The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1773-05-20 00:00:00

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R O M E, February 20.
THE Pope has sent a Brief to Cardinal Malvezzi, Archbishop of Bologna, empowering him to visit the Houses and Colleges of the Jesuits in his Diocese, and to make such Regulations with Respect to them as His Eminency shall think fit, particularly to secularise all such of the Members of that Society as shall apply for that Purpose.
The Storm on the 2d Instant was the greatest ever felt on the Coasts of the Adriatick, in the Memory of Man. Upwards of twenty Feluccas and Barks, together with all their Crews, have been lost on the Occasion. A large English Vessel, which was loading Sulphur in the Port of Ceranatico, shared the same Fate. The Hurricane, during the preceding Night, threw down almost all the Chimneys, and some of the Works of the Fort, at Ferrara.
February 24. On Friday, at about two o'Clock in the Night, there arose an impetuous Wind, succeeded by a Shock of an Earthquake, which was felt at Albani, Rocca di Papa, Rocca Priora, and other neighbouring Places. This was followed by another, equally inconsiderable, at four o'Clock; but at eight, there was one so violent that the terrified Inhabitants quitted their Houses. Nevertheless, little Damage has been done.
LIEGE, March 15. We learn that there had been, in the Beginning of this Month, an Insurrection at Aix la Chapelle, on Account of the foreign enlisting Parties. The Populace severely treated some Prussian Officers, and drove them from the Place, though not without much Up-roar and Confusion.
HAGUE, March 2. We have learned here that an English Ship has failed so far as to the 84th Degree north, consequently was not more than six Degrees from the Pole. The Sea at this Latitude was found calm, free from Ice, and might be navigated with the greatest Safety. We are assured, that in Consequence of this Essay, which is most certainly a Fact, some English Gentlemen (among whom is Mr. Banks, already known by his Voyages) are determined to sail this Year towards the Pole, from whence they intend to attempt to sail westward towards America, and particularly to try to gain the Coasts of California. If another Nation, equally anxious for the Glory of Discoveries, should attempt to terminate the Voyage of Baron de Benyowski by the Way of Kamtschatka, two Passages might be discovered instead of one, and there may probably be found two Routes to the Indies by the North, as there are already two by the South, one by the Cape of Good Hope, and the other by the Way of Cape Horn.
L O N D O N, March 3.
SUNDAY Mr. Blanch, Corn Chandler, in the Park, Southwark, turned out two Pigeons at Windsor to fly to London, which he laid 20 Guineas they performed in an Hour; one of them came back in 48 Minutes, and the other in 53.
There is now living in the Village of Coomer, in the Parish of Ellesmere, in Shropshire, one William Birch, a Tailor, upwards of 70 Years old, who some Time ago was quite bald on the fore Part of his Head, and what Hair he had was gray; but his Head is now fresh grown over with black Hair, and he has got a new Set of Teeth.
The last Letters from the Continent assure us, that the Triple Alliance in the North has invited the Elector of Saxony to the Crown of Poland, and even offered to guarantee it to his Posterity, provided he consents to a Ratification of their Claims, and assists them in suppressing the Confederacies of the Polish Nobility.
The more Children a Man has in Holland, the richer he is; the more Children a Man has in England, the poorer he is. The People of Birmingham, indeed, are a happy Exception to this Remark against us, and make their little Ones earn a Subsistence at the same Age in which little Ones are learning Vice through the Streets of every other large Town in the Kingdom.
A speedy Reconciliation will certainly take Place between a great Personage and his Brothers; the Plan is already formed for that Purpose, and put in Execution. The Duke and Duchesses of Northumberland are the Principals in bringing about this salutary Business.
Very great Opposition was expected to take Place against the Bill presented by two American Agents, at the Bar of the Lower House yesterday, for establishing Mints for Coining at New York and Philadelphia.
An ingenious Foreigner, a Native of Hamburg, now in Town, is employed in making a very curious Piece of Mechanism, being a Repeating Watch composed entirely of wooden Materials; and he has engaged, that, when finished, it shall not exceed the Bulk of a common double cased Silver one.
On Sunday last a Fellow got into the House of a Dissenting Clergyman in Snow Fields, Southwark, while the Family and Servants were at Meeting, and secreted himself in one of the Chimneys. When Service was over, a Maid Servant came home and lighted a Fire, in the Grace of the Chimney where the Man had concealed himself; soon after which she heard a violent Explosion, and coming into the Room, to see what the Cause of it was, she found the Body of the Man lying on the Hearth quite dead. On examining his Pockets, there were found one loaded Pistol, and another that had been discharged, and which was the Cause of his Death.
Of late Years, there hardly ever was a Time so barren of News as the present. In the Middle of the Winter Season, when Politicks are generally alive, and the Conversation of the Town used to be so taken up with different Subjects, and it was hardly possible to say which most deserved or engaged the Attention, we find that a single Duel is dwelt on for six Weeks, a Cuffing Bout has been a double nine Days Wonder, and a Puppet Show and two wooden Tragedies are all that now offer themselves as Food for the Loquacious.
March 6. The Duchesses of Gloucester is about five Months advanced in her Pregnancy; her Royal Highness continues in perfect good Health, and whether she is brought to Bed of a Prince or Princess, the Event will necessarily be not a little mortifying to the Court, in the present disagreeable State of Disunion amongst the Royal Family.
We are informed that the Remembrance of the unhappy Disagreements in the late Reign, between George II. and his Son Frederick, was the Cause of putting an End to the usual Addresses of the Ancient Britons to the present Prince of Wales. Though his Royal Highness is but a Child, he will be of Age in a few Years; and attaching so large a Body as the Principality, in a Manner exclusively to him, might be attended with very disagreeable Consequences, especially if at his Entrance into Manhood he should unfortunately lend his Ear to evil Counsellors.
An Expression of the Bishop of Osnaburg's, when Jonas, the Slight-of-Hand Man, was lately diverting the Royal Children, is talked of with much Pleasure at St. James's. Jonas, it seems, had exhibited many dexterous Feats, with which the Children were highly delighted. At last the Bishop, bursting into a loud Laugh, exclaimed, "Why, Jonas, I fancy you could conjure People's Heads away; and if you will only take off my Brother George's, who stands greatly in my Light, I shall be highly obliged to you."
Extract of a Letter from Warsaw, February 22.
The Accounts from Bucharest contradict each other every Post. Sometimes they say the Negotiations are broke off, and at other Times they represent that there is great Hopes of a speedy Peace; adding, at the same Time, that there are only some Points relative to the Crimea to be settled. It seems pretty clear that we shall not be able to form a proper judgment of this Affair till the Expiration of the Armistice,
which will be on the 21st of March next; and, in the mean Time, the formidable Preparations which are making both in Russia and Constantinople do not presage an approaching Peace. On the other Hand, we learn that the French Ambassador at Vienna has declared that his Court is preparing to assist the King of Sweden to the utmost, and to support that Monarch in all his Rights and lawful Pretensions."
Extract of a Letter from Vienna, February 24.
Various Reports are now circulating amongst the Politicians of this City, respecting the Intentions of the Emperor towards the Turks. The great Preparations making, and the Number of Men he is raising in the Provinces nearest the Frontiers, is a strong Presumption that some grand Design is in View. At Buda, a fine Camp is now forming of 50,000 Men, and new Fortifications are now building to render that important Fortress (if possible) entirely impregnable. Most of the Troops (except those immediately necessary for the Maintenance of Garrisons) are ordered out of the Hereditary Dominions into the three Frontier Provinces of Sclavonia, Servia, and Croatia, where they are to form several Camps."
By a Letter from Paris, we are told that a Lady belonging to the Court having lately represented to the Royal Family the Misfortunes of a military Gentleman who was out of Employment, and had an infirm and helpless Mother to maintain, was a few Days after most agreeably entertained with the Account that the Dauphiness (whose Virtues are adored) had sent the Officer the Uniform of his Regiment, with a Lieutenant's Commission in one Pocket, and 100 Louisdors in the other, besides a Gold Box and Watch, which he found in the Waistcoat Pockets.
There are 260 English Horses in the Prince of Conti's Stables at Chantilly.
March 10. His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester was present among other Persons of Distinction at the Rehearsal of Mr. Foote's Puppet Show, on Saturday Noon. The House received him with three separate Shouts of Applause, which his Royal Highness returned in the politest Manner.
Extract of a Letter from Warsaw, March 1.
A Paper has been lately handed about in this Metropolis, and in most Parts of Poland, which is paid the highest Attention to, as it clearly and forcibly invalidates the futile Claim on which the tyrannical Prince the King of Prussia has seized the most valuable Part of the Polish Dominions. It deduces the Validity of the Right which Poland has, not only to Regal, but to Ducal Prussia, from which the King draws his Title, and with all the persuasive Eloquence of Truth exposes the tyrannous and cruel Ingratitude of writing from the Poles a Country which was their's by the most ancient and justifiable Property. As the Heads of this Manifesto are not, by any Means, uninteresting, and may not prove disagreeable, I shall communicate them to you in as concise a Manner as possible. It begins as far back as the Time of Hermanus, Grand Master of the Knights of the Teutonic Order, who removed, with all the Knights, from the Holy Land into Germany, and to him the Emperor Frederick XI. and Pope Honorius III. about the Year 1230, bestowed the Province of Prussia as a Pagan Country, though it was then in Possession of the Poles, who had before been converted to Christianity. (An Observation is here made of the Absurdity of such a Grant, as entirely opposite to all Laws human and divine.) The Knights accordingly expelled the Natives, peopled the Country with Germans, and built the City of Marienburg in the Year 1244, which they made the Residence of the Grand Master, and the Capital of their Conquests; and from thence carried War into Livonia, Lithuania, and many other Countries, though long before inhabited by Christians, and consequently out of the Pope's Grant. The Poles, however, constantly anxious for their Liberties, and the most strenuous Enemies to Encroachments and arbitrary Power, proved formidable Enemies to them, and at last reduced them to an entire Subjection to the Polish Republick. Albert, the 34th Grand Master, refusing to do Homage to the Polish Monarch, was brought to the extreme Verge of Distress by the Troops of Poland, and was at last obliged to hold his Territories as a Vassal of Poland, on Condition of being made Hereditary Duke of Prussia; and was thereupon created the first Hereditary Duke of that Part of the Country now called Ducal Prussia. The Father of the present King of Prussia, in the Year 1663, by some Means procured himself to be acknowledged, by the Poles, independent Sovereign of Prussia, upon this Condition, that upon the Failure of his Issue Ducal Prussia should return to the Dominion of Poland, and become a Fief of that Crown. But when the Elector of Brandenburg, in the Year 1701, procured himself to be crowned King of Prussia, it was only of the Ducal, while the Regal still remained under the Sovereignty of the Poles. From these, which are incontestible Facts, let every Person of Impartiality and Justice reflect whether the Seizure which the King of Prussia has made is not an Infraction of every Law which ought to bind Sovereigns, or be regarded by Society."
Saturday a Couple of moderate Fortune, whose Ages put together amounted to 151 Years, were married in Southwark; they were attended to and from Church by two Fiddlers, amidst the Acclamations of a large Concours of People.
Letters from Paris say, that a Gentleman of Toulon has presented six Mariners Comrades to the Royal Academy of Sciences, by the Help of which they propose to determine the Longitude. The Members of the Academy have made an Experiment of them, and have sent them on Board some Vessels bound to the West Indies, to make a farther Trial.
A Correspondent observes, that it is rather rare now-a-Days to see the good old English Names of Cavendish, Manners, Sackville, Pelham, Howard, Littleton, Saville, Vane, Cornwall, Mawbey, Seymour, and Pownal, in any of the new Appointments that take Place; on the contrary, Stewart, Murray, Keith, McCoy, Campbell, Hay, Drummond, Elliott, Scott, McKenzie, Douglas, and Hume, are the favourite Names which now weekly adorn our Court Gazette.
We are informed that an Abstract of the whole Body of Prussian Law is now printing at Berlin, by Order of his Majesty, which will be comprised in a middling 8vo Volume.
We hear from Whitfield, in Northumberland, that three young Bucks undertook, a few Day ago, for a Wager of 15s. to sup a Croud, made as follows, namely, 3 Pints of Oatmeal, 3 Pints of strong Ale, 1 Pint of Brandy, 2lb. of Currants, 1lb. of Raisins, 1lb. of Sugar, 1lb. of Butter, 1lb. of Treacle, 1 Quart of sweet Milk, and 1 Quart of churned Milk; which was performed in seven Minutes, with Ease.
On Friday last was killed by Joseph Norfolk, Butcher in Leeds, a small rough Scotch Weather Sheep, which weighed no more than 15lb. a Quarter, and had the amazing Quantity of 24lb. of Tallow in him.
