Liberal encouragement was given by the Government and the Board of Trade to the importation of all that could be produced.

Samples had been sent to England which gave promise of success.

In the beginning of May, this year, the Trustees and Sir Thomas Lombe, waited on the Queen with a specimen, who was highly gratified with learning that a British Colony had produced such silk, and desired that the fabric into which it should be wrought might be shewn her.

Accordingly, on the 21st of October, these gentlemen, with Mr.Booth, the weaver, again waited on her Majesty with a piece of the manufactured silk; and she expressed great admiration of the beauty and fineness of the silk, and the richness of the pattern; and, as a further testimony of her satisfaction both with the produce and the manufacture, she ordered a suit to be made up immediately for her own wear, in which she appeared on her birth-day.[1] To this, a poet of the time, in a description of the products of Georgia, thus alludes-- [Footnote 1: _Political State of Europe_, Vol.

L.p.242, and 469.] "The merchant hence the unwrought silk imports, To which we owe the attire of Queens and Courts."[1] [Footnote 1: _New Voyage to Georgia_, p.