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Lord Bute prefers to make arrangements with recipient (and not with the Abernant Co. as proposed in Letter 286) who is advised to get possession of the coal lands of Mr. (Thynne Howe) Gwynn, or take Lord Bute's land at Aberdare and convey the coal to Hirwain by locomotive.

The prematurity of recipient's information that the writer is a promoter of the South Wales Mining Scheme' to which he is however favourably disposed and in connection with which he will be approached. A request that recipient communicate on this matter directly with Mr. O. Tyndall.

Expressing gratitude for the generosity shewn by recipient to herself and her children in extricating them from debt and in making them annual payments.

Sends a copy of a letter from Mr. Roper, and requests recipient to send the Probate of the Will of the late Mr. Thompson to the Custom House. [Copy].

A complaint against recipients for putting him to so much trouble in procuring the Probate of the will of William Thompson, or the actual will, for exhibition at the Custom House Chepstow, and so hindering the writer and his neighbours from obtaining their share in "the vessel". [A copy, inscribed on Letter 292(a).].

Expressing strong disapproval of recipient's having taken the Chair at a meeting of ironmasters at Gloucester, which proposed a levy upon the trade and formation of an association. Such action will not move either Parliament or the Public to deem the ironmasters proper subjects for protection against new companies, and association of the Crawshays with leadership of the drive for prodigious increases in iron prices will expose them to calumny. Recipient is requested to confine himself to the execution of orders, and leave all other matters to the writer, who has been too little consulted, and who believes that they must keep free from conbinations in which they are likely to be duped by Guest and Hill. Routine advices.

An account of what passed between himself and recipient's father on his reporting the Gloucester meeting to the latter, when the latter violently attacked the meeting and charged it "with supporting a ruinous and dishonest system of extortion", and declared that far from wishing to oppose the Joint Stock Companies he wished them to succeed. His attempt to explain that recipient had not allowed the subject of an increase in price to be discussed at the meeting.

Advising recipient of the despatch to him of a "small Gas apparatus", with apologies for the delay.

Expressing pleasure over recipient's letter [relative to Letter 293] and emphasising that whilst recipient confines himself to the works no man can be better approved by the writer, who arranged for the sale of Cyfarthfa Metal to be conducted by the London House for the harmony of both houses.

O. Tyndall, Lincoln's Inn, to William Crawshay (II), Merthyr Tidvil, to announce that the British Iron Company have approached Lord Bute for a tenancy of part of the Rhigos [Hirwain] district, and to request the views of recipient, as a prior negotiator, on the matter.

Condolence on the death of recipient's child. [Annette, b.1824].

Condolence on the death of recipient's child.

Routine business instructions and advices.

A confidential proposal for linking the Hirwain Iron Works to the iron mines of Rhigos, by the sale for £200,000 of the Hirwain Works to one of the iron companies, to whom Lord Bute could extend the lease and also charge a royalty for the minerals. This would produce "a famous concern". [In postscript - asks why the Marquis of Bute allows so much suffering to be inflicted on Cardiff by Bute, Blakemore & Co.].

Concerning the reduction of [Excise] Duty on Swedish Iron which should make recipient less sanguine of obtaining £14 a ton for his iron; the proposed sale of Gwaelodygarth House to Meyrick (the solicitor), the re-sale of Rumney [Iron Works] at which he writer will force up the bidding. Routine advices.

The favourable attitude of the Marquis of Bute to the proposition outlined in Letter 301, save that he cannot allow the purchase price of Hirwain to be based on the present high prices of iron. His regret concerning the position in Cardiff. [Vide Letter 259, 288(a) and (b)3.

A refutation of recipient's view that the depreciation of the iron works will prevent the reduction of the duties on foreign iron or the growth of new companies because everyone is incensed about the "rapacious price of iron" and the ironmasters have no friends in Parliament except the iron and coal proprietors (i.e. landlords), who are jealous of them. Sends extracts from two previous letters relating to the sale of Gwaelodygarth House to Meyrick. Routine matters. [Enclosure - Copy of the extracts].

Routine advices as to execution of orders and as to method of making the balance accounts. The universal determination to force down the price of iron, which is likely to happen in spite of all the meetings and opinions of ironmasters. The failure to get orders at £14.

Concerning arrangements to meet recipient to talk over the matters raised in Letter 303, etc.

William Crawshay (I), London, to William Crawshay (II), his son, Merthyr Tidvil,. Concerning another furnace at Hirwain, which is sanctioned, and extension of Cyfarthfa, which will be discussed; the threat of Bailey to reduce iron by £4 per ton if the House of Lords rejects his appeal, in which measure the writer will not follow in view of a panic in the industry; the deputation of Routh and other commissioners at the Board of Trade. Routine matters. [A footnote by Routh: the immovability of Mr. Huskisson who indicates that other measures about to be proposed will show that the iron trade is not unfairly singled out (for removal of protective duties)].