, &c.

Sir:

The Committee of Warehouses of the East India Company desire
you will meet them at this house, on Thursday next, at
twelve o'clock at noon, relative to the exportation of tea
to America.

I am, sir,
Your most humble serv't,
WM. SETTLE.

East India House, 25th June, 1773.

To BROOK WATSON,
JONATHAN CLARKE,
FREDE'K PIGOU, Junr.
GILBERT BARKLY,
GEORGE BROWNE,
ROBERTS, BAYNES & ROBERTS,
WM. KELLY,
GREENWOOD & HIGGINSON,
BENJAMIN HARRISON,
SAMUEL WHARTON,
GEO. HAYLEY & JOHN BLACKBURN, ESQRS.

Gentlemen:

The enclosed newspapers contain the sentiments of the
Americans with regard to the quantity of teas consumed in
that country, and the fatal consequences attending buying it
from foreigners, by leading them to purchase other articles
of East India goods at the same markets which otherwise
would not be an object, and which, of course, would be
commissioned from the mother-country.

The memorial, which I had the honor to deliver, lately
points out an undoubted method for gaining this trade.

The Company being the exporters, pays the American duty of
3d. pr lb., of which they will be amply repaid by the
advance on their sales, and as mankind in general are bound
by interest, and as the duty of about a shill'g pr lb. is
now taken off tea when exported, the Company can afford
their teas cheaper than the Americans can smuggle them from
foreigners, which puts the success of the design beyond a
doubt.

It may be suggested that the Americans have not money to pay
for those goods. The Province of Pennsylvania alone ships
yearly to the West Indies, Spain, Portugal & France, &c.,
above 300,000 barrels of flour, large quantities of wheat,
Indian corn, iron, pork, beef, lumber, and above 15,000
hhds. of flax seed to Ireland, and the other Provinces are
equally industrious. The principal returns are in silver and
gold, with bills of exchange, an incredible part of which
will center with the Company should the same be executed
agreeable to the plan proposed, and smuggling will be
effectually abolished without any additional number of
officers and cruizers.

Warehouse rent, &c., in America, will come as cheap as it is