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Dutch ambassador. Hampton-court 
palace is fitting up, by order of 
the king, for the residence of the 
Stsdtholder and his f: mily, till the 
completion of which they are to re- 
side at the palace of Kew. 
The mails for the .conti- 
ie nent, except those to- Spain 
and Portugal, are in future to be 
conveyed from Yurmouth to the 
‘Fibe ; they are to be carried in a 
frigate; and ihe post-office agent 
has orders to proceed with the mils 
of Tuesday next to Cuxhaven, on 
the Elbe, to render the necessary 
arrangements for their furtherance. 
The post will branch off trom Cux- 
haven i in two direétions ; the one, 
having the Jetters tor Holland, 
Francfort, Switzerland and italy, 
will go by the way of Bremen; the 
other mail, containing fetseok for 
Germany, and the north of Europe, . 
will pass through Hanburgh, 
The 
packet which carries ovt the first 
mails will sail from Hurwich, and 
be conveyed to the Elle by a sloop 
of war; but afterwards the packets 
will aay from Yarmouth, 
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wood, at his seat in Staifcrdshire. 
The public usefulness and private 
virtues of this gentleman entitle 
him to particular notice. He was 
the younger son of a porter, but. 
derived jirule or no property from 
his father, whose possessions con- 
sisted chefly of a small entailed 
estate, and descended to the eldest 
son. 
has been benefited in a proporiion 
not to be calculated. His many dis- 
coveries of new species of earthen- 
wares and porcelains, his studied 
forms and chaste style of detoration, 
and the correctness and judgment 
with which aJl his works were exe- 
Fi + yer 
Mir. Josiah Wede-. 
He was the maker then of 
his own fortune, ard his country. 
a) 
cuted under his own eye, and by 
artists for the most part of his own 
forming, have turned the curren 
in this. branch of commerce ; for,, 
before his time, England imported 
the finer carthen-wares; but for 
more than twenty years past she 
has exgorted. them to a very great 
annuai amount, the whole of which 
is drawn from the earth, and from 
the industry of the inhabitants ; 
while the national taste has been 
improved, and its reputation | raised 
in foreign countries. His inven- 
tions have prodigiously increased. 
the number of persons employed in 
the poticries; and in the traffic 
and transport of their materials 
from distant parts of the kingdom ; 
and this class of manufacturers is 
also indebted to him for much me- 
chanical contrivance and arrange- 
ment in their operations ; ; his pri-. 
vate manufactory having had, for 
‘thirry years and upwards, all the 
eflicacy of a public work of expe- 
riment. Neither was he unknown 
in the walks of philosophy. His 
communicatiens to the Royal So. 
cety, of which he was a member, 
shew a mind enlightened by sci- 
euce, and cuntribured to procure 
him the esteem cf scientific men at 
home, and throughout Europe. 
At aneaily period ot his life, seeing 
the impos:inility of extending con- 
siderably the manufactory he was 
engay:d it, on the spot. which 
gave him birth, without the advan- 
tages of inlend navigation, he was 
tlie proposer of the Grand Trunk 
canal, and the chief agent in ob. 
taining the aQ@ of patiament for 
making it, against the prejudices 
of the landed interest, which at that 
time stood very high, and but just 
before had been with great difficul. 
ty overcome in another quarter by 
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