IOR/R/15/1/19, ff 143-146

The letter is transmitting a dispatch to Major General Sir William Grant Kier. The subject of the dispatch is a boat captured by HM Sloop Curlew on 21 May 1819 and legal proceedings to be taken to determine how to dispose of said boat along with associated property; currently the boat is being held at the Bushire Factory. It includes advice from Ollyett Woodhouse, HM Advocate in the Vice Admiralty Court of Bombay, on the prospects for pursuing a legal case against the boat for piratical acts. The dispatch consists of eight enclosures:

1. A copy of a letter from William Newnham, Secretary to the Government, Bombay to William Walpole, Captain of HM Sloop Curlew and Junior Officer in the Persian Gulf, dated 17 July 1819.

2. A copy of a letter from William Newnham, Bombay to William Walpole, dated 28 August 1819.

3. A copy of a letter from Hugh George Macklin, Advocate General, Bombay to William Newnham, dated 21 August 1819.

4. A copy of a letter from William Newnham, Bombay to William Walpole, dated 27 September 1819.

5. A copy of a letter from Richard Morgan, Political Department, Bombay to William Newnham, Acting Chief Secretary to the Government, dated 23 September 1819.

6. A copy of a letter from Ollyett Woodhouse, Bombay to Richard Morgan, dated 22 September 1819.

7. A copy of a circular from William Walpole, Bombay to William Newnham, Acting Chief Secretary, dated 20 September 1819.

8. A copy of a circular from William Walpole to William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, dated 28 December 1819.