[182]The Act was 5 George IV. c. 95. The question of the exportation of machinery was deferred until the next session.
[183]Letter in the Manchester Gazette, preserved in the Place MSS. 27801—214.
[184]MS. Report of Nassau Senior to Lord Melbourne on Trade Combinations (1831; unpublished; in Home Office Library).
[185]Sheffield Iris, April 2, 1825.
[186]Sheffield Mercury, October 8, 1825; see the Manchester Guardian for August 1824 to a similar effect.
[187]Later in the year Lord Liverpool, the Prime Minister, and Lord Eldon, the Lord Chancellor, protested in debate that they had been quite unaware of the passing of the Act, and that they would never have assented to it.
[188]The Annual Register for 1825 gives a fuller report of Huskisson’s speech than Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates. Further particulars are supplied in George White’s Abstract of the Act repealing the Laws against Combinations of Workmen(1824); in Place’s Observations on Mr. Huskisson’s Speech on the Law relating to Combinations of Workmen, by F. P. (1825, 32 pp.); in Wallas’s Life of Francis Place, revised edition, 1918, ch. viii.; in Hammond’s The Town Labourer, ch. vii.; and in Howell’s Labour Legislation, Labour Movements, and Labour Leaders, pp. 51-7.
[189]This included a provision to forbid the subscription of any funds to a trade or other association, unless some magistrate approved its objects and became its treasurer.
[190]Place MSS. 27803—299.
[191]Ibid. 27803—212.