The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1771-10-17 00:00:00

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CONSTANTINOPLE, July 3.
We have received very melancholy Advices from Syria. Ali Bey has published a Manifesto there, in which he styles himself the Soudan of Egypt, Successor of the Pharaohs, and Deliverer of the promised Land, and likewise of Mecca, which is the Holy Land of the Mussulmen. The Bashaws of Damascus, Tripoli, Aleppo, Kilis, and the Serafki d'Urfi, assembled their Forces to oppose that Usurper, who, after an obstinate Engagement, gained a complete Victory over them the Beginning of last Month, and entered the 6th Ultimo in Triumph into Damascus, the Inhabitants of which shut their Gates against Part of the conquered Army, which would have taken Refuge in that City, where there was a Revolt, which cost the Lives of upwards of five Thousand Persons; the Houses were plundered, and the very Mosques profaned. Though the Bashaw of Aleppo is got back to his Residence, it is apprehended that City will share the same Fate as Damascus, and fall into the Hands of Ali Bey, whose Army consists of sixty Thousand Men, well provided with Artillery, and every Thing necessary to carry on a War with Vigour.
PETERSBURG, July 3. The Empress has ordered two Places to be built in this Capital, which she intends, it is said, to present to the Counts Alexis and Theodore Orlow.
Some Turkish Prisoners have been sent hither from the Levant, among whom are some young Women who have been presented to her Imperial Majesty in their Oriental Ornaments.
July 9. This being the Anniversary of her Majesty's Accession to the Throne of all the Russias, her Majesty repaired to Peterhoff to celebrate the Day. The publick Joy was greatly increased by the Arrival of Grouschewski, in the Evening, with an Express from General Prince Dolgoroucki, who had the Honour to present her Imperial Highness with the Keys of the Fortress of Orepki, lately taken.
July 12. The Garrison of Precop, consisting of eight Hundred Men, namely, ninety Officers, and seven Hundred and eighty one Turkish Soldiers, finding themselves obliged to surrender at Discretion, demanded, and obtained, to be carried by Sea to Warna, on Condition not to bear Arms during this War against the Russians. There were found in the Fortress seventy four Pieces of Brass Cannon, fifty six of Iron, three Patereroes, and ten Mortars. Our whole Loss consists in twenty five Men killed, one Hundred and thirty five wounded, besides six missing. That of the Enemy exceeds twelve Hundred Men, either killed or wounded, besides twenty three taken Prisoners.
July 19. Major General Czerbatoft came before Arabat the 28th of June. The following Night the said Town was stormed, and plundered before Daybreak. Our light Troops likewise routed twelve Hundred, most Part Tartars, who were come from Caffa, and lay behind a Retrenchment. In the Fortress were found three Hundred dead Bodies, among which was the Commandant, an Aga of the Janizaries, and four Hundred Turks were killed in their Flight. Our whole Loss consists only of twelve killed, and forty three wounded. We took fifty Pieces of Cannon, a large Quantity of Provisions, and all the Baggage of the Tartars who were behind the Intrenchment, with six Pair of Colours. We took twenty Turks Prisoners at Kusoff, and three Pieces of Cannon; that Town was in a shocking Condition; the Tartars having plundered it three Days before our Troops came there.
VIENNA, July 20. We are assured that the Court of Petersburg has sent its Ultimatum regarding a Peace to the Porte, by the Way of our Court and that of Berlin, and waits only for an Answer to appoint the Place where the Congress is to be held, which, it is said, will be either at Sendin or Hermanstadt.
We hear that the Conditions on which the Russians agree to conclude a Peace are that Walachia, Moldavia, and Crimea, become independent of the Porte, and governed by their own Hospodars or Governors.
July 24. We are still exposed to frequent Inundations, and the Rivers are swelled to such a Pitch that it is impossible to repair the Bridges, which have been, in many Places, greatly damaged. These Storms have likewise greatly damaged the Fruits of the Earth, and their Price hath greatly increased.
COPENHAGEN, July 23. The Queen suckles the young Princess herself. Her Majesty had so happy a Delivery that she was able to walk through her Apartments on the third Day, and to take the Air in the Garden on the 8th.
TRIESTE, July 13. The four Islands which the Russian Squadron have put under Contribution are Paros, Naxia, Micon, and Tina. In the two former a great Quantity of Artillery has been landed, and some Fortifications erected, which indicate that the Russians intend to keep Possession of these Islands even in Time of Peace.
HAGUE, August 6. Before Prince Dolgoroucki forced the Lines of Precop he had detached Prince Czerbatoft to take Possession of Arabat, in marching by Genitich and the Neck of Land on the Side of the Sea of Assof; and after the taking of Precop he sent Major General Braun with another Detachment to make himself Master of Koftoff, but the Turkish Garrison did not wait his Arrival, but, demolishing the Fortifications, embarked on Board some Vessels which were there, in Order to repass into their own Country, so that General Braun took Possession of the Place without striking a Stroke. The Garrison of Arabat, however, consisting of between seven and eight Hundred Men, held firm; but Prince Czerbatoft attacking the Fortress carried it by Assault, and the greater Part of them were thus destroyed or made Prisoners. In the mean Time Prince Dolgoroucki marched to within thirty five Wersts of Caffa, where he waits the coming in of the whole Tartar Nation to make their Submission, and expects to finish his Expedition into the Crimea in a Fortnight or three Weeks at farthest.
LONDON, July 25.
MANY principal Merchants in the City are soliciting Grants on the Borders of the Mississippi, which is universally reckoned one of the finest Climates in the World, and produces, besides an infinite Variety of other valuable Commodities, much better Tobacco than the best Virginia hitherto imported into this Kingdom.
Extract of a Letter from the Field Marshal Count Romanzow, dated from the Army near Wolotzky, June 19, to his Excellency the Count de Saldern, Ambassador from Russia at this Court.
"I have the Honour to announce to you, by this Letter, the happy Success of our Arms, but at the same Time must acquaint you with a melancholy Accident, which, as I am well assured, may be divulged, by those that envy us, as a great Loss to us; I mean, that the Major Commandant Henkel has surrendered to the Enemy the Fortress of Giurgiewo, in an unguarded Manner, since, according to his own Confession, he was provided with every Thing necessary to make a vigorous Defence. I thought it my Duty to apprise you of this immediately, that you may stop the Mouth of those who might speak of this Affair contrary to Truth. I hope that Prince Repnin, who commands in that Part, will soon repair that Loss."
"P. S. This Moment News was brought from Bucharest, and Cronstadt, that the Turks, encouraged by the taking of Giurgiewo, had passed the Danube, to the Number of sixty Thousand Men, and had attacked Prince Repnin, who was posted between Bucharest and Giurgiewo with thirty Thousand. The Engagement was obstinate and bloody, and lasted five Hours, when the Russians gained a complete Victory. The Turks lost thirty Thousand Men, who were left on the Field of Battle; among whom there are three Agas, one Hundred and eighty Pieces of
Cannon, and five Thousand Prisoners; and several Trophies were taken from them during the Pursuit by the Russian Hunters. The Number of those who were drowned in the Danube is very considerable."
A Correspondent sends us Word, that, in estimating the various Blessings attending the Prodigality of the late Installation, he finds that a Dozen People at least have had their Legs or Arms broke on the Road to or in the Town of Windsor, that four have lost their Lives, and that Contusions out of Number have made a most plentiful Harvest for the Surgeons.
Her Majesty, who was most conveniently situated to see the Installation, appeared quite transported at the peculiar Propriety with which the young Princes, her Sons, conducted themselves; a Transport which was most cordially shared by every Spectator, as, in the Midst of all our political Feuds, the Conduct of this most amiable Princess has been distinguished by the Approbation of every Party, and has made the very Opposers of Government as warmly her Admirers as the professed Supporters of the Administration.
August 2. A Lady of Spirit, being lately refused by her Spouse a Suit of Clothes for a Ball, sent for a Broker and sold him Furniture to the Amount of fifty Pounds, the Sum required. The Husband, on his Return, being informed of the Affair, sharply rebuked her; to whom she replied, you have no Right to be angry, Sir, for my disposing of what you freely gave me Possession, when I married you, in these solemn Words, with all my worldly Goods I thee endow. The Gentleman, whether from Conviction or Shame, sent for the Broker, returned the fifty Pounds with an Acknowledgment, and the Lady now no sooner asks than hath, as she always backs the Request with a Whip in the Ear, I must have these Things, Sir, or I shall send for the Broker.—Who would be married?
Doctor Cadogan, from his extraordinary Encomiums on the Excellency of small Beer as a grand Preservative of Health, is nicknamed, by the fashionable and polite, the small Beer Doctor.
A few Days since a most audacious Robbery was committed at an Apothecary's in Princess Street; but the witty Presence of Mind with which it was perfected, even after a Discovery, deserves to be recorded. A Fellow went in at the private Door (which happened to be left open) walked up one Pair of Stairs, packed up the Bed, Mattress, and all the Bedding and Furniture of the Bed, and came softly down Stairs with it. By some Accident his Foot slipped in the Passage, as he was going out, and the Load fell off his Head. The Noise brought out the Apothecary. "Heyday, Friend (says he) what are you doing there?" "Sir (replied the Man, without the least Hesitation) I have brought home the Bed and Bedding you purchased to-day at the Auction." "I purchase a Bed at an Auction! (was the Answer) I was at no Auction, nor have I bought any Bed." "I am sure (returned the Fellow) my Master told me it was at an Apothecary's, or perhaps he might say it was near an Apothecary's. I am sorry for the Mistake, Sir, and I beg you will be so good as to help me up with my Load again, that I may carry it to the right Place." The Apothecary very civilly did as he was desired, and the Man marched off with his Prize. But lo! when the Apothecary and his Wife withdrew for Bed at Night, all that presented itself to their View was a naked four-post Bedstead! and the Party robbed discovered that he had literally assisted in the robbing of himself.
August 5. The grand Entertainment intended to be given by the Lord Mayor, to the Aldermen, Common Council, &c. will, we hear, be on to-morrow se'nnight, and there is to be a Ball at Night in the Egyptian Hall.
Thursday last the Gentlemen of Hackney held their Venison Feast at the Blue Posts. Doctor D—, one of the Stewards, had invited Mr. Wilkes to dine with them, without acquainting his Brother Stewards. The Gentlemen of Hackney hearing of it, declared they would not dine if Mr. Wilkes was admitted. The other Stewards called on Doctor D—, and insisted on his immediately sending Mr. Wilkes Word that his Company was not agreeable to the Gentlemen of Hackney, which Request he complied with.
A Clothier in Yorkshire has sent Mr. Wilkes a Present of Cloth to make his Liveries.
