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number of the coach-horses from llorncastle Pair. 

 J. 1\ Herring has left an excellent equestrian 

 portrait of this indispensable personage. 



Chaplin horsed the quickest mails out of 

 London : the Dcvonport, the New Holyhead, the 

 Bristol, and five other West-country mails starting 

 from Piccadilly. Passengers who had booked 

 from his City offices were carried to this point 

 by omnibuses he established, and the mails were 

 conveyed, with the guards, in two-wheeled mail- 

 carts from the General Post Office. In the great 

 number of coaches he ran there Avere, of course, 

 included some of the very best. His were those 

 famous coaches, the Manchester " Defiance," a 

 rival of Sherman's even more famed Manchester 

 "Telegraph," the Birmingham "Greyhound," the 

 Cambridge " Telegraph," Liverxwol " Red Rover," 

 Bristol "Emerald," Cheltenham "Magnet," and 

 many others doing their ten miles and more an 

 hour. He also had half-shares in the brilliant 

 " Tantivy," London and Birmingham, the " Stam- 

 ford Regent," the Southampton " Comet," and 

 others. 



The signs of the times, so patent to outsiders 

 from 1830 and onwards, but generally hid from 

 the vision of those most interested, were not 

 unheeded by this remarkably shrewd business 

 man, Avho, like his contemporary, Joseph Baxen- 

 dale, had the power of seeing things and the 

 possible future trend of affairs from an imjiersonal 

 and unprejudiced point of view. He, above all 

 other coach-proprietors, was deeply interested in 



