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qualities which still more adorn the mind, they
superintend my education from a motive of religion,
and zeal for my advancement in the sciences.
They had the fatisfa&ion to find me willing to co
operate with their endeavours refpeding the latter ;
nor fliall I be accused of vanity, if I fay, that in
relation to the former their hopes were not wholly
disappointed ; for, under circamftances so pecu
liarly favourable, vice in me had been as peculiarly
odious. My fortune, far from being {lender at
firft, has now augmented to a sum, which accord
ing to vulgar computation, has thirty-thousand
charms.
In point of personal charms, I have no preten
fious to approach towards that imaginary standard,
which mankind suppose to be fonlewhere ere&ed,
but which the diversity of their opinions demon
strates they have never been able to find. lam
content with the features which heaven has given;
and I acquiesce in the misfortune of accidental de
formity. Under these circumstances, however,
you will not be furprized if I tell you, I have
had my real or pretended admirers from various
quarters: but, as I confid^r the matrimonial en
gogemet as a tie of the utmost moment to me, I
have hitherto treated the -flattery of coxcombs
with indifference or disdain, the offers of more
serious men with caution, and remain the mistress
of my own affections. Iconfider myfelf capable,
in my present situation, of passing through life
With pleafore to myfelf and benefit to others. I
find myfelf at leisure to range in the flowery fields
of literature, and to contemplate the wonderous
works of the Ccleftial architect, so finely displayed
around me; and also for the social duties of ad
ndnifferingcomfoit to the widow and the fatherlefs;
cf visiting the sick, and of affording relief to the
indigent of various classes. From employments
of this kind I derive a secret fatisfadion, which
far exceeds my ideas of the happiness of some
married women, whose fortunes were the princi
pal objects of their husband's addresses. They
have infinitely more charms for me, than the con
stituents of modern grandeur, the glitter of As
semblies, the pomp of equipage, and the decora
tionsofa palace. The one I confideras a constant
source of wonder and delight, the other of perpe
tual inquietude and satiety. You are therefore to
coutider my future letters as virgin productions, in
which I shall make oecaGonal reflections on the
soon built the warmest hopes of his future felicity
for many years to come. But, alas! how un
stable and periling are all terrestrial enjoyments !
,ow uncertain the accomplishment of purposes
formed on the most flattering ground of human
expedition! the excellent object of his affection
lived just long enough to bear him one pledge of
mutual endearment, and then bid adieu to the
society of a husband, and the pleating expedition
of the duties of a mother. About two hours
before her departure she summoned all the forti
tude ofa mind, accustomed to devotion, and, with
a voice which bespoke the most tender sympathy,
spoke to my father as follows. " My dearest,
my most affedionate husband! the moment of our
fepararion is faft approaching ; that solemn moment,
which must dissolve an undefiled union, must put
a period to each endearing intercourse, and tender
appellation. Heaven is my witness, I have ten
derly loved you. Ydur love for me has been equal.
We mutually cherished hopes of length of days,
end had purposed to dedicate them to the duties
of religion, the offices of charity, and the virtuous
education of the children which God ffiould give
us: by his blessing I have borne you this little
daughter; she is unconfeious of my present weak
ness, and my prayers for her welfare. May God
Almighty bless and-keep her by his grace, and more
immediately bless you, her afflicted father. May
the aid of his spirit support you, and cheer your
solitary moments, when I shall be no more. I
bless his immortal name, I fear not a final repara
tion from you; through his infinite mercy, I am
going to an holy habitation; and, through that
mercy, I trust you fliall follow after. I thank
you for all your tenderness, and bid you farewel."
My father bore this stroke of providence with
religious resignation; but soon found himfelf una
ble to relish, as before, the fplendour of opulence,
or the common endearments of society, in vain
Were the endeavours of his numerous circle of
friends exerted to afford him consolation : unac
curtomed as he had been to disappointments, he
could not bear the weight of one like this. He
grew serious, dejected, and melancholy; and fol
lowed, inafewmonths, his lovely partner to the
world of spirits. I was left, by my father's will,
'to the joint guardianship of my grandfather and
another relation, for whom my parents had a pe
culiar regard : their tender care overme, through
the several periods ofinfancy, childhood, and youth,
defetves all grateful acknowledgment. Had my
excellent parents lived a few years longer, to
impress on my mind the sentiments of filial en
dearments, my tears offorrOw for their departure
must have been plentifully Shed; but, as I never
knew them, I have had less cause to mourn their
loss, than to rejoice in the abundant kindness of
those intrufted with the care of my education.