They have begun at the Lottery Office to stitch the Numbers, Blanks, and Prizes, in the present Lottery; and though no less than thirty seven Women are employed therein, yet it is the Business of a Month to complete it.
A Correspondent expresses great Surprise and Indignation at the Disproportion of Punishments in this Country. He says he read in a Newspaper that two Men were hanged together last Month in Kent, one of whom had committed a barbarous Murder on his Wife, and the other had stolen three Shillings and Sixpence. In the same Paper there followed immediately another Paragraph, that a Woman had been only whipped for stealing little Children and burning their Eyes out.
A few Days since the most curious Collection that perhaps has been before seen together, consisting of every Species of wild and tame Fowls, with small Birds of every Sort, that this Kingdom produces, said to be a Present to the Empress of Russia, was shipped for Peterburg. They were enclosed in a Sort of Cages, curiously lined, in Order to prevent them from hurting themselves in the Passage.
August 8. A Correspondent assures us that on Thursday last, in the Forenoon, the Duke of Grafton, Lord Mansfield, Lord Albemarle, Lord North, the Duke of Portland, and some others, made a Visit together to the Marquis of Rockingham, at his House in Grosvenor Square, and remained in Conference together near two Hours. What is in the Wind our Correspondent does not pretend to conjecture, but he promises to bring Proof of this Conference if the Parties contradict it.
By a Letter from Constantinople Advice is received that the Russians have taken several French Ships, and confiscated their Cargoes; and have acted in the same Manner with one or two English Ships, one said to be called the Diana, bound from Tunis to the Straits, richly laden.
Doctor Solander, who lately sailed round the World, is a Native of Sweden, and about forty Years of Age. Henry Banks, Esquire, who accompanied him, is aged about twenty six, possessed of a handsome Estate in Lincolnshire, and a Gentleman likewise of great Learning and Abilities. Five Years ago he failed to the Labrador Coast, in North America, in Search of Plants; and from the same laudable Thirst after Knowledge, he made the above extraordinary Voyage.
There will be no Changes in the Administration till after the Meeting of Parliament, which will be sooner than was expected.
A Loan of one Million five Hundred Thousand Pounds is now negotiating among the monied Men, for the Use of her Imperial Majesty. The Endeavour Sloop, now fitting out at Woolwich, is said to be intended for the Duke of Cumberland; and her Destination is for North America, in Haste.
It is now looked upon as certain that England cannot much longer avoid a spirited Altercation with Portugal, unless we are determined to become a Proverb for Meanness and Tameness.
A Ship called the Dundee Merchant, Rutherford, from Newfoundland to Dundee, is lost in the North Seas, into which she was driven by violent Gales of Wind, and every Person on Board perished, one alone excepted, who saved himself upon a Plank for several Hours, till he was providentially thrown ashore on the Coast of Scotland.
Letters just received from Lisbon advise that Mr. Lyttleton, the British Ambassador there, tired out with the Insolence of that Court towards the English Traders, has actually sent to London, desiring to be recalled from thence.
The same Letters add that it is firmly believed to be at the Instigation of the Spanish Court which induces the Portuguese to such an ungrateful Behaviour. There are now sixteen Sail of Spanish Merchantmen in the Tagus.
His Royal Highness, the Duke of Gloucester, it is said, is furnished with Commissions of the first Importance to the Honour and the Interest of this Country, and that they relate to our Affairs, as well in the African as European Quarter of the World.
The Aurora, Captain John Gay, from Bristol, last from Cadiz, for Leghorn and Venice, is taken by the Algerines and carried into Tunis.
August 10. The following Intelligence was received from an anonymous Correspondent. By a Friend and particular Acquaintance of mine (who is this Day arrived from Constantinople) I am this Moment assured that a Servant of the Grand Seigneur at Constantinople murdered him whilst asleep in his Bed, who has made his Escape, but diligent Search is making after him. Constantinople is all in an Uproar; a Revolution is every Moment expected. The general Cry is, Peace! Peace!
Discoveries have been made in the Policy of the Portuguese Nation, which, it is said, will supply us with a Clue to all their late Proceedings, as well as point out the Train of their future Measures.
A moderate Man in the Administration (Lord Gower) at a late Council advised the sending a considerable Squadron immediately to the Tagus, to demand Satisfaction for the Insults shown to the British Nation.
The two natural Children to whom Sir Francis Blake Delavall is said to have left a Fortune of ten Thousand Pounds each are a Son and a Daughter by the celebrated Miss La R—, now Lady A—.
It is generally credited that a Reconciliation will really take Place between the contending Parties, for Interviews among the Leaders were never so frequent as at present.
On Monday last an Advice Boat arrived at Falmouth, with Despatches from Admiral Rodney, at Madeira. She has brought some very material Intelligence which that Gentleman has collected on his Voyage.
August 13. Some important Resolutions are expected to be form'd on Wednesday next at the Board of Treasury, relative to publick Affairs, several very illustrious Persons being particularly desired then to attend.
An additional Tax, we hear, will be laid upon Tea, Coffee, and Chocolate, next Meeting of Parliament, in Order to enable his Majesty to remit the Tax upon Porter.
One of the Secretaries to the Treasury, who lately wrote a famous Letter into the City, will shortly be removed from his Employment.
It may be depended on that the Spaniards have at this Time at Cadiz, Carthagena, and Barcelona, about fifty Men of War ready for Sea at a Day's Warning.
The True Briton, Tilson, from Quebec, brings Advice that the English have established a new Settlement and erected a Fort at Iwovinack, on the River Sambre, which is already garrisoned with one Hundred and twenty Men. Another Fort is erected about one Hundred Leagues higher, for the greater Benefit of the Fur Trade.
On Friday last two Vessels were taken up in the River, on Government Service, to carry Troops and Stores to Minorca and Gibraltar.
Orders are sent to Woolwich for three Hundred Tons of Ordnance Stores to be shipped immediately, for the Island of Grenada, in the West Indies.
A Correspondent assures us, for Fact, that the Portuguese have, during these last two Months, exported above six Thousand Tons of military Stores from the Tagus to their Settlements in the East Indies and South Seas.
The whole Navy of Portugal, at the Beginning of the last War, consisted of only thirty Ships; which is now increased to fifty, thirty of which are of the Line.
Saturday Doctor Solander and Mr. Banks, accompanied by Sir John Pringle, by his Majesty's Order, attended at Richmond, and had the Honour of a private Conference with his Majesty on the Discoveries they made on their late Voyage.
On Monday the 15th of July the Merchants of Dublin, in full Guild assembled, voted the Freedom of that respectable Corporation to the Right Honourable Bras Crosby, Lord Mayor of the City of London, and to John Wilkes and Richard Oliver, Esquires, Aldermen, to be presented to them in Silver Boxes, as a Testimony of Approbation of their Conduct in opposing the Violence of the House of Commons, by discharging the Printers who were taken up by Virtue of the Speaker's Warrant, issued in Consequence of a Vote of that House; and also for showing that a Royal Proclamation is not the Law of the Land, nor sufficient to imprison any of the Subjects of Great Britain.
Extract of a Letter from Barcelona, July 7. "Before the Arrival of the Packet you probably have heard of the Determination of our Court in not permitting the anchoring the Vessels of foreign Nations into our Ports, under the Pretence of their carrying off the Spice of this Country. The Fact is much otherwise. The Consternation our Government suffers from the Determination of the Moors to invade the Provinces of Murcia and Granada, with the small Force Spain has at this Crisis to resist so formidable an Attack, made some Kind of Embargo necessary in our Mediterranean Ports to conceal the Imbecility of the Spanish Monarchy from the rest of Europe, and good Policy to conceal the real Cause of our Alarm required the Embargo should become general in our western Ports. The Alarm is universal. Our Troops are worn out with constant Duty upon the Coast, harassed with continual Marches, enervated from Want of Discipline and real Service, badly paid, and wretchedly clothed. Our only Dependence, in Case of Action, is upon the Irish Recruits we have received these two last Years from your Kingdom of Ireland."
August 15. The intended Tour of his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester is first to Lisbon, from thence to Gibraltar and Minorca, where his Highness proposes to continue some Time, and will take a Survey of the Fortifications and Stores, &c. From thence he will go to Leghorn, and lastly to Genoa.
Letters from Ancona, dated July 17th, say that Advices from Spain mention that they are recruiting Men all over the Kingdom, to form new Regiments; and that a Spanish Squadron, of eight Ships of the Line, and four Frigates, is actually cruising in the Mediterranean to protect the Trade of that Nation.
Letters from Leghorn assert that the Russian Ships in the Mediterranean have, in the Course of the Year, taken from Vessels of different Nations Effects which they had on Board belonging to the Turks to the Value of three Millions of Piaftres; and that there are thirty of these Vessels now at Paros, whose Cargoes have not yet been disposed of.
Extract of a Letter from Portsmouth, August 14. "Yesterday, about one o'Clock, his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, with General Harvey, Colonel Desaguliers, and Major Haywood, arrived here. Upon their Entrance into the Town the Garrison saluted with twelve Guns, his Royal Highness and Attendants proceeded directly to the Water Side, and went into the Barge, where the Royal Standard was hoisted, and then they fell down to Spithead, attended by the Admirals Pye and Denis, in their Barges, with their respective Flags, and most of the Captains belonging to the Ships at Spithead."
"The Platform and Blockhouse Fort saluted as they passed; and as soon as the Royal Standard was observed by the Men of War at Spithead they saluted it with twenty one Guns each, and manned every Ship until his Royal Highness got on Board the Venus Frigate, Captain Baltier, upon which the Royal Standard was hoisted at the Venus's main top gallant Mast Head, when he was again saluted with twenty one Guns by every Ship; after which the said Frigate got directly under Sail, and proceeded through the Needles for Lisbon, in Company with the Alarm Frigate, Captain Jarvis."
It is now positively asserted that Lord Mansfield will send for to receive the Seals, as the great Complaint against the present Occupier is Slowness of Determination; a Fault which even the worst Enemies of the above

mentioned Nobleman could never lay to his Charge, consequently he cannot but be abundantly obliged to an Office where Despatch is of so much Importance to the Individual.
The following may be depended on. The King of Spain has taken up above twenty Dutch Vessels at Burthen in the Texel for the Purpose of exporting Stores to the Mediterranean and West Indies, and has ordered the Island of Majorca in the Mediterranean (about twenty Leagues from Minorca) to be fortified and repaired in a very ample Manner, great Quantities of building Materials and Stores having lately been exported from Spain for that Purpose.
