AN ADVERTISEMENT From their MAJESTY'S General POST-OFFICE, LONDON,  
IT being Notorious, that many ill-minded Persons, for some wicked Designs against the Government, have dispersed in Coffeehouses, and other public Places of Meeting, divers most infamous Scandals of their Majesty's General Post-Office; giving out, that Letters are there stopped, broke open, and destroyed at pleasure: And especially, that great Numbers of Letters about Elections of Members for the next Parliament, have been burnt.  
For the Suppressing of such malicious Falsehoods and wicked Insinuations, which in consequence reflect on their Majesty's Just and Gracious Government, and tend to lessen their Revenue from the said Office: It is hereby Notified, that every good and honest minded Person may easily be satisfied by the Oaths of near twenty Officers in the said Office, that the aforesaid Reports are utterly false, and maliciously groundless; and that no Letters upon the said occasion of Election, or at any other time have been destroyed, opened or stayed in this Office, and it may be also made manifest to them, that such opening of Letters as is falsely rumoured and pretended, is wholly impracticable in the said Office, if there were so vile a mind in the Master of the same, in regard the Letters pass not his hands, and the time from the Receipt of the same to the Posts going, is not in any kind sufficient for such a foul and villainous Practice.  
It is therefore heartily entreated of all that have respect to Truth and Justice, that in love to the Honour and Reputation of their Majesty's Government, and to Justice itself, they would desire every one whom they shall hear telling and dispersing the aforesaid Scandals upon the said Office, to discover the Authors and Inventors of the same: And if any can be found who have the bold Malice to affirm any of the aforesaid Falsehoods, concerning the Master of the said Office, or any other Officers thereunto belonging, he or they reporting the same, shall be put upon the Justification thereof in the due Course of the Law, or otherwise to Pay such Damages as shall be judged answerable to their odious Offence.  
JOHN WILDMAN.