RAW SILK. 



85 



No. 4. 



Letter from the Board of Trade to the Right 

 Honourable Governor -general in Council, dated 

 22d February 1828. 



(H.) 



W ith reference to our address of the 1st of May i.etterfrom 

 last, and to the Chief Secretary's letter in reply of ^2 Feb!T828? 

 the 10th of the same month, relative to the trial of 

 the experiment of winding silk by means of the 

 new patent reel invented by Messrs. Heathcoate 

 and Co., we beg leave to submit to your Lordship 

 in Council the enclosed copy of a letter, under 

 this date, from Messrs. Alexander and Co., report- 

 ing that Mr. Wilkinson, the confidential agent of 

 the patentee, is desirous of returning to England. 



2. It will be in the recollection of your Lord- 

 ship in Council, that Mr.Wilkinson was deputed to 

 Radnagore to superintend the w^orking of the 

 patent reels at that residency ; but the March bund, 

 which produces the best silk at that residency, 

 havino- been worked off before Mr. Wilkinson 

 arrived there, he was transferred to Santipore. 

 The quantity to be reeled was one hundred bales ; 

 namely, fifty at Rungpore, and fifty at Santipore. 

 The Resident at Rungpore reported, under date 

 the 10th ultimo, that fourteen bales of the patent 

 silk had been despatched to the presidency, and 

 that seventy maunds remained to complete the 



quantity 



