A. D. 1763, ^S^ 



Wedgwood added, that he conceived it to be ftill in its infancy, in 

 comparifon of what it may be, if it is not interrupted in its growtli *. 



The manufadure has ftill continued to increafe, and has fpread over 

 a diftritfl in the north part of StafTord-fhire of about nine miles in ex- 

 tent, the whole of which is now fo covered with manufacT:ories and 

 dwelling houfcs, that it has the appeai^ance of one large fcattering 

 town, and is accordingly called in the neighbourhood by the name of 

 the Pottery, though including feveral towns and villages. Earthen ware 

 is alfo made in imitation of Mr. Wedgwood's manner in many other 

 parts of Great Britain, and in Ireland, and alfo in feveral parts of the 

 continent of Europe, 



Thus are the meaneft materials, the clay and the flint ftones under 

 our feet, converted into objeds of the greateft utility and beauty, and 

 become the means of giving employment to a prodigious number of 

 people with the greateft poflible national advantage (for the whole value 

 of the earthen ware of every kind is the price of labour paid to our 

 own people) and of opening a new and extenfive field of commerce of 

 the moft beneficial kind to the kingdom. For all thefe bleflings Great 

 Britain is indebted to the genius, the elegant tafte, the fcience, and the 

 perfeverance, of Mr. Wedgwood, whofe memory ought to be held in 

 honour by all concerned in the landed or commercial interefts, or who 

 wifh well to the general profperity, of Great Britain f. 



The following funis were this year voted by the Irifli parliament for 

 promoting inland navigation and other commercial objeds J. 



For the great canal from Dublin to the Shannon, - £6000 



For a canal to carry vefi^ils of 100 tuns from Newry to Loch 

 Neagh, and thence to Drumglas colliery in the coimty of Ty- 

 rone, _ _ _ . 4000 

 A canal to conned Loch Swilly and Loch Foyle, - 4000 

 A canal, which, with the improvements on the River Lagan, 

 completes the navigation between Loch Neagh and the fea at 

 Belfaft, - - - - 2000 

 Four other inland navigations by canals and improvement of the 



River Shannon, &c. _ _ > 10,000 



• Let us alfo hoar what a foreigner, a chcmift, ' Spain, Portugal, and Italy, are fupplicJ with it, 

 and mlncralDgKl, and a lover of the arts, fays of it. ' aiul vclftls are loaded with it for the Eart-Indles, 



* Its excellent worknianfliip, its folidity, the nd- ' the Wed- Indies, and che continent of America.' 

 ' vantage which it pofltffes of fuftalning the ac- \_Faujas Sainl-FonJ, V. i, p. 97.] 



' tion of fire, its fine glaze impenetrable to acids, f Mr. Wedgwood died in January 1795, at 



• the beauty .md convenience of its form, and the Etruria, his feat in Stafiurd-fhire, where he poflefl- 



' chcapnefs of its price, have given rife to a com- cd a fine eilate, ai\ extenfive fet of work* for his 



' merce fo aftivc, and fo univcrfal, that in travel- manufactory, and a village for the accommodation 



' ling from Paris to Peterfburgh, from Amfterdam of liis work people ; all the fruits of his invn ho- 



' to the farlhell part of Sweden, and from Dtiii- nourable creative iiKlullry. 



' kirk to the extremity of the foulh ot France, \ See the grants of the year 1761 in /», 349. 



' one is fervcd at every inn upon Englifli ware. 4 



