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AuGUST 18. 1774' _si si . ,
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'V I R G I N I A
G A Z E T T E.
laud the freshe! ADVICES,
FOREIGN and DOMESTlCK.
[- ClvsirrsiA'rn LumkA LlNGUAM Murzmossun
' LIBERAS Essz Dxnzkz.———Sut. in Tib. 8. 28.
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siPrintedssssby ALEX. PURDIE, , and 70HN DIXON, at the POST OFFICE.
LONDON, Meyzo.
H I Bosion Saintt, notwithflanding ma: great Gu
vity, nre exceflively fond of Punch; and, " en Ex
cnse for their copiouz Potniom, they pretend it it
necessary so their Hezllh end Comfort. in one of
their iiteury Production: they say, " us the Acid of
- " Lemonl end Oranges !: become limit necessity
" for the Health and Comfort of the lnhnpiunn of
. " Nbrth America, it is hoped that the direct impor
n tition of Wine, Oil, ,md Fru'm of ill Kinds, mny be permitted."
"shiiiionly modestly ufking a direct Trade with France, Splin, Ponugnl.
md ltaly, thn they may nmy on their Smuggling Trade with less But
thou they do [! preht; for now their Vesselt, with the above Articlet
a lard, ne under thikeflriction of nuing at some Pox: in Gme
Iriuin. '
An the Lord- msemed tontend his Majesty thin Day in the
limbes Pemct. .
This Day. hie Mnjefly will go in Stace to the House of Peeu, and give
a: Royel Assem to the following Billn, viz.
The Bill (or the mimyu-tial, Adminisiution of ]usiice in the Pro
vince oi' Museehusetn Day. _
The Bill for better ngnldting the eivil Gomment of the Mafl'uchusetn
la - .
'z'he Bill for better regulating the Government of Webec.
The Biii to indemnisy Personl who have omitted to qualify themselves
[of Office- of Empioymenu within the Time limited by Llw, end enow
Is : snrther Time for th" Purpose:.
The Bill set the bones Repletion of private Madhoufes.
* The hill ior regulating Ensmncet on Lives, end sor prohibiting :"
bell !nlmaneet, except in Cast: where the Pessom ensuring [ball hue
mrnterest in the Life of Denth of the Persom ensured.
si The Bill for more effectuauy fecuring the Hellth of Prifonert in ]ail,
during their Condnement.
- The'Bill to continue an Afl for eshblilhing certain free Pom in the
Ill!!! es mnine. .
-"!'he Bill to nmend en AQ foe the more M."! preventing Fmds
M'Abusee committed by Parson: employed in the Mmusndnre of fine,
Men, Linen, and Cotton
The Bill for melting . navigable Out, of Cato], stout the Part or
'larhout of Bade, in the Hmdnd of Stnuon end Gaunt, es Camomil,
en thekiver Tme', 'in the said do-nty.
'- And also when] other public! end private sin..—
' YeMty there am o pen Court end ansng Room et St. Jamee'e,
Which their M-jeitiee Were patent, who dine:! at the Bears Plllc',
bd it! the leasing martial t! Kew. '
Weenesd-y General Eiliot molt Leave of hie Majesty it St. ]:mel't,
m thirds, set out for Mind; being lately appointed Lieutencnt Genern
e't that Kidgdom.
TheD'ey of Algien has refused to receive lad acknowledge our Con.
M; "81er vennis, our Adminl upon thit Sntion, he sent over ill
Office! with thin Newe, end it il thought we shall be obliged to um to
bsre it. '
si They write from Part:, the : Disenvery of : vety cruel Transndion
debte!- lnely mlde in that City. A Gentleman oi' Diainction, who
was test Cundian w hil Sifler'e Children . few Years since, procured
m Viiiains to kidnlp them; they were (ent to the Dutch Sememenn
": the zm lndief, where they perifliod in ahjea Shvery. The Defini
W he- ned to Italy, having taken with him no his Efl'ectt, &c.
