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CORRESPONDENCE.

THAMES HOSPITAL,

To the Editor of the Thames Advertiser,

Sib,—l consider it both cowardly and unfair for a writer to attack men whose names are before the public, without placing his own name also before the public—doubly cowardly and unfair when the attack is an ascription of motives of the most unworthy kind. Your readers I am sure, will coincide with this remark. " Subscriber" speaks significantly of " the lawyer-like evidence" in the report. _ It is my opinion that when this case is done it will be found that there was more ''lawyer-like evidence" connected with it than was generally known at the time. _ It were easy, for me to retaliate, and give a list of the motives by which " Subscriber" may be actuated; but I will not violate even ,in this case the' rule by which I try to be guided, namely, to look at statements and actions, and leave motives alone. ,It is very difficult for short-sighted mortals like us, to attain to anything like certainty in suoh a matter; and " Subscriber's" attempt on the present occasion abundantly proves it. He has made not even an " outer," but a complete" miss." Instead of wasting so much ink in informing the public regarding the "reasons" which he supposes actuated certain individuals in forming a plot, it would have been very much better if he had stated one or two facts to prove that these certain individuals had formed a plot at all. I challenge "Subscriber" before this community to give one fact, or the shadow of one fact, that shall in the least degree make good his assertion. I mean what I write. I demand that he shall try it. If he do not, his statement shall be justly condemned as false. Meanwhile I give him a fact that shall make his task all the more difficult. He says that had not I "combined with the Mcllhone party against the doctor of the institute, the public would have heard nothing of the alleged negligence and incapacity." Now than this nothing could be further from the truth, and the public shall be judge. The fact is this: The first time I heard of there being a case of complaint at all was when Mr MoOullough stood up in the Hospital Committee and alluded to a letter that was in the Star of that day. Nay, more; I was so displeased at the production of the newspaper there, and that the Committee should take anything to do. with an anonymousletter in it that, though several members of the Committee read the letter, I would not, and did not; and I was put on to the sub-committee, and I left that meeting actually in total ignorance of what the complaint was, or against whom it was made. I ask " Subscriber" to look at this fact, and then at his _ own statement above, and at his earliest convenience to tell us what he thinks of himself. I have now to tell " Subscriber" (we shall likely know more about him before the case is finished) that the members of the sub-committee are not only agreeable to have the fullest additional investigation, but demand it; but not only on the one, but for good reasons, as shall be found out, on the other side also.—Yours, &c., Jambj Hill.

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Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1852, 8 September 1874, Page 3

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CORRESPONDENCE. Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1852, 8 September 1874, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE. Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1852, 8 September 1874, Page 3

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