Wall's-End, August 11, 1830.
MY LORD,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's letter of yesterday's date. I am glad your Lordship has interested yourself in Doctor Paris's work, and I hope that he will be enabled, through the assistance of Sir Humphry's friends, to do ample justice to the genius and worth of that excellent man.
I should be very happy if any letters of mine could assist Dr. Paris in doing justice to his merits in the invention of the Safety-lamp; and I shall with pleasure submit to your Lordship's better judgment and discretion the selection of such of them as may seem to be conducive to that object.
I do not find that any improvement whatever has been made, either in the principle or construction of the original lamp, as presented to us by Sir Humphry. His transcendent genius seems to have anticipated every thing belonging to the subject, and has left nothing more to be done.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord, with great respect,
Your Lordship's most obedient,
Humble servant,
John Buddle.
In consequence of some late reports of accidents in the mines, I requested my friend Sir Cuthbert Sharp to make certain enquiries in the mining districts; and for this purpose, I sent him a string of queries, to which I begged him to obtain answers. These questions were submitted to Mr. Buddle, and they produced the following letter.
TO SIR CUTHBERT SHARP.
Newcastle, August 28, 1830.
MY DEAR SIR CUTHBERT,