The Virginia gazette — Williamsburg, Va., 1775-05-12 00:00:00, page 2

By the Susannah, Dolzlu'c, Yett, G'ihfim,
and Betfi'y, But/on, fi'om Land/m, the MU/D'v
Parry, fi'om Li 'l/rpool, the Falmoutlz, Sln-l ,
and Boyl], Dunlop, ji'om Clctg/guw, we have
London paflzx to the 25t/z oj' A-Iurs/z, ji-ctsim
which -_we e collected tlzejb/luwing advice: ,
vzz.
R 0 M E anvnv 25.
ONE Seignior bominico de Angelis, of
Tivoli, has lately sound near that
place, in dign-ing in the ruius of an ul'sil
villa, supposefi otsiCafl'ius, 14 or 15 stthucS,
eight of them Muses, with some mluctzble
bush, &c. Thus he may be considered to
11!" made a fortune at one stroke, and
little exTense. [( is supposed the present
Pope wi] buy them, to render more com
pkte the late Pope's lssme must-um, not yet
eiflrdy finished. Conflfitutioually, ]:chus
already one third part in all that is sound.
I. () si ]) 0 l\, [Ware/; 17.
- HE English have long been charged
T with a ridiculous affectation sor
Frencbsashions; but the French, as isthey
meaned to return us thepompliment, have
for some years discovered as immoderate
a fondness for ever thing that is Enalilli.
The Ladies in articular, we are told, in
letter! just received from Paris, have been
for several 'weeks past increasing the size of
their bonnets, in imitation of those lately
worn in England ; and this commerce of
mdes is at present carried there to so
great a hei ht, that it forms by much the
and ! branch of tmffick now stir
ring in that on 'tal. The tradesmen, of
- eowsq vie wit each otherin new devices;
but- what takes most is a bonnet, called
A: !!flsik'n: :: l'Angloi/Z'. There are ma
m_ ss however, which are very whim
__ _ 9, Ostbese some have the representa
find: : village upon them, others of a
,ssdmadow, abridge, ora windmill;
lfll oneevsien with apiece osmechanism in
' itjfi-sssd'simfully contrived that the bonnet
Wfl'ih'rpereeytibly, and during its mo
flfliffltatoe the singin of a linnct, the
m & : flagelet, Zc. &c. May we
not expect soon to see the-si: szmtuflicnl de
M Brought over to England ? This
ib,-must,? Our correfpondent says, is strict—
ws! ,. ' .
* NWWing is'a genuine copy of" the
Was the Antericau merchants, &c.
Wwd us the House of Lords on VVed
" K m. ' si ' .
si-lhfikigh! Hon- the Lord: iritual and
ss- "Tu-poral, 'in Parliament :! mue-1, the
'sspetkbn of the merchants, tradefl, and
' other:, of them?) of London, interested
Tit- the Mem- mannere:.
'-- ' _ Myshmeth,
' ss m— r itioners are deeply con—
T del-jot: m that there is now de
' !, before this Right Honourable
oufeg abill to restrain the trade and com
was the province osMassachusetts Bay,
and New Ram 're, and colonies of Con
ncffimand R ode llland, and Providence
"agitation, in North Americssa, to Great
Brain, lreland, and thectBritish island: in
the West lndies; and to prohibit such
pwvincesfsi and coloniea srom carryin on
anysisisheryon the banks of Newsonnd and,
or other place: thereln'to be mentioned,
Ilsilcl' certain resirictiom, and for a- time
to be lhdted . - '
" Your petitioners leave to repre
sedfsipthat the said hill, ( lould it pass into
flew; will; in its operation; deprivc thou
"fulfil (is-his Majesty's lo al subjects of their
land] snbsistcnce, an reduce them to
extreme distress, even that of famsime, the
God evinces not generally raising corn
s m for their own support ;. and, by
thin bill, the will he prevented from rect
ceiVing any npplies from their sister colo
nies, and precluded from their natural re
' source, the sea. '
" Your petitionershave reason to believe
that very great numbers ol'mcn, bred and
employed in the fisheries, who in hardiness
and intrepidity are not exercrdcd by 'mssv in
this extcnsive empire, will be impclled,
by the pressmg calls of hunsirer and usizmt,
and ajull: feeling for their violated rights,
to such a conduct as may be productive of
nbsssssi .__
*
devastation and blomlshed, which may en
danger the peace and vsi elsure of his Ma
jesty's American dominions ; or be induced
to employ themselves in lishing for the
French. and thereby give our nsivals the
means ol'suppl) ing the markets in Europe,
\\ hieh \\ ill render it difficult for us ever to
regain thzit vulu'sizhle branch ol'commerce.
