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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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[55]
Vide
Report
of
the
Committee
of
House
of
Commons
in
1797,
on
"Mr.
Palmer's
Agreement
for
the
Reform
and
Improvement
of
the
Post-Office
and
its
Revenue,"
p.
115.
[56]
Report
of
the
Committee
appointed
to
inquire
into
the
state
of
the
Public
Offices
in
1788.
[57]
Post-Office
robberies
had
been
exceedingly
numerous
within
a
few
years
of
the
change
which
Palmer
succeeded
in
inaugurating.
Though
one
prosecution
for
a
single
robbery
cost
the
authorities
no
less
a
sum
than
4,000l.,
yet
they
regarded
the
occurrences
as
unavoidable
and
simply
matters
of
course.
[58]
Mr.
M.
D.
Hill,
in
Fraser's
Magazine,
November,
1862.
[59]
The
Liverpool
merchants
were
the
first
to
petition
the
Treasury
for
the
new
mail-coach.
"This
petition
being
complied
with
in
the
course
of
a
few
months,
the
letters
from
London
reached
Liverpool
in
thirty
hours.
At
first
these
coaches
were
small
vehicles,
drawn
by
two
horses,
which
were
changed
every
six
miles.
They
carried
four
passengers,
besides
the
coachman
and
guard,
both
dressed
in
livery,
the
latter
being
armed
to
the
teeth,
as
a
security
against
highwaymen."--Baines's
History
of
Liverpool.
In
October,
1784,
York
applied
for
a
mail-coach,
to
pass
through
that
place
on
its
way
to
the
North.
[60]
This
velocity
was
not
attained
without
considerable
misgivings
and
distrust
on
the
part
of
travellers.
When
the
eight
was
increased
to
ten
miles
an
hour,
the
public
mind
was
found
to
be
in
different
stages
of
alarm
and
revolt.
Vested
interests
indulged
in
the
gloomiest
forebodings
on
those
who
should
thus
knowingly
spurn
the
way
of
Providence.
Lord-Chancellor
Campbell
relates
that
he
was
frequently
warned
against
travelling
in
the
mail-coaches
improved
by
Palmer,
on
account
of
the
fearful
rate
at
which
they
flew,
and
instances
were
supplied
to
him
of
passengers
who
had
died
suddenly
of
apoplexy
from
the
rapidity
of
the
motion.
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