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REPORT ON 



The casual importations of this article of com- 

 merce from the western coast of India, by the 

 East-India Company and their officers, had pre- 

 viously been inconsiderable. The provinces under 

 the Company's government did not, indeed, afford 

 a sufficient quantity of cotton for the demands of 

 the native weavers, who were accustomed to ob- 

 tain large supplies from districts beyond the Com- 

 pany's frontier. 



The total importation of cotton into Great Bri- 

 tain in the year 1786 was derived from the under- 

 mentioned places, and in the proportions here 

 stated : — 



lbs. 



From British West-Indies . . . . 5,800,000 

 French and Spanish Colonies 5,500,000 

 Portuguese Colonies . . . . 2,000,000 

 Dutch Colonies . . . . 1,600,000 

 Smyrna and Turkey . . . . 5,000,000 



19,900,000 

 Exported 323,000 



The importation of the year 1789 was much 

 greater, viz. 



From 



larly in the "History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great 

 Britain," by E. Baines, junior, London 1835; and "The Cotton 

 Manufacture of Great Britain investigated," &c. by Dr. Ure, 

 London, 1836. 