August 17. A Treaty is certainly on Foot for the Sale of the Island of Corsica, and it is said that the Purchase will be employed in new Conquests. An illiterate Traffick! but Ways and Means are too much practised at this Period to be censored without Fear or Reproach.
The Prudence and Affability of his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, it is not doubted, will retrieve the Reputation of the illustrious Progeny from Reproach; such opposite Consequences being produced by the opposite Conduct of good Sense and Absurdity, Politeness and low Gaiety.
If Lord Chatham's Plan for a new Ministry be adopted, which at present seems very likely, the Duke of Grafton will be one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, and not first Lord of the Treasury.
A few Hours before the Duke of Gloucester set out he was in private Conference with his Majesty near three Hours.
The various Speculations arising from the French Ambassador's being introduced to see the Royal Navy at Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Chatham, with all the naval Stores, will at once vanish when the Publick is informed that, by an Article in a secret Treaty, Power is given the Ambassador of France to see that there is no more than the stipulated Number of Ships of War kept up, and to view the Conditions of the Dockyards, with all their Stores.
It is positively said that a new general Survey will be taken the ensuing Winter, by sovereign Authority, of all his Majesty's Forests, Chases, and Parks, and of the Timber growing thereon; of which an exact Report is to be made. The longer this important Affair has been delayed will, it is hoped, be an Inducement for its being more speedily executed. The Result of this Operation would raise a Fund for building a Royal Palace nobler than Inigo Jones's Plan, if not for Purposes of a much higher Concern, that of the Pride of Princes.
This Morning early a Courier arrived in Haste, with an Express from the Earl of Harcourt at Paris, which was immediately sent off to his Majesty at Richmond.
Orders are given from the Board for felling all the large Oak Trees, now growing on the Royal Chases, for the Use of the Royal Navy. The greatest Part is to be sent to Portsmouth, the rest to Chatham and Woolwich.
Orders are sent to Deptford for building four new Frigates, of twenty eight Guns each, as soon as possible: the Keels thereof are to be laid next Week.
The Grafton Man of War, of seventy four Guns, just finished at Deptford, will be launched on Thursday next.
Scarce a Day has passed since the Arrival of the Honourable Mr. Hamilton, his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary to Naples, without his having had the Honour of a long private Conference with his Majesty, either at Richmond or St. James's; whence, it is believed, some curious and important Intelligence relative to the Conduct of the Spanish Court, under whose Controul that of Naples undoubtedly is, will shortly transpire.
It may be depended on that the King of Prussia has marched a considerable Body of Troops into Poland, which are to act in Conjunction with the Russians in Favour of the Polish Monarch.
The King has been pleased to appoint Sir Charles Hardy, Knight, to be Master of his Majesty's Hospital at Greenwich, in the County of Kent, and also one of the Commissioners and Governors thereof.
His Majesty has been pleased to grant unto Sir George Bridges Rodney, Baronet, the Office or Place of Rear Admiral of Great Britain, and of the Admiralty thereof, and of Rear Admiral of the Navies and Seas of Great Britain.
This Day arrived two Mails from Holland, by which we learn that the Russians have retaken Giurgewo from the Turks, and made a great Number of the latter Prisoners.
We hear that Lord Lyttleton has declined accepting a very high Office in the present Administration.
It is said that a certain great Officer of State (the Earl of Suffolk) who has hitherto escaped the Vigilance of Junius, will shortly be complimented with a Letter from that celebrated Writer, wherein his Lordship will be called to Account for his Defection of his former patriotic Principles.
Sunday several large Pieces of Cannon from the Tower, with some Tons of Ball, were shipped off at the Dock there for the West Indies.
It is asserted that circular Letters will speedily be sent to the several Members of the Privy Council, at their respective Country Seats, requiring speedy Attendance in Town, upon Business of great Importance; and it is positively said that as conciliatory Measures have been the principal Object of Consideration at the late Cabinet Councils, it is thought they will be carried into Effect previous to the next Meeting of an august Assembly.
The King of Spain, Smith, is seized at Ferrol; the Cargo is confiscated, and the Captain imprisoned.
It is said that the late Sir Francis Blake Delavall's red Riband will be conferred on Jeremiah Dyson, Esquire, one of the Lords of the Treasury, and Member for Weymouth.
A large Sum of Money is at present negotiating at Amsterdam for the Service of her Russian Majesty; the Proposals are said to be extremely secure, and advantageous to the Subscribers.
The last Letters from the Straits seem to hint that it has been discovered that Ali Bey, the Conqueror of Egypt, is secretly assisted with Arms, &c. by Russia.
To-morrow a grand Cabinet Council will be held at Richmond, on the Subject of some late Despatches received from the Continent.
Yesterday Evening a Messenger with Despatches was sent off from his Excellency the Count de Guignes, the French Minister's House in Great George Street, to the Court of Versailles.
Orders are sent to Sheerness for the Hornet, Swift, and Greyhound Cutters, now laying up there, to be put into Commission immediately. They are to be stationed in the Irish Channel.
It is said that Orders are given for six Men of War of the Line to be stationed in the Downs immediately.
We are assured that the last Advices from Holland contain Matters of great Importance to this Nation, relative to the War between the Porte and the Russians.
They write from Stockholm that there are actually at this Time thirty Ships of the Line and Frigates upon the Stocks in the different Ports of Sweden, intended for the Service of France.
It may be depended on that the Court of Madrid has just concluded a private Treaty with the States General, in which it is expressed that the States General are to furnish that Court with twelve Men of War of the Line, on any Emergency.
If we may judge from Appearances, the Premier's Power is certainly on the Decline, as his Levees are almost entirely deserted. The Duke of Grafton is certainly fixed on, in Case of a Resignation.
A Correspondent makes the following Observation. When the Rockingham Party went out of Office there were several Defectors, who preferred their Places to their Honour and Connections, and therefore joined the succeeding Administration. These rotten Members are now connected with Sawbridge, Oliver, and Townsend; hence arose the Lies which the Parton of Brentford retailed to the Publick in his late Letter. Junius having made free with the anti-city Patriots, they are resolved to proclaim War against Chatham, Rockingham, Wilkes, and every other Person who enjoys the Confidence of the Publick. Black themselves, they would make every Luminary of our Hemisphere as black; but the known Character of the Instrument that they have chosen will frustrate their Design.
The Austrian Troops have seized on the whole Palatinate of Cracow, and District of Sandomir, occupying no less than two Hundred and thirty four Villages, and fifteen Towns. The Troops of a certain Power of Germany are likewise advancing on their Side, and the Design of all these Motions will not be much longer an Enigma to the Publick.
Mr. Banks and Doctor Solander have made more curious Discoveries in the Way of Astronomy and Natural History than at any one Time have been presented to the learned World for these fifty Years past.
Lord Chatham has relaxed in his Opposition to the Ministry, and declared that if they only pass an Act, ascertaining the future Right of the Subject, with Respect to the Election of his Representative, he will take an ostensible Office, without insisting any longer on the Dissolution of Parliament.
The various Islands in the West Indies, which are now only subordinate Settlements, are, after the Example of Dominica, to be erected into independent Governments.
It has been observed that the same Causes which produced the Misunderstanding between Spain and England still subsist, and that the only Cause which prevented that Misunderstanding from becoming an open Rupture has in a great Measure ceased.
A Tax of one Farthing a Pound on all the Tea consumed in this Kingdom would go far towards discharging the Interest of the national Debt.
The Lands on the Mississippi, where the new Colony is to be established, are, we hear, already cleared above sixty Miles from the River, which render them immediately ready for Settlers, and promises the greatest Advantages to this Kingdom.
The following Intelligence from Paris, says a Correspondent, may be depended on as authentic. The Court has given Orders for four Regiments of Cavalry to be quartered immediately within this City, one Regiment to be on Guard at a Time within the King's Palace. The King of France has not stirred out of his Chamber, excepting to his Chapel, and to the Council Room, for above these ten Days past. Some very important Discoveries, relative to the Designs against the King's Person, are just come to Light.
Yesterday the Remains of the late celebrated Mr. Gray, Author of the Elegy in a Country Churchyard, were, agreeably to his Will, interred at Windsor. He has, among other Legacies, left a Provision to an old faithful Servant, named Stephen, who had lived with him several Years. It may not here be unseasonable to quote the Author's Epitaph, as no Pen but his own can do Justice to the Subject.
Here rests his Head upon the Lap of Earth, A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble Birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his Bounty, and his Heart sincere, Heaven did a Recompense as largely send; He gave to Misery (all he had) a Tear, He gain'd from Heaven ('twas all he with'd) a Friend. No farther seek his Merits to disclose, Or draw his Frailties from their dread Abode; There they alike in trembling Hope repose, The Bosom of his Father and his God.
WILLIAMSBURG, October 17. To his Excellency the Right Honourable JOHN EARL of DUNMORE, his Majesty's Lieutenant and Governor General of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, and Vice Admiral of the same.
MY LORD, WE, his Majesty's dutiful and loyal Subjects, the COUNCIL of VIRGINIA, beg Leave to congratulate your Excellency upon your Appointment to the Government of this Colony, and to express our Confidence that the Welfare and Interests thereof will be maintained and promoted by your Excellency's vigilant and wise Administration.
We acknowledge, with Thankfulness, his Majesty's great Goodness and tender Concern for us in supplying the Loss of our late most excellent Governor, whose Death we sincerely lament, by a Nobleman of your Excellency's eminent Virtues and distinguished Character.
A zealous Attention to his Majesty's Honour and Service, and a sincere Regard for the true Interests of our Country (which are inseparably connected) will lay us under the strongest Obligations to endeavour, to the utmost of our Power, to make your Excellency's Administration easy and agreeable to yourself, during your Abode among a grateful and loyal People.
To which his Excellency was pleased to return the following ANSWER. GENTLEMEN,
I RETURN you my hearty Thanks for this Address. Your Sentiments of Zeal for his Majesty's Honour and Service, and the true Interests of your Country, which you very properly observe are inseparably connected, give me the highest Satisfaction; and you may be assured that I shall omit no Endeavour to fulfil the Expectations which you have formed of my Conduct, both from the Sense I have of my Duty, and from the sincere Desire I have of repairing the great Loss which his Majesty's loyal Subjects of Virginia have sustained by the Death of their late worthy Governor.
His Excellency the Governor, by and with the Advice of the Council, has thought proper to issue a Proclamation, dated the 12th Instant, for dissolving the General Assembly.
Arrived in James River, the Neptune, White, and Nancy, Barton, from London, the True Briton, Atkinson, from Liverpool, Lord Clive, Brockbank, from Hull, and Bell, from Glasgow.
Letters by Captain White say positively that the Customhouse is to be removed from Hampton to Norfolk.
