50 Mr. Faraday on the 



& other obvious causes and we entertain serious apprehensions that the 

 admission of American Cotton (unless on the express condition of the reciprocal 

 introduction of our manufactures) would materially injure the present improved 

 exportation, & at the same time enable the American Government to carry on 

 hostilities against the Country with increased Vigour. 



That We believe the quantity of Cotton already in the Kingdom together 

 with the Supplies that may be expected from the E. & W. Indies and our Allies 

 in So. America, to be amply sufficient for the Consumption of the Country 

 without its value being advanced so as to occasion any Stagnation or Incon- 

 venience to the Manufacturers or to the labouring Spinners. 



That for these reasons, We are of opinion that the admission of American 

 Cotton at the Duties proposed will be of material disadvantage to the present 

 trade of the County & that should the price of Cotton be depressed by such 

 admission, it would be a serious loss to the present holders of both Cotton, 

 Twist and Manufactured Goods which have been laid in without the Contem- 

 plation of a Measure apparently calculated to strengthen the power of an 

 inveterate Enemy, whose object it is to injure G. B. by the prohibition of her 

 Manufactures. 



From the great interest which the Agitation of this Subject has excited in 

 the mind of the public, We can not doubt that your Rt. Honble. Board will 

 duly appreciate its importance, & make such Arrangements as shall secure the 

 interests of the British Manufacturer, regardless equally of the fears or misappre- 

 hensions of interested Individuals. 



We have the honour to remain 



Mar: 16, 1813. 

 Rt. HonUe. Earl Bathur^t, President of the Board of Trade, &c. 



Had Colonel Philips survived until the time of the 

 American Civil War, he might not improbably have con- 

 tended that the Lancashire cotton famine of that period 

 justified his early opinions as to the importance of keeping 

 up a supply of cotton from our own possessions. That in 

 regard to his complaint of the apathy of his fellow-townsmen 

 he was not alone, the following letter from Richard Atherton 

 Farington, who was a younger brother of Joseph Farington, 

 the artist and Royal Academician, shows. Joseph Farington, 

 it may be mentioned, was born at Leigh in 1747, and died 

 at Parr's Wood, near Manchester, the residence of his 

 brother (whence the letter is dated), in 1821. The letter 

 not improbably refers to matters which led to the passing 

 of an Act, in June of the same year, " for the more effectual 

 administration of the office of a Justice of the Peace within 



