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Office revenues automaticcilly (lisa])i)eai-(Ml, foi- it 

 is not to l)e suj)j)ose(l tliat, \\\\k\\\ tlx; mails \vei-(; 

 more frequcMit, cliea])('i-, a.ii(i nioi-c spCM'dy tlian 

 other metliods, tlie ])iil)lic would resort to slow 

 and more expensive ways of scndinL-- tlieir l(3tt(;rs. 



'J'Ik; next mail-coach to Ix; put on the road was 

 i\\(\ Norwich Mail, in March 1785 ; and in May 

 of that same year tin; first of the cross-road 

 mails was estahlish(;d. Tliis was tin; Bristol and 

 Portsmouth. It was followed in raj)id succession 

 hy the lon*^ services from London : the Leeds, 

 Manchester and Liverpool, on July 25th; the 

 London, Gloucester and Swansea ; the Hereford, 

 Carmarthen and Mil ford Haven, hy Glashury ; the 

 Worcester and Lndlow ; tli(5 ]')ii'mini^-liam and 

 Shrewsl)ury ; the Chester and Holyhead; the 

 Exeter; tlie Portsmouth; and — on Octoh(n- Kith, 

 ]7S(), in answer to the petitioji for a mail-coach 

 aloji^- th(i (jii'(;at North lload sent np l)y tlie cities 

 and towns on that hi<^-hway — hy the York and 

 Edinhuri^'h Mail. 



Palmer was not content with merely i-e- 

 oi-i^-anisiny the inland mails ; lu; was eag-(n' to sec; 

 his plan adopted in France, and to this end 

 opened up nei^-otiations with Jiaron D'0<^-ny, 

 the Erench Minister of Eosts, in 1787. Cor- 

 respondence hetween them, and hetween his 

 secretary, Andrew Todd, and M. d(3 I?ichehour<,% 

 was still proceeding in 171)1, wh(>n tin; Erench 

 Revolution put an end to all such things. 



The success of his ])lan in Eni^dand was no 

 sooner assured than his position came u]) fcjr 



