position on than these speculations, relative to the meaning of the 
Company; there is hardly a writer sent out, but what the indivi- 
dual gentlemen of the Direction, friends to their parents, recom- 
mend those parents to send some money with their children; and. 
to make them some allowances, because of the insufficiency of the 
appointments of the Company during their writership, to the real 
necessities of life here. We can speak for a certainty as to our- 
selves: and there are of us, who can affirm, that having mentioned 
to gentlemen of the Direction this insufficiency, the answer con- 
firmed the ideas above attributed to the Company in their ap- 
pointments: it was, that the writership was esteemed as an 
apprenticeship in Europe; and that, conformable to the practice 
there, young men must look to their friends for assistance during 
that period. 
It may at first appear strange, and even absurd, that this allow- 
ance to a writer, not held adequate even to his subsistence, should 
yet continue the same through every gradation of the service, even 
until they arrive in council: to explain this, it is again necessary 
to have recourse to the ideas entertained of the Company’s service, 
and of the advantages arising from it. 
It is almost needless to remind you, Gentlemen, that, after the 
expiration of his writership, a servant of the Company becomes 
by their orders capable of trust; that in consequence of this he is 
admitted to be of the council at subordinates, where he of course 
holds some office of trust: that from the emoluments of these 
offices a senior servant of the Company could acquire a decent 
maintenance until his arrival at council, when he would be enabled 
to acquire that independent means of subsistence in the latter part 
