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COTTON-WOOL. 



Letter to to ffood Surat cotton. The price it obtained at 

 6 Marci) i'832. Qur salcs was six-pence farthing per pound nearly ; 



the superior thomil cotton, provided by the Com- 

 mercial Resident, selling at the same time for 

 five-pence farthing, as above stated. 



14. Some additional expense was incurred for 

 cleaning this small parcel of cotton provided by 

 Mr. Finey, which is not stated, except in general 

 terms, that it was rather high ; but it probably was 

 not so great as to have prevented its affording a 

 good remittance, if the additional charge had been 

 added to the invoice. 



15. Your Commercial letter of the 20th July 

 1831 informs us, that you had consigned, per the 

 private ship Em^l of Eldon, ninety-five bales of 

 cotton of various kinds; but your Secretary's letter 

 of the 30th of that month gives the particulars of 

 112 bales (some of them being small), which is the 

 real quantity we have received; and your letter 

 expresses a hope that the consignment per Earl of 

 Eldon will be found equal to expectation. 



16. Your letter also solicits our instructions 

 respecting future consignments of cotton to Eng- 

 land, to which we shall advert in a subsequent 

 paragraph. 



17. Without waiting for the result of an actual 

 sale, we have obtained the opinion upon the con- 

 signment per Earl of Eldon of a house of business, 

 on whose judgment great reliance may be placed, 



and 



