The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1773-03-18 00:00:00

VIRGINIA
GAZETTE.
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FOREIGN and DOMESTICK.
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LANEVILLE, February 8, 1773.
T HE Sheriffs who have been so long in Arrear to his Majesty's Revenue of Quitrents are once more called upon, in this publick Manner, to settle their Accounts with the Auditor, and pay their respective Balances into the Receiver's Office by the 25th of April next. My Instructions on this Head are positive and peremptory, and I shall be obliged, in Consequence of them, strictly to enforce the Law against every Sheriff who fails in his Duty, and neglects to make due Payment.
(6) RICHARD CORBIN, D. R. G.
PARIS, October 30.
L ETTERS from Brittany advise that when the Duke de Fitzjames, Commandant of that Province, arrived at Morlaix, to assist in Quality of first Commissioner of his Majesty at the Assembly of the States, the Deputation from the Nobility, which formerly met their Commandant on Horseback at Half a League Distance, now met and received him on Foot, which obliged the above Nobleman to alight from his Carriage and walk with the Deputies. The Opening of the States was on the 20th, by a Discourse full of Spirit; and the first Letters we received gave an Account that instead of immediately consenting to the free Gift the States retired to their Chamber, in Order to deliberate on the Matter, after having demanded the Restoration of the ancient Parliament of Rennes. But, by Letters of a later Date from Morlaix, we learn that the States have agreed to a free Gift of two Millions five Hundred Thousand Livres; and that the Duke had declared to them that he had Orders from the King not to make any Concession in Relation to the ancient Parliament, his Majesty being resolved to maintain his new Plan of Administration of Justice.
HAMBURG, December 4. The Court at Copenhagen has caused the following Notice to be published: "Having heard, with the greatest Indignation, that several bad intentioned Persons have caused Advices to be inserted in several foreign Papers, as well as by other Means, which tended to render the Fidelity of his Majesty's Norwegian Subjects suspected; it is, on the contrary, true, that they have not only expressed the greatest Zeal for his Majesty's Royal House, but have sworn themselves to be ready to shed their Blood in Defence of his Majesty."
LONDON, November 12.
Extract of a Letter from Copenhagen, October 20.
T THIS Day began the publick Sale of the Household of the late Counts Struensée and Brandt, by Auction; and every Article sold for ten Times more than it was worth, as every one is curious to have some Relique, in Commemoration of those two unhappy Martyrs. By this Sale the Ministry may plainly see what the Nation thinks about it, and how many private Friends the Counts still have, whose only Wishes are Revenge and Resentment."
December 1. A Letter from Dantzick says: "Notwithstanding the Reports on your Side of the Water, this City will very shortly be in a more flourishing Condition than ever; for though several new Taxes have been imposed by his Prussian Majesty, yet many old ones have been abolished, which were nearly as oppressive."
December 10. Yesterday, after the several Bills were read, reported, and committed, the House of Commons went into a Committee of Supply, Sir Charles Whitworth in the Chair; when Lord Barrington presented an Estimate of the Expense, and the Number of Land-Forces to be employed for the Service of the Year 1773. By this Estimation it appeared that there was at this Time a Force serving at St. Vincent's, one of the ceded Islands, consisting of above four Regiments of Foot. The Motives for sending so great a Force to that Island, and the Season of the Year it was sent there, produced a Debate, which lasted from about three to five o'Clock. The Management of the Army in general, and that Part of it particularly destined to serve in sickly and unfavourable Climates, was very strongly arraigned by the Country Party. They urged, in the most pointed Terms, the Absurdity and Folly of sending Troops to that Climate in the sickly Season, when almost certain Death must be the Consequence; they con-
demned the Measure of commencing a War with the Natives, as unjust as it was destructive; that it was by no Means clear that we had the least Pretensions to those Lands, for which we introduce all the Horrors of War and Bloodshed, at infinitely a less Expense, much more conformable to the lenient Spirit of our Laws and Government, as well as to the Honour of our national Reputation; that if the Planters and Purchasers of Lands in the Island of St. Vincent's deserved our Care and Protection, so did the wretched Inhabitants, and the Troops that were sent to subdue them; and that when five Companies of Foot, weak in Health and Number, had been able, for a Series of Years, to protect the Property of the Planters, and preserve the publick Tranquillity, there was great Reason to suspect that nothing but signal Injustice and Oppression could have made it necessary to send a Force there, little short of ten Times their Number, and almost twenty Times their Strength. It was contended, on the other Side, that the principal Points now agitated were not properly before the Committee; and that if they should come to be properly and regularly discussed, every reasonable Satisfaction and Information desired should be had; that no new Expense was incurred, but, on the contrary, the Total was less by five Thousand Pounds this Year than the last; that the Army in general, and in particular, was on as good and respectable a Footing as it had been at any former Period, in Times of Peace; that Numbers of Persons of Opulence had trusted their All in Purchases of Lands in these Islands, upon the certain Expectation of publick Protection; that Protection and Allegiance were reciprocal, and could never be said properly to exist but together; that the most pressing Solicitations, and strongest Representations, had been made by the Governor and Council, showing the absolute Necessity there was of sending a speedy and effectual Succour on the Occasion, now under Consideration; and finally, that the present Estimator had nothing at all to do with the Measure in a political Light; that he only acted ministerially, and was therefore not at all answerable for any one Consequence it might be productive of.
Lord North gave a Turn to the Debate very early, by pledging himself that the House should be fully informed of the Motives which induced Administration to act as they did. In every Thing that was offered to the Country Party after, a formal Revision of the present Question, in another Form, was all along understood. The principal Speakers, on the Part of Opposition, were, Mr. Townshend, Mr. Alderman Trecothick, Mr. T. Whitworth, Colonel Barre, and Lord George Germain; on the other Side, Lord Barrington, Lord North, and Mr. Welbore Ellis.
It is said that seventeen Thousand and seventy Men, including fifteen Hundred and twenty two Invalids, will be employed for the Land Service for the Year ensuing, and sixteen Thousand four Hundred for North America and the West Indies, the whole Expense of which will amount to one Million one Hundred and odd Thousand Pounds; sixty five Thousand and odd Hundred Pounds are to be defrayed by Ireland.
Next Week some important Matters relating to the British Navy, which have been recommended for Consideration by the Lords of the Admiralty, are expected to be the Subject of Discussion in a great Assembly.
