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The substance of Mr. BURKE's celebrated SPEECH upon AMERICAN affairs, May 8, in a great Assembly.
PREVIOUS to the speech, several papers, which had been moved for, were read; as, the resolutions of both Houses of Parliament, the King's speech, circular letters of the Secretary of State, speeches of Governors, and messages of Assemblies in America, &c.
Mr. Burke rose and said he should, from the state of things which these papers opened to the House, lay before them the state of measures, and the plan (if such could be so called) of administration which his Majesty's Ministers had attempted to execute, from the fatal hour since they left that ground of peace on which the affairs of the colonies were established after the repeal of the stamp act.
He said the declaratory law did sufficiently establish the sovereignty of this country over its plantations and colonies; but that the wise Ministers who succeeded did not think this sufficient, without some exercise of the power of taxing, such as might secure the dignity as well as sovereignty of government, by which, at the bottom, they meant the doing something to save the honour of particular persons.
That it was very extraordinary that the great person who was the foremost for repealing the stamp act, and that too on the principles of the Americans themselves, should, when he found himself at the head of the Ministry, be the very person to adopt the measure of inventing a new system of taxes upon the colonies; and it was also peculiarly unfortunate that when a measure so likely to meet with every obstruction and opposition in America was adopted no one precaution or step was taken to secure the execution of it, neither of policy nor power: And to add to the fatality, the execution was left to hands which, in the sequel of events, have proved the most unfit for it of any that could be employed.
He then prefaced what he had to say with begging that he might not be understood to mean any thing personal against any man, especially the Minister that might appear to be most affected by his conclusions; that he had really a personal regard for the noble Lord; that he wished rather, by pointing out errors, to lead to a redress for the future, than to punishment for the past; yet, upon the other hand, if, upon the state of the inquiries, things and actions, which were connected with persons, did appear to deserve the animadversion, the censure of the House, he should adhere to what was right for the publick, be the persons whomsoever or whatsoever they may.
He then opened, with infinite wit and raillery, the plan of dignity adopted by the Ministers, and shewed how it was pursued, through every transaction, from the proposing the new revenue act for America to their partial repeal in this session. He began first with the measures taken when the Parliament was persuaded to pass an act for suspending the Assembly of New York, and shewed that instead of producing a submission from that Assembly, on which the dignity of government was to be established, it produced resolutions in that Assembly against both the dignity and authority of this government. The quartering bill, which this suspending act was meant to enforce, was never submitted to; and the whole effect was that the act of Parliament is now no longer in force, but the resolutions are, and have had their effect.
As the revenue acts produced in America nothing but resolutions against our power of taxing, the next step of dignity was a letter of a Secretary of State, ordering, with a menace, in case of a refusal, the Assembly at Boston, from whence the measure of resolving first took rise, to rescind all such resolutions, and directing the Governors of the other provinces, by another circular letter, to induce their Assemblies to treat the Boston resolves with the contempt they deserve. Here again our dignity was dishonoured: The Boston Assembly, who would not rescind, was dissolved, and was permitted to sit again without rescinding; and the other Assemblies treated the Secretary of State's letter with contempt.
These wise steps of policy failing, and the people of America growing every day more and more confirmed in their resolutions, and more and more inflamed, several acts of violence broke out. Upon this state of things, the Crown was now, as confessedly unable to
carry its measures into execution, advised to call in the aid of Parliament, to tell Parliament that it could not govern those ungovernable people. The Parliament was persuaded to come to some threatening resolves, and to give back the curious advice of sending for the subjects of America, suspected of treason and misprision of treason, to England, under authority of an old act of Henry VIII. to be tried here. These threats never were, as it was known they never could, be carried into execution. They exposed the weakness of Parliament, and rendered its power abhorred, and reduced the dignity of government to contempt.
These great strokes of policy not succeeding, the plan took a former tone, and, upon an account received of some breaches of the peace, and some affrays with the customhouse officers, a fleet and an army were sent to Boston, to secure, not our dignity, but government itself, as was given out.
See now the issue of this: The civil magistrate, who was said to call for the aid of those troops, would neither receive nor quarter them, would not accept nor use their aid; so that, after the parade of the terror was over, and after the Ministers found they could not frighten the people, they withdrew part of this armament, and the rest are now drawn out of the town.
So that now, on the upshot, it appears that, instead of having established the dignity of government, you have shewn, by the attempt, that you have lost the power, in effect, either to suspend or to prorogue, or even to induce the Assemblies to rescind their resolves against your power.
Every measure of crude impracticable vigour has rendered you abhorred; every measure of lenity (proved to be the lenity of a braggard, forced to submit) has brought you into contempt. At the very time that Parliament was to be persuaded to take up the menace of Henry 8th's act, Ministry were preparing a plan of submission; and when they found that the terms of their submission would not be accepted by the Americans, the Ministers, by another circular letter, upon the plan of lenity, laid the grounds for their friends in America to negotiate a reconciliation, pretending themselves, in the mean while, to hold up their heads high under the authority of Parliament, which would not submit; and yet if their friends could have carried any one point that would have served for ostensible ground to Parliament, Parliament was to be persuaded to repeal as they should recommend. And lastly, although the Americans could not be induced to do even this, yet Parliament was persuaded to repeal article for article, as the Ministers had promised, and vowed they should, and not a jot farther.
So that now, not only dignity, but government and power, are all brought to nought. Every instrument is gone; there is neither civil nor military. The malignity of your will is abhorred; the debility of your power is contemned, which ever has been, and is now, the case of a government without wisdom.
Those measures, and this state of things, do not only deserve, as we have expressed it, our most serious consideration, but, so far as shall appear that this state of things have been brought on by those measures, the measures do surely deserve our censure; and, upon this ground, he then proposed several resolutions of censure of the several measures which had been lately taken, which passed in the negative.
To the Printer of the Publick Advertiser.
