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PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

We have before remarked, that as the Con.
doctors of the Provincial Journals hare more
iei-ttre for reflection than those of the Metropo-
li, who,are called every day to their task, they

_ . .
tire more 'likely to give mature consideration to
the nature and tendency of passing measures and
'-events, and to suggest stich observations as may
1w entitled to the attention of Government and of
the -People i❑ general. We also before hinted
' that se-, eral of the Provincial Editors appeared to

he -much • better (iialitied ,to diScuss matters of
general interest than most of those in town.—
We;are, not inclined to recant
,this opinion, and
the following judicious and temperate observal
tions will Serve to confirm it. *We-shall therefore
persevere considering it as a public duty,to support
th4,department of our miscellany, as well as that
selatiing to the Extracts from the London Jour-
nals,'°Thr which we have received the thanks of
our Coiii.ify Readers in many Quarters.
( FromTrniirming-hant Chronicle of Thursday hut.)
" Annars's*,4o: the, QUEEN have been pre-
sented from- se aft since
„pur last, and
3:Live aftbrded her Majesty new opportunities of
- expressing her feelings and her opinions ; not
much, as we presunie,,ta the furtherance of jus-

Lice ; and still less to the promotion of that ob-
ject which she professes to have so Much at heart,
establishment in the affections of the•people.
Mi Majesty does not know, and the, little knot
'of wise men and staunch Pairiofr,b,y.whpm she
'is surrounded have taken god care not to inform
ber, that the people of Engjand have as yet ex-
pressed no opinion upon the subject ; and cer:.

tainlv have shewn no symptom whatever of that

affeCtion, to which, even before her trial, her Ma-
jesty is so anxious to appeal from the sentence of
hear Judges.
" The PEOPLE of ENGLAND are not accu-
stomed to forni their judgment hastily, or to ex-
liresS ft rashly. Certain bawling orators in
common halls or on scaffolds in the open air may
do both, and their factious hearers and followers
may applaud them to the echo ; but the PEOPLE

of ENGLAND generally regard -all such proceed-
itirs with silent scorn.; or, when they do speak,
.5..
they express sentiments for the most part diame
trically opposite to. those which such officious
praters would impute to them. If her Majesty
had one true friend near her, he would' ell her
this. He would assure her that these Addresses,
which she now receives so readily, and answers
so indiscreetly, afford no•proof whatever of the
real feeling of the country towards her : that, on
the contrary, they tend to degrade her in its opi-
nion,
.by separating her frOm the noblest, the
wisest, and the best of her fellow-subjects, and
connecting her with the mere scum-of .the politi-
cal cauldron,: the vile and worthless party which
temporary distress, and an hour of peril and co:17
fusion, threw up to the surface. - •
" Her Majesty, however, has been otherwise
advised ; and her friends have thought, that her
cause would he served by encouraging these ad-
dresses, by receiving them graciously, and reply-
ing to them in terms which we. cannot better
characterize than by saying, that they remind us
more forcibly of Spa-fields and Manchester than
of the mind of Princes, or the dignified language

of a Court.

" It may then be fairly asked, what do these
Addresses prove ? and, when the question has
Iteen as fairly answered, it will then be evident
that THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND have not yet
shewn a disposition to belie their usual discreet

