Your Memorialists are aware that a scale of allowance has been previously prepared, slightly differing from that now submitted. The alterations your Memorialists have made are in favour of the Junior grades of the service, upon which the loss will fall heavily, while the compensation proposed is not considerable. Upon a point so deeply affecting them, your Memorialists feel assured that their suggestion will be received with a favourable consideration, and that your Memorialists will experience at the hands of your Honorable Court that liberality which has ever characterised the conduct of the Honorable Company towards its Officers.
And your Memorialists, etc., etc.
(Signed) George Probyn,
Chairman of the Committee of Commanders
and Officers.
London, 30th July, 1834.
FOOTNOTES:
[429] Hakluyt, vol. i. pp. 214-220.
[430] Hakluyt, vol. i. pp. 297-9.
[431] Cotton Library, British Museum.
[432] Archæol. vol. xxvi.
[433] Harl. 1579, f. 150.