From the Kentish Gazette, 5 October 1810.

ANNUAL LETTING OF THE "BARRACK CANTEEN", at Ashford.

Barrack Office, London, 20th Sept. 1810.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the CANTEEN, in Ashford Barracks, is to be let to the highest bidder, for one year, from the present time, to the 29th of September, 1811.

No Person but of unexceptionable character, nor any Person for more than one Canteen, or who will not undertake bona fide to reside in the Canteen, and conduct the business thereof in his own Person will be approved; and two sureties will be required for the regular payment of the Rent, and all sums which may become due in respect of the said Canteen, and for the due performance of the several conditions and stipulations of the Lease.

The person whose proposal shall be accepted, and his sureties, must execute the in venture of lease and covenants relating thereto, the particulars whereof may be known by applying at this office, or to the Barrack Master at Ashford Barracks.

The names of two respectable persons with their Christian names, professions, and places of abode, who will join the truant in executing the Indenture as his sureties, must be inserted in the proposals, and the tenant is to pay for the stamps, and the Commissioners for the Affairs of Barracks do not undertake to procure the tenant a licence.

Sealed proposals, with the words "Tender for Canteen," written on the outside cover, will be received at this Office, on or before 12 o'clock, at noon of Wednesday, the 10th October next, after which hour, any proposal received cannot be noticed.

By the Mutiny Act, Canteens are not liable to have troops billetted upon them.

The form of the Proposals to be as follow.-:

To the Commissioners for the Canteen at _________ for one year, from the present time, to the 29th September, 1811, the sum of ______________ pounds rent, and ___________ pounds for the privilege of selling liquors, &c, therein, making together ____________ pounds, and propose Mr. _____________ of ___________ and Mr. ___________ of _________ as my sureties for the same.