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April 24
Dear Sir
as it appears to me that the Committee of Shipping when they decided on the dispertion proportion of Batta proper to be allowd to his Majesties ship Porpose Investigator, tho they took into consideration the Previous Services of the Commander in having surveyd Basses the straights between Van diemens Land & the New Holland, the probibility of advantage being denied to the Company Ships by the Survey of the Coasts &c of New Holland, the Possibility of the Straights being discovered there, is still greater importance to the Companies service than Basses Straights, the great availability of articles of the greatest highest importence to trade & to which the Company have an exclusive right being discovered, especially in the mineral Kingdom, have not markd their Final decision on the subject with the gracious liberality for which the Company have long been Praisd by all who are engagd in its service; I take the Liberty to Remark on the arrangement that by confining the Grants of Batta to "such times only as the Ship shall be actualy Engagd in the Survey", they have probably dimihishd at stroke of a pen full half of the Emolument they seemd willing to have granted him for in that Case we must deduct from a three years voyage, one year for Passage out & home & more than half a year for refitting & refreshing in the winter season.
I beg also to Remark that in distributing the Batta no allowance of extra is in any Shape made for the 4 persons who as scientific