Whitehaven Gazette Oct. 18, 1819 Miscellaneous Intelligence 2

Miscellaneous Intelligence 2

Whitehaven Gazette - Oct. 18, 1819

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. ****** A SHIRT WITHOUT SEAMS!        Thomas HALL, an ingenious linen weaver, in Ireland, has lately finished a shirt entirely in his loom. It is woven throughout without seams, is very neatly and accurately gathered at the neck, shoulders, and wrists; it is as perfectly finished as if made by an expert seamstress. This shirt has been exhibited to several gentlemen in the linen trade, who have completely satisfied themselves that it is actually a produce of the loom, without any assistance from the needle. ******        Lord ERSKINE has again taken up his pen in defense of the Whigs against the charges brought against them by the Reformers, of not having gone the whole length of their views of the question. After stating that his opinions have undergone no further alteration than "as to the best and most probably successful means of effecting an unchangeable purpose under circumstances that have changed," his Lordship says:        "Those among the Whigs, who at any time supported a reform in Parliament, have not, that I know of, departed from their declared opinions, that an extension of the representation is most desirable, and is a just expectation on the part of the people; but in my opinion, and speaking for myself, they never can rationally act with those who defame them. They ought for ever to stand aloof from all such reformers; not from resentment, nor even from a decent pride, however natural and justifiable, but because defamation proves their views to be different, and that their defamers are seeking nothing like  an improvement in the House of Commons by a widely adjusted balance of representation, but, on the contrary, counteracting every prospect of it, by claiming rights in defiance of the established laws; and instead of promoting petitions encouraging their followers to revile the Legislature of their Country."        His Lordship strongly reprehends the bringing together such large assemblies as have lately been held, however loyal it may be to do so; and finally calls upon Parliament to avail itself of the present crisis to extend the elective franchise without altering the character of the House of Commons, as the best means of quieting the orators of sedition, who would be necessarily silent when their topics of invective were destroyed. ******

 

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