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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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"Whereas
I,
John
----,
being
driver
of
the
mail-coach,
on
my
way
from
Congleton
to
Coleshill
on
Monday,
December
25,
1809"
(some
excuse,
perhaps,
on
account
of
its
being
Christmas-day),
"did
stop
at
several
places
on
the
road
to
drink,
and
thereby
got
intoxicated,--from
which
misconduct,
driving
furiously,
and
being
from
my
coach
on
its
returning,
suffered
the
horses
to
set
off
and
run
through
the
town
of
Coleshill,
at
the
risk
of
overturning
the
carriage,
and
thereby
endangering
the
lives
of
the
passengers,
and
other
misfortunes
which
might
otherwise
have
occurred:
for
which
misdeeds
the
Postmasters-General
were
determined
to
punish
me
with
the
utmost
rigour,
and
if
it
had
been
prosecuted,
would
have
made
me
liable
to
the
penalty
incurred
by
the
said
offence
of
imprisonment
for
six
months,
and
not
less
than
three;
but
from
my
general
good
character,
and
having
a
large
family,
have
generously
forgiven
me
on
my
showing
contrition
for
the
past
offence,
as
a
caution
to
all
mail
and
other
coachmen,
and
making
this
public
acknowledgment."
In
another
case
a
mail-coach
driver
was
summoned
before
a
magistrate
for
intoxication
and
impertinence
to
passengers,
and
was
thereupon
mulcted
in
a
penalty
of
L10,
with
costs.
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