The proprietors of East India Stock are to meet on
Wednesday next, to consider the amount of compensation to be awarded to the maritime officers of the Company. We have seen some account of the surns it is proposed to give these gentlemen, and do not wonder that they petition for a more liberal allowance. It really appears to us that they are hardly treated—that the scale of compensation proposed is almost niggardly. If any body of men can afford to be liberal on such an occasion, it is the East India Company, whose Stock has risen so rapidly since the renewal of their Charter. Assuredly the Government and the Parliament have dealt liberally by them ; and we do trust, that, whether in justice or in mercy to the able and experienced men by whom they have been so faithfully and in some instances so gallantly served, and who are now thrown at once out of an employment which they naturally expected to be permanent, the proprietors will on Wednesday next authorize the Court of Directors to increase largely the very inadequate allowance they propose to make. The civil and military officials of theCompany are most handsomely treated ; why is an invidious exception to be made against the maritime officers ?
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