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ilia-dime, by Ltirdillip4' directions, on the Holyhead,
Carlisle, and Jedburgh roads.
(Signed) Home. A. Atkinson, jun.
Haddington. Walter Selby.
J. Marjoribanks. John Smart.
John Pringle. William Smart.
H. H. Mackdougall. C. W. Bigge.
George Douglas. Edmund Law.
... George Baillie. John Atkinson.
Matthew Culley. John Ft aukland.
William Burrell. John Tewart.
J. A. Wilkie. J. C. Tachton.
Thomas Forster. Thomas Clemell.
James Manisty. I'. H. Liddell.
John Clavering.
June, 1920.

• ArPENDIXt NO. 4.
PETITION TO THE TREASURY FROM THE
COUNTY OF HADDINGTON.
Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of his Majesty's
Treasury.
The Petition of the Noblemen, Justices of the Peace,
Freeholders, Commissioners of Supply, and Trus-
: tees of the Great Post Road of the County of Had-
• dington, in a general Meeting assembled,—
Humbly slieweth,—That your petitioners having re-
ceived official notices, intimating that "it is intended in
" the ensuing Session of Parliitnent to make application
" for leave to bring in a Bill to alter and improve the road
" front Catchhurn near 11Iorpeth by Wooler to the city of
" Edinburgh," &c. and having considered a report of the
Select Committee of the Honourable the House of Com-
mons upon this measure, dated the 2(1 July, 1822, with
the minutes of evidence, estimates, and map and sections
relative to the said new line of road, and it appearing evi-
dent to your petitioners that the great turnpike trust, as
• well as the general interests of the county of Haddington,
will be materially injured and affected were the proposed
a measure to he carried into effect by authority of Rolla-
., meat, they beg leave to state their case to your Lordships.
In the first place, it will appear from a statetrent of the '
funds of the great post road trust, made upon an average
of three years up to the 25th May, 1821, as returned to
Parliament by the clerk and treasurer, in terms of the
order of the Select Committee, that the debt upon the
trust amounts to 14,4251., and that the actual annual in-
come upon the said average (exclusive of a sinking fund
of 292/.) is 3,896/. 19s. Id., while the actual annual ex-
pense for the ordinary repairs upon the roads, including
the interest of the borrowed money and other necessary
expenses, amounts to 4,0901. Is. 10d. ; thus making an
over expenditure for keeping the road in repair of
1931. 2s. 9d. annually-. Were the proposed new line
of road from Morpeth to Edinburgh carried into
effect, and the running of the mail coach by the
Berwick line in consequence discontinued, a measure
which appears probable from the evidence annexed to the
printed report of the Committee of the House of Com-
mons, this alone would cause a diminution of the annual
funds of the great post road trust to the amount of 222/.,
being the sum pledged as a sinking fund for the redemption
of the existing debt. The only other coach travelling the
road from Newcastle by Berwick to Edinburgh, is the
Union, which, as well as the general posting upon this
line,of road, would also be very materially affected by the
new proposed line of road, so much so, that upon a mode-
rate calculation, your petitioners feel themselves warranted
in stating that the funds of the great post road of the
county of Iladdington will be diminished at least one
fourth of the present annul income, which would be
most ruinous to that trust, as, from the above statement,
it will be obvious that any considerable diminution of the
present income, after keeping the road in proper repair,
would not produce a sum nearly adequate to pay the in-
terest of the existing debt, which was incurred in im-
proving and bringing the road into its present good state
of repair, upon the faith of the present tolls being con-
tinued, and the consequence would be, that the debt will
be increased, and the trustees, who have granted their
personal bonds for the same, called upon to pay that debt.
In the above statement your petitioners have confined
their observations solely to the ruinous consequences that
would result to the great post road trust of the county
of Haddington, and the extreme hardship that may ulti-
mately follow in the trustees being called upon personally
to pay a considerable debt incurred and expended in
making and improving the great post road in that county,
for the accommodation of the public; but your petitioners
trust it will not be considered irrelevant, briefly to point
out some other objections of a general nature that occur
against this proposed new line of road.
First :—lt appears from the map and section of the new
line of road, that after all the proposed improvements
that road will still be subject to many ascents and descents,
so that although the greatest height above the level of the
sea, namely Soutra Hill, is 1,180 feet, yet the aggregate of the
aseentiextends to about 4,700 feet front Catchburn to thel 1 th
