September

Septr. 1.
Sunday. —It rained all this day incessantly prodigiously heavy, and has rained every day less or more since my arrival at Bombay on the 11th. of last month. —

Septr. 2.
Monday! — Accounts were received this day from Calcutta that Marquis Cornwallis had set out from thence on a progress to the Upper Provinces, and eventually to assume the Personal Command of the British Grand Army in the Field! —

Septr. 15.
Sunday. — By this day's Post we heard that Marquis Wellesley, the late Governor General, had Embarked at Calcutta on board the Howe Man of War for England on the 21st. of last month; His Lordship having been recalled at the express solicitation of the Court of Directors To His Majesty's Ministers and Board of Control.

Source Macquarie, Lachlan. Journal No. 6 July 1804 - 16 March 1807.
Original held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney.
ML Ref: A770 pp.257-258. [Microfilm Reel CY300 Frames #370-#371].