Proclamations and advertisements in newspapers. Abstract of returns to orders of the Honourable House of Commons, dated the 7th May 1822;--for returns of the several sums paid to the different newspapers in Great Britain, for proclamations, advertisements, and notices of every kind, by the public offices of the Privy Council, the Treasury, the Secretaries of State, the Secretary at War, the Admiralty, the Ordnance, the Army Pay Offices, Chelsea and Greenwich Hospitals, and all other public offices, from January 1816 to April 1822; distinguishing the amount paid to each paper in each quarter, and the amount paid to each paper in each year, and the total of the whole in each year: so far as relates to (1.)--the Admiralty Office pp. 2 to 8 (2.)--the Navy Office pp. 9 to 11 (3.)--Navy and late Transport Departments, 2 returns p. 12 (4.)--Navy Pay Office, London papers pp. 13 to 15 (5.)--Ibid country papers pp.16 to 25 (6.)--Ibid both London and country p.26 (7.)--Victualling Office pp.27 to 35 (8.)--Lottery Office pp.36 to 44 (9.)--Ordnance Office pp.45 to 47 (10.)--Tax Office, Scotland pp.48 to 53 [electronic resource].