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Soho Square
Augst 10. 1791.
Dear Sir
I am as much grieved as you can be that I am not able to provide you with any of the instructions given to Capt Vancouver to regulate his conduct towards you but in truth the hurry of the Political business at the time you sail'd was such that the it was daily promised to me I have not to this day been able to get it from Mr. Nepean I will still continue my effort & if I am able before the Daedalus Sails you may be here I will enclose it to you.
The needs of the proposal I gave in for his orders respecting you were that he should assist you with Boats to carry you & your baggage ashore & bring you off & with men to carry about your necessaries as often as the duty of the ship would allow him & that he should furnish you with such articles of trade as would enable you to obtain from the Indians in the different places you were to visit such information & assistance as are wanting towards your fulfiling the objects of your mission by which I mean he should give you the most valuable kinds of goods of such place if necessary in which case you will demand them.
How Capt Van[couver] will behave to you is more than I can guess unless I was to judge by his Conduct towards me which was not such as I am used to receive from Persons in his situation but as there was no imprudence in his not being civil to me & it could be highly imprudent in him to throw any Obstacles in the way of your duty I trust he will have too much good sense to distrust it if he does the instances whatever they are will of course appear as they happened in your Journal which as it will be a justification