Letters received a few Days since, by a Merchant in this City, from his Agent at Hamburg, mention that a Vessel lately arrived there from Florence brought Advice that the Kingdom of Naples was in the utmost Consternation on Account of several dreadful Eruptions of Mount Vesuvius, which had thrown up and covered the adjacent Country with vast Quantities of white Cinders, Stones of an immense Size, and a Kind of inflammable combustible Matter, which had never proceeded from the Mountain before, within the Memory of Man.
December 12. An humble Address is ordered by the House of Commons to be presented to his Majesty, that he would be pleased to order that there be laid before that House Copies of all Intelligence received by any of his Majesty's Ministers, and all Applications to them, upon which it has been thought expedient to send an additional Number of Forces into the Island of St. Vincent's, &c.
The Land Tax will be continued at three Shillings in the Pound for the ensuing Year.
Wednesday the East India Company paid two Hundred and five Thousand four Hundred and sixty eight Pounds and eight Pence, in one Bank Note, to the Revenue of Customs, being the Amount of Duties due on certain unrated Goods, imported under the Company's Bond.
December 15. The Attention of Parliament is engaged by the Affairs of the East India Company, which, through Mismanagement and Concealment of their true Situation, appear to be almost in a State of Bankruptcy, for Want of Money. They have been unable to pay the annual four Hundred Thousand Pounds to Government, according to Agreement, and constrained to apply for the Loan of a large Sum from the Bank; and, though they could obtain but an insufficient Part of the Money they applied for, have incurred a Cash Debt of one Million two Hundred Thousand Pounds. In this Situation, in Order to inquire into and rectify the Disorders occasioned by the Mismanagement of their Servants in India, they concluded upon sending out six Supervisors, with very ample Powers, and Salaries of ten Thousand Pounds each, with a great Train of Attendants, which, by their own Account, would incur an Expense of one Hundred and twenty Thousand Pounds; which was proposed to be paid out of the Money extorted from one of the Indian Princes, who owed his Exaltation to the Interposition of the Company, and was therefore dependent upon them. To save this one Hundred and twenty Thousand Pounds to the Company, the Parliament have interposed, and prohibited the sending out of the Supervisors. Some of them were indeed very improperly chosen, from those who had been the Directors in the Measures which had brought the Company into the present Distress. The Business appears, at present, in a State of Suspense. It appears, indeed, that there has been great Mismanagement; for out of about three Millions and a Half Sterling of Revenues, collected for the Company in India, not three Hundred Thousand Pounds got into their Treasury.
There have been some Troubles at Leopold, in Poland, where a Person (of great Popularity it seems) having slain, with his own Hand, an Austrian Commissary, who was numbering the Houses of that City, was soon taken, and condemned to be broken on the Wheel, and the Sentence was carried into Execution a few Days after.
They write from the Hague that every Kind of Provision is now moderately cheap, owing to the wise Precaution of the Magistrates.
We learn from the Hague that his Polish Majesty is expected there every Day.
A Letter from Salisbury, in one of the Morning Papers, says that the Corporation of that City have forfeited their Charter, by swearing in their Mayor (who was ill, and unable to come to the Council House) at his own House, and that a new Charter is preparing to pass the Seal.
December 16. It is confidently asserted, at the west End of the Town, that a parliamentary Establishment, for the Support of his Majesty's Brothers, will be the Subject of Discussion in a great Assembly, immediately after the Conclusion of some important Business now depending in the Senate.
Tuesday next is the Day fixed for both Houses of Parliament adjourning for the Christmas Holidays.
General Gage, Commander in Chief of the Forces in North America, has received Permission to return from that Station to Britain, in Consequence of his own Application; and we hear that he is to be succeeded in the Command, pro tempore, by Major General Haldimand.
December 17. Yesterday Mr. Sheriff Oliver had a Paper delivered to him, Mr. Sheriff Lewes having received the same Paper before (dated King's Arms, Burr Street, Middlesex, the 9th of December, 1772) as follows:
"At a Meeting of many of the Freeholders of the said County, Brass Crosby, Esquire, in the Chair, it was unanimously resolved that the Sheriff of the said County be desired to call a general Meeting of the Freeholders, to consider the Mode of Redress of the violated Right of Election in this County."
"Resolved, that the Chairman do make this Request to the said Sheriff. Signed by Order of the said Meeting. BRASS CROSBY, Chairman."
On Monday Night Mr. Bullock, one of his Majesty's Messengers, was sent with Despatches to Sir Robert Murray Keith, his Majesty's Ambassador at Vienna.

The Letters received yesterday from the Hague say that the Accounts which have been published of the Regiment in Garrison at Berlin being ordered to be in Readiness to march are confirmed by the last Letter, which the States General received from the Count de Varen, their Minister at Berlin.
December 18. Letters from Brunswick mention that the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Brunswick propose to visit this Kingdom early in the Spring.
It is said, on good Foundation, that Mr. Wilkes has an Offer of a Government abroad, and that his real Friends have given their Opinions that it should be accepted.
On Sunday Morning Lord Townshend arrived at his House in Portman Square, from Ireland, and yesterday waited on his Majesty at St. James's, when he kissed the King's Hand on being appointed Master General of the Ordnance.
Sir Charles Knowles is said to be recalled from the Court of Peterfburg, where that experienced Officer has long exerted his great Abilities for the Improvement of the Russian Marine.
December 19. In Answer to the Request for a general Meeting of the County of Middlesex, signed by Mr. Crosby, and delivered on Tuesday last to Mr. Sheriff Oliver, Mr. Crosby on Wednesday received the following Letter:
To BRASS CROSBY, Esquire.
SIR,
The flagrant Violation of the Right of Election, committed by the House of Commons in the Case of the Freeholders of Middlesex, has always induced me to give every Assistance in my Power towards obtaining Redress. I shall always continue the same Endeavours, whether as an Individual, as a Representative in Parliament, or as one of the Sheriffs of the County.
I am very willing to call a general Meeting of the Freeholders for the Purpose you mention, and therefore I desire it may be done in that Manner which shall appear most likely to give Weight and Respect to the Measures which may be afterwards taken at such general Meeting.
At present, no Freeholder's Name appears to the Application I have received but yours; and however respectable that is, yet I cannot think it alone sufficient either to justify me for calling together so numerous and considerable a County as Middlesex, or to incline the Freeholders to assemble.
