Agreeable to your desire, I send you a pro forma invoice of 6 chests Dutch Boheas, so as they come to stand on board if they were shipped here; but as the shipping is at Amsterdam, the charges may be somewhat higher. In regard to what they estimate, the risk that in America for running in the teas I cannot inform you, this you may be better able to learn from some of your New England houses, as our underwriters will not sign against the risk of seizures; but I fancy the risk is not very great, as the trade is carried on for so large parcels. Pro forma invoice of 6 chests of Dutch Bohea tea: lbs. 320 Tare of 4 chests, under 400 ------ 360 at 84 lb. each, 336} 2270 370 } 390 do. of 2 chests above } 516 410 400 @ 90 lb. each 180} ---- 1754 @ 24s. L2104 16 420 off 1 pr cent., 21 2 -------- L2083 14 CHARGES. Custom and Passport, L20 4s Sleding, 1 7 1/2 weigh money, 13 0 Brokerage, 10 8 Shipping, 3 0 Commission, 2 per cent. on L2131 13s. 42 12 -------- 90 11 -------- L2174 5[25] _Estimate of the advantages attending the Tea trade to North America, if carried on from England:_ Observe 1st. In the following calculation, no more than half the consumption of the Continent, as estimated by Messrs. Hutchinson, in their letter of the 10th Sepr., 1771, is assumed as the whole, as from the mode in which they were under the necessity of making their estimate, it was liable to error, and 19,200 chests is more than has been hitherto annually imported from China by all foreign companies. 2ndly. That this calculation is formed upon Bohea tea only, the species of tea already consumed there; yet it is probable by degrees other species might be introduced, the vend of which may be more profitable to the Company. 9600 chests of Bohea tea, each containing 340 lbs., makes 3,264,000 lbs., if sold at 2s. 6d. Boston currency, (which is 4d. lower than it appears to have been even at the time it was purchased in Holland, at 15 stivers, or under 18d. pr lb., amounts to L408,000 Deduct 25 pr cent. for exchange, 102,000 Sterling, L306,000 Deduct 6 pr cent. for commission and charges, 18,360 Annual net proceeds before the American } L287,640 duty is deducted, }