ontest, Con- 
 
 
 Offer- - 
 
 to Ind:* - . . . 
 
 xander
 
 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
 AT LOS ANGELES
 
 REVIEW of the CONTEST, 
 
 concerning 
 
 FOUR NEW REGIMENTS 
 
 Gracloujly offered by His MAJESTY to be fent to INDIA 
 
 on the late apprebenjion of War, 
 s 
 
 and 
 
 ffljen t gratefully accepted^ 
 
 by 
 The Court of Directors, of the Raft-India Company^ 
 
 Who, 
 On the Change of Circumftances^ by the re-ejlablijbment of Peace, 
 
 Have 
 Refcinded their Refolution of Acceptance : 
 
 It appearing the Expence t to the EAST-INDIA COMPANY, 
 
 would be above 50,000 ^ annum 
 More y than a /z'fo number of Recruits fent to India 
 
 in 
 The Company's Service. 
 
 There is no pov/er in the tongue of man 
 To alter me : I ftay here on my bond. 
 
 A pound of that fame merchant's flefh is thine ; 
 The Court awards it, and the Law doth give it. 
 
 Shakefpear, Merchant of Veni 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 Printed by GEORGE BIGG, 17!
 
 -K-3 
 PREFACE, 
 
 np 
 
 A HE Writer, of the following Sheets^ 
 was impelled, on penifal of the Papers de- 
 livered to the Eaft India Proprietors, to 
 .offer his fentiments on the fubject : he is 
 co very fenfible, how much he muft owe to 
 " the indulgence of the Publick, if they are 
 < favourably received, the fhortnefs of the 
 S time not permitting a due arrangement of 
 the materials in their beft order; a full dif- 
 cuflion of the arguments ; nor even correc- 
 tion of the language, in which his ideas 
 
 CD 
 
 > were firft exprefled. 
 
 The Writer is not ftimulated by any re- 
 *- fentments ; he has not individually, or rela- 
 tively, (but as a Subject of the Realm, and 
 a Friend to the Eaft India Company) any 
 interejl in the Conteft; he lives in habits of 
 Friendlhip with Some on all fides of this 
 Queftion : He has feen too much of the 
 World, ever to expect, even that men who 
 well, mail think alike ; and having 
 always maintained the right of judging for 
 bimfelf, he has learnt to allow that fdf-judg- 
 a 2 ment 
 
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 went to others, without imputing profligacy 
 of intention, or weaknefs of underftanding. 
 
 The Writer is not accuftomed to fpeak, 
 with reservation of his opinions : He therefore 
 fairly avows, that feveral circumftances have 
 raifed his apprehenfions, " that it is in Some 
 (( Men's Contemplation to abclijh the foliti- 
 " cal Exijtence . of the Eaft-India Company 
 <( in 1 794, when the prefent term of Their 
 " exclufive Charter expires." 
 
 The Eaft-India Company, under the check 
 of The Crown and Parliament whenever 
 They abufe their truft, and the execution of 
 effential Juftice, on their Servants who may 
 be found guilty, is the only Eftablimment, 
 under which India will not be the certain 
 and fpeedy RUIN of THIS COUNTRY. 
 
 The confequence of unqualified, India Pa- 
 tronage to THE CONSTITUTION, in whatever 
 hands that unqualified Patronage Jhould be 
 placed, would be TOO FATAL ! not to give 
 an alarm! at the moil diftant movements of 
 THIS MINISTER OF DESTRUCTION! 
 
 26th February 1788.
 
 2 ijl Ftlruafry, 1788=' 
 
 A HE matter lately under difcuffion at the 
 India-Houfe, which comes before the Pro- 
 prietors of Eaft-India-Stock, on Wednefday. 
 next, for their final determination by Balot, 
 is of the moil ferious concern ! 
 
 An impartial Bye-ftander cannot without 
 aftonimment behold to what lengths This 
 Difpute has been carried! when he fees a 
 Meflage, in ' the ftile of an Egyptian-Tafk- 
 Mafter, declaring that The Board of Gontroul 
 are determined to provide 'Tranfports for car- 
 rying thefe Troops to India at fhe Company's 
 expence, left, eventually The Reference to the 
 Court of Proprietors mould not be conform- 
 able to" their wim ! altho' the Court of 
 Directors had humbly requefted " no 
 " meafures might be taken, by H. M. 
 " Minifters, for tranfporting thofe troops, 
 " 'till the fentiments of the General Court 
 66 could be known;" and had before in- 
 formed the Board, " that after difpatching 
 " the Bombay and China Ships, there 
 " would remain 17 Ships, in which H. 
 B M. troops
 
 " M. troops might be conveyed to India, 
 " in cafe the meafure Ihould be finally 
 " determined upon. 1 * 
 
 This led me to inveftigate the whole Pro^ 
 ceedings ; of which I think it proper to give a 
 fummary View. 
 
 The Act of Parliament of i4 tTl George the 3^ 
 required The Eaft India Company, to make 
 every practicable retrenchment, and reduction, 
 in their Eftablimments in India, Civil and 
 Military ; and, after receiving the neceflary 
 information, The Court of Directors were to 
 declare, what would be adequate to the fup- 
 port of the dignity of the Kingdom, and the 
 iecurity of the Britifh Pofleflions in India. 
 
 The Company were in the mean while, 
 retrained from fending any new Servant to 
 India, Civil or Military, under the degree of 
 Counfellor or Commander in Chief* 
 
 After The Proper Eftablimment was 
 agreed upon, The Company were reftrained 
 
 from
 
 ( 3 ) - 
 
 from appointing a greater number of peribns to 
 be .Writers or Cadets, or in any other capacity 
 than what would be fufficient to fupply vacan- 
 cies, and keep the Eftablimment compleat.' 
 
 When this Eftablimment was compleated, 
 The Company were required to make all pro- 
 motions, civil and military, in regular pro- 
 greffive fucceffion to the higher ranks, accord- 
 ing to feniority and annually, within fourteen 
 days after the Meeting of Parliament, to lay 
 before both Houfes, a fchedule of their Civil 
 and Military Eftablimment. 
 
 There is fo much found policy and good 
 fenfe in thefe Regulations, that every impartial 
 Perfbnmuft give them his heart- felt approval. 
 
 In 1785, The Eaft India Company ac- 
 cordingly formed the outline of this permanent 
 Eftablimment : which, in general, met with 
 the approbation of The Board of Controul : buc 
 The Board made confiderable reduttion in the A 
 number of European Infantry in Bengal: oa 
 B 2 this
 
 ( 4 ) 
 
 this The Court of Directors remon ft rated, 
 on the 26th Augnft; and The Board in their 
 reply, dated 5th September fay, " with re- 
 *' gard to the number of Europeans on the 
 f * Bengal Eftablimment, we were inclined to 
 " think it fufficient for the purpofe of that 
 41 Government, confidermg the flattering pro- 
 ** fpeft of peace in India, which the prefent 
 " ftate of your affairs appears to promife. 
 " And it is evident, that in every confidera- 
 " tion of this fubjecl:, regard muft be had not 
 " only to the advantage to be derived from any 
 f given number of Europeans, but alfo to the 
 " probability of your being able to fupport 
 *' fuch eftablimment by a fufficient annual 
 ?* proportion of recruits from Europe ; for if 
 !' this cannot be done, .a larger nominal Efta- 
 f* blifhrnent, deficient in it's effective Jlrength^ 
 " may add to the ex fence, but cannot increafe 
 ff the fecurity of your province's." However 
 The board were induced to add to the Military 
 Eilablifhment at Bengal, two battalions of 
 ^uropean Infantry and one battalion of Euro- 
 pean
 
 ( 5 ) 
 
 pean Artillery, " by which (The Board obierve 
 <" to the Court of Directors) the whole num r 
 " her of Europeans in your Bengal army will 
 " amount (officers included) to above 5000 
 f ' men, a force exceeding that ftated by you to 
 u be necerTary,andy#//j/ adequate in our opinion 
 " to thefecurity of thofe valuable pojjejfions" 
 
 The foregoing will clearly mew, what was, 
 on all fides, confidered to be a Peace EJlab- 
 lijhment fully adequate to the fecurity of India* 
 
 The Eafl India Company were, by the 
 2i st of G. 3 d , to pay to His Majefty, 
 Two Lacks of Current Rupees y annum 
 for each Regiment confifting of 1000 men, 
 fent to India on the reouifition of the Company. 
 
 It had been ufual at the conclufion of the 
 War, for all his Majefty's Forces ferving 
 in India to be called home ; with a permiffion 
 given them to enlifl in The Company's Ser- 
 yice : However, at the conclufion of the late 
 
 War,
 
 ( 6 ) 
 
 War, there remained in India Several of 
 His Majefty's Regiments, viz. 
 
 Regiment of Light Dragoons 
 . . of Foot 
 
 befides 
 
 2 . , of Hanoverians 
 
 The Number wanting to compleat The Complement! 
 of thefe Regiments by the laft Return dated ift February 
 
 1787 was 2644 
 
 Recruits fent out 1786 and 1787 not then arrived 1280 
 
 Deficient 1364 
 
 Suppofing none died, and no Cafualties in India 
 
 But, by computation, it appears the Cafualties 1 JQQQ 
 of a year amount to . . . . j 
 
 So that the number required to be fent now to 1 , 
 
 compleat the Complements would be J 3 4 
 
 And at theip arrival, probably, in proportion to "I 
 annual Cafualties . . J 
 
 Total deficiency to compleat HU Majefty*s"l ^, 
 Regiments now in India , . . J 
 
 The Deficiency of Privates, in The Eafl> 
 India-Company's Military Eftablifhment, by 
 the laft returns from India, of January 
 
 1787, viz. 
 
 lafantry
 
 ( 7 ) 
 
 Infantry Artillery Total 
 
 Eftab. returns Def. Eftab. rets. Def. Eftab. rets. Def. 
 
