Josiah Wedgwood CHAP. 



with them in, on our own terms. We ordered some of 

 his materials to be sent to us, and when we have tried 

 them we are to write him on the subject." 



" Having now completed our business in Cornwall, 

 by having got a firm and secure hold of the raw 

 materials upon reasonable terms, we left Mr. Griffiths, 

 our agent, to conduct the business. We left St. Austell 

 after dinner, and slept that night at Liskeard, and the 

 next day we set Mr. Tolcher down at his own house at 

 Plymouth. The old gentleman was in general cheerful 

 and good company, but notwithstanding his age (he 

 was in his eighty-seventh year) he had a good deal of 

 the spoilt child in him, for if he had not his own way 

 in everything there was no peace with him, either in 

 the chaise or at the inns. . . . But when we came to 

 Plymouth, he talked so much of accompanying us into 

 Staffordshire, that I believe a single invitation would 

 have brought him with us. 



"Mr. Tolcher enjoys a remarkable share of health 

 and spirits for a man of his great age, and nothing 

 flatters him so much as telling him how young he 

 looks, and how many years he may yet expect to live. 

 Indeed, he used to say that he had no notion of dying : 

 he did not think he should die, for he had never felt 

 anything like it yet, having never had a day's sickness 

 in his life ; but he added, ' Neither have I ever been 

 once intoxicated with spirituous liquors.' " 



While at Plymouth, Wedgwood took another look at 

 Mount Edgecumbe, which he so much admired. He 



