264 THE WEDGWOODS. 



"The stone 305. per ton at the same places 120 Ibs. to the 

 cwt." 



Having thus obtained the use of the Cornish stone and 

 clay for himself and brother potters, Wedgwood introduced 

 them into his manufactory with marked success, as is 

 particularly evident in his glazes, and in the body of his 

 earthenware. 



In 1776 Thomas Bentley visited Paris, being away from 

 his London duties for seven weeks. His journey was 

 " professedly a journey of expense and amusement, without 

 much attention to business," but he nevertheless contrived 

 to mix up business conveniently with it, and to return richer 

 in decorative ideas, and in impressions of gems, &c., from 

 different cabinets. And here it may not be out of place to 

 say that in this same year, the year in which he writes, 

 " We have Mr., Mrs., and Miss Wedgwood, with their ser- 

 vants, with Miss Gates [I presume sister to his first wife, 

 Hannah Gates] and Miss Stamford [sister to the then Mrs. 

 Bentley] , in the house, besides five clerks and our own ser- 

 vants ; so that I have constant fears lest my good governess 

 should be laid up, though I take the best care I can of her," 

 Mr. Bentley, jointly with his friend the Rev. David 

 Williams, one of the founders of a congregation on prin- 

 ciples consonant with Mr. Bentley's feelings, at Chelsea,pub- 

 lished a " Liturgy on the Universal Principles of Morality 

 and Religion." This establishment at Chelsea would appear, 

 probably, to have been formed on somewhat similar prin- 

 ciples to that of the " Gctagonians " at Liverpool. 



In 1777 Wedgwood and Bentley issued a fourth edition 

 of their catalogue ; and in the succeeding year they again 

 published it translated into the Dutch language. A copy 

 of this remarkably scarce publication, issued at Amsterdam 

 in this year, 1778, is in my own possession, and is particu- 

 larly interesting in many respects. By its title-page it 

 appears that the agent was Lambert Yan Yeldhuysen. The 

 goods being to be sold by " Wedgwood en Bentley, en 

 verkogt in hun Magazyn, in de Groote Nieuwpoort-Straat 



