The Virginia Gazette

Letters from Paris declare, that M. Vaucanson having made a Machine, in Form of a Loom, by Means of which one Man might perform, with Respect to Silk-weaving, in one Day, the Work of fourteen, the Office of Commerce had forbid the Use of it, under a Supposition that it would contribute to reduce the Weavers of Lyons, &c. to Beggary; upon which M. Vaucanson had employed his Nephew to convey the above Invention to London, where he doubted not of his meeting with Encouragement. A Circumstance, however, considering the present very distressed Situation of our Weavers, in which the ingenious Mechanick may probably be disappointed.