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We must again apologize to you, Gentlemen, for this long 
digression, and return to our subject: we repeat, that from what 
we have advanced one conclusion may be drawn, that in common 
with other gentlemen in their service, the Honourable Company 
always meant and understood, that their civil servants should 
possess adequate means of subsistence proportionably to the rank 
they bear. It is evident to you, Gentlemen, that our receipts from 
the Company will not supply the most common wants of life: it 
is a truth notorious to the whole settlement, that our necessities 
press very hard upon us; that we have not a rupee more than 
what we receive from the Company, nor the means to acquire 
one: as to those whose better fortunes in former times have placed 
them in such a state that their present situation is not a case of 
absolute distress, they still feel it as cruelly hard and unjust, that 
their little savings should be wasting away to administer to those 
necessities which they have certainly aright to expect should be 
supplied by their employers. 
In this situation. Gentlemen, we have no other resource but in 
your justice and humanity; which we hope you will be pleased to 
afford us, by granting us for the present such allowances as you 
may deem adequate to the real wants of life here. We feel, with 
its due force, the repugnance that every gentleman in station must 
have to innovations tending to increase the expenses of the Com- 
pany; nor would we have put you on the disagreeable task, if we 
saw any hopes of relief from any other mode, or even from time 
itself: for the continual appointments of the Honourable Company 
to the subordinate stations in the service, cut us oft’ from any 
assurance of employment in any reasonable time. 
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