The Consequence of the collective Body of the People seems to be the only Hope we have now left for the Redress of past Security from future Wrongs; and that may be easily insured, and made cheap, by recurring to it improperly, and upon every slight Application. To do so usually renders a Man popular, without Risk or Trouble; but it does much Mischief to the Publick, and shows a Want either of Understanding or Principle. Therefore, as one of the Sheriffs, before I can consent to call a general Meeting of the County, I desire to have an Application, signed by the many Freeholders who were present in the mixed Company where you was Chairman; or, if you do not think them sufficiently numerous, the fairest Way will be to have an open Meeting of the Freeholders only, to consider of the Application.
I am, SIR,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
RICHARD OLIVER.
Fenchurch Street, December 16, 1772.
Extrait of a Letter from Berlin, December 8.
By the humane and wise Precautions of the Prussian Monarch, the Distresses of the Poor in Berlin, and the adjacent Country, have been greatly alleviated. The Bounties allowed on bringing in Corn, Cattle, &c. and Fuel, with the severe Penalties laid on secreting those Articles, have had the desired Effect. Publick Magazines of Corn have been opened, and sold at a very moderate Price, and the Markets for some Weeks past have been greatly overstocked with Cattle, which has much reduced the Price. The King enjoys but a precarious State of Health, and is often confined to his Chamber, but his Assiduity in Business ceases not.
The Motion for an Addition to the Pay of the Captains in the Navy will be made before the Adjournment of Parliament for the Holidays.
BASSETTERRE (St. Christopher's,) January 17.
We hear from St. Vincent that the Indians have sent a Message to the Admiral and Governor of the Island, to know what Terms they will accept of; for, finding themselves almost jaded to Death, the Want of Provisions and Ammunition renders them entirely incapable of defending themselves. It is said they want to go quietly away from the Island, if the English will permit them so to do. There is at present above twenty Transports there, besides six Men of War and Tenders. The Soldiers have taken a Hill from the Indians, that they have been defending two Weeks, with a considerable Loss of Men on both Sides.
KINGSTON (Jamaica) December 19.
On Friday Night, the 11th Instant, departed this Life his Excellency Sir William Trelawney, Baronet, our worthy and much esteemed Governor, after a long and painful Illness, which he bore with Christian Fortitude and Resignation, and died with that firm Hope of a happy Immortality which a virtuous and admirable Uniformity of Character, and the calm Consciousness of a Life well spent in the Service of his Country, at once inspired and justified. The Honourable House of Assembly then sitting immediately voted his Remains a magnificent Funeral at the publick Expense, in Order, as it is expressed in the Vote, "to testify the grateful Respect which the House entertains of his Excellency's Merit, the Sense they have of the great and universal Satisfaction which his mild and equitable Administration gave to all Ranks of People, and the real Regret they feel at his Loss." The Honourable the Council concurring in this distinguished Resolution, a joint Committee of both Branches was appointed to conduct the Funeral; and on Sunday Evening, the 13th, the Body, enclosed in a leaden Coffin, placed in an outward Shell, covered with Crimson Velvet, and richly furnished, lay in State in the Council Chamber, which was hung with Black, and illuminated with large Wax Tapers. The Members of the Legislature, the Magistrates, the Officers of the Army, Navy, Militia, and all Ranks of People, seemed to vie with each other in showing the most grateful Testimonies of Regard and Respect to the Governor's Memory.
Next Day the Honourable John Dalling, Esquire, after the usual Formalities, was sworn in Lieutenant Governor.
SAVANNAH, January 13.
THE following is an Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in London to his Friend here, dated November 4th. "I congratulate you most sincerely on the Concurrence of the Lords of Trade with Governor Wright's Proposition respecting the Cherokee Lands. The Determination of their Lordships was greatly influenced by the Governor's Resolution to carry the Plan into Execution in his own Person, and he is now deliberating on the Measures necessary to be taken previous to his Departure. Indeed, I believe if the Governor had not said he would go and manage this Business himself, it would have failed altogether; so that the Colony stands indebted to him for every Advantage this important Affair may procure it."
CHARLESTOWN, January 12.
A GRANT of an immense Tract of Country, back of the northern Colonies, which we hear will be established into a proprietary Government, hath been obtained from the King, by Thomas Walpole, Esquire, Doctor Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton. General Lyman, in Behalf of himself and other Provincial Officers, who served in the late War, hath likewise obtained a Grant of an extensive Country on the Mississippi River. His Excellency Governor Wright has also obtained a Grant of a Tract of Land in the Province of Georgia, supposed to contain three Millions of Acres; and several other Grants have also been made, to other Persons, of great Bodies of Land on this Continent, for the better settling and populating this extensive Part of the British Dominions.
January 19. Last Week another Ship, full of Settlers for this Province, arrived here from Belfast.
BOSTON, February 8.
Extrait of a Letter from a Gentleman in London.
I am told of some Regulations that have taken Place in the Spanish Colonies, which do the Spaniards much Honour, and are certainly worthy our Imitation, in Case we should not be so happy as to obtain an entire Abolition of Slavery. I have not seen those Regulations in Writing, but I understand they are to the following Effect: "As soon as a Slave is landed, his Name, Price, &c. are registered in the publick Register, and the Master is obliged to allow him one working Day in every Week besides Sundays; so that if the Slave chooses to work for his Master on that Day he receives the Wages of a Freeman for it, and whatever he gains by his Labour on that Day is so secured to him by Law that the Master cannot deprive him of it. As soon as the Slave is able to purchase another working Day, the Master is obliged to sell it to him, at a proportionable Price, namely, one fifth Part of his original Cost, and so likewise the remaining four Days, at the same Rate, as soon as the Slave is able to redeem them; after which he is absolutely free. This is certainly a considerable Step towards the abolishing absolute Slavery, and such an Encouragement to Industry that even the most indolent are tempted to exert themselves. Men who have thus worked out their Freedom are insured to the Labour of the Country, and are certainly the most useful Subjects that a Colony can acquire. Regulations might be formed upon the same Plan, to encourage the Industry of Slaves that are ready imported into the Colonies, which would teach them how to maintain themselves, and be as useful, as well as less expensive, to the Planter. They would by such Means become Members of Society, and have an Interest in the Welfare of the Community, which would add greatly to the Strength and Security of each Colony; whereas, at present, many of the Planters are in continual Danger of being cut off by their Slaves."
