Ireland edition of the Edinburgh Advertiser for April 25th-29th 1800 with an extensive report on the House of Commons debate on the Act of Union with Ireland. Elsewhere the edition has a notice from the Postmaster General , Francis Freeling, warning state coach owners against illegally carrying letters: ‘The penalties are five pounds for every letter collected, carried or delivered, and one hundred pounds for every week such practice is continued...’ There is also an advert for the sale of a Caribbean sugar plantation ‘together with 183 well conditioned slaves...’