Ireland. Improvement of correspondence for the mail to Ireland

His Majesty's Postmaster-General, for the further Improvement of Correspondence, intended to establish a Post six Times a Week, instead of three as at present, between England and Ireland, both by the Way of Holyhead and Port Patrick, the several Regulations for that Purpose will commence on Wednesday the 6th of July next.

From that Time also the Letters between several Parts of England and Ireland, which have hitherto been sent through London, will be circulated directly through the By and Cross Roads; by which Means the Correspondence between many Commercial Parts in both Kingdoms will be greatly accelerated.

Notwithstanding the frequent Regulations and Improvements made by the Postmaster-General for the Benefit of Correspondence in divers Parts of Great-Britain and Ireland, it still appears, that vast Numbers of Letters are privately collected and delivered contrary to Law, to the great Prejudice of the Revenue: Publick Notice is therefore hereby given, that all Carriers, Coachmen, Watermen, Dispersers of Country News-Papers, Higglers, and all others whatsoever, hereafter detected in the illegal collecting, conveying, or delivering of Letters or Packets, will be prosecuted with the utmost Severity. The Penalty is Five Pounds for every several Offence, and One Hundred Pounds every Week such Practice is continued: One Moiety to the King, and the other Moiety to such Person or Persons who shall inform against the Offender or Offenders.

ANTH. TODD, Secretary.