The sewage of the metropolis : a letter to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor / from W. Hope ; inclosing correspondence with Baron Liebig.

  • William Hope
Date:
1865
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Credit: The sewage of the metropolis : a letter to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor / from W. Hope ; inclosing correspondence with Baron Liebig. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    therefore be no time for you to receive an invitation fi'om them; and thirdly, it is altog-ether contrary to the usag-es and rules of both Houses of Parliament that a Committee on a private Bill should protract the enquiry and therefore the expense, by inviting Avitnesses from abroad; but we give you the desired opportunity of giving your evidence on the subject, and while we urg-ently appeal to you in fairness and justice to appear before the Committee of the House of Lords, we at the same time invite you (and I trust with courtesy) to come to this country to see and hear for yourself, instead of trusting* to the eyes and ears of others, and to do so, upon a foot- ing which will be as little inconvenient as possible. At the same time I feel bound to repeat the word of warning contained in our last letter, and which I am sorry to see you interpreted as a threat, viz. that if you decline our fair proposal and re- fuse to submit yourself to cross-examination upon oath, we shall do our very utmost to destroy your reputation in this country, and that we shall do so with every chance of success. It is no flattery to say that your opinion carries g'reater weig'ht than that of any other man alive on such a question as the present, and for this reason we cannot pass over your opposition in silence. Were the matter a mere scientific discussion, we should not care to put any pressure upon you, and we should abstain most carefully from every expres- sion that could cause you annoyance; but it is a matter of business in which we have expended a
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