( A.) No. r. To the Right Honourable the POSTMASTERS GENERAL. The MEMORIAL of the Clerks of the Roads, Humbly Sheweth, THAT the employments of your Memorial ifts are the higheft in the Interior Depart- ment, and the principal reward to which the Junior Officers can alpire, as a recom- pence for years of diligent and laborious duties, which each of your Memorialifts have dif- charged, irreproachably, for nearly Forty years. That the Salaries of the Clerks of the Roads in London are Three hundred pounds per annum, independent of their emoluments, whilft thel'c of your Memorialifts are only from Forty to Sixty pounds per annum; and the value of their employments almoft folely depends on tlieir privilege of lending- Newspapers to the Country, a privilege equally enjoyed by the Clerks of the Roads in London. That at the period this privilege was annexed to their department, it was a full compen- fation for the lmallnefs of the Salary, being attended with no expence ( the Printer furnifh- ing the Paper gratis) and producing an annual income of from Six to Eight hundred pounds. - That from the operation of the Stamp Aift, and other concurrent caufes, the emoluments afifing from this privilege have been confiderably diminilhed; neverthelefs, as the Proceed- ings of Parliament uniformly excited the public attention, the increafed demand for Papers, at the periods of their Meetings, com pen- fated in lome degree for the general diminution ; and there vet remained to your Memorialifts an income fufficient for decent, though very limited competence. That in confequence of the Union, and the transition of Parliamentary Intelligence from this Metropolis, this fole remaining fource of emolument has gradually failed, the demand for Papers has rapidly and progreliively decreal'ed, as will appear by the annexed Statement; ; and your Memorialifts, after a i'ervice of almoft Forty years, in an advanced period of their lives, and with the incumbrance of families, are left with the melancholy profpeft of being reduced to an income inadequate for bare fupport. That your Memorialifts have, for more than a year paft, fubmitted in filence to thefe diffi- culties, as they would not prefume to addrefs your Lordlhips till they could afcertain the prefent amount of their lot's, and its probable future extent. This, from a view of the paft, tbev do not hefitate to lay will probably in a few years nearly annihilate thefe emoluments. Under thefe embarrassing circumftances your Memorialifts beg leave to fubmit this repre- sentation to your Lordships, in the humble but earneft hope that, through the humane inter- ference of your Lordships with Government, they may obtain fuch compenfation as to their wifdom and justice shall seem meet. And they are encouraged in this hope by the grateful ' nnpration of the Act which leparates the rolt ( Jmces oi recollection, that when by the operation of the . Entrland and Ireland, vour Memorialifts were deprived of lending Englilh Newspapers, the then Government with the most liberal fpirit of confideration, gave them compenfation to the full amount of the loss they sustained, although at that period they were left in pofteffion of the emoluments arifing from Irish Papers, of which they are now nearly deprived by the operation of the A& of Union; nor can they forget that in every inftance, whereftmrlar losses have been fuftained by the operation of that Act the lame liberal and beneficent fpirit has been gracioufly and uniformly exerted to the relief ot the fufferen. May ( A.). MEMORIALS and LETTERS to the POSTMASTERS GENERAL. ( B.) ACCOUNTS, and EXAMINATIONS. Commiffioners on FEES, GRATUITIES, 8cc.