ABSTRACT
Mr. Maitland, who had been so long chairman of the wool and woollen trade, being ill, and Mr. Sheppard, wTho had been for a long period most conversant with the trade in the West of England, being from home, Mr. Bischoff requested John Pearse, Esq., member of Parliament for Devizes, one of the directors of the Bank of England, extensively concerned in army clothing and the cloth trade, well acquainted with the woollen manufacture and the trade of the country, to accompany him.
