IOR/F/4/448/10771

This item consists mostly of copies of correspondence, minutes, orders, and memoranda cited in, or enclosed with, letters from the governments of Bombay and Bengal. It concerns the application from Lieutenant Edward Hutchins Bellasis, of the Corps of Engineers in the Bombay Army, for remuneration for services performed and expenses incurred in relation to the Residency at Bussora. The main subjects are:

• The furlough granted to Bellasis from 1803 to 1805
• The departure from Bussora [Basra, also referred to as Bussorah] in March 1805 of Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora, with the residency left under the temporary charge of Bellasis and subsequently John Law
• The applications by Bellasis for remuneration for the duties he performed as Acting Resident at Bussora, compensation for the losses he sustained at sea following his departure from Bussora, and for additional allowances to cover the period in 1804 when he commanded the detachment that accompanied Manesty to Persia [Iran]
• The calculation by John Elphinstone, Accountant General, Government of Bombay, of the salary and allowances of the Resident and Assistant Resident in Bussora from 1802-06
• The consideration of Bellasis’s case by the governments of Bombay and Bengal and the East India Company Court of Directors, and the delay in a verdict being reached.

The title page (f 223) of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political No. 11, Season 1814/15, Draft 190’; and ‘Examiner’s Office, January 1815’.