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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
112
"It
having
fallen
to
my
official
duty
to
execute
the
alteration
of
this
post
proposed
by
my
late
colleague
Mr
----,
to
whose
memory
I
must
bear
testimony,
not
only
of
his
abilities,
but
his
impartiality
in
the
duties
of
his
office,
and
under
the
authority
of
the
late
respectable
and
worthy
Postmaster-General
Mr
----,
whose
memory
is
far
above
any
eulogium
of
mine,
I
considered
the
measure
as
proper
and
expedient,
equally
for
the
good
of
the
country
in
general,
and
the
revenue
under
the
department
of
the
Post-office;
and
I
can
with
confidence
deny
that
it
was
'hastily,
inconsiderately,
or
partially'
gone
into,
as
this
memorial
would
wish
to
establish.
In
this
capacity,
and
under
these
circumstances,
it
is
no
wonder
I
could
have
wished
the
epithets
used
against
this
official
alteration,
of
ignorance,
arbitrary
and
oppressive
proceedings,
to
have
dropped
from
a
person
less
honourable,
respectable,
and
conspicuous
than
I
hold
the
Honble.
----
at
the
head
of
this
memorial.
Before
this
last
memorial
was
presented,
I
understood
from
Mr
----,
Secretary,
in
the
presence
of
Lord
----,
that
any
further
opposition
upon
the
part
of
the
Blairgowrie
gentlemen
to
a
re-alteration
was
now
given
up;
indeed
this
cannot
be
surprising
if
they
had
learned,
as
stated
in
the
memorial,
page
9,
that
they
had
protested,
did
now
protest,
and
would
never
cease
to
complain
loudly
of
it,
until
they
obtain
redress.
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