MR. BROWN AND THE COUNTY BRIDGE.
ITO TER EDITOR OF THR SPROTATOR.1
Sra,—My attention has been called to a couplet in last week's Spectator which I cannot but think needlessly offensive. Had it been true that the St. George's Canal bridge had been erected at the expense of the shire, a reference to it when discussing a bishopric Bill would have been most uncalled for. But as, in fact, the whole £3,800 which the bridge cost was paid by me, and only the alteration of the approaches to it, which 1 never even proposed, and which was an entirely separate work from the bridge, was paid for from the rates, your animosity has carried you beyond the bounds of truth.
I will thank you to make this clear in your next issue, as your couplet is calculated to injure me, not only in my own county— where I have a chance to set matters right—but in London, where it is almost impossible.-1 am, Sir, &c., Gresham Hotel, Liverpool, May 17. DAVID A. BROWN.
[Mr. Brown has made some curious mistake. We merely quoted the couplet from Mr. Richard's speech in Parliament, and did not suspect for a moment that either Mr. Brown or the bridge supposed to be built at the expense of the county, but as it seems, not so built, was anything but a myth. Of course, of animosity towards a myth without any definite locality, as we supposed Mr. Brown and the bridge to be, we could not feel even a trace.—ED. Spectator.]
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