Interference by the officers of the Peshwa in the collection of the Company's revenues in Salsi district - proposal that the Company's share of the revenues of Salsi should be exchanged for part of the Peshwa's district of Sidghar.
‘Report of Mr Forbes the Agent at Mocha relative to Mr Mungo Park.’
Scope & Content:
This item consists mostly of copies of correspondence cited in, or enclosed with, letters to and from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The primary subjects are: Reports of the appearance of a lone European in Abyssinia [the Ethiopian Empire] who is travelling in the direction of the Red Sea, a...
The Bombay Government recommend that a pension of 200 or 300 rupees 'per mensem' should be awarded to the son of Mancherji, the late Desai of Navsari, on account of the services which Mancherji rendered to the Company in 1801.
The revenue farm of Ahmadabad city is restored to the Peshwa of Poona [Baji Rao] - objections of the Bombay Government to the conduct of the Peshwa's agent in Ahmadabad.
‘Delay in the conveyance of certain intelligence from Bussorah to Bombay.’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. It concerns the transmission of news about the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo from Bussora [Basra] to Bombay. The primary su...