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By Mr. JAMES DENMV,

By order of the Executors, at his Auction Room, Cliarles•street,
Berkeley-square, on WEDNESDAY, Der. 11, and follow-
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9"‘HE Fashionable HOUSEHOI.I) FURNI-
TURE, I trge pier chimney glasses and Minors grand
pisno forte, aa extrusive sersi-e of French poice'aine, a Com II
quanta! r (Teri foe wines, in Claret., Pert, and Madeira, some
meta ady choice old Sherry, two pipes of Port in the wood, and
other effects of a Gentleman, deceased; compi Piing four- post,
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' The furniture to be viewed nn Monday and Tostaloy pre.
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