Mr. Palmer. Expansion of mail coach routes (October 24, 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 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.

It is necessary that all Newspapers should be put into this Office before Six o'Clock, otherwise they cannot be certain of an immediate Conveyance.

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, from the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane.

To Liverpool, through Coventry and Litchfield, from the same Place.

To Portsmouth, from the Angel, behind St. Clement's Church.

To Southampton and Poole, from the Bell and Crown, Holborn; and the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly.

To Gloucester, from the Angel behind St. Clement's Church; and the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly.

To Birmingham, from the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane.

To Worcester and Ludlow, from the George and Blue Boar, Holborn, and the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly.

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

To Shrewsbury, from the Bull and Mouth, Bull and Mouth-street.

To Cirencester, Tedbury, and Stroud, from the George and Blue Boar, Holborn, and the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly.

To Windsor, from the Three Cups, Bread-street, and the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly.

To Chester and Holyhead, from the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane: And

To Carlisle, by Way of Manchester, from the Swan with Two Necks Lad-lane.

And This Day,

To EXETER, through Staines, Bagshot, Hartfordshire, Basingstoke, Stockbridge, Salisbury, Blandford, Dorchester, Bridport, Axminster, Honiton, to Exeter.

N. B. Some Resolutions having been entered into at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace held at Swansea, by

the Justices and other Gentlemen assembled, for altering, repairing and perfecting the Roads for the Accommodation of

the Mail in every Manner in their Power; and as farther Regulations and Arrangements are intended to take Place in the

Post for that Part of the Kingdom in consequence of the same, the Departure of the Mail Coaches for South Wales is

necessarily deferred a short Time longer.

*** The Angel behind St. Clement's Church, and the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly, are the Places from whence the Mail Coaches will go to all Parts of South Wales, both by Way of Newnham, Cardiff and Swansea; and also by Way of Ross, Hereford, Brecknock, Carmarthen, &c. to Haverfordwest and Milford Haven.

=> The Mail Coach to Dover, will start next Monday, from the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly, and the George and Blue Boar, Holborn.