On Thursday last night, at Night, was buried in All Saints Church-yard, in Leicester, the Body of Thomas Cartwright, aged 24 Years. It is remarkable, he measured only 36 Inches high, and never had any Teeth.
March 12. It was last Night confidently asserted, at the west End of the Town, that his Majesty has declared that if the major Part of England follow the Steps of the City of London, to avoid being troubled with Addresses, Petitions, and Remonstrances, he will dissolve the Parliament. It is positively asserted, that Mr. Wilkes has no Intention of offering himself a Candidate at the general Election.
The Dukes of Cumberland and Gloucester, we hear, have Permission to appear at the Theatres, &c. notwithstanding their Majesties appear there also.
This Morning the Carcase of a Hog was exposed to Sale in Newgate Market, which weighed, without the Head, Feet, and Entrails, fifty two Stone, seven Pounds.
A few Days ago, at the Village of Scend, in Wiltshire, a Report prevailed that a Woman who was dangerously ill of a putrid Fever was bewitched, and this Report excited the Curiosity of Numbers of her Neigh-
bours to go and see her. The Fever attending the dying Person was so high as to render her delirious, and in that State she often cried out, She is pinching me to Death . This left it beyond a Doubt, to the credulous Vulgar, that an old Woman, who had long been considered by them as a Witch, was the Cause of her Torment; and near 100 of the wife People went to the supposed Witch's House, tied a Rope round her Middle, and carried her to a Mill, where they cruelly gave the old accursed Discipline of Ducking. On throwing her twice or three Times headlong into the Water, and being unable on Account of her Clothes to keep her under, they were perfectly convinced of her Power of Witchcraft; and supposing this Discipline might be a Means of deterring her from exercising any farther Cruelties to the poor Woman, they suffered her to go home. The poor Woman's Fever, however, increasing, they went again the next Day to the supposed Witch's House, determined to give her another Ducking, but were happily prevented by a Magistrate, who was accidentally informed of their Intentions, by whose Means it is probable the poor old Woman escaped falling a Sacrifice to their Resentment.
March 13. On Thursday a Motion was made in the House of Commons for Leave to bring in a Petition, by Mr. Dundas, from the Proprietors of the Forth and Clyde Navigation, for Liberty to borrow a farther Sum of Money in Order to finish the intended Cut from the Firth of Forth to a certain Place near Glasgow.
It is said, at the west End of the Town, that the Dukes of Gloucester and Cumberland are to have 20,000l. a Year settled on each of them this Session of Parliament, with a Reserve in Proportion to any Issue they may have by their Duchesses.
Yesterday some Despatches arrived in Town from the Regency of the Electorate of Hanover, and also from the Queen of Denmark at Zell.
A few Days since a live West India Turtle was caught near Portland, near four Feet long, and upwards of 500lb. Weight, having the Letters T. W. engraved on the Back.
The Advocates for the Dissenters Bill, says a Correspondent, give out, that many of their Clergy are now suffered to execute the Functions without having ever subscribed to any Tests, and therefore conclude, that, as the Government connives at this Neglect, without experiencing any Inconvenience, no dangerous Consequences could arise from a legal Toleration. Our Correspondent, on the other Hand, says, that the Dissenters should be content with the Connivance shown by Government; and, since they are not rightly compelled into the Subscriptions, look for no farther Acts of Indulgence.
We are informed, by Letters from Frankfort, that a great Number of Tents is preparing there, and Horses buying up, by Order and on Account of the Court of France.
March 16. The French Ambassador has demanded, in Form, the Mediation of the Court of Great Britain between his Master and the Prussian Monarch, relative to the Town of Dantzick.
Extract of a Letter from Gibraltar, February 19.
There are great naval Operations now going forward in almost every Port belonging to the several States of Barbary, especially at Sallee, Tunis, Mamora, Algiers, and Larrache. At Algiers, no less than eight Ships, from twenty to fifty Guns, are now building under the Direction of some European Renegades; and at the other Ports, several Frigates, Gallies, &c. are fitting out and building. These Preparations are said to be intended against the Turks, as many of the Barbary States, dependent upon the Porte, have long wished for an Opportunity to throw off their Allegiance, which now exists, as it is said; they are unanimous in their Resolution, and will be supported in it by the Emperor of Morocco.
March 22. Letters from Vienna say: "The Jews will be Sufferers by the Division of Poland, and undergo a Dismemberment with the Country. Many Arts were cultivated, and most of the Trade carried on by this People, who were become exceedingly numerous; but they are all ordered out of the Country, and the King of Prussia has actually sent a Number of Physicians, Surgeons, and Apothecaries, into Polish Prussia, to succeed the Jews, who followed those Professions."
Extract of a Letter from Rome, February 20.
His Holiness and all the Conditory seem to interest themselves much in the expected Fate of Poland, and leave no possible Means untried to save such a Number of Roman Catholics as there is in the Polish Dominions from being obliged to submit to the Exercise of the Reformed Religion; as it is confidently said here that the King of Prussia is determined to introduce Protestantism, at all Events, into that Part of Poland which he has seized, and it is likewise feared the Empress of Russia will command the Religion of the Greek Church to be observed in her Part of Poland. A very constant Correspondence is kept up between the Prince Primate and Bishops of Poland, and his Holiness, who means to interest every Popish Power in their Behalf."
Extract of a Letter from Italy, February 26.
The Republick of Genoa, in Concert with the Courts of France and Spain, has constructed a new Road, by which the Armies of those Nations may enter Italy in Case a War should be kindled in this Country. In six Days Time an Army will be able to enter Lombardy, from Antibes, through the Dominions of the Republick of Genoa. In such a Case, Magazines are to be formed in all the Towns of Liguria, while the French will send their heavy Artillery by Sea from Toulon and Marseilles. Before any Thing of this Sort, however, takes Place, they wait at Paris the Issue of the Negotiation of the Prince de Rohan, Ambassador from France at the Court of Vienna."
The Treasury is so full, and the Pockets of the People are so empty, that a Sum of Money will shortly be voted by the House of Commons for the Enlargement of the King's Bench Prison; a Proof of the Attention ever paid by that Honourable House to the Liberty of the Subject.
It was debated in Council whether the 5000l. should be given in Addition to the Pay of the Navy Captains, or be expended in building a Prison; when it was determined, that to adopt the latter Measure was to provide an Habitation not only for the Navy Officers themselves, but also for their Children.
We hear that his Serene Highness the Prince of Orange is soon expected on a Visit to this Court, from the Hague.
It is now said the Honourable — Robinson, Esquire, of Boston, in New England, is to be appointed Commissioner of Excise, in Ireland, in the Room of Sir Francis Bernard, who is to be promoted to a Vice Treasurership in that Kingdom; and that Richmond Reeves, Esquire, Nephew to Mr. Cooper, and Secretary to the Commissioners of Boston, is to be advanced to a Seat at that Board, in the Room of the said Robinson.
Irvine, Esquire, of the Customhouse at Boston (and Brother to the ingenious Doctor Irvine, who turns salt Water into fresh) is talked of as likely to succeed Mr. Reeves as Secretary to the American Commissioners.
Lady Ligonier, or rather Miss P. (for there is now no Lady Ligonier) is not in France, as People generally imagine, but is now in London, and is constantly attended by the Sister of her late Lord, and appears at all publick Places, with the same Tranquility which originally marked the Exercitor of her Character.
Friday Night, as Mr. Hemmings, Surgeon in Whitechapel, was going up Ludgate Hill, a Fellow snatched at his Hat, when he hastily putting up his Hand to save it, a Conederate seized Mr. Hemmings's Watch, and both made their Escape. This seems to be a new Species of Robbery.
Leave is given to bring in a Bill to extend the Provisions of two Acts of the 8th and 11th of his present Majesty's Reign, for making a navigable Canal from the Firth of Forth to the River Clyde, to open a Communication from the said Canal, by a Cut to the Port and Harbour of Borrowstounness.

The Greenock Harbour Water and Paving Bill is ordered to be engrossed. The third Reading of the Bill for the Relief of Protestants dissenting from the Church of England will be on Thursday next.
Leave is given to bring in a Bill for enabling Mr. Cox to dispose of his Museum, by Way of Chance, in such Manner as may be most for the Benefit of himself and his Creditors.
On the 3d Instant died at Vienna Prince Poniatowski, Brother to the King of Poland, said to be in Consequence of his Troubles on Account of the Situation of his native Country. His Lady arrived Time enough to take her last Farewell of him. The Court of Vienna will sustain a great Loss, he being one of her greatest Generals, had been distinguished on many Occasions, and had received no less than eighteen Wounds in their Service.
March 23. The famous J. Harman writes as follows: "The Position of the Heavens, when the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, &c. are to wait upon his Majesty with their humble Petition, &c. being more favourable than at any former Time upon the like Occasion, gives some Hopes that so just and necessary an Application will not, as usual, be quite disregarded, but that a better Understanding will yet take Place between a very good Sovereign and his aggrieved Subjects, so that Peace and Plenty may in Time be restored amongst them; and though there seems at present but small Probability that the Parliament will do any Good for us, by endeavouring to lower the Prices of Provisions in general, or keep the Poor from starving, yet let us not fear but the divine Hand of Providence will relieve us, without their Consent or Assistance. And this Period I have the more Reason to believe is not far off, as the Winter has been quite open, with but little Frost and Snow (as I before expected) and I do, with Pleasure, venture to affirm that the Weather this Spring will be as fine and seasonable as can be wish'd for, and the Summer sufficiently hot and moist, with Plenty of Rain, so as to produce a Sufficiency of Grain, Grass, and Vegetables, and of Course an Increase of most Kinds of Provisions, which doubtless must somewhat lower the exorbitant Prices of them."
Letters from Berlin, brought by the last Mail from Holland, mention that they had received Letters of a very late Date, by two Couriers from Bucharest, from which they had the greatest Reason to hope that the Conferences between the Turkish and Russian Plenipotentiaries would terminate in a Peace.
The Marriage Present made by the King of Prussia to the reigning Landgravine of Hesse Cassel was fabricated at Paris, and is estimated at 200,000 Florins.
A Bill is drawn up, and approved of in the Cabinet, to restrain the East India Company from dividing more than six per Cent. till the Sum of 1,400,000 l. (which Government is to lend them) and also 1,500,000 l. of their Bond Debt, are paid off.
A Court of Common Council is summoned to meet on Thursday, at Guildhall, to consider of Mr. Sawbridge's adjourned Motion, for allowing 4s. a Quarter for the first 10,000 Quarters of Foreign Wheat brought into the Port of London.
A Court of Aldermen is summoned to meet on Friday next, at Guildhall, in Order to proceed with the Lord Mayor, ten of the Livery, &c. to present the Address, Petition, and Remonstrance, to his Majesty at St. James's.
Mr. Sheriff Oliver is greatly recovered of his late Indisposition, and it is thought he will be able to go up with the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, &c. with the Address, Petition, and Remonstrance.
The following was, we are informed, the Purport of the Declaration made by the Governor of the Bank on Thursday last:
Gentlemen, Many Arts having been used in Order to depreciate the Value of your Stock, such as opening Policies, and the like, I am authorised to say that the Losses of last Year were inconsiderable, nor has there any Thing happened likely to affect your Dividend.
The following, we are assured, is an indisputable Fact. A Gentleman well known for his benevolent Disposition, in readily assisting indigent Merit, waited a few Days ago on a noble Lord at the Head of a certain Department, earnestly requested him to bestow some Preferment on an Officer of unblemished Reputation, and whose past Services, as well as being an ingenious Artist, were well authenticated. But, to his great Surprise, his Lordship, by Way of Answer, exclaimed, "Oh, damn his Ingenuity and Merit! Has he a Vote for us, or Interest to procure any?"
Sunday Evening, as Mr. Hind, one of the King's Messengers, was on his Way to Charlton, in Wilts, the Seat of Lord Suffolk, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, with a Packet of Despatches for his Lordship, he was set upon by three Footpads on Salt Hill, who robbed him of his Gold Watch and ten Guineas; and also a Lady, who was with him in the Chaise, of two Guineas, with which they got clear off. But it seems one of the Fellows was so terrified at Mr. Hind's selling him, that he would certainly be hanged, for he was one of the King's Messengers, that he went yesterday Morning to Sir John Fielding's, and turned Evidence against his Accomplices, who were taken and committed to Newgate.
By an Article from Vienna, brought by the last Mail, we find the Congress at Bucharest is expected soon to be broken off, on Account of the Powers interested therein not agreeing upon the principal Points to serve as a Basis of a Treaty of Peace. The Russians particularly, who insist upon the Independence of the Crimea, are very willing to grant the Muti, as Religious Chief there, the same Authority; but, at the same Time, insist upon garrisoning two Cities with Troops of their own Nation. This Demand the Ministers of the Porte assert to be inconsistent with the desired Independence of the Crimea, and haughtily declare that their Master will never comply with it.
