Minutes of a Court of Directors meeting. Announces appointment of Baldwin as Consul General in Egypt and orders Committee of Correspondence to decide whether or not to use Baldwin as packet agent.
Letter from Rumbold Charlton Raikes, bankers in the City of London, to the Court of Directors. States that they have full power of attorney from George Baldwin for monies on his account. Dated London, 4 April 1780. Read in Court
Letter from Richard Hughes to Robert Gregory, Chairman of the Company. Urges Gregory to inform the Company of the need for an agent in Cairo and to recommend Hughes for the post. Dated Alexandria, 1 May 1782. Received 13 July 1782. Read in Court
Letter from Richard Hughes to Messieurs William and Thomas Raikes, London. Urges them to help him seek an end to the uncertainty about appointing an agent at Cairo. Dated Alexandria
Printed copy of proceedings at the General Quarterly Court of the East India Company, 26 March 1783, to consider the case of George Baldwin. Marked "Dundas Papers, No. 16." Printed in the Strand
Extract of a letter from Sir Robert Ainslie to the Marquis of Carmarthen. Reports trading agreement between French and Egyptians, which was not referred to the Ottoman Porte. Dated Constantinople
Copy of covering letter from the Company to George Baldwin. Requests that commander of Company ketch Terrible Bomb stay in port until further orders. Dated London