s they may receive from time to time from the Hon'ble the
Court of Directors, and as your memorialist is universally
acquainted with the trade, and has respectable connections
in that country, he humbly offers himself as a proper person
to be one of the managers, and if required, will find
security for the trust reposed in him. Your memorialist also
presumes to mention John Inglis, Esq., of the city of
Philadelphia, as another proper person, being universally
esteemed in America, and well known in the city of London,
as a man of probity, fortune and respect.

No. 3.

LETTER FROM MR. BROOK WATSON, TO DANIEL WIER, ESQ.

Dear Sir:

The annual consumption of teas in Nova Scotia is about 20
chests Bohea, and 3 or 4 of good Common Green. Should the
Company determine on sending any to that Province, I pray
your interest in procuring the commission to Watson's &
Rashleigh's agent there, John Butler, a man of long standing
in the Province and in the Council, and by far the fittest
person to be employed, for whom W. & R. will be answerable.
At Boston I have two friends equally deserving. You would do
the Company service, and me an acceptable kindness, by
recommending them, Benjamin Faneuil, Jun., & Joshua Winslow.
The consumption at Boston is large, say at least 400 chests
Bohea & 50 of Green pr annum. The freight to both these
places I should be glad to have if you could procure it
without inconvenience to yourself.

Yours faithfully,
BROOK WATSON.[26]
4 June, 1773.

No. 4.

A PROPOSAL FOR SENDING TEA TO PHILADELPHIA.

_Received from the Hon'ble Mr. Walpole._[27]

As Philadelphia is the capital of one of the most populous
and commercial Provinces in North America, and is situated
in the center of the middle British Colonies, it is
proposed:

That the East India Company should, by the middle of June at
farthest, send to Philadelphia at least five hundred chests
of black teas, one hundred half chests of green teas, and
seventy five half chests of Congou and Souchon teas.

That they should consign these teas to a house of character
and fortune in Philadelphia, and direct the proceeds thereof
to be remitted hither in bills of exchange or specie.

That previous, however, to the