To prevent silk-winders from working in their private houses, where they might work for private traders, and to confine them to the Company's factories, where they could only be employed for the Company's benefit, they desire that the newly acquired power of government should be effectually employed.
Burke criticizes the Company's use of governmental power to restrict silk-winders to their factories for exclusive benefit.
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