and manly conduct, by prejudging a question so
soon to be tried by the highest and most venera-
ble Tribunal of the Country. The. persons who
have prepared, .proposed, or signed these Ad-
dresses, are for the most part of an order which
eludes inquiry by its obscurity. They certainly
cannot be said, by any figure of speech, to re-
, pre:-.at the dignified classes of the community:
'for have they much claim to property, since the
,fir and equal division of estates, so much and so
eagerly sought some, months ago, seems to be de-
ferred for the present. Their education, their
learning, their Constitutional' knowledge, have
been rendered so apparent by the style and mat-
ter of their Addresses, that no doubt can remain
on that subject ; and we believe that her Majes-
ty's friends may congratulate her on having been
chiefly eulogized, condoled with, or congratu-
lated, as the humour was, or the vein of thought
would serve, by a class of persons as free from
the pollutions of rank, wealth, dignity, I:2arning,
or consideration in the. Country as the most tho-
rough-paced Radical could wish.
So much for the Addresses themselves; and
then there is a tale about their presentation which
speaks no good tidings to a reflecting mind. In
some few instances the duties of. an official sta-
tion have forced respectable men to perform the
ungrateful task ; but wherever it could be avoid-
. ed, they have uniformly declined: One man has
. been called into the country by business which
. unfortunately admitted of no delay;' and others,
with more becoming manliness of character, have
directly refused to become the instruments of et-
pressing sentiments before her Majesty) which
they did not feel; and which, if they, did feel
Ahem, would have incapacitated them for the ho.-
nest performance of more importantduties.
" One word more upon the places from whence.
these 'Addresses have been forwarded, and we
• will leave the subject to the reflections of our
readers. -We have yet heard nothing of County
Meetings, where the REAIfipR OPERV,K, the LAND-
ED INTEREST of the Counyy, is -wont. to speak.
We have seen no Address from the GREAT' COM-
-3.IERCI AL BODIES, where 0111' MERCHANTS who'
vie 'with PRINCES, not only in wealth or luxury,
• ..but in knowledge, in honour, in integrity, record
their opinions.
" The Universities of the- Gguntry,. the repre-
;sentatives of its learning, htive R.O; yet exp
ressed
their sentiments. The CLERGY, the guardians
of its religion, are also silent)-and the respectable
leaders of the different deribrhinations of DisS EN-
IERS are content to !elite the final determina-•
,
Con of this momentous' ';question to •' the :incoi-

ruptible integrity andl impartial justice of the
High Court of Parliament
" But, on the other hand, Preston, which could
furnish some hundreds, perhaps thousands of
voters for Mr. Orator Hunt, and Nottingham,
and Wakefield, and some more towns of equal
celebrity, have found persons able to write, and
perhaps to spell an Address: and though last,
not least, the usual managers of such matters in
the Metropolis have contrived to gain a share in
the honour of a smile, and a curtsey, and a 0-ra-
ciouS answer for the City of London. Tiiese
things. speak volumes on the subject; and they
ought to convince her Majesty that she, is pur-
suing a perilous course; that she is alienating
the affections of the Country while she professes
to conciliate them ; degrading her high station
and herself with it, and depriving herself' as far
as she can of a fair trial, and of the. benefits
which she would otherwise derive from the full
establishment of her innocence, should' such be
its result. The People of England will never
feel affection for a Queen whom they cannot re-
spect ; and their respect has not hitherto follow=
ed those who have condescended beneath their
station, to court the base and fleeting popularity
which mobs can give ; but persons who, regard-
less of all considerations but those of honour and
virtue, have held on their steady course, more
desirous of meriting than. of receiving the meed
of public approbation."

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

EXTRA POST.

COPIES OF ALL 111ENIORIALS. &c.
(No. L)—Copy of a Letter, dated 27th July, 1819, from the

Secretary to the Treasury to the Postmaster General.
Treasury Chambers, 27th July, 1819.
_ _ •

•• My Loans-1 am.commanded by the. Lords Commissioners
of his Majesty's Treasury-,,t0 transmit4to your Lordships a
Letter from Mr. Henry Liurgessi,tlated the-27th February last,
• submitting a Plan for the more expeditions Conveyance of the
Mail by establishing au Extra Post, and I am to acquaint you
that my Lords have received strong Representations (loin se-
veral manufacturing and commercial Towns, stating the ad,
vantages of such a Plan as these Papers suggest, and -their
Lordships therefore request that you will take the sttbject
into your immediate and serious consideration, with the view
to the trial of such an experiment as may ascertain its prac-
ticability, and enable 'their Lordships to form a judgment
whether the ex pence which it might occasion would overba-
lance.its advantages.
ram, my Lords, &c. &c.
S. It. LUSHINGTON. .
The. Postmaster General, &c. &c:

(No. ll.)—Copy Of Reply of Postmaster-General to the Lords
of the Treasury, dated itith August, 1819.
To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his

