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Her Majesty's Mails
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William Lewins
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Many
matters
of
detail
in
the
arrangements
of
the
Post-Office
were
discussed
in
Parliament
during
the
first
three
years
of
the
Restoration.
Long-promised
bye-posts
were
now
for
the
first
time
established;
the
circulation
of
the
letters,
meaning
by
that
the
routes
the
mails
shall
take,
and
many
such
subjects,
best
settled
of
course
by
the
authorities,
weary
the
reader
of
the
Journals
of
the
House
of
Commons
about
this
date.
In
December,
1660,
for
instance,
we
find
the
House
deliberating
on
a
proviso
tendered
by
Mr.
Titus
to
the
following
effect:--"Provided
also
and
be
it
enacted,
that
a
letter
or
packet-post
shall
once
every
week
come
to
Kendal
by
way
of
Lancaster,
and
to
the
town
of
Penrith
in
Cumberland
by
way
of
Newcastle
and
Carlisle,
and
to
the
City
of
Lincoln
and
the
borough
of
Grimsby
likewise;"
and
we
are
glad
to
find
that
this
reasonable
proviso,
to
give
these
"out-of-the-way
places"
the
benefit
of
a
weekly
post,
was
agreed
to
without
cavil.
We
notice
one
important
resolution
of
the
session
of
this
year,
setting
forth
that,
as
the
Post-Office
Bill
has
been
carried
through
the
Houses
satisfactorily,
"such
of
the
persons
who
have
contributed
their
pains
in
improvement
of
the
Post-Office,
be
recommended
to
the
King's
Majesty
for
consideration,
to
be
had
of
the
pains
therein
taken
accordingly."
Let
us
hope
(for
we
find
no
further
mention
of
the
matter)
that
all
concerned
got
their
deserts.
Tardy
as
the
English
people
were,
compared
with
their
continental
neighbours,
in
rearing
the
institution
of
the
post,
the
foundation
of
an
establishment
was
now
laid
which
has,
at
the
present
time,
far
distanced
all
competitors
in
its
resources
and
in
the
matter
of
liberal
provisions
for
the
people.
Even
before
the
days
of
penny
postage,
the
Duke
of
Wellington,
than
whom
no
man
was
supposed
to
know
better
the
postal
regulations
of
the
Continent,
gave
it
as
his
deliberate
opinion,
that
"the
English
Post-Office
is
the
only
one
in
Europe
which
can
be
said
to
do
its
work."
In
rewarding,
therefore,
those
who
contributed
so
much
to
this
success
at
this
early
period
of
the
history
of
the
establishment,
King
Charles
would
simply
pay
an
instalment
of
the
debt
which
future
generations
would
owe
to
them.
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