Distinguished, tbemfelves, for literature, and those
prom the MONTHLY L^DG^R.
H^orj ^AMELIA GRAY.
TA M the only daughter of a gentleman who was
educated for a mercantile life, and who, by a
series of successful adventures, soon after his en
gagement in trade, had added fufficient to his pater
i.al edate to purchase the family feat of a baronet
in a neighbouring county. To this antient pile he
retreated, at the age of forty, from the hurry of
business and the town, to spend the remainder of
his days in the rural quietude of lawns, groves,
and gardens. He amused himfelf several months
in making some ornamental alterations about his
new dwelling; but these were no sooner accom
pli fed, than he began to think of an engagement,
which, in the perpetual recurrence of mercantile
affairs, had hitherto made but little impressions
upon tils mind. In short, he made his addresses
to the elded daughter of the Lord of the adjacent
manor, and had the pleasure to find them accepted.
She was a lady on whose amiable endowments he
manners and cartons of mankind, on the import
ant business of education, and the unchangeable
obligation of morality and religion.
AMELIA GRAY.
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NEWBERN, (North-Carolina) March 14.
LAST week we had a very severe gale of wind
at North and North-East, attended with the
most heavy rains that has ever been remembered in
this country ; the waters came down in such torrents
as to sweep away mills, bridges, and every thing
that obftruded its passage, and has done incredible
damage to the roads; a very great inconvenience
at prefect, as we have no County Courts, or Over
seers of the roads, to order the speedy reparation
of them.
We hear of several vessels forced on Lore at
the Bar with the late gale of wind, among which
is the brig Neptune, Capt. King, belonging to
Messrs. Knight and Green, which 'tis feared will
be loft.
The schooner Elizabeth, Captain Greenaway,
from Philadelphia to this place, on her passage
Dipped a very heavy sea, which threw her on her
beam ends, Lifted her ballad, and near filled her
with water; they were then obliged to cut away
her marts, in order to light her, which they did;
but having five feet water in her hold, and a very
heavy sea, they were obliged to run her on shore
near Cape Hatteras, to save their lives. As soon
as five struck, she went to pieces, and the people
jumped into the furf, and very providentially
saved all their lives; a very remarkable providence
attending Mr. Batchelor, of Philadelphia, the
owner of the vessel, who, in struggling in the furf,
was near being carried away, when one of the
seamen, who was happily thrown farther up on
the beach, ran in again and saved him.
WILLIAMSBURG, March 17.
We are favoured with the following remarkable
intelligence, which we hope may be the means of
bringing to light so mysterious an occurrence, and
prove serviceable to thole who are concerned in it.
Some time last December a sloop, about 100
hogsheads burthen, flood in for Machotick Creek,
on Potowmack, and ran aground on a mud bank,
a little way up the creek, boon after a decent well
looking man, drefTed in black, with a gold laced
hat, came on shore from the sloop, and calling at
a gentlewoman's house in the neighbourhood, told
her he was bound for Alexandria, to purchase a
load of wheat, but that his hands had left him,
and he wanted the loan of a horse to carry him to
Leeds-Town, to engage others. Being dilappoint
ed in getting a horse, he went to a planter's house
a few miles distant, where he lodged all night,
went off in the morning, and has never been heard
of since. On his way he flopped at a petty ordi
nary, where he left three ruffled shirts, a neat
fowling piece, and a great coat; but carried with
'him a pair of laddie bags, which the landlord con
cluded, from their weight, contained a consider
able fura of money. After the vessel had conti
nued near a fortnight in the creek, with her fails
Landing, some of the gentlemen in the neighbour
hood went on board ; and, upon searching her,
found neither provisions, water, cherts, papers, or
any other effects, than one feather bed, a gold
laced hat, a sailor's jacket, a pair of trowlers,
some cooking utensils, and two sea compasses made
in Salem. She is a long Larp built vessel, with
only a cabin, containing five births, and hold.
On her stern is painted, in white letters, FAL
MOUTH PACKET; and the fame words,
in letters made of cloth, are on her pendant.
Capt. Russell, from Fincaftle, brings the dis
agreeable intelligence, that a general difeontent
appears among the Indian nations; that the Che
rokees and Shawanefe have combined together;
and that, in short, the frontier inhabitants are
under the most dreadful apprehensions, from the
ill temper prevailing amongst these barbarians.
BOSTO N, March 21.