SIR,
I HAVE carefully perused the writings of Junius, and am convinced that the author, whoever he is, owes no small part of his fame to the excessive liberties he takes under the feigned name of Junius, liberties which he durst not take if his real name was known. A certain philosopher, speaking of the ring of Gyges, which rendered the wearer of it invisible, says, with great sensibility of virtue, and true honour, that a good man, if he had that miraculous ring, would act precisely as if he had it not. Junius is not the good man of the philosopher; he resembles Gyges, who availed himself of his ring to commit treason and murder. The anonymous invisible Junius wounds the reputation and destroys the peace of honourable men, and when called upon to come forth hides himself in his cloud, repeats the injury, and triumphs in his ignoble security. Such was his behaviour to a brave man, who, when grossly abused by Junius, put his name to a defiance. After such an adventure, it would be la-
bour lost, and perhaps some disgrace incurred, to bestow upon Junius those appellations which a Gentleman ought rather to die than to bear. I will not, therefore, call Junius coward, nor slanderer, but I will call him impostor, and a bad writer; and I will prove that he is so, for no man can write to the heart who does not write from the heart. Sincerity is the first quality of a persuasive and elegant writer; and he must be ignorant, indeed, who does not see that Junius is not sincere. The want of that essential quality appears in his language and expression. Instead of the simple and animated style, natural to him who is convinced of the truth of what he writes, Junius employs the artificial period, the far fetched simile, and the studied antithesis, to convey malevolent falsehoods, which no art can palliate; and no credulity believe. Accordingly, if I am not much mistaken, Junius has excited the publick attention, without inflaming the people. The passion which he most frequently excites is indignation against himself, not only for the wickedness and malignity of his writings, but for his presumption in imagining that his tinsel and paltry eloquence can dazzle the eyes of the people of England, and make them see the most respectable objects in whatever odious lights he pleases to put them. After having spoken of the fictitious Junius, it would be unjust to conjecture who he is, and utter a suspicion which I cannot bring to certainty; but I may, without reproach, and I will (for it is doing justice to human nature) express my opinion of the situation of Junius, whose heart, I dare say, is hardened by those circumstances which so often corrupt and pervert the human mind. Mens manners, like their judgments, as Shakespeare says, are a parcel of their fortunes; and, from the whole tenour of Junius's writings, I must conclude that he is an adventurer whom the ministerial revolutions of this country accidentally raised from obscurity and indigence to a state in which he did not long remain; that he is now a fallen man, struggling between hope and despair to support the cause of a ruined party, and to recover what he himself has lost. In this extremity, he takes iniquity to do him service; and, with a perfect knowledge of his own guilt, deliberately defames every thing that stands in the way of his avarice and ambition. These are the demons that banish remorse from his soul, and urge him to crimes which, perhaps, he once abhorred; less criminal than some of his more elevated associates, because the objects of success must be more tempting to him than to them, and because he feels, more than they, the sharpest spur of party zeal, the durus urgens in rebus egestus . If I seem to press too hard upon the unknown author of Junius (though I think I rather make his apology, by supposing that, like the apothecary in the tragedy, when he vends the poison, his poverty and not his will consents) I desire that the reader will review his last letter, which is the most scandalous, and at the same time the most tedious, he has ever published. I do not propose to follow his weary steps from beginning to end. The sole intention of the epistle is to persuade the people of England that the King, Lords, and Commons, have entered into a conspiracy against the laws and liberties of the nation; and, in consequence of so impious a compact, have mutually sacrificed to each other a part of their constitutional rights and privileges, as an equivalent for which they have been permitted, by mutual indulgence, to assume new powers dangerous and fatal to liberty. Never was so dreadful an accusation as this brought against the legislature of Great Britain.
The three estates have combined against the law and liberty, and have plighted their faith under the seal of mutual guilt. The associates of Catiline are said to have killed a slave, and tasted of his blood, in confirmation of their vow to subvert the state; but the more impious conspirators, the King, Lords, and the Commons, of Great Britain, have sacrificed the rights of the constitution, and tasted the blood of liberty as the sacrament of the conspiracy. If this accusation is just, what is to be done? Where is the remedy to be found? All the branches of the legislature are involved in equal guilt, and there is no remedy but an appeal to the God of Battles. But what proof does Junius produce of this tremendous conspiracy, the conduct of the two Houses of Parliament in the case of the Middlesex election? I am almost ashamed to reason upon this stale subject, with a man who takes for granted every point and question. With regard to the conduct of the House of Commons, I shall only remind Junius that incapacity

was so universally allowed to follow from expulsion that none of the Gentlemen of the opposition opposed the resolution declaring incapacity; and the resolution was carried, without division. As to the House of Lords, what part have they taken to involve them in the conspiracy? They refused to impeach the judgment of the House of Commons, and resolved that they had no right to impeach a judgment of the House of Commons in a case where the jurisdiction of that House was final, competent, and conclusive.
A man of plain understanding, as I am, cannot help thinking that it is impossible to form a proposition more self evident than that which is contained in the words of the resolution of the House of Lords; yet Junius has the assurance to exclaim against it, as a base surrender of the constitutional check and reciprocal controul of one branch of the legislature over the other. What answer can be made to a man who is capable of advancing such absurdities? The two Houses of Parliament have a reciprocal controul in their legislative capacity; they pass or reject bills, but they have no controul in their judicative capacity. They can have none, for such controul would introduce universal disorder and confusion. If both Houses had a right of reversing each others judgments, anarchy must follow; if only one House had that right, the other House would necessarily be dependent and subordinate. As to the King, Junius comprehends him in the conspiracy, by affirming that his Majesty has declared that to petition for a dissolution of Parliament was irreconcileable to the principles of the constitution. I, on the other hand, affirm that the King never made any such declaration.
When the city of London presented a remonstrance, in which they denied the legality of Parliament, and the validity of its acts, and at the same time demanded a dissolution of Parliament, his Majesty, in his answer, declared that the contents of that address were disrespectful to him, injurious to Parliament, and irreconcileable to the principles of the constitution. Can there be any thing more irreconcileable to the principles of the constitution than to deny the authority of the legislature? Or can there be a stronger instance of hardness in advancing falsehoods than that which Junius gives, when he asserts that his Majesty had denied the right of petitioning for a dissolution of Parliament? But I have tired myself, and have good reason to apprehend that the reader will be much more tired with my refutation to what is so manifestly false; yet the shameless Junius, as if he had proved his charge beyond a doubt, compares the three estates, sacrificing (as he says they have done) their constitutional rights, that they might establish a detestable union on the ruins of liberty, to the Roman triumvirate, sacrificing their friend and nearest relations to the resentment of each other. When I consider the real sacrifices of privilege and prerogative that have been made during the present reign, and some of them this very session of Parliament, I am shocked at the wickedness, and confounded at the impudence, of the wretch who dares compare the three estates of the legislature of Great Britain to the bloody and inhuman usurpers of the Roman triumvirate. I too have read the history of those times, and remember well that there were found in those evil days some monsters who courted the favour of the triumvirate, and solicited them to include in the list of the proscribed the names of persons who stood between them and the possession of large estates.
If the author of Junius had lived in the times of the triumvirate, the same baseness of soul that urges him now to abuse that liberty which he enjoys, and like a parricide to draw the dagger against the legislature of his country, would have brought him to the feet of a Lepidus or an Antony, to obtain from his patron the insertion in his bloody list of the name of his father, his brother, or his friend.
