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" Lo ! Wedgwood, too, waves his Pmvpofe on high ! 

 Lo ! he points where the bottoms, yet dry, 

 The Visage Immaculate bear ! 

 Be Wedgwood d d, and double d d his ware." 



" I am told that a scoundrel of a potter, one Mr. Wedgwood, is 

 making 10,000 spitting -pots, and other vile utensils, with a figure 

 of Mr. Pitt in the bottom ; round the head is to be a motto 



' We will spit 

 On Mr. Pitt;' 



and other such d d rhymes suited to the uses of the different 



vessels." 



Of the universal repute in which this ware the 

 " Queen's,"or usual earthenware of Wedgwood's manufacture 

 was held, numberless instances could be given, but it is 

 unnecessary to do so. I may, however, just quote two little 

 passages to show the opinion which was held of the excel- 

 lence of its quality, and the way in which it made its way 

 to remote quarters of the globe. The first is from the 

 Travels of M. St. Fond, Professor of Geology in the Museum 

 of Natural History, in Paris, in 1799, who wrote 



" Its excellent workmanship ; its solidity; the advantage which 

 it possesses of withstanding the action of the fire ; its fine glaze, 

 impenetrable to acids ; the beauty, convenience, and variety of its 

 forms, and its moderate price, have created a commerce so active, 

 and so universal, .that in travelling from Paris to St. Petersburg, 

 from Amsterdam to the farthest point of Sweden, one is served at 

 every inn from English earthenware. The same fine article adorns 

 the tables of Spain, Portugal, and Italy ; it provides the cargoes of 

 ships to the East Indies, the "West Indies, and America." 



In Hamilton's "Voyage Round the World," 1793, the 

 author says 



" It was a pleasing and flattering sight to an Englishman at this 

 remotest corner of the globe, to see that Wedgwood's stone ware, 

 and Birmingham goods, had found their way into the shops of 

 Coupang " (East Indies). 



