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inform your honor that we have had the misfortune of losing one of our worthy Companions, who died suddenly about three Weeks ago. Hon.d Sir we beg leave further to inform you that for the last twelve months we have repeatedly waited upon the Honorable Board of Trade praying for Redress, but we cannot obtain an audience in no respect whatsoever, save that we are informd by a verbal message that our business will be taken into consideration, but when we are at a great loss to know, but we do not mean to make any reflections on the honorable Board of Trade, as we conceive the weighty business of Government prevents them from paying attention to Individuals so low as we appear to be in this Country. We beg leave further to State that since our first arrival in Calcutta, we to our very great loss have been totally out of employ, nor can we engage ourselves in any System of Agriculture in consequence of our Engagements with the Honorable East India Company.
We beg leave to offer to you our opinion respecting the Ground about Calcutta which is not at all adapted for the Culture of Hemp, but in the Northern Provinces of Banares [Benares] or Patna we make a certainty of success, & we trust & hope your honor will please to obtain this leave & order from the Honorable Board of Directors, that we may proceed on the business for which we were sent here; trusting that the benevolent system of your heart, will please to obtain for us such release as you in your wise & honorable judgment shall think proper. We beg leave to say that we would not have given you this trouble but fearful that the circumstances relating to the culture of Hemp may have been differently represented to the Honorable Court of Directors to that in which we give you a brief & just account of.