I am, Sir, your constant reader, PRO REGE ET LEGE.
PARIS, May 18.
ON the 16th, in the morning, the Dauphiness arrived at Versailles from Chateau de la Muette, where she lay the preceding night; and at one o'clock in the afternoon her marriage was solemnized with the Dauphin in the chapel of Chateau de Versailles, with the usual ceremonies. At night the entire city of Paris was illuminated, there not being a single house without lamps or candles at their windows, or on the walls. A fine firework, that had been prepared on the occasion at Versailles, could not be played off that night, it having rained almost the whole day.
LEGHORN, May 23. Letters from Salonica, dated April 23d, make no mention of a massacre of the Greeks by the Turks and Jews. What gave rise to this false report was that two considerable bodies of Turkish troops, one destined to join the army on the Danube, and the other going to the Morea, were to pass by that place, and that during their march the Christian traders, in order to prevent any disorders among the soldiers, shut up their shops; but that afterwards, when the last letters came away, that city enjoyed a perfect tranquillity, and the merchants continued their several trades and businesses, without the least molestation.
From the WEISSEL, May 13. We have an account from the grand Russian army that they will have entirely passed the Niester about the middle of this month. The Russians will now hasten their operations against the Turks, on every side, viz. General Romanzow on the Danube, General Panin against Bender, General Berg against Crimea, and General
Tottleben against Natolia, whom the fleet at Asof will aid, and afterwards in the Morea, and the head squadron of the Russian fleet in the Archipelago, and against Constantinople itself. Major General Sorich has beaten a corps of Tartars near Bender, in such a manner that they show no desire of serving any more against the Russians.
LONDON, June 13.
AN arch wag milk'd (as they call it) the Duke of Cumberland, at Rochester, of five guineas, saying he came from the bell ringers, who had rung all the morning. The Duke answered, he had not heard them; to which the fellow replied, we can't ring now, as prayers are beginning; soon as they are over we begin again. Long before this he knew the Duke would be gone.
Great interest was made to save two out of the three of the people who were executed last Monday se'nnight for the murder of Mr. Shaw, in the city road. When their friends applied to the Right Hon. Lord North, we are credibly informed his Lordship told them that his Majesty had been deceived in the application for the Kennedys, and that he had signified his royal intention of pardoning no person for murder whose case did not in itself carry with it the strongest reasons for lenity; his Lordship also said that he would not, upon any account, present such a petition as was at that time requested of him.
A few days since came on in the consistory court of Winton, at Doctor's Commons, a cause appealed from the Archdeacon's court of the same diocese, against a clergyman for misbehaviour in his function, which was determined against him. The Bishop of Winchester sat during the whole hearing of the cause in court; and, what is remarkable, the clergyman was suffered to plead his own cause, though it was unprecedented.
A few days ago a young couple, very genteelly dressed, went to be married at St. Clement's Danes, but just as they had got into the church a constable took them both up with a warrant, being charged with theft, on which they were carried before a magistrate, who committed them to Bridewell, to consummate their unfinished nuptials.
June 14. Yesterday the following address, petition, and remonstrance, from the freeholders of the county of Surry, was presented to his Majesty at St. James's, by Sir Francis Vincent, Bart. one of the representatives of that county in Parliament, attended by the Hon. Peter King, Sir Robert Clayton, Sir Joseph Mawbey, Barts. and Benjamin Hayes, Esq.
To the KING's Most Excellent Majesty. The humble ADDRESS, PETITION, and REMONSTRANCE, of the FREEHOLDERS of the county of SURRY.
May it please your Majesty,
WE your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the freeholders of the county of Surry, in full confidence that your Majesty will at length turn a favourable ear to the just complaints of your subjects, beg leave, with all humility, to renew our earnest supplications to your Majesty in behalf of your much injured and afflicted people,
We humbly hope that our strenuous endeavours for the restoration of our constitutional rights will not be deemed inconsistent with our zeal for your Majesty's government, nor our ardent love of liberty contradictory to our dutiful affection for your royal person.
We consider the right of election as coeval with the first forms of government in this country, a right which has been rendered dearer to us by the happy exercise of it at the great era of constitutional liberty, the glorious revolution, in consequence of which your Majesty's royal ancestors were established on the throne of these realms; and we cannot but think that the proceedings respecting the Middlesex election are a flagrant violation of the rights of the people, subversive of all legal liberty, and utterly irreconcileable to every principle of the constitution.
We sincerely lament that any measures should have been taken to discountenance the constitutional mode of complaint to the Throne by petition, as it is one of the most indisputable rights of the subject, and no less the interest of the Prince to encourage than the people to prefer.
Bound as we are by duty, as well as inclination, to support your Majesty, we consider ourselves no less bound to support the constitution, a constitution which has hitherto been preserved by the blood and treasure of our ancestors, and which, in justice to our posterity, at the risk of all that is dear to us, we will transmit, unimpaired, to our descendents.
The present national discontents lead us to look back, with horror, on the general confusion in the last age, which arose from the pernicious counsels of wicked and corrupt Ministers, who, after violating the liberties of the people, slighted their just petitions and remonstrances, and by those means brought on the calamities which at length involved Prince and people in one common ruin.
A brave and free people, possessing the highest notions of liberty and veneration for their privileges, can never be at rest whilst their own free choice of a representative is taken from them. This is the only instance of any man being imposed upon them with a confessed minority of votes. If one man can be so imposed, all may; and we dread the consequences, unless your Majesty shall be pleased to listen to the cries of your people, and relieve them in their present distressed situation.
Deign then, most gracious sovereign, to listen to the earnest remonstrances of a loyal though misrepresented people; remove those Ministers who advised a violation of our privileges, discountenance that overruling influence which has been the secret source of all our grievances, and, by dissolving the present Parliament, afford us an opportunity of returning such representatives as will be equally attentive to the honour of the crown and the rights of the people.
And your Majesty's petitioners shall ever pray, &c. Signed by eleven Gentlemen, in the name of the freeholders, assembled at a county meeting at Guildford, on Wednesday May 30, 1770.
Extract of a letter from a correspondent in Paris.
"To the list of the French fleet which I some time ago sent you, and which you may be assured is exact, you may now add to it 40 others, from 64 to 84 guns, the Duke de Choiseul having purchased that number of the late East India company. The French fleet at this time consists of upwards of 100 sail, which may be ready for the sea in a very short time, and which can be completely manned in the space of a week."
Extract of a letter from the Hague, May 25.
