1810.] 
Tape of cotton imported annually 
imto G 
: ; (C.) 
~ On the present State of the Cotton Colonies. 
Yeail British. North America. 
Brazil. \Foreign, generally”); 
if 
1797 6,918,153 Ibs sean a Neh | 
me 7 a es Sa RTE 
—9] 7,529,882 Date etot ha Pc 
1800 10,611,349 ati Yi Cle, lie. yi 
oa taaptpg ede OMT UR TON HG eae 2K 
2 $8,799,801 | rer 
A pes a a Ga ARON rere 
20,529,878 ee ee 
34.798, 120 lbs 
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et 
—5| 21,146,870 
25% 
8,198,720 Ibs. 
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RRAT BRITAIN, from 1797 to 1812, 
19,383,580 34,745,760 7,648,320 2,918,136 - 
ay 99,653,270 “47,732,440 2,926,880. -3839,740 
ie 18,168,270. “40,483,600 7,622,720 "4,843,080 Ne 
ihe “49,095,980 44,477,520 93,467,200 ~ 44,396,110 vio 
r varia 6 65 Malta, fe est serug ete ued 
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, which is best learnt from the 
preceding tables. The most superficial 
observer must be struck with the. first 
of these, containing the prices of cotton. 
wool from the year 1781 to 1809. 
Although the annual average fluctu- 
ated very considerably* from the com. 
mencement of that period to the year 
.1788, it never was less than 1s, i1d. 
per lb. while, on a majority of years, it 
exceeded 2s. making a-total average of 
Qs. 28d. perlb. . 
During the next eight-years, (from 
“1788 to 1796) the political derangements 
of Lurope 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 Qs. 
but was very unsteady. ‘The average of 
the whole term, was a fraction more than 
1s. 6d. per Ib. 
The horizon of the planter seems to 
‘have been illumined for the next five 
years (until 1801); for the minimum of 
the annual average was, during that tine, 
Qs. 7d, and the maximum $s. 1d., and — 
the total dverage 9s. 74d. ' 
In the year of peace it fell to the 
average of 2s, From that year to 1807, 
it fluctuated between 1s. 104d. and 23-, 
2id., averaging, upon the whole, 2s. 
per ib. 
The prices during 1808 and 1809 were 
better, but cannot be admitted into a 
general statement, as they originazed in 
causes so novel and unnatural, that a re. 
currence of them cannot be expected 
during another century. 
The average of the current year js, 
below 1s. 10d. and will probably be 
i This head comprises East Indian cotton, of which considerable quantities have been im- 
ported likewise in the years preceding 1805, and in 1810, but we have not any documents at 
hand, shewing the quantity in each year. 
-_+ The extraordinary diminution of these two years, arose from the cession of the colonies 
_ Of Demerary ; issequibo, Berbice, and Surinam, to Holland; and from the war, which confined 
the importation to our own produce. On the re-capture of the above-named colonies, the 
quantity immediately igcreased. 
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