Sir, |
| Agreeable to an
Act of Parliament of the 21st. of This present Majesty C[h]ap[ter]:
65. Sect[ion]: 34. We beg leave to submit to the consideration
of the Right Hon[oura]ble Mr. Secretary Townshend the Draught
of Paragraphs of a Letter proposed by the Court of Directors
of the East India Company to be sent to the Governor General
and Council at Fort William in Bengal, if honored with his approbation. |
We are with respect, |
Sir, |
| East India House |
Your most obedient servants |
| the 31st. January 1783. |
Henry Fletcher |
Nath[aniel] Smith |
Evan Nepsan Esq. |
| Draught of Paragraphs of a Letter proposed by
the Court of Directors of the East India Company to be sent
to the Governor General and Council at Fort William in Bengal. |
| We transmit you by this Conveyance three small
Boxes containing Musters of some Muslins the produce of a Manufacture
that has lately been set up at Manchester in this Country; together
with an Account of the prices at which they are retailed by
the Drapers, which we particularly recommend to your very serious
attention and observation. The great degree of perfection to
which this Manufacture is already arrived, although at present
only in its infant State; the prices, which are 20 P[er] Cent
under our own; together with the attention which we doubt not
will be innveariedly applied by all the Persons concerned therein
towards further Improvements, are circumstances which cannot
but justly alarm us for so important a branch of our Commerce.
If once the Manufacturers of this Country can vie with us either
in the quality, or price, of this, or any other articles of
our Trade, we shall find them most powerful rivals at every
Market where those articles are vended. We doubt not therefore
but but you will exert yourselves to the utmost in causing the
Manufacturers at Bengal to pay every attention not only to an
improvement of the Fabric of Muslins but also to a reduction
of the prices, as both on the one and the other will depend
very much our future success in this Article. |
| And we direct that
by the first conveyance after the receipt of the abovementioned
samples you transmit us your opinions thereon. |
East India House |
| the 31st. January 1783 |
Signed by two Directors |
Henry Fletcher |
Nath[aniel] Smith |
| A true Copy |
| George Owen |
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