"ملخّص يحتوي على معلومات بشأن الاتصال الأول لشركة الهند الشرقية مع الجزيرة العربية التركية، طالما أمكن تتبع ذلك من سجلات حكومة بومباي، بالإضافة إلى أسماء العديد من المقيمين البريطانيين والوكلاء السياسيين الذين عُينوا في بغداد والبصرة في الفترة بين ١٦٤٦ و ١٨٤٦ ميلادي، وبمرافقة معلومات أخرى" [ظ‎‎٢‎٧] (٢٢٦/٥٦)

24? PRECIS OF INFORMATION REGARDING CONNECTION OF E. I. COMPY.
55. A portion of the Gombroon factory diary for broken periods,
between the 5th August 1741 and the 22ud November 1757, is in the
possession of this Government. The following entry in this diary
occurs under date the 23rd February 1742 :—
" Received a letter from Mr. Dorrill" (Resident at Bussorah) "advising the state of
the country ; Ahmed Bashaw heing so entirely subdued the desert Arabs, who had
rebelled, that they do not appear capable of being troublesome for some years, whereby
Bussorah is very quiet. The Turks are making powerful preparations against Shaw
Nadir, who all advices mention to have been twice beat by the Lasgees."
56. On the 1st November 1743 the Chief in Council at Surat
addressed a letter to the Bombay Government, from which the following
is an extract:—
" By a French ship, arrived two days since at the Bar from Gombroon, there are
private advices that Nadir Shaw has taken several places from the Turks, and that there
are great troubles about Bagdad and Bussorah."
57. In the Bombay diary for the 8th March 1744 the following
account is given of the operations of the Persians against Bussorah to
wards the close of the preceding year :—
" The Persians laid siege to Bussorah with 12,000 men, which continued
from the 28th of August to the 27th of November, when it was raised by Shaw Nadir 's
orders, and the army with their artillery marched away the 5th of December.
Mr. Dorrill at the beginning of the troubles took what precaution he could not to have
any vessels there that might assist either party, and accordingly sent away a small bri-
gantine of his own, but the lascars, who were Bussorah people, obliged the Commander
to return ; and, being determined they should not be of any assistance, he was ordered
prisoner and confined to a tent upon the walls two days, when, from the people's in
sinuations to the Zanizarees of his being in the Persian interest, and fearing a general
massacre of the Europeans, he was obliged to comply, but at the same time ordered the
Commander to bore holes in her bottom and make her in such a condition that if not
immediately run ashore she must sink, which the Turks seeing permitted her to be
brought on shore, and Mr. Dorrill was then released. But the insolence he had met
with from the Mussaleem, even before this dispute, was such that, if passed without
obtaining justice from the Bashaw, it will be impossible to remain without continual
affronts whenever he refuses to advance loans, therefore, when the public and private
concerns are wound up, he proposed retiring on board ship remonstrating the griev
ances, which, if not redressed, to leave the place."
In reply, the Kesident at Bussorah was informed, on the 3rd April
1744, that if he could remain there with submitting only to a small
expense, it will be preferable to do so, to withdrawing from thence.
58. The following are extracts from a despatch addressed by the
Hon'ble the Court of Directors to the Chief in Council at Gombroon,
under date the 15th March 1744 :—
" The situation of affairs in Persia by your last advices gives us but an indifferent
prospect. In case our trade cannot be carried on without impositions in the kingdom
of Persia, or duties for the time past are claimed and insisted upon, you must upon no
account comply therewith, but pursue the measures laid down in our last by sending
our goods to Bombay in order to be disposed of there. For Bussorah we send but two-
thirds of the ^ broadcloth and the fifteen bales of longells indented for. In case
Mr. Dorrill desires to be recalled from Bussorah, we direct that you appoint another
Resident there in his room, and Mr. Dorrill must take his place at Gombroon."
59. From the following extract from a letter addressed by the
Chief in Council at Gombroon to the Bombay Government, dated the
10th April 1746, it appears that Mr. Dorrill was about that time suc
ceeded in the appointment of Resident at Bussorah by a Mr. Grendon
" As your Honor in Council were pleased to judge Mr. Grendon a proper person to
succeed to the Residency of Bussorah, we accordingly sent him there on the Rose, and