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of life, and in our native country; the hope of which brings us all 
to this. 
These we believe are the ideas generally entertained of the Com- 
pany’s service: for had not the Court of Directors understood, and 
even allowed, the emoluments their servants become possessed of, 
in course from their arrival at the rank of factors, progressively in- 
creasing, till their arrival at council; we repeat, that had they not 
supposed these things, it seems impossible that they should have 
given into the most palpable contradiction to the nature of ail 
other services, and even of their own, in every other branch but 
the civil, by not increasing the allowances of their servants. The 
pay of the military keeps increasing, from a cadet to an ensign, to 
a lieutenant, to a captain, a major, a lieutenant-colonel, a full 
colonel, to a general, proportionally as they advance in rank. The 
marine does the same through every gradation; and even with 
that exactness, that a ship of a lesser or greater rate occasions a 
material difference of pay: whilst, by a contradiction to common 
sense, without the supposition above alluded to, the subsistence of 
a civil servant continues the same through every rank, whether a 
writer or a senior merchant; whether he has served the Company 
one hour or one and twenty years; whether he is fresh arrived, 
and without acquaintance, or whether his first wants are increased 
by a climate-worn constitution, a decent regard of appearances, 
and a degree of conformity to the manners of the place, requisite 
to preserve acquaintance, and the good opinion of the world; 
whether married or single; in short, whatever may be his situation, 
this diet money, which was never thought of as an adequate sub- 
sistence, and is below the salary of the lowest clerks of the offices 