' i ' thuB gf a Letter fmn bour,, Me] 17. ,
si " The mon nothentick Account! from Paris. since the Death of the
King. ere,"- thnt the Duke de Nivemoil will be Prime Minifla, and that
"Duke de Choiseul will be reflored to savour. end take : principal
Shan in Adminiflrutionz which, it it thought, will produce some Alcest
ione in the Alein of tempo. .
4 & .When the King un solhlt of his appmuhing Dnth, he sent for
Mlnedc land. and emnly recommended toher w lene the King.
dom, end take with herell her ]cwele." ss- _
. Nun Pride, will be lamehed from Mr. Dndman't and, et Deptford,
! Winem 74 Gen Man of w-r, called the'J-leaor; :: which sum]
Olth-Royd Emly, end : greet Number of the Nohility, m expected.
- si - ' zmm nf 1 Lcmr sm- Gosport, Me} 17.
" 'ljhe Vanpuard 0! 74 Gum is fold to the Merchnnu; and is now rig
Qplin lhl'silluhmu with ]ury Milk. in Order to go round to the River
ss T} m.}. '. '
4 (, Lord Sondwich is expedcd down here, siw inspect inn theShipo in
:. -_-, 75; u_ 'ng the Commislomn, m. went to Spilhead, and pin
HKMMy'o ip Pinch", of 60 Gum, siC-puin Onlnn'cy, : Twelve
msisslct'ssssiWm She unll soon Found on lnr Voyap w Newfound
.
. - !MCS oft Letterfmy CMlllln, fill} 17.
l
-" Frissdly m du Majefly's Sdip Nun's, of gonnen, ws nken into
Dock, !! ome- to hues thorough Repz'u. She will ukcup out the..
Months npdring.
: .". Saturn, un his lhjefly'c-Ship Robusl, of 74 Gum. un taken
did Dock, in On]: lo hue ! night unir." .
. As ch-M-senm in Spr'u Gardm, on Fridny twain; last, thereon:
"lot! nspect-hlc Way of Nobisny nnd Gentry, and a very numemvs
Mamm- in YMI Chuzaers. Befidn seven] tied Dominos,
m Dutch Mr: gon much Snisfaaion; amongst adm- Snilon, there
"a I—m-W ruby—sac-l Tll' with his Doxy, whose Hae was scarc
liihle for Ridwd; : Mew:! Boy wilh his Bludgcon Iud : very goo'd
W; lnd : Hent. with : Cap blning in Wound.. in extmndy
_. The mon cmenining mon. however, m : ]" Ped
ler. and . Seboolmskr um. Morning Gum, cunning. Red in his
Mpwb bad sufhimd their nfpeflive Pmss Iitb m Wil, Humour,
NW- But indeed Plusm md Admiraeinn were visible through
dle whole Campany, end the grace Poin- nkn by du ExNhin-m to show
every Part of the Muswm to the Spshm Md much Cmdi! o
Mr. Cox And hi- Pecph, though it ha- wkes—maces! tho: there is no
degmt Amusemcm :: which the Publick m so obfigbgly ncommodned,
nor when such Pain: at: uken to plate, :: :! um surprifin; Sea: of
"zmidmce and lngenuiry.
'si Veflmny Morning. denied- two and three o'CIoek. : Fire broke out
"the Whike ['I-gle, I Which House in Bdflol Sneec, Southwark. !:
"god with such Fury that : Boy wan burn! in his Bed, and the son of the
'My "newly &:an a- fine Fm.
A Gentleman :! I CdMonb, having : Nursplpe: in his
Him, to mother. who m next him, " ] hm dun looking fame
Time tosnwhn th' um an Mr. du ] cannot find where those
luble- m [m. not tula; m enh- Londcn Pnpm." To whidnssc
WM. -* Look um the much."