 Bengal 3264 1917 1347 840 707 133 4104 2624 1480 
 
 Madrafs 2176 1175 1001 560 52$ 35 2736 1700 1036 
 
 Bombay 1088 648 440 280 2^1 29 1368 899 469 
 
 6528 3740 2788 :68o 1483 197 8208 4223 2985 
 
 Deficiency by the laft return 4 . ' 1985 
 Recruits fent out laft Seafon . . . - / 1937 
 
 Deficiency fuppofingnone died, and no cafualties 1 
 
 in India . . . . . . J IO 54 
 
 But, by the beft calculation that can be made, the \ 
 cafualties in a year amount to . 
 
 Deficiency now exifiing . . . . 2 1 54 
 
 And, by the time f their arrival, more about 350 
 
 Total Deficiency to compleat the Company's "I 
 
 Peace Entablement . . . . j 2 ^4 
 
 The Number of Recruits, necelTary fof 
 The Company to fend out this year, to 
 compleat their Peace Eftablifhment, being 
 2500; The Court of Directors, on the 
 3 1 ft Auguft-^Sy, applied to His Majefty 
 for Permiffion to recruit (not exceeding 
 1500 Men) purfuant to the act of the 21 ft* 
 
 The Royal afient was not communicated, 
 by the Secretary of State, 'till the joth 
 
 October,
 
 c 8 i 
 
 October, a very reprehenfible delay, from 
 neglect, for I will not fuppofe any intention, 
 by Public diftrefs, to compel The Eaft 
 Iridia Company to accept of the Four 
 Regiments afterwards offered . 
 
 The Situation of Public affairs, foori 
 after the Company's application for per- 
 miffion to recruit, making the event of a 
 war with France more than probable ; Oil 
 the i yth Oaober 1787 The Chairman 
 acquainted the Court of Direftors with the 
 Meads of a Converfation held by Mr. Dundas, 
 with himfelf and Deputy Chairman. The 
 Heads of this Converfation were communicated 
 by Mr. Dundas in writing, enclofed iii a 
 letter to The Chairman dated I3th October, 
 to prevent inaccuracy in the communication ; 
 and Mr. Dundas mentions that the Copy 
 had been conveyed to His Majefty, wfio 
 approved it: It is fortunate this paper was 
 a written communication, becaufe otherwife, 
 had it retted merely on the words of a 
 
 converfation
 
 ( 9 ) 
 
 'converfatlon, very different reprefentatiohs* 
 of the purport of that converfation, might 
 have beeri afterwards made by the different 
 parties concerned in the tranfacliion. 
 
 It appears, by Mr. Dundas's letter of 
 i ^th October, that this Converfation hacf 
 occurred a few days before; altho' it does 
 not appear The Court of Directors re- 
 ceived any intimation concerning it, 'til! 
 the i yth. 
 
 The Paper follows 
 
 "It is His Majefty's intention Imme- 
 *' diately to raife four Regiments for 
 " fervice in India, each Regiment to 
 " con lift of ten companies with the follow- 
 " ing Eftablimments, I Colonel, i Lieut. 
 " Colonel, i Major. 7 Captains, l Capt, 
 4< Lieutenant* -22 Lieutenants. 8 Enfigns. 
 " i Adjutant, i Quarter-Mailer. I Surgeon, 
 " i Surgeon's-Mate. i Chaplain 30. Serjeants. 
 
 C " 40
 
 66 4 Corporals. 20 Drummers. 2 Fifers.' 
 
 " 710 Privates. * 
 
 " In forming thefe Regiments it is his* 
 " Majcfty's wifli to extend the benefit of 
 " this meafure to the meritorious Officers 
 " in the Eaft India Company's Service as 
 " well as His own, and therefore He is in- 
 " clined to take the recommendation of 
 " the Eaft India Company to the follow-" 
 u ing Commiffion's in the faid Corps, viz. 
 
 " i Lieut-Colonel. 3 Majors. 14 Captains. 
 " 44 Lieutenants 16 Enfigns. 
 
 " The number of privates to be raifed 
 " for thefe four Regiments will amount 
 " to 2840 men, which His Majejly undertakes 
 
 " to 
 
 * Total, officers included. ] o o n -n 
 
 each Regiment j 8 * 8 m a11 4 **&** 339* 
 
 Commiffion - offi- ] 
 
 eers and Privates j 8 2 ' ' *
 
 ( 11 ) 
 
 -" to ratfe, on condition of The Company 
 " bearing a proportionable fhare of the 
 " expence, which at five guineas f 9 * man,^ 
 " for one half of the levies, will amount to 
 " about .7000, to be paid when the men 
 *' are raifed, 
 
 " The Officers to be recommended 
 66 by The Company mud be of fimilar 
 " rank ki their fervice." 
 
 Here let us paufe a little! It cannot 
 but appear that His Majefty's Minifters 
 have indifcreetly brought themfelves into aa 
 EmbaralTment.^-Are thefe Regiments a&ual 
 State Regiments provided for by Parliament ? 
 or are they not ? if They are not ! It is a mea- 
 fure fraught with the moft alarming apprehen- 
 fions ! For, according to that Doctrine ! His 
 Majefty may raife what number of Forces 
 He pleafes, without the confent or cogni- 
 fance of Parliament: Provided his own 
 Finances, or Refources, can pay Them. 
 
 C 2 , If
 
 If They are, They cannot be con- 
 tinued as a permanent Eftablifhment in 
 Peace, without a repeal of that At, by 
 which That permanent Eflablilhment was 
 virtually fixed. 
 
 I confefs The continuance of any Kings 
 troops in India, during Peace, appears to 
 me, a dangerous I if not an unconflitutional 
 
 * 
 
 meafure! for altho' we may have nothing 
 to apprehend from His prefent Majefty, 
 to what an alarming fituation may this 
 Country be reduced ? if The Sovereign 
 may employ its Force, in foreign conqueft, 
 without the concurrence of Parliament 
 particularly if The Sovereign Power 
 ihall be the only deliberative, or efficient, 
 power in India and The Eaft-India-Com- 
 jpany the Mere-Regifters of Its Edifts ! 
 
 It is from His prefent Majefty's Prudence 
 |nd Philanthropy we muft trufl for the 
 
 Eftablifhment
 
 ( '3 ) 
 
 Eftablifhment of our future fecurity, by 
 His moderation in retraining His own 
 power for the benefit of pofterity left 
 Ambition fhould ever incite any Prince, 
 hereafter, to facrifice the happinefs of a 
 People to the fplendor of his own Glory ! 
 and what ^Throne is there, that has not 
 been filled with fuch Princes ? 
 
 " Extenfion of Dominion is an irre- 
 " Jtftible defire; The confiderate Statef- 
 " rrian mutt perceive India to be fuch a 
 " FIELD ! that, if once opened to the 
 u Imperial Force of this Country, our 
 " Powers, however great, would be fwal- 
 " lowed up, and vanim, like the vail Rivers 
 " in the Sandy Deferts of Africa. But 
 ^ whilft left folely to the Company, the 
 " Government can calmly look on and 
 v *f lay I'husfarftah thou go, and no farther" 
 
 When The Heads of Mr. Dundas's Con- 
 verfation were communicated to The Court 
 
 rf
 
 ( 14 ) 
 
 v of Djre&ors, It was without any previous in- 
 timation, to The Members of the Court, 
 pf the Subject of deliberation, as is 
 iifually done, when any Matter of importance 
 is to be difcufled : When it was intro- 
 duced, It was urged, that this was a Matter 
 of that nature and importance, as required a 
 full examination and confi deration ; wherefore, 
 an adjournment was propofed : but the Chair- 
 man, without allowing the fame number of 
 days, for the Court's deliberation, as He himfelf 
 had taken to introduce It, even refufed twenty- 
 four hours for conn" deration, and Precipitately 
 infifted on an immediate determination, with- 
 out any Documents, of Expence or Confe- 
 quences, being produced. 
 
 On the Balot it was by 10 to 9 " Refolved 
 " that the Right Honourable Henry Dundas 
 *? be defired to exprefs the grateful ientiments 
 " of the Court of Dire&ors for His Majefty's 
 #< gracious attention to the fafety of The 
 " Company's pofleffions in India; and that 
 
 they
 
 ( -I ) 
 
 *' they confent to receive the fuccours offered^, 
 " in the manner propofed in the faid Memo- 
 " randum." 
 
 By what forced conftruftion of Words or 
 Grammar, confent to receive can be made fyno- 
 nimous to a requifition, .will require an Adept 
 in the myftery of Philology to point out. 
 
 When this offer of His Majefty was made, 
 The Situation of Public Affairs made it highly 
 expedient, for The Company t(faccept, almoft, 
 any Means of encreafmg their Military Force 
 in India; altho' no refolution, of fuch Import- 
 ance, fhould be taken precipitately, and with- 
 out due deliberation, His Majefty 's gracious 
 attention, to the fafety of The Company's 
 poffeffions in India, certainly had a claim to 
 their moft grateful Sentiments. 
 
 After riis Majefty's OrTer was accepted", 
 Difficulties arofe in carrying into effect, that 
 part of it, by which The Company were 
 
 to
 
 ( '6 ) 
 
 to recommend their own officers to be com- 
 miffioned in His Majefly's Service. 
 
