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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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Little
more
than
a
hundred
years
ago,
50,000l.
sufficed
to
pay
for
the
entire
mail
service
of
the
period;
about
half
that
sum
being
the
extent
of
the
charges
properly
appertaining
to
the
Post-Office.
Then,
only
a
few
continental
mails
and
an
occasional
packet
to
the
colonies
of
North
America
and
the
West
Indies,
were
all
that
had
to
be
sustained;
even
those
were
kept
up
at
a
considerable
loss.[167]
At
that
time
the
aboriginal
inhabitants
of
Australia
and
New
Zealand
were
in
undisputed
possession
of
these
enormous
colonies;
the
Dutch
were
then
the
only
targets
for
the
arrows
of
the
Caffres
in
South
Africa;
Warren
Hastings
and
Lord
Clive
were
children
at
Daylesford
and
Market
Drayton,
and
little
dreamt
of
their
subsequent
career
in
the
East;
while
the
tide
of
emigration
which
has
since
carried
Anglo-Saxon
blood
and
Anglo-Saxon
energy
into
every
corner
of
the
globe
had
not
then,
to
any
extent,
set
in.
That
a
hundred
years
of
unequalled
internal
progress
has
developed
our
great
empire
and
called
into
life
fresh
and
important
agencies,
what
reflecting
mind
can
doubt?
For
many
recent
years
the
packet
service
of
the
country,
traversing
every
known
sea
to
keep
up
a
connexion
with
those
whom
the
exigencies
of
life
and
commerce
have
dispersed
so
widely,
has
cost
the
nation
something
like
a
million
sterling
per
annum!
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