TIIE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.
n,—As you have in the exercise of your public functions, thought your- self justified in expressing opinions to my disadvantage, I take the liberty of enclosing for your perusal, a letter which I addressed to the John Bull newspaper ; and I feel persuaded that I may rely on your sense of what is right, either to admit this refutation of the calumnies invented with the view to disparage my discovery and injure my practice, into your respectable journal, or to notice it in such other manner as is due to the cause of truth and fairness between man and man.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, To this appeal, preferred in the name of "truth and fairness between man and man," we can have no hesitation in giving a ready answer. We have heretofore inserted papers addressed to us (not pronounced " opinions") on one side of a discussion in which the public are deeply interested : we now give the other side of the controversy—the defendant's statement of his own
case ; and in order that he may receive the most perfect measure of justice, we go further than he perhaps would have supposed us strictly bound to go, for we insert his long letter entire. We thus avoid the danger of misrepre- senting Mr. Long ; though we incur the risk of calling a new combatant into our columns.—En.
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