48 ANNALS OF THE ROAD. 



old regiment, cum multis a/us, flit across my " mind's 

 eye " and I wish myself thirty years younger.' 



' Jack Goodwin ' brings up the rear of the contro- 

 versialists, feeling himself highly honoured in having his 

 name associated with three such splendid performers on 

 the bugle as the Blights and Mackintosh, named in 

 ' Deadfall's ' letter. He gives us also a bit of his bio- 

 graphy, and a pathetic bit it is too, stating that ' In 

 consequence of a " tip" from off the Kingsbridge coach 

 I had my spine injured, consequently unsuited for an 

 active life, also a slight paralysis of the speech which 

 does away with all bugling. Seven years past I accepted 

 a situation with Mr. Ramsden, cigar merchant, to super- 

 intend his billiard room in Old Town Street, Plymouth, 

 the oldest establishment in the three towns.' 



From all these letters, and from what Macintyre, 

 the guard of the London and Brighton coach, has told 

 me, viz. that when he was the guard of the Brighton 

 mail, and in the procession on May 24, 1834, he was 

 requested by the Inspector- General of Mails to play on 

 his key-bugle, we may take the fact as established that 

 key-bugles were permitted. Macintyre further told me 

 that key-bugles, the ' three feet of tin,' the angel (a 

 shorter horn), and whatever musical instruments were 

 used, were the property of the guard and provided by 

 him. This would account for the circumstance of some 

 mails having them and some not. 



