Extract of a General Letter from Bengal. States that public notice has been given about the prohibition of trade to Suez. Bengal government request permission from Bombay to purchase a vessel to take letters to Suez since letters can no longer be entrusted to merchant ships.
Extract of a letter from John Abbott, consul at Aleppo, to Sir Robert Ainslie. Reports arrival of despatches to Baghdad and the sending of a messenger to Basra. Dated Aleppo
Letter from Richard Hughes to Peter Michell, Secretary to the Company. Hughes has received letter from Rumbold Charlton Raikes stating his appointment as agent but has received nothing from the Company. Dated Cairo
Paper listing various copied letters; correspondence received from Cairo and Constantinople, February 1777 to January 1779; and extracts of letters from Ainslie respecting expenses incurred, January 1779 to August 1781. Marked "C."