 To underftand thefe circumftances, It may 
 be neceflary to fay a few words, on the different 
 nature of the Military Promotion and Pro- 
 vifion, in the King's and Company's Ser- 
 vice. 
 
 In the King's, It is well known there is 
 no regular gradation before an officer be- 
 
 O ^'>fc 
 
 comes a Colonel, but that inferiour Promotion 
 may be obtained, by favour in new Corps, 
 and by purchafe in the Old; 
 
 On the contrary, in The Company's Ser- 
 vice, Men have always rifen by feniority, hot 
 in Regimental, but in the Army Lift ; The 
 few abufes, of irregular promotions, is now 
 entirely prevented, by the Parliamentary Re- 
 gulations fecuring the fucceffion by feniority,' . 
 . in the Company's Service : where no pro- 
 .motions were ever tnade by purchafe, and 
 
 confe- j
 
 ( '7 ) 
 
 eonfequently that grievance, exifting to full 
 extent in the King's, has no place in The 
 Company's. Betides, in The Company's Ser- 
 vice, There is a Military Fund, eftablimed for 
 the benefit of Officers, their widows, and com- 
 mon foldiers, So that Men difabled by long 
 fervice, or difafter, have a certain provifion, 
 not only for themfelves, but for what is more 
 dear to them ! a Provilion for their Families, 
 which is a very important Superiority over the 
 King's Service. 
 
 It muft be obvious, that it was probable, 
 the moil meritorious of The Company's 
 Officers, who might have no all-prevailing 
 Friends in England, nor affluent Fortunes to 
 buy promotion, might not chufe, to forego 
 their certain profpefts in the Company's Ser- 
 vice, by accepting a Commiflion in the 
 King's. 
 
 The Court of Directors on the ipth 
 
 1787, Refolved, <6> That all officers who mall 
 
 D accept
 
 ( '8 ) 
 
 accept of Commiffions in His Majefty's Ser- 
 vice, fliall from that time be efleemed to have 
 relinquished. The Company's Service." 
 
 On an hafty view, this might appear to be 
 meant to difcourage their Officers from enter- 
 ing into The King's Service, but by The deed 
 of Agreement, between the Eaft India Com- 
 pany and Lord Clive, (who had contributed 
 to the Eftablimment of this Military Fund) 
 it was confined folely, for the benefit of 
 the Officers, &c. in the fervice of the Eaft 
 India Company. This refolution was, there- 
 fore, only meant, to prevent any doubts : The 
 extenfion to thofe Officers, not immediately in 
 the Company's Service, being beyond the 
 power of The Court of Directors, without re- 
 courfe to the new-confujion of Language, by 
 which, as consenting to accept is fynonimous to 
 require:Words being but wind may be explained 
 to mean any thing. 
 
 It
 
 ( '9 ) 
 
 It foon occurred to The Court of Directors, 
 that very great difficulties muft attend their 
 nominating; Officers to thefe Regiments : 
 
 o o 
 
 If the Senior Officers did not leave their Ser- 
 vice, in which they had been brought up, 
 Their Juniors immediately, by accepting a 
 King's Commiffion, ftepped over them. The 
 King's Officers of an equal denomination 
 having a Superiour Rank to The Company's. 
 Altho' this may be the legal Rule, whatever is 
 in itfelf unjujl^ cannot be made otherwlfe by 
 any Law Human or Divine ! That, of two 
 Brothers acting in the fame Public Duty for 
 their Country's caufe, one, receiving a bene- 
 diction by the King's Signature to his Com- 
 miffion, like the miraculous touch for the 
 Evil, mall at once fuperfede the unfantti- 
 fied Brother ; this is too prepofterous, in thefe 
 enlightened days, when the refpect to Kings ! 
 is the refpeft of reafon to the Fir/I Officer 
 of tfhe State, and not the adulation of Idolatry 
 to the Pageant. 
 
 D 2 On
 
 On the i ft Nov. 1787 It was referred to a 
 Board, of the Company's Field Officers, to 
 confider and report the befr. mode, of carrying 
 into effecl: His Majefly's gracious permiffion, 
 of appointing Half the Officers, under Lieu- 
 tenant Colonels, in the four new Regiments 
 going to India. On the 7th, the Report of 
 the Board of Field Officers was received, and 
 and It was, on Motion from the Chair, pro- 
 pofed to take it into confideration, that day 
 three weeks : Which was on motion amended 
 to fuefday next the I3th Inftant. 
 
 On the i ^th Nov. 1787, When the Court 
 met, a letter from Brigadier General Richard 
 Smith was read, of that days date, recom- 
 mending to the Court, to endeavour to obtain 
 relief, for The Company's Military Officers, 
 who will be fubje&ed to the mortification of 
 ranking under their Juniors in iervice : The 
 Court had alfo before them other reprefen- 
 tations of the hardships, to which the Com- 
 pany's
 
 C ) 
 
 pany's Officers thought themfelves fubjcd on 
 this account. 
 
 The Court was converted into a Committee 
 of the whole Court, when a Petition was pro- 
 pofed to His Majefty, {taring the hardmip to 
 which The Company's Officers were expofed 
 on this head. 
 
 The Consideration was unanimoufly poft- 
 poned to the 2oth of November, in the mean 
 while the Chairman and Deputy Chairman 
 were defired to wait on the Board of Con- 
 troul to requeft their ferious confide ration of 
 the iituation of the Company's army in India, 
 in refpect of The Company's Officers being 
 commanded by Juniors bearing His Majefty's 
 Commiffion ; the diffatisfaclion which has al- 
 ready arifen in India on that Account ; the 
 probable increafe of fuch diffatisfaclion : The 
 decided opinion of the Committee, that it is 
 highly expedient to remove the caufes thereof, 
 by giving the Company's Officers rank with 
 
 the
 
 the King's, while ferving in India, accord- 
 ing to the dates of their refpe&ive com- 
 miffions ; that the Committee fear the moft 
 mifchievous confequences, arifing from the 
 prefent distinction, between the King's and 
 Company's Officers, and therefore moil: ear- 
 nejlly entreat the Right Honourable Board to 
 point out the mode of application, they think 
 mojl proper for the defiredpurpofe, and that they 
 will be pleafed to give their affiftance and fup- 
 port, upon fuch application. 
 
 The Petition which had been propofed 
 as a mode of application to the Crown 
 was communicated to the Board, but they 
 were apprifed, that the confidertaion of it 
 was poftponed, in hopes of being favoured 
 with the Board's fentiments. 
 
 On the 20th The Chairman and Deputy 
 Chairman reported to the Court of Di- 
 rectors, that they had attended the India 
 Board yefterday, with the proceedings of 
 
 that
 
 ( -3 ) 
 
 that day, when Mr. Dundas [the only / 
 Member prefent] informed them, he was 
 as defirous as the Directors could be, to 
 fee the Company's Officers happy and 
 fatisfied with their ranks; that the 
 Board had given the ftrongeft proofs of 
 thefe fentiments, in the General letter to 
 Bengal of 21 ft July, 1786 and that he 
 referred it to the coniideration of the 
 Court, whether it would not be proper 
 to wait the anfwer to that letter [expe&ed 
 by the firft fhip a ] before they take any 
 further fteps therein. 
 
 Several paragraphs on this footing were 
 then offered by The Chairman, but negatived 
 by the Court; who on a Balot " Refol- 
 ved That the Chairman and Deputy- 
 Chairman be defired to wait upon the 
 Right Honourable the Commiffioners for- 
 
 the 
 
 * ,It is reported th'e Veflell that carried this letter was at 
 the Cape in November - An anfwer cannot therefore be 
 d by the firft Ship,'
 
 the affairs of India, to ftate to them the 
 difficulties the Court find themfelves under, 
 in filling up the Commiffions in the four 
 new Regiments intended to be fent to 
 India; and the dangerous difcuffions, 
 which ,they apprehend therefrom, among 
 their officers in India; and to confult 
 with them upon fome mode for obviating 
 the apprehended inconveniences, either by 
 an application to His Majefty for the 
 granting of equal rank to their officers, 
 ferving with His Majefty's Troops in the 
 Eaft- Indies, or for the with drawing entirely ', 
 the Regiments intended to be fent, in 
 confequence of the alteration which has 
 taken place in public affairs, and fmce the 
 adoption of the meafure." 
 
 On the 28th November The Court 
 were informed, that the foregoing Refolu- 
 tion had been communicated to Mr. Dundas, 
 who had promifed to lay it before the 
 
 Board
 
 c s : 
 
 Board, and that their obfervations thereof 
 would be tranfmitted iri writing. 
 
 On the 4th December a letter, from 
 Mr. Dundas to the Chairman, containing 
 the obfervations of the Board of Controul, on 
 the Refolution of the 21 ft Nov. 1787, was 
 laid before The Court of Directors. As it is 
 6f the utmoft confequence to the impartiality 
 6f difcuffion, that a fair Statement be given of 
 the Subject to be difcufled, It feems neceflary 
 to give the letter in the very words. 
 
