12t 



INDIGO. 



No. 5. 



Extract Letter from the Court of T>irectors to 

 the Governor-general in Council, Bengal, dated 

 the 8th April 1789. 



Letter to par. 63. HavinsT, for the reasons we have stated 



Bengal, ^ 



8 April 1789. in our letter of the 28th March 1788, directed the 

 trade in this article to be laid open to individuals 

 for the term of three years, ^ve have only here to 

 add, that such of your late purchases of that 

 article as have hitherto come to sale, have not 

 turned to more favourable account than those 

 which preceded them, as will appear from the ac- 

 counts which accompany this letter. 



64. We are in hopes, the measure of laying 

 open this trade will be attended with the good 

 effects expected to result therefrom, and that here- 

 after it may become a permanent and advantageous 

 article of commercial remittance, as well to the 

 benefit of Bengal as of this country. In order to 

 effect every possible improvement in the article, 

 we transmit you herewith copy of a letter from 

 William Fawkener, Esq., Secretary to the Lords' 

 Committee of the Privy Council for Trade, giving 

 cover to a report of some experiments that have 

 been made therewith by a manufacturer of this 

 country, with some hints necessary to be attended 

 to in the management and preparation of the 



same. 