gains by his Labour on that Day is so secured to him by Law that the Master cannot deprive him of it. As soon as the Slave is able to purchase another working Day, the Master is obliged to sell it to him, at a proportionable Price, namely, one fifth Part of his original Cost, and so likewise the remaining four Days, at the same Rate, as soon as the Slave is able to redeem them; after which he is absolutely free. This is certainly a considerable Step towards the abolishing absolute Slavery, and such an Encouragement to Industry that even the most indolent are tempted to exert themselves. Men who have thus worked out their Freedom are insured to the Labour of the Country, and are certainly the most useful Subjects that a Colony can acquire. Regulations might be formed upon the same Plan, to encourage the Industry of Slaves that are ready imported into the Colonies, which would teach them how to maintain themselves, and be as useful, as well as less expensive, to the Planter. They would by such Means become Members of Society, and have an Interest in the Welfare of the Community, which would add greatly to the Strength and Security of each Colony; whereas, at present, many of the Planters are in continual Danger of being cut off by their Slaves."
Wednesday last the Honourable House of Representatives sent the following Message to the Governor.
May it please your Excellency.
The House of Representatives having directed the Secretary to inform them whether you have been pleased to give your Assent to the Grants lately made to the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature, &c. and it appearing that your Excellency had not done it, it is their Request that you would be pleased to make known to them the Difficulty (if any there be) in your Excellency's Mind, which prevents your assenting to said Grants.
The People without Doors are universally alarmed with the Report that Salaries are fixed to the Offices of the said Justices by Order of the Crown, and an unusual Delay to confirm the Grants now made is judged by this House to be a sufficient Apology for this Inquiry."
THE GOVERNOUR'S ANSWER.
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
I HAVE received Information that his Majesty has been pleased to order that Salaries shall be allowed to the Justices of the Superior Court, and that such Salaries shall continue so long as those Justices shall reside within the Province, and whilst they are absent from it with his Majesty's Leave; but I have no Information that any Warrants for the Payment of such Salaries have been issued. I therefore did not give an immediate Assent to the Grants which you have made for their Services the Year past, as the Warrants, if they should hereafter be transmitted, may include Part of the same Time for which your Grants are made, but thought it most advisable to consider of some Precaution to prevent all Claim from the Province for any Services for which the Justices may also be entitled to a Salary from the King. I hope therefore a short Delay, which has been occasioned by a Regard to your Interest, as well as by a Sense of my Duty to his Majesty, will not be thought unnecessary.
PROVINCE HOUSE,
February 4, 1773.
T. HUTCHINSON.
[Thus we at length find that a most interesting Piece of Intelligence, concerning which his Excellency, though humbly requested by the Metropolis, declined giving any Information, now appears, without Question, to be a Fact!]
It is given out from the Cabinet that the Crown will not insist upon supporting the Governor and Judges, if the General Court will allow them fixed Salaries; a Measure proposed by the Ministry in Governor Burnet's Administration, but, to the immortal Honour of the then House of Representatives, resolutely and perseveringly opposed.
February 18.
Last Friday the following Message from the House of Representatives was carried to his Excellency the Governor, by Mr. Hancock, Mr. Gerry, Dr. Holten, Captain Brown, of Watertown, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Gorman, Major Thayer, Captain Heath, and Captain Gardiner.
May it please your Excellency.
YOUR Message of the 4th Instant informs this House that his Majesty has been pleased to order that Salaries shall be allowed to the Justices of the Superior Court of this Province. We conceive that no Judge who has a due Regard to Justice, or even to his own Character, would choose to be placed under such an undue Bias as they must be under, in the Opinion of this House, by accepting of, and becoming dependent for, their Salaries upon the Crown.
Had not his Majesty been misinformed with Respect to the Constitution and Appointment of our Judges, by those who advised to this Measure, we are persuaded he would never have passed such an Order; as he was pleased to declare, upon his Accession to the Throne, that "he looked upon the Independence and Uprightness of the Judges as essential to the impartial Administration of Justice, as one of the best Securities of the Rights and Liberties of his Subjects, and as most conducive to the Honour of the Crown."
Your Excellency's Precaution to prevent all Claim from the Province for any Services, for which the Justices may also be entitled to a Salary from the King, is comparatively of very small Consequence with us.
When we consider the many Attempts that have been made, effectually to render null and void those Clauses in our Charter upon which the Freedom of our Constitution depends, we should be loath to all publick Feeling should we not manifest a just Resentment. We are more and more convinced that it has been the Design of Administration totally to subvert the Constitution, and introduce an arbitrary Government into this Province; and we cannot wonder that the Apprehensions of this People are thoroughly awakened.
We wait with Impatience to know, and hope your Excellency will very soon be able to assure us, that the Justices will utterly refuse ever to accept of Support in a Manner so justly obnoxious to the disinterested and judicious Part of the good People of this Province; being repugnant to the Charter, and utterly inconsistent with the Safety of the Rights, Liberties, and Properties, of the People.
There were ninety one Members present when this Message was brought into the House, and it passed by a Majority of eighty one.
PROVIDENCE, January 23.
WEDNESDAY last Admiral Montagu returned to Boston, from Newport. On the Road, we are told, he was met by two Farmers with loaded Carts, who were ordered to give Way for the Admiral's Carriages. One of them complied; but the other refusing, his Excellency threatened him in high Terms, and proceeded to brandish his Cane. The honest Farmer resolutely asserted his Right, and, raising the But of his Whip, stood on the defensive. This was accompanied with Gestures that rendered any Explanation of his Intention unnecessary; when the Admiral thought proper not to contest the Matter further, prudently lowered his Cane, gave Way to the Cart, and pursued his Journey. He was very particular in his Inquiries, at the next Inn, after the Farmer's Name, perhaps with Design, agreeable to the modern Mode, to indict him for high Treason.
Extrait of a Letter from a Gentleman of the Law in a neighbouring Colony, to his Friend in Providence.