Wednesday and this Day the following Criminals were brought to the Bar of the General Court, to take their Trials.
Alice Field, from Norfolk, for a Misdemeanor: To be imprisoned one Month, and fined five Pounds.
Margaret Turnbull (alias Sweeney) from Henrico, for Grand Larceny: Acquitted.
Samuel Flannagin, from Fairfax, for Horsestealing: Acquitted.
George Dutton, from Norfolk, for Horsestealing: Guilty.
John Watts, from Williamsburg, for a Misdemeanor: To be imprisoned one Month, and fined twenty Shillings.
Mills Mansfield, from Nansemond, for Forgery: Whipped and discharged.
Jonh King, from Spotsylvania, for Felony: Guilty.
Colin Campbell, from Prince Edward, for Maiming: Guilty.
George Gray (alias William Dils) from Frederick, for Horsestealing: Guilty.
Thomas Welch, from Amherst, for Horsestealing: Acquitted.
[DEATHS.] On the 6th of July last, in the South of France, Captain BYRD, eldest Son of the Honourable William Byrd, Esquire.
Mr. JOHN WILSON, Shoemaker, and Mr. JAMES ESTHER, Block-maker, both Tradesmen of Credit and Reputation in Norfolk, and whose Industry, Integrity, and whole Deportment, were truly exemplary.
A Wit's a Feather, and a Chief's a Rod; An honest Man's the noblest Work of God.
On Wednesday next the Theatre in this City will be opened with the Comedy of THE WEST INDIAN, and THE MUSICAL LADY. A Prologue and Epilogue will be likewise spoken.
To the CHURCH OF ENGLAND MAN. All, all, but Truth, drops dead-born from the Press, Like the last Gazette.
SIR, YOU have proposed a Method of deciding the Question in Dispute. I accede to it, and will abide by the Consequence. Your Doctrine is, that the Church may be considered as a Society, which always implies Government, and this again a Head; and your Reason, that, without it, Anarchy would ensue. To avoid an Evil so great, you inform us it is a standing Rule of all Societies to choose a Head; and you ask, where then can be the Harm of the Clergy's petitioning for such a Head? What, then, have the Clergy in Reality no Head? Till now, I have understood that the King was their Head; but if they have no Head, how do you make the Church a Society? For, to use your own Words, the Dispute may be settled by considering the Church as a Society, which always implies Government, and this again a Head. So that, without a Head, according to the Principle you lay down, no Society can possibly exist; and yet, you tell us, it is the standing Rule of ALL SOCIETIES to choose a HEAD, that is, to choose what they already have, and without which they could not be a Society. Did not the Frontispiece of the Leviathan suggest to you this Argument? It exhibits, if I mistake not, a human Skeleton, the Muscles of which are made up of a Number of Men, with one Head only on its Shoulders. But let us, if possible, pass by this Absurdity, and ask how is this Head to be chosen? We learn, from you, that all the Clergy of the Church of England in Virginia, and all over North America, are upon a Level. This being, as you affirm, notoriously the Case, it follows, according to another of your Positions, there can be no Order or Discipline among them. You, Sir, are equally well acquainted with human Nature, civil Government, and LOGICK. Blush not at the Compliment, it is literally true.
In Answer to your next Inquiry, can it be supposed that Religion will thrive where there is no Discipline among the Clergy? If I should reply as you wish, what would you gain by it but this obvious Conclusion, that since, according to your former Assertion, there can be no Order or Discipline among them, it will be IMPOSSIBLE for Religion to thrive in the Church of England in America? It is hard to kick against the Pricks! But, however, supposing a Ruler could be chosen, what gives the Clergy a Right to petition for him in Opposition to the Sense of the People? Is the Church composed of the Clergy alone? The only Article in which the Church is defined mentions not one Word of the Clergy. You proceed to ask, can we imagine that their Lives and Conversations will be as orderly where there is no proper Ruler, to reward the Good and punish the Bad, as where there is? By a proper Ruler you can mean only an American Bishop, and by rewarding the Good, and punishing the Bad, Nothing but ecclesiastical Preferments and Penalties. But does not this convey too strongly an Implication that without a Living from the Bishop, or the Censure of his Court, the Inspection of the Deity, and the Solemnities of his Tribunal, are incapable of influencing the Conduct of the Clergy? In what a Light do you represent the Ministers of Religion!
The first Sentence of your next Paragraph is, to say the least of it, so egregiously absurd that you will thank me for my Lenity in proceeding to the second: Rewards and Punishments are said to be the Springs of all Government, without which, you add, all virtuous Principles will be starved. If so, what Opinion ought we to entertain of the Founder of our Faith, who withheld from his Apostles those Incentives to Virtue, RICH LIVING, and rewarded them only with empty Promises of Heaven? He must certainly have nipped in the Bud every generous and publick spirited Action, by subjecting them to Persecutions and Martyrdom. It was one of his most express Declarations to the Disciples, that he who would be GREATEST among them should be the SERVANT of all. No Wonder then that JUDAS only should be faithful in the Service of his Master!
The Church of Christ, you tell us, for at least the first fifteen Centuries, has been governed by Bishops, as it well known to all conversant in Church History. From what Church History may we gain this Information? We find Nothing of it in the only authentic Record, the Scripture. CHRIST left no Bishops behind him; his Commission extended no farther than to disciple and baptize; no CODEX JURIS ECCLESIASTICI was bequeathed the Church by ST. PAUL. But, allowing that Bishops have governed so long, of what Kind they have been those who are yet ignorant shall soon be informed. The audacious Attempt which you mention of depriving the American Church of a Bishop was the sole Project of those who refused a Consultation with his Lordship of London, the only Bishop to which the American could ever make the least Pretention. But, consistent Man! you are their Partizan. However, you, perhaps, would suggest that the Church is in Danger of being deprived of what it never had. Witty as the Conceit is, it is not your own; long ago was it invented by Blackmore the Poet:
A painted vest PRINCE VOLTIGER had on, Which from a naked PICT his Grandfire won.
Taking Flight from this Topick, you soar away into the Regions of Imagination, with such Strength of Wing that it is by no Means easy to follow. I hope, however, next Week, to make you again my Quarry; and,
Like as a Hawk, that feeling herself freed, From Bells and Jelles, which did let her Flight, pursue you with all the Keennes, that a Prey so noble deserves. Till then, farewell. S. HENLEY.
Advertisements.
Just IMPORTED in the JUNO, McCUNN, and NEPTUNE, WHITE, from LONDON, and to be SOLD by the Subscriber, next Door to Mr. JAMES GEDDY's Shop, near the Church, in Williamsburg, at a low Advance, for ready Money.
A VERY elegant Assortment of MILLINERY, JEWELLERY, and other Goods, well chosen, and of the latest Fashions. Striped, flowered, and plain Lustings, best striped and flowered Mantua Silks, plain and striped China Tafetas, India Chintz Calicoes and Cottons, worked Aprons, white and blue figured and spotted Cloaks and Bonnets, Ladies Riding Hats and Feathers neatly dressed, Ladies Silk and Morocco Pocket Books with Instruments, black, white, and blue Satin Pumps, Calimanco Ditto, scented Hair Powder, double and single black Hair Pins, Powder Puffs, Wash Balls, Gentlemens Buck, Doe, Norway Doe, Beaver, Silk, Lamb, and Thread Gloves, Blond and Mignonet Lace, black Lace and Edging, black Gauze Shades and fashionable Tercelas, plain, figured, and Silver Riband, black Gloves, Patent Mits, Lace Ruffles, Kid and Lamb Gloves and Mits for Children and grown Persons, Morocco Shoes, Didbury's Shoes, plain, Tortoiseshell, and Horn Combs, Paste Combs, Marcasite and Garnet Hoops, Lockets and Crosses, Children blue and black Satin Caps, beaded Collars, Solitaires, Paste Shoe, Knee, and Stock Buckles, London gilt and Pinchbeck Shoe Buckles, Garnet Necklaces, Earrings, Sprigs and Pins, Paste Cluster Necklaces and Earrings, a great Variety of Sprigs, Pins, and Earrings, Agate Necklaces set in Marcasite, Pearl and Wax Do. set Marcasites, Buffalo and Ivory sliding Knives and Forks, Gold and Silver Buttons, Loops, and Bands, Shagreen, Tortoiseshell, and Ivory Memorandum Books, ribbed China Silk Hose, plain and coloured Ditto, India Cotton Ditto, Thread and Worsted Ditto, Gentlemens Gold and Scarlet Sword Suits, Suits of Blond Lace, Lace Ruffles and Tippets, Patent Net Gauze, Catgut, plain and striped Muslin, Took Ditto, Cambricks, striped and plain Lawn, green and white Saracenet, black Mode Persian, Shenell, chased Silver Cruets, French Beads, Silver, Steel topped and Ivory Thimbles, Ivory Nutmeg Graters, large and small undressed Dolls, sprigged and striped Handkerchiefs, a great Assortment of Egrets, Caps, Fillets, Stomachers, Ribands Lace, &c. Italian Breast Flowers and Plumes, Net and Patent Hoods, Russell Quilts, Horn Snakes, Cruels and Marking Canvas, Ostrich Feathers, &c. &c. MARY DICKINSON.
ALBEMARLE, October 7, 1771. WHEREAS the Subscriber, in the Year 1767, levied an Execution on the Estates of Mr. John Jones and Robin Jones of Albemarle, and took a Negro Girl, by Virtue of the same, from Mr. John Jones, formerly the Property of Mr. Robin Jones; and as the said Negro was sold for more than satisfied the Execution, I give this Notice, that whoever had any Claim to the said Girl before she was sold is desired to make Application to me for the Overplus, and if any Person has a better Right to her than myself they will oblige me in making it appear immediately. CHARLES MARTIN.
WILLIAMSBURG, October 17, 1771. JUST imported from London, in the Neptune, Captain White, a large Assortment of EUROPEAN and INDIA GOODS; to be sold, on very reasonable Terms, at my Store in this City. ROBERT MILLER.
PURSUANT to an Order of Surrey Court, on Saturday the 2d of November, will be let to the lowest Undertaker, at Wall's Bridge, the Rebuilding of the said Bridge. The Time of finishing, and in what Manner the same is to be done, will be made known on the above Day, by THOMAS BAILEY, NICHOLAS FAULCON, Junior, } Commissioners. CARTER CRAFFORD, ETHELDRED GRAY,
ISLE OF WIGHT, October 10, 1771. SOME Time last Winter I made publick my Intentions of opening, at the Glebe in this County, a Grammar School, which commenced in February last, and in the Care of which I am at present assisted by a young Gentleman properly qualified for that Employment; but finding the Profits of the School hitherto insufficient to support an Usher, and also to make me what I think an adequate Compensation for my Trouble in superintending it, I must take the Liberty of once more troubling the Publick to inform them that the Continuance of my School another Year depends upon the Encouragement it receives before the Expiration of this. Gentlemen who are inclined to favour me with the Tuition of their Children will oblige me in communicating such Design to me before Christmas. To those with whom I have the Pleasure of being acquainted I hope it will be needless to repeat, that the Morals of my Pupils, as well as their Advancement in Learning, will be the Object of my Attention. Youth may be conveniently, reasonably, and gently boarded near the Glebe. H. J. BURGES.
