American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1825-07-05

An association has been formed in England which
is called the "TROPICAL FREE LABOR
COMPANY" the object Of which is E" to promote,
lcithin the British dominions, the gro1rth Of the
spreraL articles of Imperial Production, BY means
of FREE LABOR.'-The capital of the compa-
ny is four millions of pounds sterling. AT the
head of it are His Royal Higbness the Duke Of
Gloucester, and eleven Vice Presidents, nearly all
of whom are Members of Parliament.
In stating more particularly the objects which the
association have in view they first remark that
nearly the whole Of the Indigo which is consumed
in Europe. which was once produced solely by the
labor OF slaves in the West Indies and America is
now by the application Of British skill and capital
raised by Tree labor and almost entirely in British
India. The amount of this article is stated TO be
about four millions sterling.
The other articles mentioned specifically,
|COrTON and SUGAR GA similar effect
10 that in the case oil Indigo, they say. might
nave been expected with respect to cotton, had the
same means been employed in the same quarter to
extend its culture, and improve Its qualify. This
however, has not been done; and therefore the
Cotton Trade of our Asatic Domlnlons continues
10 labor under many disadvantages Such, never
heess, was the impulse given to the importation o.
East India Cotton, on the opening the trade with
that country, that in few years lis price through
out The world was reduced to nearly half its former
amount.
son this extraordinary fall Of price, the Cotton
Of India, which is of the lowest quality, was ne.
elected anG no further attention paid, by Eu-
ropeans either to its culture, 10 the improve menl
4 Its staple. Had contrary course been pursued.
It cannot be doubted that the present alarming in
crease IN the price cf that article might have been
prevented. II is now the more important 10 pro
vide an efectua remedy Tor such an inconvenience,
and for this, India seems to hold cut the only GER
tain and permanent resource
"The official vaue OF The cotton goods exported.
from Great Britain in 1924 amounts to a sum ex-
ceedng so millions sterling. The continued and
progressive prosperity, therefore, of the vast inter
ests which are connected with cur cotton manulac-
lures, and which obviously involve most deeply the
Interests Of the nation at large, requires that vi
gorous effort should be made 10 enlarge the lmpor
alton from British India, of cotton wool OF supe.
rior quality, it possible TO any which is grown
there. Without such an effort, our manufacturers
are likely to be reduced to very serious difficulties
from that enhanced price Of this indispensable ar
ticie, which must be the effect OF increasing
consumption, without corresponding increase 10
the supply; while new impulse will be given to
the extension of the slave trade and slavery in The
possessions of foreign naons'
" 1t will not DC denied hat murh may be done, by
an association like the present, TO counterfeit these
e'HS' ny suuiulatB Tue Increased CROWN OF Cotton
in India, and by ia, iIisung and encouraging the
substitution of superior descriptions Of that article
Tor the low, and comparatively worthless kinds
which are now grown lhere.-To this truly ma
onal object the attention Of the TROPICAL
FREE LABOR COMPANY will be particularly
directed.'
Another main purpose for which this company
has been formed is, to promote the production of
SUGAR by FREE LABOR.
81 The Rritish Domin,onc il Aeia ara ,r.u od,n.
ed to the growth of this article, and are capable OF
supplying II TO an indefinite extent but from the un
sklliulness OF the natives in the process of manu-.
featuring il. combined with their want of capital
and the fiscal restrictions to which il is subject
little progress has hitherto been made in introduc.
ing the Sugar Of that part Of the world into gene
raj consumption If etfectual MEANS however