Fine 1817 2 Page EL DEMERARA LIVERPOOL SHIP LETTER SANDBACH TINNE. Plantation 👀

Three letters enclosed from 7 to 9 October 1817. Carried on brig Brown.

Rough transcript - a few bits unclear

Demerary 7th October 1817

Messrs Sandbach Tinne & Co

Gentlemen

We are fav’d with your letters of 6th & 16th August with the acct sales and advice of further sales which were very good. We wish to receive a sketch of St & Meyer’s acct in order to settle with him. You will receive enclosed copy of a Bill of Lading of 21 Hhds sugar from Wales [?] & 15 Hhds sugar from Zeelandia & 10 do from Henry & Ferry in the Brig Brown, which is to sail for Liverpool in a few days, also a monthly return for 1st September. We are this day endeavouring to have up the opinion to see to get at the [pro?] where the leak is, as we cannot get on with her loading till something is done with it. In 2 or 3 days we shall be able to judge whether it can be effectually secured or not. She has got in 51 Hhds sugar from Zeelandia, Providence, & Good Hope. We understand they are picking over in Demerara but make very little progress owing to want of hands. We have had a pretty smart shower here today, but uncertain whether it has extended that far. Neither cotton nor coffee are to be had to purchase, and we have no hopes of being able to procure an entire cargo of those articles for the season, while on the other hand we expect to have abundance of sugar. There is no appearance of her yet, tho’ she ought to be here now, if she sailed at the appointed time.

Original of Mary Ann

9th October

We have 17 Hhds of sugar having come from Zeelandia, for which we have no room we shall send them on board the Blonde Scott to await for her [?] in about 10 days which relieves us some. We have a freight account with her consignees & can always get the difference due us when we want it.

McInroy Sandbach & Co

Demerary 8th October 1817

Messrs Sandbach Tinne & Co

Gentlemen

We wrote you yesterday since which the [situation?] has been so far mended up that her stern would only be in 3 feet water, and it is found that her bottom is split from the 7 feet water mark all the way downwards, the rent enlarging in size the lower it gets to the bottom. It seems therefore very evident that the [force?] that forced her keels was limited to a side, but as she was 2 or 3 feet in the mud & the water had not quite left her it is impossible to ascertain the full extent of the injury, and we are informed efforts are made to haul her home down to get her keel out of the water so as to get working at it. At least this is the result of the best advice we can obtain, & we are now going to take out the 50 Hhds sugar she has in & the remainder of her bricks to prepare for doing that. In the meantime lighters are beginning to arrive daily for her & we are at a loss what to do with them as the ship being already full, & no appearance yet of the [other?] which must have either been detained or is making a very long passage, and in expectation of her & of the Dem[?] arriving soon, we would be glad to put off engaging any other vessel as long as possible, but in some of the states where the coming season we shall & even on some of the large estates, they will soon have no room for their sugar. We are, Gentlemen,

Your Obedt Servts

McInroy Sandbach & Co

Errors are copies of return for next mail (from over)????