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who had been induced, as a part of the arrangement, to 

 superintend the manufacture, the first pieces of china made 

 in Staffordshire, with the exception of the trial pieces of 

 Littler, before spoken of, were produced. Some disagree- 

 ments having arisen, Turner and Keeling withdrew from 

 the concern, and the remaining partners removed their works 

 to a house in Shelton, known as " Shelton Hall," afterwards 

 the "New Hall," in contradistinction to the "Old Hall," 

 celebrated as being the birthplace of Elijah Fen ton, the poet. 



About the time of the withdrawal of Keeling and Turner 

 from the partnership, and the removal of the works from 

 Tunstall to Shelton, Richard Champion received, through 

 Burke, then in office, whom he had materially assisted in 

 his election for Bristol, as spoken of in the preceding 

 chapter, and who had patronised his manufacture in that 

 city, the appointment of Deputy Paymaster of the Forces. 

 On receiving this appointment, in 1782, Champion, it ap- 

 pears, immediately left Staffordshire. The ministry soon 

 afterwards being dissolved, however, Champion was of neces- 

 sity thrown out of office, and soon afterwards sailed for 

 America. He settled, it seems, at Camden, South Carolina, 

 and died there in 1787. 



The company next took for manager Mr. John Daniel, 

 who afterwards became a partner in the concern. A con- 

 siderable quantity of china was produced, but the most 

 extensive and profitable branch of the New Hall business 

 was the making and vending of the glaze called " com- 

 position," made by the company of the materials to whose 

 use they had the exclusive right. This " composition," 

 made from the ingredients given in the specification, was 

 supplied by the New Hall firm to the potters of the neigh- 

 bourhood, and even sent to other localities, to a large 

 extent, and at a highly remunerative price. 



The ware made at these works was precisely similar in 

 bodj r and glaze to that of Bristol, to which, from the fact 

 of some of the same artists being employed, it bears also a 

 marked resemblance in ornamentation. In 1796 the patent, 