"The last letters from Petersburg advise that the Court has sent orders to General Count Panin to open the campaign with the siege of Bender, by the reduction of that place to be the better enabled to pursue his operations against the Ottoman Porte."
BOSTON, August 6.
BY Captain Packwood, who is arrived at New London from Cape Nichola, which place he left the 4th of July, we learn that since the earthquake at Hispaniola, on the 3d of June, there had been a daily trembling of the earth, not only at Port au Prince and the villages adjacent, but at the Cape, 150 miles distant. That the destruction occasioned by the first shock at Port au Prince surpasses description, and any account of it was forbid by the General to be published there, lest it might too much terrify and discourage the inhabitants, most of whom had taken shelter on board the shipping for near a fortnight after the first shock; but on a seeming probability that the shocks would subside, numbers of them returned to the town, with design to rebuild their habitations. However, on the 20th of the month they had another shock, still more violent than the first, which threw down the only five houses that survived the former, and had so much intimidated the inhabitants that it was thought the town would be entirely abandoned, and another built on a new spot. The town of Port au Prince was computed to contain 2500 houses, and was the seat of government; that since the earthquake it was very sickly there, and they were in the greatest distress imaginable for want of provisions.
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman at New York to his friend in Boston, July 30.
"I had yesterday the pleasure of receiving yours, per post; but what was my astonishment, to find that the merchants of Boston intend to propose a relaxation in the non importation agreement at their next meeting. I do assure you that the defection of New York did not give me so much real concern as I now feel on account of Boston. If the measure you mention is adopted, adieu to American liberty. On the virtue of the Bostonians I thought I could rely. The Philadelphians maintain their agreement inviolate, without the least alteration. But if you relax in the least, the resolutions of all the colonies will be rescinded immediately. It was the danger attendant on the least alteration that made our people so averse to the congress proposed by our merchants. It certainly would have been more consistent for your merchants to have agreed to the proposed congress than now to adopt the measure you mention; for they only proposed a small alteration, which had something specious at least. O my friend, how am I astonished! Can it be possible that the inhabitants of Boston will pattern after New York? If they do, I shall believe that merchants are all alike every where, that they are the pests of society, and will enslave every nation where they get footing. Remember by whom the brave Corsicans were enslaved. As to its being necessary to alter the agreement on account of some articles we cannot do without, it is nothing but mercantile avarice; we can do without them, if we please to do."
A CARD.
"The merchants and traders of the colony of Connecticut present their most respectful compliments to the Gentlemen importers of New York, and beg that they will immediately draw out their accounts, that they may be adjusted and closed, as they are determined to have no farther dealings with them. Such of the importers as have balances in their favour are desired to apply in person for their money, that an opportunity may be given to show them every mark of respect, which their late patriotick conduct justly entitles them to. For this purpose no money will be paid to their attorneys."
NEW YORK, August 13.
LAST week two New York importers, in crossing a brook in New Jersey, in their way to Philadelphia, the bridge sunk under them, and they both were handsomely ducked. How enormous must be the guilt of those who would betray the liberties of the publick, to advance their private fortunes, when even a publick bridge is not able to support the weight of their iniquities! May this be the fate of every wretch who would sell his country for a mess of pottage.

We hear from Connecticut that the tavern keepers throughout that colony, justly incensed at the perfidious conduct of the New York importers, have fixed up a list of their names in all their houses, and have unanimously determined not to entertain or afford them the least succour, aid, or assistance, in passing through that government. A conduct this worthy of imitation in all the other colonies, as it will drive these selfish wretches to the necessity of either changing their names or wearing knapsacks.
A N E C D O T E
A GENTLEMAN who returned lately from Philadelphia, on being asked what the Philadelphians said of the New Yorkers, replied that the former called all the latter who had signed for importation damn'd rascals; but that those who had signed against importation, and yet sent their orders for goods, were doubly damn'd rascals.
What then must those be who have not only signed, but also solemnly protested, against a measure which they are nevertheless determined to assist in carrying into execution?
WILLIAMSBURG, August 30.
To Mess. PURDIE & DIXON.
GENTLEMEN, August 16, 1770. NEXT to the man of genius, who directs his abilities to the improvement of knowledge, and to promote the happiness of mankind, we ought to rank him who generously defends the works and character of such a one from the aspersions of the ignorant and the envious. I have lived many years, and have often, with sorrow, observed the productions of genius, which were calculated for the general advantage of the world, rendered useless by a set of animals who make it their business to decry every thing they cannot understand; and I have too seldom found among men enough of virtue to save these benevolent efforts from falling into contempt. Were these noble characters, who can give to merit its due, and who dare to support it against all opposition, more common, they would still be respectable; but the rarity of them makes them greatly so. It is this that holds up, as objects of love and admiration, B. E. and The Customer, the vindicators of injured worth, the friends of learning, and enemies of false and impertinent wit. I wrote the remarks upon the last year's comet, which the ignorance or ill nature of A. B. induced him to ridicule. I confess I differed greatly in my sentiments from philosophers, both ancient and modern; but in this I only followed the example of other great men, who chose to walk in a path of their own making. A. B.'s notions were too confined and illiberal to approve of my deviations. He was for strictly adhering, I suppose, to the chimeras of Newton, and had not sense enough to perceive that his hypotheses were now too old to please. But obstinacy will, sooner or later, meet with its desert. B. E. has lately exposed, in a most masterly manner, the superficial petulancy of that author, and thus has done me a kindness, which something within me (what this was the world will easily comprehend) forbade me to do for myself. This Gentleman, let me call him my successor, besides avenging me upon mine enemies, has obliged the learned with many hints, which I dare say they will find useful; and has been pleased, in farther honour, to copy after me both in his subject and in his manner of treating it. He has chosen a comet to write upon, and his observations are unlike what any other mortal would have made, except myself. I should have included The Customer, but the fire which shines through his performance too plainly shows his youth and inexperience in such lofty matters. However, I would by no means be thought to undervalue him. I have already professed my high esteem, and shall yet give him a fuller testimony of it. I do invite him and B. E. to join in a league with me, for the advancement of literature, and the defence of serviceable hints against A. B. and all who enlist under his banners. As senior, I shall reserve for myself the first discussion of every curious subject; and as the wisest may sometimes err, and the most perfect compositions suffer ridicule, to B. E. I assign the office of defending me, with the liberty of advancing something of his own. The Customer's great talent seems to lie in approbation. This therefore shall be his province: When I write, and B. E. defends me against slanderers, let The Customer say I was most maliciously attacked; that B. E. utterly confounded my adversaries, and, besides, held the second place to me in ingenuity and invention. But let him not presume hereafter, as he did in his first performance, to require complete satisfaction of us in every point, or the proofs of all our assertions, as certain circumstances may render those things altogether inconvenient. Let him be satisfied that while truth will serve our turn we will have recourse to it, but when insufficient we will think it no great crime to help ourselves out with fiction, which is certainly as allowable in us, who labour for the benefit of mankind, as in poets, who design only to amuse. If my friends will come into my scheme, and will prosecute it with unanimity, I have not the least doubt but that, in a short time, Virginia will acknowledge her obligations to us, and foreign countries respect us as men sent down from heaven to remove those obstacles which bar the way to science, and to raise her to the very pinnacle of glory. C—R.
