. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. d busy commerce all around him thrive. Such the true Patriot who improves the hours. And for his countrys weal employs his powers. While pensiond peers inactive dreamd away In dull stupidity lifes fleeting day, His soul superior ranged the fictile field, Where heavenly science sweet instruction yield. Traced classic ground, and from Italian shores, With skill unrivalld drew the choicest stores. Such
. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. d busy commerce all around him thrive. Such the true Patriot who improves the hours. And for his countrys weal employs his powers. While pensiond peers inactive dreamd away In dull stupidity lifes fleeting day, His soul superior ranged the fictile field, Where heavenly science sweet instruction yield. Traced classic ground, and from Italian shores, With skill unrivalld drew the choicest stores. Such the true patriot, from whose gates each day A crowd of healthy workmen make their way. Whose rare productions foreign courts demand. And while they praise, enrich his native land. View his Etruria, late a bai-ren waste, Now high in culture and adornd with taste; The pine, the beech, their ample branches spread, And the taU poplar rears his pointed head j The broad canpJ here winds his watery way Through the long vale with native beauties gay. LAST ILLNESS OF WEDGWOOD. 359 The illness which ended in the death of Josiah Wedgwoodwas a very painful one. Of this illness Mrs. Byerley, the. widow of his nephew and partner, Thomas Byerley, who wasat the time living near Etruria, wrote :— He was seized with a dieadful pain in his face and teeth. Amedical man was sent for, and as he had long been a friend of the 360 THE WEDGWOODS. family, he could not restrain his feelings. He perceived a sloughor mortification had began in the mouth; he told the wife, andordered immediately an eminent physician to be sent for from adistant county. He applyed what he thought best till the medicalfriend arrived, and then everything was resorted to, which keptthis great good man in existence three weeks, but he then died—apoor man would not have lived more than three days. In the chancel of St. Peter^s Churcli, Stoke-upon-Trent,close by the pulpit, is a large and imposing-looking tabletto the m
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