202 TiMEHRI. 



most handsome and spirited manner, although an entire stranger to me, 

 condemned as " unjust and highly indecorous, their conduct -a conduct 

 at once so unbecoming and improper, that although he had been for 

 for the space ol fifteen years (he said,) in the Packet employ, he had 

 never seen nor heard anything to equal it— for sheer insolence, down, 

 right imposition, and daring infringement on the respeftability which 

 ought by right to belong to the situation of Postmaster" and " which 

 he had always seen everywhere else excepting in Demerara, duly 

 respefted and upheld with deference and due decorum." 



The whole of this disorderly proceeding appeared to me, please your 

 Excellency, to have arisen from a premeditated plot or conspiracy set 

 afoot among a number of young men, who seem determined to annoy 

 me by every means and method in their power. Out of the many 

 offenders in the present instance I have in a more especial and particu- 

 lar manner to point out to Your Excellency — a young man of the name 

 of Anthony Fox, Clerk in the store of Messrs. Nurse, Troughton and 

 Nurse, and another youngster of the name of Law, in the store of 

 Messrs. Murray Brothers & Co. 



This, then, please Your Excellency is the whole matter. And in the 

 full hope and confidence of being shielded by Your Excellency's conde- 

 scending proteftion, both as a private individual and as a person 

 holding an office of great responsibility and trust — having never before 

 been in or out of my own house, so openly and audaciously insulted, I 

 beg in the most humble manner to leave my cause in Your Excel, 

 lency's hands as the Protestor and Guardian of the Public Safety, as 

 well as of the peace and security of individuals. 



I have the Honour with the highest consideration and respefl, to be 

 most faithfully and devotedly Your Excellency's very obliged servant 



William Eraser. 



The salary of the Postmaster at this time was j^^ioo 

 per annum, with fees amounting to about ;^85 extra, I 

 have been unable to discover when E. H. Dalton became 

 Deputy Postmaster, but it was some time before 1830, 

 from which time he and his successor E. T. E. Dalton 

 were conne6led with both Imperial and Local Post 

 Offices up to 1875. With the organisation of the Police 

 System in 1839 an imperfe6l Postal arrangement for the 



