The History of the Post Office, from Its Establishment Down to 1836
CHAPTER XV
The Irish Post Office--British Mail Office--Earl of Clancarty--Edward Smith Lees--Abuses--Express Clerks and Clerks of the Roads--Alphabet-- Provision for Soldiers' Wives--Thomas Whinnery, Postmaster of Belfast-- Charles Bianconi--Holyhead Packets--Opposition Packets started by Lees--Steam Packets--Competition--Land Communication with Ireland--London and Holyhead Coach--Sir Arthur Wellesley--State of the Roads--Road between Holyhead and Shrewsbury--Thomas Telford--John London Macadam--Road between Shrewsbury and London--Postage over the Conway and Menai Bridges 366