- m, M. osiwm, named Nonhlmdu loognd lkapeech
0" oponkng du Content- es hi- Iudgn; he pmduod lo the House great
Wmflosin eooccmiauhe Sm- oftho inned num, which he said
hid been l held out to him by no Honounuc Gentlmnn (.Colonel
W) un bjedos'rm, os !mplc, MW. l-lu Lord
mmmwwmss. MMWMQJ
ck him, mmmmmum-mwm counci
szmcthmuw-hmvmmpu
17 c- n. Mandmlnpw o- Acoo-tofdnh—
"simij-lnpdnhmdm trench swim:
eny formal Deeleretion of War, which Measure his Lordship censurcd in
: Menner becoming the Minister of a great Nation. But, on the Subject
es emblishment. he we- well answered by Opposition, that Vigilznce
to the Cebinet towards my Change: in the poittical Hemisphere would
M.: better Desence to this Kingdom than an expenstve Armament in
Ttme os Peece, which Would produce Debility in Wer. Hia Lordship
attacked all Pertiee, bet was plrticulzrly unmeteiful to Colonel Bene,
for some former Anirmdvetstons, although he acknowledged himself
more panizi to the economicei Opinionl ot thet Honounble Gentleman
now, as they epproached nearer to his own. This Conduct natunuy
drew upon the Noble Lo-d : Number 9! Afl'nlants, whole Weepom did
not seem to mnlte much impression; but after the House end Glileliee
h'ct 'Ppclred satisfied with his Desence, he wu attacked on some Point:
of hie Argumentctby Govemour ]uhnitone, in : Manner the: left : very
discreet lmpnffion. 'These were chiefly the Mensuree respectiog the Enst
lndie Company, the Ten of 4. and ,} per Cent. on the new ecquired
lnmde by Royal Pretogetive, end the Mode proposed sot plying off one
Minion of the netionel Debt. That Gentleman et the time Time
deemed, he elweys bed the greatest Rei'pea for the Abilttiee of the
Noble Lord, which hed been more confirmed ossn that Day; but with
Regnrd to the Left lndie Compeny. 'end the other Point: he took Notice
of, theyery Operation- of 1 French Fimneier, which his Lordship had
desetibed in : Manner supetiour to any he could use, returned diremy
upon himself.
The House of Commom attacked : Petson violently in 1710, end
mitted the Whi; Minisiry. At that Time, Religion vyu the universal
Cty of the Netioa; et present, TRADE is the Hinge on which au turns;
end there to a nthuhefiick l Pondnese sot- Trede. AmericA, end
Money thet comes from thence, nthere wu in 1710 for the Ctlvlcl
But we shall see! et the (men! Bledion, which it now our, the Denger
of lttaeking TRADE.
The Treope, fleet, end other Expensee inetmed by the violent Mea
snm niten with Respea to Amesien, will oecefion such Expenses thee it
"in 50 necessary to men : short Pmeogetion. This will make mother
Sesion, in which : Shiiiing mere mey be grented on the Land Ten
ivl'flch Great my pese, end the second Sesien be over beseie shG,EM et
tt y. ,
During the Dehltee in the Upper Assembly, in the second Reeding of
the Bill for the men impeniei Adminillmion of justice in Melsechuiettl
Bly, the Duke qf Riehmond wet very seven on Lord Rocht'otd, on
Account of his Change of Principlee flnee hie protesting against the Sump
Act. Hit Leedflip, et first. didsinot recollect the Circumshnce; but the
Noble Duke, terning to the knelt, elemeined it; npologiang for hie
Lotdship it the some Time, y saying, " . Change of Situation not only
often need : Change os Sentimentt, but the extreme Hurry at :
publi Department'ae often continued : Lepse of Memory."
Thurfdey the Speeker of the House of Common: reported to the House,
thlt he bed ettended hie Mejefly that Day with their Addrest niame to
the Gold Coin, to which hie Hejesiy wet pleased to give the following
most graciou- Answen .
" Is) Lord:, end Gentlemen,
" The Attention you have given to : Metter in which the Commerce
end levemte of my Kingdome eke so neerly eoncemed elords me the
highest Setieiection, and you may depend upon my giving the neoesiary
Divine for carrying the Meesuree you recommend into immednte
Bxeeotiu."
Copiee in mew making out, et the Secremiee of state's Office, of sin
the 'l'netiee which subfifl between our Court end lhlt of Berh'n, in Order
to their being hid before the Counetl Boerd.
