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Lord Hawkesbury presents his compliments to Sir Joseph Banks, & sends him inclosed [enclosed] a letter he has received from Marshall Conway, & a paper accompanying it, on the same subject on which the Committee of Privy Council have already given some trouble to Sir Joseph Banks & Sir Charles Blagden.
Lord H. [Hawkesbury] will be very much obliged to Sir Joseph B. if he would be so good as to consider these papers, & shew them to Sir Charles Blagden, & favor him with their opinions on the answer which he ought to return to Marshall Conway. The business is of such a nature that it is impossible for Lord H. [Hawkesbury] to form any opinion of his own upon it.
March 17. 1795
Soho Square
My Lord
I was very sorry that the accident of my being in the Country when I had the honor of a summons to attend the Privy Council on the question relative to the exportation of Salt Petre & Nitrous Acid, prevented my attendance there. I have since learnt that the East India Company having deferrd their Sale of Salt Petre, the question on that head was no longer of such immediate importance, but there being, as I am informed no prohibition on the Export of the Nitrous Acid & the practicability of using that material with the vegetable alkali or Potash for making Salt-petre having as I am informd been calld in question by Gentlemen of great authority on that occasion, & having had reason for doubting the exactness of the calculations then made;