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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
98
The
boy
who
carried
the
mail
had
dismounted
at
Hammersmith,
about
three
miles
from
Hyde
Park
Corner,
and
called
for
beer,
when
some
thieves
took
the
opportunity
to
cut
the
mail-bags
from
off
the
horse's
crupper,
and
got
away
undiscovered.
The
French
mail
on
its
outward-bound
passage
viâ
Dover
was
more
than
once
stopped
and
rifled
before
it
had
got
clear
of
London.
A
string
stretched
across
a
street
in
the
borough
through
which
the
mail
would
pass
has
been
known
to
throw
the
post-boy
from
his
horse,
who,
without
more
ado,
would
coolly
retrace
his
steps,
empty-handed,
to
the
chief
office,
and
report
the
loss
of
his
bags.
What
could
be
expected,
however,
in
the
case
of
raw,
unarmed
post-boys,
when
carriages
were
stopped
in
broad
daylight
in
Hyde
Park,
and
even
in
Piccadilly
itself,
and
pistols
pointed
at
the
breasts
of
the
nobility
and
gentry
living
close
at
hand?
Horace
Walpole
relates
that
he
himself
was
robbed
in
Hyde
Park
in
broad
daylight,
in
a
carriage
with
Lord
Eglinton
and
Lady
Albemarle.
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