SIR,
In reply to Mr. H. Phillips’s erudite epistle, touching ‘The Old English Gentleman’ controversy and ‘The Maid of Llanwellyn’ piracy, I need only quote the words of Solomon, who says, ‘answer a fool according to his folly.’
I am, Sir,
With the most profound respect,
Your very humble Servant,
CHARLES H. PURDAY.
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To the EDITOR of the HARMONICON.
45, High Holborn, August 19th, 1833.
SIR,
As I am the ‘very man’ who, Mr. Phillips says, has been stopped from publishing ‘The Old English Gentleman,’ and who issued the ‘bills and circulars’ respecting ‘The Maid of Llanwellyn,’ I conceive I have a right to be heard in my defence against that person’s false assertions, which I doubt not he would have you and the public believe are true.
First, if the ‘low puff in the shape of an advertisement,’ which I issued, was ‘false from beginning to end,’ how came Mr. Phillips to acknowledge its truth by causing the plates of his pirated copy of ‘The Old English Gentleman’ to be sent to me to be destroyed?