[Picture: The General Post-office]
In St. Martin’s le Grand. The front of this fine building is 380 feet
long, and is ornamented with three Ionic porticos. The post-office is
one of the most busy spots in London, and is the most perfect system of
commercial convenience which has ever been formed under any government.
It receives letters from all parts of our own country, as well as from
every civilized nation in the world, and forwards them to their
destination with the utmost regularity.
In front of the central portico, I see, there is one of the mail-coaches
for the conveyance of letters. These coaches travel at the rate of eight
miles an hour, including stoppages: they carry also passengers and
parcels.