THE Creditors of Mess. Anthony M'Kittrick and Company are requested to meet the Trustees at the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, on Saturday the 26th Instant (October) in Order to settle their Claims and receive a Dividend.
NEW KENT, March 20, 1771. WHEREAS my Son Hartwell Macon hath, by his imprudent Conduct, spent all that he ever had any Right to, and reduced himself to such unhappy Circumstances that he is unable to discharge his just Debts; and notwithstanding this has been well known to the World for some Time past, and that I have also made it known that I would never pay any of his Debts, many People still let him have Things on Credit, expecting I will discharge his Debts, or leave him some Part of my Estate which they may seize upon after my Decease; I therefore give this publick Notice, to prevent any One from being deceived, or rather deceiving themselves, that I am determined never to give my said Son any Thing during my Life, nor to leave him any Thing by my Will. Given under my Hand, this 20th Day of March, 1771. WILLIAM MACON, Senior.

THE Subscriber, intending to leave the Colony of Virginia next Spring, has come to a Resolution to sell by publick Auction the following Tracts of LAND, for ready Money, to the highest Bidders, before the Courthouse Door in Winchester, in the said Colony, on the first Tuesday in November, being the first Day of the Court, and continue the Sale during that and the succeeding Courts to be held there, and in Hampshire County, in the Town of Romney, until all are sold. Regular Attendance will be given, and any particular Tract will be immediately exposed to Sale at the Request of any Person there attending in Order to bid or purchase; and good Titles will be made, on paying the Purchase Money. The Quitrent of each Hundred Acres of the Land is but two Shillings Sterling a Year. As it would be too tedious to mention the different Qualities of these Tracts, therefore shall only describe their Situations and Quantities. Those inclined to purchase have an agreeable Season of the Year to view, and purchase, if they choose, between this and the Time of Sale.
These in Frederick County are as follows. 1157 Acres on Sleepy Creek, reaching within two Miles of the Warm Springs, and eight Miles of the River Potomack. 516 on Back Creek, known by the Name of the Yellow Springs, within twelve Miles of the Warm Springs, and eight of Potomack. 357 within two Miles of Watkins's Ferry, on Potomack. 400 at Bruck's Gap, within six Miles of the Warm Springs. 391 on Potomack River, within six Miles of the Warm Springs. 943 within four Miles of Jacob Hite's, Esquire, and two of his Merchant Mill. 203 within eight Miles of Winchester, and a Quarter of a Mile of George Bruce's Merchant Mill, and Half a Mile of that of Mr. Gibbs. 400 on Timber Ridge, within twenty Miles of Winchester. 647 on Isaac's Creek, within twelve of Winchester, and two of Jesse Pugh's Mill. 279 on Red Bud Run, adjoining Mr. Isaac Zane's Forge, within twelve Miles of Winchester. 51 adjoining the Lands of the Reverend John Hoge, and within three Miles of Winchester. 81 within Half a Mile of Captain Isaac Perkins's Mill, and a Mile and a Half of Winchester. 178 adjoining the Lands of Captain Robert Rutherford, within seven Miles of Winchester, and two of Jesse Pugh's Mill. 150 in Loudoun County, within twelve Miles of Leesburg, on the Road to Mr. Snickers's Ferry.
In Hampshire County. 10485 known by the Name of the Green Spring, within seven Miles of Romney, the County Town, and two Miles of Colonel Cresap's on Potomack. 668 in two Tracts, adjoining the Widow Creamer's on the south Branch of Potomack, six Miles from Romney. 400 joining the Land of Daniel Williams. 400 joining the Land of Jonathan Rogers, on Patterson's Creek. 332 joining the same. 400 joining Ditto. 400 joining Ditto. 458 joining Captain Hardin, on Patterson's Creek. 700 in two Surveys, joining the Land of Charles Dick, Esquire, on the said Creek. 396 on New's Run, adjoining Garret Rozeners. 400 on the south Fork of Patterson's Creek, adjoining the Land of Captain Job Walton. 1100 in three Surveys, on New Creek, adjoining the Lands of Captain William Ramsey. 976 on Luna's Creek, in three Surveys. 270 on Edwards's Run, near Great Cacapon. 350 at the cross Roads on the north River of Great Cacapon. 91 under the Nobby Mountain of the south Branch of Potomack. 400 adjoining the Lands of Doctor James Craig, on the North River. 400 adjoining the same. 400 on Little Cacapon, near Stump Cabin Run. 400 at the Horse Shoe Bottom, on Cheat River. 425 at Stony Lick, on Little Cacapon. 295 known by the Name of the Bear Wallows, adjoining to Lands of Mr. James French, on Little Cacapon. 200 on Mill Run, near Wy's Mill, on the north Branch of Potomack. 300 on New Creek. 418 adjoining Lord Fairfax's Manor, and the Lands of Peter Caley. 660 of the new Purchase in Pennsylvania, on the Monongahela River, known formerly by the Names of Redstone and Fort Byrd, now by the Name of Society Hill, and lately rented out, for seven Years, at twenty five Pounds a Year.
Also will be sold by the Subscriber, at the same Time, on twelve Months Credit, six improved LOTS in the Town of Winchester, each containing Half an Acre, with five Acres of an out Lot to each in Lot, in the Common of the said Town, subject to a Quitrent of five Shillings Sterling only a Year, for ever. The out Lots are cleared, well fenced, and bear Timothy and Clover; but may be tilled, if the Owner chooses. BRYAN BRUIN.
PORTSMOUTH, October 10, 1771.
JUST imported by the Subscriber, and to be SOLD on reasonable Terms, both by Wholesale, at the usual Credit, and Retail, for Cash only, or on short Credit, an ASSORTMENT of GOODS suitable to the Season.
He has also established a SHOE MANUFACTORY, under the Direction and in the Name of William Forsyth and Company, where will be made, at moderate Prices, BOOTS, and MENS, WOMENS, and CHILDRENS SHOES of all Kinds, in the neatest and best Manner, and of as good Materials as can be procured in Britain; for the Encouragement of which he begs Leave to solicit his Friends by themselves, and their Interest. JAMES INGRAM.
To be RENTED for one or two Years, and Possession taken the 1st of January next,
THE well accustomed TAVERN now occupied by Mrs. Ware, in the Town of Newcastle, with all convenient Houses requisite for the Purpose, an exceeding good Garden, and three other Lots adjoining. CHARLES TINSLEY.
To be RENTED,
And may be entered on immediately,
THE LODGINGS where Doctor John De Siquyera now lives. Also to be sold, or rented, the DWELLINGHOUSE and LOTS in Palace Street, where Doctor William Carter lately lived. For Terms inquire of Mr. John Carter, Merchant in Williamsburg.
To be SOLD, on Wednesday the 20th of November, a LOT in the new Town of Petersburg, belonging to the Estate of Mr. Archibald Ferguson, deceased. The Time of Payment will be made known on the Day of Sale, by the Executors.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidders, on Friday the 15th of November, at the late Dwellinghouse of Robert Jones, late of Amelia County, deceased,
FIFTEEN Virginia born SLAVES, consisting of Men, Women, Boys, and Girls; also all the personal Estate of the said Jones, HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, PLANTATION UTENSILS, HORSES, CATTLE, HOGS, and SHEEP. Credit will be allowed till the 25th of October 1772, on giving Bond and Security to JOHN SCOTT, Executor.
To be SOLD, on Monday the 18th of November, if fair, otherwise next fair Day, at the Plantation of Mr. John Russell, deceased, in King William County,
ALL the Estate of the said Russell, consisting of fourteen Virginia born SLAVES (one of which is a valuable young Carpenter) Stocks of all Kinds, the Crops of Corn, Fodder, Wheat, and Pease, a great Variety of Household and Kitchen Furniture, a nine Hoghead Flat, and many other Articles. Also about four Hundred Acres of LAND, beautifully situated on Mattaponi River, whereon is an exceeding good Dwellinghouse, all convenient Outhouses, Garden, &c. in good Repair, and valuable Apple and Peach Orchards. The Mortgagees and other Creditors are desired to attend the Sale, in Order to agree on the Time of Payments; and it is hoped they will make known their Demands (whether by Mortgage, Bill, Bond, or otherwise) immediately to WILLIAM AYLETT, } Administrators. JAMES RUSSELL, }
All Persons indebted to the said Estate are requested to make immediate Payment to William Aylett, who is to collect the Debts. The Estate is so unhappily circumstanced that no Indulgence can be allowed.
STOLEN, or STRAYED , from Mr. Timberlake's Pasture, in Petersburg, some Time in June last, a bay MARE, got by Janus, about fourteen Hands high, eight or nine Years old, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, a small Star in her Forehead, some White on one of her fore Pasterns, and both hind Ones white, a small white Spot on her Withers, and a slight Scar on her off hind Pastern, occasioned by a Kick. She was known to many People, some Time ago, as a Quarter Race Mare, by the Name of Nettie, and probably is with Foal, as she was covered this Spring by Colonel Baylor's Fearnaught. Whoever will bring her to Mr. Timberlake in Petersburg, or to me in Northampton County, North Carolina, shall have TEN POUNDS Virginia Currency if she proves with Foal, otherwise FIVE POUNDS. WILLIE JONES.
To be SOLD, at Fendley's Gap, Amherst County, on Friday the 15th of November,
THREE Thousand five Hundred Acres of LAND, divided into several Plantations, in good Order for Cropping, with good Orchards, and all necessary Houses, together with the Plantation on which I now live, whereon is a good Dwellinghouse thirty six by twenty eight, with a Brick Cellar under the Whole, Brick Chimneys that have six Fire Places, and is convenient for a Tavern or Store, with Gardens, Orchards, all convenient Buildings, and about twenty Acres of good Meadow. Likewise, at the same Time and Place, will be sold forty Head of Cattle, the most Part Beef Cattle, fifty Head of Sheep, and some Horses. Part of the above to be sold for ready Money, and the Remainder on twelve Months Credit, or longer, if required, the Purchaser giving Bond and Security to HENRY KEY.