We hear from Nantucket, that on Wednesday
the 9th inst. about eight o'clock in the morning,
they had the most violent gust of wind that perhaps
was ever known there; but it lasted only about a
minute; it seemed to come in a narrow vein, and
in its progress blew down and totally destroyed the
LIGHTHOUSE on that island, besides seve
ral shops, barns, &c. Had the gust continued
fifteen minutes, it is thought it would not have left
more than one half the buildings standing, in the
course that it parted; but we do not hear of any
persons receiving much hurt, nor much damage
done, except the loss of the Lighthouse, which
in every refpe& is considerable.
We hear that Capt. Wert, of the schooner
Hawk, belonging to Salem and bound to Balti
more, on the 7th ult. took up the crew of the
brig Fanny, Capt. Mofely, bound to Lisbon, at
the hazard of the lives of his own people.
FAIRFIEL D, March 14.
At a legal Town-meeting, holden this day in
this town, the question relating to the colony's
claim to the western lands, called Susquehanna,
and the dangerous consequences that it is feared
will follow from the colony's undertaking to assert
their claim thereto, and exercise jurisdiction and
government there, as lately resolved, were con
sidered, when G. Selleck Silliman, and Jonathan
Sturges, Esquires, were chosen a Committee, to
repair to Middletown on the last Wednesday in
this month, to meet and confer with the Commit
tees from the other towns in this colony, what
measures it may be most prudent to adopt, to pre
vent those dangerous consequences; and then ad
journed the meeting to 9 o'clock in the forenoon,
on the next Freemens meeting day, in order to
receive the report of the said Committee; having
firft appointed a Committee to prepare iriftru&ions
for th^ir deputies to be chosen by the Freemen
that day, to be then laid before the Town and
the Freemen. This meeting was the fulleft that
hath almost ever been known in this town on any
occasion.
The town of Stratford, at a meeting the fame
day, appointed Messrs. John Brooks, Philip Ni
cholls, and Le Grand Cannon, their Committee,
to repair to Middletown for the fame purpose, and
then adjourned, as this town did, to Freemens
meeting day. The people in both towns were ex
ceeding unanimous in the meifure, and appear to
be extremely concerned, what may. be the event
with refpeA to our invaluable charter privileges.
All the other towns in this county are in motion,
and it is not doubted, but that every town in it
will do as Fairfield and Stratford have done; so
sensibly affected do the people appear to be with
their present dangerous situation.
NEWPORT, (Rhode-Ifland) March 21.
Extrafl of a letter from St. Euftatia, Feb. 23.
" Admiral Parry, with a fleet of fix fail of
men of war, and several trajafports, parted by
this road about twelve days past; some of the
officers came on shore and got liberty to press out
of the English vessels; it soon took wind, and the
different Captains baulked the Admiral's intentions.
Various were the conjectures of people :—The
destination of the fleet was a great secret : no get
ting the least intelligence from the officers or men:
However, yesterday arrived a vessel that brought
intelligence of the fleet's being at anchor at Crab-
Island, where the Admiral has absolutely hoisted
English colours. This island the Spaniards have
laid claim to, and even gone so far as to take
English and other foreign vessels, that have been
watering, &c. at the island. It is very plain in
fight of Porto Rico ; and one of the frigates, it is
laid, is gone into St. John's, to acquaint the
Spanish Governor of this proceeding : and it is
reported that two packets were immediately dis
patched to Old Spain. The Spaniards are in the
greatest consternation, as they are absolutely hem
med up, and they will be more so if Crab-lfland
be strongly fortified. It is a very valuable island.
It is said to be as fine and large as St. Chridophers;
it will certainly make a great nolle in Europe.
The Dutch factors here have acquainted their
correspondents in Holland with this intelligence.
The Lord fend a war, is the general cry here."
NEw-YOR K, March 28.
Saturday morning last the (hip John-Galley,
Capt. Quick, arrived here from London, in eight
weeks, but has brought no later prints than what
we had received before; and by letters from thence
we learn, that the conduct of the Americans, with
regard to the Tea lent to this country, is much
applauded; but it is generally said, all that com
modity destroyed at Borton must be paid for by
somebody; and that hints had been dropped that
the ad, imposing the duty of 3d. per lb. on all
Teas sent to America from Great-Britain, would
be repealed this present session of Parliament.
March 31. On Sunday last a brigantine from
St. lago, Cape de Verd, ran affioreon Hog-Irtand,
Rockaway ; she got over the bar, and is now afloat
in tolerable security: It is said Ihe is one of the
transports that last summer brought hither part of
the gallant Royal Welsh Fuzileers.