 To the Chairman -of the Eaft-india Company, 
 
 " Sir, 
 
 " I have communicated to the other Mem- 
 " bers of the Board, the Refolution of the 
 <c Court of Directors of the 2 1 ft November, 
 " which I received from you', and the Deputy 
 " Chairman, a few days ago. We are all 
 *' equally imprefled with the importance of 
 " the fubjecl, and feel ourfelves as anxious as 
 E * any
 
 " any of the Dire&ors can be, that every pro- 
 " per attention fhould be paid to the fitwa- 
 " tion and feelings of the meritorious officers 
 " in the ferrice of the Eaft-India Company. 
 " The paragraphs in the diipatches to which 
 " I formerly referred you, are proofs that this 
 " fubjea has not efcaped our early attention* 
 " and the late communication of rank in his 
 " own army, offered by His Majefty, to no 
 " lefs than 78 officers, in the fervice of the 
 ' Eafl-India-Company, is a further proof that 
 " no opportunity is omitted of reprefenting 
 " our fentiments to His Majefty, in the man- 
 " ner we underftood to be moft conducive to 
 " the interefts of your officers. And from 
 " the fame motive it is that we wimed, that 
 "before adopting any general fyftem, to be 
 ' furnifhed with a report from the Governors 
 ' of your fettlements abroad, what, in their 
 " opinion, would moft effectually tend to an- 
 " fwer the objed we have in view. We 
 c wifhed for fuch a report, becaufe we have 
 * the beft reafon to know, that they feel 
 
 " cordially
 
 " cordially and impartially on this fubjecl: ; 
 ** and from their fituations have the heft op- 
 *f portunities of being informed what arrange- 
 " ments, under all the prefent cireumftances 
 " of the government of India, would moft 
 " completely accord with the fentiments of 
 " your officer* ferving there. But altho* 
 " this mode of conducting the bufmefs is irioil: 
 " confonant to our opinions, we^afVfar 
 " from wifliing to avoid a difcuflion of it 
 " with the Court of Directors, but in deling 
 " fo you mufl be aware that tfie fubjecl 
 <c leads to much more detail than probably 
 < you have yet given to it. We have given 
 " directions for the purpofe of* being au- 
 " thentically informed what are the number 
 * c of officers now in your fervice, with the 
 " dates of their Commiffions. Being fur- 
 " nimed with this information, we mail then 
 " be ready to enter into further detail, from 
 E 2 " which 
 
 " officer" fo in the lodia Houfe Copy. QJ> If officers 
 'in general are meant, or the Governor General ?
 
 f* which we mall be enabled to judge of 
 " the full extent of your propofition, and 
 " the confequences to which it necefiarily 
 " leads. 
 
 " Jn alluding to your propofition, we de- 
 ," fire to be diftin&ly underftood not to refer 
 " to the .concluding part of your refolution. 
 " The idea of diminifhing any part of the 
 f ' Britifli forces now in India, or in contem- 
 *' plation to be fent there, is fo adverfe to 
 * e what we conceive to be for the welfare 
 ** and fecurity of His Majefty's dominions in 
 c< India, we cannot allow fuqh an idea to 
 *' enter intp any further difcuffion to tak 
 f * place between us. 
 
 f * I have the honour to be, Sir t 
 
 f* Your moft obedient humble Servant, 
 " HENRY DUNDAS." 
 
 *' India Board, Whitehall, 
 " a9th' Nov. 1787." 
 
 I can*
 
 I cannot avoid making fome remarks 04 
 this letter ; Mr. Dundas dwells on His Ma- 
 jefty's offering the communication of rank in 
 His own Army, to 78 Officers in the Service 
 of the Eaft-India-Company, as a proof that no 
 " opportunity is omitted of reprefenting our [i. e. 
 " the Board of Controul] fentiments to His 
 " Majefty, in the manner we underjlood to 
 *' be mojl conducive to the inter ejls of your 
 " officers." 
 
 ,.-' ft si-V'\ 
 
 The Officers in The Company's Service 
 exceed 1800, who would be fuperfeded by 
 86 of His Majefty's Officers in the four Regi- 
 ments propofed. 
 
 But even the 78, fele&ed from The Com- 
 pany's for the King's Service, were to be 
 fuperfeded; for, admitting that it was the Senior 
 Officers of each Rank in the Company's Ser- 
 vice that would be converted, however im- 
 probable the fuppofition, Thefe Officers of the 
 Company's, were to be admitted according to 
 
 their
 
 ( 3 ) 
 
 heir tfan rank; and it is notorious 'that the 
 King's quota of 86 Officers, in thefe four 
 Regiments, were advanced a Jlep> They who 
 were made Enfigns, having before no Commiffi- 
 Qns;Lieutenants fromEnJtgns ; and Captains from 
 Lieutenants : So that in fact, in the very for- 
 mation of the Corps, the 78 Officers to be 
 nominated by the Company, were to receive 
 an eventual degradation. At the fame time 
 this eventual Degradation, is a proof of the 
 manner, The Board of Controul under/load to 
 be mojl conducive to the interefts of The Com- 
 pany's Officers. 
 
 But were we to admit, that there was no 
 degradation, actual or eventual, to thefe 78 
 Officers themfelves ; how does their promotion, 
 conduce to the intereft of 1800 Officers, 
 fuperfeded by 86 of His Majefty's Officers, 
 and alfo by thefe 78 Company's Officers con- 
 verted into Kings ; for when ever one of thefe 
 78 fucceeds to a fuperiour Rank, in his own 
 Regiment, he at once fuperfedes all the Com- 
 pany's
 
 ( 3' ) 
 
 pany'-s Officers of that fuperiour Rank, 
 to which he had been promoted. 
 
 What Mr. Dundas afterwards fays, con- 
 cerning the expected opinion from India on 
 the Subject, is undoubtedly a ftrong reafon 
 for not taking any meafure in adjufting the 
 point of rank, 'till that advice is received : 
 But it operates, on the other hand, as a ftrong 
 objection again ft fending new Regiments to 
 India ; to encreafc that diffathfaSl'wn, in The 
 Company's Officers, which is admitted to 
 be, on the general well-grounded, tho' a quef- 
 tion might arife, what was the beft mode of 
 
 removing it. 
 
 On the 5th December, 1787, The Court 
 of Directors taking Mr. Dundas' s letter of 
 2pth November into confideration, came to a 
 Refolution, profeffing their fatisfaction at the 
 former part of it, and declaring their readi- 
 nefs to give all attention to any commu- 
 nication from the Board on the Subjel. 
 
 But
 
 ( 3* 5 
 
 lt But that the Court have beheld, with 
 ^ the dcepeft concern, the determined 
 *' manner in which the Right Honorable 
 ** the Commiffioners have thought proper 
 *' to wave all further difcuffion upon the 
 " fubjed of withdrawing entirely the four 
 " Regiments intended to be raifed for the 
 " fervice of India. 
 
 " Defirous as the Court may be of 
 u uniting moft cordially with the Right 
 " Honourable the Commiffioners, in every 
 *' meafure which may be thought neceflary 
 " for the defence of his Majefty's dbmi-' 
 " nions in India, and Unwilling, when objects 
 4t of fuch importance are at ftake ; to in- 
 " termix with them the more private con- 
 *' cerns refpe&ing the powers of the Right 
 " Honourable the Commiffioners, and 1 the 
 " Court of Directors, They cannot be en- 
 " tirely filent upon the determination of 
 " the Right Honourable the Commiffioners 
 44 above alluded to, 
 
 " In-
 
 ( 33 ) 
 
 " In juftice to their Conftituents, and In 
 " difcharge of the truft which they have un- 
 " dertaken, they are bound to reprefent to 
 " the Right Honourable the Commiffioners, 
 " the very heavy, and as they conceive the 
 " very unneceflary expence which will be 
 " entailed upon the Company, by adding in 
 *' the manner propofed, the four new regi- 
 " ments to the Company's Eilablifhment in 
 " India. That they muft call to the recolr 
 " leftion of the Right Honourable the Com- 
 *' miffioners, that the meaiure was adopted 
 " under the preflure and apprehenfion of an 
 " immediate impending war, which left - 
 " the Company no option with refpecl: to 
 " the mode of railing men for their fervice. 
 " That nothing fhort of a neceffity, fo urgent, 
 ** could have juftified the Court in con- 
 ?' fenting to the loading of their Eftablim^ 
 *' ment with 86 additional officers, whilfl 
 f* fo confiderable a number of their own 
 " remain unemployed, the competency of 
 ** whom, to fill the feveral ftations, in 
 F V ?af9
 
 ( 34 ) 
 
 /' pafe of a war iu India, the Court 
 ; " humbly prefume is fufficiently effob- 
 '' limed, by the gracious offer which His 
 " Majefty has been pleafed to make, or 
 ," incorporating 78 of them into his own 
 4< troops. That the neceffity which firfr. 
 " led the Court to exprefs the grateful 
 " acqujefcence in His Majefty's intention 
 *' of fending the regiments in queftion to 
 ^' India haying now been happily remo- 
 V ved ? by the alteration which has taken 
 *' place in public affairs, the Court can 
 f have no doubt of being able, by the 
 ** affiflance of his Majefty ? s Minifters, to 
 ?* raife men for their, fervice, without incur- 
 f ring the enormous expence which the 
 f* four new regiments will bring upon 
 { them. 
 
 f< That as all poffible retrenchments, 
 *' both in their civil and military fervice, 
 f fi are poflitively enjoined them by the 
 |f ifpth and 4ift Sections of the 2fth 
 
 Chap,
 
 ( 35 ) 
 
 " Chap, of 24th George Hid, it would 
 " become more immediately the duty of 
 " the Court, in compliance with the in- 
 " junction fo laid upon them, by the 
 " Legiflature, to ftep forward: upon the 
 " prefent occafion, even if the anticipated 
 " revenues, and the enormous incumbrances, 
 < under which the Company is labouring,' 
 " did not point out tne neCeffity of the 
 " moft rigid and exact oeconomy. 
 
