y in having reason to believe that in every just and
necessary regulation we shall meet with the approbation and support
of the legislature, who consider the public as materially
interested in the Company's prosperity.

"In order to effectuate this great end, the first step must be to
restore perfect obedience and due subordination to your
administration. Our Governor and Council must reassume and exercise
their delegated powers upon every just occasion,--punish
delinquents, cherish the meritorious, discountenance that luxury
and dissipation which, to the reproach of government, prevailed in
Bengal. Our President, Mr. Hastings, we trust, will set the example
of temperance, economy, and application; and upon this, we are
sensible, much will depend. And here we take occasion, to indulge
the pleasure we have in acknowledging Mr. Hastings's services upon
the coast of Coromandel, in constructing, with equal labor and
ability, the plan which has so much improved our investments there;
and as we are persuaded he will persevere in the same laudable
pursuit through every branch of our affairs in Bengal, he, in
return, may depend on the steady support and favor of his
employers.

"Your settlement being thus put into a train of reform, (without
which, indeed, all regulations will prove ineffectual,) you are
next to revert to the old system, when the business of your
Presidency was principally performed by our own servants, who then
had knowledge of our investments, and every other department of our
concerns: you will therefore fill the several offices with the
factors and writers upon your establishment, (for, with our present
appointments, we are assured there will be sufficient for this
purpose,) and thus you will banish idleness, and its attendants,
extravagance and dissipation. And here we enjoin you to transmit to
us a faithful and minute state of the pay and every known
emolument of all below Council: for, as it is notorious that even
youths in our service expend in equipage, servants, dress, and
living infinitely more than our stated allowances can afford, we
cannot but be anxious to discover the means by which they are
enabled to proceed in this manner; and, indeed, so obnoxious is
this conduct to us, and so injurious in its consequences, that w