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or, if not so, the time can be ascertained with sufficient accuracy by a 

 reference to the books of the General Treasury, which show up to what 

 date salary has been drawn and arrears adjusted with executors. Deaths 

 on shipboard, when not reported, are considered as of the year in which 

 the ship left India. 



From the above materials, the Court's annual list of appointments be- 

 ing taken as a ground-work, every individual name has been traced, and 

 the fate of the person who bore it, ascertained to the time of his death, 

 or of his quitting the service. The following statement exhibits the 

 result in one view with the date by the calendar year of each death or 

 retirement. If any one should desire to know the names of the 

 individuals represented by the figures of this table, that information 

 also is at his service in the registers that have been compiled, toge- 

 ther with the specific ground of placing in each instance. Our pre- 

 sent business however is with the results in abstract. 



This table corresponds with that of page 273 in the article of the 

 Gleanings referred to, only so far as that the number of appointments 

 between 17&0 and 1828 will be found to be the same. The number 

 here is 842, to which add 1 1 for those who never came to India under 

 their appointments, as noted at the foot of the table. The writer of the 

 article assumes 852*, showing that he has followed the same registers 

 without rejecting the non-arrivals, which, for the correct ascertainment of 

 the proportion of deaths, should evidently have been done. The table 

 requires to be well studied and examined, before we proceed to make 

 deductions from the data it contains. The test or verification of its ac- 

 curacy will be found in the last column, which gives the remaining ser- 

 vants of each year, that is, those still in the service, after deducting the 

 deaths and retirements, up to the date of compilation, from the number 

 of original appointments. See Table No. I. 



Now, the first thing to be remarked in this table is, that the appoint- 

 ments being taken from the date of the dispatch of the Court of Direc- 

 tors, which date is not invariably the 31st December or 1st January^ 

 the period comprised in the year of appointment is not a complete year* 

 Of the 19 men appointed in 1790, 15 only arrived in India in that 

 year ; the remainder came in 1791. But whether they arrived or not 

 would not very much signify, if we had their life to reckon for a com- 

 plete year. Ttie material circumstance is, that the appointments were 

 made at different dates, mostly, indeed, in the first half of the year before 

 May; but one gentleman (Mr. Leycester) was appointed in December, 

 1790, and yet reckons high on the list of the year. For this last reason, 

 added to the difficulty created by the non-arrivals, it has been deemed 



* This number is one short of the true, because there were two Robert Grahams 

 appointed in the same year, and they were supposed to be the same person. 