 " That for the reafons thus fubmittecf 
 '* to the confideration of the Right Ho- 
 <c nourable the Comrniffioners, tire Court 
 " are induced to hope, that the*y may be 
 " pleafed to alter their determination, which 
 " they feem to have taken, and concur 
 " with this Court, in a reprefeAtation to' 
 "-his Majefty, which may be the means 
 " of procuring fuch an ^hcreafe of Euro- 
 <4 pean ftrength as may be judged abfo- 
 " lutely expedient, in mode lefs deflruc- 
 *'* tiw to the welfare of the Company, and 
 F 2
 
 ( 36 > 
 
 " which will remove from the minds, of 
 " above 1800 gallant officers, the d'fguft 
 " and indignation, which they muir. natu- 
 " rally feel, from a moft cruel and un- 
 " merited fuperceffion, after having ferved 
 " the Company, upon the moft trying 
 " occafions, with zeal, fidelity, and fuc- 
 " eels, and whofe local knowledge, and 
 " paft experience, niuft render them much 
 
 \ " more ufeful to the Company ^ and to 
 \ 
 
 " the Public, than any other let of men 
 " whatever." 
 
 This Refolution was pailed- on the balot 
 by 14 to 7. 
 
 On the nth December 1787 the fol- 2 
 lowing letter from Mr. v Boughton Roufe, 
 the Secretary to the Board of Controul, 
 dated the 7th December, on the foregoing 
 Refolution was read, viz* 
 
 TV
 
 ( 37 ) 
 
 " To the Court of Direftors of the 
 u United Company of Merchants of En- 
 st gland trading to the Baft-Indies 
 
 " Gentlemen 
 
 " The R. H. the CommiiTioners for 
 " the affairs of India, having had under 
 61 coniideration the Minute of the Court 
 " of Directors of the 5th Inftant, I am 
 " directed by them to acquaint y6u that 
 " the generel fubject to which that Minute 
 " relates, being connected with objects of 
 " more entenfive concern than thofe to 
 " which their commiffion is conferred, 
 *' they have thought proper to fubmit it 
 " to His Majeny's confidential fervants for 
 " their confideration, in order that they 
 " may receive his Majefty's pleaiure upoa 
 " it. 
 
 " But that they think it neceflary expli- 
 *"' citly to inform the Court of Directors 
 *' of their refblution, not to concur with 
 
 w them' 
 
 35461?
 
 ( 3 ) 
 
 * 4 them in any fuch reprefentation to the 
 " King, as that which is mentioned in 
 " the conclufiori of their Minute, as they 
 <c entirely difapprove of the object, to 
 *'* which fuch a reprefentation would be 
 " directed, and ftill more of the terms in 
 *'' which that object is defcribed in the 
 ** Minute. 
 
 " I have the honour to be, &c. 
 
 " C. W. Boughton Roufe." 
 
 Whitehall, 
 yth December 1787." 
 
 The Court, after reading this letter, on 
 die motion of The Chairman adjourned. 
 
 The following Motion' was propofed irt 
 a Court of Directors held the ipth De- 
 cember 1787. " That it is incumbent 
 " upon this Court to make a refpectful 
 " application to His Majefty, humbly to 
 
 " requeft
 
 ( 39 ) 
 
 " requeft that he will be gracioufly pleafed 
 
 " to withdraw the regiments intended for 
 
 " fervice in India on account of the 
 
 " heavy expence to which the finances of 
 
 .* the Company will be thereby fubjected, 
 
 " and the diflatisfaction which the meafure 
 
 " muft unadvoidably excite amongft, the 
 
 " Company's Officers, now ferving in the 
 
 ?' Eaft-Indies, the Court being perfuaded 
 
 46 that in confequence of the alteration 
 
 .*' which has taken place in public affairs, 
 
 ." they fhall, with the affiftance of Hi$ 
 
 -" Majefty's Minifters, have it in their 
 
 " povy'er to raife any force that may be 
 
 " thought neceflary for the defence of the 
 
 " Eaft-Indies, upon terms . infinitely lefs 
 
 f burthen fome to the Company." 
 
 The Confideration was poftponed from 
 time to time 'till the i6th January 1788 
 when it pafled in the affirmitive by 12 to
 
 ( 40 ) 
 
 9, and a Committee was appointed to draw 
 up an humble addrefs to His Majefty ao 
 cordingly. 
 
 In the Interim, on the 2 8th December, 
 1787, The Chairman laid before The Court 
 of Directors the following note he had 
 received from one of His Maj city's principal 
 Secretaries of State, Lord Sydney, viz. 
 
 <f His Majefty's fervants do not propofe 
 " to advife His Majefty to alter the refo- 
 " lution qf fending the four regiments to 
 " India ; they obferve in the papers tranf r 
 " mitted to them by the Board of Con- 
 46 troul, that the Directors complain of the 
 *' effect which the introduction of fb many 
 *' officers of high rank in His Majeily's 
 M fervice into India will have on the fituation 
 ?' of the officers of thp Company^ Troops ; 
 " at the fame time they cannot but con- 
 *' fider the admiffion of the Company to 
 *f half the commiffions in the four New
 
 " Regiments to be a confiderable advantage 
 " to the Company's corps of officers. 
 " But as the Board of Controul has called 
 " for the dates of the commiiTions of the 
 " officers alluded to by the Directors, His 
 " Majefty's fervants do not think them- 
 " felves authorized to give an opinion con- 
 " cerning the meafures neceflary to be taken 
 " to prevent any juft complaint upon the 
 " fubject in queftion, 'till that information 
 " is laid before them." 
 
 On the 23d of January, 1788. This Pe- 
 tition refolved on the i6th January to be 
 prefented to His Majefly, was fubmitted to 
 The Court of Directors, and was by Ballot 
 approved, and application made to Lord 
 Sydney to prefent it to His Majefty, and 
 a copy ordered to be fent to Mr. Pitt. 
 
 This Refolution was diflented to by The 
 Chairman and alfb by the Deputy and 6 
 other Directors arid fubfequently by an other 
 
 Director, 
 
 G In
 
 ( 42 ) 
 
 In the prcfent confederation Individuals 
 pught to be put entirely out of the queftion, 
 I have therefore thought it faireft to bring 
 all Objections, made to the Refolution of 
 The Court of Directors by the feveral Mem- 
 bers, together. 
 
 i ft. That The Company on 1 7th October 
 had accepted the offer of the four regiments, 
 at a time and under circumftances that would 
 have made it treacherous to our Country to 
 have refitted and impeded their embarkation. 
 
 2d. Becaufe the Board of Controul and 
 
 . JJis Majefty's confidential Minifters have 
 
 unequivocally given their fentiments of the 
 
 necejjity of keeping up an encreafed permanent 
 
 furofean Force in India. 
 
 gd. Tlje additional Expence does not 
 appear nearly fo great as ilated. 
 
 4th,
 
 ( 43 ) 
 
 5th. Becaufe there was ftrong reafon to 
 hope the Board of Controul will on receipt 
 of the Opinion daily expelled from India,- 
 concur with the Court in their endeavours to 
 obtain from his Majefty, fuch mark of His 
 Royal favour to the Company's Officers a$ 
 will remove every juft caufe of complaint 
 on the fubje& of their rank whilft ferving 
 with His Majefty 's Officers in India. 
 
 6th. Becaufe it was doubted if His Ma- 
 jefty 's Mmifters would (without having 
 recourfe to Parliament) give fuch power to' 
 the Company as would enable them to railc 
 any force that may be thought neceflary 
 for the defence of the Eafl-Indies, upon 
 terms infinitely lefs burthenfome to the Com-. 
 pany, and even with frem Parliamentary 
 powers, if any great laving could be made 
 in the expence of raifing a confiderable force, 
 
 ;th. Becaufe Ships' bound to Coarf arid 
 
 China, that do not fail by trie' middle of 
 
 G * Febffe/
 
 (44 ) 
 
 February run feme rift of lojing their pajfage 
 by the ufual track to China, and fuch as are 
 bound to Bombay and China that may remain 
 after the loth February have not much chance 
 offaving theirs. 
 
 That the Expence of Demurage daily in- 
 curring by their detention is very confider- 
 able. 
 
 That all the Ships bound to China carry 
 Treafure to purchafe the Cargoes to arrive in 
 England in 1789, and that a difappointment 
 of their returning in proper time will be 
 attended with much lofs to the Company. 
 
 8th. That the Refolution of 1 6th January, 
 1788, will tend to promote and encourage 
 that diflatisfa&ion, amongft the Company's 
 Officers, which that Refolution feems to be 
 apprehenfive of. 
 
 9th. When
 
 ( 45 ) 
 
 9th. When the Regiments were accepted 
 the ftrongeft aflurances were conveyed thrj 
 the Chairs, that His Majejlfs Regiments Jerking 
 \nlndiajhouldbeconjlantly kept compleat. It 
 therefore cannot now be expected, that 
 Government will fo far break it's engagements, 
 as to dljband thefe four Regiments, or keeping 
 them compleat at home transfer the burthen on 
 the Publick to enable the Court of Directors 
 to raife the privates for four additional Regi^ 
 ments to be added to the Company's prefent 
 eftablifhment in order that the other half of 
 the Office^ might be furnifhed from among 
 the fupernumeraries now in India. 
 
 loth. Becaufe in a letter received the 7th 
 December, 1787, the Board of Controul have 
 politively refufed their concurrence to any re- 
 prefentation to the King^ to flop the four Re- 
 giments from proceeding to India. 
 
