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ir at heart, yet which none, it appears to my 

 humble judgement, take the only practicable means 

 of accomplishing the introduction into India of 

 British Capital. Lst not India flatter, I had almost 

 said, flutter herself into the belief that she is going 

 to sell 5,000,000 bales of cotton at one shilling and 

 six pence, or even at the odd six pence per. Ib. to 

 the cotton spinners of England. All that part of 

 the problem has been solved long ago. Time was 

 when we had plenty of European cotton growers in 

 India. In the North Western Division of this Presi- 

 dency, may still be seen the ruins of many large 

 factories, all of which had their screws. A large 

 quantity of cotton was annually exported from these 

 districts which was eagerly sought for by spinners. It 

 paid well, the growers grew fat on the profits. But, 

 in an unauspicious hour for India, cotton of a 

 better quality came into the English market, from 

 another quarter. Indian cotton declined, was gra- 

 dually neglected, and soon no longer enquired 

 for. The grower's occupation was gone; his screws, 

 his presses, his factories, no longer, a source of 

 wealth, were abandoned, for other things. And so 

 it will be again. Tne war in America over, unless 

 India is in a position to send cotton in quan- 

 tity to England, of the same quality as American 

 cotton, Indian cotton will no longer be enquired 

 for. When the Government of India will show 



