Extension of the Bye night mail beyond Worcester to Ledbury and Hereford

His Majesty's Post-Master-General having been pleased to order the Bye-night Mails from London, which now stop at Worcester, to be continued from thence to Ledbury and Hereford, Public Notice is hereby given, That the First Bye-night-mail for Ledbury and Hereford, will be forwarded from this Office, on Monday the 28th Instant; and the First additional Mail to London, will be forwarded from those Places, through Worcester, on Tuesday the 1st of March next.

By this new Communication, the Towns of Hereford and Ledbury will have a regular correspondence with London Six Times a Week; their Correspondence with Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, great Part of Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Cheshire, North Wales, Lancashire, great Part of Westmoreland, Somersetshire, Part of Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and all Parts of Devonshire and Cornwall, will be accelerated: The Correspondence of the Counties of Radnor, Brecknock, Carmarthen, and Pembroke, with Worcestershire, Staffordshire, great Part of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, and Part of Westmoreland, will be also improved.

And whereas many Letters are illegally conveyed by Carriers, Stage Coachmen, Boatmen, Dispersers of Country News-Papers, and others: Notice is hereby given, That all Persons, collecting, conveying, or delivering Letters, without legal Authority, will be prosecuted with the utmost Severity. The Penalty is Five Pounds for every Letter collected or delivered illegally, and One Hundred Pounds for every Week such Practice is continued.

ANTH. TODD, Secretary.