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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
139
[73]
The
salary
of
the
Secretary
to
the
Post-Office
in
the
last
century
was
600l.
a-year,
and
a
commission
of
2½
per
cent.
on
the
produce
of
the
mail-packets.--(Vide
Pitt's
Speeches,
vol.
i.
p.
53-5,
Debate
of
June
17,
1783.)
In
1830
the
Secretary's
salary
was
300l.
a-year,
but
what
with
compensations,
fees,
and
other
emoluments,
his
annual
income
is
stated
to
have
amounted
to
no
less
than
4,560l.--(Mirror
of
Parliament,
1835).
The
clerks,
according
to
a
Parliamentary
return,
were
paid
small
salaries,
regulated
on
different
scales,
but
their
income
consisted
principally
of
emoluments
derived
from
other
sources.
The
established
allowances,
charged
on
the
public
revenue,
consisted
of
sums
for
postage,
stationery,
payment
in
lieu
of
apartments,
and
for
continuing
indexes
to
official
books.
The
remaining
emoluments,
of
course
not
chargeable
against
the
revenue,
arose
from
fees
on
deputations,
commissions,
expresses,
profits
on
the
publication
of
the
Shipping
and
Packet
Lists,
payments
for
franking
letters
on
the
business
of
the
Land-Tax
Redemption,
and
for
the
Tax-Office,
&c.
and
from
Lloyd's
Coffee
House
for
shipping
intelligence,
&c.
There
were,
besides,
other
gratuities
for
special
services.
[74]
We
give
the
following
simply
to
show
the
vagaries
of
clever,
scientific
men.
Speaking
of
London,
the
Professor
said:--"Perhaps
if
the
steeples
of
churches,
properly
selected,
were
made
use
of--as,
for
instance,
St.
Paul's--and
if
a
similar
apparatus
were
placed
at
the
top
of
each
steeple,
and
a
man
to
work
it
during
the
day,
it
might
be
possible
to
diminish
the
expense
of
the
twopenny
post,
and
make
deliveries
every
half-hour
over
the
greater
part
of
the
metropolis."
P.
221.
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