SIR--I confirm my letters to you of the ---- ult., and the ---- inst. Having recently heard of the decease of Mr. ----, merchant at Batavia, also of the probable dissolution of his house, under the firm of Messrs. ----, I have judged it prudent to request my Liverpool correspondents to consign the ship ----, cargo, and specie on board, to Mr. ----, merchant at Batavia, subject to your control, and have requested said Liverpool friends to make a separate invoice and bill of lading for the specie, which they will ship on my account, on board of the ship ----, and similar documents for the merchandise, which they will ship in the same manner; therefore, I request that you will sign in conformity. I am personally acquainted with Mr. ----, but not with Mr. ----, but I am on very friendly terms with some particular friends of the latter gentleman, and consequently I give him the preference. I am sorry to observe, however, that he is alone in a country where a partner appears to me indispensable to a commercial house, as well for the safety of his own capital as for the security of the interests of those who may confide to them property, and reside in distant parts of the globe. The foregoing reflections, together with the detention of my ship V----, at Batavia, from June last, epoch of her arrival at that port, until the 15th of September, ----, when she had on board only nineteen hundred peculs of coffee, are the motives which have compelled me to request of my Liverpool friends to consign the specie and goods, which they will ship on my account, on board of the ship ----, under your command, to said Mr. ----, subject to your control. Therefore, relying upon your activity, perseverance, correctness, zeal, and attention for my interest, I proceed in pointing out to you the plan of conduct which I wish you to pursue on your arrival at Batavia, and during your stay at that or any port of that island, until your departure for Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, to await my subsequent orders. First. On your arrival at Batavia, you are to go on shore and ascertain Mr. ----'s residence, and, if you have reason to believe that he is still considered at that place as a man of good credit, and merits full confidence, you are to deliver to him my Liverpool consignees' letters to his address, and also the goods which you have on board, in such proportion as he may request, except the specie, which is to continue on board, as mentioned in the next article.