COTTON-WOOL. 



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could be made with it. It was of tolerable good Boafbay, 

 quality ; but, in the opinion of the principal ^ 

 dealers to whom it was shown, it had undergone 

 some preparation to give it an elastic and clean 

 appearance. 



No. 18. 



Extract Letter from the Court of Directors to 

 the Governor in Council at Bombay, dated the 3d 

 February 1809. 



Par. 2. Our last letters will have fully apprized If^^^^ 



J L to Bombay, 



you of the urgency of the present demand in 1^09, 

 England for a large supply of the article of cot- 

 ton-wool. The measures which have been lately 

 adopted by the Legislature of the United States 

 of America will in their consequences operate to 

 check very severely some of the manufactures of 

 this country, unless a liberal supply of cotton- 

 wool can be procured from other sources than those 

 States ; and it is to our territorial possessions in 

 Asia that the hopes of the manufacturing classes 

 are principally directed. It will, no doubt, be- 

 come a very pleasing duty to our Government to 

 use their utmost efforts that these hopes may not 

 be disappointed. 



No, 



