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COTTON-WOOL. 



Memoir on both thc musteTS and the paper to the Honourable 



Cotton ^ ^ 



Cultivation, Court of DirectoTS, as the cotton trade is undoubt- 



9 March 1819. . i t i 



ediy of great importance to the Enghsh manufac- 

 turers, and may be made a profitable concern to 

 the East-India Company. 



3. I have no doubt, if such kind of cotton as the 

 present musters can be procured in quantity, that 

 it would rival in the English markets all the mid- 

 dling cottons of Brazil, Demerara, and America, 

 and probably would only be excelled by the finest 

 Sea Island cotton and New Orleans from the 

 United States, which generally command very 

 high prices. 



4. If the Honourable Company's superfine cot- 

 ton, with every possible charge, should cost 

 landed in London not more than fourteen-pence 

 a pound, and the second sort of good clean cotton 

 not above eight-pence per pound, I may be allowed 

 to say that it will turn out a trade advantageous 

 to both the Honourable Company and the home 

 British manufacturing interests. 



Mr . RandaW s Memoir upon Cotton Cultivation, 



Having personally observed and well considered 

 the present state of the native cultivators of the 

 territories under Madras, it may be pronounced as 

 an undoubted fact, that no scheme of cultivating 

 any produce fit for the European or China mar- 

 kets will ever succeed, unless aided by the Honour- 

 able Government, or at least be patronized by the 



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