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APPENDIX. 



Glasgow, Manchester and Belfast would be attended to, for 

 it is well known that Sir James is aware of the 

 value of the raw material of Flax and cotton, and the fibres of 

 India and our colonies, as if he had been brought up in early 

 life a spinner, and his examination as a witness on the questions 

 now brought before the public respecting the joint or independant 

 working, or position of the Foreign office and the Board of Trade 

 functions, tells the country that he should be the "coming 

 man." 



LETTEES FEOM SPINNEBS OF COTTON, SILK, WOOL, 

 AND FLAX, WHO HAVE SPUN AND WOVEN THE FIBBES 

 OF INDIA, FLAX AND HEMP WHEN COTTONIZED 

 BY J. H. DICKSON'S PATENTS ; 



ALSO TESTIMONIALS AS TO THE VALUE OF THE MACHINES AND 

 PRODUCE FROM A GIVEN WEIGHT OF RAW MATERIAL, AND 



THE OPINION OF THE PEESS IN ENGLAND. 



My first venture out to the manufacturing district with a 

 view to having my cottonized rheea, Flax, and hemp, spun 

 on cotton machinery, commenced on the 16th May, 1862. 



Having met by appointment John Crossley, Esq., then Mayor 

 of Halifax (one of the firm of Messrs. J. Crossley and Sons, 

 the eminent carpet manufacturers), at their office in Cannon 

 Street, London, I found that gentleman equal to all that is 

 said of him as to affability, and a desire to aid in everything 

 calculated to do good, and by his invitation I left that evening 

 in the same train with him for Halifax, having sent two small 

 bales of my prepared rheea and plantain previously to their 

 works, and in a few days, through the more than common atten- 

 tion of another gentleman of the firm, Mr. Joseph Crossley, I 

 had my rheea and plantain spun into yarn, and by the kind 

 advice of Mr. Joseph Crossley, whose hospitality I shall not 

 forget, because I feel grateful for the honour and attention con- 

 ferred, I left for Manchester and Preston, to push my way 

 amongst the fine spinners in Lancashire, where I was still more 

 succej-sful at Messrs Birley, Brothers', cotton-spinning mills in 

 Preston. 



