179 
To the preceding letter was annexed a particular statement of 
the Company's civil servants, from 1755 to 1777, amounting to- 
get her to 187; which it is unnecessary to insert: not so the fol- 
lowing remarks which were annexed to the melancholy catalogue 
presented to the Governor and Council. 
In the course of twenty-two years, from February 1755 to the 
present period, three gentlemen have gone to England with for- 
tunes acquired in the service; of the seventy-five gentlemen that 
belonged to the establishment in 1755, forty-eight have died in 
India: of these, eight had acquired, or had a prospect of fortunes ; 
but twenty-five died positive bankrupts; and amongst these, were 
those who had served the Company from twenty-four to thirty- 
three years, and were of the council at Bombay: the remaining 
fifteen died possessed of very little more than was sufficient to 
defray their burial charges, although many of them had been from 
twelve to twenty years in the service. 
Previous to the year 1755, and until the year 1767, the general 
rise to council was from eleven to fifteen years: from that period 
it has become more tedious; the two gentlemen who are at pre- 
sent next to council, have been twenty-two years in the Company's 
service; and those who entered the service of late years have little 
prospect of gaining that station under thirty years/’ 
On reading the preceding letter, the list of the Company's 
servants, and remarks annexed, the Honourable William Hornby, 
Esquire, President and Governor, made the following minute: 
viz. 
“ On perusal of the address from sundry of the senior mer- 
chants, the following reflections arise to me: 