milestone from Edinburgh, at Path Head, where the plan
and mensuration stops, still leaving upon a moderate cal-
culation an aggregate ascent of 6 or 700 feet between that
place and the post-office in Edinburgh, making in all
above 5,300 feet ; while your petitioners confidently ex-
pect that if your Lordships are p'eased to grant a survey of
improvements, not only the aggregate inclinations and
ascents upon the road from Morpeth by Berwick to Edin-
burgh, will he found in their present state much less than
in the proposed new line by Wooler, but that they are
capable of still further improvement, embracing also a con-
siderable diminution of distance, and that too at a much
less expense. With regard to the altitudes of tke present
line of road in this country, your petitioners can with con-
fidence state that they in no part exceed 350 feet above
the sea, being less than one-third of the height of Soutra
and they do not doubt that comparisons equally
favourable, or nearly so, may be stated by the other coun-
ties through which the Berwick line passes. The natural
and acknowledged consequence of the difference of alti-
tudes betwixt the two lines is that the Wooler line of road
and particularly that part of it by Soutra Hill, within this
county, is for many days at a time during severe winters
blown up by snow, while the communication for travellers
of every description by the Berwick line, from its compa-
rative adjacency to the sea, is open ; when this circum-
stance is adverted to, the bad effects to the public of bring-
ing the mail by the proposed new road will be obvious ; a
most important point, to which the evidence before the
Committee of the House of Commons does not appear to
have been directed.
Your petitioners have further to remark, that the dis-
tance proposed to be saved by the alterations upon the
Woeler line from what it is at present, is only four miles
708 yards, while that and the other improvements in
making the road will cost 72,416/. IS,. 6d. ; and it
cannot escape your Lordships, that after the opposition
made by the Magistrates and Town Council of Edinburgh
and
additional postage,
of Commerce to the payment of 1,500/.
of72,soliot;onal Postage'
that the principal and interest of the
may be left to be paid by a supposed addition to
the tolls
upon the Wooler road, and the surplus tolls of the
bridge at Coldstream, already pledged to another object,
and a similar surplus from a bridge yet to be built at
Morpeth.
Further, the comparative expence of keeping up the
two lines will be much in favour of the Berwick line,
owing to its having the advantage of good whinstone ma-
terials along the greater part, if not the whole of the line,
whereas upon a great part of the new proposed line by
Wooler, only free stone and field stones can be procured.
Having thus stated the injurious consequences that your
petitioners have reason to fear would result to the turn-
pike trust of this county, and noticed some important
general objections that occur were the proposed line carried
into effect, they beg leave to remark, that they would have
felt
much delicacy in starting any opposition to a measure
which has for its declared object the shortening the com-
munication between London and Edinburgh, and removing
the severe inconvenience which it is said the inhabitants
of Edinburgh now feel, but from every information which
. your petitioners have received on the subject, they cannot
discover that any application ever has been made from the
inhabitants of Edinburgh in favour of the proposed measure ;
on the contrary, they have seen the resolutions of the Lord
Provost, Magistrates, and Council of the city of Edinburgh,
and the Members of the Chamber of Commerce and Manu-
factures, in a general meeting assembled, stating in the
trotigeq terms their objections to the proposed measure,
and their determination to oppose the Bill, should it be
brought into Parliament. Your petitioners thus finding
that th
e new line of road ie opposed by the public bodies
and i
u•labitants of the city of Edinburgh,
be
for whose
t and Convenience the measure appears chiefly, if not
fi-
y, to he agitated
-' they trust that a favourable ear will
be Liven to the objections now stated on the part of the
petitioners, whose interests would be so materially affected
by the new line of road.
farYbour petitioners beg to assure your Lordships, that so
otn Wishing
provernatenntn to oppose the shortening of the corn-
obfettzegnreLar
road,
and Edinburgh,a or the
ini-
• re most desirous to
further eo
time
by Wooler, to
preference tliTtrht,aatits ba measure, but they complainm ofr
survey of the latter linel
that been given to the line from op l
Berwick, without a comparativei
Tel-
ford's evidence
Alnwiek road is taken from that ;as it appears from Ai.
distance upon the Berwick aou
the accuracy or authority
Carey's Road Book, a work
ti
y 01 which your petitioners can
by no means admit, That although your petitioners do

