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EXCHEQUER BILL OFFICE. MAY 8, 18111.
TO BE PAID OFF,
A LI. EXCHEQUER BILLS dated in the
L. Month of May, 1817.
The Lords Casamikeioners of his Majesty's Treasury
having giro, direatfinefar paying off the Prineipal of the
above-mentioned Recherser Bilis, with the Interest due
thereon, at the reeheipser Bill Ogee in the Receipt of Kr-
shorter, New. Paliseoperd, Westmiaster, on Priday. the
114 Day of allesidagee will be Mee* daily (Sno.
days and Holidays excepted), until and Winding Thurs-
day, the 28th May Instant, front fen o'cloeh in the
morning till one in the afternoon for the purpose of
receiving the same ; and, for the ;rade, 'dispatch, the
Bearers of the said Bills are eintirail to place each de-
*relation of Batiks Lists (which are to be obtained at this
Office), effusing them in lA* corder of their respective Dates,
mirk as are for the Am* Amount being numerically
arranged, and specifying the principal SWIM. and -
feud due thereon, annputedfrons, but ea-chiding the
days on which they are rammettraty dated, to the said OM
day of June inclusive, when the Interest will cease; and
the said Bearers, should they be acting as the _Anent& of Hold-
er* whose names are inserted in the Mills, are perbionsly to
preenre the Endorsements of *nth Holders; amid the Bear-
ers are also indispensably required to endorse each Bill
with their usual Signatures, and to write their Names and
Residues at the bottom of their List ; they are
moreorsr required to attend the Exchequer Bill Oilier S)r
Payment, and to receive the new Bills, and give the Receipts
for the same.
If any of the Holders of the aforesaid . Bah should he
desirous ofreeeiring Payment of the Principal and Interest
prerionts to the said sth day of June, they may be fie.
euensudated,on emanating the Entered to the Davao' which
they wish to he paid, and leaving the mad BlUe for exa-
mination one day prior thereto.
Seek Persons as way be desirous of having new Brae.
spar Bills in whole or in part of Payment of Principal,
upon marking new Bills, and rainationing the Amount at
the bottom of their Lists, delis-end on or before the 28th
Alay, may be accommodated with new Bilis, palpable
to or Order, carrying an Interest
Two-pence by the day, am every One Hundred Pounds,
which said new Bills will hear date the said sth day
of June, and will he delivered, together with the
Interest due in respect of the Bills so desired to be er.
changed, on Saturday, the 6th day of June, and the fol-
lowing days.
•

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papable to or Order, as abort mentioned,
may be either transferred by endoreemeat, or trill be paid
to the Bearer, if the Biala shall not he Oiled up.
N.H. AU E.reheoner Bills doled prior to Noy, 1817,
hat e been advertised So be paid of sad the interest thereon
has reused.

ARMY CONTRACTS.
COMMIS SA RI AT DEPARTMENT,

'fatursuav CILIIIIBRI, APRIL 28, 1818.
NOTICE iA hereby given to 111 Pergoos tle*ir-
MIA of roittractitir to supply the following Articles for
the 1.7i.e of the Army,

BREAD,
To his Majesty's Lind Forces Harr :
in Cantonments, Qoarters, lals of Man,
anti Barrack•, in the nn- City of Carlisle, and its si-
clersurotitmeil Island and sillily.

BEEF and MUTTON,
To his Majesty's Lend Forces Place :—...
in Cantonments. Qnsi ters, Stii.sev,
soil B..rracks, in the un• Town of Taunton, and its
dermentioned County sod vicinity.
OATS,
Tn his Majesty's Cavalry iu Muumuutb,
Cautounients untl Quar Town ni Shaensbury, and its
ten, in the undermentioned ♦icinity.
Counties and Place :
Gloucester.

Oats, It ~ and Straw, to
his M sjesty'.. Cavalry to
Barrio ke, and Oats in Can-
to 11111 l sits and Quarters, in
the krincolignied Coun-
ties :
Cornwall,
That the Deliveries are to commence no and fur the Vgth
day of hate nest ; that Proposals in Writing, seated up and
marktil, "Tender for Army Supplies," will be receive i 1 at
this 01fice on or before THURSDAY, the Vilth thy of May
Hint none will be received after Twelve o'Clock on that day)
abd, if sent by Post, the postage must he paid.
Propleat!4 must he made separately CU' each County and
Plate ; and each Prop .ant must have the Letter a hick is
annexed to the Tender properly filled up, by Two Penguins
of known Property, engaging to b►come bound with the
party tenslciing in the amount stated iii the printed Parti-
eulai s, fur the glue performative of the Contract ; and nu
oposal will he noticed unless made on a Printed Tender,
and the Prices expressed in words at length ; and should it
so happen that storing the continuance of the Contract no
Troops should be ropplied ruder the Contract, the expense
of the Contract anti Mind, paid in the first iustauce by the
Contractor, will be refunded to hint.

, viz
Down,
Dorset,
Keut,
Lancaster,
Sussts.

