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final accomplishment thereof. therefore in any dilemma, you are to consult your own Judgment and act for the best; availing yourself of all the several powers vested in you, by my Power of Attorney, bearing date in this City, the Twenty ninth day of April last, and registered in the book of Land Evidence in this State (No 2) since the Evacuation of the British Forces, Pages the 142 and 143.

If a continuity of difficulties should prevent your trading in either of the Factories above mentioned; you are to avail yourself of any other Ports, that may be opened to you; whether Indian, or European, in the Bay of Bengal, or Coast of Coromandel; preferring however, in all cases the two I have already named.

His Most Christian Majesty, in the benevolence of his Royal Heart, having opened the Ports of the Isles of Bourbon and Mauritius, to all the ships and vessels belonging to the United States, which may be engaged in the purposes of trade and commerce, in the Indian Seas; you are made acquainted therewith, that in case of Necessity, you may make your rendezvous there.

The affairs with which I intrust you, being happily accomplished at the Ports of Chinsurah, or Chandernagore; or at any other Ports in the Bay of Bengal, and Coast of Coromandel, and such of your homeward bound cargo, as is to consist of the Manufactures of that Country, laid in, you are to proceed with all the dispatch consistent with your safety to the River, and Port of Canton in China; where you are to dispose of that part of your remaining Cargo, as may be laid in, or best calculated for the Chinese Market; if at the expiration of your time, upon the first part of your Voyage, any should remain undisposed of in your hands, and you should deem such a farther continuance of the Voyage likely to turn out to advantage, so as upon the whole, taking into careful estimate the profit and loss thereupon, a considerable ballance is likely to accrue in my favor, and there, that is at Canton, to sell and bargain for the same, in the most beneficial manner for my Interests; and compleat your investment for your return, in the coarsest kinds of Bohea Teas,

Nankins, and such other of their coarser Stuffs for Cloathing, as may best answer our market. You are, however, at all times, to consider the continuation of your Voyage to China, as collateral only to that to Bengal; under the above circumstances; and at the regular accomplishment thereof, you are to follow the Instructions contained in page the third, and fourth, in the event of your voyage to Bengal; and in the same manner from China; not to lose any time in returning to this City and Port.

But whereas, I think it fitting that, in case your arrangements for the outward bound Cargo, in respect of Bargain, Sale, and Payment, should not be accomplished so soon, or in so short a space of time, as you might otherways have reason to expect, and the Expences of the Ship in the mean time must necessarily be very considerable; you be, and you are therefore authorized to let her upon freight, provided you can do so upon terms sufficiently advantageous, and also, in case that she is not to carry Merchandize, nor to be employed in any European or American Seas, nor the period. for which she is to be hired, to exceed Twelve Calendar Months, from the date of her Sailing upon such Voyage from the place of your Settlement, or Residence, until the day of her return to the same Port. And you are previous to her departure, to have her Hull, Masts etc. including all her Equipage, appraised, estimated, and valued, by proper and capable persons, so that in case of loss, or damage, the necessary Compensation may be therefore made, on the part of the Freighters, and upon her return, and discharge from such adventure; you are to expedite your affairs as much as possible, to the end, that no delay may be had in your final return to Rhode Island.

In your correspondence with me, which you are to keep up by every oppertunity, you are to be extreemly particular in describing the reception you meet with, from the several powers, whether native or foreign, in India, that I may regularly lay the same before the Honorable Congress of the united states, that they may be made acquainted with the respect paid to their pass, and to the American Flag.

You are to take particular care, that all the subordinate officers of the Hydra as well as the Captain, be punctually obedient to all the orders and directions you may give them, as far as may be agreeable to the Laws and customs which regulate trade and trading vessels, and you are in all your expences of stores, and other articles; as well as of provisions, to be particularly frugal so that every thing be managed in the best order, and with the greatest possible Acconomy. and if all, or any of them, fail in either of these respects, you are hereby particularly authorized and required to hire and appoint others in their place, discharging the faulty and incorrigible without delay.

In testimony of my desire and intentions in all the several particulars herein before stated I have hereinto set my hand and seal, this fifteenth day of August anno domini one Thousand seven Hundred and Eighty four at the City of Newport in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantation in North America.