They write from Cadiz that two Frigates of 28 Guns each only wait for a fair Wind to sail for the Havannah, with a great Quantity of warlike Stores, especially Bombs. These are attended by three large Transports, laden with Guns, Anchors, Sails, and Cables, and are to take on Board 600 Soldiers draughted out of different Regiments. Several other Ships are freighted, on the King's Account, to carry out 2000 regular Troops to Carthagena and Porte Vela, in the West Indies.
We have Advice from Hamburg, that a Foreigner of Distinction is just arrived there incog. whom some conjecture to be the King of Poland.
Orders are given for two Frigates and a Sloop of War to sail immediately for James Fort, on the River Gambia, in Africa.
A large Camp, it is said, will be formed next Month at Brompton, near Chatham, for exercising the Train of Artillery, and several Regiments of Horse and Foot.
The many Divisions regarding the Remonstrance occasioned much Speculation. The Sheriffs were eight Days in carrying the important Message to St. James's, and seven Days more will elapse before delivering the Contents, whilst the Congratulations on the Birth of a Prince were finished in twenty four Hours.
Our Correspondent at Oxford writes, that there have happened nine vacant Fellowships in St. John's College in eight Months; five of which are to be filled up from Merchant Taylors School, two by the Founders Relations, one from Reading, and one from Coventry.
Rice has fallen so much in Price that the Poor may purchase it Retail at twopence a Pound, which it is hoped will be a great Relief to the industrious Poor.
Saturday a Tradesman in Oxford Street, who has been for some Time past in a State of Insanity, murdered his Wife and two Children in the Absence of the Person who attended him.
This Morning early a Gentleman, with his Sword lying by him, was found barbarously murdered in a Ditch in St. George's Fields; he was almost stripped naked, and no Money found about him.
March 24. The American Mutiny Bill, the American Naturalization Bill, and the Militia Pay Bill, went through a Committee yesterday in the Upper House.
The Bill to cleanse and repair Greenock Harbour, and the Bill to deepen and cleanse Aberdeen Harbour, which had passed the House of Commons, were carried yesterday to the Upper House, and read a first Time.
The Bill now depending in the House of Commons, for the legal Appointment of Clergymen to attend the various Jails in this Kingdom, is of a Nature exceedingly necessary, humane, and salutary. The Want of such a Provision has heretofore been the Cause of infinite Mischief to Society. It is no less astonishing than true, that for many Years past, at several of the County Prisons, and those in the largest Counties in England, the Felons have been attended by Divines at no other Time than immediately preceding the Execution of the condemned Convicts. A Jail, at any Rate, is not a Nursery for Morality; but how much more pregnant with Blasphemy and Wickedness must it be when a Collection of unhappy Wretches, accustomed to Vice, and ignorant of the Beauty of Virtue, are suffered to harden each other, and to remain increasing in wicked Knowledge, for Want of a religious Instructor to open their Understandings, and to convince them that Honesty, Grace, and Happiness, are inseparable Companions. From this Defect in the Regulation of Jails, it has arisen that so many who went into Prison for their first Lapse from fair Dealing, and have had the good Fortune not to be convicted, instead of benefiting by their Escape from Punishment, come out confirmed in Villainy, immediately commit some atrocious Fact, and soon put a Period to a short Life of Infamy, by a publick Death at the Gallows.
Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Gloucester and Cumberland had each a Concert of Musick at their respective Houses on Sunday Night. On Monday Night the Company at the Pantheon were remarkably brilliant and full, among whom was his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, with many of the Nobility and Gentry, to the Number of upwards of fifteen Hundred.
The following authentick Circumstance will not be unseasonable at present. Some Time ago Parson _____, of _____, in Warwickshire, a most rigid Tithe Gatherer, hearing of a poor Man who had got a Sow with a Litter of Pigs, went to him to claim his Tithe Pig. The Man told him he did not mean to wrong him of his Due, and desired he would go to the Sty and choose which he would have. This done, the Parson wisely cut off the Pig's Tail, that the Man might not give him another, and then went his Way home, satisfied. He was but just arrived, when the poor Man came and knocked at his Door with the Pig; which the Parson was surprised at, it being but two Days old, consequently not fit to eat. The Man was then ordered to take the Pig, and keep it three Days longer. "No, no (says he) you are in such a Haste that faith you shall have it now," and turned the Pig into the Passage of the House, and left it. The Parson, finding himself thus outwitted, sent after the Man, to know what he should give him a Week to keep the Pig till it was fat. He fixed his Price, which amounted to twice the Worth of the Pig when the Parson had it.
We hear that a Countryman turning up some fresh Ground with a Plough, near Kirkaldy, in Scotland, struck the Share against a large Stone; which Curiosity inducing him to remove, he discovered a Staircase leading to a Vault, or Cave. He alarmed the Neighbourhood, several of whom went in with Torches, and found three Skeletons of a gigantic Size, with as many complete Suits of heavy Armour lying near them on the Earth. In the Middle of the Cave was an Altar of rough Stone, in the Form of a Smith's Hearth, inscribed with Runick Characters, whereon were Instruments for Sacrifice. But whether the Bodies were brought there for Interment, or belonged to Persons who fled to that Place as a Refuge, is impossible to discover at this Distance of Time.
Saturday Morning, as the King's Guard were going to be dismissed on the Parade, a Soldier, having a Grudge against another, ran his Antagonist through the Hand with his Bayonet; the wounded Man was immediately carried to the Hospital, and the Aggressor to the Savoy.
On Thursday a large Mastiff Dog flew at Mr. Bishop, of Whetstone, and tore one of his Arms in a terrible Manner, and the Calf of one Leg quite off. Mr. Bishop was formerly the greatest Coachmaster in London, and had retired about five Years ago with a genteel Fortune.
On Saturday last a young Lad, a Sharper, filled a Pail of Water at St. Paul's Pump, and desired a Gentleman to help it on his Head. The Gentleman cheerfully complying, the young Rascal threw the Water in his Face, picked his Pocket of a Gold Watch, and ran off with his Booty.
WILLIAMSBURG, May 20.
The Virginia, Howard Esten, from London, arrived in York River, has brought in the Statue of our late excellent Governor, Lord BOTETOURT, which was voted to his Memory by the General Assembly in 1771. It is to be placed in the Capitol, and we hear cost 700 Guineas.
Miss PEGGY HAY, of this City, who, with a Gutta Serena, was totally blind of one Eye, and nearly so in the other, is now happily restored to the perfect Sight of both, being able to read the smallest Print, and to distinguish even minute Objects at a great Distance, by the Assistance of Doctor GRAHAM, Oculist and Aurist, who lately arrived in this City from Philadelphia. We hear likewise that several Persons have received great Benefit, in their Sight and Hearing, by applying to the same Gentleman; among many others, a young Gentleman, born deaf and dumb, hath received remarkable Benefit in Point of Hearing. So amazing, indeed, have been his Attainments, since Sunday last, that a perfect Cure, in Hearing and in Speaking, can scarcely be doubted. We are the more particular in giving this Intelligence to the Publick, that those Persons who are afflicted with any Disorder in their Eyes, Ears, or Organs of Speech, may be induced to apply soon; as, it is said, the Doctor intends to leave this City about the 15th of June.
[Deaths.] Major ROBERT SHIELD, of York County; who was an upright Magistrate, and a good Member of Society. As such, he was valuable to the Publick; but his Family sustain a heavy Loss, for he was the tender Husband, the kind Parent, and a most indulgent Master.
WILLIAMSBURG, May 20, 1773.
** For the Benefit of those whom it may concern, as well as in grateful Acknowledgment of the kind Care and Attention of Doctor GRAHAM to my Child, I think it my Duty to publish her Case. She was, some Time in January last, taken with a Soreness in her right Eye, which ended in a Gutta Serena; that Eye was totally blind, the other so much affected that she could not see any small Object. I applied to Doctor GRAHAM on the 11th of this Month, and be restored her Sight perfectly in seven Days; she can see now to read the smallest Print, and is perfectly free from any Complaint, or Dimness of any Kind, in either Eye. ELIZABETH HAY.
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ON serious Consideration of the present State of our Practice in the General Court, we find it can no longer be continued on the same Terms. The Fees allowed by Law, if regularly paid, would barely compensate our incessant Labours, reimburse our Expenses, and the Losses incurred by Neglect of our private Affairs; yet even these Rewards, confessedly moderate, are withheld from us, in a great Proportion, by the unworthy Part of our Clients. Some Regulation, therefore, is become absolutely requisite to establish Terms more equal between the Client and his Counsel. To effect this, we have come to the following Resolution, for the invariable Observance of which we mutually plight our Honour to each other: "That after the 10th Day of October next we will not give an Opinion on any Case stated to us but on Payment of the whole Fee, nor prosecute or defend any Suit or Motion unless the Tax, and one Half the Fee, be previously advanced, excepting those Cases only where we choose to act gratis;" and we hope no Person whatever will think of applying to us in any other Way. To prevent Disappointment, however, in Case this should be done, we think it proper to give this farther Warning, that no such Application, either verbal or by Way of Letter, will be answered or attended to in the smallest Degree. We should feel much Concern if a Thought could be entertained that the worthy Part of our Clients could disapprove this Measure. Their Conduct has been such as calls for our Acknowledgments, and might merit Exemption from this Strictness, were such Exemption practicable; but they will readily perceive this would defeat the Purpose, and that no Distinction of Persons can by any Means be attempted. We hope, therefore, from their Friendship, a cheerful Concurrence in this our Plan, since the Requisition is such only as their Punctuality would of itself prevent. JOHN RANDOLPH. EDMUND PENDLETON. JAMES MERCER. THOMAS JEFFERSON. PATRICK HENRY, Junior. GUSTAVUS SCOTT.
The Subscriber by no Means disapproves of the above Resolution; but as he has long determined to quit his Practice as an Attorney, and practise only as a Counsel in such Causes as are ready for Trial, he has declined signing the above, as he shall not engage in any Cause for the future but such in which he shall previously receive an adequate Satisfaction for his Trouble, which they may be assured will not be less than the legal Fees. THOMPSON MASON.
NEWPORT MILL, May 20, 1773.
I INTEND to leave this Colony soon. EDWARD PELL.
TAKEN from a certain JOHN ELLIOT (supposed to be stolen) a middle sized SILVER WATCH, with a China Dial Plate, an old Wire Chain, and a Brass Key. The said Elliot was then in my Custody as a Prisoner for Felony, and was committed to the County Jail of Nansemond, from whence he made his Escape. The Owner may have the said Watch by applying to the Subscriber, in the lower Parish of Nansemond, on proving his Property, and paying the Charge of this Advertisement. (2||) JOHN WAMMER, Constable.
WILLIAMSBURG, May 20, 1773.
WHEREAS it is publickly reported that I accused the Reverend Mr. HENLEY of Deism, and a Disbelief of the Thirty Nine Articles of our Church, I do hereby, out of Justice to Mr. Henley's Character, declare that I never had Reason to believe that such were his Principles. JOSEPH KIDD.
YORK, &c. AUGUSTINE MOORE, Gentleman, a Justice of the Peace, and one of the Judges of the Court of the said County, to all Sheriffs, Mayors, Constables, and Headboroughs, within this his Majesty's Colony and Dominion of Virginia, greeting: Whereas Arthur Miller, late of this County, was lately a Prisoner in Custody of the Jailor of the said County of York, charged in Execution of the Suits of James Gordon for the Sum of one Hundred and twenty five Pounds, two Shillings and seven Pence Halfpenny for Debt and Costs, and Interest from the 10th Day of August 1772, also Judith Banks, Administratrix of George Banks, deceased, Action on the Case, Damage fifty Pounds, which the said James Gordon and Judith Banks lately in the Court of this County recovered against the said Arthur Miller, whereof he is convicted, as appears to me of Record; and for as much as it has been duly proved that the said Arthur Miller has escaped, and is going at large, therefore, in his Majesty's Name, I command you, and every of you, in your respective Counties, Cities, Towns, and Precincts, to seize and retake the said Arthur Miller, and him to convey to the Prison where Debtors are usually kept in the County where he shall be retaken, and delivered to the Keeper thereof, together with this Warrant. And I charge and command you, the Sheriff or Keeper of the said Prison, to receive into your Jail and Custody the Body of the said Arthur Miller, and him there safely to keep, until he shall have made full Satisfaction to the said James Gordon and Judith Banks for their Debts and Costs aforesaid, until he shall be discharged by due Course of Law, pursuant to an Act of Assembly in that Case made and provided. Given under my Hand and Seal, this 30th Day of April, 1773. AUGUSTINE MOORE.
