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ADDRESS
G. FOWLER, in presenting
to the public the Eleventh Edition of the Directory, returns his sincere
thanks to those -who have supported this Work hitherto.
As the chief value of a
work of this kind consists in accuracy of detail, and distinctness of
arrangement, the present Publisher has in this, as in all his former
Editions of the Directory, spared neither labour nor expense in securing
these ; and as the compilation of a work of this kind is attended with a
very great degree of labour, and not a little expense, which can only be
compensated by an extensive sale of the Work, he trusts he will meet
with a suitable degree of encouragement from a discerning public.
The Lists and Tables
inserted in the appendixes will be found of the most useful description,
and suitable not only to the Merchant and Trader, but to the Public
generally—a Directory being not only a useful, but a highly necessary
repository for enabling a commercial people to become acquainted with
each other.
The Publisher could not
help observing, in the course of his survey for this Edition of the
Directory, that many of the numbers of the houses, &c., are either
partially or wholly obliterated, and that many of the old numbers, which
ought to have been obliterated when the houses were numbered on the
present plan, are still visible —a circumstance that is apt to mislead
or create confusion. He would, therefore, take the liberty of calling
the attention of the Police Commissioners, and of Proprietors,
Shopkeepers, &c., to these defects, with a recommendation to have them
speedily rectified, that being essential to the convenience of
strangers, and no less so to the safe and prompt delivery of letters and
packages, in which every class of the inhabitants, but especially the
Mercantile and Manufacturing classes, are interested; and is, in fact,
an incumbent duty on the Police to see carried into effect.
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