"The very extraordinary Stretch of Power, in erecting a Court of Inquisition at Rhode Island, arbitrarily to apprehend, and most cruelly and unconstitutionally to carry beyond Sea for Trial, those Persons concerned in burning the Gaipe, is justly alarming to every Lover of his Country, and our once happy Constitution. We ought to consider the Measures as levelled not at Rhode Island merely, but as a flagrant Attack upon American Liberty in general. The Commission granted in 1664 to Mavereck Carr, and others, though acknowledged by all to be destructive of the Liberties of the People, and unsupported by the Constitution, was not so fatal as the present Commission. There our Ancestors had the small Consolation of having their Causes heard and determined where they were able to procure their Evidences, &c. but to be drawn three Thousand Miles from the Jurisdiction where the supposed Offences are committed, to be there tried by Minions of Power, renders all Hopes of Acquittal vain, and a Defence impossible. How soon this may be the Fate of some in our Colony, as well as in yours, I know not. This at least ought to be the Desire of every honest Man, that none of us may, like Slaves, submit to the Injustices of the Tools of Administration; but, like Men, show, by every constitutional Method, that we intend to hold our Liberties free from Invasion, and transmit them inviolate to unborn Generations, for whom, as well as ourselves, we hold them in Trust."
PHILADELPHIA, February 24.
ON Wednesday and Thursday last our River was so clear of Ice that several Vessels went down, and two or three came up; but on Saturday last it came on very severe, so that our River was froze from Side to Side by Monday Morning, and People crossed it on Foot.
WILLIAMSBURG, March 18.
On Monday last the HONOURABLE the HOUSE OF BURGESSES presented the following Address to his EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOUR:
MY LORD,
WE, his Majesty's dutiful Subjects, beg Leave to present your Excellency our sincere Thanks for your Attention to the Interests of this Colony, by vigorously endeavouring to bring the Forgers of our Paper Currency to Justice; but the Proceedings in this Case, my Lord, though rendered necessary by the particular Nature of it, are nevertheless different from the usual Mode, it being regular that an examining Court on Criminals should be held either in the County where the fact was committed or the Arrest made. The Duty we owe our Constitution obliges us, my Lord, to be as attentive to the Safety of the Innocent as we are desirous of punishing the Guilty; and we apprehend that a doubtful Construction and various Execution of criminal Law, does greatly endanger the Safety of innocent Men. We do therefore most humbly pray your Excellency that the Proceedings in this Case may not in future be drawn into Consequence or Example.
To which his Excellency was pleased to return the following Answer:
Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of BURGESSES,
I have always made the Laws of the Country the Rule of my Conduct, I acted in this Affair with the greatest Caution, and took the Advice and Assistance of Gentlemen in whose Judgment, Candour, and Integrity, I could confide. In apprehending and bringing to Justice the Forgers of your Paper Currency, I little imagined, when I was endeavouring to punish the Guilty that my Conduct could, by any Means, be thought to endanger the Safety of the Innocent. Permit me to say, that all Laws doubtful in their Construction must be interpreted by the Courts of Justice. If I have done amiss, the same Method will not be repeated; but if it should be determined to be regular, I shall continue to exercise the Power I am invested with, whenever the Exigencies of Government, and the Good of the Country, require such Exertion; and, under such Circumstances, I am persuaded that no one (even the most timid) will be under the least Apprehension that this Proceeding may, in future, be drawn into Consequence or Example.
On Friday the HONOURABLE the HOUSE OF BURGESSES came to the following RESOLUTIONS:
WHEREAS the Minds of his Majesty's faithful Subjects in this Colony have been much disturbed by various Rumours and Reports of Proceedings tending to deprive them of their ancient, legal, and constitutional Rights; and whereas the Affairs of this Colony are frequently connected with those of Great Britain, as well as of the neighbouring Colonies, which renders a Communication of Sentiments necessary: In Order, therefore, to remove the Uneasiness, and to quiet the Minds of the People, as well as for the other good Purposes above mentioned,
Be it resolved, that a standing Committee of Correspondence and Inquiry be appointed, to consist of eleven Persons, to wit, the Honourable Peyton Randolph, Esquire, Robert Carter Nicholas, Richard Bland, Richard Henry Lee, Benjamin Harrison, Edmund Pendleton, Patrick Henry, Dudley Digges, Dabney Carr, Archibald Cary, and Thomas Jefferson, Esquires, any six of whom to be a Committee, whose Business it shall be to obtain the most early and authentick Intelligence of all such Acts and Resolutions of the British Parliament, or Proceedings of Administration, as may relate to or affect the British Colonies in America; and to keep up and maintain a Correspondence, and Communication, with our Sister Colonies, respecting these important Considerations; and the Result of such their Proceedings, from Time to Time, to lay before this House.
Resolved, that it be an Instruction to the said Committee, that they do, without Delay, inform themselves particularly of the Principles and Authority on which was constituted a Court of Inquiry, said to have been lately held in Rhode Island, with Powers to transport Persons accused of Offences committed in America to Places beyond the Seas to be tried.
Resolved, that the Speaker of this House do transmit to the Speakers of the different Assemblies of the British Colonies on this Continent Copies of the said Resolutions, and desire that they will lay them before their respective Assemblies, and request them to appoint some Person, or Persons, of their respective Bodies, to communicate from Time to Time with the said Committee.
On Monday last, the Business of the General Assembly being finished, his Excellency the Governor, gave his Assent to the following Bills:
An Act for the better securing the publick Credit of this Colony.
An Act to prevent counterfeiting the Paper Money of other Colonies.
An Act to amend the Act entitled An Act for erecting a Lighthouse on Cape Henry.
An Act for establishing a Warehouse for the Inspection of Tobacco in the Town of Manchester.
An Act for altering the Bounds between the Parishes of Dale and Manchester, in Chesterfield County.
An Act to establish and enlarge the Power of the Trustees of the Town of Richmond, in the County of Henrico, and for other Purposes.
An Act for altering the Court Day of the County of Loudoun.
An Act for appointing two new Fairs, and discontinuing a former Fair.
An Act for building a Bridge over Nottoway River, from the Land of Samuel Brown, by Subscription.
An Act for appointing Trustees for the Gingaskin Indians.
An Act for making an Addition to the House appropriated to the Use of the publick Jail.
An Act to dock the Entail of certain Lands whereof Lewis Burwell, Esquire, is seized, and for settling other Lands to the same Uses.
An Act to dock the Entail of Parr of a Tract of Land whereof John Tazewell is seized, and for settling Slaves of greater Value to the same Uses.
An Act to vest certain entailed Lands whereof Bowles Armistead, Gentleman, is seized, in Trustees, to be sold for Payment of the Debts due from the Estate of his late Father, William Armistead, Esquire.
