We are at a loss how to Apologize for presuming, unknown as we must be to you, to trouble you with this letter, which proceeds from the information we have received relative to the lights in which you view these Islands and their situation respecting the future Trade between Europe and America, their Vicinity both to the Coasts of England and France renders them oudoubtedly if not the only at least the best situated places to become hereafter the Entre Pots of the great and extensive Commerce which will of course immediately take place between the two Continents; this Island distant only Seven leagues from the Coast of France, we will make bold to assert a fairer prospect of success in most but particulary in the Tobacco branch, besides the very great difference in the unavoidable expences of Unloading, Stowing, Warehouse rent, Shipping, in short in the charges of every kind, is another inducement to those who will be properly informed, to lodge their effects here in preference to the other Islands. This Sir, with the earnest desire we have of forming early connections with that Country who is so much indebted to you for its present Great and Flourishing State, and the means which our situation and Connections in this Island, afford us of procuring the Interest of those Friends who may favour us so far as to trust their concerns to our care, are the motives on which we have presumed to address and make you a tender of our Services, in hopes you will receive these few lines with indulgence and knowing Sir, that if honoured with your Protection and Recommendation our success must exceed our most sanguine expectations, this however we only Solicit after having received every satisfactory information respecting our Characters, for this we must beg leave to refer you among others, to His Excellency General Conway our Governor and to every Merchant in London or any other trading place, who has the least intercourse with this Island; the result of such inquiries we flatter ourselves, cannot prove unfavourable to us, but should it procure us your good opininion and the Honour of your Protection, let us entreat you to belive that we shall ever earnestly endeavour as well by our Assiduity and constant pursuit of those measures by which the Interest of your Friends, who instruct us with their concerns, may be promoted, as by every other means possible, to convince you of our most grateful acknowledgements and of the Sincerity and respect with which we have the Honour to subscribe ourselves Sir Your most Obedient and most humble Servants