Measures adopted by the Committee appointed to afford relief to the inhabitants of Mauritius after the disastrous fire of 1816 - Thomas King, the Secretary of the Committee, is presented with the sum of 1,200 rupees for his valuable services.
Widespread destruction caused by a severe hurricane at Mauritius on 28 Feb 1818 - the Bengal Government comply with the request of the Acting Governor of Mauritius for 30,000 bags of rice.
The Select Committee at Canton forward to Bengal certain presents which had originally been intended for the Chinese Emperor at Peking - some of the presents are retained as presents for Native Chiefs, the rest are sold to the general public.
The Bengal Government subscribe for 100 copies of the Persian romance 'Katim Tai' edited by James Atkinson, and for 100 copies of the Arabic poem of Ka'B ibn Zuhair, edited by Sheikh Ahmed.
The Bengal Government decline to allow Dr John McWhirter, the presentative of Dr James Hare, to have further copies made of the late Dr William Roxburgh's botanical drawings.
Death of two natives at Hyderabad after they had been severely flogged on the orders of the British Resident, Henry Russell - question whether Russell had acted 'ultra vires', etc.
Abandonment of the plan to build a new lunatic asylum in Calcutta in consequence of measures being adopted for sending insane patients back to England, (includes a list of patients in the Calcutta Lunatic Asylum in September 1818, who are to be sent home, with remarks, pp 104-05)