IF Richard Rogers, who went from England to America about the Year 1750, be living, he is desired to give an Account of himself; or if any Gentleman of his Acquaintance can give Information of him, so that a Certificate may be obtained of his being living or dead, by Letter directed to Mr. Henry Adams, Attorney at Law in Mark Lane, London, or to Mr. Thomas Coales of the Bank of England, the Favour will very much oblige the said Rogers's Friends, and will be gratefully returned the first Opportunity. All reasonable Expenses, &c. will be paid by Messrs. Perkins, Buchanan, and Brown, Merchants. The said Richard Rogers hath not been heard of since the Year 1754, at which Time he kept a School in Lunenburg County, Virginia, and ordered, in his Letter dated September 29th, in the said Year 1754, to direct to him, "in Lunenburg County, Virginia, to the Care of Mr. Clement Read, Clerk of Lunenburg Court" (adding, that "that Gentleman is much esteemed, and generally known by most of the Gentlemen in Virginia") or to direct to him "at Mr. John Speed's in Lunenburg, to be left to the Care of Mr. Theophilus Field, Merchant at Bolling's Point, on Appomattox River, Virginia."
WILLIAMSBURG, May 20, 1773.
LOST, in the Garden at Mrs. Vobe's, on the 3d Instant, a plain SILVER WATCH with a Steel Chain, the Impression out of the Seal, William Glover, Liverpool, No. 126. Whoever brings the said Watch to the Bar of the said Mrs. Vobe shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, on six Months Credit,
THE HOUSE, and two LOTS of Ground, with the Appurtenances, where Mrs. Campbell keeps Tavern, below the Capitol, in Williamsburg. The Sale will be before the Raleigh Porch, on Thursday the 29th of July next, at 5 o'Clock in the Afternoon. Bond and Security for the Purchase Money to be given to Benjamin Waller, Attorney for the Devisees of Nathaniel Waltsboe, Esquire, deceased.
COMMITTED to Surry County Jail, a very likely Negro Man about twenty Years of Age, who says his Name is HARRY, and that he belongs to Sarah Sumner of Nansemond. His Owner is desired to take him away, and pay Charges to MICAJAH COGGAN, Jailer.
WILLIAMSBURG, May 17, 1773.
STRAYED a way, on Friday last, a fleabit-ten gray HORSE, with a Bob Tail, his Mane hanging on both Sides, his Brand (if any) forgot. Whoever brings him to me shall have TEN SHILLINGS Reward. ROBERT ANDERSON.
NORFOLK, May 13, 1773.
CONSIDERABLE Sums of Money being due to the Concern here under my Conduct, and as I intend for Britain next Year, it is expected that all who are in Arrears will be speedy in settling their Accounts, and such as cannot make immediate Payment to give Bond, that no Disputes may arise after my Departure. Those who have Demands against the Company, or myself, may apply for Payment. The LOTS, with the HOUSES and STORES, where I now live, and 120 Acres of LAND at the Watering Place (within a short Mile by Water, and not above two Miles and a Half by Land, of the Borough) will be sold at one, two, or three Years Credit, as a Purchaser may incline. The Business of the Concern will be carried on, under its present Firm, by Mr. James Glassford. NEIL JAMIESON. ** A SHIP of 520 Hogheads Burthen to be let on Charter to any Part of Britain.
ARCHIBALD DIDDEP, TAILOR, WILLIAMSBURG,
TAKES this Method of informing the Publick that he has removed from his former Habitation to a House contiguous to Doctor Paster's, where he carries on his Business in all its different Branches. He returns his most grateful Acknowledgments to all those who have hitherto been pleased to favour him with their Custom, and hopes for a Continuance of it, as they may rely upon their Work being executed with the greatest Care and Punctuality, and on the most reasonable Terms. ** He also makes Ladies RIDING HABITS in the neatest and most genteel Manner.
WILLIAMSBURG, May 13, 1773.
I THINK it necessary to give this publick Notice, to all Persons who are in Arrears to me, that if they do not, without Fail, discharge their Accounts by the July Meeting of the Merchants, they will most assuredly be put into a Lawyer's Hands. N. B. In the mean While, from the many Disappointments I have met with in collecting my Debts, I am obliged to stop Trade, till I can receive the Money due to me to carry it on. ROBERT GILBERT.
RUN away from on Board the Matty, lying in Pagan Creek, on the 21st of April, a Negro Man named JACK, alias Phil, about twenty one Years of Age, five Feet nine Inches high, of a yellow Complexion, proportionably made, and has lost two Joints of two of his Fingers on his right Hand; he had on a new green Coat, a blue Jacket, a Pair of gray Breeches, a white Shirt, and a Pair of black Stockings. This Fellow is the Property of Mr. Thomas Gordon of Peter-burgh, who has already advertised him in this Gazette. I will give a Reward of TWENTY SHILLINGS, besides what is allowed by Law, to any Person who delivers him to his said Master in Peter-burgh, Mr. Hugh McMekin in Portsmouth, or to Mr. Andrew Mackie near Smithfield, (tf) JAMES PRUDDEN.
For SALE, an reasonable Terms, A VALUABLE Tract of LAND in Mecklenburg, containing a Thousand and sixty eight Acres. Apply to me in Williamsburg. BEVERLEY DICKSON.

WILLIAMSBURG, May 13, 1773.
PURSUANT to a Decree of James City County Court, the Subscriber intends to sell, to the highest Bidder, at the Courthouse of the said County, on the second Monday in next Month, a very valuable Negro Man named NERO, late the Property of Josiah Chevering , deceased; and the next Day he intends also to sell, to the highest Bidder, in Conformity to the same Decree, the LAND whereon the said Josiah lived, but subject to Mrs. Chevering's Dower, unless before the Day of Sale she should agree to join in the Conveyance for the Purpose of relinquishing the same, of which, should it happen, Notice will be given at the Sale, which will be on the Premises. A Year's Credit will be allowed to each Purchaser, on giving Bond, with good Security, to JOHN BLAIR.
NEWCASTLE, May 5, 1773.
THE Subscriber has opened the TAVERN in this Town lately occupied by Mrs. Margaret Ball , it being the first House on the left Hand of the main Street leading from Williamsburg towards Colonel Syme's Gate, where he will endeavour to keep as good Entertainment as any in the Colony, and shall be much obliged to all Ladies and Gentlemen who will favour him with their Custom. THOMAS KENT.
F O R S A L E,
A TRACT of LAND on the River Rapidan , in Culpeper , containing three Thousand Acres, a Sufficiency of which is cleared to employ the Labour of twenty Slaves. As those Persons who may intend to become Purchasers will probably be better satisfied with Respect to the Quality of Land by viewing it than by a Description, they are requested to apply to Mr. John Alcock , who lives on the same. There is on the said Land a small Dwellinghouse, with all Outhouses necessary for Plantation and domestick Purposes. Credit will be allowed till the 10th of July 1774, on giving Bond, with approved Security, bearing Interest from the Date if not punctually discharged when due. BENJAMIN GRYMES, Junior.
WILLIAMSBURG, May 13, 1773.
THE Subscriber hereby informs his Customers that he intends to leave this Colony early in the Fall, and hopes all those indebted to him will make immediate Payment, to prevent Suits being commenced against them. Those to whom he is indebted are desired to send in their Accounts, that they may be properly settled. JONATHAN PROSSER.
TO BE SOLD,
A TRACT of LAND in Goobland , containing five Hundred and ten Acres, on the Waters of Beaverdam and Genato ; the Soil is excellent for Wheat, with about seventy Acres cleared, and in good Order for Cropping. For Terms apply to the Subscriber, at Four Mile Creek . JOHN PLEASANTS.
BRUNSWICK, May 7, 1773.
THE Subscriber intends for Britain immediately. The Business will be carried on, in his Absence, by Messrs. John Woddrop and Hugh Love . ALLAN LOVE.
ORANGE, April 25, 1773.
I THINK proper to acquaint the Publick, that some Time in the Year 1769 one John Stockdell of this County purchased a Tract of Land of one Edward Thomas , containing about four Hundred and seventy Acres, lying near the Courthouse, in the County aforesaid; that soon after the Purchase the said Stockdell and myself entered into an Agreement in Writing, bearing Date the 11th Day of September 1769; and the said Stockdell , for the Considerations therein mentioned, agreed to sell and convey to me a Part of his Purchase aforesaid, or all that Part of the said Land lying to the left Hand of the Road leading from the said Courthouse to Barrett's Ford ; that since the Execution of the aforesaid Agreement the said Stockdell has refused to convey to me the said Land, or any Part, according to his Agreement; and, in Order to compel him thereto, I have brought a Suit in Chancery in this County some Time since, which is now depending, and which Agreement I have annexed to my Bill of Complaint, filed in the Office. I therefore forewarn all Persons from purchasing that Part of the said Tract of Land which I am endeavouring to compel a Conveyance of to me. WILLIAM BELL.
F O R L O N D O N,
THE Ship PLANTER , Thomas Lilly Master, Burthen about seven Hundred Hogheads, and will take in Tobacco on Liberty of Consignment for two Hundred and fifty Hogheads, the Quantity of four Hundred and fifty Hogheads being for the House of Messrs. Dunlop and Wilson of London . Notes or Orders may be lodged at Norfolk , with Gavin Hamilton and Company, Thomas Lilly on Board the said Ship, at the Honourable Colonel Corbin's , or at his House in York Town .
TO BE SOLD,
ABOUT fourteen Thousand Acres of exceeding good LAND in the County of Pittsylvania . For Terms apply to Mr. Hugh Rose of Amherst , who will treat with any Person inclinable to purchase, and be empowered to make a legal Title. CAROLINE, May 7, 1773. THOMAS LOMAX.
To be SOLD at Richmond Town , on Wednesday the 9th of June, if fair, otherwise next fair Day, pursuant to the last Will and Testament of Robert Du Val , deceased.
ALL his HOUSES and LOTS in the said Town, a white SERVANT who understands the Carpenter's and Joiner's Business, and has upwards of three Years to serve, sixteen valuable SLAVES, among whom are four Sawers, a Carpenter, and a Bricklayer; also all his STOCKS of HORSES, CATTLE, &c. with a strong WAGGON and GEAR, all his HOUSE and KITCHEN FURNITURE, a great Variety of JOINERS and CARPENTERS TOOLS, and many other Things too tedious to mention. The Houses and Lots to be sold on eighteen, and the Negroes, Stocks, &c. on twelve Months Credit. Bond and Security will be required for all Sums above twenty five Shillings, to bear Interest from the Date if not punctually paid when due. All Persons indebted to the Estate are requested to make immediate Payment, and those who have Claims against the same we hope will soon make them known; that they may be speedily adjusted. TURNER SOUTHALL, ZACHARIAH ROWLAND, } Executors. WILLIAM DU VAL, }
Wanted immediately,
On CHARTER for MADEIRA, A VESSEL
That will carry about five Thousand Bushels, F O R T E R M S Apply to the Subscriber, in BLANDFORD.
WILLIAM ROBERTSON. (2)
FALMOUTH, April 23, 1773.
THE Subscribers having met with many Disappointments, and much Trouble, in collecting the Inspection Money for Tobacco shipped from Falmouth and Dixon's Warehouses, hereby give Notice that they are determined in future not to ship any Tobacco unless the Money is sent with the Notes.
WILLIAM NEWTON, } Falmouth. THOMAS HOARD, } JOHN POLLARD, } Dixon's. THOMAS SHARPE, }
NORTHAMPTON, May 8, 1773.
RUN away from the Subscriber's Plantation in Brunswick , last December, two Negro Men, DAVID and SAM , about twenty five Years of Age, of the middle Stature, and had on Cotton Clothes, new Felt Hats, Osnaburg Shirts, &c. David is likely, strong, and full faced; Sam is thin visaged, with a wide Mouth, and a higher Nose than common. They were carried from York , where they had Wives; but as no Advice can be had of their returning thither, I suppose they have taken some other Course, and perhaps may depart the Country. All Masters of Vessels are hereby forewarned from carrying them away. Whoever conveys them to me shall have FIFTY SHILLINGS Reward for each, and if taken out of the Country FIVE POUNDS, besides the Allowance by Law. (6) GRIFFIN SMITH.
RUN away from the Subscriber, about the first of April last, a Negro Man named ISAAC , the Property of Mrs. Catharine Justice . He has been used to go by Water, and probably may endeavour to pass for a Freeman. He is of a yellow Complexion, about twenty five Years old, well made, of the middle Stature, and his Hair is intermixed with Wool. I will give a Reward of TWENTY SHILLINGS if he is taken upon the Eastern Shore , and FORTY SHILLINGS if in any other Part, besides all reasonable Charges for conveying him to me, in Northampton . (11) JOHN HARMANSON.
