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Mr. Gilbatson in Anstvcr lo Mr. IJawes. 



[June I, 



By a conipnrison of tlic cliarges a<lvantag-c. 1 would therefore ho.^, 



attendant upon tlie flat and pointed tlirou-;h your ]Ma<;azine, to call the 



roof, it \vili be found that a savino; of altcntion of the pul)lic to a discovery 



one-third oftheexpensealtondstiiefor- , hy which tlie moneyed interest is so 



mer in the fust instance ; and, from the materially benelited. 



total impossibility of any repairs being An Aiichitect. 



necessary after heavy falls of snow or — *^ 



frost, or from other accidents, which To the Edilor of the IMontlilij Magazine. 



loosen the tiles of a pointed roof, an 



eventual saving is also accomplished. 



It is, when finished, perfectly tiat, and 



not, like lead on sucii a roof, subject to 



ridges where joined ; and, in covering 



ofliccs built on the ground, at the back 



SIR, 



I BEG you will allow me io 

 make a few remarks on Mr. 

 Hawes's letter in j'our IMagazine tor 

 January, page 51G ; but first to assure 

 you, I do not wish to occupy much of 

 of houses, whose windows overlook your valual)le journal, or to contend 

 them, it is a most desirable thing, as with Mr. 11 awes or Mr. Loudon as to 

 on such buildings it may be laid over priority of invention: Mith me I do 



iron bars, and tlius be rendered secure 

 from fire; and, instead of the back- 

 rooms being darkened, as is the case 

 w here such buildings are covered with 

 lead, a strong light is rcfleeted from 

 its whiteness, which lends to enliven 

 the rooms that overlook it. The same 



assert it was original, and, from Mr. 

 Hawes's letter, have great reason to be- 

 lieve I can claim a prior invention and 

 application to Mr. Loudon. 



I shall not follow Mr. Hawcs through 

 the duly of persons in business, the 

 service " you will render the commn- 



preparation will also bo found ex- nity," -the community knows you have 



tremcly well adapted for partitions, and do render great service, — or cu- 



whero space is to be gained and neat- quire who were his customers driven 



ness required; for floorings in offices from their house and home, and got 



on the ground, kitchens, washhouses, back again for ten pounds. Not so, it 



green-houses, &e. ed'ectually prevent- will be seen, did Mr. II. act towanls 



ing damps from rising or sinking. nie : my business might have bc(!n re- 



That such a mode of finishing houses moved far from my housi , had I not 



has been found to answer, may be found out the method I now use. 



inferred from the free manner in which Mr. II. speaks of justice: his "object 



it has been introduced in many of the is but justice" to the " philosophical 



new buildings at the west end of the 

 town, and particularly those in Re- 

 gcnt's-strect and the "Regent's Park. 

 One builder, a Mr. Austin, of Little 

 Titchfield-street, Mary-le-bone, has 



modest young man," who, having dis- 

 covered something of importance to 

 the public, keeps the secret almost to 

 himself; his friend Mr. H. adopts the 

 discovered plan, " the first on the 



brought this mode cf roofing houses to plan ;" but (according to his dates) de 



such perfection, that, out of many nies having it. It will be seen what 



thousand feet \i hich has been covered sort of an advocate Mr. I^oudou has 



by him, not a single failure has taken had, when I inform you, that in 1820, 



place. And, indeed, it would seem, learning Mr. Hawes had been at con- 



from the numerous purposes to which sidcrablc expense (as he also states,) 



he has made his improved Roman to get rid of the offensive eftbivia in 



stone subservient, and the specimens his business, I very naturally wished 



that may be .seen at his repository, to know if it was like mine, which had 



that he must have devoted his whole been in use some time. I immediately 



attention to its capabilities. It is in- went to Old Barge-yard ; where I was 



troduced, and found extremely well informed that, after all the expense 



adapted, for waler-cistcrns, baths, Mr. H. had been at, he had oidy car- 



wine-bins, sinks, air and stiuk traps, 

 copings for walls, sills for windows, 

 coverings for ridges or slated roofs, in 

 imitation of lead, and chimney-pots, 

 which, for detached cottages and 



ricil the effluvia by an arm into a high 

 chimney, but had not destroyed it. I 

 leave Mr. Loudon and Mr. Hawes to 

 reconcile the error of time or justice, 

 and recommend Mr. L. to avail him- 



houses in the country, form a desirable self of the harvest before him ; taking 

 and beautiful finish. In short, there care not to forjet the 'journal that has 

 are few purposes of convenience, or given him publicity, 

 even of ornament, lo which this useful One Word lo Wcstmiusterensis (p. 

 discovery may not be applied with 401, in your Magazine for December). 



I trust. 



