INDIGO. 



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same. As it is probable the information therein ^^tter to 



Bengal, 



contained may be useful to the gentlemen con- 8 April i789. 

 cerned in indigo plantations, we direct that the 

 same be made known, in a manner that shall be 

 most likely for rendering them publicly useful. 



Office of Committee of Privy Council f6r Trade, 

 Whitehall, the Qth February 1789. 



Sir : 



I am directed by the Lords of the Committee Letter from 



Privy Council 



of Privy Council for Trade to transmit to you office, 



11 . . T T • 6 Feb. 1789, 



the enclosed specimens oi iiast-lnaia mdigo, 

 tojrether with a letter to Mr. Chalmers from Mr. 

 Taylor of Manchester, containing an account of 

 experiments made thereon, and information res-^ 

 pecting the mode of preparing and managing 

 indigo, which I am to desire you will please to 

 communicate to the Court of Directors ; and I am 

 further to recommend to the Court of Directors, 

 on the part of their Lordships, to continue to en- 

 courage the growth and manufacture of indigo in 

 their settlements in the East-Indies, as it appears 

 that it may be made of equal quality with the finest 

 Guatimala indigo, and may in time afford such a 

 supply to this country, as may render any importa- 

 tion thereof from foreign countries unnecessary. 

 I am, Sir, 

 Your most obedient humble servant, 



(Signed) W, Fawkener, 

 Chairman of the East-India Company. 



