"Passengers by the mail-coach have a preference as to berths in the packets.
"July 21, 1813."
"Howth Royal Mail-Coach, well guarded, sets out from the Cork Coach Office, No. 12 Dawson Street, at seven o'clock every evening with mails and passengers to His Majesty's express packets at Howth, from whence one of these excellent vessels sails at half after eight o'clock every night for Holyhead.
"July 31, 1813."
[87] By the Post Office packets the number of passengers between Holyhead and Dublin during the years 1818-[20] was as follows:—
| Year. | Number of |
| Passengers. | |
| 1818 | 13,128 |
| 1819 | 12,956 |
| 1820 | 7,468 |
Private steam packets began to ply in July 1819.
[88] i.e. Kinniogga, the old name for Cernioge.
[89] "God knows whether we are to remain postmen or not, or whether all the lights which philosophy is now throwing upon coach-making are not to be left by us as an official legacy to some more pliant successors."—Chesterfield to Walsingham, 22nd April 1792.
[90] The postage between Liverpool and Dublin by way of Holyhead was 13d., as thus made up:—