Foreign letters. They have to be prepaid except to Holland and Flanders

Whereas divers Persons, through Ignorance or Carelessness, frequently put Letters into this Office, as also into the Post Offices both in Town and Country, that are directed on Board of Ships, and to Foreign Parts, without paying, at the same Time, the legal Postage for the same; and whereas Letters and Packets, are frequently put into the said Offices, which contain Money, Rings, or other Things of the like Nature; This is to give Notice, that no Letter or Packet whatsoever, under the above Circumstances, can, for the Time to come, be forwarded from hence, or from any other Post Office in the Kingdom.

N. B. Letters to Holland and Flanders are forwarded without any Foreign Postage demanded here, but if they are sent from the Country the Inland Postage must be paid to London.

GEO. SHELVOCKE.