Note 253 — Chapter XXII · ENGLISH PORCELAIN—(continued). THE HARD PASTE OF PLYMOUTH AND BRISTOL

Of another workman employed by Champion, one Anthony Amatt, Mr. Hugh Owen gives some particulars. At one time, attempting to cross the Channel and find employment in France, he was arrested—at the instigation, it is said, of Wedgwood—and confined for some time as a State prisoner. Amatt died in 1851 at the age of ninety-two. Wedgwood was very active in preventing the emigration of English potters, who, he declared, were lured from their country by French and German agents (Meteyard’s Wedgwood, ii. p. 475).