We use the freedom to hand you on the other side the Circular Letter of our establishment in this place to which we crave your reference—Please accept of our warmest acknowledgements for your kind attention to Our Mr. Ewart & M. Gower during their short stay in your Metropolis, and in our turn of our establishment here can at any period be of use to you or your friends it will give us plessure to have frequent Occasions to testify to you our just sense of gratitude for your Civlities to them.—

We will hold it as a particular favour your making mention of our house, to such of your friends in America you may have Occasion to write to we mean those that are in the way of sending Grain & Fish to the Mediteranean but previous to a step of this kind you may perhaps wish to take some informations Conserning the Solidity of our establishment the probity and honour of our Acting Partners; in that case permit us to address you to the Houses mentioned at foot, tho’ at same time we assure you none can give You more satisfactory eclaircissements upon that head than your old acquaintance M. Daummond We are with unfeigned Regard Sir Your most obt. hum. Servt.

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We take the liberty to acquaint you of the establishment we have made in this city, under the firm of Montagut, Ewart, and Company, and to wait upon you with our best offers of service.

Our Company is formed by friends who are concerned with us en commandite, and by Mr. A. Gower, of whose signature, as well as ours, we beg you will take note.

Mr. Montagut is a native of Reus; and, as he possesses considerable landed property in that quarter, he will continue to reside there, the better to execute the orders which we may transmit to him from our friends, for the purchase and expediton of the produce of that neighbourhood.—We flatter ourselves by his means, and by the experience which our A. Ewart and A. Gower have acquired of the trade of this country during a residence of about fourteen years, together with the very sufficient capital we possess, that we shall be able to serve our employers to the greatest advantage, and we hope that the zeal and activity with which we shall attend to their interest, both in the purchase and sale of goods, consignments of ships, and whatever else they may commit to our charge, will recommend and entitle us more and more to their confidence and friendship

We have the honour to be, Sir Your most obedient humble servants,