not admit the authority of that book, they have further to
state, that since the publication of the edition referred to,
great alterations and improvements have been made upon
the present road from Morpeth by Berwick to Edinburgh,
and they have reason to believe, as already stated, that
very considerable improvements may still he made upon
that line in saving of distance and altitudes, at a small ex-
pense, in comparison of what is stated to be nectssary
upon the Wooler road ; and therefore, in justice to the
county of Haddington and to the public, it is hoped
your Lordships will see good grounds for ordering a sur-
vey to be made, under your authority, of the present line
of road from Morpeth by Berwick to Edinburgh, before
any measure is recommended by his Majesty's Govern-
' went to Parliament that would be destructive to the
trusts now existing upon that line, and before so large a
611111 as 72,5001. is granted on a loan, at low interest, out
of the rublic money, to carry into effect the suggestions
of the Select Committee of the House of Commons before
mentioned.
May it therefore please your Lordships to take into
consideration the facts before stated ; and your petitioners
humbly trust that before giving your sanction to the pro-
posed new line of road from Morpeth by Wooler to Edin-
burgh, you will order a proper survey to be made, under
your directions, of the present road from Morpeth by Ber-
wick to Edinburgh, so as to ascertain the alterations and
improvements that can he made on that line in saving of
distance and altitudes, and the expense thereof, and there-
after proceed in the matter as to your Lordships shall
seem just.
Signed by the Preses, in name and by appointment of
the general sleeting,
Nov. 4, 1822.

(Signed) Tweeddale.

APPENDIX, NO. 5.

MEMORIALS OF THE LORD MAYOR AND COM
MONALTY OF THE CITY OF YORK, &a.

To the Right lion. the Lords Commissioners of his Ma•

jesty's Treasury.
The Memorial of the Lord Mayor and Commonalty of
the City of York, of the Governor and Guild of Mer-
chants in the same City, and of the undersigned Noble-
men, Gentlemen, Freeholders and others, interested in
a more direct communication from the City of York,
through the town of Selby, to London,—
Sheweth,—That your Lordships have been pleased to
direct surveys to be made of three several lines of road from
Edinburgh towards London, in order to ascertain how a
more direct communication might be made between these
two latter places.
That two of these surveys were from Edinburgh to
Morpeth ; the one by the interior through Coldstream, the
other by the coast through Berwick ; that the latter of !
these surveys has just been completed.
That your Lordships were memorialized in the course
of the year 1823, by the Earl of Carlisle, the Viscount
Morpeth, the Lord Itavenswortb, the Mayor of Newcastle,
the Bailiffs of Morpeth and others, in which memorial
your Lordships were prayed to direct that this last survey
might be continued to London for the reasons therein as-
signed.
That your memorialists beg to represent to your Lord-
ships that they are informed that steps ate about being
taken to expedite the mail to Edinburgh, but not in a
manner at all satisfactory to that place, and that this is to
be done by leaving some of the important intermediate
towns of the line. _ _

-.
That your memorialists are also given to understand that
the matter is to be brought before Parliament during the
ensuing Session, for the purpose of considering the best
way of diminishintr the distance between London and Edin-
burgh ; they therefore beg to represent that'a saving of dis-
tance and time might be obtained, and the great towns
kept in the line, if a new survey was to be made of the
road from Morpeth by Newcastle, York, and Selby, to
London and they trust that the importance of the com-
munication between these towns and London, and between
each other, as well as the communication to Edinburgh,
makes this as much a matter of public importance as the
read to Holyhead.
. _

Your memorialists ask for no public aid beyond this
survey, which can be dune only under your authority;
and they therefore trust your Lordships will be pleased to
direct Mr. Telford to continue his survey from Morpeth to
London, through Newcastle, Yoik, and Selby.
(Signed)
Dunslay, Mayor of York.
Joins Hodgson, Governor of the Merchants' Company,
city of York.
E. Ebor.
Robert Croft, Canon in residence.