COMMITTED to Orange Jail , on the 21st of April, upon Suspicion of being runaway Servants, two Irishmen who say their Names are DANIEL RAILEY and CONNER CORNEE , and that they were landed in South Carolina , from on Board a Ship commanded by Captain Wilson , to whom they paid their Passage. They are about thirty Years of Age, five Feet three or four Inches high, and what little Clothes they have are very ragged. (211) WILLIAM BELL, Jailer.
ON the 1st of this Instant (MAY) the Treasurer, Trustees, and Subscribers to the Fund for the Relief of Clergymen Widows and Orphans, met according to Appointment. On the next Day two Sermons were preached, suitable to the Occasion; and Collections were made at the Church Doors, producing (with three Pounds two Shillings and Sixpence from a Person unknown, by the Hands of the Reverend Mr. Professor Henley ) the Sum of fifty three Pounds ten Shillings and seven Pence, for which the generous Contributors are desired to accept the grateful Acknowledgments of the Clergy associated for the Support of the above named Fund. On Monday, the last Day of meeting, seventy five Pounds were ordered to be distributed among seven Widows and several Orphans; and the following Officers were appointed for the ensuing Year: The Reverend John Cams , Treasurer; the Reverend Messrs. Benjamin Blagrove , Henry Skyring , James Maury , Fontaine Thomas Price , William Bland , and Alexander White , Trustees; William Leigh the Forenoon, and John Bracken the Afternoon, Preacher. JACOB BRUCE, Clerk.
HANOVER, May 6, 1773.
THE Debtors of Mr. John Bland of London , Merchant, will be pleased to take Notice, that by their having delayed to discharge their Balances, and long withheld many Thousands from that Gentleman, he was lately reduced to the sad Necessity of conveying all his Estate, Debts, and Effects, to Trustees for the Benefit of his Creditors, and that I am fully empowered by the Trustees to act for them, and collect the Debts and settle the Affairs of Mr. Bland in this Colony. I shall be happy if I can conduct this extensive Business to the Satisfaction of all Parties, without the Trouble or Expense of Suits at Law; but the urgent Demands of Mr. Bland's Creditors, and the unhappy Situation of himself, and of a numerous worthy Family (who are involved in his Difficulties, and now tasting the Bitterness of his Distress) will not admit of Indulgence or Delay, and I therefore hope the Debtors will provide for the immediate Discharge of their Debts, and come to settle their respective Accounts with me, without farther Application, for it will not be convenient, or possible, for me to wait on them at their respective Homes. The Debts contracted at the Stores kept for Mr. Bland , by his Son Mr. John Bland , Junior, at Blandford , Mr. Andrew Grant at Boyd's Hole , and by Mr. David Briggs at Falmouth , will be settled and collected by these Gentlemen severally, with whom they were contracted; and the Debtors are hereby required to pay their Balances to them, without Delay, they having Instructions to enforce Payments, and to close their respective Accounts immediately. The Goods now on Hand in the Stores are to be sold as soon as an Account is taken of them, and if Persons inclined to purchase will be pleased to apply to the above Gentlemen, at their respective Stores. they may see the Goods, and know the Terms of Sale, as they are severally empowered to sell them. Mr. John Bland , Junior, being very worthy of Confidence, and greatly interested in these Matters, has full Power to act in them, on all Occasions in my Absence, as he thinks right; and Payments made to him, in Discharge of the Sterling or current Debts, will be allowed by (4) PETER LYONS.
N. B. I shall be obliged to the Persons who have Demands against Mr. John Bland of London to let me know the Nature and Amount of their Claims before they put his Estate to the Expense of Attachments or Suits in Chancery, as I shall be willing to pay out of his Effects any Debt that I can be justified in discharging.
TAPPAHANNOCK, May 4, 1773.
AS it is now three Years since I discontinued Store-keeping on my own private Account at this Place, I request all those indebted to me to come and pay off immediately, otherwise their Accounts, &c. will be put into an Attorney's Hands, without Respect of Persons or farther Notice. Those who have any Claims against me are desired to bring them in. (6) ARCHIBALD M C ALL. I have LOTS, and a genteel and pleasant situated two Story HOUSE, &c. in this Place, which I will sell on reasonable Terms.
AS OBER, well behaved Man, capable of teaching Children to read and write, and at the same Time properly qualified as an Accountant, may meet with Employment in a Gentleman's Family by Application to the Printer hereof. (6)
WILLIAMSBURG, May 6, 1773.
THE Gentlemen who have failed paying the Fines adjudged by the Committee of Trade are hereby desired to discharge them by the 26th of July next, to Andrew Sprowle, Esq; or the Chairman who may then preside; otherwise they must expect to see their Names published, in Terms of their Agreement entered into last November. ANDREW SPROWLE, Chairman.
NAVAL OFFICE, Hampton, May 1, 1773.
THIS is to acquaint the Publick, that in future, at the Office here, the Duties on TUNNAGE and IMPOST will be exacted in Sterling Money, and no other Mode of discharging them be admitted. WILSON MILES CARY, Naval Officer.
BURWELL'S FERRY, May 4, 1773.
FROM some Circumstances, I am induced to believe that a Man of the Name of PETER LYALL , who hired a Horse of me to go to Williamsburg yesterday, has made off with him. He attempted to pass in Norfolk by the Name of Randolph , and was some Time in the Employment of Mr. Mercer the Skelton as an Overseer. He is very remarkable, the Back of his right Hand, and the right Side of his Neck, being marked with a Colour resembling Claret; he is about five Feet ten Inches high, has short black Hair, dark Eyes, and is of a swarthy Complexion. The Horse is of a bright bay Colour, about thirteen Hands and a Half high, with a Star in his Forehead, a roached Mane and Bob Tail, and on the Inside of his left fore Leg, between the Footlock and Knee, is a Knot as large as a Hen Egg, supposed to have come from a Hurt. I hereby forewarn all Persons from purchasing the said Horse, and offer a Reward of TWENTY SHILLINGS, and to pay all reasonable Expenses, to any Person who will secure and convey him to me. JUDITH COKE.
To be SOLD, at publick Vendue, on the 10th of June next,
ALL the real Estate belonging to the BUSH RIVER IRON WORKS COMPANY , at the Head of Bush River , Baltimore County, Maryland , now laid out in the following LOTS for Convenience of Sale.
No. 1. The principal Seat, containing about fifty Acres, on which is an Iron Furnace not in Use, a Merchant Mill and Sawmill on a very fine Stream of Water, with the Mill Race and Dam. About twenty Acres of the Land is very fine improved Meadow, and most of the fifty Acres may be watered from the Race, and is very rich. There are divers small Houses, Outhouses, &c. on this Lot, which is pleasantly situated at Bush Town . The Stream is capable of manufacturing thirty Thousand Bushels of Wheat per Annum, in an extraordinary fine Wheat Country, and about forty five Miles distant from York Town , in Pennsylvania , to which is a very good Road. The Mills and Furnace are at the Head of navigable Water, and the Flower Barrels may be rolled out of the Mill into the Craft, and transported from thence, by Water, to Baltimore Town , on the Head of Elk , about thirty Miles equal Distance, at nine Pence a Barrel.
No. 2. A Tract of Land called Coombs's Adventure , on Patapsco River , about two Miles distant from Baltimore Town , containing, by Estimation, one Hundred and seventy five Acres. On this Land is one of the best Banks of Iron Ore in the Province, and is rendered very valuable from its Situation, and many other Conveniencies; it lies high, a Vessel of two Hundred Tuns Burthen may come close to the Shore, and it is a fine Place for a Gentleman's Seat.
No. 3 and 5. Contain about seven Acres of Land, adjoining Bush Town , between the Furnace Race and Bynam's Run , pleasantly situated on the main Road, and very convenient for building on.
No. 6. Is a Lot of one Acre of the same Sort of Land, and adjoining.
No. 7. Is a Lot of seven Acres, adjoining Bush Town , between the old Race and the Dam, valuable Meadow Ground.
No. 8. Contains about twenty five Acres, near Bush Town , on the west Side of Bynam's Run , below the Dam, some of it fine Meadow Ground.
No. 9. Contains about thirty one Acres, above the Dam, adjoining the Land of James Mathers , Part of it fine Meadow Ground.
No. 10. Contains about five Acres, between the Race and Run.
No. 16. Contains about two Hundred and thirty Acres, at the north End of a Tract of Land called Nova Scotia , very good Land, and well timbered.
No. 17. Contains about two Hundred and seventy Acres, Part of the same Tract, very fine Land, about twelve Acres valuable Meadow Ground, add well timbered.
No. 18. About a Hundred and thirty Acres, Part of the same Tract, very good Land, with a sufficient Quantity of Meadow Ground.
No. 19. About a Hundred and twenty one Acres, about thirty Acres of which is some of the finest Meadow Ground in the Province, which, together with the Upland, is exceedingly well timbered, such as large white Oak, Poplar, and Ash, and is Part of a Tract of Land called Abbot's Forrest .
No. 20 and 21. About a Hundred and ten Acres, Part of the aforesaid Tract called Nova Scotia , on the west Side of James's Run , near Bush Town , and Part of it good Meadow Ground.
No. 22. About a Hundred and twenty Acres, Part of two Tracts near Bush Town , and some of it rich Bottom.
No. 23. About eighty Acres, Part of a Tract of Land called Friendship , pleasantly situated between the main Road and James Webster's Plantation, and about a Mile from Bush Town .
No. 24. Is a Grist Mill and Stone Mill House, with twenty Acres of condemned Land, on a good Stream of Water, adjoining Bush Town , a Quarter of a Mile from Tide Water, and near the main Road.
No. 25. Is a Wharf on Bush River , for the Convenience of Vessels loading and unloading, near the Town.
No. 26. About twenty eight Acres, Part of the aforesaid Tract called Nova Scotia , near Bush River .
No. 27. About nine Acres, called Broken Islands , on Bush River .
No. 28. About sixty one Acres, Part of a Tract called Friendship , south east of Lands of Hannah Richardson .
No. 29. About a Hundred and eighty Acres, Part of the same Land, on the main Road, near Bush Town .
No. 31. About a Hundred and thirty four Acres, four Miles from Bush Town , pleasantly situated on the main Road, and some of it cultivated.
No. 32. About three Hundred Acres, Part of two Tracts, on which is a good Plantation, an Orchard of good Fruit, and a great Prospect of Iron Ore.
All the above Lands (except the Lot No. 2, called Coombs's Adventure ) are situated at and near Bush Town , and none of them more than four or five Miles distant from navigable Water. The Sale to be held at Joseph Stiles's , at Bush Town . Reasonable Credit will be allowed the Purchaser, on giving Bond and approved Security. The Premises may be viewed any Time before the Day of Sale, and the several Lots above described will be shown by applying to Isaac Webster near Bush Town , William Cox for Jacob Giler , or Thomas Bond , Son of John .
As the BUSH COMPANY have but lately purchased the Iron Bank on Lot No. 2, called Coombs's Adventure , and the Iron Ore on Lot No. 32 (two Miles distant from the Furnace) has been but very lately discovered, should any one Person, or two or three in Company, incline to purchase the Whole, and carry on the Works, the Furnace has all the Advantages from Situation and Convenience that can be found at any one Place in the Province, and could not fail of making Money fast, provided the Partners were unanimously engaged to conduct the same agreeable thereto. The Furnace Stack is allowed to be staunch and good. (5)
TO THE PUBLICK.
AT the Sign of the King's Arms Coffee-house, in Church Street, Norfolk , is established a very genteel and convenient INN and TAVERN (with good Stabling for Horses) for the Accommodation of Travellers and others; supported by a Society of Gentlemen, and under the Direction and Management of TERESA PEARSE.
ALBEMARLE, April 16, 1773.
I INTEND for SCOTLAND soon. (11) PHILIP MACRAE.
GREAT BRIDGE, May 4, 1773.
I INTEND for Great Britain soon, and to return in a few Months. (11) CHARLES MAYLE.
A PERSON duly qualified to teach the Languages, and who can produce a Recommendation for Sobriety and Diligence, may hear of an advantageous Offer by applying to the Printer.
TO BE SOLD,
A TRACT of LAND upon Rappahannock River , in Essex County , between Hobbs's Hole and Urbanna , containing two Hundred and sixty Acres. Also to be rented for a Year, or for a Term of Years, a HOUSE situated on the back Street. For Particulars inquire of Mr. James Shield , near Williamsburg , or of the Subscriber, in Charles City . HENRY ARMISTEAD.
F O R S A L E,
A DOUBLE decked VESSEL, Burthen about a Hundred and thirty Tuns, fit either for the Tobacco or Grain Trade, as handsome and well built a Vessel as any in the Colony, whose Timber and Plank have been in season eighteen Months, and which will be finished to a Clean in fifteen Days. For Terms apply to BENJAMIN HARRISON.