Amongrt the many bequests of Mr. Lawrence
Reade, late an eminent merchant in New-York, is
a legacy of one hundred pounds, for the benefit
of the hbfpital now ere Cling in this city ; —a char
ity that highly merits the attention of those whose
happy circumstances enable them to cherish it with
their benificence.
It is reported that his Majesty's 64th regiment
now in garrison at Cartie William, near Borton,
will relieve the 14th regiment at St. Augustine ^d
the Bahamas; that part of the relief from England,
expeded out in the ensuing summer, will be Rati
oned at Borton : And it is said that neither the
royal regiment of Welsh fuzileers nor the 47th re
giment in New-Jersey, will be removed from their
present Situations, unless his Majesty's Service
Should more immediately require their presence
elsewhere.
The intentions of the British administration re
lative to the American duty on tea, are not yet fix
ed ; the Minister has many weighty fubjeds to lay
before the Lower House before that article will be
brought into debate, and the session will be far ex
pended ere any alteration in the revenue laws will
be attended to.
Next Thursday morning, wind and weather per
mitting, his Excellency the Governor with his la
dy and family ; will embark for England on board
the Mercury Packet, Capt. Dillon.
Extras of a letter from Providence, dated March
lO ' '77+
" 7 his will inform you of my being here on a
most extraordinary matter: I am engaged in a law
suit with one of his Majesty's men of war's ten
ders, who have taken a parcel of goods from one
of my Sloops at the Caicos. The particulars are
too tedious to mention, as the time is Short. I
have all the encouragement of recovering damages
from him.
PHILADELPHIA, April s.
Extrafi of a letter from Antigua, Feb. 14.
“ The Tea Ship, Capt. Lockyer, bound to New-
York, put in here the 4th inst. blown off the coast,
in want of provisions, and is to flay here till next
month; the morning after his arrival, I presented
several of the Philadelphia and Borton news-papers
to him, that he might not plead ignorance. He
appeared to be much of a gentleman, was very hap
py in getting the papers, and declared he would
be ready to return with the Tea, only give him
time to protest, and to take proper steps to reco
ver his freight back, therefore you will have little
trouble with him."
Extract of a letter from London, dated January 24.
" Three men of war are ordered to Be imme
diately in readiness to fail to Borton, and exaft
payment for the Tea."
Thursday fe'ennight arrived at New-York the
schooner Hannah, Capt Gray, in 13 days from
North-Carolina, with whom were passengers Capt.
Tree, of this place, Robert and James Armstrong,
and some others: The two latter informed, that
they failed from Baltimore the 23d of February,
in the snow Charming Molly, Capt. Waugh, bound
for Belfafl, in company with Capt. Keith, in &
Slip for the Streights;- that they left the Capes
on Wednesday the 2d inst. and the fame night, in
a tile of wind, their vessel sprung a leak, which
obliged Capt. Waugh to bear away for North-
CtVolina; where, upon his arrival, he was inform
ed that a fllip, with an image head, and carved
images on her quarters, loaded with flour, some
of the calks marked Baltimore, was cart away to
the southward of Ocracock, the vessel loft, and
almost all the cargo, and the whole crew drowned,
one of the men hiving been found on the fliore
with a blue jacket and black hair; the Ship bad a
new mainmart, and was supposed to be Capt.
Keith, as two d gs came ashore on the forecartle.
and the informants were certain he had such with
him, as they frequently law them on board h,s
vessel.
Capt. Shines, who arrived here last Monday
from North-Carolina, confirms the above, and
adds, that the schooner , Capt. King, in
ballad, from Antigua for th s port, was drove in-'
to Ocracock, and loft, the people Saved.
Capt. Shines, on his passage, Saw a brig Stand
ing in for the land, which, on the 12th inst. had
ftiuck on Ocracock Bar, and when about five
leagues out, they difeovered that flie leaked very
faft, which obliged them to put about, and Stand
in for the firft land ffie could make, where he sup
poses they ran her ashore.
Married. Dr. JOHN BEATTY, of
Newington, Bucks county, to Miss POLLY
LONGSTREET, daughter of Capt. Richard
Longstreet, of Princeton, New-Jersey Mr.
JOHN GARDNER to Miss POLLY
SCOT, b th orthis city.
