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DEAR SIR, 
AM much obliged to you for your favor of the sth inftant. 
I pay fuch deference to your opinion, that I entirely lay 
afide all thoughts of troubling your honorable houfe with the 
affair of repealing the act of exemption of mail-coaches from 
the payment of tolls. I would avoid every adventure which 
does not promife fuccefs, and fhould be much mortified to be 
unhorfed and laid {prawling on the arena of St. Stephen’s. 
Yer I fhall be extremely forry that any member of your 
houfe fhould, through any quicknefs of mifapprehenfion, wilful 
or natural, imagine me to be fo wild as to think of an attempt 
that was not founded on reafonable and honeit principles. 
I am fenfible that the exemption of the mails from the pay- 
ment of tolls commenced very early: I think, firft by an a& 
of William and Mary, which was afterwards repeated in feveral 
others, till it was oppreffively confirmed by that of the 25th 
Geo. III. 
Tue mott fecond-fighted of your houfe could never have fére- 
feen.that the ufage of the fingle horfe and poft-boy, afterwards 
in many parts converted into the light mail-cart drawn by 
one horfe, would be fuperfeded by a reyal carriage drawn by 
four horfes, and filled by paffengers, who before rode in 
the common ftages, and contributed. to fupport the roads 
which they paffed over. This unfortunate change proceeded 
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