Gyn) Mra. f UC O A CH E'S: 
I Have a refpect for the plan of the mail-coaches, and for the 
inventor; but I never could think of applying to him as the vi- 
zam al muluc, the regulator of the pofting-empire. There oucht 
not to be in our conftitution fuch a monfter as a comptroller un- 
controllable by his legiflature, or his fuperiors in office: legifla- 
ture muft now fee its imprudence in permitting a latitude of fo 
dangerous a nature. I, an individual, never could bear the 
thought:. I looked for redrefs to the poft-mafter general, or to 
‘the three eftates of the kingdom. 
I FEAR too great a veneration has been paid to this new-created 
office, and mode of conveying the mail. I always with to pay 
every individual and every office a due refpect ; but in this cafe 
I muft preferve the independent and ufeful man, and endeavour 
to correct every abufe that falls within my fphere as a provincial 
magiitrate. What I am going to fay may be deemed foreign to 
a legiflative friend ; yet as it may prove ufeful to many who be- 
hold thefe new vehicles with a kind of veneration, I fhall men- 
tion an affair which happened in our county in the laft autumn. 
Let me premife, that thofe protectors of the mail, the guards, 
relying on the name of royalty, had in the courfe of the /ri/h road 
through North Wales, committed great excefies. One, on a 
‘trifling quarrel, fhot dead a poor old gate-keeper: a coroner’s 
jury was huddled up; and, in defiance of the tears of the widow, 
no judicial notice has been taken of the affair to this very day. 
In dnglefey, another of thefe guards difcharged his piftol wan- 
-tonly in the face ofa chaife horfe, drawing his mafter, the Rev. 
Fobu Bulkely, who was flung out, and died either on the {pot or 
foonatter. Thele guards fhoot at dogs, hogs, fheep and poultry, 
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