"مختارات من أوراق الدولة في بومباي، بخصوص علاقة شركة الهند الشرقية بالخليج العربي، مع ملخص أحداث، ١٦٠٠-١٨٠٠" [ظ‎‎٩‎٨] (٥٤٠/١٩٦)

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Bombay or elsewhere, and your own advices together with those from
Bussorah, but you are to be very cautious in such advices that nothing
be inserted therein that occasion any prejudice to^the company, in case of their
being intercepted and you are also to give the Resident at Bussorah directions
of extremely careful to employ none but the most trusty Messenger.
5. Erom the information we gave you in your letter of Season, an Open
War between the British and French Nations might easily be foreseen, it has
proved so in the event. His Majesty having proclaimed War against France on
the 18th of May last which was returned in a very short time after on the
Part of the French King, some of His Majesty's Declarations are now sent for
your Information, not but we hope you will know long before this reaches your
by the Dispatches sent immediately overland by His Majesty's Ministers
and ourselves or if they have miscarried by the Triton Man of War and our
own ship the Prince Renry Packet, the first of which left England on the
17th July bound to the Mallabar Coast and the other the 5th of August for
Fort St. George, both charged with the news of the important Event to be
communicated to all our settlements in India.
6. The French have prepared a great armament at Port L'Orient, and
have embarked a Number of Regular Troops the whole being Destined as there
js the greatest reason to believe for the East Indies, the necessary advices
thereof have been sent to our several Presidencies in order for their being on
their guard the part you are to act for the security of that part of our Estate
which is or shall fall under your management, must greatly depend upon the
advices and orders you may receive from Bombay and your own prudence
and we shall accordingly expect that you take such measures as are the most
likely to answer the desired purpose.
7. Should you by this oonveyance or at any time hereafter, receive any
orders or directions from the Secret Committte for the time being you are to
pay the same regard to them as if they were signed by the Court of Directors
The Gentlemen who compose that Committee at present, are, Peter Godrey"
John Payne, Christopher Burrow, Roger Drake, and Jones Raymond, Esquires
any Three of whom are a Quorum.
8. We herewith transmit for your Information Lists of the ships taken
into our Service for the several Parts of India this Season, and of the Arrival
and Departure of Our Shipping.
9. That you might have an early supply of the Goods proper for the
Persia Market, we have ordered the P to be got ready sooner
than the other Bombay ships, and do now accordingly consign her to you with
a Cargo agreeable to the accompanying Invoice and Bill of Lading consisting
principaHy of about five hundred and Fifty-nine Bales of Cloth and Long Ells
and some few other particulars for Gombroon and for Bussorah about seventy
nine Bales of Cloth and Thirty two Bales of Long Ells.
10. We have provided the further Quantity of about One hundred and
twenty eight Bales of Cloth, Fifty of which are Medleys, Eighty two Bales of
Long Ells and Twenty Bales of Shalloons for your Market, and for Bu»sorah
about sixty-eight Bales of Cloth and Thirty two Bales of Long Ells all which
we intend to put on board the other Bombay Ships to be forwarded to you as
conveyances offer from that Place, You are to expect no Drap cloths in this
last Quantitty, all we design this season being laden on the Prince Edward.