vessel to sail for London within a few hours, gives me an opportunity of
writing you a few lines on the subject of the consignment of tea, made
to our house by the Hon'ble East India Company, in which I had your
friendly assistance, and of which I shall always retain a grateful
sense.

I find that this measure is an unpopular one, and before my arrival some
measures have been taken to oblige my friends to make a resignation of
the trust, which they have not thought fit to comply with. They have
wrote to our friend, Mr. Abraham Dupuis, very particularly, respecting
the measures that have been adopted, and to that account I must beg
leave to refer you, as I have not time to repeat it by this opportunity,
but I shall keep the Company fully advised in future.

I fully see that we shall meet with difficulty in executing this trust,
but our utmost endeavors shall be exerted to fulfill the orders we may
receive from the Company.

I am, very respectfully sir, your most obliged h'ble serv^t
JON^A CLARKE.
Edward Wheler, Esq^r.

Received from the Deputy Chairman, 5^th Jan^ry, 1774.

LETTER TO MR. ABRAHAM DUPUIS.

Sir,

Mr. Wheler, chairman of the East India Company, having received a letter
from Jonathan Clarke, Esq^r., dated Boston, 17^th November last, wherein
he begs leave to refer him to you for the measures that have been
adopted at Boston, relative to the Company's exportation of tea to that
Colony, I am directed by the chairman to desire you would be pleased to
communicate to him the advices you have received from Messrs. Clarke &
Sons, for the information of the Court of Directors of the East India
Company, which will be a favor conferred on him. I am, sir,

Your most obd^t serv^t,
WM. SETTLE.

East India House, 5^th Jan^y, 1774.
Abraham Dupuis, Esq^r., Gracechurch Street.

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LETTER FROM MESSRS. CLARKE & SONS, at BOSTON TO MR. ABR^M DUPUIS,

_Referred to in Mr. Clarke's Letter to the chairman, of the 17th Nov^r,
1773._

Boston, Nov^r., 1773.

MR. ABRAHAM DUPUIS.

Sir:

We now embrace the first leisure we have, to give you an account of the
proceedings of some of the inhabitants of this town, relative to the
expected importation of teas into this port fr