" Your petitioners beg leave further to
represent, that there is now due from the
sctisssil provinees and colonies, to the city of
London only, one million sterling and up
wards; that their remittanccs are almost
entirely made by means of the iisheries,
and consequently the ruin brought on those
colonies will deeply injure the commereial
interest olsi'Great Britain, and nltimately
full on the landed property ofthese king
doms.
". 'l nat among- the other grievances ol
which our scllow subject.". in America so
generally complain, is their being depriv—
ed of trial by jury in particular cases, and
the extenlion of the jurisdiction of the ad
miralty. courts; which grievances, your pe
titioners, with much concern, find are not
onlycontinued,butextended,bytheprescnt
bill; and they think it their duty to repre
sent it as their firm opinion to this Right.
Honourable House, that the disquietudes
which univcrsillly prevail in the minds of
their fellow subjects in Ameiica will he in
creased and confirmed by this bill, which
is nnjull, as' they conceive, because it in
volvcs the punilhment of those who are
allowed to be innocent with those who are
supposed to be guilty, and that these dis—
quietudes will [never be removed unless
lenient _measures are pursued, and their
grievances redressed.
" Your petitioners therefbre'most hum—
bly pray, that the'said bill may not pass
intoalaw." ct -ss .' _ .. "
March 18 . Yesterday four ossithe people
called -Quakers attended the face at St.
]ames's, and presented a paper to his
Majesty rclzssazfve to Amcrican' afl'airs.
Extract of a letter fi'om Don Sherlock,
commanderqf Melille to the Count dessRicla,
at Aladrid , dated Fell. 7 .
" ] told you in my last of the success
we had in our subten'anean war with 'the
Emperour ofMorocco, 15 os—whose,'nien
were at first taken out of the mine we blew
up dead,' and several since. This affair
has chagrined the Emperour so much, that
he ordered all the sitbterranean works to
be suspended, which they were for five
days ; when the Moon: taking advantage
of the lightness osthecarth, notwithstand
ing the ohstaclcs which were in their way,
sound means to throw two bombs into ,
our mine, which did no damage to the
mine itself, but suffocated 16 of our miners,
who were asieep. This event affected me
very sensiblysias From that moment the
bloors began to work at their niines again,
boasting that they should soon put those
again in order which we had destroyed.
] am now preparing to (rush-ate their in
tentions.
"l'ne enemy continue the bombnrd—
went, and throwsiabout 60 bombs, and
fire 30 cannon, every day, against the
place. The gariison us not yet suffered
any thing, and the two (ircs which hap
pened were immediately extinssniihed."
WILLIAMSBURG, qu 12, 1775'.
Fn ED E R Ic KS :! U it G , commiltce chamber,
Saturdzgy, April 29, 1775.
T acouncil ofioz members, clclcgcites
ofthc Provincial Convention, officers
and s eeial deputies of 14 companies of
light llot-se, confiding of upwards of 600
well armed and disciplincd men, friends of
constitutional liberty and Americn, now
rendezvoused here, in consequence of an
alarm occasioned by the powder being re
moved fi'om the country magazinc, in the
city of Williamshurg, in the night of
Thursday the zist inltant, and clcpoiited
on board an armed schooner, by order of
his Excellency the Govcmour.
