ON MAIL-COACHES, 
To the Printer of the SHrewspury CHRONICLE, 
SiR. Downing, Auguft 6, 179%. 
REQUEST you to lay before the public the following 
advertifement, addreffed by the commiffioners of the Mo/tyz 
turnpike diftrict, in order to avert in future the hardfhips feve- 
ral of the townfhips of the county of Flint labor under in the 
repairs of the roads. The advertifement itfelf relates to the 
greater part of the grievances. It was fent to the paper too late to 
inform the Eng/i/b circuits, but has been approved by the grand 
juries of Chefhire, Denbighfbire, and Flintfbire, at the Spring 
affizes, and by that of Berkjbire and Monmouthfbire, being 
the Autumn affizes. Let me here inform you, that, by in- 
di€tments from the General Poft-Office, fines to the amount 
of 12004 have been laid on the feveral townfhips lying in the 
courfe of the poft-roads in the little county of Fut, many of 
which are very fmall, and labour under the greateft poverty. 
One in particular has a vaft extent of road to repair, and only a 
few labourers, and four miferable teams to perform their ftatute 
labor. Under thofe circumftances, terrified with the profpect 
of ruin, they performed twenty-two days ftatute duty. The 
French corvées, now fo reafonably abolifhed, were intraduced. 
on Britifh ground, yet in vain; for a fine of 82/, 105. was im- 
pofed on the poor people. So little interefted were they, and. 
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