case lane against cotton postmaster general see S c Mod with note a action  will not lie against the postmaster general to recover the value of a  exchequer bill enclose in a letter and deliver at the postoffice and lose S c  salk S c comy S c Carth S c Mod S c Mod S c ld ray S c holt the plaintiff  bring a action against sir Robert cotton postmaster general wherein he declare  he send a letter by the post c in which there be enclose a exchequer bill and  this letter and bill be lose c modern upon the general issue plead the special  matter be find videlicet that the letter and bill be deliver to such a  postmaster and that afterward the mail be rob and the letter and exchequer  bill take away c modern er p upon argue this case the court seem to be of  opinion that the action be well bring against the defendant holt chief justice  it will be very hard upon the subject if this action shall not lie the crown  have a revenue of a hundred thousand pound ayear for the management of this  office and therefore care ought to be take that the letter be safe convey and  that the subject shall be secure in their property and why shall not this be  the same with a common carrier who must answer for the jewel or other valuable  thing that he lose as appear in Aleyns Rep Barcrofts case cite by roll chief  justice in the case of Kenrigg v Eggleston Allen but see Cowp a then it be  very hard that the subject shall be prevent by the Act of parliament from send  his letter by any other carrier against who he may have his remedy and yet not  have his remedy against the postmaster by who he be oblige to send his letter  but I be inform that afterward judgement be give in the court of king bench  for the defendant see the argument of the judge accord S c Com Rep to but it  be say that the defendant see that the plaintiff intend to bring a writ of  error pay the money S c ray and thereby prevent the further litigation of this  question Peer wms notorious facts see Cowp the opinion of the three judge  however have be recognize and confirm by judge of the court of king bench in  the case of Whitfield v Lord Le dispenser in which it be solemnly determine  that a action will not lie against the postmaster general for a bank note  steal by one of the sorters out of a letter deliver into the postoffice Cowp  to b to differ holt chief justice hilary term the first and second of William  and mary in the common plea sir Henry pollexfen Knt chief justice sir Thomas  Powell Knt sir Thomas Rokeby Knt sir Peyton Ventris Knt justice sir George  Treby Knt attorneygeneral John summer Esq solicitor general