i% memoirs of Dr James Andersom May 9. 
will ke necefsary you fhould write to the government of 
that places by the fhip General Goddard, now at anchor in 
the roads, under dispatch. 
I must likewise request your ifsuing orders for that flip: 
to receive the plants on board. Iam, de. 
To Dr James Anderson. 
Sir, Dee. 30. 1789. 
I am directed by government ‘to acknowledge the re- 
ceipt of your several letters under the date aqth w/t. and 
rith, 23d, 29th inst. The small parcels accompanying them 
are to be sent by the General Goddard to the honourable: 
the Court of Directors, and an order will be given to the 
commander to receive the box mentioned by you to be 
left at St Helena. 
It appearing to government that your late letters to them 
contain remarks on various points which do not seem to 
Have any relation to the nopalry, or to fall within the 
line of your department, you are therefore requested: to- 
confine your observations to the objects first intended on 
the establifhment of the present nopalry, and the introduc- 
tion of plants. I am, dc. Cuartes Wuire, Sec. 
From this last it will appear that it was only in 
obedience to the commands of his superiors that 
Mr Hollond gave any countenance to these pursuits. 
Since the abdication, or flight, or what you please to 
call it, of that géfleman, the administration of Ma- 
dras has been. more favourable to the views of our 
patriotic improver. : 
Since that time, notwithstanding the war, so unfa- 
vourable to his views, Dr Anderson prosecutes his 
discoveries with unwearied attention. The rearing 
of silk, and the cultivation of indigo, are the objects he 
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