Entered in the upper district of James river.
 August 18. Molly, James Barron, from the lower district, with European goods.  23. Lunn & Lloyd, Robert Necks, from the lower district, with European goods.  28. Alston, John Clifton, from Africa, with 143 slaves. 
Cleared.
 August 23. Katie, James Clarke, for Greenock, with 456 bds. of tobacco, 1 hhd. of skins, 5000 staves, 6000 shingles, 40 pine rafters, 1000 hoops, 10 tons of pig iron, and 1 hhd. of rum. 
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PETERSBURG, August 20, 1770.
ON the morning of the 11th instant was missed (believed to be stolen) from Stephen Hamlin's plantation, four miles from Peter's bridge, over Nottoway river, Sussex, a bright bay horse, except one fore foot white, 4 feet 9 or 10 inches high, has a hanging mane and switched tail, is branded on the left buttock WB, and has been lately shod. At the same time a small sorrel horse was missed. They, if strayed, it is supposed will make in company for Meherrin or Brunswick, where they were bred. Whoever delivers the bay horse to Matthew Jones, at Peter's bridge, to Glaister Hunnicutt in Sussex, or to me at Edward Stabler's in Petersburg, will be paid 20s. if found within 20 miles, and on proof of greater distance, in proportion. BENJAMIN RUSSEL.
To be SOLD at PUBLICK AUCTION, on Monday the 10th of September, on the premises,
THE dwelling-house at present occupied by the subscriber, which is very well calculated for publick business, being in the centre of the city, and every convenience to it for a tavern. There are fine cellars, an exceeding good stable for thirty horses, with a large fodder loft, a very good kitchen, with a room adjoining, a large and strong smokehouse, at one end of it a place for people to sleep in, an excellent well of water, and a good garden. There is likewise a very good shop, on the main street, which might be converted into three or four lodging rooms; and there is a cellar under it. The house might be made much larger, at a very trifling expense, by taking in a store, at one end of it, which rents for 20 l. a year. Upon paying 100 l. in October next, the purchaser will have two years credit for the remainder.
At the same time will be sold sundry household and kitchen furniture, particularly a number of very good beds and bedding; on credit, until April, for all sums above 5 l. the purchasers giving bond and security.
The above sale being made in consequence of my resolution immediately to discontinue tavern keeping, and to have my affairs settled, I desire every person who is indebted to me to make payment in October ensuing, as, after that time, all accounts due to me a lawyer will have the collecting of.
WILLIAMSBURG, August 30, 1770. THOMAS CRAIG.
WILLIAMSBURG, August 29th, 1770. AS William Willis, gunsmith, is gone from this city, and has left some GUNS and GUN LOCKS with me, the owners may have them on paying for the repairs; and if not very soon taken away, I shall put them up at vendue. THOMAS BRAMMER.
THE sale of SLAVES advertised to be at Mecklenburg court in September is put off until the 27th of that month, when they will be sold for ready money, or merchants notes payable in OCTOBER General Court. 2
To Mess. PURDIE & DIXON.
GENTLEMEN, August 16, 1770. AN advertisement in your paper of the 2d instant, signed John G. Frazier, not a little surprised me. A man's publishing to the world what he himself knows, and numbers can prove, to be false, must proceed from what Mr. Frazier possesses in a very eminent degree, so high an opinion of himself as to think his ipse dixit will alone bear down the opposition of truth, justice, and reason.
Some time in the year 1768 Mr. Frazier did execute a bond to me for 30 l. which bond I now hold, because I did not like his way of discharging it, which was as follows. He was at that time my clerk, and in the account of his expenses I find myself charged with ball tickets, clubs for dinners 24 s. clubs for suppers 18 s. arrack punch in large quantities; and to show his munificence, at the bottom of the account 20 s. ordered the tavern servants. One account of Mr. A. Hay's amounted to upwards of 14 l. for little more than a week, when I had paid Spurr 3 l. for his board. Finding these charges intolerable, and very illly satisfied with such goods for payment, I was determined to dock this account; and to avoid any dispute with such a man as Frazier, I put the account to two Gentlemen to settle, and left it entirely to their discretion, giving Mr. Frazier the advantage of my absence to put what gloss he pleased upon his accounts, if any thing could possibly be said for them. But a stop was soon put to the settlement, by his taking his accounts from the Gentlemen, without my interfering one way or other; since which time I have never (that I remember) heard a word from Mr. Frazier about settling, until a few days since he called at my house, on his way to the Augusta springs, and told me he would be glad to settle our accounts on his return. My answer was, that I should be ready. As this is the truth of the case between Mr. Frazier and myself, I cannot conceive what could induce him to send you such an advertisement, unless it is his inordinate desire to appear in publick; and being unhappily prevented from personally doing so for some time past, he has taken this method to acquaint his friends he still exists, though incog.
I hope the clear waters of Augusta will remove the muddy particles that clog the operations of his brain, that he may, on his return, see and think with more perspicuity than to publish fallacies to the world, on any motives whatsoever.
I am, Gentlemen, Your most humble servant, THOMAS MOORE.
Just arrived from AFRICA. 200 choice SLAVES
in the brig ASTON, John Clifton commander; the sale of which will begin at Bermuda Hundred, on Thursday the 20th of September, and continue until all are sold.
JOHN LAWRENCE, WILLIAM CALL, } and Co. N. B. Merchants notes will be received in payment.
IF Elizabeth Holland, daughter of William Holland, heretofore of James river, in Virginia, shipwright, and of Agnes his wife (and which said Elizabeth Holland is supposed to have lived in or near New York, or on or near James river, or York town, in Virginia, in North America) be living, or (if dead) hath left any issue, the, or such issue, may hear of some thing greatly to her or their advantage, by applying to Alexander Colden, Esq; postmaster at New York, or Mr. John Dixon, postmaster at Williamsburg, in Virginia; and any person who knows of the death of the said Elizabeth Holland, when she died, and whether she left any and what issue, is requested to give information thereof to the said Alexander Colden, Esq; or Mr. John Dixon.
