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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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No
one
out
of
Parliament,
at
any
rate,
who
read
Mr.
Hill's
pamphlet
attentively,
but
was
convinced
of
the
practicability
of
the
measure,
and
the
careful
perusal
of
the
evidence
collected
by
the
Committee
appointed,
determined
any
waverer
as
to
the
necessity
of
its
being
adopted.
Still
there
existed
serious
misgivings
in
the
country
as
to
the
steps
which
the
Melbourne
administration
must
soon
announce.
That
there
were
some
few
objections
to
Mr.
Hill's
plan,
and
some
difficulties
about
it,
cannot
be
doubted;
the
nation
at
large
had
decided
for
it,
however,
and
some
of
the
principal
men
in
the
country,
not
favourable
to
the
existing
ministry,
decided
for
it
also.
The
Duke
of
Wellington
was
"disposed
to
admit
that
that
which
was
called
Mr.
R.
Hill's
plan,
was,
if
it
was
adopted
as
it
was
proposed,
of
all
the
plans,
that
which
was
most
likely
to
be
successful."[95]
The
Duke
of
Richmond
pressed
upon
the
ministers,
that
if
they
gave
their
sanction
to
any
uniform
plan,
it
should
be
to
Mr.
Hill's,
"for
that
alone,
and
not
the
twopenny
postage,
seems
to
me
to
give
hope
of
ultimate
success."[96]
On
the
12th
of
November,
1839,
the
Lords
of
the
Treasury
issued
a
minute,
under
the
authority
of
the
Act
before
referred
to,
reducing
the
postage
of
all
inland
letters
to
the
uniform
rate
of
fourpence.
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