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1790-1799

are employed in his Majesty's Service, and not otherwise, are to be charged with a rate of postage of one penny only as
heretofore. The Act may be seen at every Post-Office.
N. B. All Letters from any Part of Great Britain or Ireland, for Portugal or America (except his Majesty's West India
Islands) are, besides the Packet Postage, to pay at the Office where they are put in, the full Port to Falmouth, without which
they cannot be forwarded, therefore all Persons, are desired to take particular Notice thereof, to prevent their letters being
opened and returned.
ANTHONY TODD, Secretary.

-- 9 7 0 1 NEWS (General Post-Office, Tuesday, January 24, 1797)

FIFTY POUNDS REWARD.

THE Post-Boy carrying the Cross-Road Mail from Derby to Nottingham, on Sunday Evening, the 22d Instant, having
stopt to deliver a Letter at Draycott Fieldgate, had the Mail taken from his Horse.
There were Eight Bags of Letters in the Mail, viz.
Birmingham and Newark, Litchfield and Newark, Buxton and Newark, Derby and Newark,
Ditto and Nottingham, Ditto and Nottingham, Ditto and Nottingham, Ditto and Nottingham,
which contained, besides the Letters from Birmingham, Litchfield, Buxton, and Derby, the Letters from all Parts of
Derbyshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire, for Nottinghamshire, Licolnshire, the West Riding of Yorkshire,
Durham, Northumberland and Scotland.
Whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the Person or Persons who stole the
said Mail and Bags, will be intitled to a reward of FlFIY POUNDS; or if any Person concerned in the Stealing thereof will
surrender himself and make Discovery, whereby one or more of the Persons concerned therein may be apprehended and
brought to Justice, such Discoverer will be intitled to the said Reward of FlFIY POUNDS, and will also receive His Majesty's
most gracious Pardon.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

-- 9 7 0 2 0034 (General Post-Office, March 14, 1797)

As there is great Reason to believe that many Persons are in the Practice of sending Letters by Neutral Vessels from
Dover to Calais, and to other Ports of France; and also by private Vessels from Harwich and Yannouth to the Elbe, instead
of sending them by the Packets: HIS MAmsIY's POSTMASTER GENERAL find it their Duty to give this Public Notice, that
the Acts of Parliament which prohibit this illegal Mode of conveying Letters will be carried into Effect to their utmost
Extent, in order to check and prevent the Injury which this Revenue sustains from such a Practice.
Their Lordships also think it necessary to caution all Higlers, Carriers, Stage Coachmen, Watermen, and others,
against conveying Letters, with or without Hire; as their Lordships are determined, in all such Cases, to prosecute and sue
for the full Penalties, which are FivE POUNDS for each Offence, and ONE HUNDRED POUNDS for every Week such
Practice shall be continued; one Half of the Penalty to the King, the other to the Informer.
ANTHONY TODD, FRANCIS FREELING, Joint Secretary.

-- 9 7 0 3 NEWS (General Post Office, May 3, 1797)

THE Post Boy carrying the Mail from Ashburton to Exeter, was stopped near Chudleigh, about one o'clock on the
morning of Saturday the 20th ultimo, by two men on foot, dressed in blue seamens jackets, with trowsers, and masks over
their faces, who robbed the Boy of One Shilling and Six Pence in Silver, and Ten Pence Halfpenny in Copper.
Whoever 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 FIFIY POUNDS.
ANTHONY TODD, FRANCIS FREELING, Joint Secretary.

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