# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
**Method:** Automated (Claude Batch API — claude-opus-4-6)

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pleased to observe to me in their Letter of the
3 of May 1763 with respect to the Friendship
who discharged Tea at the Isle of Man from
Foreign Parts, "that as the Witnesses who
" saw the Chests landed, could not prove the
" Contents; but by the declaration of the
" Mariners, it would not be Sufficient to
" Support a Seizure;"— The Lady Catharine
in all Probability may be coming from
Rotterdam to the Isle of Man, and if I
can procure positive proof of her landing
any East India Goods there I will Seize
her; and if Mess^rs Hopes or any other
Persons, will procure me evidence of the
~~x x x x x x~~ Transactions of her former
Voyage, I will give them a handsome
reward.

I have laid before the Hon^ble Board
what I purpose doing relative to the Isle of
Man, and if I get an encouraging Answer
I will again at my Own expence, without
craving