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every kind of provision and necessaries, and that their rates are 
daily enhancing; as you cannot but be thoroughly sensible of the 
same; we are therefore under the necessity of troubling your 
Honour, &c. with this address; most earnestly entreating you will 
be pleased to give us such farther provision as to your Honour, 
& c. shall seem meet. 
We cannot help observing, that we deem it peculiarly hard 
that an ensign on this establishment, shall receive sixty, nay, many 
of them who have double posts, one hundred and twenty rupees 
per month, while the generality of us have only thirty; that a 
subaltern officer shall enjoy such an income as will enable him to 
live genteelly, while too many of us are obliged to run in debt, 
merely to subsist: and flattering ourselves that we are (at least 
conscious of having endeavoured to render ourselves), equally de- 
serving of encouragement, are emboldened to trouble you with 
the above request; relying on your conviction of the justness of it, 
we beg leave to subscribe ourselves, 
Honourable Sir, and Gentlemen, 
Your most obedient and faithful servants, &c. 
Signed by myself, and sixteen 
other writers. 
Dated Bombay, 
1 st November, 1768. 
I am sorry to observe, that although the preceding letter was 
strongly recommended by the Governor and Council of Bombay 
to the Court of Directors, they took no notice of it at home, nor 