CHRISTOPHER CHAMPLIN

[Memo.] Copy of Instructions given William Green Esquire, August 1784.

Sir,

MARY HAYLEY TO CHRISTOPHER CHAMPLIN

London, 26th August, 1784.

HEREWITH you have Copies of my last since which I have receivd your esteemd favour of 11th July which came to hand the 14th Inst. too late to counter order your India Goods, however the greatest part you will have seen were omitted.

I can give you no hope of the duty on Oil imported from America being taken off, but on the contrary the Legislature of this Country seem determined to continue it, for the express purpose of encouraging the Fishery from Great Britain in preference to that of America, which is now become an Independent State. the same principle of encouraging and strengthening our own Navy also operates in preventing your Ships visiting our West India Islands.

I would therefore recommend you avoiding any speculation in Oil, with the hope of its being imported here free of Duty. Our Friend Mr. Rotch can explain this Business to you as I have frequently wrote him my sentiments upon it.

Inclosed I now hand you Invoice and Bill of Loading of the remainder of the Goods you ordered shipd on board the Hope, Capt. Whipple for Rhode Island, amounting with £315 Insurance thereon to £306.17.1 which sum is passd to your Debit, and I hope they will arrive in season and to your approbation. I am with respect, Sir, Your most humble Servant Per procuration from Mary Hayley,

ALEX. CHAMPION, JUN.

CHRISTOPHER GRANT CHAMPLIN1 TO

CHRISTOPHER CHAMPLIN

Cambridge, Septemb. 6th, 1784.

Dear Sir,

m

AFTER being detained two days at Providence and having an agreeable Journey to Boston, I arrived at Cambridge the Saturday after the Vacation was up. I have been in College about a week.2 the room which I have got is in the Southwest corner of Hollis College, the prospect is good and the Chamber handsome with the addi[tion] we have made to it of papering and painting, and you cannot imagine how much preferable my Situation in College is, to what it was when out not only with regard to many little Inconveniences, but likewise with respect to my Studies, as I can now study, with much more ease and Satisfaction than before. As to the diet at Commons, though it is not quite so good as I cou'd wish, yet there is always plenty, and the goodness of my Appetite amply compensates for it's deficiency in Quality.

Mrs. Wendell set out for Barnstable last week upon a

1 The original is in the Newport Historical Society.

2 He was of the class of 1786. Born at Newport, April 12, 1768, he was a Senator from Rhode Island, 1810-16, and died March 28, 1840. He fought a duel with James Asheton Bayard.

Visit to her Daughter. as she left her house entirely vacant, except an old negro Woman to take care of it, and desired me to let my bed and bedstead remain there until it was convenient to remove them to Boston or elsewhere, or, if I chose, to let them remain there all the time I was at College, but at the same time refused taking any pay for the room which they wou'd take up, I thought it best to let them stay there, only for the pres[en]t until I cou'd get somebody in Cambridge to keep them [for] me at some small consideration, a Quarter, or Year, or else send them to Mrs. Leverett, who will keep them as long as I please.

I shoud have wrote you before had I not been so entirely engrossed with removing and geting my room in order, that I have scarce had a Moment to myself. we have just began our course of Mathematical Lectures and as this branch includes arithmetic I mean to pay particular attention to it, and consequently find my time pretty well employ'd with this and reading the Books which I take out of the Library, together with the other common exercises which we are obliged to perform, therefore cannot always devote such a share of my time to you as my inclination prompts me to, and your paternal kindness demands from your affectionate and dutiful Son,

MARK PRINGLE TO CHRISTOPHER CHAMPLIN

Dear Sir,

C. C.

Baltimore, the 7th September, 1784.

I HAVE your esteem'd favour of the 24th June, and, I hope, in return for your indulgence, Mr. Hopkins will observe punctuality in the discharge of his obligation. I shall take care to remind him, and to receive Interest etc.

The late Accounts of the decline of Tobacco in England, and Holland, and the favourable appearance of abundant Crops, have had some effect on the price here, and I am persuaded, in the course of two months it will be considerably lower. The Crop of Wheat has also been very plenty and it is expected the price will be about 6/ to 6/6 per bushell.

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