Letter 179 Captain William Marter [Martyr] at East India House to the Court of Directors for a further advance of £800 to pay the wages of the Horsenden
Letter 187 Note from Mr Sharpe that the Council at Whitehall would meet in two or three days when the Company's petition would be presented, and suggesting that as previous petitions to export wheat or flour had been refused that the Company provide further details of the necessity or urgency in this case
Letters 218-219 William Sharpe, Whitehall Council Office to Robert James returning the company's petition as the export embargo on Wheat and Flour is only lasts until the next sitting of parliament in two or three days and as the Company's ships don't sail until the 25th the petition may not be needed
Scope & Content:
Enclosure: Petition submitted by the Court of Directors of the East India Company to His Majesty the King to be permitted an exemption to the wheat and flour export embargo to send urgently needed supplies to St Helena and Fort Marlborough, 24 October 1765.
Letter 93 Note from Mr Nesbitt to Robert James that he had received a letter from Captain Clements at Rio de Janeiro 9 October 1765 that the ship was under sail and all was well