24 LETTER FROM COURT
100. We must here acquaint you that for the future you are not
to create any new salarys or allowances or make any additions to old
customary ones without previously stating to us the reasons for any necessity
of such salarys or allowances and having our consent for the same; we
mean this principally with respect to our covenant and military servants, being
sensible that in other employments and in extraordinary cases you must
have some latitude which we hope you will make use of with frugality and
discretion.
101. You have handed to us a pretty extraordinary request of Mr, Pearks's
for an additional salary to support as he term[s] it the dignity of his station ; it
being merely transmitted without a single observation of yours upon it, we
see no reason for deviating from the established rules of die Company, and
therefore Mr. Pearks is to have no additional allowance either as one of the
Council or for his present employ as Accountant.
102. We take it for granted that upon the receipt of our letter of the
llth February 1756 Mr. Baillie11 who you took into Council upon the demise
of Mr. Clerembault again quitted it and we confirm the orders we then gave
that Mr. Baillie be not admitted to have a seat in Council without our
particular orders.
103. We could have wished Mr. Frankland12 had continued in his post
of Assistant Export Warehouse Keeper until the arrival of our last season's
letter, as we apprehend the notice we there took of him and the allowance
we ordered to be made would have been inducements for his continuing
therein, until some other person could have been qualified for it. He is still
to have his option of his returning to that post if he thinks fit, but if that is
not his choice some person of a superior rank to Mr. Nathan Drake is to be
appointed, as we cannot think, from his standing in the service and for that
reason only, he can be properly qualified for a post of so much importance
to the Company.
104. You are strictly to observe our orders of last season not
to allow to any other Assistant Export Warehouse Keeper than
Mr. Frankland the two thousand rupees a year there mentioned without
our express leave.
105., We have no objection to your giving all fitting encouragement to
Mr. John Knox senior, one of your assistant surgeons, or of his succeeding
to any vacancys that may happen after such have been provided for who
have prior recommendations from us, provided he continues to behave to
your satisfaction.
1Q6> It hath been represented to us that one Dumbleton,13 acting as an
attorney, was principally concerned in bringing the affair, in an extra-judicial
manner, of Sarah. Shaddow before the Mayor's Court. We do not find that
he resides in Bengal with leave from us, or under our licence; if that is the
case and you find him inclinable to foment disputes, and of a litigious dispo-
sition, you may send him home to Europe.
107. We have acquainted the President and Council at Fort St. George
that as we must attend to the security of our settlements in Bengal as well as
to their Presidency, we could not comply with a proposalthey made us for