Copy letter from Board of Control to Rt Hon N[icholas] Vansittart [Treasury Sec]; comments on its resolution on supplies sent from India to Cape and arrangement for their payment; currency and rate of exchange
Copy letters written on reasons for delay of EIC fleet; passages for individuals; maintenance and passage to Madras of Lascars from recaptured ship; repair and departure of HMS Albion and HMS Powerful for St Helena; sailing orders for captains of Ceylon and Diana; permission for sale of eastern g...
Copy despatch from John Pringle, first EIC Agent at Cape to EIC Secret Committee on arrival at the Cape; British Naval expedition under Adm Sir George Keith Elphinstone to seize Cape; political situation at Cape; supplies for fleet
Account by Alexander Dixon, 3rd mate, Hope, of encounter with and capture of Dutch brig Hare at Delagoa Bay, masquerading as American ship, fitted at Batavia and loaded with arms, ammunition and supplies for delivery to Algoa Bay to farmers of Graaff Reinet for overthrow of Cape administration