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NUMBER 72.

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LITERARY FUND.
rpHE ANNIVERSARY of thc LITERARY.
A PUN!) will 1)1:1)41, on 'Muni.-11.1v, April 21, 150.3, at
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• IVQ4LEN .TRADE. •
'Extort of the Rcpor of the Ciitamittee to whom the Petition
of the severed Pettons concerned in the Wlntlen Trade and
Mantifactoriea withitt the Lbuttties of Somerset, Wile+, and
GlnaceAer, was refen•ed. • .
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Mr. Enwerto 4111iPPAan„ Clothier, at Ufey in
Gloucestershire,upwards of 15 yeah, being eia-
mined, said, that if the statute of the .sth eh. iv.
waacarried into offal, every great part of the trade .
of th''e county of Gloucester must be lost, as a very
great proportion oithe weavers ftrpreamremployed
had not been apprenticed; that, in*his own menu--
fadcfry, at one establishment, he employs about
seventy-five Wavers, out of Which five ugly have .
been apprenticed aceording.ao the above . statute ;
that at the other he employs about eighty-three, out
of which sixteen have been apprenticed ; the greatest
proporticiii arc men, sOmeare women. With rea'pe6t
to the cloth Workers, he has not' one' amongst
the whole who has been apprenticed seven years ;
he infers, that 'if none but legal weavers were em-
ployed, he should lose the major part of his trade--.-
That notwithstanding the 'introduition of spring
loosies (which of la.:e years have very much increased
the number of looms) three is not at this time any
surplus of competent and food weavers existing—So .
necesalry is it that. the numher. of weavers should
nor be decreased, the coarse woollen trade has al-
ready been, in a great ...degree, lost to the county
of Gloucester, principally for .want of weavers to
caiiry on that branch of manufacture: He conceives
that a aery short period of time (within a year) is
necessary to acquirea proficiency in the art of weav-
ing—That, by the change in the nature of the
woollen manufa&ory, in consequence of machinery,
it has been and is necessary to form manufa&uring
establishments in villages, where the advantages of
water and fall. are materially considered, therefore,
in such situations apprenticed weavers arc not to be
met with—That, in consequence of the great in-
crease in the demand for woollen cloths of late
years, a great number of people, pf every descrip-
tion, have embarked in the trade as clothiers, who
have not been apprenticed, and therefore would; by
the enforcement of the said statute, be thrown out
of business ; that he himself has never been so op,.
.premiced, neither does he know any one who has ;
and he conceives it necessary for the well-being of
the woollen trade, that the manufthurer should, as
occasion required, either from the opening of new
markets, or increased demand in old ones, have it•
in his power to employ such work-people in every
branch as may be requisite—That if clothiers are
restrided from the employment of work-people who
have not been apprenticed, an extension of their
trade would he impossible on any occasion of dx=
triordinary demand—That he belieies it to be con-,
miry to the fact, that. the. number of. regular wea.
