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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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FOOTNOTES:
[116]
Hansard,
1844.
[117]
Ibid.
[118]
Lang's
Historical
Summary
of
the
Post-Office
in
Scotland.
Postmaster-General's
Third
Report.
[119]
Report
of
Secret
Committee,
1844,
p.
9.
[120]
Lords'
Journal,
xxii.
pp.
183-6.
[121]
Commons'
Journal,
vol.
xxii.
p.
462.
[122]
The
place
was
not
only
lucrative,
but
in
the
path
of
promotion.
We
find
that,
for
the
proper
performance
of
these
very
unclerical
duties,
the
Rev.
Dr.
was
first
rewarded
with
the
Deanery
of
Lincoln
and
afterwards
with
the
Bishopric
of
St.
David's.
[123]
Froude.
[124]
Report
of
Secret
Committee,
1844,
pp.
14-17.
[125]
Report
of
the
Secret
Committee,
1844,
pp.
14-17.
[126]
Ibid.
Commons'
Committee.
[127]
Hansard,
1844-5.
[128]
Ibid.
[129]
Among
many
expressions
of
opinion
to
which
the
inquiry
on
the
subject
gave
rise,
we
find
the
following
characteristic
effusion
from
Thomas
Carlyle:
"It
is
a
question
vital
to
us
that
sealed
letters
in
an
English
post-office
be,
as
we
all
fancied
they
were,
respected
as
things
sacred;
that
opening
of
men's
letters,
a
practice
near
of
kin
to
picking
men's
pockets,
and
to
other
still
viler
and
far
fataler
forms
of
scoundrelism,
be
not
resorted
to
in
England,
except
in
cases
of
the
very
last
extremity.
When
some
new
Gunpowder
Plot
may
be
in
the
wind,
some
double-dyed
high
treason,
or
imminent
national
wreck
not
avoidable
otherwise,
then
let
us
open
letters;
not
till
then.
To
all
Austrian
Kaisers
and
such
like,
in
their
time
of
trouble,
let
us
answer,
as
our
fathers
from
of
old
have
answered--Not
by
such
means
is
help
here
for
you."
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