Appointment of Brigadier General Pierre Frederic De Meuron as Military Governor of Ceylon. Suppression of an insurrection of the Sinhalese inhabitants. Establishment of a Court of Justice at Colombo.
Failure of the plan to recruit Bengal Sepoys for the Madras Army. Increase in the number of local recruits. Plan for settling native veterans on waste lands.
Complaint of Baron de Reiger alleging ill-treatment of the prisoners of war of the Wurttemberg Regiment at Madras not upheld by the Court of Directors.