a Small bundle has been sent to the Custom house directed for you, to my care;

I learn from the Capt of the Ship Imogen which arve’d recently from Cadiz that it contains a specimen of refin’d sugar put in his Charge by the Consull Mr Hackley—

It appearing1 on the Ships manifest makes it necessary, I shou’d render some acct of it but as I am unwilling to open it; it is left subject to yr order: with a request that you will state ye contents; if sugar it will only be necessary to say so, as the quantity, from its size, must be too inconsiderable as an object of duty, were it admissible. which it is not, by law—