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some of the Company's privileges, but the remainder still trembled in
the balance; and, rather than offend the Shah, the Agent and Council at
Bandar 'Abbas reluctantly undertook the conveyance to India of a
Persian Ambassador to the Mughal court, a service which bad been
demanded of the Dutch but which they, for want of a ship, bad been
unable to perform. Earlier in the year, from similar motives, the British
had been obliged to entertain a son of Muhammad Taqi Khan at Isin
near Bandar 'Abbas at great expense, and to give him valuable presents.
A letter from the President at Bombay, congratulating Nadir Sbah on
his accession, was duly delivered to that potentate and elicited assuraucee
of favour and protection.
1737. On the 13th of February 1737, probably in connection with a
Persian expedition against 'Oman which sailed on the let of April
following, the Baiglarbaig of Fars, Muhammad Taqi Khan, arrived in
person at Bandar 'Abbas. Subject to confirmation by his master,
he renewed by Raqam all the former privileges of the English in Persia
except the right of receiving 1,000 Tumans a year from the customs
of Bandar 'Abbas; he substituted for the last a right of taking one-third
of the customs on goods imported in British ships, a British repre
sentative to be present at the customs house on such occasions; and
he promised that British merchants should be civilly and justly
treated. His entertainment cost the Agency 150 Tumans in presents and
other expenses; and they also found it necessary to give him a bill on
Kirman for 200 Tumans in silver, in order that he might not prohibit
the exportation of copper and Black Money * and goods other than wool
from Kirman, as he talked of doing. The Company's staff were not
urged to give assistance, which they had in fact been instructed by
their superiors in India to refuse, in the expedition against 'Oman; but
bo much pressure was brought to bear upon the Dutch that they
eventually sent a ship.
1741, After this the East India Company had no dealings of consequence
with Persian officials until 1740, when, as described further on, a
serious mutiny occurred in the Persian naval service, and the British and
the Dutch were called upon to help in its suppression : on this occasion
the old claim that the English were bound by an agreement to assist
the Persians in tneir maritime undertakings was once more advanced
by the Persian Admiral. The Dutch gave the Persians some real
assistance, though of an ineffectual kind ; but the British confined their
action to the loan of some saluting guns, a gunner, and a detachment
Evidently " Siyah Puli. e., coined copper.