Statistics. 



Prew-nt 

 Kite and 

 state. 



Cotton dis- 

 trict de- 

 imbed. 



ENGLAND. 



TABLE VI. Official value of Cotton Manufactured, and Cotton-yarn Exported. 



1805. 1806. 1807. 1808. 1809. 



CONTINENT OF EUROPE. 



Cotton manufactured L.4,06l,542 2,761,166 2,494,713 3,555,125 7,246,360 

 Ya rn 909,007 727,103 594,753 351,199 969,572 



759 



Statistics. 



Cotton manufactured 175,252 

 Yam 171,807 



IRELAND, &c. 



169,243 175,357 260,642 216,946 



118,298 68,249 215,646 124,470 



ASIA. 

 Cotton manufactured 46,573 50,534 64,472 112,316 74,082 



AFRICA. 

 Cotton manufactured 285,408 456,661 303,106 168,310 305,632 



Cotton manufactured 

 Yam . 



2,703,044 

 2,762 



4,564,628 

 4,812 



AMERICA. 



4,274,280 

 6,289 



4,521,631 

 6,324 



6,116,341 

 2,080 



1810. 



7,168,535 

 1,034,375 



199,749 

 36,174 



104,326 

 196,214 



6,667,608 

 2,899 



WEST INDIES. 

 Cotton manufactured 1,499,453 1,894,385 2,534,961 



Yarn 



3,697,362 

 1,529 



Totals L.9,857,348 10,747,896 10,516,717 13,409,733 19,732,150 19,078,971 



2,500 



1,066 



537 



4,217,779 

 1,761 



4,675,253 

 1,414 



These Tables also serve to shew the countries from 

 which we got our cotton-wool, and the countries to 

 which we exported our manufactured goods and our 

 cotton yarn ; for, in consequence of the great improve- 

 ment in the machinery for spinning cotton, there were 

 not weavers enough in the kingdom to manufacture it ; 

 while, on the continent, the weavers, who had been 

 accustomed to weave linen and silk, easily turning 

 themselves to the weaving of cotton, the superfluity 

 of our yarn found a ready market there. 



We shall conclude this branch of our subject, with a 

 sketch of the present scite and state of the cotton trade 

 in England ; an attempt to estimate its value, with re- 

 spect to the same points which we endeavoured to es- 

 tablish in regard to the woollen trade ; and a com- 

 parative view of the two trades, as they seem to affect 

 the wealth, the morals, and the general condition of 

 those engaged in them. 



The cotton district of England has nearly the same 

 extent and boundaries now that it had 20 years ago, 

 though the manufacture, in some, or all of its branches, 

 may nave appeared since that time in distant and insu- 

 lated part* of the kingdom. Manchester may still be 

 considered as the centre of this district. To the north- 

 west and west of this town it is most widely diffused, 

 having, since the period before alluded to, approached 

 nearer the northern confines of the county. In Lanca- 

 shire, Bolton, Blackburn, Wigan, and Preston, may be 

 regarded as centres to the smaller divisions of this dis- 

 trict, and as still engaged, for the most part, in those 

 branches of the trade which they followed in the year 

 1795, and which have been already noticed. Stock- 

 port, to the south of Manchester, and Ashton to the 

 east, are centres of the division of the districts which lie 

 in these directions ; when we pass them, we pass the 

 limits of the regular cotton trade, though it makes its 

 appearance as far to the south as Derby. Since 1795, 



it has gained a firmer and more extensive footing in 

 the West Riding of Yorkshire, intermixing with the 

 original and staple manufacture of that district. With 

 respect to the places where the different kinds of goods 

 are manufactured, it may be proper to give more minute 

 information : Great quantities of checks are made at 

 Carlisle, and in other parts of Cumberland ; the lowest 

 qualities of calicoes are made chiefly at Burnley and 

 Colne in Lancashire, and at Bradford in Yorkshire ; 

 the best qualities at Blackburn and Stockport; the 

 muslins are made at Bolton, Stockport, and the sur- 

 rounding villages; the shirtings at Blackburn, Stock- 

 port, Manchester, &c. ; the pullicat handkerchiefs in 

 the neighbourhood of Manchester ; the quiltings and 

 dimities in the neighbourhood of Bolton, as well as the 

 bed-quilts and counterpanes ; nankeens and cotton tick- 

 ings are chiefly made within seven miles of Manches- 

 ter ; velverets, thicksets, and cords, chiefly at Warring- 

 ton ; and velveteens principally at Oldham, and in ve- 

 ry great quantity in those parts of Yorkshire which 

 border on Lancashire; fustian cutting is almost entire- 

 ly confined to the town of Manchester ; bleaching and 

 printing are chiefly earned on at Blackburn, Bury, &c. 

 and the former at Bolton ; calico-printing is also car- 

 ried on extensively at Carlisle, and in the neighbour- 

 hood of London. Most of the mills for spinning cot- 

 ton are in the neighbourhood of Manchester and Stock- 

 port. 



The proportion of the population in the cotton dis- p r0 p 0rt ; on 

 trict of England employed in that trade, is very great ; O f its popu- 

 some estimate it so high as five-sevenths. In Bolton lation em- 

 it is supposed to be nearly one-half; in Stockport two- ployed. 

 thirds. The proportion of men and women employed ' 

 in weaving was formerly nearly equal ; but, in conse- 

 quence of the introduction of the power-looms, (to 

 which we have before adverted, and which forms the 

 most recent era in the history of the cotton trade of 