Yesierday etrived : Meil from France, by which we lum thnt after
the Death of the lete King en the,?tineee end Princeffes at" the Blood
paid their Home to King Lottie XVl. end to the Queen; after which
in the Rose] Femily set out for Choisy, end went into deep Mouming
en Sunday len. sit
{ley 23. hauny ["a-having been propagated with Rcspect to the
beside lntenttotte at the young King of France, we can with Plezsm
essute the Pebhck that all the Lettm from Puit, hitherto received.
dechctte he hn given the (dangefl Affwancee to all the soseign Miniflert,
sivbo_hne eondoled him upon the Death of hit Cnndt'ather, o! peslever
[n' tn the peeihek Synen which pmails in Europe, and repeatedly
umfsed lite wishes to eceommodate M-tten between the Court of
Petettburg end the Pone.
The Snl'rnunn {Mjnm D: MPSTZI, Snwntdol, BAue,
end in !.l. ", 'o- the last as the American him.
I. DEMPSTBR. ! do not dppr-sshend that the Bill before you is
_ et ill adeqnne to th Purpose intended, nor do ] think lhal Ex
penenee warrant: the Afl'crdon that : sur Tml cannot be nzd in the
Coloniel. Surely, the bringing Men ever to England to be tried us not
only such : direct-lnlcb of their Conflitution, but it : Dcpn'vazion of
the Right of every British deect in Americe. ] should have thought
thnt ! Poem- ol Reprieve, lodged in the Governcur ther the Convtftisiun.
would have been fully sufficient, without bringing Men to England.
Whe'er Murder ie command, it must inevitably sizo offwith lmpumty;
Cor whenever any Person present (hell find that he is to go over the Adm
tick I: in E'idenee, to the Dettiment os hie Family end his Fqnune,
these le no Donbt hut ther he will ende the Necessity of hll Appearutce
us on Evidmoe. Tfit will be : Means os subjecting the People of that
Country to Asseflnadon, in the Room of legal Trial; and the invtriable
Conseqneece hae alwayt been, thet when a fair Trial cannot be procured
the Rome of the Relation! of the Decetfed win exercise itself in this
Kindof cruel Assastnafion. [, pethapa, may be wrong in my ldeas ;
but ] have looked into the Hinoq of that Country with Care and Cir
wmfpection, end it hn inspired me with the highest Veneration for
those of the ass! Settlen. They emignted when that Seat Chamber
Dodtine evaa predised in this Country. Oppressed, at they thought
Mselm, by the Mother Country, by the Cruelty of those arbitrary
hen, soonee then suffer themselm to be ppprvffed hy Tytanny, they
clad. utter to comb" with Tigen and lndians m America than to live
in . Piece where Oppresion and 'l'ymmy rated. It it no new Thing
that they have resultd to comply with the Payment of 'l'exes demanded
stent thh Country- this Exemption it a very old Demand of theirs, and
suppaied' by th ' Chattes. lmprisonment of two Perfons, who held
thin two of Doorine, we: mode in the Time o! $.r Edmund An'dsSWl,
who was then Govemour, end the Anterictns passed a Law decla-ing
that chid Country had no Right to cut; it it true, when that Law came
m here, it was rejected. Let Gentlemen confidev, that if we tzx
Am, et thin presatt Period, her TMe, and every Thing else, win
decline. ! think that Boflon has the most Metit with thsiu Counuy of
lay Place ] know; (he it a most valueble any. or a suburdimtc Colony.
Teke it in either Sensb. her Polseflion it ineshmable; but ! rtaZly star
very much tbet the Ameflum are to be thus treated, without the Pertiu
debghurd. ldonotlike tosee Punucz l.untv, and the thu-n
o, PIISONl, hshged. There are two Antcln in the Bill which]
cannot blame the Amesieane for tefifling, I them thet of the Coundl and
thejodga being enoun :: Tue C-owu. The encient Way which
their chenet'dinaed of choosing their Couocii wet lar more ehgible;
they even Men at a canto old Age, to which Euperience generally adde
wan, thet m dead Cmdl. In this it anew Syflem, thu
earlie- oith u neither lunnsinc; eat 'ltteeat; and [think the
"My, Who! ltflnktbeOfieeefsheM
h manie."- bed he in nlngheofrminthel-Iandeof
.the Cancer. Nebl-mneltatbgewq de'revnuntiam
there in but one Precedent of this [God to be sound in History, but I
could wish, on the present Occalion, thet : second had not been made.