 -iith. Becaufe His Majefty's Servants have 
 notified in a paper received the 28th December 
 
 that
 
 ( 46 ) 
 
 that they did not mean to advife His Majefty to 
 alter the refolution offending the four regiments 
 to India, and they muft be moft competent to 
 judge of the political views of the feveral 
 powers of Europe. 
 
 1 2th. Becaufe after fuch information which 
 may reafonably be concluded to convey His 
 Majefty's Sentiments any further reprefentation 
 would appear an unnecefTary repetition. 
 
 1 3th. Becaufe It was apprehended the 
 Court would appear to be wanting in refpect 
 If, after the affurances given, the Court did 
 not confide in thofe aflurahces, that effectual 
 nieafures would be taken to remove anyjujt 
 Complaint upon ihefufy'eff of rank In India. 
 
 Laftly. Becaufe it is to be feared that no 
 further applicatlm can have any ejfeft if the 
 Petitions already prefented from the Com- 
 pany's Officers to procure them equality of rank' 
 in India with thefe of the King's, and ths 
 
 repre-
 
 ( 47 ) 
 
 reprefentations which have gone from this 
 Court, to explain the jujlnefs of their requeft? 
 and to enforce the necejjity of doing away the 
 Inferiority of rank, has not been fufficlent to 
 convince His Majefly's Mlnljlers and the 
 BoarJ of Controul, that the good of the &r- 
 y/rc and Safety of the Publlck weal, prefs in 
 the Jlrongejl manner the removal of a dljllnc" 
 tion fo oppreffive and injurious to the Company's 
 Officers. 
 
 This may be confidered, at leaft with as 
 
 ' \ 
 
 much propriety, the firjl argument in favour 
 
 of the Court of Director's Refolution, as ob- 
 jeftlon to it ; for furely the good of the 
 Service and z//y of the Publlck weal, preffing 
 in the ftrongeft manner for the removals? a 
 dtftin&ion fo opprejfive aud injurious to the C?#z- 
 pany s Officers / Every refiftance is not only 
 proper ', but politively incumbent, and it would 
 be a poor apology to alledge that the Minif- 
 ters and Board of Controul, and not the Court 
 of Directors, wete refponfible for the encreafe 
 
 of
 
 of Diicontent, by delaying to relieve the juft 
 complaint of the Company's Officers, 'till op- 
 preffion and Injuftice overwhelmed the Pub- 
 lick Safety, and It would be an injurious re- 
 proach, to His Majefty's Minifters, to fuppofe 
 they would, for ever 9 turn a deaf ear to jufl 
 remonftrance. 
 
 I have been thus diffufe in ftating all the 
 Objections, becaufe there appears to me fo lit- 
 tle folidity in them, that I was afraid, if I 
 had only recited fuch as had any weight or 
 fpecious appearance, that it would have been 
 fufpecled I had unfairly ftated them. I 
 fhall now offer fome animadversions upon 
 them. 
 
 ift. Then, becaufe It would have been 
 treacherous to our Country, at the eve of a 
 war, to have refufed the offer of Four Regi- 
 ments ! muft, in profound peace. Four Regi- 
 ments be fent ? were it only, even merely, 
 
 fufpeftetj
 
 ( 49 ) 
 
 fufpecled that fending them will produce 
 alarming difcontents ; aad that too, without 
 any confideration whether an equivalent Force, 
 if necefTary, may not be fent without riik, 
 and at a lefs expence. 
 
 nd. Admitting the Board of Controul; 
 and His Majefty's Minifters, without any ex- 
 pofition of the grounds for their opinion, are 
 tinequi vocally for keeping ju^ an encreafed per- 
 manent European Force in India, Does it follow 
 that it is neceffary to be done in this mari- 
 ner ? Surely not ! 
 
 3rd. Concerning the Expence. The pro- 
 per Officer at the India-Houfe, the Auditor of 
 India Accounts, has ftated that the difference 
 in the annual expence, of the Four Regiments^ 
 or of an equivalent number of men fent 
 out by the Company, will be ^.51^312 iff 
 peace, and . $6,004 in the Field 5 and the 
 H difference
 
 ( 50 ) 
 
 difference in" the expence of fending them 
 out is . 10,625 more, for thefe Four Regi- 
 ments, than for the like number of Recruits 
 in the Company's Service. 
 
 Other Eftimates are given by Individual 
 Directors ; One reprefcnts that, inftead of the 
 expence being greater, the expence of the Four 
 Regiments is lefs, than an equivalent Force of 
 The Company's Service. 
 
 If the Auditor's Statement is exception- 
 able ? How came it to efcape objection, when 
 given in, or fmce, by pointing out in what 
 it is not juft ? There feems however to be no 
 ground for imputation againft the fidelity or 
 accuracy of the Officer ; but thofe Individual 
 Eftimates have a relation to a different 
 Statement. 
 
 The Auditor fuppofes, with good ground, 
 that The Company having now fo .many 
 
 Super-
 
 ( 5' ) 
 
 Supernumerary Officers/ do not require any 
 new Officers to be fent out, and therefore that 
 the Expcnce of Officers is unnecrfjary. The 
 other Eftimates feem to be made, on a com- 
 parifon of The Company's Expence of an 
 equivalent number of officers, of the fame 
 rank, as the Regiments contain: but this is 
 totally contrary to the principles and pofition 
 of their Opponents, who do not admit the 
 neceffity of any new Officers; and therefore 
 thefe Individual-Eftimates do not at all apply 
 to the matter in queftion, 
 
 6th. Objection, is a continuation of the 
 Former Objection and therefore would not 
 require any animadverlion if it was not for 
 an infinuation, injurious to the Character of 
 His Majefty's Minifters, as if they would not 
 give the ncceflary powers to the Company, 
 for enabling them to raife the number of 
 
 men, 
 
 The number of Officers of The Company reduced by th 
 Peace Eftabltthment amounts to 600,
 
 ( ja ) 
 
 men, thought neceflary for the defence 
 of the Eaft-Indies. As if it was poflible 
 for thefe Minifters to facrifice the Publick 
 welfare to refentment, 
 
 yth. Concerning the Ships whofe paffages 
 to China are hazarded. 
 
 If thefe allegations, were well founded, that 
 Ships for Coaft and China failing after the mid- 
 dle of February run feme rifk of lojing their faf- 
 Jagg by the ujual track, and thofe for Bombay 
 ^nd China failing after the loth of February 
 had not much chance of faving theirs they 
 yrould be fomewhat alarming to thofe who in- 
 fift on tranfporting the Regiments upon them 
 as thofe times of fafe-paffage are now pafTed. 
 
 But admit the Regiments are not to go to 
 India, where is the neceflity for thofe Ships to 
 proceed to Bombay and Madrafs ? fhey may 
 J)e difpatched to China direct, or in cafe the 
 proper Bombay and Madrafs Ships are unable 
 to take in all the Iron, &c. laden aboard 
 them, one or two going thither will be fufft- 
 
 cient
 
 ( 53 ) 
 
 cient to carry thofe Commodities, which may 
 be foon removed from one Ship to another : 
 and the Treafure proceed to China by the 
 direct Ships 5 Thofe Ships fent to Bombay or 
 Madrafs, who may be too late for the ufual 
 paffagt, may proceed to China by fome other, 
 and arrive foon enough to return that feafon; as 
 their cargoes would be ready for them to re- 
 ceive without delay, and the Major part of 
 the Ships going to China direct, aflure the 
 early arrival of the greater part in England; 
 
 5th. The expectation of receiving dally* the 
 reply to the letters of July, 1787, that went 
 by the Ranger in Auguft 1787, which Veflel, 
 it is reported, was at the Cape of Good Hope 
 in November, and could not therefore poffibly 
 get to Bengal before December, muft be at- 
 tributed to want of attention to circumftances. 
 But can it; reafonably be fuppofed that Lord 
 ornwallis would, immediately and precipi- 
 tately, give his opinion on the point in quef- 
 tion ? without time to cqnfult the temper ami 
 
 difpofition
 
 ( 54 ) 
 
 difpofition of the Corps? and therefore it is not 
 reafonableto expect an anfwer, till the arrival 
 of the latter Ships of next feafon : the Ravenf- 
 worth, or any Ship daily expected, muft have 
 left Bengal, before the letters referred to arri- 
 ved in India. 
 
 But let us confider the probable confe- 
 quence, Paragraphs arrive in Bengal, giving 
 flattering hopes that fomething is intended 
 favourable to the Company's officers, and 
 that it is only delayed, till the opinion of 
 Lord Cornwallis and Sir Archibald Campbell 
 is received, in what manner it is to be done. 
 The Sentiments of thefe Officers are tranf- 
 mitted to England j in the mean while ar- 
 rives Four New Regiments, as a permanent 
 \ Eftablijhment, and, being a permanent 
 SuperceJJion^ therefore the more grievous, by 
 Youths 'without experience or fervice. It is 
 a mockery to tell fuch men, in fuch cir- 
 cumftances, that they mujl wait with pati- 
 ence, for the favour intended them, when 
 
 every
 
 ( 55 ) 
 
 every juft caufe of complaint will be re- 
 moved: We may find men differ in 
 opinion, on this Side, and on that Side of 
 the Cape, What is juft caufe of complaint! 
 and They may fcorn the boafted boon of 
 78 Officers to the New Regiments as an 
 infulting degradation. 
 
