INDIGO. 



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cultivation also may be carried too far, and oc- Letter to 



. , , . . Bengal, 



casion for a time considerable mconvenience ; but 20 June isio. 

 this is an evil that may be expected in the end to 

 work its own cure ; and though, for these several 

 causes, individuals may no doubt suffer, yet, 

 speaking generally, the article appears to be 

 established as a great staple of Bengal. It sup- 

 plies much of the consumption of Europe, and no 

 rival to it seems likely to arise ; it will therefore 

 probably continue to be largely in demand, and 

 may be fairly reckoned on as a considerable 

 medium for remittance to England. The prices 

 fell in our sales of last year, but in the present 

 (as you have been informed from our Commercial 

 Department) have been run up unusually high. 



No. 21. 



Extract Letter froin the Court of Directors to 

 the Governor -general in Council, Bengal, dated 

 the loth April 1811. 



Par. 17. The provision of indigo in Calcutta by Letter to 

 ready-money purchases, is found by experience 10 Apriusii. 

 not to be a fit mode of procuring the Company's 

 investment of that article, as it failed altogether 

 in the season 1809-10, although the Company's 

 limit of price was liberal ; and it appears that 

 no purchases could be effected in the season 



1810 



