Page 149 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1770-1779

-- 7 5 0 6 NEWS (General Post Office, December 13, 1775)

THE Packet-boat for Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and East Florida, being detained for a Week;
all Letters to any of these Provinces, put into this Office on or before Saturday the 23d Instant, will be forwarded by her.
At the same Time Letters for the Provinces North of Virginia will be forwarded by another Boat directly to New York.
A Mail will likewise be made up the same Day for the West Indies, by the Grantham, Captain Jones, detained for that
Purpose.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

-- 7601 NEWS (General Post-Office, December 21, 1776)

A Mail for New York will be made up and forwarded from hence the First Wednesday in every Month as formerly, to
commence on Wednesday the lst of January next.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

-- 7801 NEWS (General Post-Office, April 7, 1778)

ON Saturday last the 4th Instant, about Eleven at Night, the Post-Boy was attacked and robbed, Eight Miles from
York, in the Road to Malton, of the Bag of Letters from this Office of Thursday Night last the 2d Instant, for Scarborough,
Malton, Whitby, and other Places within the Delivery of Scarborough and Malton, and also of the Bag with the Bye and
Road Letters for the same Places.
The Person who committed this Robbery was then on Foot, but when he passed two Turnpike Gates in the
Neighbourhood was mounted upon a Light Bay mettled Horse, about Fourteen Hands and an Half high, strong made; and
the Bar-keepers agree with the Post-Boy in the Description of the Robber, that he was a stout Man, Six Feet high, and thin
in the Face, with Black Stockings, Waistcoat and Breeches, and Brown Copper-coloured Coat; his own short curled Hair
powdered, with a round Hat, two Sides of it tied up; and the Post-Boy observed, whilst he lay with his Hands and Feet
bound in a Field adjoining the Road, that the Robber put the Bills, &c. which he took out of the Letters, into the inside
Pocket of his light Great Coat.
Whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the Person who committed this
Robbery, will be intitled to a Reward of Two HUNDRED POUNDS, over and above the Reward given by Act of Parliament
for apprehending Highwaymen; or if any Person, whether an Accomplice in the Robbery, or knowing thereof, shall make
Discovery, whereby the Person who committed the same may be apprehended and brought to Justice, such Discoverer will,
upon Conviction of the Party, be intitled to the same Reward of Two HUNDRED POUNDS, and will also receive His
Majesty's most gracious Pardon.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

-- 7 8 0 2 NEWS (General Post-Office, November 14, 1778)

No Person can at present be permitted to go out of England in any of the King's Packet Boats from Dover or
Harwich, without producing a Passport from one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. Neither can any Person
coming to England be received on Board the Packet Boats at Helvoetsluys or Ostend, without a Passport from His
Majesty's Ambassador at the Hague, or from His Majesty's Consul or Vice Consul at Ostend.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

-- 7901 NEWS (General Post-Office, January 19, 1779)
ON Saturday last the 16th Instant, about Six o'clock in the Evening, the Post-Boy was attacked and robbed, at a Place
called Priest's Bridge, about Four Miles North of Morpeth, of the whole Scotch Mail, and the Bags from Berwick, Belford,
and Alnwick, which should have arrived here this Morning, by Two Footpads, armed with Bludgeons, who stopped the Boy,

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