The Bengal Government request further instructions from the Court of Directors before executing their orders of 6 November 1807 regarding the duties to be levied on the trade of European foreigners and Americans with British India.
Papers regarding the condemnation of the brig Burmah, Vol 2 (includes a transcript of the proceedings in the Vice-Admiralty Court, Bengal, with excerpts from the ship's log, a list of the crew, cargo manifesto, etc).
Monsieur Sers, a French prisoner of war who had mortally wounded another French prisoner Perron Depraires in a duel at Chandernagore, is sent to Mauritius for trial.
The brig Burmah which had been seized as French property is condemned in the Vice Admiralty Court at Calcutta as a Droit of Admiralty and not as a Prize of the Company - question whether the Company should appeal against this decision either to the Court of Admiralty in England or direct to the C...