The main topics are the accusation of murder brought against Basil Cochrane through the death of his servant after flogging (folio 8) and Cochrane's contract with the East India Company for the monopoly of supplying the Company's troops in Madras with spiritous liquors (folio 115). There is a report, 1786, by a Company solicitor in reply to a petition presented by the Earl of Dundonald on behalf of Cochrane (folio 182), and an abstract, 1786, of Cochrane's case against the Company Directors (folio 198).