COTTON-WOOL. 



53 



of the country for supplies of that article ; we have Le^er 



*'■'■■'• ^ from Bombay, 



therefore relinquished every intention of procuring i5 Oct. isis. 

 Supplies from thence. 



No. 28. 



Extract Letter from the Court of Directors to 

 the Governor in Council at Bombay , dated the 3d 

 June 1814. 



Par. 19. We do not desire that any cotton should Letter 



. , to Bombay, 



be laden on the extra ships now consigned to you, 3 June 1814. 

 except two or three hundred bales of the very best 

 and cleanest toomeel cotton, which experimental 

 quantity it may be proper to keep regularly in our 

 annual Europe investment. 



No. 29. 



Extract Letter from the Court of Directors to 

 the Governor in Council at Bombay^ dated the 22d 

 December 1815. 



Par. 17. We have at various times had under Letter 

 our consideration the proposition brought into s^iSc^ms. 

 discussion by Mr. Brown, of consigning cargoes of 

 Surat cotton regularly to England, but have not 

 hitherto seen it proper to adopt such a measure 

 permanently, although we may hereafter very pro- 

 bably do so. You may, without any apprehension 



of 



