Recommend rejection of Robert Ball's tender to handle tin, his price being far too low to cover transport, insurance and other expenses

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/556, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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In obedience to yo^r Lord^ps order signified to us by M^r Lowndes his letter of Ian 29 upon the annexed proposal of M^r Rob^t Balle merchant, viz^t that if yo^r Lord^ps shall ship off & deliver {illeg}|20|0 Tunns of Tin to his factor at Leghorn, upon his factors receipt thereof he will pay for y^e same three pounds 16^s p^r C either here or at Leghorn as your Lord^ps shall think fit: we have considered the same, & humbly represent that S^r Theodore Ianssen paid 4^li 10 per C to the late L^d Treasurer for tinn runn into barrs barrelled & shipt off at her Maj^ts charge & delivered at Genoa & Leghorn, |[|without including the losses w^ch \always/ happned by imbezz3lm^ts of {illeg}|some| Tin by the seamen & by breaking of the barrels in removing them from shipp to ship & w^ch usually amounted to about 2^s 6^d per C.

The charges of running the Tin into barrs barrelling & shipping it off	0. 2. 11	]
Insurance\Freight/ to Leghorn 4. 6. Insurance at 10 p^r cent 8^s	0. 12. 6
Imbezzelments	0 2. 6
	0. 17. 11

& yet her Ma^ty was\seems to have been/ a loser by that price. For the charges of running the Tin into barrels barrelling & shipping it off came to 2^s. 11^d. \per C & {recconm^ts} for/ Freight to Leghorn at 4^s 6^d & \8^s for/ insurance at 10 p^r cent {illeg}|(|8^s,|)| The whole will be 15^s. 5^d which added to \3^l 16^s/ y^e price at the Tower makes 4. 11 5 besides the losses by imbezzelments \by seamen/ w^ch one {illeg}voiage w^th another amounted to about 2^s 6^d p^r C So that We are humbly of opinion therefore that by the proposal above mentioned, her Ma^ty would be a great loser.