Taylor to Newcastle

I have now the honor to hand your Grace the accompanying letter
from Mr Anthony Easterby proposing the names of three gentlemen to be
joined to those of himself and partners in the grant of Mining ground in
Queen Charlotte's Island should the Government be pleased to accede to
the application which has been made on their behalf.

I beg to add, on the part of my Firm, that we are enabled to
testify to the high respectability of these gentlemen: and we now
therefore propose to your Grace the following names as those to be
inserted in the Lease.

Henry Johns Esq. Merchant

68 Upper Thames Street & Birmingham Patent welded Tube Company

(Messrs Selby Johns & Co)

Thomas William Laroche Esq. Merchant

36 St Mary at hill

(Messrs Fenwick Laroche & Co)

John Peter Esq. Merchant

30 Great St Helens

(Messrs Thompson Peter & Co)

Anthony Easterby, Merchant, San Francisco

Francis Gray Do Do

Matthew Rooney Do Do