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Missing mail bags containing Exchequer Notes. The three parcels have been found

December 16-20, 1697
Raguin Code: NEWS *9705

Whereas an Advertisement was inserted in the Gazette for the 13th of December Instant, giving Notice that 3 Parcels of Exchequer Notes received for the Duties of Excise amounting to £1030 were lost on the 28th of November last, together with the Portsmouth-Bag between Hamersmith and London; These are to give Notice, that the said Portsmouth-Bag, together with the said Exchequer Notes are since found and brought to the General Post-Office in London, And the said Notes are since paid into the General Excise.