An Act for appointing Commissioners for selling the Tobacco damaged in the publick Warehouse for the Inspection of Tobacco at Aquia, and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
An Act for the Ease and Relief of the People, by paying the Burgesses in Money for this present Session of Assembly.
And then closed the Session with the following Speech:
Gentlemen of the Council, Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of BURGESSES,
As you have now gone through the Business for which you were assembled, and having nothing farther to propose to you at present, it becomes necessary to put an End to this Session of Assembly; and I recommend to you to use your Endeavours, in your several Counties, to abolish that Spirit of Gaming which I am afraid but too generally prevails among the People, and to substitute in its Place a Love of Agriculture, and Attention to their private Affairs, by which you will render a most essential Service to them and your Country. I do prorogue you to the third Thursday in June next, and you are accordingly prorogued to Thursday the 17th of June next.
The Arnold, Waterman, and William, Clark, are safe arrived at the Port of London.
VINEYARD, near Williamsburg, March 10, 1773.
HAVING read, in the Gazette of Messrs. Purdie and Dixon for the 24th of last February, an Essay of Colonel Robert Bolling relative to the Establishment of Vineyards in this Country, I was tempted to take the Liberty of considering some of its Articles, without pretending to place myself on the same Parallel, or to engage in any Competition with its respectable Author. My Intention is merely to communicate to the Publick the little Experience, which, during four Years Residence in this Country, I have been able to acquire, particularly in Regard to the Cultivation of foreign Vines.
It is my humble Opinion, that the native Vines of the Country can alone be cultivated with Success; the foreign ones being exposed to too many and great Inconveniences. Such are, in the first Place, the Injuries from Worms and Insects; secondly, the Mischief they suffer from the Rains, which generally fall about the Time of the Maturity of the Grapes, and give Occasion to their bursting, as well as to the Evaporation of their Spirit; thirdly, their ripening about two Months sooner than the native Grapes of the Country, at the very Time of the Year when the Heat is greatest, which cannot fail of precipitating the Fermentation in the foreign Grapes, and of rendering it excessive.
There is scarcely a Gentleman in the Country whose Experience of what happens to the foreign Grapes in his Garden will not convince him of the Justice of the preceding Observations. It it was necessary, I might confirm them by the Experience of Colonel Baker of Smithfield, a very ingenious Gentleman, whose Curiosity has been particularly employed on this Subject. He had collected in his Garden a Variety of foreign as well as of the native Vines of this Country, all of which appeared to succeed equally well until the Period of their ripening. Then he found that the foreign Grapes were constantly spoiled by Accidents which I have already enumerated, while the Natives sustained no Injury, because probably their Skins are of a Nature capable of resisting the Insects, and the Rains; and because, too, they do not ripen until two Months after the foreign Grapes, at a Season more favourable to the Fermentation of Wine.

Let it be remembered, however, that what I have hitherto said relates entirely to the lower Parts of the Country; the higher, being altogether unknown to me, may justify perhaps the Opinion of Colonel Bolling, and be more favourable to the Cultivation of foreign Vines.
With Respect to Colonel Bolling's Apprehension that the Vines of the Country do not yield a sufficient Produce, and that their Fruit is not rich enough, I can affirm, from Experience, that Vines, planted and cultivated, bear a Fruit one third at least larger than what is found on the spontaneous Growth of the Woods; and that the Juice of the former is infinitely richer, and more spirituous. Nothing therefore is required but the Skill of the Cultivator in letting them acquire the proper Maturity, and in their Management afterwards, to obtain from them a Wine of the best Quality.
The Occasion induces me to speak two Words with Regard to myself. The Vineyard which I planted has appeared, hitherto, to answer so little to the Expectations of those that many begin to despair of its Success; but I beseech them to suspend for a While their Judgment, and to consider a little the unlucky Seasons we have had for the two last Years, nothing being more contrary to fresh planted Vines than excessive Drougths: Yet I hope, notwithstanding, with Heaven's Assistance, to fulfil my Obligation before the Expiration of the Time with which I have been indulged. It is the well founded Hope of the Publick's
Most obliged humble Servant, A. ESTAVE.
To Mess. PURDIE & DIXON, GENTLEMEN,
I AM one of your Subscribers, but so remote, and so much out of the Course of your Posts, that I receive not six Papers in the Year. This is a pretty general Complaint, and occasion of much Murmuring; that you and Mr. Rind might join your Interests in concerting some Plan with the Gentlemen now in Williamsburg to allay it. If such a Genius as Colonel Bolling would condescend to propose some Plan for private Posts, I doubt not he would be listened to. Meantime my Chagrin on this Account is dispelled by a more important Performance of that Gentleman in your Gazette of the 25th Ultimo. Such a patriotick Proposal merits Deliberation and Success; but, though he treats his Subject as a Man of Sense and Intelligence, his Plan to engage Vignerons and procure Vines seems liable to candid Animadversion. This I would attempt, if it was not utterly impossible to prepare it against the only Opportunity I may have to Williamsburg during this Meeting of Assembly. However, the Assembly will certainly proceed with Deliberation in a Matter of such Importance, and receive every useful Information by Means of a select Committee. Meantime I hope the following List of a few of the best Wines drank in Europe will not be unseasonable. My Design is to make this a Topic of Conversation, in the Course whereof Gentlemen Travellers, and others, may correct my Errors, and inform Men of Influence in the Colony, less intelligent than themselves. As I have excluded many Wines of which I frequently drank, so I confess I have introduced others of which I have only read and heard. Those which seem best calculated for the Climate of Virginia have this Mark * prefixed.
   VINES and WINES. Where produced.    Madeira, . . . . . Madeira.  Palm, . . . . . Canaries.  Malmsey, . . . . . Spain.  Malaga, Mountain, and sweet, . . . . .  * Champagne, . . . . . France.  * Burgundy, . . . . .  Vin de Bean, . . . . .  Cole Roti, . . . . .  St. Laurence, . . . . .  * Frontiniac, . . . . .  Muscat de Leon, . . . . .  Cahors, . . . . .  Hermitage, . . . . .  Grave, . . . . .  Vin d' Haye, . . . . .  * Hochheim, and other Rhenish Wines, . . . . . Rhine.  * Tokay, and others in upper Hungary, . . . . . Hungary.  * Framin, } fine Wines of Tyrol, chiefly } . . . . . Tyrol.  * Etch, } recommended by the Climate, } . . . . .  * Valteline, . . . . . Switzerland.  * Mufcadine, . . . . . Nice.  * Montalneo, . . . . . Tuscany.  * Red Pulciano, . . . . .  * White and Red Florence, . . . . . Pope's Territories.  Albano, . . . . .  Montefiasconi, . . . . .  Lachryma Christi, . . . . . Naples.  