Majesty'.s Treasury.
My Lords—We have to acknowledge the receipt of Mr.
•
Lushlogfo•n s Letter of the 27th ultuno, transmitting, by
your Lordship's directions, a Letter from Mr. Henry Burgess,
submitting a Plan for the more expeditious conveyance of
the Mail by establishing an Extra Yost; and acquainting us
that your Lordships have received strong Representations
from several Manufacturing and Commercial Towns, stating
the advantages of such a Plan:as those Papers suggest; and
your Lot dships therefore request that we will take the subject
into oar immediate and serious consideration, with the view
to the trial of such an experiment as may ascertain its prac-
ticability, and enable your Lordships to form a judgment
whether the expences which it might occasion would over-
balance its advantages.

We beg to ekpress our utmost readiness to obey your Lord-
ships' directions, with the view to the full and fair t•-ial of
such an experiment; and as Mr. Burgess lays great. stress
opon the nature of the earrtiaues and harness, and the parti-
cular description of horses necessary for this set vice, we con-
ctive that the best 'mode of giving the measure its full force
would be for him to make the contracts; and we can assure
your Lordships, that be shall have every facility in the ptwer
of this Depariment to afford in furtherance of the saute.

It is our duty, however, to submit certain particulars, upon
which.ive Bate to req6est your Lordships' instructions, before
the same c3ll be carried into effect.

The expellee of the Extra Post six slays in the weer; to Man-
chest era iist,Li verpool, assuming thht tobe the road upon which
Mr. Burgess might wish the experiment to be tried would be
at the s.al c of 5,30-71. per annum, at 2s. t;d. per mile, for which
sum-he conceive-s h would be accomplished, although we
hive doubts npon this point. If that sum is nut meant to
include the wages of Guards, 1-lorseheepess, the hire or
erection of stabling, &c., the expence must be considerably
greater; •
It will be necessary first to decide whether any town in the
direct line of the experiment can be denied the use of the
Extra Post. If all are nut to be included. then to specify
what Towns tbe proposed measure is to embrace. It should
also, he ascertained whether. the Plan on its rettun should
embrace the whole of the MetropOlis, and the District of the
Twopenny Post, or whether there are to be certain Boun-
daries in London, beyond which its operation is nut, to ex-
trod.

The Boundaries of the General Pint Delivery are so exten-
sive, that-there would be scarcely time. for the reply of Let-
ters from the extremities ; and if the Plan is to be applicable
to the Twopenny Post, it will be necessary to dispatch
fresh men and horses into those Districts with the Letters.

It will be necessary also precisely to define what the prac-
tice.is to be at towns in the Country, in the neighbourhood
of some of which, though ioclnded in the bags for the Town,
the Letters are served by Penny Post,—Liverpool and Man-
chester particularly are in this predicament.
There must of necessity be a di.tinct Office for the purpose
of the Extra Post, as it would be impossible to carry- ors that
duty at the same time with the receipt and dispatch of the
regular Mails of the Country.

We hope that for the purpose of the experiment of sin
Extra Post, we May possibly be enabled to perform the fluty
without anj• additional nuu►her of Clerlis, by plaeing,on extra
duty:some of those now employed ; if it should hereafter be
made per►nanent, we must have additional Otlicers. It is dif-
ferent with respect to the Letter Carriers; we have none
but what are fully and entirely occupied in the general de-
livery of Letters.,
There must be additional Clerks at some, and Letter Car-
riers at all the towns included in the measure.

We presume the flanking privilege must not he suffered to
extend to the Extra Post, otherwise all franked Letters will
be sent by it ; and it Will be an additional inducement to per-
sons to obtain Franks. •

