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prices, whether 'tis thro' conscience or an endeavour to 

 suppress me. If the former is the case, think how you 

 have been used for a great number of vears, when he 

 engrossed the whole to himself, and kept you two days upon 

 the road, going fifty miles. If the latter, and he should be 

 lucky enough to succeed in it, judge whether he wont 

 return to his old prices, when you cannot help yourselves, 

 and use you as formerly. As I have, then, been the remover 

 of this obstacle, which you have all granted by your great 

 encouragement to me hitherto, I, therefore, hope for the 

 continuance of your favours, which will entirely frustrate 

 the deep-laid schemes of my great opponent, and lay a 

 lasting obligation on, — Your very humble Servant, 



J. TUBR. 



To this replies Batehelor, possessed with an idea of 

 vested interests pertaining to himself : 



WHEREAS, Mr. Tubb, by an Advertisement in this 

 paper of Mondaj^ last, has thought fit to cast some invidious 

 Reflections upon me, in respect of the lowering my Prices 

 and being two days upon the Road, with other low insinua- 

 tions, I beg leave to submit the following matters to the 

 calm Consideration of the Gentlemen, Ladies, and ether 

 Passengers, of what Degree soever, who have been pleased 

 to favour me, viz. : 



That our Family first set up the Stage Coach from 

 London to Lewes, and have continued it for a long Series 

 of Years, from Father to Son and other Branches of the 

 same Race, and that even before the Turnpikes on the 

 Lewes Road were erected they drove their Stage, in the 

 Summer Season, in one day, and have continued to do ever 

 since, and now in the Winter Season twice in the week. 

 And it is likewise to be considered that many aged and 

 infirm Persons, who did not chuse to rise early in the 

 Morning, were very desirous to be two Days on the Road 

 for their own Ease and Conveniency, therefore there was no 

 obstacle to be removed. And as to lowering my prices, let 

 every one judge whether, when an old Servant of the 

 Country perceives an Endeavour to suppress and supplant 

 him in his Business, he is not well justified in taking all 

 measures in his Power for his own Security, and even to 

 oppose an unfair Adversary as far as he can. "Tis, therefore, 