Mn . SAW .. incz. The Oppofition ! hue given to these Meesune
doe: not proceed from : settled Dispofition egninst Adminittntion, not
do ] do it for the Szke of Populatity; it it for the Love or TltA'r
l.] : E n TY which I have always been sh'cngthened in. end bred up by
Education. ] had rether bear the Bedge of the Perish then the! ct
AroETACY. [( lus been urged in Deblte, that (bil Country hue
Right to. pursue those Musum adopted in the Bill, end that Nmsic
is the Ground and Argument which urges it on. But prey, let meez
who is to be the judge osthet Neeefflty? A Nation surely cannot be
called a free Nation where mother he: a Right to draw Momy out of
their Pockets; but I cannot undetshnd how any One een eyne w'dt
these Measnree end deny the Right of Texatioo. If you exercise e
Authorsitty which doet not belong to you, or if you force en illegli Anthosi
tity. they heve a Right to reflR. ! do not see any Neceflity set bringing
over the People to be (tied by e ]ufy of Englend. ] think the Claw
should have lodged e Powef in the Governour to perdon, and "] should
have thought it the drighteit ewel in it on this Oecalion. . You say;
that the Govemour is to use . ]! Discsetion with Regard to the having i
fair Trinl; but, by tliit Bill. the Governonr, ! say, it not the judge of
that. for it must be upon the Oath of : Witness. he must believe the.
Witness, and no Discretitm is lest in the Govemour. No lien evil
become : volunury Eviderice en such an Occestonz he willjooner ly
fron) thlt Situation than he transyoned to Englmd. By thet'Meane,
uihce will be ended, " Evidenee cannot be had, and the People will
oon tqke.upon themselves to revenge their own lajuriee.
Catoun, But it:. lthink it ctimiml to sit Ml upon the dull De,
cifion es thit Queshon, !! ] cennot in any Shape approve of thin Mcesde;
] think the Persone whom yon employ to neeute your Lewe might hue
been protected in the Execution of their thy in e leseneepu'oneble
Manner than the But proposes, Your Army in thet Country beech
cafimg Voice, and it is dmgerout to put any more Powerinto
Hands. Consider how long they will be content with 40. per Dey; -
em afraid not Long. You have had one Meeting already; you my
have another.- The People of Americe will receive these Reguletiom le
Bdictt from en Alu'nAet Govnutuut'r. The hee'iefi Offenee
they heve been guilty of it, that they have refined that Let" wh'ch been
such an erhitrety Cest. 1 went to know it we in thie Country had no!
refined sueh erbitrary Love, in certain mient Times, whetherwe should
hue exitsiled et e Hovfe of Common; hete thin Dey? ! meek
egeinst the Docttine which I have heard hid down, thatthe nicate:
Erigency of the Cefe counteneneed the Musnre. ] do not eppnheod
the Ameritsinm will abandon their Principles, for if they submit, they"
Stun. ] therefore execnte the present Mensnre, in Menner pr
'Mu. Futtu. lvrill now lette my Leave of the whole Pint, end
will give you my free Opinion of it. You will commence yond
RUiN [tom this Dey if you do not repeel that Tax which created ell thie
Distutbenee; you will have no Degree of Considmee with the Amid
em; People will not trust you when your Credit is gone.. You ,'
] say, dere your Ruin from this Day; end, ! eat sect, to say, that not
only this House he- tellen into that Emur, betthet THE HZOPlJ of
this Country epptove of the Musule. ] in}! the P within! th'
Measuics proposed in thit Bill, es much !! the Me' ity re. lt ie notct
all owing to the s[umvro of : Miniltry thee th Meesuree are taken,
it is the People et urge, whom, ] am sorry to sey, ere mind; they ere
in an Ermur; but : short Time will prove the evil Tendeney of dilill.
] think this Bill before ul been the least injury ot'my osthe thee; be:
' it' there ever was : Netion running headloog to its Ruin. it is thbss .
