Page 132 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1760-1769

That any Officer of the Post Office, entrusted to take in Letters, and receive the Postage thereof, embezzling the
Money received, or destroying the Letters; or any Officer advancing the Rates on Letters, and not accounting for the
advanced Postage, shall, on Conviction, be deemed guilty of Felony.
That any Post-Boy having a Mail or Bag of Letters under his Care, deserting the same before his Arrival at the next
Stage; or suffering any other Person to ride on the Horse or Carriage along therewith; or loitering on the Road; or not, in
all possible Cases, conveying the Mail after the Rate of Six measured Miles an Hour, shall, on Conviction, before one
Justice of the Peace, be sent to the House of Correction for any Time not exceeding One Month, nor less than Fourteen
Days.
That any Post-Boy, singly, or in Combination with others, unlawfully collecting, or conveying Letters, or causing the
same to be unlawfully conveyed, shall, on Conviction, before one Justice of the Peace, forfeit Ten Shillings, to be paid to the
Informer, for every Letter so unlawfully collected, conveyed, or delivered. And if the Forfeiture is not immediately paid,
shall be sent to the House of Correction, for any Time not exceeding Two Months, nor less than One Month.
That all Rates of Letters, and all Forfeitures, mentioned in this Act, shall be paid in Sterling Money of Great Britain.
The Rates established by this Act for the Port of Letters between London and Hamburgh; and the Limitation of the
Weight of Packets to be sent by the Penny-Post, commence from the Fifth of July next. All other Regulations, Rates of
Postage, Pains, Penalties, and Forfeitures beforementioned, commence from the Tenth Day of October next.
ANTHONY TODD, Secretary.
(Note of the editor: in July, 1765, the same Notice was issued bearing the signature of Henry Potts, the new Secretary
to the Post Office).

- 6 5 0 5 NEWS (General Post-Office, June 11, 1765)

A Mail will be dispatched from this Office on Thursday the llth of July next, being the second Thursday in the Month,
for His Majesty's Islands in the West Indies, Pensacola, and Charles-Town, by the Grenville Packet-Boat, Captain Charles
Edwards.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

-- 6 5 0 6 NEWS (General Post-Office, June 22, 1765)

A Daily Post, Sundays excepted, will go between London and Tunbridge Wells, and between London and
Brighthelmstone as usual; likewise to and from Bromley and Sevenoaks, from Midsummer to Michaelmas next.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

- 6 5 0 7 NEWS (General Post-Office, September 3, 1765)

A Mail will be dispatched from this Office on Thursday the 12th Instant, being the second Thursday in the Month, for
His Majesty's Islands in the West Indies, Pensacola, and Charles-Town, by the Grantham Packet-Boat, Captain John Jones.
HENRY POTTS, Secretary.

-- 6 5 0 8 NEWS (General Post Office, November 8, 1765)

A Mail for the West Indies, Florida, and South Carolina, will be dispatched from this Office on Thursday next the 14th
Instant, being the second Thursday in the Month, by the Hillsborough Packet-Boat, Captain Leslie Grove.
HENRY POTTS, Secretary.

-- 6 5 0 9 NEWS (General Post-Office, December 7, 1765)

His Majesty's Postmaster General, for the Improvement of Correspondence, having been pleased to establish a
Packet-Boat between Whitehaven and the Isle of Man, to sail to and from the said Island, once in every Fortnight; Publick

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