Public service employment - Great Britain

A sketch of the debate, that took place at the India-House in Leadenhall-Street, on Wednesday, the 9th of October inst. on the following motion of William Lushington, Esq. "that a General Court be held on the 23d instant, to take into consideration an Address to His Majesty, expressive of the firm determination of this Company to give every support in their power, to the Government of the Country, at this arduous crisis, and particularly to express a wish to raise and cloath three Fencible Regiments, to serve in Great-Britain, Ireland, or the Islands of Jersey and Guernsey, and to recommend that the Officers belonging to the Company's military establishment in India, now in Europe, may be employed in those regiments, subject to his Majesty's approbation." By William Woodfall