[387] In 1834, after the Company had been deprived of its trading privileges, and no longer required to maintain its maritime service, Captain Innes, of the chartered ship Abercrombie Robinson, memorialised the Company, in his own name and in that of other commanders, for “compensation for the loss of employment in consequence of the discontinuance of the Company’s trade.” He therein estimates his “emoluments and income accruing from his appointment as commander, upon an average of his last three voyages,” as follows:—

£ s. d.
Eighteen months’ pay, at 10l. per month180 0 0
£s.d.
Fifty-six tons privilege, outward, at 41. per ton224 0 0
From port to port, at 30 rupees per candy3360 0
Homeward, at 33l. per ton1,848 0 0
2,408 0 0
Primage 100 0 0
Two-fifths tonnage, from port to port, 478 tons, at 30 rupees per candy2,8680 0
Less, charged by the Hon. Co., 2l. per ton95600
1,91200
Passage-money, after allowing for the provisions and stores provided for the passengers 1,50000
6,10000

Making 6,100l. per voyage for the last three voyages, “exclusive of the profits on investments.”

[388] See Victualling Bill, [Appendix, No. 13]; Hardy, p. 81.

[389] Hardy’s “Registry,” p. 51.

[390] In the passage from Bombay to China, where the ships were chiefly laden with cotton, the commanders and officers, by a resolution of the Court of the 6th March, 1805, were allowed nearly two-fifths of the whole tonnage space of the ship’s capacity for their especial use and benefit, and free of all charge, on the very reasonable condition that “the Company shall not be subjected to any expense whatever for securing the Company’s cotton or otherwise.” In the event of the Company not requiring to ship any cotton or other goods on their own account on this intermediate voyage, the remaining three-fifths’ space in the ship’s hold, usually appropriated for their own use, was to be disposed of to the highest bidder, but the commander and officers were in all cases to have the preference, with the very prudent and no doubt necessary precaution, that “they were to deliver their proposal at the same time with the other tenders, and were not to be allowed to amend their tenders after their proposals have been opened.” Similar privileges were granted to the commanders and officers employed in the intermediate trade between Bengal or Madras and China.—Regulations, East India Company. Hardy, pp. 132, 133.

[391] Hardy, pp. 119, 120.

[392] Ibid. pp. 121, 122.

[393] Standing orders of the East India Company, Hardy, p. 23.

[394] Minutes of Court of Directors of the East India Company, 8th April, 1800, Hardy, p. 126.