Letter from Charles Cornwallis, London, to John Shore, Baron Teignmouth, 1795 March 13 : autograph manuscript signed.

Saying that he does not know if this letter will reach Shore before he leaves India, though the arrival of his wife and daughter may have detained him there; discussing current events at home and abroad: "The critical situation of this Country, and indeed of all Europe, occupies the full attention of our Ministers, who have little time to think of India, which, thank God, presents no pressing dangers. The military discontents alone seem to require immediate notice, and some arrangement is now under the consideration of the Court of Directors;" discussing his own position and describing the "very illiberal treatment which I met with in some of the Bengal publications, and the want of confidence, and indeed the indisposition towards me, which appeared in the Committees of Officers in London, where persons were allowed to take the lead, who had no claim whatever to be re-admitted into the Company's service..."; adding that this state of affairs made him glad to withdraw his plan from formal consideration, though copies of it will be sent out and he feels confident that "the sensible and candid Officers in the Company will not consider me their enemy;" mentioning that Major MacDonald will deliver this letter and praising him as the "best European that I have known in the service of a Native Prince;" referring to a proposal by Henry Dundas and leaving the decision about it up to Shore's judgment; adding that "Major MacDonald is as likely a man as I know to succeed."