GENERAL POST OFFICE IRELAND Established by Act of Parliament, 1st of August, 1784 1820 Post masters General Right Honourable Earl O'Neill, K. St. P. Right Honourable Earl of Rosse The mails for England leave Dublin every evening except Sunday, and are due in Dublin every day except Wednesday. Letters for Ireland and Scotland are received until seven o'clock. All Double, Treble and other Letters Packets whatever pays in proportion to the respective rates of Single Letters. - Packets chargable by Weight pay after the Rate of four Single Letters for every Ounce, and so in proportion for any greater weight, reckoning every quarter of an ounce equal to a single letter. (?) Member's Franks are Chargeable if above one Ounce Weight. Rates of Postage to Great Britan. Dublin and London: 1s 3d Dublin and Holyhead 0s 3d Dublin and Isle of Man: 1s 6d Dublin and Guernsey (or jersey): 1s 6d Waterford and London: 1s 2d Waterford and Milford: Os 2d Donaghadee and London: 1s 4d Donaghadee and Portpatrick: 0s 2d Foreign and Packet rates of Postage - for a Single Letter Dublin to France: 2s 3d The Netherlands: 2s 5d Germany, Switzerland: 2s 9d Turkey, Russia, Prussia: 2s 9d Denmark, Swedan, Norway: 2s 9d Italy, Turkey thru France 3s 0d Spain thro France: 3s 3d Portugal: 2s 11d Madeira: 3s 0d Brazils (sic) : 3s 11d Gibraltar: 3s 3d Malta, Corfu & Mediteranean: 3s 7d West Indies: 2s 7d America: 2s 7d New South Wales: £1. 0s 11 ½ d St. Helena: £1. 0s 11 ½ d Africa, except the Cape of Good Hope: £1. 0s. 11 ½ d. Mails made up in London as follows: France: Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday Holland & Netherlands, Germany and the North of Europe: Every Tuesday and Friday Jamaica and America: First Wednesday monthly Leeward islands: First and third Wednesday monthly Madeira and Brazils: First Tuesday monthly Portugal: Weekly, Tuesdays Gibralter, Malta, Corfu & Mediterranean: first Tuesday monthly All Postages must be paid on letters for all of the above places, except the West India Colonies & British America, the payment of which is optional with the writer. Letters addressed to Soldiers and sailors at the Cape f Good Hope, Mauritius, Ceylon and the East Indies, must pay the full postage. East Indies: All Letters to the Cape of Good Hope, the Mauritius, Ceylon and the East Indies, which may be sent though the Post Office, are liable to a Sea Postage of two pence each, under the Weight of three Ounces, and One Shilling per Ounce if above that weight, in addition to the inland rates to London, to be paid at the time of putting in the Letter.