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‘LETTER to Thomas Williams, Efq. of Llanidan, Member for 
the Borough of Marlow. . 
Dear Sir, Downing, Od. 18, 1791- 
A™M much indebted to you for your late favor, with an official 
letter inclofed. 1 have no kind of doubt but that the comp- 
troller general will, on cool re-confideration of his defien of 
altering the courfe of the /ri/h mail, be induced to lay it totally 
afide. He will admit the importance of the county of Chefer , 
in its ancient ftaple of the cheefe, on which our fleets and armies 
fo greatly depend. The city itfelf (if I may judge by the fre- 
quent advertifements) is about to enter deeply on the fuftian 
manufacture. The great remittances of taxes from the county, 
and from great part of North Wales, and the remittances to and 
from Ireland, and thofe occafioned by the great biennial linen 
fairs, muft be flung into the {cale. 
Tue port of Park-Gare has of late years rifen into much con- 
fequence. It at prefent maintains four ftout pacquets, which un- 
interruptedly ply between that port and Dublin. The correfpon- 
dencies of the nurnbers of paflengers embarking or difembark- 
ing, and the great remittances through this channel, are of no 
{mall moment, and of. great general concern. 
Tue county of Flint (little as it is of itielf), thanks to you 
and other companies, fettling among us, is now rifing into an 
amazing ftate of opulence: few perhaps can rival it. Our an- 
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