The contents are as follows. (i) Notes relating to the Fowey election committee, 1791, with notes relating to the Pomfret case in 1624 (folio 1); (ii) Papers relating to the election litigation in the case of the Honourable George Abercromby against the freeholders of Stirlingshire, 1802-1805 (folio 71); (iii) Notes relating to Scottish burgh reform, 1792 (folio 91); (iv) Papers relating to the impeachment of the 1st Viscount Melville, 1806 (folio 95); (v) letters and papers of and concerning General Douglas Wemyss and judicial proceedings against him in Ceylon, 1804-1806 (folio 139).