We presume that an Act of Parliament will be necessary
before even the experiment can be tried ; as we have not the
power to demand any rates beyond those established by Law,
let our mode of conveyance be what it may. In such case we
trust, that before the Meeting of Parliament we shall have
obtained the opinion of those Officers; both here and in the
country, whom we arc desiruus to consult upon a measure of
so much consequence and novelty; and-that we shall be en-
abled to report fully to your Lordships as to the expediency
and prohable effects of the Plan in all its. bearings.
If, however, your Lordships should be of opinion thit
Legislative enactment is not necessary for the trial of the
experiment, we shall not fail, upon receipt of your Lord-
ships' directions and instructions upon what Road it is to be
tried, and upon the other points abovC stated, to proceed
therewith and endeavour to further the Plan to the utmost.
• We have stated thils'much as to the 'experiment; and al-
though we cannot, for the reasons above mentioned, enter so
minntely into the " immediate consideration" of the Plan as
Your Lordships have directed, we feel it necessary to point
out some errors in Mr. I3utgess's Calculations, which have
presented themselves to us upon the face of it.
He assumes that the Extra Post will convey one-fourth of
the actual number of Letters now carried by the General
Post. The fourth part of the Letters at Manchester and
Liverpool (which we select for the purpose of elucidation), he
takes at t,lOO per day—the real fourth is much under one-
half of his computation. - In further proof, he expects to con-
vey 600. Letters to aryl from Manchester daily. The whole
number of Letters of all -descriptiOns between London and
Manchester, even including the vicinity of bcrth places, does
not exceed 784 daily.
Mr. Burgess also calculates the produce upon 365 Posts-in
the course of the year, having made no allOwance for Sun-
days, whereas there are but 313 Posts to and front •Lunduo,
which reduces the'whole amount one-seventh.
gr:ilorgess proposes in his Memorial to convey the Extl'a
Mail "at the rate) including all stoppages; of 11 miles, an

'hour, a rate whichlfe trusts is shorn in his Plan to be quite
practicable, without distressing the horses." In the table of
that Plan, the calculations of the advantage to the towns are
made,at the rate of 11 miles and a half an hour ; and it is
necessary to draw your Lordships' attention particularly to
that fact, as it regards Liverpool—instead of the Extra Mail
reaching Liverpool at 50 minutes past.ll, and returning at
to minutes after 4 in the afternoon, leaving an interval of 4
hours and 20 minutes between the arrival at and departure
fron► Liverpool—the Extra Mail cannot-at 1 l miles an hour,
all stoppages included, .arrive by his route until 20 minutes
past 1 ; and to enable it to arrive in London " at 10 in the
morning," it must leave Liverpool 20 minutes before 3, leav-
,ing an interval of 1 boor, And 20. minutes only, not 4 hours
and 20 minutes-z-the assorting and delivery of Letters, and
the time necessary fur malfing them up in return, would
Irave little if anytime to reply to them the same-day, unless
the nrrival in London is to be at a still later hour than 10 in
the morning.
Mr. Burgess has kilned his calculations 'of the produce
.upon a quadruple nth: of Postage.—ln the Memorial which
your Lordships have transmitted to us, he abandons-the 'pia,
druple, and proposes a double rate only.
Your Lordships will du us the justice to believe, that we
cannot be actuated by a wish to oppose Mr. Burgess, or any
other Plan, merely because it is new, and out of the com-
mon course. In the consideration.of the propoSed measure
we have felt an anxious desire to ascertain whether there was
anything in the new Plan which could induce us to prefer it
to the present System, which experience has proved to have
been so.productive of advantage to the. Public and to the Re-
venue ; and 'we should be guilty of neglect of our duty if we
omitted to state 'to your Lordships the brief result of our
cuniderati~►n.

First.—That there are doubts of its practicability for any
length of tune, .but of. this the experiment will enable us to
judge.
Second.—That as a Post-Office Measure it is not expe-
dient, and that the produce may not cover the expenditure.
Third.—That it is an abandonment of the established prin-
ciple of the Post Office, of a fair degree of accommodation
open and common to all, that even.if carried to its full ex-
tent, it must be partial in its operations.
Fourth.—That we fear that instead of the alleged advan-
tage to Commerce and Manufactures, the acceleration of a
part of the correspondence only, may be the cause of general
confusion and evil to business; in which feeling we under-
stand some of the principal Merchants, &c. in London par-
ticipate. _ _ _

Vilth..---That it will he insecure, and may injure the Gene-
ral Post EStablishinent, and consequently the Revenue-of the
Country.

