"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٢‎٣‎٥] (١٧٨٢/١٣٩٠)

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that he should ultimately retain charge of it, if he pleased ; but during
Mr. Price's visit his powers as Agent were to be in abeyance, an
opportunity, however, being afforded him at Basrah of disproving the
charges brought against him by Mr. Shaw. Mr. Douglas, who was
senior in standing to Mr. Price, preferred not to go to Basrah on these
terms; and, after withdrawing the Bandar 'Abbas establishment ind
sending most of the stock to Basrah, he returned to India without
meeting his successor. The result of Mr. Price's inquiry was to show
that Messrs. Shaw and Garden, though they had disobeyed orders, had
not been guilty of any dishonesty, and that Haji Yusuf was really
indebted to Mr. Shaw to the extent of 11,674 Tumans; and for this
amount Mr. Price succeeded in obtaining an a obligation " from the
Haji.
Hereupon the Bombay Government, in January 1764, held that
Messrs. Shaw and Garden were still answerable to the Company for a
balance of 11,807 Tumans, which had been struck on the 24th of March
1702; ordered Mr. Shaw to Bombay, where, with a seat in Council
•" conformable to his standing " he was to await the decision of the Court
of Directors; and cancelled the suspension of Mr. Garden, but refused to
appoint him to the post of Second at Basrah, for which he had apparently
been recommended by Mr. Price. Mr. Shaw, however, did not see
fit to comply with these lenient orders, and instead betook himself to
Aleppo, w hcio he remained for some time without even informing the
Directors in London of his presence there; and the Court, in November
1764, on becoming aware of this further circumstance, ordered him to be
dismissed from the Company's service, while at the same time they insisted
on Mr. Garden's being immediately recalled from Basrah to India.
Mr. Price, after discharging his commission, had left again for Bombay
m January 1764.
i his was the end of the case as among the servants of the Company
but it still remained to recover from Haji Yusuf the value of the goods,
belonging to the Company, which he had obtained from Mr. Shaw. Up
to March 17 ; I5 little or no progress had been made in the matter, the
Pasha of Baghdad apparently insisting on the production of proofs
attested by a Qadhi, and the Agent and Couucil at Basrah, with the
approval of the British Ambassador at Constantinople, refusing to
comply; and in that month Mr. Garden, who had meanwhile returned to
Turkish Iraq, was sent to Baghdad to interview the Pasha in regard
to this and other matters. The Kehiyah soon after asked to be allowed
to inspect securities to the value of 9,000 Tumans which bad been
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