Mr. Palmer. Expansion of mail coach routes (August 15, 1785)

MR. PALMER having engaged to accomplish his Plan for the Conveyance of His Majesty's Mails to all Parts of the Kingdom as soon as possible, the Letters for every Part of Great Britain and Ireland, must in future be put into the Receiving Houses before FIVE o'Clock in the Evening, and into this Office before SEVEN, in order to prevent the Inconveniencies which have arisen to the Public from Two Deliveries in London on the same Day, and the sending out the Mails at different Hours on the same Evening.

The Letters likewise will be sent out regularly from hence between the Hours of Nine and Ten in the Morning, so as to reach the most distant Parts of the Town by Twelve at Noon.

Notice will be given in a few Days when the Mail Conveyance upon Mr. Palmer's Plan will be established to all Parts of Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, Somersetshire, Devonshire, and Cornwall, as likewise to Birmingham, Shrewsbury, Gloucester, Worcester and Ludlow, and also to Dover.

ANTHONY TODD, Sec.

The following are the Mail Coaches already established.

To Bath and Bristol from the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane, and the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly.

To Norwich and Yarmouth, through Newmarket and Thetford from the White Horse, Fetter-lane.

To Norwich, through Colchester and Ipswich from the same Place.

To Nottingham and Leeds from the Bull and Mouth, in Bull and Mouth-street.

To Manchester, through Derby.

And to Liverpool, through Coventry and Litchfield, from the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane.

Also this Day,

To PORTSMOUTH, through Kingston, Esher, Cobham, Ripley, Guildford, Godalmin, Haslemere, and Petersfield.

To POOLE, through Staines, Bagshot, Farnham, Alton, Alsford, Winchester, Southampton, Ringwood, and Winbourne.

The Mail Coach to Portsmouth, from the Angel behind St. Clement's Church; and

To Poole, from the Bull and Crown, Holborn; the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane; and the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly.