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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
315
In
past
years
few
casualties,
comparatively,
have
occurred
in
this
service.
The
loss
of
the
mail
packet
Violet,
on
her
journey
between
Ostend
and
Dover,
in
1856,
will
be
remembered
by
many.
One
incident
in
that
melancholy
shipwreck
deserves
mention
here,
affording
a
gleam
of
rich
sunshine
amid
a
page
of
dry
though
not
unimportant
matter.
Mr.
Mortleman,
the
mail
officer
in
charge
of
the
bags,
on
seeing
that
there
was
no
chance
for
the
packet,
must
have
gone
down
into
the
hold
and
have
removed
all
the
cases
containing
the
mail
bags
from
that
part
of
the
vessel;
and
further,
placed
them
so
that
when
the
ship
and
all
in
it
went
down,
they
might
float--a
proceeding
which
ultimately
led
to
the
recovery
of
all
the
bags,
except
one,
containing
a
case
of
despatches.
On
another
occasion,
the
mail
master
of
a
Canadian
packet
sacrificed
his
life,
when
he
might
have
escaped,
by
going
below
to
secure
the
mails
intrusted
to
him.
Other
cases
of
a
similar
devotion
to
duty
have,
on
several
occasions
of
exposure
to
imminent
danger,
distinguished
the
conduct
of
these
public
officers,
proving
that
some
of
them
regard
the
onerous
duties
of
their
position
in
a
somewhat
higher
light
than
we
find
obtains
in
the
ordinary
business
of
life.
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