Supreme Court of Judicature, Bengal.

(1) pp. 1-76, Elijah Impey to Directors 20th Jan. 1776 with copy of remarks (already communicated to Lord Rochford) on separate Minutes by Clavering, Monson and Francis reflecting on himself and Messrs. Robert Chambers, S. C. Lemaistre and John Hyde, Judges of the Supreme Court, Special reference to the trial of Nundcomar and the limits of the authority of the Supreme Court. (2) pp. 79-669, Appendix to (1), Papers dealing with the cases of Nundcomar, Cheyton Singh Zemindar of Bissenpore, Colley Persaud Bose, Ray Radachurn, Comaul-ul-Dien Farmer of Hidgelee, Bussunt Roy, Raghoonundun Chowdry of Sundeep, Kosaul Chund, Budder-ul-Dien and case of J. Stewart against J. P. Auriol, and others in which in which the Supreme Court was charged with encroaching on the powers of the Governor-General and Council; also includes, pp. 197-224, A paper of separate opinions of Members of Council on the propriety of instituting suits in the Supreme Court between such natives as are connected with the Company's Revenue 1774-75; pp. 521-38, Addresses laudatory of the Supreme Court by the Grand Jury, Free Merchants of Calcutta, Armenians of Calcutta and the Natives of Calcutta (see H/121 (8)), pp. 631-65, Depositions regarding Nundcomar, &c. by Surgeon Kenneth Murchison, Matthew Yeandle, Keeper of the Jail, Robert Ghansiam Doss, Impey's Moonshy, and Messrs. Samuel Tolfrey, William Jackson, Charles Newman, Christian Frederick Brix, Alexander Elliott and Hercules Durham.

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