| Description | "Button merchants' meeting." (Annexed is the text of an advertisement giving notice of a general meeting of the merchants, &c., of buttons in Birmingham. The date above is that of the notice; the letter is undated.)
Dear Sir
Annexed is a Copy of an Advertisement which is gone to the Printers for Insertion on Monday-if you wish your Name to appear-please to give Mr Pearson a Note to that purpose.
It seemed the general opinion of the Meeting that an Act of Parliament, would be the most expedient Measure-but little was said, because it might be deemed as anticipating the Deliberations of the General Meeting.
I am with great Respect
Dr. Sir
Your Obedt Servt
James Alston
Decr. 18. 1795.
We the Undersigned request a General Meeting of the Merchants Factors & Manufacturers of Buttons in this Town & Neighbourhood at the Shakespear Tavern on Tuesday next the 22d Instant at 10 o'Clock precisely to take into Consideration the most effectual the most effectual Means of preventing in future the Deceptions which have been practiced in the Manufactory of Buttons-and as it is a Matter of great Importance to the prosperity of that Trade, it is hoped that every Person interested therein will give his Attendance.
Signed
Welch Startin & Co. Capper Perkins & Co.
Richards & Marindin Muntz & Purden
James Bingham Wm. & Rd. Smith
Anderton & Calley Josh. Moore & Co.
Wm. & Alexr. Walker
Smith Son & Smith
James Alston
Benjamin Stokes
Lobrott & Hughes
James Aspinall
Dickenson Moilliet & Shore. |