island unless your consignee has finally closed the sales of the
Liverpool cargo, so that you may be the bearer of all the
documents, and account-current, relative to the final transactions
of the consignment of the ship ---- and cargo. Duplicate and
triplicate of said documents to be forwarded to me by your
consignees, by the two first safe conveyances for the ports of the
United States.

Being in the habit of dispatching my ships for Batavia from this
port, Liverpool, or Amsterdam, as circumstances render it
convenient, it is interesting to me to be from time to time
informed of the several articles of produce and manufactures from
each of those places which are the most in demand and quickest of
sale at Java. Also of the quantity of each, size of package, and
the probable price which they may sell for, cash, adding the
Batavia duty, charges for selling, etc. Please to communicate this
to your Batavia consignee.

The rates of commission I will allow for transacting the business
relative to the ship and cargo at Java are two and a half per cent,
for selling, and two and a half per cent, for purchasing and
shipping coffee and other articles.

The consignees engaging to place on board of each prow one or two
men of confidence, to see that the goods are safely delivered on
board of the ship, to prevent pilfering, which is often practiced
by those who conduct the lighter.

I am informed that the expenses for two men are trifling,
comparatively, to the plunder which has been committed on board of