Full Fifteen Hundred Pounds a Year.

ESTIMATE No. V.

The former is The Usual and Liberal Plan of Keeping a Carriage—it cannot be kept so comfortably on any other; but we must also tell our Readers The Cheapest Plan, which is about £100 per Annum less.

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1st. Instead of giving £84 per Annum for a New Carriage and Harness, made in the best style, as per Estimate No. 9, you may hire an inferior, or a vamped-up second-hand one for about 60 0 0
A Hackneyman will supply a Pair of Horses, and keep them, &c. in his Livery Stables, for 135 0 0
Standing of Carriage, and charge for cleaning and greasing, &c. as in Estimate No. 6, per annum, not less than 1116 0
Duty on Horses and Carriage 10 14 6
A Grand managing Economist informed me that he pays the Hostler at a Livery Stable 8s. per week additional, i. e. £20 per annum, to do all the work usually done by the Coachman, except driving the Carriage—he comes for orders as a Coachman does, and brings the Carriage to the Door, when his Man Servant, who acts as Coachman[7], mounts the Box and drives it; on its return, the Footman drives it to the Stables, and the Hostler does all the rest of the business usually done by a Coachman 20 0 0
Extra Wages to a Footman for Driving, and Box Coat, &c. not less than, per annum 8 0 0
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245 10 6
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Obs.—Few People but those who have either a very Strong Purse, or a very Weak Person, really require a Carriage every day.

Twice, or Thrice in a week would be quite enough for many;—such will do wisely, to find a Friend who will pay half of the Expense, and use the Equipage on alternate days—and on Sundays let it rest.

ESTIMATE No. VI.

For those who wish for a Carriage merely as a matter of occasional Parade, rather than of continual Convenience, and hardly require it perhaps Two days in a Week, the cheapest plan is to purchase a Carriage, and keep it at a Stable Yard, where, as often as they wish, they can hire a pair of Horses: but a good Carriage must not stand in a Public Yard, unless it is put into a private Coach-house, where it can be carefully locked up:—if you pay a little extra for this, it is money well spent.