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Upon his death, the following succinct notice appeared in the 

 obituary of The Naval Chronicle for 1813 : 



" Died, at New-field, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, on the 21st 

 January, of gout in the stomach, aged 83, Smith Child, Esq. Ad- 

 miral of the Blue. He entered the service under Earl Gower's 

 auspices in 1747, as the nautical disciple of Lord Anson, and 

 served at -the sieges of Pondicherry and Louisbourg. He com- 

 manded the Europe in the two actions off the Chesapeake, in 1781, 

 with such credit as enabled him to obtain preferment for most of 

 her officers ; but, the following year, his eldest son, (a youth who 

 had evinced great intrepidity on board the Fame upon the memo- 

 rable Twelfth of April, and was about to have joined the FOM- 

 droyant, commanded by Sir John Jervis, then at home,) perished in 

 the unfortunate Ville de Paris. In 1795 he took the command of 

 the Commerce de Marseilles of 120 guns, and attained his flag on 

 Valentine's day, 1799. The Admiral was, during great part of his 

 life, in the Commission of the Peace for Staffordshire, a Deputy- 

 Lieutenant, &c. of the county, and was most eminently and ex- 

 tensively beloved and revered." 



His remains were deposited at Wolstanton. 



Smith-field possesses many strata of good coal and coarse clay, 

 and embraces some charming prospects. Here is Smith-field, a 

 handsome villa, formerly the property and residence of the late 

 Theophilus Smith, Esq. 



Tunstall, a liberty in the parish of Wolstanton, is pleasantly 

 situated on an eminence about four miles from Newcastle, and on 

 the turnpike-road from Lawton to that town. It has a neat chapel 

 belonging to the Methodists. There " formerly was a church 

 here, and various human bones have been dug up ; but such is the 

 effect of time, that not the least trace of it now remains."* There 

 are several considerable manufactories at Tunstall, particularly of 

 a superior kind of blue tile, the clay found here being favourable 

 for the purpose : it is little inferior, in appearance, to common slate. 

 A turnpike-road runs hence to Bosley, in Cheshire. 



The following are copies of two ancient and curious deeds con- 

 nected with this place : 



" TUNSTALL. At the Court there holden on Tuesday in the week of Pentecost 

 in the 10th Year of the Reign of King Edd. the 4th came William 

 Badyley Son and Heir of Margery Handeson and took Seisin of the Lord 

 of Audley of one Messuage and 20 Acres of customary Land in Tunstall 



* Aikin's Manchester. 



