Letter from Charles Cornwallis, Chennai, to John Shore, Baron Teignmouth, 1793 October 9 : autograph manuscript signed.

Writing "I cannot leave this Country without repeating my anxious wishes for the continuance of your health and the success of your Government. As I shall certainly be upon the watch about every thing respecting India, as well as probably in the habit of seeing Ministers, I beg you will not scruple to write to me on any point either public or private in which you are interested, and in the mean time that you will be assured that as far as I know your sentiments, I will endeavour to counteract any plan or resolution at home that militates against them;" assuring him that "Cherry" (possibly George Frederick Cherry) can provide full explanations of any papers or memoranda; adding in a postscript that though "there is no system here in revenue or commerce, and in fact every thing is still to be begun, yet I must in justice say that the ordinary business of Government is carried on with purity and economy;" writing of Sir Charles Oakley (Governor of Madras) and saying that his character, "'tho not calculated for great reformation, has a considerable claim to esteem and respect."