Lieut Colonel Thomas Hawkins is permitted to draw the batta of his rank in addition to his civil allowance as one of the Superintendents of the Mysore Princes.
Request made by Mehemet Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, to the Governor General of Bengal, for an alliance with the British Government - an unauthorized commercial treaty is concluded between Mehemet Ali and the Company's emissary Giovanni Benzoni.
Captain K B Stuart, formerly a mercenary in the Maratha service, is appointed Chief Assistant and Persian Interpreter to Lieut. Colonel David Ochterlony, the officer commanding the Field Detachment in the Cis-Sutlej territories.