STRAYED, or STOLEN, from Colonel Edmund Pendleton's, on Tuesday the 28th of December 1763, a very dark bay gelding, about 4 feet 6 or 7 inches high, 5 years old the 10th of May last, shows a little of the English blood, and was just broke to pace, trot, and gallop, very well, when lost; he has a mealy nose, some white on his belly, a small star in his forehead, one of his hind feet white, and some white on the other, a scar on the hock joint, cut by a plow when a colt, which appears as though it had been broke, and branded on the near buttock I G, very high up, and much blotted. Whoever conveys the said horse to me, or gives such intelligence as I may get him again, shall have 20 s. reward, besides what the law allows; and if stolen, on conviction of the thief, 5 l. paid by the subscriber, near Caroline courthouse. NATHANIEL PENDLETON.
On Monday the 24th of September next will be SOLD at Mr. Robert Cuningham's, in Mecklenburg county, for ready money, bills of exchange, or merchants notes payable at the ensuing OCTOBER General Court.
SIX very likely Virginia born NEGRO fellows. And on Monday the 1st of October next will be sold, for ready money, at the house of Mr. George Jefferson, in Pittsylvania county, 60 head of cattle, 12 horses, and sundry household furniture; conveyed, by deed of trust, from said Jefferson, to HENRY DELONY.
MECKLENBURG, August 16, 1770.
THE above NEGROES would have been sold the 15th instant, as formerly advertised, had I not a fine crop of tobacco growing that would have been lost, and will now probably be saved by delaying the sale. Those that intend becoming purchasers may depend on the slaves, and other effects, being sold, agreeable to the above advertisement. G. JEFFERSON.
THE subscriber, lately from Norfolk, who now resides at the late dwelling-house of Mr. James Blair, deceased, on James river, Prince George county, near Westover, repairs and cleans WATCHES and all sorts of CLOCK WORK, and will wait upon Gentlemen at their houses to do their clocks, at more reasonable rates than any ever yet done in Virginia, with some small branches in the JEWELLERY way. Those Gentlemen and Ladies who will please to favour him with their custom may depend on having their work done expeditiously, and in the best manner, as he has lately imported all necessaries suitable to the branches above mentioned. HUGH HILL.
For, SALE,
TWO hundred and fifty acres of land in Pettsworth parish, Gloucester county, within a mile and a half of York river, whereon are houses, &c. and cleared ground for six hands; it is a fine range for cattle. This plantation may be entered upon in December, and the money to be paid by the 25th of October. Also 200 acres of land in Ware parish, being part of the tract on which the subscriber lives, within a mile and a half of York river, and opposite to the mouth of Queen's creek. Likewise 350 acres of land in Kingston parish, within a mile of East warehouse, and half a mile of a branch of York river. These two tracts may be entered on immediately. Any person inclined to purchase the above lands may depend on having a great bargain of them; by applying to JOHN HUGHES.
STRAYED, or STOLEN, out of Mrs. Todd's pasture, near Todd's bridge, about the 1st of June last, a slender made black horse, with a star in his forehead, one or both of his hind feet white, paces, trots, and gallops, very well, and branded on the near buttock T S. Whoever conveys the said horse to me, at Todd's bridge, shall have 20 s. reward. ADAM BENNETT.
AGREEABLE to the directions of the associators, at their last general meeting, I appointed the members for each county to carry into execution the plan that had been formed; and the appointments, with the number of papers allotted for each county, were sent by such conveyances as we thought might be relied upon. But as, notwithstanding all the care that could be taken, some of them may have mi-carried, I must request those Gentlemen who have not received them to let me know of it, that they may be immediately supplied with others. PEYTON RANDOLPH.
August 23, 1770.
I INTEND for ENGLAND immediately. JOHN LOVELAND.
To be SOLD, on the 4 Thursday in next month, on the premises,
A TRACT of LAND lying in Spotsylvania county, containing by estimation 225 acres, whereon Major William Robinson lately lived; also several likely Negroes, some stock, and household furniture. Six months credit will be allowed for one half, and twelve months for the remainder, the purchasers giving bond and security to the administrators of John Robinson, Esq; deceased.
To be SOLD, on Wednesday the 21st of November next, to the highest bidder, on the premises,
THREE thousand acres of choice LAND in Culpeper county, on the Robison river, late the property of Colonel Philip Rootes. For the convenience of purchasers, the land is laid off into lots, and will be either sold in that manner or altogether. An undoubted title will be made to the purchaser; and twelve months credit will be allowed, upon bond, with approved security, being given to the Gentleman that is to attend the sale. 9
WHEREAS some persons, either to colour their parsimony, or from an unacquaintedness with such works, have endeavoured to depreciate my map of Virginia, by magnifying some inaccuracies therein, which regard either the situation of some Gentlemen's seats or some inconsiderable water courses, I judged it necessary to inform the publick that as the subscriptions could not enable me to be more accurate, not having had any assistance from the legislature, so, in general, the map may be deemed a very good one, when it is considered that the out lines of the colony, as far as the Allegheny ridge, together with the rivers and county lines, excepting some of those of Nansemond, Norfolk, and Princess Anne, were either surveyed, at my charge, or draughts of them, furnished me by Gentlemen who informed me they might be depended on; and seeing these are the most essential parts of a map, as all good judges will allow, I hope the impartial world will, upon this information, esteem them as they ought, especially when it is considered that all the most eminent men throughout the colony have encouraged the undertaking, and purchased a great many maps, and that I have been at great expense and pains to execute a work the first of its kind that ever was attempted on the continent of North America. JOHN HENRY.

POETS CORNER.
The VANITY of WEALTH.
NO more thus, brooding o'er yon heap, With avarice painful vigils keep; Still unenjoy'd the present store, Still endless sighs are breath'd for more. O quit the shadow, catch the prize, Which not all India's treasure buys! To purchase heaven has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour? In life, can love be bought with gold? Are friendship's pleasures to be sold? No, all that's worth a wish, a thought, Fair virtue gives, unbrib'd, unbought. Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind, Let nobler views engage thy mind. With science tread the wonderous way, Or learn the muse's moral lay; In social hours indulge thy soul, Where mirth and temperance mix the bowl; To virtuous love resign thy breath, And be by blessing beauty blest'd. Thus taste the feast by nature spread, Ere youth, and all its joys, are fled; Come taste, with me, the balm of life, Secure from pomp, and wealth, and strife. I boast what e'er for man was meant, In health, and STELLA, and content; And scorn, oh! let that scorn be thine, Mere things of clay, that dig the mine.
