All commissioned or warrant officers shall have half the ordinary stated pay they enjoyed while in service.
Serjeants belonging to the artillery shall receive 9d. per day, and such as have lost a limb 1s. per day: private men of the artillery, 6d. per day; and such as lose a limb, 9d. per day.
All other non-commissioned officers and private men shall receive 4¾d. per day.—23d July, 1771.
Vide Parliamentary Papers, A.D. 1773, vol. iv. report 9. p. 535.
[29] A station adjoining the city of Patna.
[30] Captain Goddard became afterwards a very distinguished officer. He commanded the force that Warren Hastings sent to the relief of the settlement of Bombay in 1778.
[31] It is not unworthy of remark, that Sir Robert Fletcher, thus cashiered by sentence of a court-martial for mutiny, was, in 1775, appointed, by the Court of Directors, Commander-in-chief of the army at Madras. There he headed the opposition which set aside Lord Pigot from the government of Madras in 1776.
No mention is made in the text of John Petrie as one of the ringleaders of the mutiny of the officers of the Bengal army in 1766.
This man was sent home by Lord Clive on that account with a rope about his neck; but so much do things depend on the party who may be in power, or influence, with the Court of Directors, that this very John Petrie obtained an appointment high in the civil service at Bengal, through the interest of his friends the Johnstones, who were in opposition to Lord Clive's party in England.
[32] 20th May, 1766.