Page 197 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1790-1799

Great-Britain, together with the Contents thereof, shall be charged more than as a Treble Letter, unless the same shall
weigh an Ounce, when it is to be rated as Four Single Letters, and so in proportion for every Quarter of an Ounce above
that Weight, reckoning each Quarter as a Single Letter. '
Letters to all Parts of Europe are dispatched from London every Tuesday and Friday; and to Portugal by the \~ 1cket
Boats to Lisbon every Wednesday: Also '.2 rf•.
Letters to the Leeward Islands are dispatched from London the First and Third Wednesday in every Mont ; to
Jamaica, and all Parts of North America on the First Wednesday in every Month only. ~
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-- 9 2 0 3 NEWS (General Post-Office, April 14, 1792)

AT the Lent Assizes, 1792, for the County of Cambridge, an Indictment was found by the Grand Jury against Spence
Broughton and John Oxley for robbing the Cambridge Mail, near Bourn Bridge, on the 9th of June last; and at the same
Assizes for the County of York an Indictment was likewise found against them for robbing the Mail between Sheffield and
Rother am on the 29th of January, 1791; on which last Indictment Broughton was tried and convicted.
Oxley escaped out of Clerkenwell Bridewell on the 31st of October last.
He is about Twenly-five Years of Age, Five Feet Ten Inches high, pale faced, rather pitted with the Small Pox, and his
Nose turned a little to the Right.
Whoever shall secure the said John Oxley, and lodge him in any of the Gaols of this Kingdom, within Three Months
from the Date hereof, will be entitled to a Reward of ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, to be paid immediately on his
Commitment.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

-- 9 2 0 4 0017 (General Post-Office, August 10, 1792)

SIR,
I Send you herewith a Number of Advertisements, to prevent the illegal Conveyance of Letters, one of which you will
be pleased to put into the Hands of every Person in your Town and District, of the Profession or Occupation described in
the Advertisement, to whom it is particularly addressed. You will also be pleased to affix one of these Advertisements, at
the Window of your Office, and in some of the most conspicuous Parts of your Town and Neighbourhood, that all Persons
may be made acquainted with the Intention of the POSTMASTER-GENERAL, to prosecute Offenders with the utmost
Severity.
I am, SIR, Your very Humble Servant,.
JOHNSON WILKINSON, Surveyor of the General Post-Office.

-- 9 2 0 5 0018 (undated)

CAUTION to POST-BOYS.

BY the Act of 5th of Geo. Ill. If any Post-Boy, or Rider, having taken any of his Majesty's Mails, or Bags of Letters,
under his Care, to convey to the next Post Town or Stage, shall suffer any other Person (except a Guard) to ride on the
Horse or Carriage, or shall Loiter on the Road, and wilfully mispend his Time, so as to retard the Arrival of the said Mails,
or Bags of Letters, at the next Post Town or Stage. - Every such Offender shall, on Conviction before One Justice, be
committed to the House of Correction, and confined to hard Labour for one Month. All Post-Boys and Riders are
therefore desired to take Notice of this, and are hereby cautioned not to fail in the regular Performance of their Duty,
otherwise they will most assuredly be punished as the Law directs. And it is hoped and requested, for the Benefit of public
Correspondence, that all Persons, who may observe any Post-Boy or Rider, offending as aforesaid, will give immediate
Notice to
Johnson Wilkinson, Surveyor of the General Post-Office.

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