,• ^ 270 VIE NA TIONAL STAMP REGULATIONS. A Duty. upon Protests of Bills of Exelinnge, or Promissory Notes, for any sum not amounting to 20!. 2s. ; ‘2,01.15. ; 1001. Ss.; 5001. and upward., 10s. A Protest of any kind bears a stamp, for every sheet ss. Upon Policies of Insurance for Life, or laves, there is a duty of I/. 10i. whatever may be the amount of the Insurance. Upon Country Bank Notes there is the following scale of Du ties : If made payable in the Me- If only made payablo at one tropolis. as well as in the place, w hether in Town or Country. Country. Not exceeding rt d. Nut exceeding s. !!. Sll u 4 X 1 I 22014 2 . 1 0 55 lO 55 200 1 6 200 0 Country Bankers to takeout a Licence yearly, on which there i 4 a duty of 20/. Upon Transfers of Bank Stock, or South Sea Stock, a duty of le. 9d.; of Fast India Stock, 11. 10v. Upon every Transfer of a Si7are, or Shares in the Stock or Food of any other Corporation, Company, or Society whatever, a duty of If. 10s. Upon Conveyances of Estates, a duty, according to the amount of the purchase-money; where the latter is less than mt. I !.- 15f►!. I!. 10s.--300!. V. 10s.-5001. 5/.—and , sn on at the rate of 10 per cent. up to 59,0001. on w hich the Stamp Duty is 500/. and the same for nay larger The same duty upon Leases fur life or lives, or fur a term of yrars in cousideration of nny fine. Uptin Mortgages, where the sum is less than 100!. 1/. 10s.- 100'. noor..v, and sn en in proportion. 11, here the sum is more than 10,1)00 1 . the dntv '20 7 . A sitnilar duty upon Bands, and in a similar proportion on 1114.104 for securing the payment of Annuitie% The Hri icle of Agreement is extended to every minute or me mo-ambito of an agreement under hand. only where the matter shall he oft he value of 20/. or up ward', on which there is a duty of 16s. and n progressive duty according to its length. Upon Rills of Exchange, and Promissory Notes exceeding. .7,000/. there is a duty of I!. On Articles of Clerkship to Attornies 110 P.—Apprentices to Writers to the Signet in Scotland are also subjected to a duty of EASTER MONDAY. I , On this long wished for day of annual fan and frolic, the civic ports men were placed like Capt. Macheath, between Lucy old rolls, having no less than two Eaffter Hunts, at which to sport their dashing I? osinantes---Epping., and Windsor F oi e,t s . The road, leading eivo ward from the Metropolis, ;very crowd ed at an early hoar, with every thing that could carry a sari-ale s hacks, ponies, cart-horses, and donkies, with a plentiful sprink ling of the wheeled creation, gigs, whiskies, and t waisted° w ns, all crowded, with the beauty and fashion of Moorfirlds. Brick lane, ntid Pudaledock, anxious to see at how Master Bolds) , could ride, and he in at the death. This motley groupe being :Fetublect at t4e Boldfaced Stag, the customary lihatious to the Goddess of the chaec, and to the hcalths of the Goddesses, o ho had arrived to witucss the sport of the day, were poured out under the vuspices of the High Priest of fun, the jolly Landlord. The Aron Walden hounds, which bad been procured for the occa sion, and a Stag also, shish had been thought necessary for a .hunt, were soon in waiting at Fair Maid's Bottom ; every ne r-ssary precaution was then taken of girthing saddles on, &c. &c. and happy would it have been for many a luckless Wight, if the riders had been Birthed on also. The St 1g was now turned cut, but though there were many Attorney's Clerks in the groupe, ate was allowed but little low, when the whole cavalcade in one general burst, pressed on upon his haunches. The Stag, as if conscious that the lost road for his pursuers, was the road to town, pushed on for Chi,well-row, and after a run of fifty minutes, took soil in a pawl that neighbourhood, when ‘stme of his gay followers, better mounted than their corn rusions, had nearly completed their literal boast, of being in at the death. The animal wasnow caught and reserved For another occasion, whilst thejocund throng hastened to quarter t bruise! F ' at the different public houses on the Forest, in order to hunt the Sing over again, and to learn some particulars of the chace, sisch as Use tams when, the place where, a 4... k.c. fur few ~ . tirmoo••••-laiiPmeli9 REGISTEN. APR IL 23. :tad been able to proceed as . fast as their horses; indeed, la mented would have been the fate of many an Absalew, had not the Brutuslop saved them, from the danger of riding through a forest with a long head—of