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This is a temporary Plan, 'till another upon larger Scale can be carried into Effect.
ANTH. TODD, Sec.

-- 8801 NEWS (General Post-Office, January 9, 1788)
THE Bag of Letters from Lynn for London of Monday the 7th Instant, which should have arrived at this Office
Yesterday, and also the Bye-Bags, with the Letters from Brandon, Thetford, Bury, Newmarket, Cambridge, Huntingdon,
and all Parts of the North, were stolen out of the Mail-Cart, whilst the Post-Boy stopt to change Horses at the Door of the
Swan Public-House at Methwold in Norfolk, about Seven o'Clock on Monday Evening, the said 7th Instant.
Whoever will 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 FlFrY POUNDS; or if any Person, whether an Accomplice in the Robbery or
knowing thereof, shall make Discovery, whereby One or more of the Persons concerned therein may be apprehended and
brought to Justice, such Discoverer will, upon Conviction of the Party or Parties, be entitled to the same Reward, and will
also receive His Majesty's most gracious Pardon.
ANTHONY TODD, Sec.

-- 8 8 0 2 NEWS (General Post-Office, March 14, 1788)

IN Compliance with the unanimous Request of a Meeting of West India Merchants in the City of London, the
following Alterations will be made in the Plan which has been recently adopted for dispatching the Packets to the West
Indies, and will be carried into Effect till further Notice.
A Mail will be made up at this Office on the first Wednesday of every Month for Jamaica, and also for the Leeward
Islands, with which a Packet will be dispatched immediately from Falmouth to touch at Barbadoes on her Outward Bound
Passage, and leave there the Letters for all the Leeward Islands, and then proceed directly to Jamaica, from whence she is
to return, after staying Fourteen Days, and no more, by the Windward Passage to England.
Another Mail will be made up for the Leeward Islands on the Third Wednesday in every Month, with which a Packet
will proceed, first to Barbadoes, and from thence to St. Vincent's, Grenada, Dominica, Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis,
St. Kitt's and Tortola, and, after having staid no longer than Forty-eight Hours at Barbadoes, St. Vincent's, Grenada,
Dominica, Antigua and St. Kitt's, and Twenty-four Hours at each of the other Islands, she is to return directly to England
with the Letters she may have collected for Great Britain and Ireland.
All Letters for the Leeward Islands, which may be sent by the Jamaica Packet on the first Wednesday in every Month,
will be conveyed from Barbadoes, either by the Gov~mment Vessels of the respective Islands, or by a Brig to be specially
employed for that Purpose, in order that the Answers may be prepared against the Arrival of the Leeward Island Packet
from hence of the Third Wednesday in every Month.
ANTH. TODD, Sec.

-- 8 8 0 3 NEWS (General Post-Office, March 29, 1788)

IN Compliance with the unanimous Request .of a Meeting of West India Merchants in the City of London, the
following Alteration will be made in the Plan whith has been recently adopted for dispatching the Packets to the West
Indies, and will be carried into Effect till further Notice.
A Mail will be made up at this Office on the first Wednesday of every Month for Jamaica, and also for the Leeward
Islands, with which a Packet will be dispatched immediately from Falmouth to touch at Barbadoes on her Outward Bound
Passage, and leave there the Letters for all the Leeward Islands, and then proceed directly to Jamaica, from whence she is
to return, after staying Fourteen Days, and no more, by the Windward Passage to England.
Another Mail will be made up for the Leeward Islands on the Third Wednesday in every Month, with which a Packet
will proceed, first to Barbadoes, and from thence to St. Vincent's, Grenada, Dominica, Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis,
St. Kitt's and Tortola, and, after having staid no longer than f arty-eight Hours at Barbadoes, St. Vmcent's, Grenada,
Dominica, Antigua and St. Kitt's, and Twenty-four Hours at each of the other Islands, she is to return directly to England
with the Letters she may have collected for Great Britain and Ireland.

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