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Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench and Robert Garden, Agent and Council at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire [‎208r] (2/2)

The record is made up of 2 folios. It was created in 14 Aug 1765. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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The letter is a reprimand for using the Company yacht to help blockade Meer Mahanna [Mīr Muhanna] at Corgo [Khargu] instead of returning it to Basra loaded with barley, as ordered. There is a request for the price of tin at Bushire as they have been advised to send it to Bagdat [Baghdad]. Also contains instructions to send surplus cash to the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. at Bombay and to debit the Bushire Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for the costs incurred by the recently-deceased Mr Rody, commander of the yacht captured by the Chaub [Banu Ka‘b].

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Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench and Robert Garden, Agent and Council at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire [‎208r] (2/2), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 207v-208, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100024196152.0x000037> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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