F O R S A L E,
A PLEASANT Seat in Northumberland County , containing, agreeable to my Purchase, two Hundred Acres, more or less. The remarkable Point called Smith's , on Potomac , makes from the said Land; and I think I may venture to say, with Justice, that it is one of the best Places in Virginia for Fish and Oysters, both in Quantity and Quality. It is supposed any industrious Person who understands curing Fish may make a Hundred a Year, without much Hindrance in his Crop; and there is a Quantity of Wildfowl. Also forty three Acres of LAND for Sale, almost joining the above Plantation. For Terms apply to the Subscriber, on the Premises. (11) JOHN WEBB.

POETS CORNER.
FAREWELL to 1772.
NOW the leaden Year is gone, Such as never saw the Sun; Such no Time has e'er produc'd, Such no Poet hath traduc'd.
To be RENTED annually, or LEASED for a Term of Years,
THE STOREHOUSES at Todd's Warehouse, lately occupied by Mr. Robert M c Candlish and Mr. Abraham Arbeter. They are large, very convenient, and well situated for Trade...
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, on Monday the 14th of June, at Mecklenburg Courthouse, being Court Day,
A TRACT of LAND in the said County, containing upwards of 200 Acres, upon which Mr. Thomas Erskine formerly lived, and where Mr. John Johnson now keeps Store.
KING HEROD,
A BAY HORSE near sixteen Hands High, his Sire Colonel Bayler's famous Farnought, his Dam Mr. Branton's English Mare Kitty Fisher, stands at Mr. Wormeley's, at Rosehill, and will cover Mares...
RUN away from the Subscriber, on White-
out Swamp, in Henrico, about the last of January, a likely Negro Wench named SALL, about twenty Years old, very black, short, and well proportioned; her Dress was of the common Kind worn by Plantation Negroes...
RUN away from the Subscriber, in King
and Queen, about the Middle of March last, a Country born Negro Woman named SARAH, a very lusty stout made Wench, about two and twenty Years of age, very artful, and, though not a Mulatto, may attempt to pass for a free Woman.
RUN away from ROSLIN, in Chesterfield,
about the 26th of April last, two NEW NEGROES, one of them a small black Fellow, about thirty five Years of Age, the other a middle sized Wench, about twenty seven Years old, both clothed in white Cotton and Plaid Hose...
For SALE, at Captain Langbourn's Plantation in King William,
A FASHIONABLE POST CHARIOT, almost new, with HARNESS for four Horses; also an old fashioned, strong made, CHARIOT and HARNESS, the Box broken, but the Wheels good, other Parts strong...
Just IMPORTED, and to be SOLD by the Subscriber, in WILLIAMSBURG,
A NEW Assortment of MILLINERY of the most fashionable Kinds, namely, Caps, Hats, Bonnets, and Cloaks, Suits of Blond, Stomachers, Gloves, Ribands, Fans, Minionet and Brussels Lace and Edgings...
THREE POUNDS REWARD.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Amherst, a young Mulatto Fellow named TOM, six Feet high, with a large Scar on one of his Ankles, which appear swelled, and another on one of the Fingers of his right Hand...
Just IMPORTED from London, and to be SOLD by the Subscriber, in Williamsburg,
A NEW Assortment of MILLINERY of the most fashionable Kind, namely: Caps, Stomachers, Suits of Blond, Fans, Ribands, Gloves, and Minionet and Brussels Lace and Edgings. Blond and black Do. joining Do.
TAKEN up, in Charlotte, a white MARE
about four Feet four Inches high, with a hanging Mane and Sprig Tail, the near hind Hoof white, and branded on the near Shoulder S. Potted, and appraised to fifty Shillings.
TAKEN up, in Louisa, a white HORSE about four Feet seven Inches high,
about eight Years old, branded on the near Buttock as well as can be made out L or IL in a Piece, and shod all round. Potted, and appraised to twelve Pounds.
TAKEN up, in Louisa, a dark bay HORSE about thirteen Years of Age,
with a Star in his Forehead, a Snip on his Nose, a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, paces slow, trots well, and branded on the near Buttock. Potted, and appraised to four Pounds.
TAKEN up, in Albemarle, a bright bay MARE about four Feet six Inches high,
with some Saddle Spots, a hanging Mane and Sprig Tail, paces naturally, and branded on the off Buttock. Potted, and appraised to ten Pounds.
TAKEN up, in Goochland, a red and white HEIFER about three Years old,
marked with a Crop and Slit in each Ear. Potted, and appraised to twenty five Shillings.
TAKEN up, in Goochland, a black HORSE about four Feet eight or nine Inches high,
with some Saddle Spots, a hanging Mane and bushy Tail, a Star in his Forehead, a Snip on his Nose, a small white Spot on his off Flank, and branded on the off Shoulder E. Potted, and appraised to ten Pounds.
TAKEN up, in Mecklenburg, a black and white COW, marked with a Crop, Slit, and Overkeel, in the left Ear, and two Nicks in the right.
Potted, and appraised to fifty Shillings.
TAKEN up, in Henrico, a bright bay MARE four Feet five Inches high,
with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, a Star in her Forehead, her off hind Foot white, and branded on the off Buttock S. Potted, and appraised to eight Pounds.
TAKEN up, in Bedford, a bright bay MARE about four Feet one or two Inches high,
with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, a Blaze Face, branded on the near Shoulder, but the Brand not perceivable, trots naturally, and has a small Bell on, with a large Buckle; also a dark bay YEARLING FILLY with a large Star in her Forehead. Potted, and appraised to three Pounds.
TAKEN up, in Henrico, a pied COW with a Crop and Underkeel in each Ear.
Potted, and appraised to forty Shillings.
TAKEN up, in Cumberland, a small bay MARE; two or three Years old this Spring,
dockt, and branded on the Buttock I. Potted, and appraised to three Pounds.
TAKEN up, in Cumberland, a dark bay MARE about four Feet five Inches high,
with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, and branded on the off Buttock A. Potted, and appraised to seven Pounds.
Eight Dollars Reward.
RUN away, yesterday Morning, an indentured English Servant Man named JONATHAN PINKARD, by Trade a Watchmaker, is about twenty three Years of Age, five Feet seven or eight Inches high, of a fresh Complexion, a little Pock-marked...
AS I intend for Britain in June, I propose
Fair Day, or privately, as may be agreed upon before, four Hundred Acres of LAND upon the Fall Hill, three Miles from Town, with TWENTY SLAVES, and STOCKS of CATTLE, &c. Ten and one Third Acres of MEADOW LAND, adjoining the Town.
PURSUANT to the last Will and Testament
of Mr. John Smith of Hanover County, deceased, will be sold, on the Premises, some Time next Fall, and to be entered on at Christmas, a valuable Tract of LAND in Henrico County, on the Brook Swamp, between four and five Miles from Richmond, and two Miles from the Meadow Bridges...
FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
RUN away from the Subscriber, near Baltimore Town, Maryland, on the 10th of February last, an Irish indentured Servant Lad named PATRICK MALONE, about twenty Years of Age, five Feet five or six Inches high, well set, with short brown Hair...
WHEREAS some of those indebted on the
Books here have not paid due Regard to my Advertisement of the 1st of December last, I give them this last Notice, that all and every Account not paid off, or a good Part of it, before the 20th of April, or our May Fair at the farthest, or settled by Bond or other Specialty before that Time...
FOR SALE,
THE PLANTATION whereon the Subscriber lives, in King and Queen County, about a Mile and a Half from Todd's Warehouse, containing six Hundred and fifty seven Acres, in good Order for Cropping, having a large Peach and Apple Orchard thereon beginning to bear...
TO BE SOLD,
A VALUABLE Tract of LAND, containing about sixteen Hundred Acres, more or less, lying on the River Shenando, in Berkley County (formerly Frederick) which is one of the most flourishing Counties in Virginia. The Land is exceeding good, well timbered, and adapted to the raising of all Kinds of Grain...

To the Reverend Mr. HENLEY.
SIR,
PERHAPS your Address to me, in the last Week's Paper, might have occasioned some Surprise, had I not been pretty well acquainted with its Author, and had not a very zealous Friend of yours, in the Spirit of Boating, given publick Notice that something of the Sort was prepared for me. I will not say my Reception of it was very favourable, but I can tell you, with much Truth, that I read it with great Indifference, as to myself; though I had some Pain on your Account, and was concerned that the Publick, at large, should be troubled with an Appeal, which ought, for the present at least, to have been confined to the Parish of Bruton. I find you have affected to borrow your admired Prototype Junius his Style in paying me witty and satirical Compliments; but recollect, Sir, that no Satire can be just, nor Wit Sterling, unless they are bottomed upon Truth. Whether my "Professions of Candour, Rectitude, and Religion" (Professions I own I have made, and hope I ever shall make of them all) have been justified by the corresponding Actions of my Life, is cheerfully submitted to the Circle of my Acquaintance; but I must tell you, Sir, once for all, that I shall think I have lived to very little Purpose, if any Thing, you may be pleased to advance, could rob me of the smallest Atom of what little Reputation I may have acquired. I had almost determined that your Performance, as I really think it beneath my Notice, should be passed over by my Silence; but finding, upon a Review of it, that, from a Maxim you set out with, such Silence might be taken as a Confession of Guilt, and knowing how apt some People are to plume themselves even upon a supposed Victory, I changed my Opinion. Since you have dragged me before the Tribunal of the Publick, I must beg their favourable Indulgence whilst I explain, as briefly as Circumstances will allow, the Occasion of your Displeasure, and the Motives of my Conduct.
My Zeal for the Established Church, I own, is most ardent; and, I trust, it is not a Zeal without Knowledge. At the same Time, I declare myself a warm Friend to Toleration, and the just Rights and Liberties of Mankind, as well religious as civil. For the Truth of this, I appeal to my Conduct, both in publick and private. The Dissenters from our Church have all Establishments of their own, to which they pay a strict Attention. I applaud them for it, taking it for granted that they think themselves in the right. We have also a Church established by Law. I was brought up in her Bosom; and, if my Judgment hath at all been improved or matured by Reflection, the more I consider this Institution, the more I admire it, the more I glory in professing myself one of her dutiful and grateful Sons. I have the highest Honour and Esteem, I had almost said Veneration, for her Clergy, I mean such as are worthy of that sacred Office; and, if I have unhappily given Offence to any such, to one of these little Ones, it has been without Design, and I should take great Pleasure in making every Acknowledgment that can be required of me. But if I know a Gentleman of this sacred Order, within the Pale of our Church (by whatever Means, or with whatever Views, he may have come in) who, I have Reason to think, does not approve her Doctrine, and who, instead of taking all proper Occasions of recommending her Rules and Orders, treats them with Levity and Disrespect, I own it is my earnest Wish that such a Man would remove into some other Society, which he likes better. He doth not, as you wantonly, and I will venture to say, without the slightest just Ground, have asserted, become the Object of my Horror, but of my Compassion and Pity. The Alienation of your Address, I presume, is to the Objections I have made to your being elected a Minister of our Parish. You insinuate, that I have taken Delight in representing you to be what you are not: On the contrary, I declare (whether you will believe me must be left to your own Inclination) it hath given me great Concern to be obliged to speak my Sentiments of you as a Minister of the Church of England. Your insinuation would farther imply, that I had taken an undue Advantage of saying Things to your Prejudice behind your Back. If I ever said more in your Absence, than I told you to your Face, it was because you happened not to be present when Necessity urged me to it; but that I have treated you with Candour, Part of the Sequel, which you cannot deny, will prove.
Upon a Report of the Death of the late Commissary Horrocks, our former Minister, you applied to me, as a Vestryman, for my Vote to succeed him. I told you candidly, and with as much Freedom, as Civility would allow me, that our Sentiments in religious Matters seemed to differ so widely that I could not think myself justifiable to the Parish in complying with your Request. You answered, that your Object was Truth; and, in Reply, I told you that I hoped mine was so too; that I did not presume to interfere with the Opinions of private Men, but that the Subject we were upon was of a different Nature. When there was a Prospect of our Parish's becoming vacant a second Time, I understood that you intended to offer yourself again as a Candidate; and, contrary to my Expectation, you renewed your Application to me, I own in the politest Terms, and it gave me Pain that I could not comply with your Request. But I found no Reasons to alter my former Opinion of you; on the contrary, my Objections were increased. I mentioned such only as your own Publications had furnished; which, with me, as a Vestryman, were unsurmountable. I did not, indeed, tell you every Thing I had heard of you, as my Inclination was to give as little Offence as possible; and these I never intended to have spoke of, unless compelled to it. This Evening's Conference produced from you a very genteel Letter, the material Parts of which I must recite from Memory; and, if I have mistaken it, you will be pleased to set the right. The Letter itself, I think, I burned, that it might not fall into other Hands. You thanked me for the "very candid and manly Conversation," as you were pleased to call it, which I had held with you; and told me, that, though you should be happy in having my Suffrage, yet, upon the Principles, on which I acted, you could not pretend to blame me, if I should not vote for you, but should esteem me, as if I had stood amongst the foremost of your Friends. I was exceedingly distressed by this Letter, on your Account.