... , _
(Signed) CHICHESTER.
. .
General Yost Office, SALISBURY.
istli Aug. 1319.

No. 111.--Copy of a Note from the. Postmaster General to the
Earl of Liverpool and Mr. Vansittart, delivered to Mr.
Vansiit art, Ist July, 1820. •
The Eat I of Chichester and Marquess of Salisbury present
their compliments to Lord Liverpool and Mr. Vansittart, and
have the honour to transmit certain observations which it is
the dtity of the Postmaster General to submit to their consi •
deration on the subject. of Mr. Burgess's Plan for an Extra
Post, and his Memorial to the Treasury of the 2d of May
last, Copy of which their Lordships have received from Mr.
Burgess. _ _ _ _

Those. observations attach to the principle of setting up
such a Post. Their Lordships discharge their duty by placing
them before Lord Liverpool and Mr. Vansittart, who will de-
cide whether they do or do not apply to the subject.
• His almost unnecessary to repeat to Lord Liverpool and
Mr. Vansittart that in the event of the adoption of Mr. Bur-
gess's Plan, the Postmaster General and their Officers cannot
fail to afford their ,best assistance to it, as far as the matter
may rest with them.

(No. IV.)—Copy of the Postmaster-General's Observation
on Mr. Burgess's Plan for an Extra Post, delivered to Mr.
Vansittart, Ist July, 1820.
His, Majesty's Postmaster-General thinks it right to subtiiit
the following Observations on Mr. Burgess's-Plans for an
Extra P:ist, to the consideration and judgment of his Majes-
ty's Government.
It is unnecessary now to' embarrass Mr. Burgess's Plan, by
expressing any doubts as to the possibility of travelling 11
miles an hOur, all'stops included, -by day and nitht. For be
states, that by a peculiar carriage,—horses of a particular de-
scription,—shot t stages, and other arrangements, be can ac-
complish it, although the speed to be maintained must be
nearly 13 miles an hour, so as to admit time for changing
horses and Letter bags, and other Post Mice duty, alike ne-
cessary for the interests of the public, and the security of the
revenue.

Mr. Burgess's first pamphlet assumes, that his Plan will
produce a peat revenue—:loo,oool. a-year, making the rate
of Postage quadruple. The inaccuracy of these calculations
was immediately pointed out.

in his Nieto(4i.al of 1819 he proposes a tiotible rate of
postage.
- • -

His second Pamphlet is written to prove that," without
any consideration of Revenue," the Government ought to
adopt his Plan. It is inferred from that Pamphlet and his
present Memorial, that his object is only to establish his Post
" to the whole of the nian►ifacturing and conm►ercial parts of
Yorkshire and Lancashire."

The quadruple rate of Postage, afterwards modified .to a
double one, being thus'abandoned, he now proposes it shall
not exceed 40 per cent. upon the existing Kates ; and he de-
sires to try the experiment to Manchester and Liverpool, with
a view of extending it to the district between the Mersey and
the Humber, and to take the risk of the expenses of the es-
tablishment upon himself, excepting, for the Office and Offi-
cers in London, on condition of receiving the additional
Postage arising Irons Letters conveyed by the Extra Post, to
be secured to hint for 7 years, the Government having the
power to buy him out at any time during that period upon
due notice.; the sum to be paid over and above all actual ex-
penses, and the horses and stuck to be taken by Government,
at a fair valoat

Instead, therefore' of a net Revenue of 300,0001 a year,
Government is invited to give to Mr. Burgess a Farm of the
whole for 7 years, and to establish a separate Office, distinct
Officers, Letter Carriers, &c. at a certain annual expewltttre.
of some thousand pounds.
The ineucement to Government, as a matter of finance,-
seems therefore to be given up", except as to any prospective
benefit that may result to it at the cad of Mr. Burgess's Farm,
—,7 years. . _

