The Bombay Government request the instructions of the Court of Directors regarding the Italian Catholic Clergy in the Bombay Presidency who they suspect may harbour Francophile sentiments.
Request of John Herbert Harington and Henry Thomas Colebrooke to be allowed to resign their professorships at the Fort William College - dispute between the College and the Court of Directors regarding a consignment of books sent home to England.
Papers regarding the cultivation of coffee and spices at Fort Marlborough - imposition of an export duty on spices - employment of Indian convicts in the spice plantations - restrictions on landholding by Europeans, etc. etc.
The Master and crew of the Portuguese ship Perseveranca which had been taken into Bombay to be adjudicated in the Court of Admiralty, are granted a subsistence allowance by the Bombay Government - general question of the rights of neutral seamen in the territory of a belligerent.
Two Munshis, Maulavi Mir Abdul Ali and Mirza Khalil are sent to England to teach Persian and Hindustani respectively at the East India Company's College at Hertford [Haileybury].