Foreign Letters. They have to be prepaid except to France, Holland & Flanders

WHEREAS divers Persons, thro' Ignorance or Carelessness, frequently put Letters into the General-Post-Office, and other Post Offices in the Country, directed on board of Ships, to foreign Parts, and to Scotland, without paying at the same Time the Postage, as ought to be done; and whereas Letters and Packets are often put into the said Offices with Money and Rings inclosed, and in Fraud of His Majesty's Revenue, divers Persons presume to send Letters with false and Counterfeit Franks.

This is to acquaint the Public, that no Letters under any of the Circumstances aforesaid have any Right by Law to be forwarded.

Note, that Letters going out of Ireland (except to France, Holland and Flanders) have by the ancient Usage of the Post-Office, paid the Postage to London, as well as the foreign Postage, and are required by the Act of Parliament so to do, at the Office in Ireland, where the same are first put in.

Note also, that Letters directed to France, Holland and Flanders, are only to pay the Postage to London. and those directed to Scotland, the Sea-Postage between Donaghadee and Port-Patrick, which must be paid at the Office, where the same are first put in.

EDWARD MARTIN.