it -is- necessary now to ascertain whether the acceleration of
a part of the col respondence to one great district, when it is
not intended to be afforded to another, may not be a great
evil, and. productive of much injury to that neighbouring
district, to which the acceleration cannot be extended. Also,
whether it. may not produce great perplexity and hindrance of
general business in those very districts to which the Extra
Pest is to be afforded, seeing that the commercial informa-
tion, brought in the Letters by the ordinary mails, may be-
counteracted and affected, in every variety of degree by
Letters of a later date, which a few hours after may pro—
duce.
In the Map which accompanied Mr. Burgess's proposition-
of 2d 1819—he included the lines to Falmouth and
Holyhead, as well as Glasgow and Edinburgh—does he ahan-
dun arty part of that proposition, and what ?
Evers in its most extended use, the injurious effect of the
Extra Post on the places to which it should not be extended,
forms the most obvious objection to it ; and in proportion as
he curtails his Plan to principal districts, that objection ac-
quires force.
IVO% Burgess never meant to include, for instance, Lincoln-
shire. Let us see the effect at Hull, in its vicinity, to that
agricultural county. The Extra Post would arrive there at
one o'clock, and nearly a whole day before the Letters by
the ordinary Post could be delivered in many parts of Lin-
colnshire.

The Mcrehant at Hull, in possession of his early advices,
crosses the Humber, makes his speculations to the injury of
the Agrieulturist, &e.
A Corn Factor, moving on Lincolnshire from Doncaster,
would have a still greater priority; and onelrom Derby would
command the whole i►:ter►or district of the Trent. The same
effects from Hull on the Eastern side of Yorkshire, also from
York itself. Mallon is a Depot for Corn only 2 or 3
Buyers there- might be interested in an Extra Bost Let-
ter. It could never pay for the extension of IS miles.
Yet every 'Farmer resorting to that Market would com-
plain that lie could never sell except to a disadvantage.
The speculative Factor would be continually on the watch
fur the rise and fall of prices, beneficial to hint because
not generally known. This argument applies to the Landed
Interest every where; and to every kind of dealing in ovary
town to which the Extra .Post is not to .go. The effect at
Liverpool would be precisely similar.
The Extra Post would bring the advioea of the London
Markets to Liverpool, a day earlier than they could be
received at Chester, if it be not included in the Extra Post.
The Liverpool Merchant goes over immediately to that
City (16 miles), and into North Wales, and makes his bar-
gains, with all the prioritiot his intelligence, to his own
advantage..
The Counties of Flint, Denbigh, &c. would be placed in
the saMe'prediCatnent.
The Merchants at Liedsilialifax,-Bradfordi &e, would al-

