SHOW MENUMr. Palmer. Announcement of the London-Bristol experiment with mail coaches
HIS Majesty's Postmaster-General, being inclined to make an Experiment for the more expeditious Conveyance of the Mails of Letters by Stage Coaches, Machines, &c. have been pleased to order, that a Trial shall be made upon the Road between London and Bristol, to commence at each Place on Monday the 2d of August next, and that the Mails should be made up at this Office every Evening (Sundays excepted) at 7 o'Clock, and at Bristol, in Return, at 3 in the Afternoon (Saturdays excepted) to contain the Bags for the following Post Towns, and their Districts, viz.
| HOUNSLOW. | Between 9 and 10 at Night ............................... | from London. |
| Between 6 and 7 in the Morning ........................ | from Bristol. | |
| MAIDENHEAD. | Between 11 and 12 at Night ............................. | from London. |
| Between 4 and 5 in the Morning ........................ | from Bristol. | |
| READING. | About 1 in the Morning ..................................... | from London. |
| Between 2 and 3 in the Morning ........................ | from Bristol. | |
| NEWBURY. | About 3 in the Morning ..................................... | from London. |
| Between 12 and 1 at Night ............................... | from Bristol. | |
| HUNGERFORD. | Between 4 and 5 in the Morning ........................ | from London. |
| About 11 at Night ............................................ | from Bristol. | |
| MARLBOROUGH. | About 6 in the Morning ..................................... | from London. |
| Between 9 and 10 at Night ............................... | from Bristol. | |
| CHIPPENHAM. | Between 8 and 9 in the Morning ........................ | from London. |
| About 7 in the Evening ..................................... | from Bristol. | |
| BATH. | Between 10 and 11 in the Morning ..................... | from London. |
| Between 5 and 6 in the Afternoon ...................... | from Bristol. | |
| BRISTOL. | About 12 at Noon ............................................. | from London. |
All Persons are therefore to take Notice, that the Letters put into any Receiving House in London before 6 in the Evening, or before 7 at this Office, will be forwarded by this new Conveyance; all others, for the said Post Towns and their Districts, put in afterwards, or given to the Bell-Men, must remain until the following Post, at the same Hour of 7 o'Clock.
Letters also for Colnbrooke, Windsor, Caine and Ramsbury, will be forwarded by this Conveyance every Day - and for Devizes, Melksham, Trowbridge and Bradford, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays; - for Great Bedwin and Pewsey, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays; - and for Henley, Nettlebed, Wallingford, Wells, Bridgewater, Taunton, Wellington, Tiverton, Froom and Warminster, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. - Letters from all the before-mentioned Post-Towns, and their District, will be sorted, and delivered as soon as possible after their Arrival in London, and are not to wait for the general Delivery.
All Carriers, Coachmen, Higlers, News Carriers, and all other Persons, are liable to a Penalty of £5 for every Letter which they shall receive, take up, order, dispatch, carry, or deliver illegally; and to £100 for every Week that an Offender shall continue the Practice, one Half to the Informer: And that this Revenue may not be injured by unlawful Collections and Conveyances, all Persons acting contrary to the Law therein will be proceeded against, and punished with the utmost Severity.
ANTHONY TODD, Sec.
