state the merits of Mahomed Reza Khân therein, as well as the importance, dignity, and
responsibility of his station, in the following manner.
"Mahomed Reza Khân has now of himself, with great delicacy of honor, represented to us
the evil consequences that must ensue from the continuance of this practice,—since, by
suffering the principal officers of the government to depend for the support of their dignity
on the precarious fund of perquisites, they in a manner oblige them to pursue oppressive
and corrupt measures, equally injurious to the country and the Company; and they
accordingly assigned twelve lac of rupees for the maintenance and support of the said
Mahomed Reza Khân, and two other principal persons, who held in their hands the most
important employments of that government,—having regard to their elevated stations, and
to the expediency of supporting them in all the show and parade requisite to keep up the
authority and influence of their respective offices, as they are all men of weight and
consideration in the country, who held places of great trust and profit under the former
government. We further propose, by this act of generosity, to engage their cordial services,
and confirm them steady in our interests; since they cannot hope, from the most successful
ambition, to rise to greater advantages by any chance or revolution of affairs. At the same
time it was reasonable we should not lose sight of Mahomed Reza Khân's past services. He
has pursued the Company's interest with steadiness and diligence; his abilities qualify him
to perform the most important services; the unavoidable charges of his particular situation
are great; in dignity he stands second to the Nabob only;—and as he engages to increase the
revenues, without injustice or oppression, to more than the amount of his salary, and to
relinquish those advantages, to the amount of eight lacs of rupees per annum, which he
heretofore enjoyed, we thought it proper, in the distribution of salaries, to consider
Mahomed Reza Khân in a light superior to the other ministers. We have only to observe
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