"مختارات من أوراق الدولة في بومباي، بخصوص علاقة شركة الهند الشرقية بالخليج العربي، مع ملخص أحداث، ١٦٠٠-١٨٠٠" [ظ‎‎٢‎٥‎٣] (٥٤٠/٥٠٦)

Hon'ble Company's Hospitals in India, will as has been beforementioned reap considerable
Advantage, the Hon'ble Company, will be enabled to export annually larger quantities both
of the Manufuctures and Natural Productions of Great Britain, than they do at present, and
it may reasonably be supposed, now the Passage from India to Europe is reduced, to a
certainly, thai they will be able to send many Articles, the produce of Persia to the different
markets in Europe at a much cheaper rate, than thay can be brought there from any other
quarter.
W ith a view of promoting a Scheme, apparently so beneficial in its conseqtienees
the Framers of this report, beg leave to submit to the consideration of the British Govern--
ment in India, the means which in their opinion seem best calculated, to promote the
success both of it, and of the wishes, which the Hon'ble Company have expressed, to receive
an annual Supply of Carmenia Wool.
It is presumed, that the first step necessary to be taken, for this Purpose is for the British
Government at Bombay, to order one of the civil Servants upon that Establishment to proceed
into persia, without Loss of Time; and to give him Instructions to penetrate into the
different Provinces of the Empire, as far as the situation of Affairs will admit, to inform
himself as minutely as possible of 'the natural Productions of each Province, of the special o£
our Manufactures of which it may stand most in Need, of the probable annual Amount
of the consumption of the same, and of the present state of its Government. By these means
the Indents which it will be necessary to transmit to Europe, will be framed Mith a great
degree of Precision ; correspondencies will be formed with the different principal Merchants at
each place, the necessary forms will be adjusted with Government, and the Gentlemen to
whose care, the Management of the Hon'ble Company's Affairs in Persia, may be entrusted will
be furnished, with authentic Materials for the conduct and measures, which it may be necessary
for them to persue. A commission of this nature, or of lone similar to it, if performed with
Fidelity, and Accurateness, will prove a Task of no small difficulty ; and it will be indispen-^
sably necessary in case the sentiments thereon above expressed, are meant to be carried into
Execution, that the Person, so sent, to a competent knowledge of the Persian Language should
also join a knowledge of the Manners, and Cuttoms of the People, with whom iu the course
of his commission, he may have to negotiate, or of whom he may be obliged to seek for
information. With every possible Advantage on his side, it is conceived from Experience ( that
he must, and will, have greater reason to solicit the indulgent reception of the fruits of his
Enquiries, than to hope that they will produce him any addition of Fame.
Another measure, wich appears to the framers of this report, to be a necessary one ,
and which they accordingly with respect recommend to be adopted by* the British Govern
ment at Bombay is an alteration in the present Establishment of the subordinate of Bushire.
The Framers of this report conceive that not only in respect to the Prosecution of the Plan
aforementioned, but in respect to the general commerical Interests of the Hon'ble Company
in Persia, it would be adviseable to give the Title of the Hon'ble Company's, " Resident in
Persia " with an Authority to reside occasionally as he may judge most proper either at
Scherauze or Bushire, to the Gentleman to whom the Management of their Affairs in that
Country may be entrusted, and also to encrease the Establishment of covenanted Servant
in Persia, by appointing to the Assistance of the Resident a W riter, always to remain
at Bushire; and a Surgeon will skilled in the qualities of medicinal Drugs, for the purpose
of inspecting those which the Resident may wish to procure on account of the Hon'ble
Company. On its present Establishment, the Hon'ble Company in the opinion of the
framers of this report, do not derive any, or if any, very little advantage from the Factory
at Bushire. On the plan abovementioned, although the Expenses of the Establishment must
necessarily be encreased, there is a great Probability that the Hon'ble Company will receive
advantages more than adequate thereto. The late and present Government at Scherauze, was
and is according to the firmauns received by the Resident at Bussora, very anxious for the ex
tension of British commerce in Persia. In the year 1787 when Mr. Jones visited Scherauze
for the benefit of his Health, Jaafer Khan repeatedly, in the several Audiences to which that
Gentleman was admitted, expressed his desire of seeing Europeans settled at Scherauze; and if
the Matter has not been misrepresented he was at the time of his Assaslination on the point, of
causing Application to be made at Bombay, for an alteration of the Establishment of the
Factory at Bushire. A firmaun from Lutf Ally Khan, the present Ruler at Scherauze, to the