Proposals for improving the legal education of Civil Servants in the judicial branch of the service - separation of the judicial and revenue branches - a chair of Jurisprudence to be established at Fort William College.
Outbreak of a riot at NEGAPATAM on 15 December 1807, owing to a dispute between two Hindu castes regarding a religious procession - complaint of the Assistant Magistrate Henry Robert Oakes that he was insulted by Surgeon Edward Mackay one of whose servants had taken part in the riot.