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letters patent, and consequently the monopoly of these 

 materials for the present term of fourteen years, but also 

 to grant it to him for fourteen years more ; and the Act is 

 to have this operation, even though the letters patent may 

 be void by the discovery not being a new invention, accord- 

 ing to the statute of James I., or by Mr. Cookworthy's not 

 having conformed to the terms and conditions of the letters 

 patent, by having described and ascertained the nature of 

 the said invention, and the manner in which the same is 

 to be performed. That the making of porcelain is not a new 

 invention is too evident to need any proof; that the letters 

 patent are not within the intent of the statute is manifest 

 by a cursory perusal of it. That Mr. Cookworthy has not 

 described and ascertained the nature of this invention and 

 the manner in which the same is to be performed (unless the 

 discovery of the materials can alone be deemed so), will 

 appear by what he has been pleased to call his specification. 

 But it will appear in evidence that even the discovery of the 

 materials was not, at the time of granting the letters patent 

 to Mr. Cookworthy, " new and his own," but that they were 

 at that time, and had been long before, applied to the uses 

 of pottery. 



" Is it therefore reasonable that Parliament should confirm to Mr. 

 Champion the present term of fourteen years, and also grant him 

 fourteen years more in a monopoly of an immense quantity of mate- 

 rials, the natural products of the earth, for the making of porcelain, 

 which no person is to imitate or resemble ; but also virtually the sole 

 privilege of vending and disposing of these materials at what price 

 and in what manner he thinks proper ? For no person can use them 

 in any respect but they will produce (if not the same effect) an 

 effect that will resemble what he may call his patent porcelain ; and 

 it is not to conceive how he can be deprived of the exclusive right 

 of selling as well of using these materials if the Bill now depending 

 should pass into a law." 



The presenting these papers to the Lords produced more 

 effect, it would seem, than the efforts in a similar direction 

 had apparently done in the Commons. The consequence 



