A volume made up in June 1899 from a bundle of loose papers and the contents of a...

(1) pp. i-iii, Index (Incomplete). (2) pp. 1-313, Correspondence (largely originals) regarding the property of Jean (or Claude) Francois Bonnet, Commandant de place, or Governor, supposed to have died at Pondicherry between 1787 and 1789, between Messrs. Amory & Coles, Amoty, Sewell & Moore, W. Ancrum, M. Anselme, P. Auber (Secretary to East India Company), M. Banizette, G. Bankes (Board of Control), J. Bardinel, Mary Letitia Barrett, M. Baulant, Bengal Government, Antoine Bertine, R. M. Bonet, C. Bonnet, F. Bonnet, M. Bonnin, Aug. Boyson, Capt. H. Burn, W. Cabell, W. Carter (Assistant Secretary), Court of Directors, Madame d'Acosta, J. Dart (Secretary, East India House), D. R. Bonin Dupont, Messrs. Fladgate, Young & Jackson, P. Gaubil, Ignatz Gramling, W. T. Grant, M. Grundler, L. Guiot, J. Halkett, Sir G. Hamilton, C. Hertslet, Robert Henry Jones, E. A. J. Journe, Chevalier Lafont de la Vernet, C. L. Leschine, P. L'Eveque, Madras Government, A. Maillett, Count Mandelsloh, J. C. Melville (Secretary to the East India Company), Robert Moore, Baron Nettement, H. M. O'Hanlon, Louis Perratt, T. Pickford, Prince de Polignac, C. J. P. Renaud, F. Rosaz, D'Antonio Rossi, Col. James Rowles, Baron Saquier, J. Sarens, Schallar & Hein, Small, Colquhoun & Co., M. Vincent, Lord Young, 19th April 1825 to 14th Jan. 1833. (3) p. 315, List of Correspondence between Government of Bengal and Court of Directors; pp. 316-8, Bengal to Court 9th Oct. 1839, Court to Bengal 6th Feb. 1839, H. T. Prinsep (Secretary, Bengal) to C. Morley (Accountant-General) 8th May 1839, states that Francisco Claudio Bonnet was the assumed name of a Neapolitan subject named Girordat Palamoni. (4) p. 319, J. M. Macleod (Secretary to Government) to -- 3rd Aug. 1825, No money lodged in the Company's Treasury on account of M. Bonnet. (5) pp. 321-2, Memorandum stating that the Company is not in possession of Registers or Newspapers giving the birth or death of M. Bonnet and is not aware of any of his property having been lodged in the Company's Treasury, n.d. (6) p. 323, Substance of Under Secretary of State's reply to persons enquiring after the property of Claude Francois Bonnet 1863. (7) p. 324, H. M. Lawford to Under Secretary of State, Drapers' Hall 25th April 1866, returning documents in the case of Jean Buissé Mercier v. Secretary of State in Council; pp. 326-30, List of Documents returned.

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