The Virginia Gazette

Extract of a Letter from BALTIMORE Town, in Maryland, dated the 25th Ult.

'It is with inexpressible Pleasure that I can, at this Juncture, from indubitable Authority, assure you, and the respectable People of Virginia, that a complete Plan for establishing a NEW AMERICAN POST OFFICE has been lately executed throughout the different Governments in New England. It has been liberally encouraged, and warmly patronised, by a very considerable Number of our principal Gentlemen; and no Doubt seems now to remain of its being soon carried into Execution, all over the Continent. Indeed, under the present dreadful Situation of our Affairs, the great and general Utility of such an Establishment must be obvious to every One; for, if we consider the Footing on which the present American Post Office is, we must hold it to be a Species of baneful and unjust Taxation, at least equally dangerous with any other that we have opposed. -Mr. WILLIAM GODDARD, Printer here, who has conducted this Business hitherto, intends setting out for Williamsburg in a few Days, that he may be present at the general Meeting of your late House of Representatives, and to lay before your Committee of Correspondence the several approving and recommendatory Letters he has received, from other Committees, on this Subject; and if they give their Sanction to this Scheme (of which we have little Doubt, when we reflect upon their noble Struggles in Support of their Country's Freedom) it will be immediately executed, in a Manner, it is presumed, that will give general Satisfaction, and rescue American Correspondence out of the Hands of our wicked and designing Enemies.'