Page 160 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1780-1789

-- 8 210 NEWS (General Post-Office, December 11, 1782)
THE Bag of Letters from Liverpool and Wigan, of the 6th Instant, which should have arrived at this Office on Monday
Morning last, the 9th, having been stolen out of the Mail Cart at the Post-Office in Fenny Stratford, in the Night of Sunday
the 8th of December: Whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted the Person or
Persons who stole the said Bags, will be entitled to a Reward of FIFTY POUNDS.
ANTHONY TODD, Secretary.

-- 8 211 NEWS [General Post Office, December 14-17, 1782]

WHEREAS the undermentioned Bills were in the Liverpool Bag that was stole out of the Mail at Fenny Stratford, on
the Night of the 8th Instant; - Therefore this is to caution the Public at large not to give any Value upon said Bills, their
Payment being stopped. It is moreover particularly requested, that in case any Person shall offer to negotiate any of them,
that the Party may be stopped, and immediate Notice sent to the Posr OFFICE, and to JOSEPH DENISON, and Co. of
Jeffries Square, London.
(Note of the Editor: A list of 72 bills follows but has not been reproduced here. The place, date, drawer, term, order,
on whom drawn and finally the sum are all included in that list)

-- 8301 NEWS (General Post Office, March 6, 1783)

THE Preliminary Articles of Peace between Great Britain, France and Spain, being signed and ratified, the
Correspondence is now opened between Dover and Calais, and the Mails will be dispatched from this Office every Tuesday
and Friday, as formerly, to commence upon Friday the 14th Instant; and no Passports, for the future, will be required of
Persons either going or coming in any of His Majesty's Packet Boats whatsoever.
ANTH. TODD, Sec.

-- 8 3 0 2 NEWS (General Post-Office, November 18, 1783)

A SUFFICIENT Number of Packet Boats of about 200 Tons and 30 Hands are established between Falmouth and New-
y ork to support a monthly Correspondence, and the Mails will continue to be dispatched as at present from London and
from New-York upon the First Wednesday in 1<very Month.
All Persons are however to take Notice, that instead of its being any longer left to the Option of the Writer to pay or
not the Postage beforehand, there is now a Necessity for the Postage on all Letters from any Part of Great-Britain or
Ireland for North America to be paid up to London, without which they must be opened and returned to the Writers, but
the Packet Postage of one Shilling for a single Letter and so in Proportion between London and New-York, may or not be
paid at each Place before-hand.
And all Persons upon the Continent of Europe and of North America corresponding with each other by these Packet
Boats are to take particular Notice, that they are to put their Letters under Cover to their Friends in London.
Likewise, all Persons in Great-Britain Of Ireland desirous of sending any Letters for the United States of America by
the French Packet Boats, are to cause them tb be put under Cover to some Correspondent at Paris.
ANTHONY TODD, Sec.

-- 8 3 0 3 NEWS (General Post-Office, Edinburgh, December 19, 1783)

BY an act of the ninth of Queen Anne, intituled, "An act for establishing a General Post Office for all her Majesty's
dominions," &c. the following port or postage of letters is ordained to be exacted in Scotland, viz. "For the port of every
single letter or piece of paper to and from the Chief Post Office in the said city of Edinburgh, to or from any place not
exceeding fifty English miles distant from the said Chief Post Office in Edinburgh, and within that part of Great Britain
called Scotland, two Pence British money; and for the like port of every double letter, four pence of like money; and so
proportionably to the said rates for the port of every packet of letters; and for the like port of every packet of writs, deeds,

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