At our first Vestry, upon your being proposed, and a Gentleman's expressing an earnest Desire that the Matter should then be determined, I objected to you for the Reasons I had given you in private, but confined myself to these alone. Being summoned to a succeeding Vestry, I went from home, with a Resolution indeed to vote against you, but determined, at the same Time, to rely on the Vestry's remembering what I had before objected to you without repeating it, unless I was compelled to do so; so very irksome was it to me to say any Thing of you, that might cast the most distant Reflection. Something, however, which passed in Vestry, rendered it necessary for me to repeat my Objections; and I, moreover, informed them of some Heterodox Opinions, which I had been told by a Person of undoubted Credit, that you had broached in Conversation, but, at the same Time, declared that I had never heard any Thing of the Sort from you myself. I own I went prepared, in Case there should be Occasion, as I found there was, to support what I laid of your Publications, by carrying your printed Sermon in my Pocket, which I made some few Animadversions upon.
You desire me to give the Publick something more, than private Affections to rely on. I wish no other Person in the World had ever given the Publick greater Reason to doubt his Veracity, than I have. But do not be impatient, Sir; I will presently produce what appear to me proper Testimonials for every Thing I have said of you, as of my own Knowledge. With Respect to those Things, which I have heard from others, the Publick in general is so little concerned with the Matter, that I hardly think it worth While to set about taking and publishing Depositions; but I will either give my Authors Names into your own Hands, or mention them to the Vestry, as may be most agreeable to you. Perhaps, Sir, you may think that since our Conversation, and the Letter above alluded to, my Conduct hath been actuated by other Motives, than those you were pleased to express my Approbation of. If so, pray what can you suppose them to be? I have no recent Cause of Disapprobation; and, if I know my own Heart, I bear towards you not the least Ill-will: On the contrary, I would gladly do you any Service in my Power. But I tell you plainly and truly, though with equal Concern, that I do not approve the Sentiments you have publickly avowed, nor your Conduct, in several Respects, as a Minister of our Church. My Opinion is, though perhaps it may be a little too antiquated, that no Man ought to enter into any Office, unless he is perfectly reconciled to, and determined to execute the Duties of it. A good and faithful Minister of the Church is, with me, one of the first Characters in the World. I need not remind you of the different Qualities necessary to make up this Character. I suppose they are nearly the same, as are required in Bishops; and, if that Name is not offensive, I take the Liberty of referring you to St. Paul's Catalogue in his Epistle to Titus. Amongst other Things, it is recommended that they should not be Self-willed, not soon angry; a Caution is also given against unruly and vain Talkers; they should teach, and set
an Example of Humility, Meekness, and Charity, in the most liberal and extensive Sense of the Words.
Upon your first coming over to this Colony, I must own I was pleased with your Conversation. From the History of your Education, and the early Pursuits of your Life, I almost congratulated our Church upon what I thought a valuable Acquisition. These Sentiments, it is well known, I frequently expressed; in short, I had so often mentioned your Name, with the Applause I thought justly due to you, that I, some Time afterwards, when you came to be better known, received a pretty smart Reproof for having said so many handsome Things in your Favour. Whence can have arisen this Change? I never, to the best of my Remembrance, had the smallest Difference with you. If you cannot guess the Cause, I will tell it to you. As a Friend to the Established Church, I have observed you with the deepest Concern. Review your Writings upon the Subject of an American Episcopate; recollect what it is, in which our Established Church differs from a respectable Body of Dissenters; and then determine whether a Well-wisher to our Establishment had not too much Reason given him to suspect, at least, that you were not so friendly disposed to our Church, as might have been wished and expected. I anticipate your Answer: The American Episcopate was disapproved; I was thanked for my Protect. Disapproved I own it was; but for Reasons, which could not be supposed to have had any real Weight with you. You professed, indeed, to acknowledge the Authority of the Bishop of London, and affected to pay him some fulsome Compliments; but must you not have been satisfied that his Power and Authority here was merely nominal? Must not every Man of Sense be convinced that your total Dislike to Church Government was the Ground of your Opposition? For surely, Sir, if you could approve of Bishops in England, your Aversion to an American Episcopate, under very limited Powers, could not be very great. Your lugging, Neck and Shoulders, into the Debate, the very odious American Stamp Act, which certainly had no just Analogy to the Episcopate, shewed that you had squared your Declaration by a popular Scale; but all you said on the Subject was, to me, an irrefragable Proof, that you were not well disposed to our Establishment. I was astonished to find that such Words could fall from the Pen of a Clergyman, as you made Use of, in blackening the Character of the good and amiable Archbishop Secker; a Prelate, who, from the History of his Life, appears to have been one of the greatest Ornaments of the Age, and who devoted a laborious and long-extended Life to the most important Services of our Church. But, perhaps, his greatest Fault was that he did not answer the Expectations of those, in whose Principles he had been educated.
Read your own Words in Mess. Purdie and Dixon's Gazette, July the 18th, 1771; then read his History by Doctor Porteus and Doctor Stinton, and avoid blushing, if you can. In your Address to the Reverend Mr. Camm, you say, "Now, Sir, as to Secker (a Name, it would seem, extremely familiar to you) let the World judge whether you or I have done him least Honour. He is laid in his Grave; disturb not his Slumbers; his Character, no more than his Body, can endure the keen Question of the Air. Unless you would give us another Proof of your Friendship, cause him not to sink to Futurity. Humanity will not rigidly exact from me a Compliance with that Precept, Give unto all their Dues, when Archbishop Secker is Creditor." What could INHUMANITY itself have said worse! To shew your charitable, CHRISTIAN Disposition still farther, you, I had almost said profanely, quote a Text of sacred Scripture to grace the Sentence. Pray, Sir, can you, or will you tell me who was the Author of an Address to J. H. in the same Gazette, January 23, 1772, under the Signature of Criticus? He was at least a Trumpeter of your Fame, if not more nearly allied to you. To crown the Jokes ludicrously cracked upon Bishop Timothee, and My Lord Titus, with all the profane Pertinens of affected Wit, he asks this Question, "But, if the Apostles were Bishops, pray what was Jesus Christ? An Archbishop?" I could not help exclaiming with the good Episcopalian in his Answer, "For Shame, Criticus!" I do not say you were the Author, but I know you were suspected by some. When Gentlemen of your Order treat serious Subjects, and exalted Characters, with an unbecoming and indecent Freedom, the Door of Suspicion will burst open.
In Mr. Rind's Paper, of the 5th of March 1772, there appeared a Paper addressed to A. W. supposed to be a Member of the House of Burgess then sitting; and, through him, it was generally considered as an Address to the whole House. It was on the Subject of Toleration, and contained this Paragraph: "The Scheme I would wish to see adopted is this; instead of demanding a Subscription to any of the Articles of the Church of England, extend your Toleration to all, who will subscribe to the Belief of a Supreme Being, his Government of the Universe, and the Obligations of Morality. If this be not sufficient (though I BE THOUGHT ROUGHLY PERSUADED IT IS) ADD THE TRUTH OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION." It was reported that you were the Author of this Piece, and that you avowed it. Some decent and proper Strictures were made upon it in a respectable Assembly. In our last Conversation, I took the Liberty of mentioning the Matter to you, as the supposed Author: You declared that you were not, and I was willing to believe you. But pray, Sir, though you might not have written it with your own Hand, did you not, the same Day that the Piece was animated upon, avow it to contain your Sentiments and Principles? Did you not work yourself up into a most violent Passion, and express the greatest Warmth and Resentment that any one should presume to question and censure these Principles? Or did not something of this Sort happen? I am persuaded you will not deny these Things, because I am able to prove them. And can you think it decent that a Clergyman of the Established Church should set so light by her Articles? What was recommended; you know, is not allowed of in England; Dissenters there being obliged to subscribe to all the Articles, except a few respecting Church Government. But this was not the chief Ground of my Dislike to your thus avowed Principles; for, though I have a Respect for the Articles of our Church, and think they should be binding on all its Members, yet I am far from wishing to lay them as Burthens upon the scrupulous tender Minds of such Dissenters as think they cannot, in Conscience, agree with them. I could not help being exceedingly hurt to think that a Minister of our Church should suggest it, as a Matter of Indifference, whether the Truth of Christianity should be believed or not. If it should be urged, as I know it was by some at the Time, that the Author supposed the Truth of Christianity to be taken for granted, this must appear a very strained Construction indeed. The Existence of a Supreme Being, and his Government, upon this Supposition, surely need not be subscribed to, because this must be taken as confessed before the other can.
In the same Session, Sir, I heard you deliver a Sermon on the distinct Claims of Government and Religion; which you afterwards thought proper to print. I do not presume to prescribe to you, or any other Minister, on what Subjects you are to display your Talents; but, when a Discourse is once delivered, I have a Right to judge, and if I think any Thing has been said amiss, decently to animadvert upon it. This Privilege I claim in common with yourself, and I know you sometimes exercise it very freely. Were I a Minister of the Church of England (and one I would not be unless I approved the Doctrine she teaches, and could conform to her Rules and Orders) I should not consider it as any Part of my Duty wantonly to expose the Tenets of others, or give Umbrage to Dissenters of any Denomination: Christian Charity would forbid it. Nor would I wish to make Proselytes to our Church by any Sort of Compulsion. But I should think it my bounder Duty to endeavour to display the superior Advantages of our Establishment, and the various and striking Beauties of our Liturgy. By such Means, I should hope that those already of our Communion would be still stronger attached to it, and that Strangers might be induced to join with us. But what was the Drift of this Discourse? In my Understanding, however the supposed Brilliancy of its Diction, or its nice turned Periods might be admired by some, the chief Tendency of it was to beat down and destroy that necessary, that friendly and amiable Alliance between Church and State, which the best and ablest Divines have thought essential to the Prosperity of both. In the 16th Page of the printed Sermon is this Passage: "As Society cannot be injured but by Actions which violate its Property or its Peace, those, who demean themselves honestly and orderly, ought not to be molested on Account either of their Sentiments or Worship." Most cheerfully granted. "If these Sentiments, and this Worship, be the Efflux of Sincerity and Devotion, absurd as they may be, God will approve them." Granted also, if the Word approve were changed for accept. "The more such Persons abound in every Community, the better will that Community become." Here I differ from you widely, and fear very much, if this Doctrine should be established, that it might be attended with very bad Consequences. What will not Dissenters of every Denomination say, even such as are supposed the most ignorant and enthusiastic? Will no Advantages be derived to a Community by leading its Members from Absurdity and Error? And as to future Concerns in another

Life, what may be their Loss? Hear what Doctor Secker saith, in his first Sermon by Doctor Porteus, and Doctor Stinton, Page 23d: "Not that, after all, it is indifferent, whether we fall into Errors concerning Religion, or escape them; for both Mistakes and bare Ignorance, when they are accompanied with little or no Guilt, may often be followed by great Disadvantages. Wrong Notions in the Understanding may produce wrong Movements in the Heart, which, even when they will not bring down upon us future Punishments, may unfit us for certain Degrees of future Reward." This, Sir, I take to be sound Divinity. Farther, Page the 14th of the same Sermon, you say: "As to the external Homage of the Deity, can a legal Injunction excite the Spirit of Devotion? If the Mode which the Rubrick prescribes is not the best in the Worshipper's Opinion, he will offer only the Sacrifice of Fools. " The Reformers of our Church, and Compilers of our Liturgy, certainly must have thought that the legal Injunction, which you evidently allude to in your subsequent Hypothesis, would excite the Spirit of Devotion, or they were very idly employed.
Perhaps you may prefer every Thing extempore: But we, of the Established Church, think it our Happiness that we have so excellent a Form of Prayer prepared for us; such an one, as is adapted not only to the general Exigencies of the Church, but may be suitable to almost every particular Case. We think it a signal Advantage to know what these Prayers consist of; we can meditate on them in our Closets; and when we come into Church, and join in them, as it were with one Voice and one Heart, we find that this is the greatest Excitement to our Devotions. In extempore Prayers, I fear it is otherwise. But why should a Minister of our Church suggest a Doubt, as you plainly do by your If, &c. "whether the Rubrick prescribes the best Form?" Would you not have been better and more consistently employed in pointing out the Beauties, the numberless Beauties, with which our Liturgy abounds? If these have not yet struck you, I must once more mention Doctor Secker, and take the Liberty of referring you to several excellent Discourses of his upon this Head. But I still farther beseech you, Sir, why, in the Name of common Sense, must a Man offer the Sacrifice of a Fool by using the Mode which the Rubrick prescribes, though it may not be the best in his Opinion? Cannot you figure to yourself the Case of a Person giving indeed the Preference to another Mode, and yet, in general approving ours, and therefore joining heartily and devoutly with the Congregation? In such an Instance, you surely must think the Service would be acceptable to God. I have my Fears that you do not approve our Mode, and that some Dislike or other may have prompted you to utter these Sentiments. Can my Suspicions be thought groundless, when, in another Discourse (which hath not yet, that I know of, received the Imprimatur of a pompous Dedication to your Friend) I heard you, with much Warmth, endeavour to expose some Persons whom you were pleased to suppose bigoted to a formal "Ritual?" This Discourse was rather occasional, and I remember the Occasion full well. It was considered as particularly pointed at a Majority of the Vestry, by every one I heard speak of it; and so many People could hardly be mistaken. I would not wish, Sir, if it were in my Power, to restrain a Minister from rebuking Vice in every Shape, nor from reproving his Hearers, from the highest to the lowest, when he really thinks there is Occasion; but bringing Resentments into the House of God, and there pouring them forth in tremendous Declamation, to me is horrible.
