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ROYAL PROGRESS.
51, Burton Crescent, 3d September 1851. Sin—In your last paper, on "Topics of the Day," there are some animad- versions on the "rude Vestry" of St. Pancras' because they closed the dan- gerous part of the New Road near Xing's Cross. Now it appears to me very unjust that the Vestry should be censured for their great desire to prevent the possibility of an accident occurring to her Majesty.
Our surveyor, Mr. Bird, had reported that part of the wooden pavemext to be in a "dangerous" state, and that in the event of heavy rain it would not be safe to pass over, even if repaired with broken granite. The Vestry were bound to act upon this opinion, and would have been un- pardonable had they allowed her Majesty to incur the slightest personal risk ; and instead of blame, they deserve praise for their care of her Majesty's person.
You speak of "the loyal authorities of St. Pancras " ; sometimes
" An irony, dissembling with an air,
Means otherwise than what the words declare"; but whether you apply the term in jest or earnest, whatever the Vestry may have been, at this_present time there are not more loyal subjects in the kingdom than the Vestry of St. Pancras. I beg to inform you, that the New Road king in its present state does not arise from any fault in the "petty parish board," but from the contractor becoming bankrupt. We yesterday made a contract with Messrs. Pratt and Sewell to have this part of the road paved with granite in the very best manner, and the cost will be about 60001.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, T. E. BAB.2.13, Churchwarden.
[We wish the unquestionably loyal Vestry of St. Pancras all success in amending their ways.—En.]
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