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Kendal Chronicle, 2 August 1823:-
TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHRONICLE.
SIR,
You gave insertion to a letter in your paper of last week,
representing me to have made statements, which if to be
believed, are calculated to injure me in my professional
pursuits, I must therefore inform you, that excepting I am
informed of the name and residence of the author, you must
be answerable for the consequences. The letter I allude to
is signed "A Subscriber to Hodgson's Map of Westmorland,"
and couched in language that at once removes every doubt as
to the disposition and character of the writer; and the
insinuation I complain of is thus libelously expressed - "An
other rude interrogatory as Mr. Greenwood calls them, and I
have done for this time. Did that Gentleman ever give it as
his opinion that a Stepping Surveyor would only be mistaken
about one acre and a half in one hundred and seventy acres?"
and then he goes on to inform the public that the proportion
of one acre and a half to one hundred and seventy is somehat
more than 10,000 acres in the admeasurement of the whole of
Westmorland. What other inference therefore can be drawn
from such a statement, than that we must be in error in this
county 10,000 acres, or upwards of fifteen square miles, and
proportionately in other counties!!! I solemnly declare this
imputation to be as false as the inference to be drawn from
it is libelous; and if through the medium of the press, the
authors of such daring and imprudent slanders are to be
screened, the publisher must take upon himself the
consequences.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
C. GREENWOOD.
Ambleside, July 28th, 1823.
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