text:  But as the cotton manufacture from circumstances referred to of favourable tariffs for importation--comparatively free-trade tariffs--did not begin fairly to shoot forth until 1822 it will be only right to try the question of comparative increase by another list namely as between the returns of the consumption of cotton respectively in the two countries for that year and one of the later years 1839 1840 or 1841; but say rather an average of the three