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on the 8th Instant appeared before sitting Magistrate, M. Hillier, when W. P. Hyland, the Postmaster, stated on oath that the Letters had been delivered to the Royal Artillery Orderly, and that the postage had not been paid, further, that he had been in the habit of lending in the Bills every quarter, and that they had been always paid previously by my predecessors, and that the bill had been sent in the 1st week of July,
that he had refused my Letters without postage
I had objected to his accounts,
I beg to call your attention to the following facts which I laid before the Sitting Magistrate.
1st. The covers of all Letters on which postage is demanded are kept in this office as Vouchers; such covers.
2nd. It has been the custom of the Royal Artillery to pay the postage on all Letters, when received.
The Postmaster retained my Letters on the 24th May, and told me it was because the orderly had not enough money with him to pay all the postage demanded. In fourt the Postmaster stated it was because I refused his account received some months afterwards. It also does not appear that bills had been previously sent for the postage of service Letters. My friend who has been