Additional towns receiving mail three or six times a week

His Majesty's Post-Master General, for the farther Improvement of Correspondence, having been pleased to order, that Letters shall, for the future, be conveyed by the Post six Days in every Week, instead of Three Days, as at present, between London and Chippingnorton, Evesham, Worcester, Broomsgrove and Birmingham, with the intermediate Places, and that those Letters, on the three additional Post Days, shall be conveyed through OXFORD: And likewise, that Letters shall, for the future, be conveyed by the Post six Days in every Week, instead of three Days, as at present, between London and Wells, Bridgwater, Taunton, Wellington, Tiverton and Exeter, and that those Letters, on the three additional Post Days, shall be conveyed through BRISTOL.

And the Post-Master General having also been pleased to order a new Branch to be erected between Salisbury and Axminster, through the Towns of Blandford, Dorchester, Bridport and Lyme, by which Means the Correspondence between London and those Places, together with the Towns of Weymouth, Wareham, and Corse-Castle, and also their Correspondence with the Trading-Towns in Devonshire and Cornwall, as well as with Bath, and Bristol, will be considerably quickened and improved.

Publick Notice is hereby given, that these several additional Conveyances will commence upon Monday the 26th of this Instant December, at which Time the present Stage between Crewkerne and Bridport, together with that between Shaftsbury and Blandford, will be discontinued.

And whereas great Numbers of Letters have hitherto been privately collected and delivered at the several Towns and Stages abovementioned, contrary to Law, and to the great Prejudice of the Revenue of the Post-Office; All Carriers, Coachmen, Watermen, Wherrymen, Dispersers of Country News Papers, and all other Persons whatsoever, hereafter detected in the illegal collecting or delivering of Letters, will be prosecuted with the utmost Severity.

N. B. The Penalty is Five Pounds for every Letter collected or delivered contrary to Law, and One Hundred Pounds for every Week such Practice is continued.

GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.