Einige Wörter deute ich leicht anders : fett und unterstrichen. Vielleicht hat ja noch Forumler eine Idee
I received the inclosed Letter from Mess Romberg & Son merchants of your city by the last mail
from Flanders which I send to you without lots (soll wohl loss of time sein) of time in my Lord le despencer
and M castente?? Names with theirs compliments desiring you would be pleased
to take the proper meannes with your Gouvernment to put on immediate and
effectuale stop to the dangerous practices proposed therein of sending and receving
letters between these Kingdoms and Flanders by mean of private ships,
instead of the regular mails established between the respective offices
of London and Bruxelles by means of the Packet Boats which would not only be a
prejudice to the Revenue of the posts, but an injury to the established and
regular correspondence, which practice leads me further to observe to you that
vast numbers of letters are sent over in private ships from Ostende to Dover
and many of them as appears by the writing there upon to be forwarded by
M Bowens postmaster of Ostende,which I hope you will put a stop to immediately.
