deliver to your consignee Spanish dollars to the amount of said
purchase, and no more, having due regard to the premium or advance
allowed at Batavia on old Spanish dollars; and in that way you are
to continue paying or delivering dollars as fast as you receive
coffee, which is not to exceed the quantity which can be
conveniently stowed on board said ship ----, observing to take a
receipt for each payment, and to see that the net proceeds of the
goods, which will have been shipped at Liverpool, must be invested
in coffee, as far as the sales will permit, and shipped on board of
said ship.

Should it happen that on your arrival at Batavia you should find
that death, absence, etc., should deprive you of the services of
Mr. ----, or that, owing to some causes before mentioned, it would
be prudent to confide my interests elsewhere, in either case you
are to apply to Messrs. ----, merchants of that place, to
communicate your instructions relative to the disposal of the
Liverpool cargo, on board of the ship ----, the loading of that
ship with good merchantable coffee, giving the preference to the
first quality whenever it can be purchased on reasonable terms for
cash, or received in payment for the sales of the said Liverpool
cargo, or for a part thereof, observing that I wished said coffee
to be purchased at Samarang, or any other out-port, if practicable;
and in all cases it must be attentively examined when delivered,
and put up in double gunny bags.

If the purchase of said cargo is made at an out-port, the ship
----must proceed there to take it in.

On the subject of purchasing coffee at government sales, I have no