INDIGO. 



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a representation to the Governor-treneral in Coun- Letter to 



• I . . . . Bengal, 



cil, in opposition to his resolution to impose a 28Aug. isoo. 

 a duty on indigo passing from Oude to Bengal, 

 which resolution was in conformity to the spirit 

 and tenor of those very advices from ns. Yet in 

 that representation they do not enter into any 

 consideration of the statement in question, though 

 we might have expected, that facts and conclu- 

 sions bearing materially on the subject should 

 have been noticed in the discussion of it, and 

 that when our sentiments, with the reasons for 

 them, were so clearly laid down, pains would 

 have been taken, by a specific answer to them, to 

 explain the grounds in which a line of conduct 

 different to that to which they pointed was main- 

 tained. 



21. We have often had occasion to express our 

 approbation of the zeal and ability with which the 

 business of our Commercial Board has been long 

 conducted ; but though our opinion on that head 

 remains perfectly the same, we feel ourselves un- 

 able to acquiesce in ail the views and. reasonings 

 exhibited in their above-mentioned minute of the 

 28th October 1796. 



22. In discussing the respective pretensions of 

 the manufacturers of Bengal and of Oude, their 

 design undoubtedly was to do justice to both 

 parties, and to consult, on the whole, the promo- 

 tion of the trade ; but they do not seem to be have 

 been sufficiently aware in respect to the last ob- 

 ject, 



