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(ADVERTISEMENT.)
TO THE EDITOR OF THE KENDAL GAZETTE.
SIR, - To advocate an honest cause, is a glorious task. It
is one of the happiest of all necessities. Carrying with it,
in every step, a certainty of success, it bids defiance to
the wiles of imposition. By investigation, its merits
appear; and in its most active enemy it has its surest
triumph. The crime of commencing my practice as a private
Surveyor, at a second rate town in the West Riding of the
County of York, I shall not attempt to deny; and I will
acknowledge, with gratitude, the advantages I derived under
the valuable superintendence and instruction of one of the
late Mr. Rennie's most efficient and able surveyors. Without
such an opportunity, how could I have pretended to have
placed myself before the public in this new and higher
branch of the science? And yet I mean to insist, that I was
previously as competent a Landsurveyor as Mr. Thomas Hodgson
can now possibly be. There was a time when I could not have
stooped to observations like these; and now I do it in my
own defence. That I was honoured by the genuine patronage of
his most gracious Majesty to my undertaking, I can prove;
and I do assert, the a communication was made to me directly
from his Majesty, of the most flattering description,
through the medium of the Rev. Dr Stenier Clarke, then his
Majesty's Librarian, at Carlton Palace; and that his Majesty
was pleased to intimate the most favourable opinion of the
merits of the work, both from an actual inspection of fit,
and from its fame.
By whom am I now questioned? What new character is this? "A
Kendal Subscriber" written on his mask; another personage in
the drama. I wonder how many more will be introduced into
the piece. It will not do. The very improbability of there
being any sincerity in these proceedings, make it ridiculous
to give them credence. Can it be supposed that subscribers
to a work at L1 11s. 6d. would pay guinea after guinea for
the insertion of advertisements in its behalf? There is a
degree of insincerity and intrigue marking the career of
these transactions, highly discreditable to the parties from
their earliest movements. It would be cruel, indeed, to copy
their work; cruel to themselves; cruel to the public; and an
insult upon common sense. They may rest assured they shall
be fairly dealt with. It was they who commenced the attack,
it is for me to keep up the defence. I will not copy their
map, nor shall they copy mine.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
C. GREENWOOD.
Kendal, King's Arms Inn, Sept. 5th, 1823.
Also in the Kendal Chronicle 6 September 1823.
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