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 Britain, a debt contracted by the exemption, however properly given, of their carriages from toll.

"On all these grounds your Committee think it right to refer the Petition of Mr. M'Adam to the Postmasters General, under the sanction of the Treasury, with their favourable recommendation."

And in the Appendix to that Report it will be found from the Evidence of Mr. Freeling, "That the Post Office did not take Mr. M'Adam's services into consideration, or suppose that 2,000l. would be a sufficient remuneration for those services; they merely stated, in answer to papers from the Treasury, that they considered it would be right to advance to Mr. M'Adam the sum of 2,000l. and consider Mr. M'Adam's claims as establishing a ground for further remuneration."

In consequence of that Report the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury again, on the 23d of September, refer the subject to the Postmasters General, who, considering the first sum of 5,019l. 6s. to be admitted as proved before the Committee, recommended the payment of his expenses from 1814, to be calculated upon the same principle as the travelling allow