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1790-1799

Letters there, to proceed immediately to Jersey, there to deliver her Letters, and to stay Three Days for the Answers, then
to return to Guernsey, deliver her Letters, stay there Two Days, and Return to Weymouth.
ANTH. TODD, Sec.

--9 4 0 3 NEWS (General Post Office, February 19, 1794)

THE Post Boy carrying the Mails from CHEsTER to LIVERPOOL, on Monday, the 17th Instant, was stopped on the
Highway, about a mile beyond Neston, at half past three o'Clock in the morning, by two men on foot, who robbed him of
the Mail, which contained the Letters from Chester for Liverpool, as also the Letters from Ireland for that place, which had
arrived at Chester in two Irish Mails the day before. The Post Boy describes one of the Robbers to be about 5 feet 4 inches
high, rather lusty, and to have worn a round hat and a light coloured coat. The other, about 5 feet 8 inches high, slender
made, and to have worn a round hat and a brown coat. Whoe¥er shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended
and convicted, both or either of the Persons who committed this robbery, will be entitled to a Reward of Two HUNDRED
POUNDS over and above the Reward given by act of Parliament for apprehending Highwaymen: Or if any person, whether
an accomplice in the robbery, or knowing thereof, shall make discovery, whereby both or either of the persons who
committed the same may be apprehended and brought to justice, such discoverer will be entitled to the said Reward of
Two HUNDRED POUNDS, and will also receive His Majesty's most gracious pardon.
ANTHONY TODD, Sec.

- 9 4 0 4 NEWS (General Post-Office, March 1, 1794)

COMPLAINT having been made to the Post-Master General, that Robert Briscoe, the Manchester Mail Coachman,
behaved ill to a Lady who was Passenger in the Coach; the said Robert Briscoe was dismissed the Service by Order of their
Lordships; and all Mail Coach Contractors are directed not to employ him again, the Post-Master General being
determined that no Coachmen or Guards shall be continued in the Service who do not behave with Civility and Attention to
the Passengers.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

-- 9 4 0 5 NEWS (General Post Office, March 29, 1794)

THE Post Boy carrying the Bye-Mail in a Cart, from NEWARK to CAMBRIDGE, on Tuesday night, the 25th Instant, was
stopped, between the hours of Twelve and One o'Clock, by a Man on horseback, about three miles and a half from
Newmarket, who took from him seven Bags, namely, Norwich, Yannouth, Lynn, Thetford, Brandon, Bury, and Newmarket,
containing the Letters for Cambridge. All the Bags, except Newmarket, were found early the next morning, near the place
where the Postboy was robbed, empty. Whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted,
the Person who committed this robbery, will be entitled to a Reward of Two HUNDRED POUNDS over and above the
Reward given by act of Parliament for apprehending Highwaymen: Or if any person, whether an accomplice in the robbery,
or knowing thereof, shall make discovery, whereby the person who committed the same may be apprehended and brought
to justice, such discoverer will, upon conviction of the party, be entitled to the said Reward of Two HUNDRED POUNDS,
and will also receive His Majesty's most gracious pardon.
ANTHONY TODD, Sec.

- 9 4 0 6 NEWS (General Post-Office, May 28, 1794)

THE Post-Master General having been pleased to order a more frequent and expeditious Delivery of Letters by the
Penny Post, Notice is hereby given, that Letters are now delivered to all Parts of the Town Six Times a day, and it is
intended, as soon as the necessary Arrangements can be completed, to give Three Deliveries a Day to most Parts of the
Country within the Circuit of the Penny Post.
The Hours by which Letters must be put in at the different Receiving Houses for each Delivery, are the same in all
Parts of the Town, viz. Eight, Ten and Twelve o'Clock in the Morning, and Two, Five and Eight in the Afternoon; and the

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