Parties'lars of the Contracts way lie 11411 upon applies-
ti ttttt at these Chambers, betwteu the hours of Eltecll and
Five.

p —Sample% of the Bread and Meat may he seen at
these Chambers, between the Hours of Twelve and Two.

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MADAME DE %TARE ON THE FRENCH
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ITIFIE ANNUAL REGIS TER; or, A View
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1817.

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VALUABLE LEASF.IIOI.I) PR F.M ISE.% situate at Maida
Edgware-road.
BY MR. COCH RA N,

On MONDAY, tbr 25th of May, IRIS, at Two o'Clock,
at the Stroll ftwd Cotrce-hone, Oxford aired.

Lot I.
A. t AmS sto,.lHilimi and Elegant Large
HOUSE and GARDEN, suitable fora genteel
family, or seminary, commanding most extem.ive and pictu-
resque views of Harrow, Hendon, and the Hanipstrail-hills,
Canals, Ike. which cannot be interrupted. The I se Is
handsomely finished, and Roman-cemented all round to the
first floor; and ccmaist of a large dining-mom, drawing.
rooms, bed-ruoins, and large dormitory rooms with bow-
windows, spacious entrance-hall, good staircase, kitchens
replete with every domestic convenience, Slid the water laid
on ; held for a term of which eiglity.sciren years were num-
pircd last Lady-day, at ay-mind-lent of 311 per •nnuass.
Lut —No. 7, Maids Hill, a nearly new-built House,
situated for a private family or business., consisting of two
good kitchens, two pal-lames, two alining or drawing-roomy,
two good bed-rooms, coal cellar, wailer, and °awe 11111VCIlien.
ca.'s ; 11011 (or the same term as last lot, at 101. 10s. per
year gromid..ent.
Fur Particulars and In view, apply to'llessrar Fielder and
Bartley, Duke-stress, Grosvenor-Aran; or to Mr. Cochran,
Auctioneer, Nu. 7, in same street.
(Usual Conditions or Sale.)

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PREMISES, sillente at Maida

Baker-sirtet, and Edgware-road,
BT Mit. COCHRAN,
On MONDAY, May 25, 1818, ■t wo o'Clork, at the
Stratton! Cotire.houte, Oxford-street, by order of the
Executors of the late Mr. Hilliam 814101011, decra►rd.
Lot I. iti a most pleasant anti well-miltiatP
HOUSF., being the corner of Edgware-road
and Upper S. yntou,street, in excellent repair, held for an
unexpired term of 53 years and a half, 1- lady-dap last,
at a ground-rent of 4f. and nnd►r.leared to a respectable
uant, for a term of which Id years and a half is moralities),
at 651. p„•r 411111110.

nl 2—A must excellent IHWSE in gond repair. bring
No. 7t5, ■nd eligibly sitnitie in the wez.t side ul flakr;-
strivt, Purtmasi.square, near George street, consisting

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two and three rooms on a fluor, and held for an ussex.
piled term of M years at Laily.day last, at a low ground
rent of 41. ; under-based at • very low rent of RN a year,
to a respectable tenant, fur a terns of which five year. were
unexpired at Chri,inias last, ■mil is kept in the best repair.
lad 3.—A newly built House, moot eligible for a 'mire
ftmily ur school, and pleasantly situate at Manila 11111, near
Edgware Head, commanding extensive views of the crispile,
and surrounding coosutry, *bids cannot be built against or
interrupted; consisting of hoer fi.oins, three large rooms
on sarh, elegantly flni.hed in every way, and bas been in-
habited; with neat (runt and large back garden, blob well
lai•I nut, and planted with choice shrub. and tot trees;
cottages, laun.bv, stabling, der. ke. of which R 7 years were
ttttttttttttt at lady-day last. The realer part Of the pie-
mites is held at a low Peat, IS/. 15.. per •uattm, arid a
small part at a prpiwr.rairn.
rusiditions of Sale as usual. _

Three several pi finites are dnerving the nutlet of a alie-
n's-us and Ladies wishing for free sir and healthy
Fur parituttlare and to wen, apply to %Imre. Fielder and
11:"11.1. Duke-street, Untorrasui.teliture j veto Mr. Cuair4a,
aucLuurti, Nu. 7, iu the statue street.

THIS TOMB OF IVEY.

Men of all nations, who visited the sepulchre
which Madame Nry erected over the ashes of her
illustrious husband, inscribed with pencils their
trunnions and sentiments of his virtues and valour.
These inscription., in some instances—by their
praises of the tono who, in the cause of his count ,
was the 1, bravest of the brave"—seemed to re-
flect on the present dynasty; whose s)cophasits
wrote counter-in.crip I, above or below those
which haul been the tribute of English, of Itus•iass,
of Prussian, and of American respect; mind the
Police put ass end to this war of sentisisetit, by
causing the tomb to be removed. Nothing now in-
dicates the spot where lie the remains of the mats
whose history is known to all Europe ; and unless
the ciaiweasa of this romantic burying ground.
ur some one who knows the spot, points st out, a
stringer might traverse the hill of Mount Louis
for a mouth ere he could find that speck of its
surface which the ashes cf the murdered Ni, have
consecrated. The xril, or iron-railing, still exists ;
and Britons, who know that it fences so sacred a
spot, lean gently on it, and talk over the infraction
of the Convention of Paris, which allowed the
Prince of the Moskwa to be immolated to per-
sonal envy and implucsble bigutry.--( Dublin
Freeman's Journal.)

