France 14_d._ 10_d._ Italy } Turkey } 23 19 Ionian Isles } Spain 26 19 by packet 26 26 Portugal via France 26 19 by packet 30 30 Germany via France 20 14 Switzerland 20 14 Holland 16 16 Belgium 16 16 Russia } Prussia } Norway } 20 20 Sweden } _Between England and_ _Before_ _After_ Denmark } Germany } 20_d._ 20_d._ Gibraltar 34 34 Malta } Ionian Isles } Greece } 38 38 Egypt } Brazil 42 42 Buenos Ayres 42 41 Madeira 31 31 Mexico } Havana } 36 27 Colombia } San Domingo 26 27 United States } and foreign } 26 26 West Indies } [617] This followed to a certain extent the French system of charging postage, which depended more upon weight and less upon the number of enclosures than the English method. [618] 7 Wm. IV and 1 Vict., c. 34. In 1837, an act of Parliament was passed, consolidating previous acts for the regulation of postage rates within Great Britain and Ireland, between Great Britain and Ireland, and between the United Kingdom and the colonies and foreign countries. The rates within Great Britain remained the same as those established by the act of 1812, including the additional half penny on letters conveyed by mail coaches in Scotland. In Ireland the rates existing since 1814 still held and between Great Britain and Ireland the rates established by 7 and 8 Geo. IV, c. 21. The rates for letters between the United Kingdom and foreign countries through France and those conveyed directly between the United Kingdom and France remained the same as had been agreed upon by the Treaty of 1836. Some of the more important of the other rates were as follows:-- To Italy, Sicily, Venetian Lombardy, Malta, the Ionian Islands, Greece, Turkey, the Levant, the Archipelago, Syria, and Egypt through Belgium, Holland, or Germany, 20_d._ for a single letter. Between the United Kingdom and Portugal, 19_d._ for a single letter.