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benefit of every work, from whence profit may be derived, is the 

 power of assignment ; and if, in fact, the manufacture could not be 

 completed, nor the inventor, of course, derive any profit from it, 

 without the expense, care, and perseverance of the assignee and 

 once partner, the merit of that assignee, who both completes the 

 manufacture and rewards the discoverer, is equal in equity to that 

 of the discoverer himself equal in every respect, except the honour 

 that attends original genius and power of invention. 



"Mr. Champion can assert with truth that his hazard and ex- 

 pense was many times greater than those of the original inventor. 

 Mr. Champion mentions this without the least disparagement to the 

 worthy gentleman, who is his particular friend ; he gives him all 

 the merit which was due to so great a discovery ; he deserves it, for 

 finding out the means of a manufacture which will, in all proba- 

 bility, be a very great advantage to this country; but yet Mr. 

 Champion claims the merit of supporting the work, and, when the 

 inventor declined the undertaking himself, with his time, his labour, 

 and his fortune, improved it from a very imperfect to an almost 

 perfect manufacture ; and he hopes soon, with proper encourage- 

 ment, to one altogether perfect. 



4 '"What regards the original discoverer is, in some measure, 

 answered in the foregoing paragraph ; but the original discoverer 

 is not without a reward. Mr. Champion at this moment allows 

 him, and is bound to his heirs, &c., in a profit equal to the first 

 cost of the raw material, and, as Mr. Champion's manufactory is 

 encouraged, must increase to a very great decree. 



"Nor is Mr. "Wedgwood more excusable for his implication that 

 a want of skill prevented the work being brought earlier to per- 

 fection. Undoubtedly the difficulty arose from a want of skill in 

 working these new materials. This is a profound as well as civil 

 remark of Mr. Wedgwood's ; but that skill was to be acquired only 

 by care and expense, and that care and expense are Mr. Champion's 

 merits. Mr. Champion pretends to no other knowledge as a potter 

 than what he has acquired in the progress of this manufacture, his 

 profession of a merchant not putting more in his power ; but he had 

 the experience of Mr. Cooksworthy, the inventor, one of the most 

 able chemists in this kingdom, to whom the public is indebted for 

 many useful discoveries ; he had the experience of the manager of 

 his works, a person bred in the Potteries, and thoroughly conversant 

 in manufactures of this kind; the workmen he employed were 

 brought up to the branch, and he has spared no expense in encou- 

 raging foreign artificers. 



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