TALE OF HORROR.

HOSPITAL SCENE IN PORTUGAL

Extratisd flora Journal of a !Mikis Officer, is 4
Sories of Lettere (o a Fritud.

'The Fru omit army had long suffered terrible pri-
vation.. We all knew that Massena could Hot
much longer retain his position, and the " Great
Lord" (m the Spaniards call IVellington) allowed
famine to do the woik of a charge of ha)onete.
Our army was weiry of the liner. It felt al if
cooped up by an enemy it yet devised, and would
have gladly marched Hot to glom) the formidable
French encampmeot ; and such was the first idea
that struck many of w, when, on the sth of March,
the army wan pat ja motloll. Had the animating
music of the regimeat- I bands tang through the
rocky ridges of Tories Vedras. But it was soon
universally understood that the French were in full
retrtat ; there wits now no hove of a great pitched
battle, mid all that I could expect was, that as our
regiment formed rut of she advance, we might
now and then have a brush with the rear.guard
French, which was, you know,. composed of the
flawer of the army, and c anded by Michael
Nil, the " bravest of the brave "

t will give you, in another letter, an account of
the most striking scenes I witnessed during the pur-
suit alter our most ferocious enemy. They had
been cheated out of a victory over us (so they
said, and an, in Gallic presumption, they problibly
felt), when wine mouths before, Mancini beheld
that army which he dire:stein-al to drive into the
sea, frowning upon him front impregnable heights,
all bristling with cusituni. Instead of bottle, and
conquest, and tr. ph, they had long remained
ill hopeless inuc,ivity, mid at last, their convoys
being intercepted by the guerillas, they had en-
dured the most intense nil-cries of famine. Accord-
ngly, when they broke up, the soul of the French
uglily was in a burning &vet of savage wrath. The
consummate sk II of their leaders, and the umni-
tigateil severity of their discipline, kept the troops
in !iron and regular order ; and certainly, an all oc-
casions, ally' I had an opportunity of seeing the
rear-gmaril, its movements were most beautiful.—
I could not help g the mass moving slowly
away, like a us oiltionde of demons, all obeying the
signs of one sinister spirit.

Cull me not illiberal in tints speaking of our foe.
Wait till you have heard font me a detaled ac-
count of their metriless butcheries, and then you
will ad-nit, that a true kffight wilier; not the leas
of chivalry in uttering his abhorrence of blood-
thirsty barbatians. The ditches were often literally
filled with clotted and coagulated blood, as with
mire—the bodies of peasant., put to death like dog,
were lying there horribly tie ingled ; little naked
infants, of a year old, or less, were found besmear-
ed in the mud of the road, transfixed with bayonet
wounds—and iu one instance, a flab!, of about a
mouth old, I myself saw with Inc bayonet left still
sticking m its and matrons
were found lying dead aids ciao I and shameful
wounds : and, as if some general law to that effect
had been promulgated to the Henry, the limits
were hanged ritioa trees by tile road-side. But no
e of t los at present.
I wish now to glee you a.nrne idet of a scene I
witnessed at Mountie do Cerva, oa the 9th slay of
our pursuit ; yet I fear that a sia_tlat san tenable can—
not hr shadowed out, exeent in the awenory of him
alio beheld it. I ealt,red the town lahnitt dusk. It.
had Isere. a Wick, !ant, a..d gloomy sort of a day......
at one lime fierce bla.ts of oiud, add :It another
petfeet stallassio, with fit-off tlaliaaskr. Altogether
has re was a wild adaptation uf the weather and Ilse
day to the retreat gala great aria;. Mips masses of
chunk lay motionless on the sky before us; and then
tip y would break up 'maidenly, ass with a whirlwind,
mid roll lain the red and blaaiale distance. I felt
myself towards the fall of the siting in a matt of
rtialiv• excitement. illy imagio.dion got the better
iit all any other fiesilaies:, nod I was lake a
man 111 a graail but a teriativ dream, who never
iliiisks sal gairstiailia4 any thi:l44 he !,eta or hears, hut
b..hever all the pha•.ta,ms monad with a strength
of belief, serrlitagly proliarimatal to their niter
to the objects 4.f the real Win Id of

Just u 3 I was mining the great ernw in the prin-
cipal street. I .a-t an hid h igvirtl.fniking wretch—
a who flosiliell to hose i t her hulluW eyrs an
nottecoinitable exoris-inn of cruelty —a glasice like
that hf but her deletion's...tit WM' quiet and
ratiossal, awl she war evidently of the lille rank
or iti.o.ottf, though her Suss wss faded and squalid.