 But what is the fubjed matter of thefe 
 Paragraphs ? not to give the Company's 
 Officers an equality of rank with the 
 King's in India but to make fome " ar- 
 " rangement relative to the refpecliive ranks 
 { of the King's and Company's Officers, 
 " fo as that neither party would have 
 ' rcafon to complain of irregular or unu- 
 " fual promotions" which does not convey 
 the moft dijlant idea of giving general 
 rank to the Company's Officers - and Mr. 
 Dundas's comment upon it, clearly imagines 
 that the Board of Controul thought, admit- 
 ting 78, out of 1800, Company's Officers 
 to enter into The King's, by giving up The 
 
 Company'*
 
 Company's fefvice, was to be held great 
 grace and favour to The Company's Ofc 
 fleers, at the fame moment fuperceeded 
 by 86 new Officers of the King's. 
 
 Having I conceive fully difcuffed every 
 , thing, bearing the femblance of argument 
 and reafon, aduced by the minority of the' 
 Court 6f Directors; It may, in juftice to 
 {he majority of that Court be proper to 
 fecite, at leaft, part of their reply to the 
 Diflents of the minority. But I muft repeat 
 the fubftance, of the latter part of their reply, 
 in the recapitulation ; the former is chiefly 
 taken up in the explanation of their conduct, 
 which feems to be irreprehenfible, and 
 does (hem honour. 
 
 The 9th objection, indeed, I have made 
 no animadverfion upon, becaufe I really 
 cannot tell what is the drift of it; The 
 Government no more breaks their engage- 
 ments by difbanding thefe Four Regiments, 
 than by difbanding any other Regiments, 
 
 when.
 
 ( 57 ) 
 
 when a Peace EftaWimment makes the 
 meafure expedient ; and the greateft part of 
 the men will be wanted to compleat His 
 Majefty's Regiments now in India. The 
 only. Expence to the Public, is the differ- 
 ence of Half Pay to the rank they were, 
 and in that to which they have been pro- 
 moted ; and of the Enligns who bore no 
 Commiflion before : - a Sum too trivial to 
 be named. 
 
 If the Regiments, now in India, had Su- 
 pernumeraries fent out, without Officers, 
 the Company could not object to pay a. 
 proportionate larger ftipend than for a 
 Regiment of 1000 men, and if Encreafe of 
 the European Force in India be truly the 
 Objett, it would be effected, in this mode, 
 to the Company's content and advantage* 
 
 But if Government did not chufe to fend 
 the men as Supernumeraries, the Com- 
 pany would be glad to receive any of 
 the Privates -enlifted for thcfe Regiments , 
 I and
 
 and the men would in all probability be 
 difpofed to enter into the Company's 
 jf.Tvice. 
 
 One circumftance forcibly ftrikes me. 
 All parts of the Court of Directors feem to 
 concur in the fuppofition, that it is the inten- 
 tion of the Board of Controul, and his Ma- 
 jefty's confidential Minifters, to recommend to 
 his Majefty, that local rank be given to the 
 Company's officers. For my own part, I can- 
 not fee the moft diftant infinuation to that ef- 
 ffec"l : it is true they talk of wifhing to remove 
 all jtift caufe of complaint, but the expreffions, 
 in which their wifhes are conveyed, brings 
 to recollection, two lines in a Popular Poem. 
 
 " Plain words, thank Heaven ! are always underftood, 
 " I could approve, I faid, ait that I 'would.' 1 * 
 
 But they would do well to confider ! the 
 confequences of giving an alarm to 1800 
 brave officers, at the head of 60 Batallions 
 of Seapoys. For the confequences would 
 be dreadful 1 if an idea Ihould arife (however 
 
 ground-
 
 ( 59 ) 
 
 groundlefs) that there was an infidious mten.- 
 tion, of amufing the Company's officers with 
 expectation of a favourable determination to 
 their claims: admitted to be jnft ! 'till the 
 expiration of the Company's exclujive Charter, 
 when, the King's Forces in India being deemed 
 adequate to its defence, the Company by the 
 claufe of a new regulating act, may be de- 
 prived of all military authority, and all their 
 officers, at once, be caft on the World help- 
 lefs and forlorn! without the Company, 
 who having it in their power to relieve their 
 neceflities, they muft remain a Company of 
 Merchants, entituled to carry on the Trade 
 to the Eaft-Indies, in common with other 
 fubjects. 
 
 By an artful, or perplexed, ftatement of the 
 queftion, apprehenfions have been propa- 
 gated, that the rejection of the four Regi- 
 ments, would leave India deftitute of the 
 Forces necefiary for its defence. But the 
 quefKon with the Court of Proprietors is
 
 ( 60 ) 
 
 not ? whether the neceffary addition of 
 European Soldiers fhall be fent? but whe- 
 ther 86 officers, many of them without ex- 
 perience, fhall go to fupercede 1800 of 
 the Company's old Officers, at an expence 
 of .51,000 per Annum to the Company, 
 more than the fame Forces, fent to be com- 
 manded by their own Officers, of whom 
 600 are now unemployed, and patiently 
 waiting 'till the neceffity of Public Service 
 calls them forth! at a time when almoft 
 the whole of the number of Privates in 
 thefe new Regiments, are wanting to com- 
 plete His Majefty's old Regiments now in 
 India, for which the Company are required 
 to pay, as if they were compleat, being 
 truly in that deplorable State, fo well 
 painted by the Board of Controul, " having 
 <f a large nominal eflablijbment^ deficient in its 
 " effective ftrengtk, adding to the ex fence, but 
 *' not tending to increafe the fecurity of 
 " the Company's PofTeffions."
 
 On the i ft February 1788, at a Court of 
 Directors, a letter from Lord Sydney dated 
 3ift January was read, fignifying, that his 
 Lordfhip had laid before The King, the 
 Memorial and Petition of The Court of Di- 
 rectors, which the Chairman and Deputy 
 Chairman delivered to him on the 24th 
 January, and had received His Majefty's 
 commands to acquaint them in anfwer thereto, 
 " that his Majefty does not judge proper to 
 " change his refolution of fending four 
 " Regiments to India; that in the formation 
 t( of thefe Corps, His Majefty attended to 
 " the fituation and pretenfions of the Com- 
 " pany's Officers in that Country ; and that 
 " his Majefty has it under his royal confi- 
 *' deration to make any farther regulations 
 6( which may appear expedient for the 
 " good of the fervice." 
 
 After deliberation on this letter, and on 
 the Law opinions on a cafe, prepared by 
 The Company's Solicitor, refpeding the Four 
 Regiments. 
 
 It was refolved by Balot " That the re- 
 
 " folutlon
 
 << folution of this Court of the iyth Oeto- 
 " ber laft, accepting the four regiments in- 
 *' tended for fervice in India, and binding 
 * the Eaft-India Company to the payment 
 " thereof, be refcinded," 
 
 This refolution was diffented to by fome 
 of the Directors. 
 
 At a Court of Directors the 8th Febru- 
 ary 1788, The Court was informed the Chair- 
 man and Deputy Chairman had attended 
 the Board of Controul the preceding day, 
 and that the Board had informed them they 
 would communicate, on, or before, the i2tli 
 their fentiments refpecting the propriety of 
 fending the four regiments to India, 
 
 At a Court of Directors held on the nth 
 the following letter from Lord Sydney was 
 read, viz. 
 
 To the Chairman and Deputy Chairman 
 of the Eaft India Company. 
 
 Whitehall, loth February, 1788. 
 C( Gentlemen, 
 
 " I have his Majefty's commands to ac- 
 " quaint you, that three of the regiments 
 
 " deftined
 
 ( 63 ) 
 
 ** deftined for India, are in readinefs for 
 (( embarkation at Chatham, Dover, Deal, 
 " and Portfmouth ; and to defire that you 
 " will inform me whether any, and what 
 " mips of the Company are ready for their 
 f< reception, and at what ports it will be 
 " moft convenient for thefe troops to em- 
 
 " bark. ';:". 
 
 " I am, Gentlemen, 
 " Your moft obedient humble fervant, 
 " SYDNEY." 
 
 A motion was made " that the Chairman 
 ff and Deputy Chairman mould be defired 
 " to confer and fettle with his Majefty's 
 " Secretary at War, the various matters ne- 
 " ceflary to the embarking the three regiments 
 *' mentioned in Lord Sydney's Letter, on 
 " board the mips now lying at Gravefend." 
 This motion was on the Balot negatived 
 and it was then Refolved, by Balot, " That 
 " the Chairman and Deputy Chairman be 
 * ' requefted to wait upon the Right Honourable 
 ff Lord Sydney, and to inform hisLordihip, 
 ** in the name of this Court', in anfwer to 
 
 his
 
 ( 64 ) 
 
 * his letter of the loth February inftant, 
 " that the Court of Directors have refcinded 
 " their refolution of the iyth October laft, 
 " accepting the four regiments intended for 
 " fervice in India, fo far as bound the 
 " Eaft-Company to the payment of the 
 " expence of the faid four regiments ; but 
 " that this Court, ever defirous of obeying 
 " his Majefty's commands, and of co-operating 
 11 with his Minifters, as far as they can, 
 " confident with the duty which they owe 
 " to their Conftituents and to the Public, 
 " are ready to receive and accommodate his 
 " Majefty's troops on board the Company's 
 " mips ; provided that it be clearly under- 
 t( ftood, that the faid four regiments do not 
 11 go at the requifition of the Court of 
 " Directors, that the Eaft-India Company 
 " are not bound to pay any part of the 
 <c expence thereof, and that fuch forces are 
 " not to be confidered as part of the per- 
 " manent eftablifhment in the Eaft-Indies." 
 
