scendants, 31. per cent.-To an uncle or aunt, or their descendants, 5l. per cent.-To a great uncle or great aunt, or their descendants, 61. per cent.-To any other relation, or any stranger in blood, 10l. per cent. -Legacy to husband, or wife, exempt. If the Deceased died prior to the 5th April, 1805, the duty only attaches on Personal Estates, and by a lower scale. AGREEMENT. Of the value of 201. and upwards, containing only 1080 words, 17.; more than 1080 words, 17. 15s. ; and for every further 1080 words, 11. 5s. SPOILED STAMPS. The days for claiming the allowance at Somerset House are Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 12 to 2 o'clock. Persons not residing within ten miles of London are required, within twelve months after such stamps are spoiled or rendered useless, to make an affidavit before a Master Extraordi nary in Chancery, which affidavit must be stamped, and the same left at the Allowance Office on Monday or Wednesday, and called for on the Monday following, when an allowance ticket will be given for the same description of stamps. ASSESSED TAXES. DUTIES ON HOUSES AND WINDOWS. Win, Duty per House per year. 0 16 6 35 11 18 3 5 39 5 12 3 75 6 0 6 80 690 85 6 17 6 90 7 5 9 95 7 14 3 100 8 2 9 110 8 11 0 120 8 19 6 130 39 13 12 0 to 44 14 8 9 49 15 16 9 54 17 5 0 18 13 0 19 17 9 3 69 21 0 74 22 2 6 79 23 5 0 84 24 7 6 89 25 10 0 94 26 12 3 99 27 14 9 109 29 8 6 119 31 13 3 129 33 18 3 139 36 30 9 8 0 140 .. 149 38 8 0 9 16 3 150 159 40 12 9 42 17 9 45 2 10 4 9 160 .. 169 10 13 3 170 34 11 10 0 179 11 1 6 180 & upwds. 46 11 6 3 *This Rate of Duty (17. 4s.) is payable for every male person employed in any of the capacities, Sch. C, No. I., and not being a servant to his employer, if the employer shall otherwise be chargeable to the above duties on servants, or for any carriage, or for more than one horse kept for riding, or drawing any carriage; and if the employer shall not be chargeable to such other duties, then the sum of 10s. is payable for every such male person employed. Travellers or Riders employed by any Merchant or Trader, where one only is kept, 17. 10s., and where more than one is kept, 21. 10s. each. Clerks, Book-keepers, or Office-keepers, where only one is kept, 1., and where more than one is kept, 17. 10s., each. Shopmen, Warehousemen, Cellarmen, or Porters, 1. each. This rate of duty applies to Stewards, Bailiffs, Overseers, or Managers, or Clerks under them; and also to servants retained by Stable-keepers, for or in expectation of profit, to take care of any horse kept for the purpose of racing or running for any Plate, &c., or in training for the same. Waiters in Taverns, &c., 11. 10s. each. Coachmen, &c., let on job, 1. 5s. each. This duty is extended to coachmen kept for the purpose of driving any public stage coach or carriage, and to persons employed as guards to such stage coach or carriage. Metropolitan Police Office, Scotland-yard Patent Office, 4, Chancery lane, 10 to 4 Navy, Somerset-place, 10 to 2 Peculiar of Archb. of Canterbury's Office, Bell-yard, Doctor's Commons Pell Office, Westminster Hall, 10 to 1 Bench Office, Temple. Hours same as Seal Office Signet Office, Somerset-place Six Clerks Office, Chancery-lane, 10 to 2 and 6 to 8 in Term, and 10 to 2 in Vac. Society for Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 4, South-square, Gray's Inn Stage Coach Duty Office, Somerset place Stamp Office, Somerset-place, 9 to 4 Stamp Office, Irish, 47, Chancery-lane State Paper Office, Middle Scotland-yard, 10 to 3 Subpoena Office, Rolls-yard, 11 to 2 and 5 to 8 in Term, and 11 to 2 in Vac. only Surgeons' College, Lincoln's-inn-fields Surveyor of Crown Lands, Somerset-place Tax Office Somerset-place, 10 to 2 Petty Bag Office, Rolls-yard (C.), 10 to 2 Tenths' Office, Lincoln's Inn Chambers, and 5 to 8 Pipe Office, Somerset place Prerogative Office, Knight Rider-street, Public Offices for the Administration of Justice-Bow-st.; Queen-square, Westminster; Great Marlborough-st.; Hatton Garden; Worship-street; Lambeth-st., Whitechapel; High-street, Mary-le-bone; and Union-street, Southwark Queen Anne's Bounty Office, Dean's-yard, Westminster Receiver's Office for Greenwich Hospital, Tower Hill Record Office, Tower, (Chancery) 10 to 3 Record Office (Old), Westminster Abbey Register Office of Bankruptcies, from 1771, to present time, 34, Red Lion-square Register Office, Chancery-lane (C.), 10 to 2 and 5 to 8 Register Office of Deeds in Middlesex, Report Office, Chancery New Buildings, Sheriffs of London Office, 28, Colemanstreet, 12 to 2 and 3 to 6 Sheriffs of Middlesex Office, Red Lion11 to 2 and 5 to 7 in Term, and square, 11 to 3 in Vacation Signer of Writs Office, (K, B). King's Portugal-street, every day, Holidays Treasurer for the County of Middlesex Two-Penny Post Offices, St. Martin's-le- GENERAL POST-OFFICE, LONDON. transferred to