People will be making Observations; and, when in Reach of my Ears, I cannot help hearing them. I have even been asked, 'what is the Reason that Mr. Henley does not join in the publick Service, except when he officiates?' Others have remarked, that Mr. Henley never bows the Knee, when not upon immediate publick Duty. These Things may appear to be Non-Essentials; but to us, who have been otherwise accustomed, the Omission of them appears exceeding strange. Thus, Sir, have I produced, according to my Promise in an early Part of this Letter, such Documents as you yourself have furnished me with. With Respect to any Thing I may have advanced in Vestry, as coming from another's Information, it was, that you had maintained, in private Conversation, the Principles of the Socinians. After having been told this, and observing that you pretermitted a particular Part of our Service, expressly calculated to combat these Principles, and enjoined by the Rubrick to be used on particular Sundays, can you suppose but that my Suspicions must have been increased? Will you allow me, in a few Words, to mention what I conceive to be my Duty, as a Vestryman: The Vestries in this Colony I consider, as the civil Guardians of our Church; and, as you will not allow us to have any Thing to do with a Bishop, except one whose Authority here, as you have been formerly told, is a mere Non-Entity: In as much as the Clergy are not amenable to any ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in this Colony, surely the Vestries ought to be the more circumspect and attentive to their Duty. The only Instance, I know of, in which they can serve their Parishes, in any important Degree, is to be prudent in the Choice of their Minister. Upon this depends, in a great Measure, the Happiness of the People. You have had the fairest Opportunity of recommending yourself to the Parish. What is it, that prevents your being generally esteemed and respected? Will not you yourself, in the calm retired Moments of Reflection, be apt to suspect that something is strangely amiss? By your Address, Sir, I do assure you I had set me a very disagreeable Task. I have engaged in it with Reluctance, having neither Inclination nor Leisure for Things of this Sort. I have spoken some plain Truths; and, if there should be any Thing offensive in them, remember that they are written by your Command. I wish you very well; and it would give me much Pleasure, if I could, consistent with Truth, say to you, as a Minister of our Church, that I am,
Reverend SIR, your respectful Servant, R. O. NICHOLAS.
To Mr. D. C. alias T. O. at CHELLOW.
When I gave you my last Advice, I did not attend to your unhappy Situation so fully as I find it required. Herewith you will receive a Mixture, which I hope will be of Service to you. If it should not, I know no other Chance that you have but to set off instantly for Nova Zembla, since you love it so*.
The MIXTURE.
   'T WAS Night; SCRIBBELLA hover'd round, On dusky Wings, thy leaden Head; Calm SILENCE, Foe to every Sound, Kept Watch, and thus SCRIBBELLA said: My Son, † WEDGE SYLLABLES IN PLACE, AND TAO YOUR DESINENCIASSWEET; Put on a Self-conceited Face, And rise a Bard on ten long Feet, Write on in Haste, and never think Of aught but bow your Lines shall end; Let them but jingle, let them clink, SCRIBBELLA will your Works defend." The Goddess spake, forthwith the Pen Immerg'd in Ink with joyful Haste; And scribbled, o'er and o'er again, Full many a Thought, devoid of Taste.    First, Tyrant like, facetious Wit (D. C. T. O. thy Foe and Bane) Thou in Muskito's Head didst sit ‡. 'Cause she had damn'd thy silly Strain. Then ‡ Bullfrogs, from the Cypress' Top (Or, Bobby, wert thou joking?) On BANISTER and HENRY hop, With wide Throats loudly croaking, Now quick on CARY they descend, Though Men, 'tis said, of great good Worth; But, Bob, thy Muse would slay her Friend To give poetic Nonsense Birth. And EYRE ‡ (through Pity stop my Muse— Peace to the Mansion of the Dead! T. O. thou'dst e'en the Dead abuse, To prove the Weight of Chellow Lead. And now, my Chellowan Friend, farewell; None but thyself can be thy Parallel.   
* T' obtain from Heaven to follow Frost and Snow, WINTER. † See "useful, sincere" Compliment from T. O. ‡ Compliment. "For Wit, like a Muskito's Eye," &c. § See Compliment. "As soon shall Bullfrogs, on the Top Of Cypresses, on Sundays, hop," &c. Why Sundays? || "As soon could Eyre," &c. Compliment.
To the PRINTER.
Please to give the following Questions a Place in your useful Paper, and oblige your humble Servant, R. S.
To Mr. D. C. at CHELLOW.
PRAY Sir, are you, or are you not, that identical Decius Curtius who gave a Caution to the People of Virginia, some Years ago, respecting the late Lord BOTETOURT? Pray, Sir, did you not take the Credit of those Winter Verses to yourself, until you were told they were Nonsense? How then could you think of turning King's Evidence against poor Ruscelli?*
* "Eppur si move! Sat verbum sapienti: sat." See Compliment in Note.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
To be SOLD at the PRINTING OFFICE, A few Copies of AN EXPERIMENTAL TREATISE on the HUMAN BILE. By JAMES M c CLURG, M. D.
WILLIAMSBURG, May 20, 1773. I HAVE just come to Hand a fresh Assortment of KEYSER's never-failing Pills, which are to be had at my Shop, at the usual Prices JOHN M. GALT.
Doctor GRAHAM, OCULIST & AURIST, TAKES this Method of apologizing to several of the respectable Inhabitants of this City, who, having applied to him for Assistance in Disorders of the Eyes and Ears, have not as yet been attended to. The great Number of pitiable Objects, blind, deaf, &c. who crowd daily for Relief from all Parts of the Colony, has hitherto prevented him from complying with what he hath ever considered, not as his Interest only, but as a Duty, in the Exercise of which he frequently experiences the most exalted Pleasure that the human Mind is perhaps capable of enjoying.
Qui visum visam dat — CIG. THE infinitely wise Author of Nature has assigned to the Eyes and Ears the most useful and important Offices of Life. The Structure of those delicately tender Organs is so exquisitely minute, the Mechanism and Properties of their various Parts so admirably curious, that they may be filed, with Propriety, the Miracles of Nature. The great Variety of Dangers and Diseases, manifest and occult, to which those precious Senses are exposed, the little Attention that hitherto has been paid to the Improvement of this noble Science, and so few, properly qualified, have engaged in its Practice, that to study them, in any Degree suitable to their Importance, is full Business for Life. The inestimable Blessing, and great Advantages, which attend a perfect Enjoyment of the Sight and Hearing, are obvious to all; but the deplorable and truly pitiable Condition of the Blind and Deaf is attended with such solitary Discomfort, such gloomy Ideas, and constant Uneasiness of Mind, as no one can be truly sensible of who has not in some Measure experienced it himself. How noble therefore, how deserving of the nicest Cultivation, must that Art be that can restore Sight to the Blind, Hearing to the Deaf, Speech to the Dumb, and keep in Order the Springs of those Master-pieces of creative Wisdom! That Art must needs be divine; because, thus assisted, our Minds are inspired with the grandest Apprehensions of Almighty GOD!
To the INHABITANTS of VIRGINIA. DOCTOR GRAHAM, OCULIST AND AURIST, MOST respectfully offers his best Services, and acquaints them that he may be consulted at his Apartments at Mr. Hyland's, in this City, in all Disorders of the Eye and its Appendages; and in every Species of Deafness, Hardness of Hearing, Ulcerations, Noise in the Ears, &c. Those Persons likewise who have had the unspeakable Misfortune of being born deaf and dumb, and those who labour under any Impediment in their Speech, by applying personally, will probably be assisted. Those Persons whose Eyes are utterly perished, or sunk in their Heads, may have the Deformity removed by artificial Eyes, so curiously fixed, and adapted to the Orbits, as to have, in Appearance, the Beauties, Motion, &c. of a natural Eye in its healthy State.
MEDICINE and SURGERY have always been his favourite Study; but the Structure and Diseases of those tender, sympathetick, and nearly connected Organs, just mentioned, have for many Years particularly engaged his Attention and Practice; whence, regardless of vague conjectural Hypotheses, he hath deduced, on rational Principles, Methods of Cure, improved and confirmed by the most accurate Observations, in a Course of Practice the most extensive, and perhaps the most successful of any of his Contemporaries in Europe, or on this vast Continent. Notwithstanding it has ever been a Custom with the professed Oculists and Aurists of Europe to conceal their Method of Practice, and to refuse to communicate to any one the Knowledge they possessed, yet as his Concerns in England will not permit him to remain long in America, and in Order that his Method may be rendered of as disusive Utility as possible, he proposes to instruct and appoint, after a Series of actual Practice, one Person in every Province through which he may pass to succeed him in treating, after the most improved Method, the Diseases of the Eyes and Ears, and to communicate to them from Time to Time such Discoveries and Improvements as may result from future Practice. A Premium will be expected, and none need apply but those who have been regularly bred to the Profession of Physick or Surgery.
The candid and intelligent Inhabitants of these Parts of the British Colonies can readily distinguish true Merit from pretended Knowledge. To conciliate, therefore, their Favour, Doctor Graham begs Leave to assure them, that, with Tenderness and Moderation, even to the poorest Individual, his best Abilities shall at all Times be exerted to serve them; and as the Success which daily attends his Practice is a better Testimony of his Skill than any Thing he might advance in his own Behalf, let it suffice only to mention, that, after several Years Study at the justly celebrated University of Edinburgh, he has travelled in Pursuit of Knowledge, in his favourite Branches, attending the Infirmarys and Hospitals, as well as the Lectures of the most eminent Professors, in Europe. In the Course of his Practice at Philadelphia, several Hundred Patients have been cured or relieved of the following Disorders, many of which had been of long Standing, and deemed incurable by other Practitioners, even by Gentlemen who otherwise do Honour to the Profession; the Success attending their Practice sufficiently evincing that they are worthy and capable of the great, the important Charge, with which they are intrusted. The chief Disorders are as follows: Total, partial, and periodical Blindness; Weakness and Dimness of Sight; Squinting; Pain, Swelling, and Inflammation of the Eyes; Spots, Specks, Pearls, or Films occasioned by the Smallpox, Blows, or extraneous Substances; weak, watery, red, spongy, and ulcerated Eyelids; spasmodick Twitching of the Muscles; involuntary Weeping of the Tears; Tumours, and Excrencencies; Fistulae Lachrymales; total and periodical Deafness; Thickness of Hearing; Pain, and Inflammations; painful Sensations in Consequence of loud Sounds; Cracking, Itching, continual and remitting Noises in the Ears; offensive Runnings occasioned by Colds, Swelling, Swimming, Picking, and improper Applications, or by long and severe Sickness; Insects and extraneous Bodies getting into the Ears; Ulcerations, with Caries of the Bones, Polypi, &c. and several Persons born deaf and dumb, Impediments in their Speech, &c.
N. B. Business in Philadelphia will not permit the Doctor to remain in this City longer than the 15th of June. Those, therefore, who have Occasion for his Assistance, will be pleased to apply immediately. The Poor, who apply properly recommended, will be assisted gratis with Advice, Medicines, or manual Operations, as their respective Cases may require; and for that Purpose he will appropriate every Morning, Sundays excepted, between the Hours of five and seven.
*** The Doctor, next Fall, on his Progress from Philadelphia to Charleston, South Carolina, will stop a few Days at each of the Places hereafter mentioned, where those Persons whose Circumstances or Situation have hitherto precluded them from the Benefit of applying for Assistance in their respective Complaints may have an Opportunity of consulting him, namely: ALEXANDRIA, FREDERICKSBURG, NEWCASTLE, HOBBS'S HOLE, URBANNA, PETERSBURG, RICHMOND, NORFOLK, SUFFOLK, &c.
Equæ pauperibus prodest, locupletibus æque, Equæ neglectum pueris senibusque nocet. WILLIAMSBURG, May 12, 1773. HOR;