 At a Court on the izth, The Chairman 
 acquainted the Court that he had commu- 
 nicated
 
 hicated the Refolution of laft Court to Lord 
 Sydney, who had fignified his intention of 
 fending a letter to the Court on the fubjeift, 
 in the courfe of the day. 
 
 At a Court held the i3th February, 1788, 
 the following letter from Lord Sydney was 
 read. 
 
 Whitehall, 1 2th Feb. 1788. 
 " Gentlemen, 
 
 " I thought it neceflary to lay immediately 
 " before the Board of Controul, the anfwers 
 " which you delivered to me this day to 
 " my letter of the loth inflant. 
 
 " Upon a full confideration of the matter, 
 " the Board came to the Refolutions which 
 " I now inclofe to you, thefe refolutions 
 " having been fubmittcd to his Majefty, 
 " have met with His Royal approbation, 
 and I am commanded to defire that you 
 " will communicate them to the Court of 
 fc Directors without delay* 
 
 " I am, &c. 
 
 " SYDNEY." 
 
 *' Chairman and Deputy Chairman. 
 
 K At
 
 ( 66 ) 
 
 Whitehall, 1 2th February, 1788. 
 " At a Board of Commiffioners for the 
 Affairs of India, 
 
 Prefent. 
 
 " TheR. H. Lord Sydney 
 " William Pitt 
 " Henry Dundas 
 " W. W. Grenville 
 " Lord Mul grave 
 
 " Lord Sydney lays before the Board the 
 ic following refolution of the Court of Di- 
 tf rectors held yefterday, and communicated 
 " this day to his Lordfhip, by the Chairman 
 {( arid Deputy Chairman of the Eaft India 
 " Company, viz^ 
 
 " At a Court of Directors held on Monday 
 " the i ith Feb/i 788, Refolved, that the Chair- 
 " man, &c. (vide p. 63. 1. 14, from bottom.) 
 
 u the Board having confidered the above 
 " refolution are of opinion, that with refpe'ct 
 " to the two firft of the conditions therein 
 " contained, by which the Directors claim 
 (< a right to withdraw trie requilition for 
 " the (aid troops, and thereby to liberate 
 " themfelves from any obligation under the 
 <f Act of 1781, to pay the fums directed by 
 '* that Act to be paid by the Company for 
 " the King's troops going to India, at their 
 (f requilition ; they conceive it is by no means 
 
 neceflary
 
 ( 67 ) 
 
 " neceflary for them to enter . into the dif- 
 * f cuffion of that queftion. That it does 
 " not appear to the Board that the faid 
 " Act has made .any provifion for the cafe 
 " of the Court of Directors being defirous of 
 " withdrawing fuch requifition, or that it is 
 " by any means" clear that under the fpirit 
 " of the Aft fuch requifition could be with- 
 " drawn under the prefent circumftances, 
 " without making the Eaft-India Company 
 f{ liable to the payment of eonfiderable ad- 
 " ditional expences. 
 
 " That with refpedt to the third point, 
 " the Board do not conceive that the King's 
 " troops going to India, either under fuch a 
 " requifition or otherwife, are to be confidered 
 ( ( as forming any part of the Company's 
 " eftablifhment in the Eaft-Indies. They 
 ft certainly do not feel themfelves enabled to 
 " decide, at prefent, what may be the num- 
 f f ber of King's troops which it may at 
 " any time hereafter be expedient for his 
 " Majefty to flat ion in the Eaft Indies. But 
 f f the Board think it right to add, that they 
 fe do not now forefee any circumftances which 
 f are likely to alter their opinion, that the 
 K z " nurr^ber
 
 ( 68 ) 
 
 " number now going out are neceflary to be 
 " kept up in addition to the force actually 
 " there. 
 
 " That under this opinion the Board will 
 " feel it their duty to exercife the fuper- 
 <f intending powers which have been veiled 
 " in them over the revenues of the British 
 *' pofleflions in the Eaft Indies, in fuch a 
 .*' manner as may effectually provide that thofe 
 " revenues mail be applied to defray the 
 " expence of the force which they confider 
 (e to be neceflary for the defence of thofe 
 <e pofleflions. And they have no doubt that 
 " the Court of Directors will not think it 
 " expedient to bring upon their condiments, 
 " a confiderabb additional charge by com- 
 " pelling his Majefty's fervants to have recourfe 
 ts to any other mode of fending thofe troops 
 <e than that which has hitherto been ufual t 
 (( If the government is reduced to fuch a 
 " neceflity, the Board will undoubtedly feel it 
 " right, in every principle of juftice, to 
 <( diredb, that whatever may be the expence 
 * f of this mode of conveyance (hall be de- 
 (( frayed from the revenues in India." 
 
 The Court of Directors having deliberated 
 thgreypon, a motion was made to embark 
 
 the
 
 ( 69 ) 
 
 the troops, which pafled in the negative^ 
 and the Court adjourned. 
 
 The Court being met again it was by 
 balot " Refolved, that This Court do ad- 
 " here to their refclution of the iuh in- 
 <c ftant, and they will on Friday next dif- 
 " patch fuch mips as are ready to proceed 
 " on their Voyages to Bombay and China, 
 " left fuch mips, by the latenefs of the 
 " feafon, might be in danger of lofmg their 
 " paffage, and this Court do think it en- 
 " cumbent upon them to declare that there 
 (f will then remain 17 mips in which His 
 " Majefty's troops may be conveyed to In- 
 (( dia, if the meafure mould be finally re- 
 ff folved on by competent authority." 
 
 A lift of Ships to be difpatched was read. 
 
 It was then on feveral motions, by balot, 
 " Refolved that the Chairman and Deputy 
 " Chairman be defired to convey the fol- 
 (l lowing Refolutions to the R. H. Lord 
 " Sydney, in anfwer to his Lordfhip's letter 
 " of the 1 2th inftant, as the Court of Di- 
 " rectors humbly conceive, that the Refo- 
 " lutions of the R. H. the Commiflioners 
 f ^ for the affairs of India, are contrary to 
 " the Aft of the 24th of His prefent Ma- 
 (f jefty, and adverfe to the right and privi-
 
 ( 7 ) 
 
 '* leges referved to their Conflituents under 
 " that Act, they have refolved, that a MeeN 
 f ing of their Conftituents, be called for 
 " the purpofe of laying before them, the 
 " proceedings relative to the fending of the 
 <e four regiments to India, and until the 
 fl fentiments of their Conftituents can be 
 " known, they humbly requeft, that no mea- 
 * fures may be taken, by his Majefty's 
 " Minifters, for tranfporting thofe troops to 
 -*' India-" 
 
 The Court Refolved that a General Court 
 (hould be called, for Tuefday the i9th, and 
 that the Proceedings of the Court be printed, 
 and fent to each Proprietor forthwith. 
 
 The Court alfo Refolved, that it be re^ 
 ferred to the Committee of Shipping, to 
 take into their immediate consideration the 
 latefl times the Ships of this Seafon ought 
 to fail from the Downs, agreeable to their 
 prefent dedications, with a fair profpect of 
 making their paffages in proper time, and 
 report. 
 
 At a Court of Directors the I5th Fe- 
 bruary 1788, a letter from Lord Sydney 
 was read enclofmg the following Paper viz. 
 " Whitehall 14* February 1788. 
 
 " At a Board of Commiffioners for the 
 
 *t Affairs of India. 
 
 Prefer^
 
 ( 7.' ) 
 
 Prefent* 
 
 R. H. Lord Sydney 
 William Pitt 
 Henry Dundas 
 W. W. Grenville 
 Lord Mulgrave. 
 
 11 Lord . Sydney communicated the follow- 
 " ing Minute of the Refolutions of the Court 
 " of Directors, which was delivered to him 
 " this morning by the Chairman and Deputy 
 " Chairman. 
 
 " At a Court of Directors held on Wed- 
 " nefday I3th Feb. 1788, Refolved that this 
 " Court do' adhere, &c. (vide p, 69* line 4.) 
 
 " The Board having confldered the above 
 " Refolutions, obferve with fatisfaction, that 
 tc the Directors have agreed to fummon a 
 " Court of Proprietors, and lay before them, 
 " the Proceedings relative to the fending the 
 " four Regiments to India, as they cannot 
 " entertain a doubt, that the Proprietors will 
 " fee how materially their intereft is concerned, 
 <f in removing the obilrudions which have 
 tf been thrown in the way of tranfporting 
 " on board the Company's mips, the regiments 
 " which His Majefty thinks proper to fend to 
 " India. But to prevent any poffible lofs of 
 *' time, the Board are of opinion, that mea- 
 !< fures fhould be taken eventually to provide 
 
 a fufficisnt
 
 * c a fufEcient number of tranfports for carrying 
 " fuch of the Regiments as may be ready to 
 " embark ; and they think it proper to re- 
 " peat, their determination, to dired the 
 " expence of conveying the troops to be de- 
 " frayed out of the revenues of the Bfitifh 
 " poffeffions in India; as the protection and 
 " fecurity of thofe pofleffions is manifeftly the 
 (f obje6b to which the revenues arifmg there - 
 " from, muft, at all times, in the firft inftance 
 f( be applied. That Lord Sydney be requefted 
 " to communicate a Copy of this Minute to 
 tl the Chairman, and Deputy Chairman, for 
 44 the information of the Court," 
 
 The urgency of the time does not allow 
 the intended Recapitulation*
 
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