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THIRD REPORT From the Select Committee on the Roads from
Holyhead to London, &c.
CVdi-retf, 6y The House of Commons, to Ae Pwtfw/, 23 June 1817.
The SELECT COMMITTEE appointed to inquire into the State of the Roads from HoZ7//teod to London, into the Regulation* for the conveyance of His Majesty's Mail between .London
and DuaWm, and from thence to the interior of Jre/and; and also, into the Laws and Regulations relating to the conveyance of Passengers, Goods and Merchandize, between Dwi/m and JEfo^/iead; and who were empowered to report their Observations, together with the Minutes of the Evidence taken before them, from time to time to The House: -Have, pursuant to the Order of The House, further examined the Matters to them referred, and have agreed upon the following REPORT: YOUR Committee have abstained from making a Report on that
part of the matter referred to them, respecting the conveyance of His Majesty's Mail between London and Holyhead, hoping that they might be relieved from the necessity of doing so, by the Post Office carrying into effect the recommendations contained in the Report of the Select Committee of 1815.
Although they are aware, that the Post Office have advertised for tenders to run a new Mail Coach through Coventry tu Holyhead in thirty-eight hours, they are nevertheless induced, in consequence of the late period of the Session, and the great importance of the proposed improvement in the conveyance of the Mail between London and Dublin, to submit the following observations concerning it to the House.
The Committee of 1815 having entered very fully into the details belonging to this subject, it will be sufficient to refer the House to their Report, in order to show the practicability of effecting a great saving of time by sending the Mail through Coventry, and under new regulations, in place of continuing it on the present plan, and by the Oxford Road.
Your Committee also beg to refer the House to their First Report upon the state of the Welsh Roads, to show the great importance of saving every moment of time that can be saved in getting the Mail *" ^port, Coach into Holyhead, in consequence of its not being safe for the P*"?'
Packets to stand on for the Irish coast, unless they can see the land before it becomes dark ; and which they cannot do, unless they are able to sail from Holyhead early in the morning.
Your Committee entirely agree with the Committee of 1815, in recommending the Road through Coventry, as the best line to be adopted for the general communication between London and.
Dublin.
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