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No. 2037. THEODORE BARBEY: CIRCULAR
[Printed] THEODORE BARBEY, Consul of Texas, AT PARIS CO:\-OHSSION HOUSE A'l' HAVRE and in Paris.
Paris,[France,] lrst Jw1e 1841
Sir, Having been established at Havre and in Paris for many years, as a Commission Merchant for receiving Consignments of Cotton and foreign produce for sale at Havre, and for the purchase of French manufactures in Paris for export, I beg lea,e to offer you my services for any Commercial Transactions you may find occasion to confide to ·my management. APPOINTED by your Government to represent it.s interests in this Capital, I shall feel highly flattered by your making choice of either of my Houses in this country, to attend to any business you may wish transacted, and I engage that you will always have cause to be satis- fied in every respect, by reason of my long practical experience ac- quired in the sale and purchase of merchandise and manufactures, and by a system of the strictest probity from which I have never departed. You can moreover obtain every information concerning me of iir. DE SALIGNY, French Charge d'affaires to your Gorernment, as to the guarantees of morality I can offer you. THE treaty entered into between France and Texas placing your Country on the footing of the most favored nations, you will find immense advantage in transmitting me your orders for the purchase of all dry Goods, Liquids, and fancy Goods of whatsoe,·er nature you may desire, and which you now buy at exorbitant prices, in the neighbouring coun- tries, as it will make a difference to yon of more than 200 per cent. YOU will have the power of repaying me for my disbursements in bills or produce; but according to the principle adopted by me since the formation of my houses, I shall execute the orders for purchnse that may be given me only after having been corered beforehand by consignments of produce or by remittances in specie or appro,·ed hills. IF you require any information of any nature whate,er on mutters of business or otherwise connected with this country; I beg you will make use of my services and aclclress me by letter direct, to )fr. Tl~e- odore Barbey, Havre. I shoukl be pleased to see that you were 111- clincd to profit by my offer of services immedintely by a consi~nment of cotton, or order for purchase of European Goods for your )lnrket. In order to put you in the way of knowing our current prices I an11ex a note of the last sales effected in the Havre )[nrket, ns nlso t.he amount of import duties levied on your cottons. To facilitate con_sig-nmeut.s which you may think proper to confide to my cnre. I nuthorm' ~·ou _to draw on me for two thirds of the purchase value of the cotton hy I.J1lls at sixty days sight. - REC E l VE, Sir, the assurance of my high consiclerlltion. THEODORE BARBEY, Consul for the republic of Texas at Paris. AND CO:\IMISSIOX )LERCHA~T IX H.-\. nrn.
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