N. B. Any Person inclined to purchase may see the Land by applying to the Subscriber.
HANOVER Town, October 22, 1771.
STRAYED, or STOLEN , from the Subscriber, on the 25th of September, a sorrel HORSE about five Feet high, branded on the near Buttock R A, has a light hanging Mane, a Switch Tail, some White in his Face, two or three white Feet and Legs, has lately been shod before, to prevent his Hoofs from splitting, which they are much inclined to do, and paces and gallops. Whoever brings the said Horse to me shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward, and if the Thief is secured FIVE POUNDS. HARDIN BURNLEY.
BROKE Jail from Newtown, on Chester River, Maryland, the 8th of this Instant, MOSES GRAVES, a dark Mulatto Man about five Feet ten Inches high, about six and twenty Years of Age, is an active sprightly Fellow, talks much of his Freedom, and has a forged Pass; he had on a short blue Jacket, Osnabrugs long Trousers, a white Cap, and a Felt Hat. He came off in a small two-masted Boat, in Company with one Daniel Clark, a Tinker and Hat Dresser, and were seen at Point Lookout, at the Mouth of St. Jerome. Whoever apprehends the said Fellow, and commits him to the publick Jail in Williamsburg, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward. ROBERT CONSTABLE, Jailer of Newtown, on Chester River, Maryland.
RUN away, a Negro Fellow named Sampson, belonging to the Estate of William Lightfoot, Esquire, deceased. He is a tall black Fellow, of a serious Look, is in the Habit of common Plantation Negroes, and is supposed to be gone to Gloucester County, as he was bought from thence of the Estate of one Blackwell, late of that County. Also a Mulatto Fellow named HARRY, rather tall, has a very wild Look, a wide Mouth, generally wears his Beard very long, has a flattering Tongue, is clothed as is usual, and is supposed to have made to Sussex County. Whoever will deliver either of the said Slaves to me, at Sandy Point, shall have a Reward of TWENTY SHILLINGS, besides what the Law allows. JOHN PIERCE.
RUN away from one of my Flats, when at the Falls of James River, about the 25th of August last, a likely Negro Fellow named PRINCE, about five Feet ten Inches high, very well proportioned, speaks fast and thick; he is a Spaniard, and greatly addicted to Liquor. He had on such Clothes as Watermen generally wear, and it is supposed he took the Road to Charles City, where he had a Wife and Children at Mr. Arill's. He is an excellent Swimmer, and dives remarkably well. Whoever brings him to me at Warwick shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, besides what the Law allows. ROBERT DONALD.
KINGSMILL, October 17, 1771.
RUN away from my Plantation where JOHN JEFFRIES is Overseer, at the Fork of Roanoke in Mecklenburg County, a Negro Man named HARRY. He is a tall slim Fellow, and not very black, has been seen on the Road to Petersburg, with his Waggon Whip and a Bag, and pretended to be looking for some Horses he had lost. As he formerly belonged to Mrs. DICKE, and used to drive her Chair, it is not unlikely he may go into King & Queen, or Essex. Whoever will deliver him to me shall receive three Pounds, or to his Overseer five Pounds, for his Trouble. (tf) LEWIS BURWEL.
VINEYARD (near Williamsburg) October 17, 1771.
RUN away, the Beginning of last Month, a Negro Fellow named QUOMONY, about forty Years of Age, very black, has a down Look, and speaks bad English; had on when he went away a gray Coat, green Waistcoat with Brass Buttons, and blue Breeches. He formerly belonged to Doctor Campbell of Norfolk, where it is probable he may be gone. Whoever conveys the said Fellow to me shall have TEN SHILLINGS Reward, besides what the Law allows. ANDREW ESTAVE.
WILLIAMSBURG, October 15, 1771.
COMMITTED to the publick Jail, from Gloucester Prison, a Negro Fellow who appears to be between forty and fifty Years of Age, about five Feet nine or ten Inches high, a thin Village, has lost his left Eye, and is clothed in Negro Cotton. As he cannot speak a Word of English, he is incapable of telling either his own or Owner's Name. Also another Negro named SHARPER, a likely well made Fellow, who seems to be about twenty two Years of Age, speaks broken English, and either cannot or will not tell his Owner's Name, or from what Part of the Colony he came. Whoever has a just Claim to them are desired to take them away and pay Charges. PETER PELHAM, K. P. G.
COMMITTED to the Jail of Dinwiddie County, on the 3th of September, a Negro Fellow who cannot tell his Master's Name. He is well made, of the middle Size, marked down his Cheeks, and had on an Osnabrug Shirt, new Felt Hat, a Dutch Blanket, and Rolls Trousers. The Owner is desired to prove his Property and take him away. LEWIS LANIER, Jailer.
NOW at my Plantation on Licking Hole Creek, in Goochland County, two red STEERS, between two and three Years old, one marked with a Crop in the right Ear, the other with a Swallowfork and Underkeel in the right Ear; also a black STEER about two or three Years old, marked with a Crop in each Ear. Any Person proving his Property may have them on applying to me, and paying the Expense of this Advertisement. VALENTINE WOOD.
TAKEN up, in Henrico, a red and white pied HEIFER, marked with a Swallowfork and Underkeel in the right Ear and Overkeel in the left. Posted, and appraised to thirty Shillings. WILLIAM HENLEY.
TAKEN up, in Prince Edward, a small bay MARE about four Feet three or four Inches high, Part of her left Ear cut off, with a Star in her Forehead, but no Brand perceivable. Posted, and appraised to three Pounds. JOHN CHILDERS, Senior.
TAKEN up, in Amherst, a red and white HEIFER about three Years old, and both Ears cropped. Posted, and appraised to forty Shillings. SHADRACH HARGIS.
TAKEN up, in Amherst, a brindled pied STEER marked in the left Ear with a Slit and an Underkeel in the right, and has a Bob Tail. Also a HEIFER and CALF, with a Slit in each Ear, an Underkeel in the right, and some White on her Face and Body. Posted, and appraised, the Steer to fifty Shillings, and the Heifer and Calf to thirty five Shillings. JAMES STEVENS.
NORFOLK, October 9, 1771.
I GIVE this Notice to all Persons indebted to Mr. William Orange, by Bond or otherwise, to make Payment to me by the first of December next, as after that Time Suits will be commenced against those who fail. GEORGE GORDON.
To be RENTED, or SOLD, THE COALPITS in Chesterfield County, on Falling Creek, near Buckingham Road, adjoining those of Mr. Flyson, deceased. My only Reason for wanting to dispose of them is Want of Force, although I am confident any Person that has a sufficient Number of Hands might work them to very great Advantage; and I shall sell them cheap. JOHN RAILEY.
Just IMPORTED from London; and to be SOLD for ready Money only, at the cheapest Rates, by the Subscriber, at her Shop where Mr. Aylcough lately lived, opposite to the south Side of the Capitol,
AGENTEE Assortment of MERCERY, MILLINERY, JEWELLERY, &c. (Part of which consists of the under named Articles) of the newest Fashion, being chosen by herself, and purchased since July last, from the eminent Shops, and on the best Terms.
White Satins and Lustrings, with Trimmings suitable, Satin Cloaks and Bonnets wove in Imitation of Lace, plain and trimmed Silk Cloaks and Hats, the greatest Variety of Caps, Egrets, Plumes, and Fillets, Dresden Ruffles, Ranelagh Ruffs, Italian Flowers, Stomachers and Knots, Toupees and Curls, Childrens Safes, Bonnets, Whisks and quilted Puddings, black Silk Aprons (much wore in London) white and coloured Satin quilted Coats, black and white Silk Breeches Patterns, Patent Net and other Hoods, from five Shillings to twelve and Sixpence, Ditto Aprons, Patent Net in the Piece for Ruffles and Handkerchiefs, Minionet Lace, white and coloured Head and Breast Flowers, Cambricks, narrow Edgings for Trimmings, a great Variety of Velvet, Silver, and other Ribands, Wires, Didbury's Leather, coloured, Satin, and Stuff Shoes, white Satin and Queen's Silk Ditto, black, white, and coloured Silk Hosi for Ladies and Gentlemen, Cotton Ditto, Mens and Boys fine Hats of the newest Fashion, Wig Curls, Silk Purse, thin Bone and Packthread Stays for Children of three Months old and upwards, Gentlemens Flannel Waistcoats faced with Satin, single and double Nightcaps, furred Gloves, plain Ditto for Ladies and Gentlemen, Passe, Garnet, and Bead Earrings, Gold Wires, Passe, Mocha, and Garnet Necklaces and Roses, Silver and Pinchbeck Shoe and Knee Buckles, Ditto and Garnet and Silver Stock Buckles, Passe, Tortoiseshell, and Horn crooked Combs, plain and set Lockets, Passe, Garnet, and Gold Brooches, Passe Stay Hooks, Ditto and Garnet Sprigs and Pins, Silver bowed Scissors, Watches and Chains, Silver Teaspoons, Sugar Tonges, Nutmeg Graters, and Thimbles, neat Etwees, Toothpick Cases, Ivory and Tortoiseshell Toothpicks, Pocket Books with Instruments, Als Skin Ditto, Travelling Shaving Cases complete, with Razors, Glass, &c. Jubilee Knives and Forks, Silver Cork Screws, Decanter Corks with Labels, Coral and Bibs, Silver Pap Boats, Silver Shoe Claps for Children, Ivory Pocket Rules, Childrens Toys of all Sorts, Gold and Silver Hatbands, Tooth Brushes, Ivory and Box Combs, Passe Combs from twelve and Sixpence upwards, Black Pins, Walking Sticks and Sword Canes, Riding Whips, a very great Variety, &c. &c.
Also several PATENT MEDICINES, particularly Homet (Dentist to his Majesty) his Essence of Pearl, and Pearl Dentifrice, for preserving and cleaning both Teeth and Gums; an Ointment for the Itch, and all scrofulous Disorders of ever so long Standing, without Confinement or Regimen; likewise fine IVORY BLACKING CAKES, for Shoes, in universal Repute, Shaving Powder, with many other Articles too numerous to mention. CATHARINE RATHELL.
As it was impossible to get a House on the main Street, the Subscriber hopes the little Distance will make no Difference to her former Customers.
AS very little Regard has been paid to our former Advertisement, we once more request those indebted to us to pay off their respective Balances, this October General Court, to Mr. Robert Gilliam; otherwise we shall immediately put their Bonds and Accounts into a Lawyer's Hands, without Respect to Persons. JOHN GILLIAM, & Co.