the New Post Office on The business of this department was opened at Charing cross, Vere-st., OxfordWednesday, Sept. 23; and Branch Offices are street, and in Lombard-street, for the re ceipt of inland, foreign, and ship letters, where notice will be given of the arrival of foreign mails, &c. The Branch Offices at Charing-cross and in Vere-street open for the receipt of letters until a quarter before seven, P.M., and in Lombard-st. till seven; after which hour no letters are received except at the General Post Office, ceived till past seven, paying 6d. each). St. Martin's-le-Grand (where they are re and Friday, foreign letters will be received On foreign post nights, viz., Tuesday at Charing-cross and Vere-street until 8 No letters received after the hours specified. P.M., and at Lombard-street until 11. Letters pay, if single, from any post-office in England to any place not exceeding 15 measured miles from such office Above 15 not exceeding 20m... 4d. 5d. packet postage, viz., for every single letter, 3d.-Double, 4d.-Treble, 5d.Ounce weight, 9d. Packets of one ounce weight are charged as four single letters.-If a single sheet exceed one ounce, it is charged according to its weight. Packets or covers, containing patterns or samples only, not exceeding one ounce, are charged double postage. Newspapers, to go the same day, must be put into the General Post Office before six o'clock; but those put in before half-past seven o'clock will go the same evening by paying a halfpenny with each. In the Branch Offices they must be put in before five. The weight of a letter franked by a Member of Parliament must not exceed one ounce. Each Member may frank ten and receive fifteen daily.. FOREIGN LETTERS. America and West Indies, 2s. 2d.-Madeira, 2s. 7d.-Gibraltar, 2s. 10d.-Malta, Majorca, Sicily, and the Mediterranean, 3s. 2d.-South America, 3s. 6d.-Portugal, 2s. 6d. France, 1s. 2d.-Holland, 1s. 4d. -Hamburg, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Prussia, Russia, &c. 1s. 8d.Italy by Germany, 1s. 8d.; by France, 1s. 11d.---Spain, by France, 2s. 2d. Mails made up in London as follows: France, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday: Letters received on Tuesday and Friday till 11 P.M., and on Monday and Thursday till 7 P.M. Holland and Netherlands, Germany, and the North of Europe, every Tuesday and Friday: Letters received till 11 P.M. Sweden, every Friday: Letters rec. till 11 P.M. Jamaica and America, first Wednesday, Monthly. Leeward Islands and Demerara, first and third Wednesday, Monthly. Madeira and Brazils, first Tuesday, Monthly. Portugal, every Tuesday. Gibraltar, Malta, and Mediterranean, first Tuesday, Monthly. Buenos Ayres, third Tuesday, Monthly. Columbia, first Wednesday, Monthly. La Guayra, Mexico, Havannah, and St. Domingo, third Wednesday, Monthly. TWOPENNY POST-OFFICE. There are two principal offices; one at the General Post-Office, the other in Gerrard-street, Soho. Letters going from one Part of the Town to another.-If put into the Receiving Houses by 8, 10, and 12 o'clock in the morning, and by 2, 5, and 8, in the afternoon: or either of the two principal Offices by 9 and 11 in the morning, and by 1, 3, 6, 9, in the afternoon: they are sent out for Delivery at 10 and 12 in the morning; and at 2, 4, 7, in the afternoon, and 8 the next morning. Each letter must not weigh more than four ounces. MAIL COACH ROUTES DIRECT FROM LONDON. THE following List, by the kindness of the Gentlemen connected with the Mail Coach Inspector's Department at the Post Office, has been rendered minutely correct; and is of importance, as enabling persons to ascertain the time of receiving and delivering letters, as well as of forwarding parcels, and otherwise availing themselves of the advantages of these conveyances. A very trifling computation will enable them also to ascertain the time of the mail passing any of the places between those mentioned. The first column gives the distance in miles from London, measured from the Post Office; the third is the time of the mail's passing from, and the last its time of passing to London. The mails leave the Post-Office, London, every evening at 8, except on Sundays, when they are an hour earlier. BIRMINGHAM and BANBURY, from the 146 Abergavenny....... 2 55a King's Arms, Holborn Bridge. 166 Brecon .. 10 35m, 5 50a 7 35m ....... 42 Aylesbury 12 40m 2 19m 178 Trecastle 7 22a 6 10m 59 Bicester... 9 34a 89 Southam 6 2m 8 57a 98 Warwick ......... 7 3m 7 46a 204 CARMARTHEN.....11 31a 1 15m DEVONPORT, EXETER, and SALISBURY, from Belle Sauvage, Ludgate Hill. 107 Hearnfield. 8 23m 6 46a 21 Egham 10 lla 4 39m, 29 Bagshot. 39 Hartley Row. 48. Basingstoke.. 11 Croydon 23 Reigate 9 45a 4 10m 11 10a 2 48m 56 Overton 1 42m 12 57m 73 Wallop...... 3 27m 11 7a 40 Cuckfield.. 1 30m 12 23a 84 SALISBURY...... 55 BRIGHTON.. 3 25m 10 30a 97 London Elm...... |