Plain and practical observations on the use and application of machinery

in a series of letters drawn up at the request of the Frome Committee, addressed by permission to the Right Honourable George Canning, Secretary of State for the Foreign Department : to which is prefixed copies of a petition to His Majesty and to both Houses of Parliament, praying for the restriction or abolition of certain parts of machinery set forth in the prayer of the petition, viz. gigs, shearing frames, and the whole mechanical apparatus for dressing cloth, power, spring looms, and mules : which are especially excepted on the ground of their injurious tendency, inutility, and utter inexpediency, and which by abridging manual labour in the several branches and departments of the woollen trade have thrown upwards of sixty thousand families out of employ, to the manifest injury of the landholders, agriculturalists, butchers, bakers, shop and inn-keepers, persons of small property, and most other classes of the community