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cient lead trade was always confiderable; but by the introduction 
of the copper and cotton bufinefs, Holywell, its environs, and 
their dependencies, may boaft of commercial property, proba- 
bly to the amount of a million fterling. 
I wave always confidered Mr. Palmer’s plan as ufeful to his 
country, and an honor to himfelf, except in one article. I can 
never fuppofe that he will perfift in deviating from the utility of 
his f{cheme, by diverting the mail from fuch a country as I have 
deferibed. Shrew/bury has already its mail; after Ofwefry is paft, 
the greateft part of the road to Conwy is mountainous, poor, and 
half depopulated. 
Ir gives me concern to find our interefts clafh with thofe of the 
county of Salop. 1 muft allow the excellency of the great ftaples 
of its capital, brawn and rich cakes; but ftill we have the balance 
in our favor; for on the moft exact and impartial calculation, I 
do not find that at prefent the annual confumption (of both to- 
gether) can poffibly exceed the fum of 152,341/. 165. 93d. 
TuE exceptionable article I allude to is the exemption of the 
mail-coaches from tolls. This falls heavy on the leffer diftriéts : 
poffibly we might have endured even that, had we not been in- 
fulted with indictments, and compelled to repairs beyond the real 
wants of the country. That is now over; we only wifh the 
reftoration of our loft tolls, to enable us to fupport the roads in 
the prefent ftate, and to take away all future grounds of com- 
plaint from every quarter. This will induce me to perfift in my 
defign of applying to parlement for redrefs of the grievance that 
affects the gates from Che/fer to Conwy, let the rich Engli/h diftricts 
take what fhare they pleafe in their own concerns. There is 
one difficulty in Flint/bire in refpect to the road itfelf—I mean 
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