You really must choose with great caution.
Hitherto the Company has required that all ladies, who take maidservants with them from this country to India, should give security to send them back within two years.

The reason was, that no class of people misconducted themselves so much in the East as female servants from this country.

They generally treat the natives with gross insolence; an insolence natural enough to people accustomed to stand in a subordinate relation to others when, for the first time, they find a great population placed in a servile relation towards them.

Then, too, the state of society is such that they are very likely to become mistresses of the wealthy Europeans, and to flaunt about in magnificent palanquins, bringing discredit on their country by the immorality of their lives and the vulgarity of their manners.

On these grounds the Company has hitherto insisted upon their being sent back at the expense of those who take them out.