8vo. 41pp, [1]. Modern gilt-tooled red morocco-backed red cloth boards. Stab-stitch holes to gutter, occasional chipping to margins. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to head of title page.

The second located copy of an anonymous critique of the 'grossly irregular' publication of a pamphlet by East India Company Army officer and abolitionist Colin Macaulay (1760-1836) entitled Desultory Notes on a cursory view of some papers extracted from the records of the East India House, which have been printed for the use of the Committee of the House of Commons on the Travancore Petition (London, 1832).

In 1832, Macaulay gave evidence before a select committee inquiring into a claim for payment of a debt due to be paid by the rajah of Travancore to the estate of the late John Hutchinson, resident of Anjengo. Hutchinson's descendants had accused Macaulay - formerly a political resident at the court of the rajah of Travancore - of scheming to prevent the settlement of the claim. Macaulay's Desultory Notes defended his conduct during the affair. The committee exonerated Macaulay and recommended a bill for settlement of the debt (though the measure was subsequently defeated when the claim was later deemed fraudulent).

OCLC and COPAC together record a single copy (BL).