v”rs, able and willing to work at the ancient and
einal pricess who are out of employ, is immense,
oe that their number ale daily increasing p: he ,
speaks only of the county of Gloucester—That,
from his own experience, the employment of per-
sons, not regularly apprenticed to the business 'of
weaving, does not tend to destroy the good quality
of the manufadture ; that he has never known, or
heard till lately', of any prosecutions for enforcing
the above statute—That the number of apprentices
has greatly diminished of late years, which he con-
ceives to be the consequence of the present increase
of the woollen trade That, out of the number of
persons employed in both his establishments, he can=
not exaetly say what proportion are men to the wo-
men (as they work at their own houses), but a much
greater proportion ate men. That by the introduc-
tion of the spring-shuttle, more cloth has been made,
which could not otherwise have taken place) from
the want of weavers, as the operation of weaving is
now performed by one person, instead of twooo
the great saving of the labour; it being t measure
of the weavers own adoption, they are paid the same
per piece as before the intmdation of the spring-
shuttles—That he gives no preference to apprenticed
weavers, but the very reverse, as they in general
are old men—That, as the trade is now carried on,
a great many persons are employed as work-people,
for their own benefit, at an earlier age than they
could have been under the operation of the esisting
statute, and that mere women are now employed in
weaving than formerly, in common with the in-
crease of men—That it has not been the praftice in
Gloucestershire for persons to be bound apprentices
in villages (to which it is necessary to resort on ac-
count of water and fall) nor does he think legal*
weavers could have been found to be transferred
front one part of the county to the other, sufficient
to take the apprentices ; that lie does not think any
apprentices would be bound on the conditions to
the woollen trade generally, so as to be equally
transferred from one branch of the trade to the
other, with those who are now employed as work-
men—That the repeal of the statute requiring
weavers to serve apprenticeships, would certainly
not prove ruinous to the legal weavers or their fa-
"milies—That many weaver, receive work from dif-
ferent maiters, and have many warps by them at
the same time belonging to those different masters,
by which means the r.lturn of the work is very much
delayed, and therefore the number of weavers is not
in proportion.to the quantity of cloth required to be
made. Being asked, Whether any prosecutions had ,
ham commenced, or threatened, under the aforesaid
statute? he stated, that there was a prosecution at
the last summer assizes for Gloucestershire, but un-
der what statute he did not know, but he understood
that it was compromised by withdrawing a juror—
-1 le does not know that the defendant did undertake
that in future he would employ none hut legal wear.
rers, or upon what terms, but he knows that a great
many notices have been given of prosecutions against
master weavers since, and that friendly sccieues or
clubs have been formed with a view to commence
prosecutions against those who use or exercise the
trade of a woollen cloth weaver. illegally; in confi-s
!nation of which, the witness produced a book, inti-
ruled " and Articles of a Friendly Society, or
Club, called the Woollen Cloth Weavers' Society,
• begun the ‘2 kb day of Septt mber, ;" and also,

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copy of an. advertisement inserted in the Gkweester
Journal, September 6th, 11302, ,reaping a meeting
of one weaver out of the parish he represents, in or-
der to determine on prossc.uting those who unlaw-
fully exercise or follhw the trade of a weaver.
(Signed,). 44W. H, dessoe,,Solicitor."
GEORGE IVA'S EY, of Warminster, in Wile-
shire, being exarrilned, said, That he-lets been a clo-
thier 2O years, but lately art of. business'-that the
gig-mill first began ut.he inteoduted into Warmins-
. ter in the month of April-or May last.--elleing ask-
ed, Whether he knew of- any. combinations in conse-
quence of the introdunion of the gig-mill+ he said,
there were nearly three-fain-die of the shearmen who
quitted their. masters, and refused to work upon
cloth after the gig-mill—That with respell to their
riotous disposition; there are now four persons in the
different gaols conviaed for assaults and riots ; and
that many barns and outhouses of the clothiers have
been burnte and guns have bean fired at night into
_she houses of the clothiers, and- their woelemen, who
had becOine -obnoxious on aoeount .of esing the gie-
milL.
e .
• Mr.*li.eteet SREPPARD, clothier, at Frome, in
• Somersetshire, about 14 years, being examined: said,
'fleet. in allematkeee, both home and foreign, the
prifereece gi'l3en to Gloucestershire cloths was so
very evident, that he found it neeesetry to send the
ewholeof his broad cloths near ninety," ilex weekly to
lee dressesay tho gigs; since the intrOclunipn of the
gig,- hi stock is lessened, and the cloths are wonder-
fully improved—that the necessity warso_great, that
last year and the presentlhe inis been obliged. to ac-
cept orders to a very large amount, deevered M an
tinfinished.state, after being milled, 'so that the mer-
chant who had received them, had them dreseed by
the.gig after his own mannerl-thet be (the witness)
tried every thing in his power to finish them him-
self, but found it impossible; and rather than give
up the orders, acceded to the terms—that the intro-
duCtion of the gig mill will be highly beneficial, and
that he fias engaged to his workmen that he will
employ them et 14s. pergweek 'as long ,as they are
able to work.—And being asked, Whether he kiiew
of any combinations of any workmen, in conse-
quence of any attempt to introtlece the gig-Mill in-
to his ileigilbOuthoodl He said, that meetings of
shearmen are privately held to receive subscriptions
so as to provide for those out of employ, and they
produce a ticket so at; to eseieie them to their weekly
Ricitern Bowsera,.SOlicitor at Bath, be-
ing examinedesaid, that he does 'not know-of any
prosecutioni being commenced against the clothiers
tor using the gig-mill, but has beer ipformed by Mr.
