The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-03 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD'
SIR,—As the " Friend to Shipbuilding," the writer 1
a letter in the Standard of the sth instant, has 110,t'„/
suppose, seen my letter which appeared in the Mail
the 16th in reply th,reto. 1 request the favour of II
republishing the two letters with this in your nest Pt!,
location of the Standard : and if the " Friend to Shltia
building" does not then retract the imputations containea
in his letter on the professional character of Livereo
shipbuilders, 1 shall proceed with a series of inquiries;
the first part of which will embrace a critical examinatl°
on a small work entitled " Grantham on Iron as a Mate,
rial for Shipbuilding."
I am, sir, your obedient servant.
JOHN WILSON GREEN.
Ship-yard, Clarence Dock, 27M Nov., 1844.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL MAIL. .4
noticed in the Liverpool Standard off; heith
instant a letter signed a " Friend to Shipbuilding, /1"f-°,,
induced me to send a letter to the Standard-office,
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insertion in that paper, and I gave the name of a Pi.e,b
to whom I attributed the letter in question, for ."r
reason I apprehend my letter did not appear in that paper
last Tuesday.
The " Friend to Shipbuilding," whoever he maY be!
would fain appear solicitous for the profes.ional character
of Liverpool shipbuilders, in which he must either
sincere or otherwise, and he must also be cognizant ,
the subject on which be writes, or ignorant tbereof.
sincere, he betrays an ignorance of the subject ; ledhlni
rant, then imbecility and selfishness have procop
in this instance, he having some ulterior object in view'
He appears to have been delighted, from his expressioor
with the perusal of a letter or letters on Shipbuilding,
winch also appeared in the Standard, signed `• Jolla
Cock," for he speaks of the art being developed by Mr.
Cock, and. suggests that the Livrrp..l shipbuilders take
a lesson therefrom, and whom be charges with puerility,
want of experience, ana professional attainments.
Mr. Cock may be master builder at Pembroke dock-
pard. or master's attendant, or foreman, or anything elSer
who or what he is being quite immaterial to me. I, for
one, would profit if I could by the suggestion ; bur
only development that 1 can discover is, that Mr. cock.
has read one or more of the many writings which
appeared on the subject, without his having unfolded ant
new doct ine or advanced any new hypothesis.
I
merely makeof
these
the
,Fri
e d observations
toShipbuilding"
:.s being pe rt i
annedn,t
tht
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the intelligence
authority upon which the charges are founded; and "`""
I might stop, if 1 had only to show the ignorance and WI:
becility of our impugner, but as there is a party in tl)
town to whom 1 attribute the letter signed a " Friend tO
Shipbuilding," and whom I know has insidiously aPekea
of the professional character of Liverpool shipbuildrrea
and at the same time endeavoured to extol himself; au
s
as he professes to be an engineer, naval architect, and
person acquainted with the sciences generally, so as ~
design, ditect, and be consulted thereon, I desire to en:
inquiry ; for I apprehend that so comprehensive a in
even with its own exertion, may not be so exteasiveil
known and appreciated as it shou:d be, and, therefore'
by the investigation, we the shipbuilders may sland,l
fall, and this remarkable person, whom I may
bring out," will rise to that high professional and OP'
entific character which he will deserve, or, at least, pro.
bably, save some persons from being deceived by his Pre'
tensions.