On Monday morning last died in an advanced
age, at Trenton, New-Jersey, Mrs. KATHE
RINE PEARCE; and on Wednesday her
remains, attended bv a very refpedable number of
people, were decently interred at Burlington.
j^ A Court ofOyer and Tei minerand General
Goal Delivery is to be held at the State-house, in
the city of Philadelphia, for the county of Phila
delphia, on Monday next, the nth instant.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, PHILADELPHIA.
Inward Entries.
Schooner Polly, J. Buck, North-Carolina.
Schooner Rebeca, J. Holden, Virginia.
Schooner Lucretia, A Joyne, Virginia.
Sloop Polly, W. Sh nes, North Carolina.
Sloop Ranger, H. M'Cabe Maryland.
Sloop Robert, W. Banting, Virginia.
Sloop Potowmack, G Rowe, Maryland.
Schooner Betsey, R. Patterson, Turks-Bland.
Brig; Tobago, J. Scott, Grenadoes.
Ship Mercury, R. Codings, Barbados.
Brig Sally, J. Brown, Hispaniola,
Brig Broker, W. Giffin, Hispaniola.
Outwards.
Ship Fame, J. Genfell, Lisbon.
Brig Adrian, J. Duncan, St. Croix.
Ship Peggy, E. Yorke, Lisbon.
Snow Penn, J. M'Caddon, Lisbon.
Brig Charlotte, S. Carlon, Lisbon.
Brig Tobago, J. Scott, Tobago.
Sloop Potowmac, G. Rowe, Maryland.
Sloop Ranger, H. M'Cabe, Maryland.
Cleared.
Brig Sally, A. Hunter, Jamaica.
Brig Commerce, W. Dunn, Lisbon.
Brig Harmony, W. Barber, Lisbon.
Brig Addison, T. Candel, Cadiz.
Ship Eliza, G. Gowland, Jamaica.
Sloop Belifle, J. Prince, Boston.
Schooner Lucretia, A. Joyne, Virginia.
Sloop Robert, W. Bunting, Virginia.
Sloop Raven, J. Christopher, St. Euftatia.
Brig Nancy, D. Van Voorhees, Tobago.
Sloop Nelly, P. Cocke, New-England.
Snow Penn, J M'Caddon, Lisbon,
Schooner Phoenix, T. Coffin, Newfoundland.
Sloop Polly, W. Shines, North-Carolina.
Brig John and Richard, D. WiLinfon, Barbados.
PREMIUMS fir the year 1774, to be given
by the Managers of the contributions for promoting
the culture of fk in the province of Pennsylvania,
fubje< Sto the following conditions on the part of
the claimants, viz.
CONDITION S.
TH E cocoons or balls for which any premi
mium is to be demanded mutt be found,
merchantable, and all fingle* ; they must be all
raised in the province of Pennsylvania, and brought
to the Filature at Philadelphia for Lie, or to be
reeled for the claimant's own use, on or before
Sept. I, 1774. Satisfactory proof must be given
to the Managers, that the cocoons were all raised
at one crop, within the claimant's single family,
and that overand above the cocoons brought to
the Filature, one twentieth of the whole crop has
been reserved, out of which the claimant must en
gage to raise good eggs ; for which, if to be fold,
the Managers will give a dollar per ounce.
PREMIUM S.
I. For the greatest quantity of cocoons, not less
than fx/, thousand, Fifteen Pounds.
2. For the next greatest quantity, not less than
fifty thousand, Ten Pounds.
3. For the next greatest quantity, not IcL than
forty thousand, Five Pounds.
4. For the next greatest quantity, not less than
thirty thousand, a Silk Reel, and Copper
Kettle, on the best conftruftion.
5. To that person, who fliall produce to the Ma
nagers the bed specimen or sample of rerw flk,
of his or her oevn raijing and reeling, not less
than thirty-tone ounces, a Silk Reel, and
Copper Kettle as above.
6. for the second and third next best samples of
rawfilk, not less than fifteen ounces, a compleat
Silk Reel each.
7. To that person who shall raise twenty thousand
cocoons, intirely on the white or Italian mulber
ry tree, of the claimant's own planting and cul
tivation, Five Pounds.
8. Two more premiums ofTHREE Pounds each
to those two persons, who (hall raise not less
than jOT ee " thousand cocoons each, intirely on
the Italian mulberry tree as aforefaid.
PRICES for the YEAR 1774.
Besides the encouragement offered above, the
Managers hereby agree to give the following pri
ces for cocoons, raised in cither of the provinces
* The double balls cufli to be left for fad.