History of the Post-Office Packet Service between the years 1793-1815

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Author

Norway, Arthur H. (Arthur Hamilton), 1859-1938

Title

History of the Post-Office Packet Service between the years 1793-1815 Compiled from Records, Chiefly Official

Credits

E-text prepared by Richard Tonsing, deaurider, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

HE: Social sciences: Transportation and communications

Subject

Postal service -- Great Britain -- History

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 59310

Release Date

April 19, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by Richard Tonsing, deaurider, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( https://archive.org ) — HISTORY OF THE POST-OFFICE PACKET SERVICE BETWEEN THE YEARS 1793–1815 COMPILED FROM RECORDS, CHIEFLY OFFICIAL
2. 2.NOTE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
5. 5.CHAPTER I. FALMOUTH IN THE OLDEN TIME.
6. 6.CHAPTER II. LAX ADMINISTRATION.
7. 7.CHAPTER III. A FIRMER RULE.
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. THE WEST INDIA MERCHANTS.
9. 9.CHAPTER V. THE END OF THE ABUSES.
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. THE NORTH SEA PACKETS.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. THE SECOND FRENCH WAR.
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE CONTINENTAL SYSTEM.
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. TWO BRILLIANT YEARS.
14. 14.CHAPTER X. THE MUTINY AT FALMOUTH.
15. 15.CHAPTER XI. THE OUTBREAK OF THE AMERICAN WAR.
16. 16.CHAPTER XII. THE AMERICAN WAR.
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII. THE AMERICAN WAR.
18. 18.INDEX.
19. 19.ERRATA.
20. 20.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

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