Page 196 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1790-1799

IREIAND.
Between London and Dublin, by Way of Holyhead 6d.
Between London and Donaghadee, by Way of Carlisle and Port Patrick 12d.
ISLE OF MAN.
Between Great Britain, and the Isle of Man, by Packet-Boats, over and above all other Rates •.••• 2d.
PENNY-POST.

For the Port of every Letter or Packet, passing or re passing within the Cities of London or Westminster, the Borough
of Southwark and their Suburbs, (which Letter or Packet is not to exceed the Weight of 4 Ounces, unless coming from or
passing to the General-Post) One Penny upon putting in the same, as also a Penny upon the Delivery of such as are
directed to any Place beyond the said Cities, Borough, or Suburbs, within the District of the Penny-Post Delivery.

SHIP LETTERS.
Postage of a Single Letter
in British Pence
For the Port of every Letter or Packet of Letters in any Part of
His Majesty's Dominions directed to, or coming from, on board of any Ship,
over and above the Rates before-mentioned •••••••••.••••••••••••.....•.•••.••••.•...••••••••• 1d.
For every Letter or Packet coming from on Ship-board for the Town where landed,
or the Delivery thereof, One Penny, with the Penny paid to the Master, Mariner,
or Passenger bringing the same, being for every such Letter or Packet ••••...•••.••..••.•••... 2d.

His Majesty's WEST-INDIA Islands, and NORTH-AMERICA.
For Letters conveyed by Packet-Boats between London and any Port
in His Majesty's West-India Islands, or North America....................................... 12d.
For Letters conveyed by Packet-Boats from any Port in the West-India Islands,
or His Majesty's Dominions in North America, to any other Port thereof ........•••••••••••••• 4d.
For the Inland Conveyance of Letters in the said Dominions between any Office
and any Place, not exceeding 60 English Miles ••••••.•••••••••••••.•......•.•••••••••••••••• 4d.
For any Distance above 60 English Miles, and not exceeding 100 Miles ......••••••••••••••••••••• 6d.
For any Distance above 100, and not exceeding 200 English Miles 8d.
And so in Proportion, the Postage increasing Two Pence a Single Letter for any Distance
above every 100 Miles.

FOREIGN LETTERS.
Letters from London to any Part of Holland, France, or Flanders, pay no Foreign Postage.
From any Part of Holland, France, or Flanders , to London............................. .......... 10d.
Between London and any Part of Spain or Portugal through France, or by Lisbon.................. 18d.
Between London and any Part of Italy, Sicily, Turke}· and S;;itH:oland, through France • . . . • . . . . . . 15d.
Between London and any Part of Italy, Sicily, Turkey, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark,
Sweden, Russia, and all Parts of the North, through Holland and Flanders.................... 12d.

Letters and Packets from any Part of Great Britain or Ireland, for any of the Places under the Title, FOREIGN
LETTERS, before mentioned, and for North America, are, besides, the said Foreign Rates and Packet Postage to North
America, to pay at the Office where they are put in, the full Port to London, without which they cannot be forwarded;
therefore, All Persons are to take particular Notice thereof to prevent the Necessity of their Letters being opened and retumed
for the Postage.
All Merchants Accounts not exceeding one Sheet of Paper, and all Bills of Exchange, Invoices, and Bills of Lading, to
or from any of the Foreign Parts or Places beforementioned, and the Covers of Letters to or from Turkey, not exceeding
one Quarter of a Sheet of Paper, are allowed to pass without Payment of the Foreign Postage, but are to pay the full Inland
Port to and from London.
All Double, Treble, and other Letters and Packets whatever (except by the Penny-Post) pay in proportion to the
respective Rates of Single Letters before specified; but no Letter or Packet to and from Places within the Kingdom of

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