"Above 60 miles and not exceeding 100, 6d., and so, in proportion. "Above 100 miles, and not exceeding 150, 7d., and so, in proportion. "All above 150 miles, 8d., &c. "Upon every single Letter to Scotland, 1d., the rates of Postage remaining the same, on double letters, 2d., &c. "That the present rates of Postage between London, and Portugal, and between London, and British America, do cease. "From any part of Great Britain, to Portugal, exclusive of Inland Postage, every single letter, 1s., &c. "The same from any part of Great Britain, to British America. "The Inland Postage upon said Letters according to distance."--(_Times, Dec. 12, 1796._) The following paragraph is interesting, as it fixes the date of the Postal Uniforms--the colours of which are still adhered to by the Postal authorities, in clothing the Mail drivers:-- "The Post Office Letter Carriers in London are to be provided with an uniform of red coats, faced with blue, and to wear numbers."--(_Times, Feb. 10, 1793._) * * * * * "There is at this time a third of the Mail Guards ill, either from the intenseness of the severe weather or from colds they have caught in the floods: their exertions were in general very great, and meritorious, in saving the Mails."--(_Times, Feb. 19, 1795._) We are here presented with the infancy of Telegraphing--which was then a marvel of the age--but which we, from our standpoint of Electricity, must fain smile at. They were mechanical contrivances placed on hills, or other eminences. "The Telegraph.--This mode of communication is little understood here, although the invention be not a new one. The process is getting possession of _heights_ at convenient distances, and by fire-works, in different forms, for different letters, _spelling_ the order, or intelligence, from station, to station!"--(_Times, Sept. 11, 1794._) * * * * * "The new mode of correspondence, by the help of which, the surrender of _Quesnoy_ was known at Paris an hour after the entry of the French troops into that place, is a communication by signals, which are repeated from distance, to distance, by machines, stationed four, or five, leagues asunder. This may explain the celerity with which communications are made. "The _telegraph_, now brought into use by the French, appears to have been an invention of Dr. Hooper's, and published in his Rational Recreations, in 1774. The plan of which may be seen in his 'Visual Correspondence.'"--(_Times, Sept. 15, 1794._) * * * * *