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Flanders. Mail to be directed via Holland

General Post-Office, August 24, 1745
Raguin Code: NEWS –4502

Whereas the Communication with Flanders, by the Way of Ostend, is interrupted, and for the present at an End; Publick Notice is hereby given to all Merchants and others whom it may concern, That as their Letters for the several Parts and Provinces of the Austrian Netherlands are now, of Necessity, to be forwarded by the Way of Holland, it will be most proper for them to inclose their Letters and Packets, or recommend them to such as may be their Friends or Correspondents in Holland, from thence to be forwarded to the Places they are designed for in the Netherlands aforesaid; as also that it will be most safe and convenient for them, that the Answers, in Return to their said Letters, should be sent under Cover to Holland, to be forwarded from thence to this Office.

But in regard to the Correspondence with the Army, all Persons are hereby to take Notice, That their Letters, directed for any Person or Persons in the same, will be received at this Office, and from hence forwarded to the Army, in the Manner hitherto observed, a proper Method of conveying the Army Letters directly from hence, having been settled by the Way of Holland, in Conformity to the Usages in regard thereto, during the Wars of King William and Queen Anne.

GEORGE SHELVOCKE, Secretary.