In conformity to your lordship’s desire, we have applied to the superintendent of mailcoaches, as the officer in our department most competent to give information upon the subject of Mr. MᶜAdam’s exertions; and we beg leave to inclose his report, and to add, that with respect to the road near Staines, to which he alludes, we had found it necessary to give notice of indictment, which has been prevented, by the commissioners resorting to Mr. MᶜAdam’s assistance and advice, which have produced the excellent road mentioned by the superintendent.
The road from Newbury, through Reading to Twyford has been so much improved, that the mail-coach has been better enabled to keep its time than heretofore; and we are convinced, that if the roads near London were improved in a similar manner, considerable advantages would be obtained to the correspondence in general, but particularly in places from ninety to one hundred miles distant.
We are, with great respect, My Lords,
Your Lordships very obedient humble servants,
Chichester.
Salisbury.
General Post-office,
20th Dec. 1819.
Appendix (D.)
Certificate and Recommendation by several Peers and Members of Parliament, to the Right Honourable the Lord Commissioners of the Treasury, respecting Mr. MᶜAdam’s Claim for remuneration.