£^4 
Statistics'^ 
Similar local adventitious advantages operate in favour of tho 
J3razil planter, and his receipts from the greater fineness of his 
produce, are still higher. 
Table of Cotton imfiorted annually into Great Britain^ from 
1797 to 1810. 
iTear 
British. 
N. America. 
Brazil. 
Foreign, ge» 
nerally. 
1797 
6,918,l53ibs. 
98 
7,909,832 
99 
7,529,882 
1800 
10,611,349 
1 
ll,26-.,014 
2 
*8,799,891 
,| 
S 
5,660,615 
1 
j 
4 
20,529,878 
1 
5 
21,146,870 
34,798, 120lbs. 
8,l98,720ibs. 
865,100lbs. 
6 
19,383,580 
34,745,760 
7,648,320 
2,918,136 
7 
22,653,270 
47,732,440 
2,926,880 
3,889,740 
8 
18,168,270 
10,435,600 
7,622,720 
4,843,080 
9 
19,095,980 
41,477,520 
23,467,200 
14,396,110 
!o: — - 
The condition to which the cotton planter is reduced, as well 
as the nature of his claims, having been already stated, the next 
object of attention is his former situation. 
Although the annual average price fluctuated very consider^ 
ably from the commencement of 1781 to the year 1788, it was ne- 
ver less than Is. lid. per lb. while, in a majority of years, it ex- 
ceeded 2s* making a total average of 2s. 2| d. per lb. 
During the next eight years, from 1788 to 1796, the political 
derangements of Europe produced severe consequences to the 
colonists, in 1789, cotton wool fell to an average of Is. 5d. In 
the subsequent years it rose as high as 2s. but was very unsteady. 
The average of the whole term was a fraction more than Is. 6d. 
per lb. 
The horizon of the planter seems to hate been illumined for 
the next five years, until 1801 : for the minimum of the annual 
* The extraordinary diminution of these two years, arose from the cession 
of the colonies of Bemerara, Is^equibo, Berbice, and Surinam, to Holland; 
and from the war, which confined the importation to our own produpe. On 
tlie re-capture of the above-named colonies, the quantity immediately in.' 
