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Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to; the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year; 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction,; notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel)

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Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to; the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year; 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction,; notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)

Name: Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to; the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year; 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction,; notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)
Author: Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel)

Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel)

Boston Tea Party, 1773; Tea tax (American colonies)

It may be suggested that the Americans have not money to pay
    for those goods. The Province of Pennsylvania alone ships
    yearly to the West Indies, Spain, Portugal & France, &c.,
    above 300,000 barrels of flour, large quantities of wheat,
    Indian corn, iron, pork, beef, lumber, and above 15,000
    hhds. of flax seed to Ireland, and the other Provinces are
    equally industrious. The principal returns are in silver and
    gold, with bills of exchange, an incredible part of which
    will center with the Company should the same be executed
    agreeable to the plan proposed, and smuggling will be
    effectually abolished without any additional number of
    officers and cruizers.

    Warehouse rent, &c., in America, will come as cheap as it is
    in England; and by the mode proposed for disposing of the
    teas, the grocers and merchants will be quickly served
    without any risk of loss by bad debts. I beg your
    forgiveness for the freedom I have taken. I have the honor
    to be, with due respect, gentlemen,

                        Your most obed't & humble servant,
                                               GILBERT BARKLY.

    Lombard Street, 29 June, 1773.

    To the chairman & deputy chairman of
      the East India Comp'y.

    (_See Mr. Barkly's letter in the miscellany bundle for the
    Pennsylvania packet of 17th May, 1773._)


    Sir:

    Upon my coming to town, I found a letter from the clerk of
    the Committee of Warehouses, desiring my attendance at the
    East India House, relative to the exportation of teas to
    America.

    I should have waited on the Committee of Warehouses at the
    time desired, if I had been in town, and I will attend them
    if they wish to see me any day next week, which may be
    convenient to them. I am, sir,

                     Your most obedi^t. humb. serv't,
                                                SAMUEL WHARTON.

    Argyle Street, June 30th, 1773

    Crabb Boulton, Esqr.




SOME THOUGHTS UPON THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S SENDING OUT TEAS TO AMERICA.

_Submitted to the consideration of Henry Crabb Boulton, Esq., Chairman
of the East India Company._


The usual exports to America, consisting of callicoes, muslins, and
other produce of India, (tea excepted,) have been seldom less than
L600,000 pr an., as such the consequence of that trade, and the interest
of the merchants concerned therein, ought to be well considered before
this measure of sending out teas to America should be adopted, lest it
might defeat the one and prejudice the other.

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Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to; the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year; 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction,; notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)

Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel)

Boston Tea Party, 1773; Tea tax (American colonies)

It may be suggested that the Americans have not money to pay
    for those goods. The Province of Pennsylvania alone ships
    yearly to the West Indies, Spain, Portugal & France, &c.,
    above 300,000 barrels of flour, large quantities of wheat,
    Indian corn, iron, pork, beef, lumber, and above 15,000
    hhds. of flax seed to Ireland, and the other Provinces are
    equally industrious. The principal returns are in silver and
    gold, with bills of exchange, an incredible part of which
    will center with the Company should the same be executed
    agreeable to the plan proposed, and smuggling will be
    effectually abolished without any additional number of
    officers and cruizers.

    Warehouse rent, &c., in America, will come as cheap as it is
    in England; and by the mode proposed for disposing of the
    teas, the grocers and merchants will be quickly served
    without any risk of loss by bad debts. I beg your
    forgiveness for the freedom I have taken. I have the honor
    to be, with due respect, gentlemen,

                        Your most obed't & humble servant,
                                               GILBERT BARKLY.

    Lombard Street, 29 June, 1773.

    To the chairman & deputy chairman of
      the East India Comp'y.

    (_See Mr. Barkly's letter in the miscellany bundle for the
    Pennsylvania packet of 17th May, 1773._)


    Sir:

    Upon my coming to town, I found a letter from the clerk of
    the Committee of Warehouses, desiring my attendance at the
    East India House, relative to the exportation of teas to
    America.

    I should have waited on the Committee of Warehouses at the
    time desired, if I had been in town, and I will attend them
    if they wish to see me any day next week, which may be
    convenient to them. I am, sir,

                     Your most obedi^t. humb. serv't,
                                                SAMUEL WHARTON.

    Argyle Street, June 30th, 1773

    Crabb Boulton, Esqr.




SOME THOUGHTS UPON THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S SENDING OUT TEAS TO AMERICA.

_Submitted to the consideration of Henry Crabb Boulton, Esq., Chairman
of the East India Company._


The usual exports to America, consisting of callicoes, muslins, and
other produce of India, (tea excepted,) have been seldom less than
L600,000 pr an., as such the consequence of that trade, and the interest
of the merchants concerned therein, ought to be well considered before
this measure of sending out teas to America should be adopted, lest it
might defeat the one and prejudice the other.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to; the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year; 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction,; notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)

Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to; the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year; 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction,; notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)

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