The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-24 00:00:00

TO TIII EDITOR OF TEI 1-1F8Z:33.

Sia,—As you Lave given the publicity of your
coheir to • corcmimottio• Wood "P. S. A.," which

appeared ia the Builder of Lit week, and the writer of
which deems be has exposed the Brothers Davenport, may
I claim from your well-lomown justice and fanner the same
pnblicity for • few word, in reply ?
In the first place, I would observe that if the feats of a
professed conjuror an to be brought into comparison with
the phenomena exhibited in the presence of the Brothers
Dans port as a test that these are or are not brought about
by tricks or jugglery, the essential conditions to which they
are submitted abould be strictly and exactly observed
befogs any fair deduction can be drawn from the Goma-
pinions.
Now it has been so long well known to all who have any
ksowledge of the tricks of jugglers and prestidigitateurs
throughout the world that the rapid tying and untying of
knots has been from time immemorial one of their reoog-
aimed means of exciting wonder, that the Brothers Daven-
port would never hare attempted .to call public attention
to any such proof of a peculiar power or agency in oonnec-
tion with themselves, could they only have rested it purely
and simply on such • basis.
According to the marten's of " F.5.A.," all that Mr.
Tolinaque accomplished was, when behind a screen, to untie
himself, after having been, as it is supposed, securely tied
by some gentleman not • coefederate, and when so untied to
threw his coat over the screen, and cause certain inatruntenta
to perform the same flight, and subsequeatly to reveal
himself still unbound in his shirt sleeves. This vary
Gammon piece of Jugglery may beer a distant
sort of resemblance to the course of experiments by
which the Brothers Davenport put to • rational sod
seesible test the power ameected with themselves, bat with
all due deform= to "F. B. A.," the conditions under
which it is performed differ so widely and so essentially
from those wider which my clients ue placed that no un-
bound person who bad been present at • lEWICe of the Bro-
thers Davenpert would with a moment's refection accept
them as so identical sa to justify the term "exposure,"
which has bees applied to Dlr. Tolmthait's performance.
I will not tabs up your valuable space by pointing out at
lth these points of difference, but leave it to any candid
realer to discover them by comparing the published accounts
of a Davenport semen with "F. 8. A.'s" later, simply
stating that the Davenport Brothers per during the
coat experiment then hoods to be sealed at the knots with
the private seal of soy person present, which scale are
foetid intact when the coat is removed. Will Mr. Tolson:pa
swept this single condition

Again, witlireferenee to this pretended *: of the
Brothers Demport by Mr. Toimaque, I would °boom lime
that that gentleman and Professor Anderson, who has also
stepped forward on the suns side, were invited to attend
the test sicuett at Mr. Boircioatiles, std to do their utmost
.thereand them to prove that imposture with which they are
so noxious total these •• manifestatioos," but the first,samed
gentleman refused, although the original challenger, tone-
oept the invitation, and the second declined it ii like man-
ner, on the ground that he had thrown down no challenge to
the Br!there llaysopeft: . . .

I .ill emsclude by pledging myself to the following issue :
If Mr. Tolmaque, or any other person will by legerdemain
produce menially the same phenomena aa those to which the
Broilers Davenport give rim., maler precisely the same coo•
dittoes, to the satisfaction of a majority of the gentlemen
sad noblemen who were present at the aisince held last Friday
avemeg at the Hanover-square Rooms, 1 will pay 11.1111. to
soy of the dramatic feuds that may b. selected. The party,
of tome, attempting, should he fail, to pay a like sum to
the mum iustitutioo.—l am yours. sir. with respect, &c.,
H. D. Pattie,
Manager of the Davenport Brother.
306, Regent-West, Oct. V.

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