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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
93
[39]
Gentleman's
Magazine,
August,
1760.
[40]
Mr.
Scudamore,
of
the
General
Post-Office,
to
whom
we
are
indebted
for
much
of
the
minutiæ
in
question,
has
been
successful
in
his
efforts
to
preserve
permanently
some
of
the
old
records
of
the
Post-Office;
and
the
result
of
his
labours
may
be
found
in
the
Appendix
to
the
Postmaster-General's
First
Report.
[41]
Son
of
the
James
Craggs
who
succeeded
Addison
as
Secretary
of
State,
and
who
obtained
such
an
unusual
portion
of
the
poetical
praise
of
Pope.
The
son
came
in
for
a
share
also,
as,
for
example:--
"Statesman,
yet
friend
to
truth!
of
soul
sincere,
In
action
faithful,
and
in
honour
clear."
[42]
Campbell,
in
his
Tales
of
the
Highlands,
relates
two
or
three
incidents
which
show
that
little
improvement
had
taken
place
in
post
communications
in
some
part
of
Scotland
even
a
hundred
years
later.
The
English
order
of
posts
and
express
posts
seem
there
to
have
been
reversed,
express
work
being
done
the
worst.
For
instance:
"Near
Inverary,
we
regained
a
spot
of
comparative
civilization,
and
came
up
with
the
post-boy,
whose
horse
was
quietly
grazing
at
some
distance,
whilst
Red
Jacket
himself
was
immersed
in
play
with
other
lads.
'You
rascal,'
I
said
to
him,
'are
you
the
post-boy
and
thus
spending
your
time?'
'Nae,
nae,
sir,'
he
answered,
'I'm
no
the
post,
I'm
only
an
Express!'"
[43]
What
the
Right
Hon.
John
Methuen
wanted
with
two
bales
of
stockings
is,
of
course,
a
mystery,
if
he
was
not
embarking
in
the
haberdashery
line.
It
may
be
he
was
desirous
of
regaining
the
favour
of
the
Portuguese
Court,
by
supplying
the
whole
with
English
stockings.
This
was
the
Methuen
who
gave
his
name
to
a
well-known
treaty,
which,
by
the
way,
was
found
so
distasteful
to
the
Portuguese
that
when,
in
1701,
he
carried
it
to
Pedro
II.
for
his
signature,
that
monarch
gave
vent
to
his
displeasure
by
kicking
it
about
the
room.--Marlborough
Despatches,
vol.
v.
p.
625.
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