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accepted^I was enabled to make him such jiroposal liy means of the 

 powerful assistance o( my worthy friend Mr Clarke, indeed it is entirely 

 through him that the connection has been brought about & in consequence 

 of his assurance of essential support from his Hank — a ])riucipal branch of 

 our business is the executing of foreign orders for the purchase of West India 

 produce, and in doing this to advantage it is abs<jlutely necessary to have the 

 confidence of a Bank as large advances are required — Mr Busch has a very 

 extensive correspondence all over Germany, and his Commissions have been 

 from 12 to ;;^I500 per annum for several years past — there is a great field 

 for such business here, and we trust with the attention & application that we 

 are determined to give to it that we may do something considerable^! hope 

 it will be in my power by means of my friends in different quarters to add 

 something to our connection and among others I flatter myself I may hope 

 for your good offices should it be in your power to throw anything in our 

 way ; I know you have an agent here very capable of attending to your 

 business, and therefore I say nothing on that head, but it may possibly 

 happen that you may be able to recommend us to your friends — We are 

 confined to general Commission business entirely, doing nothing on our own 

 account. Mr Busch has had great experience in the corn trade, and we hope 

 to get a good many commissions in that line : a great deal of business is done 

 here for Commission for account of London Houses in the Foreign trade & 

 any introductions in that way would be very acceptable to us — 



I have some thoughts of writing to your brother Henry on this matter 

 and will thank you to furnish me with his direction. 



On January 17th, 1803, Taylor writes to Philips as 

 follows : — 



Dear Sir, 



I believe it is three or four years since any correspondence has taken 

 place between us, and I am glad of an occasion to break through this long 

 silence, my Nephew and Partner Meadows Taylor has desired me to give the 

 bearer Mr W. Clemens of Baltimore a letter of introduction to your house, 

 his brother William Clemens being a very particular friend of his, and a 

 man of whom he has the highest opinion. Mr Clemens (who was with my 

 nephew at the time he was in Bremen) was for several years the Agent in 

 Germany for Smith Buchanan iS: Co, of Baltimore, and had the entire confi- 

 dence of tliat House. His father is a man of property & from what 

 ^Meadows knows of the elder Brother he is of opinion they will form a house 

 of much respectability — this is all we can say about them, you can easily by 

 your connections with America learn more if you are disposed to do anything 

 with 'em and I shall be glad they may prove worth your attention. 



After a severe turn of fortune I find myself very comfortably settled in a 

 regular business with my nephew, who is everything I could wish, smart «& 

 active and uncommonly attentive, we intended to have made the foreign 

 trade our principle object, Init our connections in Ireland have done so much 



