Lieutenant Francis Irvine is granted 300 rupees 'per mensem', plus 2,000 rupees for incidental expenses, to enable him to compile a work on political, moral and statistical economy - 1,800 rupees of the monthly allowance is paid in advance.
The Bengal Government request the Court of Directors to approve the subscription they have made to various oriental literary works (includes marginal comments made in the Examiner's Office in London).
Papers regarding four American missionaries Samuel Nott, Gordon Hall, Adoniram Judson and Luther Rice who had arrived illegally at Calcutta - they are ordered to proceed to Mauritius but Nott and Hall evade this order and make their way to Bombay where they are eventually permitted to reside.
The Bengal Government authorize the Council of Fort William College to subscribe 4,400 rupees for 100 copies of an Arabic Treatise on the science of rhetoric by Maulvi Jan Ali.
Protest of the Bombay Government against the impressment of certain sailors from the Company's cruiser Ternate by Captain Joseph Prior of HMS Arrogant.