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REVENUE DEPARTMENT.
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SHIP LETTERS.
Letters conveyed by private ship to places beyond seas are liable
to a rate of,
Under \ oz. ™-_ ~~ Os 8d
Above \ oz. and under 1 oz. , Is 4d
Above J oz. and under 2 oz. — ™~.~™ — . — .~~ 2s 8d
and so on in proportion.
FOREIGN LETTERS.
The present British rate of postage to Foreign ports by the re
spective packets are as under : —
PER FALMOUTH PACKETS.
Between Aberdeen and s. d.
Lisbon, payment re-
quired, ™ ~ — ™ 1 9
Madeira (via Lisbon), do 1 10
Spain, do 2 2
Gibraltar, optional, . 1
Malta and Corfu, do „, — 1
Greece, payment required, 2 5
Egypt, do 2 5
India, do 10
Madeira, do 1 10
Brazils, do 2 9
Buenos Ayres, Chili and
Peru, do 2 7
La Guayra, Cuba and Car-
thagena, do 2 3
Foreign West Indies, in-
cluding Hayti, Porto s, d
Rico, Curacoa, Guada
loupe, Martinique, St
Croix, St Martin's, St
Thomas, payment re
quired, . — 1 5
Jamaica, Antigua, Baha
mas, Barbadoes, Do
minica, Grenada, Mont
serrat, Nevis, St. Kitts,
St Lucia, St Vincent,
Tobago, Tortola, Trini
clad, Demerara, Bebice,
payment optional _~ 1
Mexico and Havannah,
payment required, ~— — . 2 3
Honduras, do. „ ~, 1
PER HULI, PACKETS
Norway and Sweden (dur-
ing summer only), pay-
ment required, 1
United States, payment
required, 1
Canadas, Nova Scotia, and
New Brunswick, op-
PER LIVERPOOL PACKETS.
Bermuda, optional, 1
Newfoundland, do. 1
Halifax (N.S ), do 1

British America — Boston, 1
PER LONDON PACKETS.
Hamburg, Cuxhaven, and
Lubeck, payment re
quired, — .. » 6
Holland, do — . 1 6
Hamburg, Cuxhaven, and
Lubeck, payment re-
quired, . — ~™ — . 6
Norway and Sweden; Ger-
many, Denmark and
Russia, payment re
quired, . — 1 10
Heligoland, do 1
PER DOVER PACKETS.
seil les, by French packet,
payment required, „ 2
India, via Marseilles, by
French packet, do ; — 3
India, monthly, closed
mail, via Marseilles, do. 2
Malta, Ionian Islands,
Greece, Egypt, and
Syria, monthly, closed
mail, via Marseilles, do. 1
Belgium, payment re-
quired,— . — 1 6
France, optional,. , 10
Switzerland, via France,
payment required, 1 2
Germany, via France, do 1 4
Spain, Portugal, Italy,
Turkey, &c via France,
payment required, 1 7
Turkey, Greece, and Me
diterranean, via Mar
Letters to France may be posted unpaid, leaving both British
and French rates of postage to be paid by the receiver ; or the
British rate may be paid to Calais ; or both rates, British and
French, to destination .