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Indian cotton Is at present brouscht to Europe Letter 



, , ^ . to Madras, 



greatly depreciates its price, as well as increases ? May isis. 

 the freight and duties paid to Government, the 

 extraneous matters being necessarily weighed 

 in with and accounted for as cotton. 



5. With a view of obviating these defects, we 

 have some time had it under consideration, as you 

 have been apprized, to send to India some Ameri- 

 can machines for cleaning cotton, models of which 

 we are now in possession of, and shall resume this 

 part of the subject by our next despatches. 



6. In furtherance of this object, we have engaged 

 in our service Mr. Bernard Metcalfe in the capacity 

 of an Assistant in the Commercial Department, 

 and who is to be employed under the direction of 

 your Commercial Residents, at any of the factories 

 in the Ceded Districts, Tinnevelly, or wherever 

 you may consider his services can be most 

 useful. 



7. Mr. Metcalfe has resided several years in the 

 province of Georgia and in New Orleans, in the 

 capacity of a merchant and cleaner of cotton for 

 hire, and we have been informed that he is a per- 

 son of credit and respectability. 



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