To be SOLD, for ready money, to the highest bidder, on Monday the 17th of September, at Alexandria, being Fairfax court day, SEVENTEEN valuable SLAVES , consisting of men, women, boys, and girls. Among the number are three valuable forgesmen, a sawer, a Collier, a blacksmith, a carpenter, a miller, and a baker. There will be sold, at the same time and place, a tract of land lying on Pimmett's run, near the falls of Potomack, containing about 400 acres, settled with four tenements, two of which are well improved with buildings. There is a good deal of meadow ground on the run, and bending on the same for two miles, well watered and timbered. The above slaves and land are part of the estate of John Ballentine, and sold to satisfy a debt due to 4 HECTOR ROSS.
I HAVE lost out of my pocket, or had taken from me, a 5 l. treasury note, numbered 2059, having taken down the number of that, with others, at the time I received it, but omitted to enter, and do not know, the date. However, as I believe there were only two emissions of bills of that denomination, of so high a number, one June 8, 1757, and the other October 12, 1758, I conclude it to be of one of those dates, and request the favour of those to whom a bill of that number and value may be offered to make inquiry, and endeavour to trace its progress since the 31st of last month, when I received it, and did not miss it until the 9th instant, and to give intelligence of any discovery to me in Carolina , or to Mr. Edmund Pendleton. I will give a reward of 15 s. to any person that, having found the said bill, will restore it to 21 JOHN BURK.
For BRISTOL, THE ship CÆSAR , William Wood commander, now lying in Rappahannock river, will take in tobacco, on liberty of consignment, to any merchant in Bristol, at 3 l. a tun. All Gentlemen inclined to ship are desired to deliver their notes, orders, to Mr. James Mills or Mr. George Lorimer at Urbanna, Mr. David Jameson at York, Mr. John Smith at Hanover town, Mr. John Glassell at Fredericksburg, Messrs. Humphrey and John Hill, or to the Captain on board.
FREDERICKSBURG fairs are altered, by a late act of Assembly, from June and October, to May and September. The ensuing fair will be on the 24th of the month, and on that, or the following day, the inhabitants, and neighbouring Gentlemen, propose giving a genteel purse for a horse race. Particulars will be advertised in this paper.
BLANDFORD, August 7, 1770.
AS I intend for Britain early in the spring, the management of the store kept by me at this place will be given up to Mr. David Russell, on the first of September, from whom the customers will meet with the same good treatment as formerly. In order to prevent disputes (as I shall necessarily be absent near twelve months) I request the favour of all who are indebted to the concern to come and settle their accounts between this and Christmas; and those whose debts have been of long standing, it is hoped, will either pay them off, or give bond, payable on demand, for their balances, which will prevent unnecessary trouble to themselves and CHARLES DUNCAN.
TAKEN up, in Brunswick, a bay mare, about 4 feet 7 inches high, appears to have been worked, and is branded on the near buttock O. Potted, and appraised to 6 l. JOHN MACLIN.
To be SOLD to the highest bidder, upon the premises, on Thursday the 27th of September, if fair, otherwise next fair day,
THE valuable TRACT of LAND called Tukeycoman's , on Pamunkey river, in King William county, containing 600 acres of high land, and about 1000 acres of very valuable firm marsh, lying opposite to Holt's, which is a place much frequented by shipping, and within 2 or 300 yards of a fine landing on the said river to build. The place is capable of great improvements, and the situation is beautiful. One third of the purchase money to be paid in April next, and the remainder that time twelvemonth. A good title will be made to the purchaser, upon giving bond, and approved security, to the mortgagees. 6
THE executors of the late Colonel Charles Carter having very great reason to believe that his Majesty's assent to the last act of assembly, empowering them to sell a part of the testator's lands, held in fee simple, for the discharge of his debts and legacies, will be very soon obtained, in order for their confirming such sales, they hereby give notice that the lands upon Broad run and Kettle run , formerly advertised, will be exposed to sale at Captain Nevil's , in Fauquier county, on Monday the 1st of October. Note, the executors are compelled to demand ready money for the sales, or to make them upon a very short credit upon good security. 7 THE EXECUTORS.
RUN away from Stratford, in Westmoreland, the 26th of July last, an indentured servant man named THOMAS BENTLEY. He is an Englishman, about six feet high, wears his own hair, which is light brown, is pale faced, has an impudent way of talking, and is by profession a coachman. When he went away he had on an olnabrug coat, jacket, and breeches, the cuffs of the coat red linen. He carried with him white and brown thread stockings, two pair of shoes, one English, the other country made, a sailor's hat, bound with black worsted serret, two shirts, and sundry other good clothes. Whoever apprehends the said servant, and conveys him to me, shall have 30 s. reward; if taken out of the colony 3 l. besides what the law allows. PHILIP LUDWELL LEE.
Just arrived from AFRICA, 240 choice SLAVES in the snow YANIMAREW, Thomas Atkinson master; the sale of which will begin at Bermuda Hundred on Thursday the 30th inst. and continue until all are sold. — Merchants notes, and orders, will be received. CARTER & TRENT.
For SALE, THE lease of a STORE and WAREHOUSE in Petersburg, extremely well situated for trade, being close to the tobacco warehouses, and convenient either for dry goods or wet. The terms may be known by applying to 6 WILLIAM BEATTIE.
On Tuesday the 4th of September will be sold, at publick vendue,
THE ship MOLLY , burthen about five hundred hogheads, with her sails, rigging, tackle, and apparel, as she now lies in this harbour. She has good accommodation for passengers, and is a remarkable fast sailer. Six months credit will be allowed, the purchaser giving bond, with security, to GILCHRIST & TAYLOR. NORFOLK, August 13, 1770.
LOST in ALBEMARLE county, leading towards Hanover town, a promissory note for 55 l. by Rowland Pride for Joel Hill, payable by Mr. John Tabb, in October General Court ensuing. This is therefore to forewarn the said Gentleman from paying the above to any person but myself, or my order; and likewise to forewarn any person from receiving the same. HOLT RICHESON. N. B. Any person sending the said note to me, in King William county, shall be sufficiently rewarded.
THERE is in the jail of New Kent a Negro man called SILL , who says he belongs to one Abraham Smith, not far from Petersburg, but cannot tell the name of the county. He is a young fellow, and though outlandish speaks pretty good English. The owner is desired to send for him, and pay charges, to ROBERT CLEMENS WARREN.