I have drank of some fine Mediterranean Wines, and heard of many more whose Names I forget. However, I apprehend the above, or as many of them as can be procured, may suffice for the first Trials. There is no Doubt but good Wine may be made in Virginia. Nevertheless, if the Assembly could get the Carolinas and Maryland to join them, better Expectations might be formed of an Undertaking which will certainly be attended with very great Expense if executed with the Spirit it deserves; not but Virginia is able of herself to support all the Expense and Risk of it, and should certainly do it if her Neighbours are ungenerous enough to reject her Proposals. I am, Gentlemen,
Your most humble Servant, BENEVOLUS.
But honest Ardour (conscious as I am) That my poor Rofinante's blind and lame, And that my Balfard Mule, awob in the Creek He stumbling threw, took Cold, and scarce can speak) Impels me on a feeble Note to raise, O Cloud-Compeller, in your sacred Praise.
Verfes in Praise of Winter.
REMEMBER when again you stride Poor Rofinante's Back, With greater Caution that you ride, Nor let the Reins be slack.
And since your Nag's both lame and blind, Let me, Sir, you advise Never to spur him down to Rind, Till Graham gives him Eyes. For every Man, with Pity, sees The poor Thing crawl along; And when he stumbles on his Knees, They all cry out 'tis wrong.
Get Girolamo Ruffelli, Orlando Furioso, The great Bilamo Muffelli, With Brando Curioso.
With them of Metastasio chat, And of the Vines at Chellow; But as you talk of this and that, Be sure to make them mellow. Then in Italian you may preach, Or staggering Prose to stand, And limp on Stults of Rhyme may teach, To all the neighbouring Land. Chellow perhaps may suit the Vine, You Eftave may excel; But, Bob, the long-tail'd Line You do not manage well.
AN E C C O T E.
THE equestrian Statue of Charles I. which stands near Charing Cross, from whence it looks towards Whitehall, the Place where that Monarch was beheaded, was sold at a low Price, during the Heat of the civil Wars, to a Cutler, who advertised that he would melt it down and make Handles for Knives of it. He, in Fact, caused Knives with Bronze Handles to be exposed to Sale in his Shop, by which he soon made a Fortune; the Republicans, who opposed the King, being all desirous of having some Part of his Statue debased to a Knife Handle. The Cutler, however, buried it under Ground; and at the Time of the Restoration of King Charles II. gave it to that Prince, and he ordered it to be set upon a new Pedestal, in the Place where it formerly stood.
It was inserted in this Gazette of the 3d of September last, which was soon after the News arrived here of the many Bankruptcies that had happened in Britain, that by some Vessels arrived in Rappahannock there was Advice of several Houses which had stopped Payment having begun to do Business again, particularly Mess. Dunlop and Wilson of London. As we are not very certain how we came by that Piece of Intelligence, and having been called upon to give up our Author, by some Friends of those Gentlemen in Maryland, who assert that no such Failure ever happened, we hope they will be satisfied with our declaring that, in future, we shall be more cautious in publishing any Article which may tend to the Prejudice of Individuals, and are sorry we were so precipitate as to insert what we did upon Hearsay.
Advertisements.
SUNDRY damaged Goods, consisting of LINENS and IRON WARE, imported in the Unity, Captain Goosley, from London, to be sold at the Raleigh Door, for ready Money, on Monday the 22d Instant, at five o'Clock in the Afternoon, for the Benefit of the Ensurers. (1) ROBERT PRENTIS.
NORFOLK, March 18, 1773.
THE Partnership of GEORGE JACKSON, MATTHEW JACKSON, and WILLIAM JACQUES, being dissolved, this is to request all Persons who have any Demands against the said Partnership to make them known immediately, that they may be adjusted; and those indebted are desired to make speedy Payment, or give their Notes to George Jackson only, that no Disputes may hereafter arise. The Subscriber again earnestly hopes that those indebted, either by Bond or otherwise, will discharge their Accounts as soon as possible, as some Misfortunes of late really necessitate him to this Request. GEORGE JACKSON.
IMPORTED last October, in the Homer, Captain Miller, a MATTED TRUNK, marked IWCH in a Diamond, No. 2, which is now in my Warehouse at Milner's, and will be delivered to the Owner on paying Chages. ARCHIBALD CUNNISON.
MR. PRATT, PORTRAIT PAINTER, Lately from ENGLAND and IRELAND, But last from NEW YORK,
HAS brought with him to Williamsburg a small but very neat Collection of PAINTINGS, which are now exhibiting at Mrs. Vobbe's, near the Capitol, the Prices of which may be known by applying to Mr. Lockley, at the Bar; and as it is likely Mr. Pratt will continue some Time in this Colony, if any Gentlemen or Ladies are desirous to employ him, and will please to leave a Line for him at the Post Office in Williamsburg, with their Directions, he will endeavour to wait on them in his Way down from the Place where he is at present employed, near Richmond, as he intends to spend the Summer Months at Hampton.
THE Badness of the Weather preventing the Sale of my Land advertised some Time ago, I now propose to sell it by Auction, before the Raleigh Door in Williamsburg, on the 3d of May next. The Land is pleasantly situated on Mattaponi River, and contains, by Estimation, six Hundred and fifty Acres, and a Hundred Acres of Marsh on the opposite Side of the River. There is on it a genteel two Story Brick House, Brick Offices, and a large Warehouse sixty Feet by twenty four, with a Brick Cellar, standing within thirty Yards of a Wharf where Vessels of a Hundred Tons Burthen may load. Any Person inclined to purchase will be shown the Land, and may know the Terms, by applying to JOHN MEREDITH.
N. B. As the Title to the above mentioned Land was some Time ago disputable, I think it will not be improper to inform the Publick that the entail has been broke by Act of Assembly, and the Royal Assent obtained.
CULPEPER, March 16, 1773.
I INTEND to leave the Colony for a few Months. (2||) GEORGE SLAUGHTER.