Downe.
Robert P. Manes, Thorn-hall.
Ralph Creyke, jun. Rawcliffe-house, Thorne.
Geo. Broadrick, Firmingley Park.
Beilby Thompson, Escrick.
Eric Rudd, Parsonage, Thorne.
William Ellis, Fulford-field.
Dundas.
W. Ilotham, Hightborn.
Geo. Crathorne, Crathorne.
Win. V. Vernon, Rectory, Whildrake.
Macdonald.
Christ. Paver, On behalf and at the desire
Proctor, Massey, and Co. of the inhabitants at
Middleton, Birdsall, Mahon.
Wm. Picklington, on behalf and at the desire of the
inhabitants at Thorne.
Robert Denison, jun. Elvington.
Philip Saltmarsbe, of Saltmarsbe.
Edward Petre, Stapleton Park, Yorkshire.
M. Wyvill.
Richard Smithson, Borough On behalf and at the
bailiff, desire of the inbabi-
William Allen, tants of Mahon.
Similar memorial from the Corporation, the Mayor and
Burgesses of the town of Kingston-upon-Hull, literatim et
verbatim.

(Signed)

W. W. Bolton, Mayor.

SECOND SERIES.
APPENDIX, NO. 6.

MEMORIAL OF THE MAYOR AND COIMO,

NALTY OF THE CITY OF YORK.
To the Right Ilonourable the Lords Commissioners of his

Majesty's Treasury.
The Memorial of the Mayor and Commonalty of the City

of York,—

Sheweth,—That your memorialists did, in the year 1829,
present to your Lordships a memorial, requesting that a
direct mail coach from London to Edinburgh by way of
York might be continued, to which request your Lordships
were pleased to accede in the most liberal manner. That
your memorialists being informed that active and powerful
exertions are again in operation for obtaining an accelera-
tion of the snail front London to Edinburgh, by changing
its present route, most respectfully beg to submit to your
Lordships attention the superior magnitude, population,
and importance of the city of York, when compared with
the towns through which the mail would pass by the pro-
, posed new route ; and that the inhabitants of York have,
from the commencement of tke mail•coach establishment,
invariably possessed the advantage of a direct mail from
London to Edinburgh through their ancient city.
Your memorialists therefore humbly pray that your
Lordships will be pleased to continue to your memorialists
and their fellow citizens this important advantage.

And your memorialists, as in duty bound, h hall ever
pray, &C. &c.
Given under the common seal of the said Mayor and
Commonalty, the 12th day of February, in the year of
our Lord, 1829.
Received 18th February, 1829.

APPENDIX, NO. '7.

MEMORIAL OF THE CLERGY, GENTRY, AND IN-
HABITANTS OF THE CITY OF YORK AND ITS
NEIGHBOURHOOD.

To the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of his
Majesty's Treasury.
The memorial of the undersigned clergy, gentry, and in-
habitants of the city of York and the neighbou.i-
hood,—

Humbly sheweth,—That from the first establishment of
the mail-coach system, the London and Edinburgh mail
has always passed through the city of York.
That the country through which the mail now runs is
much more populous than the route proposed, and con-
sequently more deserving of and better able to support a
mail-coach on its passage to the north : that any alteration
which sbonld have the effect of changing the line of road
from York would be an incalculable injury not only to its
inhabitants but also to those of all the neighbouring towns :
that to prevent any such alteration is therefore a point of
great importance to your memorialists. -
That your memorialists consequently view with great
alarm the present attempt which is making to induce your
Lordships to sanction such alteration, and thereby to de•
prlve the ancient city of York of a privilege which it has
enjoyed for so long a period.
Your memorialists therefore humbly beseech your