Extract from Fort St George Military Consultations. Complies with request to provide a statement of receipts and expenditure incurred on the overland mail since 1798.
Extract of Bombay Political Consultations Arrival of the Bombay, the Company frigate, at Perim with orders and stores for the Island. Reports that, contrary to Arab assurances, the wells on Perim have been dried up and disused for a long time.
Extract of Bombay Political Consultations Perim does not possess the advantages it was believed to hold. The Governor-General in Council recommends that British forces do not re-occupy the island.
Extract of Bombay Political Consultations Murray gives reasons for moving troops to Aden and not Mocha. Requests reinforcements for those soldiers taken on board the Bombay due to illness. Includes copied offer of friendship, commerce and religious compact between Ahmad bin Abdul Khinim, Sultan o...
Copy of letter from Jonathan Duncan to Lieutenant Budden, commanding the Company's cruiser, Princess Augusta. Instructions to fall in with HMS Suffolk and a transport fleet. Copy verified by J.A. Evans. Marked "No.5". Dated Bombay Castle, 3 March 1801 Received overland, 14 August 1801.