Of the number of letters which the Harwich and Falmouth packets carried we know little or nothing. In the one case we have absolutely no information. In the other there remains on record a single letter-bill applicable to a particular voyage. Of this letter-bill we will only observe that, for reasons immaterial to the present purpose, it became the subject of a good deal of correspondence, and it is not unreasonable to suppose that, had the number of letters entered in it been much above or much below the average, the point could hardly have escaped remark. The document is as follows:-- 28 April 1705. Received on board the _Prince_ Packet Boat the following Packets and letters. Zech: Rogers ... Commander. From my Lord Ambassador ... a Bag of Letters directed to Mr. Jones.[29] Sixteen Packetts and letters for Her Majestie's Service. From the King of Spain ... a very large Packett. For London and Holland ... Double and Single letters ... Two hundred and ninety six. Thirteen Packetts Do. Devonshire letters ... Double and Single ... Twenty nine ... and three Packetts. For Falmouth ... Double and Single letters ... six. Two mails for London. Outward-bound. No Passengers. Homeward-bound. One English Merchant. Three Dutch Gentlemen. Four poor sailors discharged from Her Majestie's Ship _Antelope_ being incapable for the Service. [29] The packet agent at Falmouth.