WESTMlNSTER, Me} 30. This Day his Majesty came to th
House of Peets. and being in his Royal Robe- stzlwd on the I
with the usual Solemnity, Sirlsrlneis Mblineux, Gentlemen Uthe'r is
the Black Red, was sent with : Mcssage from hie Mejefly to the Ho—
os Commqns, commanding their Attendence in the House of Peel!
The Commons being come thither accordingly, his Majesty wu plead!
to give the Roynl Msent to An Afi for the better regnlet'ng tie
Govemment of the Provmce of the Meffechusetts Bay, in New England}
and to An Act for the impnrtial Adminiatation osjuflioe in tltel'minee
ot'Mlssachusetts Day, in New England. ,_ _ .
13 0 3 T 0 N, uly xi.-:iss
H ! S is now the 48th Day since the Siege of oflon begflij ent],
notwithshnding our accumuiating Difl-ressca, the inhabitants eon
tinue to exhibit that caimsslsi'irmnei's and Unanimity which aftmishee our
Enemies. Notwithshnding a Report, industrioufly prosiagated, that.
Number of Persons in the Cmfldence of their Fellow Citizem wente 50
apprehendssd and sent home sor Trial, or we know not what, no one of
them has left his Ground. ls any unz'air Practice; should hereafter tal.
Phee. this Province and Continent have it in their Power to do themsel—
jumce. The lime Trisie of Addresscts, Pmcnefs, &c. are Bill remote.
in Ov-ier to pull] themselves into Vlbw; but it will not behvondered at by
our Btclhtm in the other Colonies when they consider how long
has been the Head Warters us moniflerial Corruption, and what Enginn'
have been set at Work to debauch the Neceflitous, and miflead the Vain
and Unwzry. A few uflicu of the County of Wotceaaand Plymodtll
fland soremofl in the ank of Proshtutes, and the latter have liupidly
aimed at paying : Compb'ment to the Cavernous in their late Address,
by a grass Abuse offered our Clergy, strangely imagining that the Minute:
os this Province might be treated with less Delieacy and Defesence than
the Clevgy of Canada. The Inhabitanu of this Town are greatly se
ported under the Weight of minisiesinl Vengelnce, by the kind Sympat
and generous Donatiom of our Brethren and Friends, through the Pro
vince and Continem. ]! indeed seems aa if their Pmphecy would soon
be verified in Bonon's becoming the Granasy of North Ametica.
the Behaviour of in lnlubitants continue to deserve their Praise and Im
ty. A whole Continent is now awake and active, one Spirit low
the Where, and all unite in Prayer: to the supreme Disposeros Essvm
that the Libeniee of Amesica may yet he preserved. Lafl Thurfday un
a soiemn Day in the Town; the Shope and Streeta empty, and th'
Churchel, full. May the Dly be tollowed with true Repentanee, and
the Amendment of Life ; and all the ill: we sun's now, like [uttered
Clouds, shlll past away.
NEVVPORT, July 28.ss
HE mofl mlhennck Asiccounu by Capuin Fron arc, th! th.
People in Engllud ne :; lnxious to he:: ne Reception che ida
mc un POR'l' BILL on with as it (!.cir Lives depended on the livenn
that mzny imsi-mr-cd [he Appeaumze us the Troops nnd Ships would
shike su-h . I'anick imo me nononim. um they would immed'ul'dy
submit, and ply lo: the Ten; thar oshm won: nsnid the southem Colo
niel would zbsolmdy refuse lo hopper: them, nnd due they must give u ;
du um; unive-sdly, except Court Sycoyhmu, minifleridl Took, &
hungry Dependenu, they wished, devoutly wished, the Coloniu manie,
and find firm, od-enwise Libeny wou!d be banithed the Fluosihe M.
or :: leon be no Where sound bu: in W-lds and Descm! um the Tndes
mm began to be very fearful of cur slopping Trade, : confldenbll
Number of who. could have embarked with Clpuil [iron, but th:
he could not bring them; and um it was general, w is the colo
niunoodout, nbecmsmbos- Aneficm, ebncnfuolhssubq, '
'l-csd North. you!] foo-bf'QD—g'rd bingNsll-d. show
No- dposl [To so: my Thin '