Notebook, probably belonging to William Kirkpatrick, containing an account of treaties between the East India Company and the powers of Hindustan with references to the Treaty of Seringapatam 1792, and to a proposed Treaty of Guarantee, 1793, between the Company, Hyderabad and the Marathas, to en...
Miscellaneous papers including 'Hints received from Mr Johnstone' on the conduct of business with the Hyderabad Government (nd); an extract from a paper on the possibility of a Maratha War (Dec 1801); and observations on a Commons Select Committee Report on the emoluments of the Company's militar...
Memorandum endorsed 'Sequel to the Memorandum on the Intelligence from Hyderabad', chiefly discussing relations with the Marathas and probably written by William Kirkpatrick shortly before his departure from India
Letters and papers from Capt Benjamin Sydenham, Private Secretary to Lord Wellesley, concerning charges brought against Wellesley regarding his conduct as Governor-General
Political Memorandums' by Kirkpatrick: (1) 'on the changes produced in our political situation by the Conquest of Mysore' (Nov 1799); (2) on the Peshwa (Jan 1801); (3) on the Treaty of Hyderabad (1800; missing)
Papers relating to Kirkpatrick's career including his appointment as Resident at Hyderabad (1793), his meeting with Lord Wellesley at the Cape of Good Hope and appointment as Military Secretary (1798), and his appointment as Resident at Poona (1801)
Letter from N B Edmonstone, Secretary, Foreign Dept, Government of Bengal, to Kirkpatrick (on sick leave, May 1801), sending him papers and correspondence relating to Capt W D Knox's negotiations with Nepal, Wellesley's negotiations with Oudh, and Malcolm's negotiations in Persia; and describing...
Papers relating to Lord Wellesley's settlement of the Carnatic question in 1801: (1) papers handed to Mr Wellesley-Pole, Feb 1803, justifying Wellesley's conduct and commenting in particular on the charges against the Nawabs deducible from papers found at Seringapatam; (2) a brief note; (3) note...
Kirkpatrick's answers to queries by Lord Wellesley regarding the French Corps in the service of Hyderabad, discussing its disbandment and political relations with the Nizam and the Marathas; further points discussing the European troops in Sindhia's service and policy in the event of an invasion ...