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further Sum of FIFrY POUNDS agreeably to an Advertisement from this Office, a Copy whereof is underwritten.
FRANCIS FREELING, Secretary.
Note of the editor: see Notice above for the advertisement mentioned in this Notice.

-- 9 9 0 6 NEWS (General Post-Office, September 18, 1799)

NOTICE is hereby given, that LETIERS addressed to Persons serving with the Army under the Command of Field-
Marshal His Royal Highness the Duke of York, will be received at the Ship Letter Office twice instead of once in the week,
viz. on Tuesday and Friday, from 10 in the morning until 10 o'clock at night, and not on Thursday, as mentioned in the
Advertisement from the Office of the lOth inst.; and that such Letters will be regularly forwarded in Vessels from
Yarmouth to the Helder Point, on the same days as the Mails are sent to Cuxhaven.
An Half Rate of Postage, under the Act of the 39th of his present Majesty, of 6d. each single Letter, ls. each double
Letter, ls. 6d. treble, and so on in proportion, will be demanded upon all Letters addressed to Officers and Others; but
those directed to Private Soldiers and Sailors will be forwarded for One Penny each single Letter, under the Act of the 35th
of his present Majesty.
And that Newspapers will also be forwarded at a rate of '3d. upon each, provided such Paper is sent without cover, or
in covers open at the sides.
Two Mails from the Army may be expected to arrive in each week.
FRANCIS FREELING, Sec.

-- 9 9 0 7 NEWS (General Post-Office, September 20, 1799)
NOTICE is hereby given, that LETIERS addressed to Persons serving with the Army under the Command of Field-
Marshal His Royal Highness the Duke of York, will be received at the Ship Letter Office twice instead of once in the week,
viz. on Tuesday and Friday, from 10 in the morning until 10 o'clock at night, and not on Thursday, as mentioned in the
Advertisement from this Office of the lOth inst.; and that such Letters will be regularly forwarded in Vessels from
Yarmouth to the Helder Point, on the same days as the Mails are sent to Cuxhaven.
Letters by this Conveyance will be chargeable with an Half Rate of Postage, under the Act of the 39th of his present
Majesty, of 6d. each single Letter, ls. double, ls. 6d. treble, and so on in proportion, excepting single Letters to and from
Private Soldiers and. Sailors, which are chargeable with One Penny only, under the Act of the 35th of his present Majesty.
And that Newspapers will also be forwarded at a rate of '3d. upon each, provided such Paper is sent without cover, or
in covers open at the sides. ·
All Letters for the Army are subject to the above regulations as to postage, and it will tend materially to their early
conveyance, if instead of their being left at any of the Public Offices at Whitehall or Downing-street, they are sent direct
either to the Ship Letter Office in Lombard-street, or through any of the General Post Receiving Houses.
Two Mails from the Army may be expected to arrive in each week.
FRANCIS FREELING, Sec.

-- 9 9 0 8 NEWS (General Post-Office, Wednesday, October 9, 1799)

THE Post-Boy carrying the Mail on Horse-back from Chorley to Wigan in the County of Lancaster, was stopped
between 9 and 10 o'clock in the Night of Sunday the 6th inst. between the Lane End. leading to Hartford Bridge and Folly
Mill by a Man on Foot, who had a Knife in his Hand, and seized the Bridle of the Postboy's Horse, and told him that if he
did not deliver the Bags immediately, he would cut his Throat. The Robber then unbuckled the Straps of the Mail or
Portmanteau, by which it was fastened on the Horse and took it away.

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