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44 But we have within ourselves a striking instance of disparity, 
I mean m the military line: in the mode established by Lord 
Clive in the distribution of the profits of salt, senior merchants 
rank with lieutenant-colonels; and considering the years they ma} r 
have served, I think that in point of emolument this parity is but 
a just one: in this view we shall perceive the striking difference 
betwixt the civil and military lines. 
Rupees. 
A lieutenant-colonel is in the annual receipt of 8994 or j[. 1124 5 
A major do do ... . 6455 or 806 18 
A senior merchant, unemployed .do ... . 1080 or 135 — 
46 Besides these certain and constant receipts, the field officers 
have a baita in the field in proportion to their increased expenses; 
the chance of prize money; and are equally at liberty with every 
other person to accumulate their savings, either at respondentia or 
common interest. 
44 I am very far from wishing to infer, that the appointments of 
these gentlemen are more than adequate to the rank they bear, or 
to the utility of able and experienced field officers: but as ap- 
pointments in every service should bear some proportion to the 
length of the service of individuals, it strikes me as very inadequate, 
that, whilst these gentlemen are receiving from 800 to 1100 pounds 
a year, a civil servant, who may have served the Company upwards 
of twenty years, should receive only 135 pounds per annum: 
which is precisely the receipt of the senior merchants who sign the 
present address. 
44 To return to the main subject of this letter, viz. the relief 
requested by the subscribers of it from their present distress. In 