'I'he council having- bel'ore them the sc_
veral matters osintelligence respecting the
transilction, andparticulsi'sirly :] letter from
the Hon. Peyton Randolph, Ell]; Speakcr
osthc late House of'iim'g'csscs Os Virgil-in
received hue last night by an express ded
patched to \\'illi;uml>nrg* for the purpose
qsguininsi'ss' intelligence, informing llmt the
Gentlemen of the cilv (is \\'illi'un{lnlrg',
and neighbonrhood, have had full asl'ussl'si
ance from his Excellency that this assair
shall be accommodutcd, and advisinss that
the Gentlemen assembled here should pro
ceed no further at this time.
This council came to the following de
sitcrmination, and offer the same as their
advice to these pulilick-spiritcd Gentlemen,
friends to British liberty and America, who
have honoured them by this nppointment.
Ililzzhly condcmning the conduct of the
Govcmour, on this occasion, as impoli
ticl-si, and justly ::lzlrming to the Food
people osthis colonjss, tending to destroy
all coniidence in governmeht, and to widen
the unhzippy breach between Great Bl'itain
and hercolonics, ill timcd, andtotally un—
necessary, consider this instance as a full
proof that no opinion which may be formed
of the good intentions of a Govemour, in
private lise, can afford security to our in
jured and oppressed countrv ; but that obe
dience to arhitrarv ministm'ial mandate,
and the most opprellive and tyrannical sys
tem osgovernment, must be the fatal line
of conduct to all his Majesty's present set-.
vants in America . At the same time, just
ly dreading the horrours of a (ivil war,
influenced by motives of the strong-est as—
section to our sellow snb'ects os Great
Britain, most ardcntly wissiing to heal our
mutual wounds, and therefore reserring
peaceable measures, whilst the least hope
osreconciliation remains, do advise, that
the several companies now rendezvonsed'
here do return to their respective houses;
But, considen'ng the just rights and
liberty of America to be greatly endanger
ed by the violent and hostile proceedinft
os an arbitrary ministry, and being y'
resolved to resist such attempts, at the ut-si;
most hazard of our lives and fortunes, we
do now pledge ourselves to each other to
be in readinesis, at a moment's waming,z
to reassemble, and by force of arms to (le
send the laws, the liberty, and nights of
this or any sister colony, from unjuil: and
wicked invasion.
Orderecl , that expresses he des patched to
the troops afiembled at the Bowling Green;
and alsh to the companies from Frederick,
Berkeley, Dunmore, and such other conn
ties as are now on their march ; to return
them thanks for their cheersul osscrs of.
fish ice , and to acquaint them with the de
termination now taken.
God stcve the liberties ofAmerica.
The soregoin determination of council
having been rcuii at the head of each com—
pany, was cordially and nncmimoufly ap—
proved. .
Narmtire of fact: relative to John Norton
and Son: shippim two halfe es}: oftea in
the Virginia, Hovvard Esten, humbfy ad—
dress tosithe inhabitants ofVirg-inia.
OHN NORTON and sons, some time
in the month of june 1774, received
a letter from Mess. _]ohn Premis and to.
covering an invoicc osa cal-go os goods,
in which were contained two certain artiy
cles, viz. achest oshysim tea, and another
commonpsireen ditto. In the course of the
same month, they received likewise ano
ther letter, with ;: copy osthc said invoicc,
in which were inserted the sinne articles of
ten. However, ]. Nor-ton and sons,
being; uneasiv at the order, did not ive it
out till the month of August, hoping and
expecting they should have received COW
termanding orders with respect. to ct
shipping the same; but none such flsi
(N.:
came to hand, though thev had a
from Mess. Prentis and co. dared tht
of june, and :d'tclwvards :] copy th ss
both ol'which WCTC received in the
of Angnst. 'l'hns dishgreeahlsiv circb -'
shmced, [. Norton and sons, much
against their inclinations. complied with
ihippinq the two ('hcfls' of ten in the latter
end ol'lhc month oksiAuzsiust, amonnting
to the precise quantity oict154 lbs. neat ; no
other che-its of ten being on board, to the.