Sir.

Your Offer to negociate our public Business in the foreign West Indies is very readily accepted² and we have no Doubt but that your discreet Managemt of it will be essentially servicable to your Country ー As it is necessary before you enter on this Service that the Terms should be ascertained we now supply the Omission in your proposal as to your own Reward by proposing that you shall have five per Cent on the nett Sales and five per Cent on the Returns of what may be consigned to your Care besides a Reimbursemt of the Expence of Storage if any shall be actually incurred ー (And You should not have Cash or Effects in Hand to make pay for them We would have You buy them on your & our Credit & Charter a Vessel to send them in & advise Us, that We may immediately make You Remittance for the same ー ) If these Terms are Satisfactory you will signify the same to Mr [Robert T] Hooe and from him receive our Instructions by which and such as you shall from Time to Time receive from us you will govern yourself. We are sr [&c.]

[Endorsed] Letter & Instructions to Rd Harrison/ No 1