Wilmeepsolicitor for the shearmen in Wiltshire, that
he has received instruCtions to commence anions
against such manufanueeis who persevere in using
the gig-mill.
Statute 2. and 3. Philip and Mary, c. 11. Sec. 2.
and 3. read.
Aittli BifeltE, Eeq. -fa. Member), BA3iNg- -
hall-street, merchant, beinfeeamined, said, that the
nature ofhis business is chiefly in the sale of Spanish
wool and superfine cloth. And being_ asked, ,
whether he. had any information to give respening
the petition of the 'clothiers for the repeal or altera-
tion of divers statutes ? he said, That he conceived it
,:would be materiall; detrimental that any law should
be repealed which tend to .proteet labourers fltditferent
branches of the manufanory. •That it appeared to
him that extreme caution will'be necessary in re-
pealing certain reserinive alas, of which the menu-
fanurers justly complain, that others which tend to
prated the labourers be not blended in -that repeal.
That at one period of the war, he believes between
1797 and 179 p, from the scarcity of Spanish wool,
the labourers Could not be employed in the manu-
facture of superfine cloth, and at that period a
great number of the manfanurers enrolled them-
selves in the Militia, and entered in the army.—
Subsequent to that period, the large importation of
Spanish wool, and considerable orders tOr cloth,
called for the increased introdudion of. machinery ;
and that he conceives, at the present period, those
men who have returned to the clothing towns, and
are capable of resuming their employment, should
have that given them before any further additions
are made to machinery ; that those men should, he
conceives, in every degree, be ;frowned at this pe-
riod, when offers are made to induce menufaCturers
to quit the country, in order to establish the manu-
facture in Spain, with all the advantagesto be deri-
ved from machinery. That it is a tth within his
own knowledge, that a manufedurer who is com-
petent to introduce and establish the manufaetory,
on the footing iu which it is conduCted in this coun-
try, may have 1000 guineas per Annum secured
to him for a certain number of years, or a por-
tion of the advantages to be derived flom the
manufaCtory, at his option. That as a case in
point with the Court of Spain, and 'to shew
the good faith they have preserved, under similar
circumstances, with other Maanfanurers, some
years since, about the year 1780, a tanner was in-
duced to go to Spain, and was offered by f sat g«
vernment every facility to establish his business on
a huge scale; he stated, that a large capital would
be necessary, Which was furnished him, the witne..s
believes, to the amount of 60,0001. ; that a proper
!situation would be necessary to establish the busi-
ness, and he was desired to travel the country, and
to fit on any situation most likely to answer the pur-
pose ; that he was in consequence pnt in possession
of a convent, at a short distance from Seville; the
friars of the Order of St. Jago were removed to a
different situation, to make room for tke labourers
he thought necessary to bring from England ; that
nearly 40 English families did in consequence settle
there, proteded in their religious principles, and al-
lowed every requisite for their comfort and conve-
nience ; and that this establishment has so far suc-
ceeded, that the export of tanned leather, which at
that time was vary considerable, is :now reduced to a
very inconsiderable quantity.—To, shew how much
interested Spain is iu the establishment of the ena-
nufaCture of woollen cloth on toe principle in which
it is conduCted by machinery, it must be observed,
that the raw material, namely, Spanish wool, can be

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