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tor, and accounted for to him after the termination of the war. [c. 9] 

 By this a(Sl the Fi'cnch property in the Britifli funds, amouniing, as flut- 

 ed in parUament, to ;;^25o,coo, became dormant. 



March 28'" — Hitherto the portage of letters conveyed by the penny 

 poft was paid by the fenders ; and people refiding in the outlldrts of Lon- 

 don and villages within the limits of the penny poft, or, as it is exprefP- 

 ed, offthejlonesy paid, one penny additional on all letters they received, 

 including thofe brought to London by the general port, though thofe, 

 who lived in town, received their letters from the farchefl extent of the 

 penny poft without paying fuch additional poftage. But they were now 

 put on an equal footing in that refped:, all letters to or from any place 

 otf the ftones being charged twopence. The payment of the poftage, 

 whether one penny or twopence, is in the option of the fender, except 

 for letters to be conveyed from places off the ftones to the general pofl- 

 office, with v/hich the fender muft pay one penny, as before, as the re- 

 ceiver in fuch places muft alfo pay one penny over the poftage on all 



letters brought from the general poft-office Tn confideration of the 



additional revenue to be thus produced, regulations were made for the 

 more frequent and Ipeedy deliveries of penny-poft letters, (which have 

 doubtlefs alfo augmented the revenue). — The poftmafter-general was 

 empowered to extend the penny-poft delivery beyond the prefent limits 

 of ten miles from the general poft-office. And the profits of the pen- 

 ny-poft-office were direiled to be paid in quarterly to the general poft- 

 office. \c. 17] 



The poftmafter-general was empowered to eftablifti poft-offices in 

 Jerfey and Guernfey, to ftation a packet or packets to convey the mails, 

 and to charge poftage for the conveyance of letters to and from thofe 

 illands. \c. 18] 



The governor and company of the bank of Scotland were empower- 

 ed to make a further increafe of their capital. \c. 19] 



March z^"" — The kings of Denmark and Sweden entered into a treaty- 

 for fecuring a perfect neutrality and protedion to the commerce of their 

 fubjeds, in the following terms. 



Articles i, 2, 3) They declared their determination to avoid whatever 

 might embroil them with their friends and allies engaged in the war, to 

 continue every mark of attention and amicable deference to them, con- 

 fiftent with their own dignity, and to claim no advantage, which is not 

 clearly and unexceptionably founded on their treaties with the powers 

 at war, or, in cafes not fpecified by treaties, founded on the univerfally 

 acknowleged laws of nations, 



4) They engaged to proted their fubjeds in their lawful commerce, 

 conduded agreeable to the fubfifting treaties, againft all thofe who ftiould 

 difturb the legal exercife of the landioned rights of neutral and inde- 

 pendent nations. 



