Missing bags of mail. List of Exchequer Notes

These are to give Notice, That three Parcels of Exchequer Notes received for the Duties of Excise, and containing the Numbers and Sums hereunder mentioned, amounting in the whole to One Thousand and Thirty Pounds, being sent by the Post by Mr. Francis Johnson, Collector of Excise, from Portsmouth, and directed to the Commissioners of Excise at the Excise-Office in London, on the 28th of November last were lost, together with the Portsmouth Bag between Hammersmith and London; All Persons therefore to whom any of the said Exchequer Notes shall be offered in Payment, are hereby desired to seize such Exchequer Notes, and to Examine the Person so tendring the same, how he came by such Note or Notes, and from whom he received the same, and forthwith to give Notice hereof to the Cashier of His Majesties Excise, or the Cashier of the Post-Office; and whosoever shall bring the said Bag to either of the said Cashiers, with the said Exchequer Notes, he shall forthwith be paid the Sum of Twenty Pounds.

(Note of the Editor: a list of 183 Exchequer Notes follows with the number and amount on each)