INDIGO, 



5 



No. 2. 



Extract Letter from the Court of Directors to 

 the Governor -general in Council , Bengal, dated 

 the I2th April 17S6. 



When we reflect upon the cheapness of labour i^etter to 

 in Bengal, and the favourable climate it enjoys, 12 April 1786. 

 we cannot harbour a doubt of the possibility of 

 making indigo a most valuable article of impor- 

 tation ; neither can we too strongly inculcate the 

 necessity of your paying the most strict attention 

 to it. We are confident that it might become one 

 of the very best means of remittance to this country, 

 and one of the least prejudicial exports from Ben- 

 gal. We send you in this packet the opinions of 

 some of the principal brokers in that branch on 

 the parcels last sold. You will naturally conclude 

 from the information we gave you last year, and 

 the present advices, that unless very material 

 alterations in price, and in the quality and shape 

 of their indigo take place, we shall be under the 

 necessity of proscribing the import of that article, 

 notwithstanding our earnest desire to promote the 

 culture of it. 



