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whom we were favoured with them, we have felt ourselves called upon to give them place 
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To fig Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
IR; 
REGRET that Mr, Lacey, for a 
moment, should think my remarks 
on his phrase, “No doubt, ne (Mr. 
Macadam) makes a good thing of it,” 
was written in anger to him, or any one. 
No, Sir: but, at the time, under a pain- 
ful feeling of that reluctance, in some 
minds, to accede to the maxim, well 
known, and so happily expressed,— 
“ Palmam qui meruit ferat.” 
I assure Mr. Lacey, Mr. Macadam is 
altogether unknown to me, save by his 
works. That our gentlemen-surveyors, 
as well as non-surveyors, of roads, have 
thought that the best system for road- 
making would be the breaking of large 
stones into smaller, there can be no 
doubt; But, who has acted as well as 
thought ?—Mr. Macadam. 
As to monies improperly voted to, 
or expended by, this gentleman, that is 
an account to be settled by Mr. M. and 
Mr. L. But, that Mr. Macadam was 
the first to act upon the new system, 
no one acquainted, for the last fifty 
years, with the metropolis and country 
of this great nation will hesitate to 
affirm. Then, “without grudging,” let 
him have and wear his palm—and let 
honest John Bull, and all his family, 
add. their generous acclamations—ad- 
miring our free country, where talent 
and enterprize are sure to meet encou- 
fagement and support, and to which 
the pages of the Monthly Magazine 
have amazingly contributed. 
' You perceive, Sir, Mr. Lacey scarcely 
touches one of the facts which I have 
communicated, through you, to the pub- 
lic, save and except the twenty-four 
stage-coaches which pass in the twenty- 
four hours, heavily laden, with cutting 
narrow wheels, along the narrowest part 
of the street in Woburn. ‘This, with a 
smile, affords, Mr. Lacey. an opportunity 
to “invite me to take my stand on 
Blackfriars Bridge, and, for ten minutes, 
during almost any time of the day, I 
may see twice twenty-four carriages 
pass, and nearly all of them of a heavier 
description than. stage-coaches, and 
many with as narrow wheels.” This, I 
beg leave to inform Mr. Lacey, 1 have 
repeatedly done, and on Westminster 
Bridge too, and sincerely thank him for 
the recollection: for it at once makes 
the fact which I adduced in proof of the 
superiority of the Macadamizing system 
triumphant. I hope this truly odd way 
of meeting a fact will fix the attention 
of many, as they pass over the bridges ; 
and they will then see, as in Woburn, 
and on a long length of way, wherever 
this new mode may be adopted, in a 
little while droken pavement and ruts, 
those great nuisances and impediments 
to comfort in travelling will be for eyer 
done away :—to say nothing of the vast 
expense saved in wear and tear of car- 
riages of all descriptions, 
Your correspondent, in the 105th 
page, touches a string which vibrates 
through the whole body of commission- 
ers of highways or byways, in and out 
of London; and which, if I be not mis- 
taken, will have a tenfold shock, when 
receipts and expenditure of turnpike- 
gates, as already moved, become matters 
of investigation in a committee of the 
House of Commons. With that corre- 
spondent I cordially unite in saying, 
it is indeed strange, that the principles 
of the new system, being so plain and 
obvious, should meet with any opposi- 
tion.—But is there not a cause for this 
opposition? We shall see. 
I well remember, some years ago, 
when professional duties used to call 
me annually to your great city, passing, 
frequently, in a light carriage, the whole 
length of Holborn, exclaiming, “Oh! 
these miserable, noisy, comfort-destroy- 
ing stones! how many invalids have ye 
shook and hastened to their tombs!” 
What lacerations and tertures to that 
most useful of animals, the horse, has 
the smooth, and often irregular surface 
of Holborn-hill inflicted! No street, 
from top to bottom, for its width, is so 
well adapted for the new system. 
We all remember-with what-the gas- 
light had to contend. - Here and there 
was mounted a blazing lamp—and peo- 
ple, as they approached, ) exclaimed, 
“Bless me, what’s that?” until, by their 
gradual advance, prejudice and’ opposi- 
tion fled before them, as the darkness 
of error always flies before the light of 
truth—and the system becomes univer- 
sally adopted. 
So I would say, having this Zuminous 
example before us, to Mr. Macadam, 
and to every one who, in any way, can 
do good, “ Nil desperandum /”—Y our’ sy 
&e. M, CasTLEDEN. 
Woburn, March 5, 1825. 
