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INDIGO. 



Letter to eiiCG for it in the markets of Europe : and that the 



Bengal, - ^ ^ ^ 



28 Aug, 1800. rivalship it would, if of proper quality, soon create 

 in them, should advance so gradually, as not to 

 produce a sudden redundancy, which must occa- 

 sion a stagnation in the sales and a diminution of 

 price, to the hazard of checking or oversetting the 

 unestablished adventurers in the new commodity. 



9. This inconvenience, with its attendant evils, 

 has, we are informed, actually occurred. 



10. On the revival of the indigo trade from 

 India, the specimens brought to this market, which 

 were chiefly, we believe^ the produce of Oude 

 manufactured in the manner of the natives, oc- 

 casioned little alarm here or encouragement 

 abroad ; but when, not many years after, European 

 skill and energy had furnished from Bengal con- 

 siderable quantities of a superior kind of indigo, 

 the prejudices at first entertained here against the 

 commodity imported from that quarter v. ere re- 

 moved, and the indigos of America and the West- 

 Indies were in part supplanted. The impulse 

 given by this change to the enterprise of Euro- 

 peans in the East, produced a fresh and far greater 

 influx of the native-made indigo of the Upper 

 Provinces ; the effect of which was, not only to 

 overstock the market, but to overstock it with an 

 article generally below the standard of quality 

 which the market required, and in so much greater 

 a proportion inferior to the importations of some 

 preceding years, that East-India indigo began to 



lose 



