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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
142
CHAPTER
VII.
SIR
ROWLAND
HILL
AND
PENNY
POSTAGE.
Miss
Martineau,
in
her
history
of
the
Thirty
Years'
Peace,
narrates
a
somewhat
romantic
incident
to
account
for
Mr.
Hill's
original
relation
to
our
subject,
tracing
the
fiscal
reform
with
which
his
name
is
indissolubly
connected
to
the
"neighbourly
shilling"
well
laid
out
of
a
"pedestrian
traveller
in
the
Lake
District."
Unluckily
for
the
historian,
the
incident
never
happened
to
Mr.
Hill.
The
repeated
motions
of
Mr.
Wallace
in
the
House
of
Commons
are
proved
beyond
dispute
to
have
brought
home
the
subject
to
the
consideration
of
many
thoughtful
minds,
and
amongst
those,
to
one
who
had
scholarly
leisure
and
philosophical
ingenuity
to
bring
to
its
service.
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