COTTON- WOOL. 



V 



lbs. Report. 



From British West-Indies .. 10,128,000 



French, Spanish, and PortuO 



J, . 114,300,000 

 guese Colonies . . 



Dutch Colonies .. .. 1,300,000 



Smyrna and Turkey . . . . 4,700,000 



Isle of France, Flanders .. 148,000 



Sural, via Flanders and Denmark 2,000,000 



32,576,000 

 Exported 297,000 



Cotton, the produce of the United States, was 

 then beginning to be imported into Great Britain. 



In consequence of representations from the Bri- 

 tish manufacturers, the Court of Directors in the 

 year 1788 sent orders to India for the exportation 

 to London of 500,000 pounds of the best Broach 

 and Surat cotton, or cotton the produce of Bengal 

 of a similar quality. This moderate supply, how- 

 ever, could not be obtained. A small consignment 

 only of very indifferent quality was received from 

 Bombay ; and it was not until after the year 1798, 

 that importation took place to any great extent.* 



In transmitting the order of 1788 for a supply 

 of cotton, the Court of Directors called upon the 

 Indian Authorities to collect, and send over, full 



information 



* See statement of the general importation of cotton into 

 England, annexed, page xiv. 