hair. The Windsor Hunt, front its extreme distance from town, could boast of but few metropolitan Actueans, and of the few who came, their cattle were too much fatigued to start from -winter Lodge, where a numerous party were regaled by Jlar finis Cornwallis. At ten, a stag was turned out at Tower-hill, on Bagshot-heath, to a field of MOO: he made a sharp bum, passed the Golden Farmer, doubled towards Cobham, pushed through the inclosures of Bagshot, where few could follow him, and was taken after a run of an hour and a half. Rut, if the Cocknies found it difficult to catch the stag, some of them also found it difficult to catch their horses, which, released from their riders, were prancing over the field in all directions. adding a list of missing to that of the wounded. A third hunt was gat up, by some 'if the knowing ones left is town, and who, hearing of a stag to he turned out on Tower-hit:, very prudently engaged seats at their friends windows, in the Ifianrics, barer Thames-street, and Rosemary-lane. Having waited patiently for some hours, the usual attack commenced un thecold ham, cake, &c. and they returned contentedly to their respective homes, having seen as much of the hunt as tiww who had rode farther. The other entertainments of the season were repeated with universal applause—Dust ci - irts, and all other carts, were gaily •plashing and jostling on the Greenwich-road—gin nod ginger hread, fun and frolic, were the order of the ti:t ; and many a well-turned uncle was displayed to the eager gaze of the spec tator at the foot of the hill. whilst many of the fair performers, we have no doubt, will have reason to rentem:ier Luster Mon. day! NAUTICAL INTIZLLIGENCE. Upon the subieet of Sir John Duckworth's late erui7e, we hate been fatnured with the following iorry s ting extract of a letter from an Officer belonging to the Squadron ,dated " rrnesand flay, ( Plymouth ),".Ipril 18. " Havia: run down the R:tv of Biscay, and called off Capes Ortega' and Fiuisterre, anti Lisbon, we arrived off Madeira, and found Sir Samuel Hood lying in Finschall Roads, sv here we re mained for two days. On the morning of the 3d of Erbruarv, his Majesty's s hip Como., gave us intelligence of her having been chased two days before to the N. W. of Madeira, and it then became obvious that the destination of the French squadron was the West Indies, for which we proceeded vi ith all expedi tion. and mate the Island of St. Lucia and Martinique in 21 days. Off the East End of Martinique we saw six sail of the line ; we cleared for action. and formed the line of battle, but, on exchanging signal:, we found friend; instead of enemies—it was Sir Alexander Cochrane, with his squadron, who was wait ing to Live that enemy a reception which we were in chnce of, conceiving that he would take refuge in that port. Finding that his fleet vat sufficient to cope with them in those seas, we passed ail the Windward Haels, and anchored on the 16th of Feb. in Bassaterre Roads, !3t. l it Cs, w here we remained only eighteen hours. ,just long enough to take in water, but no provisions, nor even linen washed. We then proceeded to St. Domingo, where it was supposed the enemy had proceeded for the purpose of landing troops; but on our arrival there we found no ships.-- After cruizirg in the Mona Passage for seven or eight days, we made all dispatch for the coast of America, and arrived off the Chesapeake on the I 1 t hof March. We communicated with the Statira frigate, and found that our Ambassador, Mr. Rose, wai at W;F:hington for the last time, to determine whether it should be peace or war with England. We should have gone in, but the Yankies would not let us have a pilot, nor supply us witk water or provisions, which forced us to he content to live upoa half our usual allowance; they would not give us a single pint of water or a cabbage stock. We left the Eurydice, to brilig us any intelligence that might occur as to peace or war vv ith .Arnerira. and quitted the hospitable shores of . America for the Western Islands, where we procured all we wanted. after a very long and a very anxious cruise. The Governor of floret (a Portuguese), came off to us, but not being ;d 1e to give us any information, the Admiral thought it most expedient to proceed for England, where we arrived this morning, after having twe e up wards of three months at sea, and made a complete circ uit of he Western and Atlantic Ocean, ajourney of upwards of Ilk teen theusand mite'" I 1 -