎202] (239/562)

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Muley Alj, the Terftan govcriror of Gombroon is an Arab. The iOands ofe
Ormus 'znd Larac are fubje^t- to him.^ He has three fhips of war lying
at the former, but they-are in no condition to put to lea. The forts under
his command'are alio out of re-pair. Bis ufual place of refidence is.
Ormus, or he is fure to By thither upon every alarm of the Maris ap-
proach •, and as he has been very, backward in paying thofe duties which
are required from him, he is under continual apprehenfions of a vifit from
that General. Befide the iHands of Ormus and Larac, Kifme another ifland
inhabited by Per/mm, but of no great note, is-at ppefent under Mtdey Alf^
government, though till very lately quite independanf of him. The late-
governor of this ifland for many years bravely refiijed all the attempts of
Muley Aly lived to the age of fourfcore, and died at laft in his bed, at
the very time that Muley Aly was befieging his principal fortrefs, which we
obferved, as failing-by it, to be advantageouily feated on a hilh. It was
generally imagined, that this lait expedition of Muley Alf% would not
have been attended with greater fuccefs than his former, had not the death
ot the governor given an unlucky turn to the affairs of the fiege. For
foon after thate\ent, the garrifon found themfelves under a neceflity of
furrendering j and Muley Aly, to give (as he thought) the greater eclat to his
fuccefles, caufed the head of the brave, deceafed governor, to be, cut off, and
returned in triumph with it to Banderahajfi, zwl. Ormus.
This military robber * has- a bad character among our people-, he has
been often threatened by Nauzir Khan, and probably would longfince have;
been made a public example of, were it not for his connexion with a powert
ful- Sheiek on the Arabian fhore, whofe daughter he married, and who is
always ready to afiift him with veffcls to traniport him to the ides, and with-
troops to defend himfelf there in cafe he fhould be attacked..
I cannot conclude this account of the fituation of affairs at Gombroon, witlv-
out paying a juft compliment to the great prudence and fagacity of the Englifo
and Dutch fadories eftablifhed there, who 'amidft all the fhocks and convul-
fions ot a civil war among the Perftans, have met with little or no interup-
tion in their trade from any of the contending parties ; it being a maxim
wkh them, to fide openly with none of the competitors, and yet at the fame
time to keep well with all: for this end, civil letters, and fometimes pre-
fents, have been thought indilpenlably neceffary..
As the Brifiol, the French Frigate, was in Ba£ora river, Mr. Douglas was
hereby prevented from difpatching the Succefs Grab Shallow vessel with a projecting bow. with us to Baffora, as
he had been directed by the governor and council of Bombay he not^
thinking it prudent, under the prefent circumftances, to truft the company's
bales) which were her intended loading, in a veflel of fuch little force.-
* It is believed) that he fecretly affifted the French Count de Ejiaing in his attack and conqueft
of out tafitory houfe at Gombroon, ia the year 1 759.
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