150 eOTTON im THE MADEAS PEESIDENCT. [CHAP. T. 



Tweeddale had adopted the views of Mr. Finnie, or 

 else that Mr. Pinnie had adopted the views of the 

 Marquis of Tweeddale. Accordingly his Lordship had 

 on more than one occasion expressed himself favourably 

 disposed towards the practical suggestions of the Ame- 

 rican Planter, rather than towards the theoretical views 

 of a scientific botanist like Dr. Wight. Shortly before 

 his Lordship's retirement from the Government of 

 Ma,dras, he drew up several Minutes, in which he re- 

 corded his opinions at length. In the first place he 

 proposed the remission of one-fourth of the rent of all 

 Paras. 121, lands taken up for the cultivation of Ame- 

 123. rican Cotton ; but this subject has already 



been narrated elsewhere. His more important pro- 

 Marquisof position was that the Grovemment should 

 Tweeddaie'a immediately relinquish all its Experimental 



Mmute, 3rd -r< V ja ■ ^ ^ • ■ /-i j. 



Sept., 1847. iarms and othcial agency for raising Cot- 

 fi857)'^p'iM ^°^' ^° ^^^^ conclusion, he said, could ever 

 ^ ' ' ' be dravm, until private capital and enterprise 

 were embarked in the trial ; and that would never take 

 place, so long as Grovemment occupied itself with the 

 experiment. On the other hand, if one-half of the 

 amount that had been expended, had been ofiered as a 

 bonus to private enterprise, — either in the form of 

 advances for the erection of gins and other machinery, 

 or in. that of grants of land rent free for a specified 

 term, — he believed that the question would ailready 

 have been brought to an issue. Again, no fair con- 

 clusion could be drawn from a Q-overnment Parm, 

 superintended by men who were not practical agricul- 

 turists, and who consequently were not able to direct 

 the labour of those under them ; but who used Govern- 

 ment capital and Commissariat cattle, which the Native 

 cultivator could not command; and who moreover had 

 no direct interest in the success of the experiment, nor 

 in the limitation of the expenditure. His Lordship did 

 not include Mr. Finnie in these remarks, as he believed 

 it to be a great advantage to Government, to be able to 

 command the services of a practical Cotton Planter. At 

 the same time he expressed an opinion similar to that 

 expressed by Mi-. Finnie ; namely, that instead of at- 



