and Directors to induce the one to attend to the business of the other, as is customary with the East India Company. More precise recommendations on the point of Retrenchment in the several Chambers could be submitted, had they condescended to send us, pursuant to the order of the XIX. and to our letters, the ordinary and extraordinary expenses each has to bear in its own department but having never been able to prevail on the Chambers to furnish us with ;

a correct account, we hope that each now feeling its own sore, will in future take better care to relieve itself from all unnecessary expense. In addition to the excessive salaries of some superior officers, which alone amount, according to a certain list, to more than ten thousand guilders per month, the Company is mainly burthened in Brazil by the great number of military, who on account of the rations they draw, in addition to their pay, are twice as expensive as soldiers in this country. There are a number of commissaries, assistants and other followers, hired and employed in disbursing the weekly rations and pay in divers garrisons, who by their frauds, estimates of leakage, and other sinister practices, swindle the Company of a considerable amount. The greater part of this could be saved, were the soldiers there paid in money, as we have more fully submitted to the XIX., and as would have been put into practice had not it been for the revolt and the cessation of the Company's incomes and domains in Brazil. But should the soldiers' wages and board be embodied in one sum, this could, in time, be diminished, and the soldiers receiving their