ways have a day's advantage over the manufacturing 01111-1
and villages in Craven, &c. a liOs
And suppose this Plan be not extended beyond tilt ti
from the Mersey to the Humber, the persons being withite,
range will have an advantage of one day over the
North; for a traveller would reach Glasgow and rgh
a day sooner than the ordinary Post. r bed,
The great feature of the Posts, as at present estabos
is their equal and fair operation. The same system i"
served on all the great lines of road. The same fairness and
consistency in dispatching all the Posts to branches
th
ramifications for these great lines. There nothing is 1.0
advantage of one district and the detriment of another.
Some years since the Merchants, &c. of Halifax, in the T`'n',
district to which Mr. Burgess wishes to try his Plan, rou°
st rated against the early delivery of Letters at Leeds, beta t 4
it enabled the Merchants at that place to ride over to the 61°
Market at Halifax be fore the Letters could be delivered there;
making their bargains with a knowledge of advices from tti,
Metropolis, and which the inhabitants of Halifax were trot
s,
possession of. The early delivery of Letters at Leeds ,
therefore forbidden. We naturally ask, if this Plan be e,
up, can it be denied to any principal Town, whose corresPuro,
r
dencc is important although situated in a district not ito,
taut, and where the expellee of the Extra Post would o°r
than absorb any produce ? rid r:
As to the Metropolis, it is proposed that the Extra •
shall arrive in London at 10 o'clock, one hour or one liAie
and a half after the Letter Carriers are sent out with t'
t,
Letters of the Ordinary Post. It is presumed, that the Cour t
of Law, Lloyd's Coffee House, Bankers, &c. &c. would fee,
this inconvenience and perplexity in no cammon rlegrei
e,
Can any such act on the first advices by the Ordinary gals
in London (ur at Liverpool), or transact any business by
of Bargain or Sale, or Purchase of Stock or Insurance, ores
the Law, when they know that on the same day, .23 1011.1,
later, advices affecting the prices of all the great tnercao,%i
articles of Cotton, Indigo, Coffee, Sugar, will he receis'eudr
the Extra Post,--and that Countermands of Orders for 109:.nr
ance, Stock, &c. may arrive by it, or news of Ships losrpf
arrived, and in all events it must retard the actual operat'_„u
of all these Classes several hours in every day. If they do ""
wait, the Extra Post is of little use to their Corresponden„,To
. Mr. Burgess says, the Letters brought by the Extra Lt,
can he delivered in the principal parts of London and Wr
minster in an hour after their arrival. This is impossibl„',' s
What are the Boundaries of the Delivery of the Extra, r-Tto
to be ?—Portnian-square and Limehouse are within the 1119;.
of the General Post Delivery.
How are the Letters brought by the Extra Pest for tit!
Country Districts of the Two-penny Post, Clapham, Vie
with, Richmond, Wanstead, &c. &c. to be delivered ?
Post for all these places will be dispatched before the -EY:
Post can possibly arrive. ip
Are additional Horse Posts to be sent with all such a`ter,
enormous expence ? The same questions arise at Manclle%e
Liverpool, and other towns where there are Penny Post
liveries, extending in some cases several miles. '
Some boundary should be defined, or the Public wille!it,
plain that the Extra Post imposes an.
additional rate of 1°„0
age, but does not provide fur the delivery of the Let'.
exactly in the way it professes. of
It does -it -- - he 'e Pp!.

does not appear (as asserted) how the general rev..
the Post Office is to be largely increased by the operati°"or
the Plan—For admitting that the Extra Post should be 100,e
used, will not persons economize their Correspondence t° or
utmost of their power, and use the ordinary Post as Witco
possible All increase in the rates of Postage must havo.
tendency to diminish the number of Letters. We may, the 00
fore, have only one by the Extra Post, where the eciagn,er
Post carried two. Nay, it may happen, that a hlanches,o
House, instead of writing to its several Currespondco Ity
ltd. each, will direct the whole of the business to be don eon,
one Extra Post Letter to their Representative House in 1100
don. We know that even with-the present rates, persoa re,
particular Trades will club together to make one Letter.serio
It it may be inferred from what Mr. Burgess has soddiAlf
to the importance of the district between Liverpool and
that he intends to confine his Plan to that quarter, it oLOe.
probably answer his purposes; and many Merchants attd4rtiff
culators in that district would enjoy advantages over el ;
other in the Kingdom, and to the injury of most.
t ;fa
If the experiment be once tried, and the parties ge-
possession of these advantages, may it not be difficult Noll
price them of the same, if any of the evils apprehended re
from it to other districts ? of

If the objections to the principle of this measure hare ;Of
force, it would be highly injurious to the Landed Week 0
and the Members for the Counties and places to whic,..te
could not be extended, would in that case remoust"-:

against it.
We hP-

aided!

e hare reason to believe that the Extra Post wol,
objected to by carious eminent persons in the Aletroe3l,l
and that many respectable individuals both at Liverpo°l
Manchester do not favour it. O.°
Ought not the sense of the Metropolis to be taken ofJ d of
measure, either through its Members or by the 13"rioi;
'Trade; and, as it is presumed that nothing can be done
except by an Act of the Legislature, would it nut be
that the whole should- conic under the consideration of a
mince of Parliament?

