Enclosure in Letter from William Digges Latouche to the Secret Committee of 13 May 1783
Date:
1783/1783
Description:
Abstract: An extract of an intelligence report sent by Sir Robert Ainslie, HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, to William Digges Latouche, Resident at Bussora [Basra], received in Bussora on 23 May 1783.The report concerns the assembly of a large French force at Nice by Baron de Saint-Geniès, thought to be heading for India to capture Tranquebar [Tharangambadi] or establish a colony (see also IOR/L/PS/9/76/25).This extract was enclosed in Latouche’s letter to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors for Affairs of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies (East India Company), dated 13 May 1783 (IOR/L/PS/9/76/28 and 29).A duplicate of the report is catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/36.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)