To be SOLD at Green Spring, on Tuesday the 22d of this Instant (October)
ALL the HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE belonging to the Estate of the Honourable Philip Ludwell, Esquire, deceased; consisting of several valuable BIDS, FURNITURE, &c. also a large Quantity of INDIGO, a Set of BLACKSMITHS TOOLS, a complete CIDER PRESS with Screws, and various other Articles. Credit will be allowed for all Sums above forty Shillings till the 10th of April next, on giving Bond and Security. CARY WILKINSON.
Likewise for Sale, at the same Place, either publick or private, a handsome BAY STALLION six Years old, full fifteen Hands high, got by Partner, also several BLOODED COLTS; the Property of William Lee, Esquire. Credit will be allowed as above.
Just IMPORTED from London, and to be SOLD at Mr. Campbell's Store in Richmond,
A FRESH Assortment of GARDEN SEEDS, consisting of Common Cabbage, Green Savoy Ditto, Early Sugar Loaf Ditto, Early Yellow Savoy Ditto, German Greens, Curled Green Kail, Best Green and Prickly Cucumber, Winter and Summer Turnip, Parsley and Carrot, Broad Leaved and Round Spinage, Ice and Cabbage Lettuce, Blood Red Onion, Silver Skinned Ditto, Italian Celery, Best English Cauliflower, Indian Cresses, Cauliflower and Italian Brocoli; also a Variety of annual FLOWER SEEDS, of forty six different Kinds.
To be SOLD on the Premises, on Thursday the 14th of November, if fair, otherwise next fair Day, to the highest Bidder,
A TRACT of exceeding fine TOBACCO and GRAIN LAND, containing five Hundred Acres, lying in Orange County, about four Miles below the Courthouse; the Land is in good Order for Cropping, there being fresh cleared Ground to work about eight Hands. At the same Time will be sold the Stock of CATTLE, HORSES, HOGS, CORN, and FODDER. The Terms will be agreed on at the Day of Sale. JOHN TALIAFERRO.
To be SOLD, pursuant to a Decree of the County Court of Essex, at Tappahannock, on the 30th of this Instant (October) if fair, otherwise next fair Day,
THREE LOTS in the said Town, whereon Richard Banks now lives, described in the Plan of the Town by the Numbers 5, 11, and 12. There are on the said Lots a large DWELLINGHOUSE and all convenient OUTHOUSES suitable for an Ordinary Keeper. There will also be sold pursuant to the said Decree, at the same Time and Place, eight valuable SLAVES, and all the HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, belonging to James Emmerison. The above Lands, Slaves, and Furniture, were mortgaged to Archibald Ritchie by the said Emmerison, and are now sold to satisfy as well the said Ritchie's Demand as to discharge the Demands of sundry of the said Emmerison's Creditors. JOHN UPSHAW, Sheriff.
STRAYED from Hog Island, in the Night of the 19th of September, a light bay HORSE about thirteen Hands and a Half high, ten Years old, has a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, trots and gallops, and branded on the near Buttock S F. Whoever will deliver the said Horse to Mr. St. George at Hog Island, Messrs. Hunter and Blair at Smithfield, Mr. John Hamilton at Milner's Warehouse, Mr. Thomas Gilchrist at Suffolk, or to the Subscriber at Norfolk, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward. JAMES ARCHDEACON.
MILNER'S, September 26, 1771.
ABOUT three o'Clock this Morning I had the Misfortune to lose a Dwellinghouse that was building for me at this Place, which, either by Accident or Design, was set on Fire and entirely consumed. As I suspect some malicious Wretch to be the Perpetrator of this Villainy, I hereby offer a Reward of FIFTY POUNDS STERLING for the detecting and bringing to Justice such a Pest to Society. ANTHONY WARWICK.

POETS CORNER. VIRTUE ITS OWN REWARD.
STILPO, of Boeotia, who first Stoutly refused to fear the worst; Who knew no Ill could e'er befall, Where conscious Virtue's all in all;
HIS Majesty's Postmaster General having (for the better facilitating of Correspondence between Great Britain and America) been pleased to add a fifth Packet Boat to the Station between Falmouth and New York, Notice is hereby given that the Mail, for the future, will be closed, at the Post Office in New York, at twelve of the Clock at Night, on the first Tuesday in every Month, and despatched by a Packet, the next Day, for Falmouth.
TAKEN up, in Frederick, a bay HORSE about thirteen Hands and a Half high, about nine Years old, and branded on the near Shoulder FHB. Posted, and appraised to seven Pounds ten Shillings. JOHN SMITH.
TAKEN up, in Sussex, a bright bay HORSE about four Feet eight or nine Inches high, about eight Years old, Half of his Mane cut off, a Sprig Tail, some Saddle Spots, and branded on the near Shoulder O. CHARLES ANDERSON.
TAKEN up, in Chesterfield, at Kingland's Ferry, on James River, a middle sized light gray HORSE, branded on the near Buttock B. Posted, and appraised to eight Pounds. BRANCH TANNER.
I THINK it necessary to inform the Publick that I practise the LAW in the Counties of Botetourt, Pittsylvania, Bedford, and Amherst. Those who choose to favour me with their Business may depend on having it transacted with Care and Punctuality, and a Remittance made to the General Courts; from which Place any Commands will be forwarded to me by Mr. Peter Lyons, Bartholomew Dandridge, or Philip Whithead Claiborne.
THERE was imported this Summer, for the Subscriber, in the Lyon, Captain Gossley, a CASK of NAILS marked T A in a Piece, No. 4, which has never come to Hand, nor have I been informed where it was landed. If any Person can give Intelligence thereof to me, or Mr. Edmund Pendleton, in Caroline, they will oblige ANNE TAYLOR.
I BEG Leave to acquaint the Publick that I have opened TAVERN in the House, behind the Capitol, lately occupied by Mrs. Vibe; where those Gentlemen who please to favour me with their Custom may depend upon genteel Accommodations, and the very best Entertainment. I shall reserve Rooms for the Gentlemen who formerly lodged with me. CHRISTIANA CAMPBELL.
I HAVE a Quantity of choice high Land HONDURAS MOHOGANY, as good as the best Jamaica, to dispose of on reasonable Terms. WILLIAM CHISHOLM.
WANTED immediately, A YOUNG MAN qualified for an ASSISTANT in a STORE, and who understands BOOK-KEEPING. Such a One, well recommended, may hear of good Encouragement by applying to Mr. RIND, Printer in Williamsburg.
THE Subscriber will give good Wages, and Accommodations, to two or three Journeymen BRICKLAYERS, for the remaining Part of the Season, to work upon the Hospital building in this City. Plenty of Bricks and Lime is ready, so that there will be no Delay. SAMUEL SPURR.
IMPORTED from London, in the Matty, Captain Fox, and to be SOLD by the Subscriber in Port Royal, a choice Pair of FRENCH MILLSTONES, three Feet eight Inches Diameter. ROBERT GILCHRIST.
PURSUANT to a late Act of the General Assembly, which hath received the Royal Assent, we propose to sell to the highest Bidders, on Thursday the 31st Instant, at four o'Clock in the Afternoon, before Mr. Southall's Door, in this City, the DWELLING-HOUSE, OUTHOUSES, GARDEN, and PASTURE, where Colonel Philip Johnson formerly lived, now in the Tenure of Mr. Richard Hunt Singleton; also the Remainder of the same Tract of LAND adjoining the City of Williamsburg, with two LOTS on Francis Street, between the Lots of Mr. Waller and Doctor Palfrey; the Whole to be disposed of together, or in Parcels, as may best suit the Purchasers.
RUN away from the Subscriber, on the 3d Instant, two Country born Negro Fellows, viz. TOM, of a yellow Complexion, about five Feet six or ten Inches high, much marked with the Whip, and is supposed to be thirty six Years of Age. He had with him, when he went away, an Onabrag Shirt and Breeches, Felt Hat, and a new Dutch Blanket. DICK, a black Fellow about twenty six Years of Age, five Feet nine Inches high, has a Scar on his Head, and is dressed like the other. They carried off a Pettiauger with a white Bottom, her Inside painted red, and a blue Streak. As I purchased them lately in Dover County, Maryland, I imagine they will endeavour to make for that Province. Whoever apprehends the said Slaves, and brings them to me at Milner's Warehouse, or secures them so as I get them again, shall have THREE POUNDS Reward if taken in the Colony, and if out of it FIVE POUNDS. ARCHIBALD BUCHANAN.
On the 20th Day of next Month will be DELIVERED, THE FIRST VOLUME of COMMENTARIES on the LAWS of ENGLAND. By WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, Esquire, one of the JUDGES of the COURT of COMMON PLEAS. In four Volumes. The following is extracted from the Proposals and Specimen, which are to be seen at most Booksellers Shops. CONDITIONS, on which the Work will be printed. I. BLACKSTONE's splendid Commentaries on the Laws of England are to be reprinted in four Volumes, Royal Octavo, Page for Page with the last Edition of the London Copy. II. The Work is to be printed on American Paper, equal in Colour and Thickness to this, with the same Type as the Specimen annexed; and great Attention will be given to the Correctness of the Matter, and Beauty of the Letter Press. III. The Price of the four Volumes to Subscribers will be only EIGHT DOLLARS, although the English Edition is sold at TWENTY SIX DOLLARS. IV. As soon as the Names and Residence of two Hundred Subscribers are collected, the first Volume shall immediately be put to Press, and the whole Work will be completed six Months after the Publication of the first Volume. V. No Money expected but on the periodical Delivery of each Volume, in neat Law Binding, Price TWO DOLLARS. VI. This splendid and expensive Work, which will cost above fifteen Hundred Pounds, can only be carried into Execution under the Patronage of the Gentlemen of the Law in America, and their liberal Connections in the Country, as well as the capital Cities and Towns on the Continent. VII. The Names of the Subscribers will be printed in the fourth Volume. SUBSCRIPTIONS are gratefully received by the Publisher, ROBERT BELL, Bookseller at the late Union Library, in Third Street, Philadelphia; and by all the Booksellers and Printers in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Charles Town, &c. &c.
