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said Money Order Office will in future be conducted under the joint Names of Edmund Barnes, Daniel William Stow and
Matthew Slater, at the General Post Office aforesaid.
EDM. BARNES, I. H. CABANES, CHARLES COLTSON,
WM. OGILVY, SAM. ARDRON, CHARLES EVANS,
DAN. W. STOW, MA.IT. SIATER

-- 9 8 0 4 NEWS (General Post-Office, June 15, 1798)

His Majesty's Post-Master General have directed that for the present and until farther Notice, all Letters which may arrive
by the Mails from Ireland on Sundays, shall be immediately delivered upon application at the Post-Office, in Lombard-
street.
FRANCIS FREELING.

-- 9 8 0 5 0036 (General Post-Office, July 3, 1798)

TWO HUNDRED POUNDS REwARD.

THE Post-Boy carrying the Mail from Bromley to Seven Oaks last Night, was stopt about Two Miles from
Farnborough, between the Hours of Ten and Eleven o'Clock, by a single Highwayman, who presented a Horse Pistol and
demanded the Mail, which the Boy gave him. He offered the Robber Half a Guinea, but he declined taking it.
The Robber is described to be a Young Man, Middle Size, had on a Drab-coloured Great Coat, and rode a Horse
with a White Face. The same Man, as supposed, passed through the Turnpike Gate at Pratt's Bottom, towards Riverhead,
on Horseback, about Three o'Clock in the Afternoon, returned about Seven in the Evening, and asked his Way to Croydon:
He had a Pair of small Saddle Bags, and had the Appearance of a London Rider, in the Opinion of the Turnpike-man.
The Bags taken away are,
Seven Oaks, Tunbridge, Lamberhurst, Battle, Rye, Hastings.

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 of FORTY POUNDS given by
Act of Parliament for apprehending Highwaymen: Or if any Person, whether an Accomplice in the Robbery, or knowing
thereof, shall surrender himself and make Discovery, whereby the Person who committed the same may be apprehended
and brought to Justice, sucb ·Discoverer will be entitled to the same Reward of TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, and will also
receive His Majesty's most gracious Pardon.
FRANCIS FREELING, Secretary.

-- 9 8 0 6 0037 (General Post-Office, July 21, 1798)

To all POSIMASIERS.

SOME Circumstances having made it necessary to take into Consideration the Claims of different Descriptions of
Persons in the Army and Navy, to be included in the Benefit of the Act of Parliament authorizing single Letters to pass at
the reduced Rate of One Penny: I am to inform you that, in future, Serjeant-Majors in the Army are not, (as stated in my
circular Letter of the 16th April last) to be excluded from the Privileges of the Act, but are to have the full Benefit of it, the
same as the Private Men in the Regiments.
I am, Your obedient Servant,
FRANCIS FREELING, Secretary.

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