Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench, Dymoke Lyster, and George Skipp, East India Company Agent and council at Bussora [Basra], to William Bowyear, East India Company Resident at Bushire [‎222v] (2/2)

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The letter reports that Carem Caun [Karim Khan] has declared the Chaub [Banu Ka‘b] his subjects and warned the Turks to leave his dominions. Following this is the instruction to send surplus cash at Bushire to Basra in case the Khan turns hostile to the Company. There is approval for the purchase of a boat to carry correspondence between the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and the 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. , but disapproval sending the linguist to Yezd with so much of the Company's cloth during these dangerous times. It is explained that the Agent cannot authorise the Resident's pay rise, but he will put the case 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. .

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