Papers on miscellaneous subjects submitted to the House of Commons.

(1) pp. i-iv, List of Contents. (2) Orders of the House of Commons calling, pp. 1-2, 4th Feb. 1805, for Papers on Prince of Wales Island; p. 173, 18th Feb. 1805, for Papers respecting the Mogul; p. 429, 25th Feb. 1805, for Papers respecting the building of the Bombay Frigate and the Ship Cornwallis; p. 465, 9th May 1805, for Account of all claims by the East India Company on the Public; p. 473, 12th June 1805, for Accounts of numbers of soldiers whose terms had expired, number of recruits sent out and effective strength of the King's Army 1788 to 1794. (3) pp. 3, 5, 433, 437, 469, 481, Letters from G. Holford asking for and W. Ramsay transmitting the Papers required in (2) above 6th Feb. to 20th June 1805; p. 449, William Wright (Auditor of Indian Accounts) to John Meheux 5th April 1805 (Original) excusing delay in submitting Papers asked for in House of Commons Order of 12th June 1805. (4) pp. 9-171, Selection of Papers respecting Prince of Wales Island, presented to the House of Commons by J. Meheux 25th Feb. 1805; Correspondence between Court of Directors, Board of Control, Lords Castlereagh and Melville, Sir Andrew Hamond (Comptroller of the Navy), Philip Dundas, W. F. Elphinstone (Chairman) and William Ramsay 9th Sept. to 7th Dec. 1804, respecting building of ships of war in the East Indies and making Prince of Wales Island a naval arsenal. (5) pp. 45-58, 73-96, Memoranda by Paul Tate on certain timbers produced at Onore and Mergui which can be used instead of Teak, on the local advantages of Pegu for ship-building, on certain timbers growing in Malabar, Travancore and Cochin, the advantages of Cochin for ship-building, do. of Prince of Wales Island and the importance of Bombay, with letter to Governor Jonathan Duncan 14th April 1801. (6) pp. 97, 461, Estimate by Bombay Council of the expenses of building at Bombay (a) a frigate, viz. £21,250 and a 74, viz, £38,362 10s. (7) 175-425, ''Copies of all Treaties, Engagements and Correspondence between the Bengal Government and the surviving Mahometan States in the Upper part of India, particularly with the King or Mogul at Delhi or his Ministers, Presented to the House of Commons 22nd Feb. 1805.'' Contains only the Correspondence between the Secret Committee, London, Marquis Wellesley, Shah Alam, Gen. G. Lake, Graeme Mercer, Zeib-ul-nissa Begum, N. B. Edmonstone, William Scott (Resident at Lucknow), Lieut.-Col. Symes, J. Monckton, J. Gerard, William B. Bayley (Persian Secretaries), Saiyid Reza Khan, Archibald Seton, J. R. Salem (commanding Begum Sombre's Detachment in the Deccan), Col. John Seleure Run (or Rumi), Col. D. Ochterlony (commanding at Delhi), and Johanna Sombre, 22nd Feb. 1803 to 23rd Feb. 1804. (8) pp. 437-47, 453, 457, Accounts of the expense of building the Bombay Frigate at Bombay in 1791/2 (Rs. 2,18,246) and the Ship Cornwallis at Bombay in 1800 (Rs. 3,84,382). (9) p. 485, Account of the number of soldiers discharged 1788-94. (10) p. 489, Account of the number of Recruits sent out 1788 to 1794. (11) p. 493, Annual Returns of the effective strength of the Company's European Army 1788 to 1794, Presented to the House of Commons by J. Meheux 21st Jone 1805. The effective strength in 1788 was 6,742 and in 1794 it was 8,693.

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