CIRCULAR LTTERS. t
Many thousands of them are senEt by the Post froth aIOOJ
every branch of Trade, (giving the prices of the Corn
Coal Markets, result of Sales at the India Hodie, Ste. 6`cf.(oo'
Is it too much to apprehend that the postage of those
London must he greatly lost ; fur, instead of being print e;,os
London as now and sent by the Common Post, one Estows'
Letter will supply the information, to be printed in ',eos
chester or Liverpool and delivered by private bands, ",r .oes
by the Penny Post there, or by the Inland Posts at stoat}
to the surrounding neighbourhood. dig
This is already too much the practice, by persons send hi
Flank Circulars by coaches to hi re-issued by Post; an ,440
the custom of Agents in London to receive DU the Foroct,
Letters of all their Houses in the Country make one F-1'
and send it by the In and Post, merely to save the additiol
the Inland to the Foreign Rates. ,
-
• There seems to be an inaccuracy in Mr. Burgess's Ca
f
tions as to the time the Extra Post would arrive at Licerl"til
viz. 50 minutes past 11 to depart.at 3 in the afternoon-10i
mules an hour, the Extra Post would arrive at Liverpool
miles) at 50 minutes past 12. The Return from thence %es
be five minutes before three.—Allow only if, minutes' t°se'
the Letters ready for distribution, no Letters could bertll6
livered till 5 minutes past The (Mg
Office must be shut 2.ntr;
reception of Letters at least 20 minutes before 3-15 Enintlios‘
would be necessary to take an account of and make 0,00,
Letters in the Bags for London and the intermediate.P!_de.
Consequently; there could be only hour and 35 11"1.130/
for the Merchants, &c. at Liverpool to transact businc!'e the
answer Letters by the Extra Post; and even in that ea'cool,o4l
parties must apply at the Post Office for them, as thee,eolig
be no delivery of Letters by the Letter Carriers to au
reply the same day.

OPTION OF THE WRITERS. brie'
It is 'essential to know .111e•precise meaning of the Nieff
that it, shall be perfectly optional with the Vt'siters of m`
to send them by the Extra Post. h 144,5
Certainly the writers must hare an option as to ,t.-6 • i
lar Mails and the Extra Post; but if it be meant tha joir
writer.shall send his Letters by the Extra Post without
ously paying the postage, it appears to us that the .11enovii
who is the consumer of the article, is taxed without in'
consent, and many harsh, vexatious, and unuccest33, joe'
stances of this sort would occur. Letters 'written jo 1,40 S
went of irritation or disappointment, would be purPof_e
oftbe
by Extra Post, with a view only to increase the exPence
Receiver.
If the Postage be not first paid, and there are opeo 1.`":0
boxes for such Letters, how often would they be toistallifiglf
the boxes of the ordinary Post, and the parties nrl",lrefore,
incur a great increase of taxation. It is presumed, tl►
persons ought not to-be compelled to take in all Lett4 pre'
dressed to thou by the Extra Post, except the
postage
viously paid. ,

NEWSPAPERS. • ,„,,tri
It is'the opinion of the practical Officers, that N:ficPte'
will be greatly affecte4,• to the detriment of thePTi's „

.
venue. Suppose a Newspaper or two only, sealed uP4 00,..
ters, to he sent by the Extra Post to 111anches1er an in th;
pool for the Reading Rooms, &c.?—lt will arrive .den
'
morning. The same at other places. The Newsls„'er e,teicif'
by the ordinary Mails arriving at night must lose "
113°
and the number be diminished.
As Mr. Burgess at no time intended to extend
,11119r.es.cil;
beyond Edinburgh, the Newspaper of Mondayw°"
that City early on Wednesday. Tiw Printers of the,.csriot,
•
and three-day Papers there will insert all that 15 ins ea,
in their Publications-, which will be received 24 IOU"
at all places in Scotland North of Edinburgh. vabarti',/
Newspapers by the ordinary Post will arrive at tpreit
on the following morning, and must lose all their ili.ti-jorigY
the anticipation of the previous day. It will also be I
['Fire Conclusion of this Reportporrst t
to the Proprietors of the London P.'•q)e
eqg
LONDON: Printed by J. B. C —FAIRS of N°'
,A S I,A bt,
Ormond-street, Queen-square; add pun"s-- ' 6
, Aar,
SCRIPPSofN S \I treat • ,Or"
I O. Out 0 ton-s
Office, No. 112, Strand ; wiser. Adrettisernentos
Letters, &c. (post-paid) isittsf biiiddresscd,
t