| Description | 66 pages, printed by Thomson and Wrightson, 73 New Street. Price one shilling, the produce to be given to the General Hospital. [Heavily annotated by M.R. Boulton, this booklet sets out Lander’s own account of the affair, with supporting documents quoted. Towards the conclusion he states: 'There is not, I should suppose, an individual to be found who does not consider every demonstration of regard to be due to the memory of the late worthy and distinguished proprietor of Soho. But I must not suffer his son to shrink for protection behind the regard due to the character of his father. To adduce this regard as a motive for his litigious proceedings against me is utterly absurd and ridiculous. Mr Boulton cannot but know that the honoured memory of his deceased father can neither suffer diminution from any possible act of mind, nor receive addition from any conceivable act of his… I have been, throughout this business, supported by a conscientious conviction of the propriety and integrity of my conduct. If I had not stood upon this firm ground, my resistance to the power, influence, and resentment of such a man as Mr Boulton, would have been rash. But thus supported, Mr Boulton has harassed, but not humbled me; and it was not till my justification required from me a written appeal to the public, that I felt myself coping with him on unequal terms. Mr. Boulton has leisure; is surrounded by literary acquaintance, by officious promoters of his wishes, and by volunteer partisans, who are rewarded by admission to Soho, and are ready retailers of his resentments.'] |