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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
DECEMBER, 1917
2. Letter from Mr Bolts to Captain Cahill.
Sir
By virtue of special Powers from my Sovereign, Her Imperial Majesty the Empress Queen of Hungary, &c., &o., I have concluded a Treaty with the Rajah Copell, by which. he gives up to Her Majesty for over the Sovereignty of this River Timbe [Tembi], alias Mafumo, together with all the land within a certain district on the Western side thereof. I therefore hope that you will not take it amiss that I request you, Captain Cahill, will not in future order any Colours to be hoisted on her Majesty's Territory, where none but the Imperial Colours will be permitted. In the mean time, any Ground you may want to build Houses or Banksalls22 on for your conveniency, will be very readily allowed, subject always to Her Majesty's Sovereignty. On board the Guiseppe and Teresa, 4th May 1777.
(signed) WILLIAM BOLTS Bombay Diary 16 November 1777.23 Received by the Sloop Leopold a Letter from Mr. Bolts dated at Gogo, the 31st Ultimo. wherein he complained of the conduct of the Conimander of an English vessel at Delagoa and of the treatment he met with at Surat, and put to Us two Queries to which he requested our Answers. -
Consultation at Bombay Castle, 18 November 1777.24 Read the Letter received the 16th Instant from Mr William Bolte noe infra), to which a Reply must be given to the following purport by the Secretary.
That We cannot in Justice decide upon the Affair at Delagoa until we have called upon Captain Cahill and heard his Account of the matter.
Toat We cannot consider mere Strangers in India as entitled to the same privilege and attention in our ports as the Nations who have had Establishments and traded in the Country for upwards of a century and a half by vertue of Royal Grants and Phirmaunds (farmán).
That the Company, by Phirmaunds from the Mogul (Mughal Emperor] are Governors of his Castle and fleet at Surat, and as his Allies, must certainly be affected by any Acts offensive to his Government.
Mr Bolts must be further acquainted that, circumstanced as he has been with our Honble. Employers, He must be sensible he can expect no further Countenance or Attention from Us than what the Laws of Hospitality indispensibly require.
Bombay Diary, 19th November 1777.25 The Secretary, by Order, signed a Letter to Mr Bolts exactly agreeable to the Preceding Consultation.
(To be continued.)
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* Warehouses, wharves; derivation uncertain, probably bankišala, through Malay bangsal.
Bombay Public Consultations (1777), XLIV, 489. 21 Ibid, 494.
Ibid, 501.