RUN away from the subscriber, in Cumberland county, two mulatto servant men. SAMUEL HOWELL, about 28 years old, well set, about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high; he is a sensible fellow and a good fawer. SIMON HOWELL, brother to Samuel, about 25 years of age, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, has a thin village, and sharp chin. They went off in their common labouring dress, and took no other clothes with them that I can discover. They are both bound to 31 years of age, and no doubt will endeavour to pass for free. Samuel lately brought a suit for his freedom in the General Court, which was determined against him. Whoever delivers the said servants to me, about two miles from Michaux's ferry, shall receive a reward of 6 l. if taken in Virginia, and if out of the colony 10 l. WADE NETHERLAND.
STRAYED, or STOLEN, about the middle of May last, a small gray horse, 4 years old last spring, about 4 feet 6 inches high, gallops very well, and branded on the shoulder and buttock S. He was bred in Culpeper. Whoever conveys him to me, in King and Queen, shall have 20 s. reward. RICHARD TUNSTALL.
STOLEN, or STRAYED, from my plantation near Williamburg, a dark bay mare, about 4 years old, about 13 hands and a half high, with a hanging mane and switch tail, has a small star in her forehead, a white speck in one of her eyes, and branded on the near buttock with a dot. Whoever conveys the said mare to me shall have 20 s. reward. GABRIEL MAUPIN.
TAKEN up, in Charlotte, a sorrel horse, about 4 feet 6 inches high, appears to be very old, has a snip on his nose, some saddle spots, paces and trots, and branded on the near buttock with a heart. Potted, and appraised to 3 l. JOHN BARKSDILL.
TAKEN up, in Orange, a chestnut sorrel mare, with a star in her forehead, branded on the near shoulder W, and on the buttock M. BENJAMIN POWELL.
TAKEN up, in Hanover, a bay horse, about 4 feet 7 inches high, with a hanging mane and switch tail, and branded on the near buttock IC. Potted, and appraised to 7 l. HENRY ADKINS.
HANOVER town, JULY 25, 1770.
THE subscriber having discontinued the store kept by him in this town, requests all those who are indebted to him to settle their accounts immediately, by payment or otherwise. This advertisement, together with the indulgence he has already given, will, he hopes, save further application, as all those who do not comply with it may expect to have their accounts put into an attorney's hands, without other notice, or respect of persons. He has a quantity of goods, which he will sell on reasonable terms, for ready money or short credit. Tf. JOHN SMITH.
RUN away from the subscriber, some time in the month of January last, a very likely Negro fellow named CÆSAR. He is about 30 years of age, near 6 feet high, straight and well made, of a yellow complexion; is a cunning smooth tongued sensible fellow, has a remarkable good countenance, and talks much, especially when in liquor, to which he is pretty much addicted. He carried with him several suits of clothes, but do not remember any except those he went off in, which were a blue frieze coat, a spotted flannel jacket, and buckskin breeches. Whoever apprehends the said slave, and delivers him to me, at Petersburg, shall receive 10 l. reward, if taken in this colony, and 20 l. if in any other. Tf. NEIL BUCHANAN, sen.
To be SOLD to the highest bidder, at Halifax courthouse, on the 20th of September next, being court day,
A TRACT of land in said county, lying upon the branches of Dan river, whereon John M c Michael formerly lived, containing upwards of 800 acres. There are several improvements upon it, in particular a very good grist mill; or might be made so, at a small expense. The soil of the land is good, either for corn or tobacco. The time of payment will be agreed on at the day of sale. 4 NEIL BUCHANAN, sen.
To be SOLD to the highest bidder, by virtue of a deed of trust, on Friday the 7th of September next, at the plantation of William Simmons, in Northampton county, North Carolina,
THE said plantation, containing about 800 acres of land, lying upon Roanoke river, within nine miles of Halifax town, on which are all convenient houses for cropping, with cleared ground sufficient to work eight hands, and a valuable fishing place. At the same time will be sold, for ready money, the flocks of cattle, horses, hogs, and sheep. On Tuesday the 11th of September will be sold at Mr. Moses Myrick's, in Bute county, a valuable tract of land in said county, adjoining the said Myrick's, containing 1360 acres; and on Saturday the 15th of September will be sold at Mr. Thomas Person's, in Granville county, a tract of land adjoining the said Person's land, containing 700 acres. Credit will be allowed the purchasers of the above lands until the 10th day of April next, upon bond, with approved security, being given to the subscribers, who will attend at the different places upon the above mentioned days, if fair; if not, first fair day. On Wednesday the 10th of October next will be exposed to sale, at the plantation in Surry county whereon the above William Simmons now lives, the said plantation, lying within three miles of Cabin Point, containing 1200 acres of land, with a good dwelling-house, and all other necessary outhouses, thereon, a good stream of water, on which is a grist mill, a large quantity of meadow land, and exceeding good peach and apple orchards; and at the same time will be sold the whole stock of cattle, horses, hogs, and sheep, with all the plantation utensils, and three very good stills of different sizes. The time of payment for the land, and entry thereon, will be made known at the day of sale. Credit will be given the purchasers of the stocks, for all sums above 40 s. until the 10th day of April next, upon bond and security being given to 5 CABIN POINT, JAMES BELSCHE. July 27th, 1770. JAMES BUCHANAN.
Pursuant to an act of Assembly, on Monday the 8th of October next, will be exposed for sale, on the premises,
TWO thousand seven hundred and forty acres of LAND, belonging to the estate of WILLIAM ARMISTEAD, Esq; deceased, lying in the county of Middlesex, on the rivers Rappahannock and Pianketank. The land will be laid off in lots, as may best suit the purchasers. Six months credit will be allowed for one half the purchase money, and twelve months for the remainder, on giving bond, with approved security, to Tf RALPH WORMELEY, WILL. CHURCHILL, PHIL. L. GRYMES, } Trustees.
N. B. The trustees may be treated with at any time before the day of sale, at their respective dwelling-houses, in the county aforesaid.
The subscriber would sell, or exchange for back lands,
SIX thousand acres of exceeding fine GRAIN LAND, in the county of Surry, contiguous to Cabin Point, a place of great trade, on which is a dwelling-house 40 by 18, with all necessary outhouses, also a mill worth annually 100 l. Any person inclined to purchase, or exchange, may see the land by applying to the subscriber, on the premises. Tf CHARLES HARRISON.
For SALE, A PLANTATION, situated in Nansemond county, distance from Suffolk seven miles, from Norfolk twenty seven. It contains 179 acres, one third of which is not yet cleared, has on it a very good two story brick house, with outhouses proper. Any one inclined to purchase may know the terms by applying to James Murdaugh in Nansemond, or Bryan Cresbie in Portsmouth. Tf
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