cent. cheaper in the United States than what it has been at Batavia
for these two years past; nevertheless, being desirous to employ my
ships as advantageously as circumstances will permit, and
calculating also that the price at Java and other places of its
growth will fall considerably, I have no objection to adventure.

Therefore, you must use every means in your power to facilitate
the success of the voyage.

Should the invoice-cost of the entire cargo of coffee shipped at
Java, on board of the ship ----, together with the disbursements of
that ship (which must be conducted with the greatest economy), not
amount to the specie funds and net proceeds of her Liverpool cargo,
in that event you are to deliver the surplus to your consignee, who
will give you a receipt for the same, with a duplicate, expressing
that it is on my account, for the purpose of being invested on the
most advantageous terms, in good dry coffee, to be kept at my order
and disposal.

Then you will retain the original in your possession, and forward
to me the duplicate by first good vessel to the United States, or
via Europe, to care of my correspondents at Liverpool, London,
Antwerp, or Amsterdam, the names of whom you are familiar with.

If you should judge it imprudent, however, to leave that money at
Batavia, you are to bring it back in Spanish dollars, which you
will retain on board for that purpose.

Although I wish you to make a short voyage, and with as quick
dispatch at Java as practicable, yet I desire you not to leave that