To the PUBLICK. THE Inhabitants of this Continent have now an easy and advantageous Opportunity of effectually establishing literary Manufactures in the British Colonies, at moderate Prices calculated for this Meridian; which will absolutely and eventually produce mental Improvement, and commercial Expansion, with the additional Recommendation of positively saving Thousands of Pounds to and among the Inhabitants of the British Empire in America. Thus the Importation of one Thousand Sets of Blackstone's Commentaries, manufactured in Europe, at ten Pounds a Set, is sending very near ten Thousand Pounds across the great Atlantic Ocean; whereas one Thousand Sets manufactured in America, and sold at the small Price of three Pounds a Set, is an actual Saving of seven Thousand Pounds to the Purchasers, and the identical three Thousand Pounds which are laid out for our own Manufactures is still retained in the Country, being distributed among Manufacturers and Traders whose Residence upon the Continent of Course causeth the Money to circulate from Neighbour to Neighbour, and by the Circulation in America, there is a great Probability of its revolving to the very Hands from which it originally migrated. Gentlemen who at this Juncture retain any Degree of that ancient and noble, but now almost exploded Affection, denominated Patriotism, and are pleased to exemplify it by extending with Celerity their auspicious Patronage, through the cheap Mode of reposing their Names and Residences (no Money expected till the Delivery of an Equivalent) with any Bookseller or Printer on the Continent, as intentional Purchasers of this Work, now reprinting by Subscription in America, will render an essential Service to the Community, by encouraging native Manufactures, and therefore deserve to be had in grateful Remembrance, by their Country, by Posterity, and by their much obliged humble Servant, the Publisher. ROBERT BELL.
To be SOLD by the Trustees of BENJAMIN GRYMES, Esquire, on Monday the 25th of November, if fair, otherwise the next fair Day, and continue till all is sold, at Benjamin Johnson's Ordinary in Fredericksburg. ABOUT two Hundred fine healthy SLAVES belonging to the Estate of the said Grymes, but very few old Ones amongst them; there are several good Furnace Men, Forgemens, Colliers, Carters, and Watermen, about sixty Draught Horses, and some good Oxen, with Gear belonging to them; also several Waggon and Carts, a very good Brig between ninety and a Hundred Tuns, and a Schooner of the same Burthen, both but a few Months from the Carpenter's Hands, whose Name is George Hill, and lives in Fredericksburg. He can inform any Gentleman who inclines to purchase what they are. About fifteen of the Slaves will be sold for ready Money, with some of the Horses, and Credit allowed for the rest of the Estate until the 25th of October 1772, the Purchasers giving Bond and Security to the Trustees, who will attend the Sale, and make them an undoubted Title. Merchants Notes will be taken as Security, five per Cent. Discount will be allowed for ready Money, and all Bonds that are not discharged at the Time they become due bear Interest from the Day of Sale. ANTHONY THORNTON, Junior, Agent to the Trustees.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in New Kent County, on Friday the 13th of September, a MULATTO Servant Man, about twenty one Years old, and is my Servant till thirty one Years. I am informed he passes for a Freeman. His Dress is a Cotton Jacket and brown Linen Shirt, Rolls Trousers, Drab Breeches, and an old Felt Hat. I believe he is about Queen's Creek, or near Williamsburg. Any Person that will bring the said Servant to me shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward. RICHARD TIMBERLAKE. All Masters of Vessels are forewarned from carrying him out of the Colony.
ALL Persons who have any Demands upon the Estate of Mr. Samuel Gordon, late of Blandford, Merchant, are requested to make the same known as soon as possible. And whereas the said Mr. Gordon did, in his Lifetime, sell Tracts and Lots of Land wherein Mrs. Gordon was entitled to her Dower, which Right she may not as yet have relinquished to the Purchasers, I am desired by the said Mrs. Gordon, and the Heir at Law, Mr. Alexander Gordon, to request such Persons as have not yet had complete Titles made them to apply to me; as they are desirous to fulfil, with Honour, the Engagements of the said Decedent, and for which Purpose I am properly empowered. I must beg the Favour of those who are indebted to Mr. Gordon's Estate to be speedy in making Payment, as they experienced very great Indulgence in his Lifetime. I shall also be much obliged to those Gentlemen who had Business of Mr. Gordon's in their Hands, which may be unsettled at this Time, to let me know the State of the same; as Mr. Gordon's Connections in Business were very extensive and various, and there is a Necessity for a speedy Settlement. JERMAN BAKER.
I HEREBY forewarn all Persons from hauling the Seine, or hunting, on my Plantation at Newport News, in Warwick and Elizabeth City Counties, as I have received much Injury therefrom. WILLIAM DIGGES, Junior.
RUN away from the Subscriber, this Day, an Apprentice Lad named EDWARD WILSON, a clear Mulatto, a Carpenter and Joiner by Trade. He is about eighteen Years of Age, about five Feet seven Inches high, has long black Hair, tied behind, much inclined to curl, has a Scar on the Top of his right Foot, which he got by the Stroke of an Adze, and as he walks his Ankle cracks remarkably. He had on when he went away a short Bath Coating Coat, a Sky blue Duroy Waistcoat, and Onabrag Breeches; and he carried with him two Cheek, two brown Sheetings, and one white Shirt, also a Pair of Check and a Pair of Onabrag Trousers, with a brown Holland Waistcoat. Whoever delivers the said Apprentice to me, within two Miles of Mr. Lewis Parker's Store, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, besides what the Law allows. PHILIP MALLORY. He is supposed to be gone towards Hampton.
Now in the Press, and speedily will be published, by JOHN DUNLAP, at the newest Printing Office in Market Street, PHILADELPHIA, and will be delivered to the Subscribers agreeable to the original Proposals, Price (bound) five Shillings Pennsylvania Currency, printed on a fine Paper, and an elegant Type, ALL THE POETICAL Writings, and some other Pieces, OF THE Reverend NATHANIEL EVANS, A.M. Late Missionary in Gloucester County, New Jersey, and Chaplain to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Kilmorey, of the Kingdom of Ireland. N. B. As the List of Subscribers will be committed to the Press in a few Weeks, it is hoped that all those who are desirous of encouraging this Publication, and who may not yet have subscribed, will send their Names, without Loss of Time, to the Printer of this Paper. The SUBSCRIBERS shall have their Books printed on a fine writing Paper.
I INTEND for England early in the Spring, and request all those who have any open Accounts on my Books to settle them. Bonds, or Cash, will be required from all indebted, and Payment made to those who have Balances in their Favour. I expect all Persons concerned will pay due Regard to this Advertisement, as all Accounts unsettled, after the first Day of January next, will be put in Suit. My Business here, after that Time, will be transacted by William Marsh and Richard Marshall. JOHN GREENWOOD.
For SALE, or to be RENTED for a Term of Years, and entered upon immediately, THE capital Prize drawn in the Honourable William Byrd's Lottery, consisting of a DOUBLE FORGE and valuable GRISTMILL, with two Acres and a Half of LAND adjoining; also two Thousand Acres of exceeding good LAND, the farthest Part of which is not more than three Miles from the Works. The Land, &c. will be sold, or rented, with or without the Forge and Mill, and laid off in small Parcels to suit Purchasers. Long Credit (if required) will be allowed for greatest Part of the Money, Bond with approved Security being given. I would have no Objection to dispose of one Moiety of the Whole, or the Stream with or without the Land, to a suitable Partner. It is capable of great Improvement, being situated in the Heart of a fine Wheat Country; and, at a small Expense, the Forge may be converted into a good Merchant Mill, which would manufacture a Hundred Thousand Bushels in a Season, besides the Advantage arising from the Gristmill, which is worth, at least, two Hundred Pounds a Year. The Terms will be made agreeable; and the Land and Works may be viewed, at any Time, by applying to Mr. Richard Crump, Merchant at Rocky Ridge. HENRY MORSE. The UTENSILS, and OLD IRON, belonging to the Forge, will be sold on reasonable Terms.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Lancaster, on the 24th of December last, a Negro Man named WILL, about five Feet eight or nine Inches high, between thirty and forty Years of Age, but looks older than what he really is. He has been at Work in Norfolk for some Time past, and went by the Name of William Moore, as a Freeman. He is a very good Hostler and Gardener; and what may detect him sooner, he is very fond of Liquor, and when drunk very quarrelsome and saucy. Whoever will secure him in any Jail, and give me Intelligence so that I may get him again, shall have FIVE POUNDS, and if brought to me FIFTEEN POUNDS, paid on the Delivery of the Negro. JOHN WORMELEY.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, upon the Premises, on the 25th Day of October next, A TRACT of LAND in Dinwiddie County, on the Branches of Namazee Creek, near Hutchings's Ordinary, about twenty Miles from Petersburg, containing eight Hundred and forty four Acres. There are about fifty or sixty Acres of it cleared, with a new Quarter, Overseer's House, Tobacco House, and some Apple and Peach Trees. The Time of Payment of the Purchase Money to be agreed on at the Day of Sale. Any Person wanting to purchase may see the Land by applying to the Overseer, on the Place. JOSIAH TATEM.
AS I intend to remove up the Country next Fall, I would sell my Plantation in King & Queen County, which consists of six Hundred and fifty five Acres of LAND, pleasantly situated on Mattaponi River, about six Miles above West Point, and has on it a very good neat convenient Brick House with two large Rooms, two Closets, and a Passage on a Floor, with good Cellars under it, two very pleasant Porticoes, one above and the other below Stairs, neatly finished, with Banisters and India Work, a very convenient Storehouse sixty Feet long, with two Floors and a Cellar, and all other Outhouses necessary, Garden, &c. in good Order. The Land is good for Corn, and with Manure will produce fine Tobacco. There is also belonging to the above mentioned Tract one Hundred Acres of Marsh, lying opposite, on the other Side the River, which is very convenient for getting Hay, &c. Any Person inclined to purchase may be shown the same, and know the Terms, by applying to JOHN MEREDITH.
Who has also for Sale another Plantation in King & Queen County, just below West Point, known by the Name of Geuge's Point, containing two Hundred Acres, adjoining the Land of Mr. Samuel Meredith, on which is a good Deal of Marsh that with little Expense might be made a valuable Meadow. The Land is well timbered, but no Improvements on it. I have also three LOTS in West Point for Sale, whereon is a neat little Dwellinghouse with two Rooms on a Floor, and an old Kitchen. The above mentioned Land will be sold together, or in separate Tracts, as may best suit the Purchasers.
To be SOLD, on long Credit, the three following Tracts of LAND, viz. ONE Tract containing four Hundred Acres, lying in Spotsylvania County, on the Head of Bluff Run, about eighteen Miles from Fredericksburg. One other Tract lying in Amherst County, on Owen's Creek, containing four Hundred Acres; it is well timbered, and a good Soil for Tobacco and Indian Corn. One Tract lying in Pittsylvania County, on Sycamore Creek, near Captain Benjamin Clements's, containing two Hundred Acres; this is likewise good Tobacco Land. Any Person inclined to purchase either of the above Tracts of Land may know the Terms by applying to Mr. Charles Irving, Merchant in Albemarle County, or to the Subscriber in Richmond Town. The above Lands are the Property of John Loving, Senior, of Amherst County, but made over by a Deed of Trust to the Subscriber. Two Years Credit, or longer if required, will be given, on Bond and approved Security. WILLIAM MITCHELL.