The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany Volume 16 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ...hearts of many of their servants, who were now much distressed. He trusted that they would the situation of many chief mates, could lay before them strong grounds for interference. They bad been in the Company's service for many years, and they had not arrived at the rank of superior officers without incurring great expense. If the Directors thought that the Court of Proprietors ought to take up the subject, they would do so; but in bis opinion, it would be better if the proceeding originated with the gentlemen behind the bar; and certainly it was no mark of disrespect to any set of men to call on them to reconsider their opinion. The Chairman said, he should reply very briefly to the observations which had been on this subject. The hon. bart. revery much that the Court of Directors had not adopted the recommendation of the Board of Control, and awarded a larger remuneration to thejunior branches of their maritime service. Now he submitted that the directors had no power or authority to do so. It was a case decided by the Court of Proprietors, and submitted to the Board of Control for its sanction and confirmation. The directors had acted merely in a ministerial capacity, and had, as far as they could, given effect to the intention, of the proprietors. What, he would ask, was the resolution which the hon. proprietor (Mr, Weeding) had proposed on this part of the subject? It was, " and that this court approve of the scale of remuneration recommended for the Company's own servants." He would here observe, that the general recommendation, or rather the general opinion, given by Mr. Grant, referred merely to the inferior officers of the Company's own service; and with great submission, he doubted the cogency of the grounds and...