Copy of proceedings in the Court of the Recorder of Bombay in the case of William Erskine, an officer of the court, with judgement against him by West for misconduct in his office. Also copy of an anonymous justification of Erskine containing details of the case.
Letter-book containing copy of a memorial, with annexed documents, from George Norton, Advocate General at Bombay, to the Governor in Council, complaining of the maladministration of justice in the Court of the Recorder of Bombay. [Critically annotated and underlined by West.]
Copies of correspondence between West and the Governor of Bombay in Council, and of West's own observations on the correspondence, about a complaint made by Mr. Warden, proprietor of the Bombay Gazette and the Bombay Courier, to the Court of Directors of the East India Company about West.
Correspondence between West and Mountstuart Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay 1819-27, about a challenge to a duel supposedly issued by Elphinstone to West.
Copy of a petition to Sir John Malcolm, Governor of Bombay 1827-30, from native merchants and inhabitants of Bombay, complaining of the incidence of violent crime and poor standard of policing in the city, with correspondence about the matter between Malcolm and West.