CHAPTER V.
_THE COMPANY'S SERVANTS_ The Company's civil servants--Their comparison with English who went to America--Their miserable salaries--The Company's military servants-- Regarded with distrust--Shaxton's mutiny--Captain Keigwin--Broken pledges and ill-treatment--Directors' vacillating policy--Military grievances-- Keigwin seizes the administration of Bombay--His wise rule--Makes his submission to the Crown--Low status of Company's military officers--Lord Egmont's speech--Factors and writers as generals and colonels--Bad quality of the common soldiers--Their bad treatment--Complaint against Midford-- Directors' parsimony.
It may be useful here to consider the difference in the men sent out, by England, to the East and West Indies during the seventeenth and part of the eighteenth centuries.

To the West Indies went out representatives of the landed gentry from every county in England.

Charters were obtained from the Crown, conferring estates, and sometimes whole islands, on men of ancient families.

Slaves were cheap, and sugar cultivation brought in great wealth; the whole machinery of English life was reproduced in the tropics--counties, parishes; sheriffs, rectories, tithes, an established church, etc.

The same causes that sent the Cavaliers to Virginia, sent a smaller migration to the West Indies.