Edinburgh. Introduction of a Penny Post. List of Receiving Houses

NOTICE is hereby given, That a PENNY POST will be established here on the 5th July next for the accommodation of this city and its vicinity, to extend to Leith, Dalkeith, Musselburgh, and Prestonpans, where Offices will be established, and Receiving Houses at the following places, viz. one in the Canongate, one in the Grass-market, one in Chapel Street, and one in South Hanover Street.

All letters for the delivery of Edinburgh, or the above named places, which are into this Office any time during the evening, and at the Receiving Houses before seven o'clock in the evening, will be safely delivered early next morning; - and if at any of the Receiving Houses by two o'clock afternoon, and at the General Post-office before half past three, will be delivered the same evening.

And whereas, by an act of the 5th of his present Majesty, no person or persons whatsoever shall make any collection of letters or packets in or near any city, town, suburbs, or place where any Penny Post office or Offices shall be established, without license or leave of the Post-Master-General, upon pain of incurring the forfeitures and penalties mentioned in an act of the 9th of Queen Ann, -

Notice is hereby given, that all persons so offending will be immediately prosecuted.

From the above period a regular Post-Office will be established at South Queensferry, for which a bag will be made up every day. Postage of a single Letter Two-pence.

WILLIAM KERR, Sec.