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-- 8 6 0 2 NEWS (General-Post-Office, January 13, 1786)

THE Bags of Letters from Lymington, Rumsey, Isle of Wight, Southampton, and Winchester, of Wednesday the 4th,
and Thursday the 5th Instant, not having arrived at this Office, and it being supposed they are lost somewhere between
Winchester and London, as the Winchester and Rumsey Bags of those Days, were delivered to the Mail Coachman on the
Afternoon of the 6th, whoever has found the same, and will bring them to this Office immediately, shall receive Twenty
Guineas Reward.
ANTHONY TODD, Secretary.

-· 8 6 0 3 NEWS (General Post Office, January 28, 1786)

THE Owners of a Bank Note of Ten Pounds, and of two Promissory Notes of the Lincoln Bank for Ten Pounds each,
sent in the Mail that was robbed near Hull on the 2d instant, are desired to apply immediately at this Office.
ANTHONY TODD, Secretary .

•• 8 6 O 4 NEWS (General Post Office, March 7, 1786)

MR. PALMER having engaged to accomplish his Plan for the Conveyance of His Majesty's Mails to all Parts of the
Kingdom as soon as possible, the Letters for every Part of Great Britain and Ireland, must be put into the Receiving
Houses before FIVE o'Clock in the Evening, and into this Office before SEVEN, in order to prevent the Inconveniencies
which have arisen to the Public from two Deliveries in London on the same Day, and the sending out the Mails at different
Hours on the same Evening.
The Letters are intended to be sent out regularly from hence, between the Hours of Nine and Ten in the Morning, so
as to reach the most distant Parts of the Town by Twelve at Noon.
It is necessary that all Newspapers should be put into this Office, before Six o'Clock, otherwise they cannot be certain
of an immediate Conveyance.
ANTHONY TODD, Sec.
The following (exclusive of those on the Cross Post Roads) are the Mail Coaches already established.
To Bath and Bristol, from the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane, and the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly.
To Norwich and Yarmouth, through Newmarket and Thetford, from the White Horse, Fetter-lane.
To Norwich, through Colchester and Ipswich, from the same Place.
To Nottingham and Leeds, from the Bull and Mouth, in Bull and Mouth-street.
To Manchester, through Derby, from the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane.
To Liverpool, through Coventry and Litchfield, from the same place.
To Portsmouth, from the Angel, behind St. Clement's Church.
To Southampton and Poole, from the Bell and Crown, Holborn; and the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly.
To Gloucester, Swansea, and Caermarthen, from the Angel, behind St. Clement's Church; and the Gloucester Coffee-
house, Piccadilly.
To Hereford, Brecknock, Caermarthen, and Milford Haven, from the Angel, behind St. Clement's Church, and the
Gloucester Coffee-House, Piccadilly. ·
To Worcester and Ludlow, from the Gebrge and Blue Boar, Holborn, and the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly.
To Bath and Bristol, through Andover and Devizes, from the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane, and the Gloucester
Coffee-house, Piccadilly.
To Shrewsbury, and to Birmingham, Kidderminster and Bewdley, from the Bull and Mouth, Bull and Mouth-street.
To Windsor, from the Three Cups, Bread-street, and the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly.
To Chester and Holyhead, from the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane.
To Carlisle, by Way of Manchester, from the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane.
To Dover, from the George and Blue Boar, Holborn, and the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly, to York-house,
Dover.
To Exeter, through Salisbury, Blandford, and Dorchester, from the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane; and the
Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly.

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