"A coach sets out from the 'White Hart,' Broad Street, Bristol, over the Old Passage (Aust), every Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday, at noon, and joins the above coach at Ragland the same day; and a corresponding coach returns from Milford on certain days." The chief point in the advertisement was in the paragraph: "N.B.--This road is nineteen miles nearer to Carmarthen and Milford than the lower one," that is, by the New Passage. This was replied to by another advertisement, as follows: "A CAUTION.--The public will please to observe that no other mail coach whatever does now, or ever has, run from Bristol to Milford Haven, excepting the Royal London, Bath, Bristol, and Milford Haven mail coach, which sets out from the 'Bush Inn and Tavern,' Corn Street, every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, and the mail coach to Swansea every day from the same inn, notwithstanding the flaming advertisement of a certain set of men to deceive and mislead the public, by their asserting that the road over the Old Passage is nineteen miles nearer than that over the New Passage, which is so far from being a fact that the road of the New Passage is seven and three-quarters nearer, as was proved by admeasurement by orders of the office, making a difference of twenty-six miles and three-quarters nearer the lower (that is, the New Passage) than the upper road." On August 4th the proprietors of the New Passage coach came out with a larger announcement, and produced figures to prove their assertion-- "N.B.--This road is nineteen miles nearer to Milford than the lower one, viz:-- UPPER ROAD. | LOWER ROAD. Miles. | Miles. Old Passage 11 | New Passage 10 Across the Water 1 | Across the Water 3 Ragland 14 | Newport 15 Abergavenny 9 | Cardiff 12 Brecknock 19 | Cowbridge 12 Trecastle 10 | Pill 12 Llandovery 9 | Neath 13 Llandilo 12 | Ponterdilas 10 Carmarthen 15 | Kidwelly 14 St. Clare's 9 | Carmarthen 9 Narberth 13 | St. Clare's 9 Haverford-West 10 | Narberth 13 Milford 10 | Haverford-West 10 | Milford 10 --- | --- Total 142 | Total 161 In favour of the Upper Road, 19 miles." "BRISTOL, _4th January, 1799_. "Lost, on Monday morning, small letter-bag, marked on it 'Worcester and Bristol.' Whoever has found the same shall, on delivering it at the Post Office, receive five guineas reward; and whoever detains it after this notice will be prosecuted." * * * * *