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Officers' mail. Special rate when serving under the Duke of York in Holland

General Post-Office, September 20, 1799
Raguin Code: NEWS –9907

NOTICE is hereby given, that LETTERS 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 10th 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.