Germany, Italy, other countries via Holland, France or Flanders. Postal rates

Whereas notwithstanding the publick Notice, that has been so repeatedly given by this Office, as well in the Gazette as in other News Papers, concerning the Foreign Postage which is to be paid here for all Letters that are to go to Germany, Italy, or any other Country beyond Holland, France, or Flanders, Mistakes have sometimes been made, and Letters have been delivered at this Office, directed to those Countries without paying the Foreign Postage, as required by Act of Parliament: The Postmaster General has thought fit to advertise, That the Postage to be paid here at this Office, or at the respective Receiving Houses or Offices, appointed and authorized for the taking in of Letters in Town or Country, by all Persons corresponding with Germany, Italy, or any Foreign Parts in the North or the South, by the Way of Holland, France, or Flanders, is after the following Rates, viz.

And it is to be observed, that on Failure of such Payment of the above Rates, no Letters to such Foreign Parts can be forwarded from this Office, and that for all Letters directed to Foreign Countries, by the Way of Holland, France, and Flanders, as above, sent to this Office to be forwarded from any Parts of the Kingdom of Great Britain, distant from London, or from any Parts of Ireland, the usual Inland Postage to London, is also to be paid over and above the Foreign Postage.

GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.