OLD JANUS
IS now very fat, and as active as a Lamb, and stands at Northampton Courthouse, North Carolina, in Order to cover Mares at forty Shillings a Leap, or four Pounds the Season. The Pasturage, which is under a very good Fence, will be allowed gratis, but I will not be liable for any Mare that may be stolen or get away accidentally. Any Gentleman who thinks proper to send a Servant to see the Mares have Justice done in covering, and feeding with Corn at twelve Shillings and Sixpence a Barrel, shall be accommodated gratis. (1||) J. ATHERTON.
IN the Night of Saturday the 27th Ultimo the Store kept by the Subscriber, in the Absence of Mr. George Mitchell, Merchant of this Place, was broke open and robbed of a Drawer containing CASH, a BILL of SALE from George Mitchell to Colonel Fielding Lewis, sundry other Papers, and the under mentioned TOBACCO NOTES; also a Cafe with MONEY SCALES and WEIGHTS, and a GARNET NECKLACE set in Gold, like open Roses, valued at about twenty Guineas.
   Warehouses. When received. Marks. No. Gross. Tare. Net.    On Frederickburg. December 21, 1771. E C, — 483 1204 133 1071  January 19, 1773. WH in a Piece, — 1132 952 124 828—Remarked W Crowsfoot D, No 2.  R D, — 1131 1374 127 1247  February 9, — R Crowsfoot D, — 377 1096 153 944  155 1142 108 1034  800 1108 104 1004  175 1286 110 1176—Remarked W Crowsfoot D, No. 1.  On Royfon's. January 11, 1773. HE in a Piece, — 1143 823 119 704  February 12, — RY in a Piece, — 1218 800 114 686  On Dixon's. January 27, — I A, — 384 1160 120 1040  February 24, — MB in a Piece, — 385 1130 124 1006  2 1343 187 1156—Remarked W Crowsfoot D, No. 3.  4 1190 100 1090  On Morton's. 23, — IMI in a Piece, — 148 1284 125 1159  142 1114 126 1018  On Conway's. July - 22, 1772. IL in a Piece, — 355 1120 118 1002  Roy's. March - 10, — I C, — 1158 1090 102 988  Quantico. January 7, 1773. C D, — 1912 1149 107 1042  East, York River. 1 1128 123 1005  2 1156 114 1042  
Upon making out a proper List of the above Tobacco, in Frederickburg, Royfon's, and Dixon's, the Notes have been got from the different Inspectors; Lists of Tobacco on the other Warehouses have also been sent, and the Notes are expected of Course; of which the Publick are desired to take Notice, as well for the particular Safety of Individuals as for the Detection of the Villains, whose Education being probably of a Degree with their Humanity, they may be ignorant enough to expose the above Contents, wherein they cannot fail of being detected, after this timely Notice, and to which the Publick are again entreated to pay due Regard. If any Persons, having a just Suspicion tending to discover the above Robbery, or have got any of the above Contents ignorantly, or otherwise, their signifying the same as soon as may be shall be duly acknowledged by JOHN MUNRO.
WARWICK, March 10, 1773.
RUN away from Prince Edward County, in October or November last, a Convict Servant named GILES ALDRED, by Trade a Weaver, about twenty five Years of Age, middle sized, with red Hair, has much of the Welch Accent in his Speech, and a Mark remains where his right Arm was lately broke. Whoever brings him to me, or to Mr. Henry Beekin Lightfoot in Prince Edward, shall have THIRTY SHILLINGS Reward. JOHN LEITCH.
TAKEN up, in I inwiddie, a red STEER with some white Spots and some White in his Face, marked with a Swallowfork and Halfmoon under the left Ear, the Points of his Horns are sawed off, and he is branded on the right Horn W C. Posted, and appraised to forty five Shillings. (||) JAMES OLD.
TAKEN up, in Dinwiddie, a red HEIFER about four Years old, marked with a Crop in the right Ear, and a Swallowfork in the left. Posted, and appraised to thirty five Shillings. (||) EDWARD OLD.
TAKEN up, in Bedford, a small gray HORSE about eleven or twelve Years old, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, branded on the near Shoulder and Buttock I G, and had on a small Bell tied with a Leather Strap. Posted, and appraised to four Pounds two Shillings. (||) THOMAS HELM.
TAKEN up, in Dinwiddie, a white HORSE about four Feet six Inches high, appears to be old, is very mischievous, and paces and gallops well. Posted, and appraised to eight Pounds. (||) WILLIAM PEGRAM.
THE next MEETING of the Subscribers to the Fund for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of Clergymen is to be held on Saturday the 1st of May next. Officers for the present Year are the Reverend John Camm, Treasurer; Reverend Samuel Klug, William Bland, William Willie, Henry Skyring, James Maury Fontaine, and Thomas Lundie, Trustees; the Reverend William Harrison Morning Preacher, and the Reverend Price Davis Afternoon Preacher. JACOB BRUCE, Clerk.
WANTED, In ST. MARY'S Parish, CAROLINE County, AN ORGANIST. Any Person properly qualified, upon Application, will meet with due Encouragement. JAMES MILLER, JOHN BUCKNER, Churchwardens. (||)
GOOCHLAND, March 2, 1773. AS I intend to leave the Colony in a few Weeks, I must entreat those that have Accounts unsettled on the Books kept by me for Mess. Henderson, McCall, and Company, Merchants in Glasgow, to come and settle them by Bond, or otherwise, without Loss of Time. At my Departure the Books and Vouchers for the Debts will be put in the Hands of Mr. William Mitchell, Merchant in Richmond, to collect. ROBERT BIRKMYRE.
THE noted Horse OLD PARTNER stands at my Plantation in Goochland, and will cover Mares at five Pounds the Season each Mare. I have very good Pasturage, but will not be answerable for any Mares that may be stolen, or stray away. THOMAS M. RANDOLPH.
THE MATERIALS saved from the Ship Donald, James Passeur Master, from Glasgow, stranded on Hog Island, near Cape Charles, will be sold at Norfolk, for ready Money, at publick Vendue, on Saturday the 20th Instant (March) for the Benefit of the Owners or Ensurers. (2) ARCHDEACON & INGRAM, V. M.
A QUANTITY of DAMAGED GOODS, saved out of the Ship Phoenix, John Lamont Master, from Glasgow, will be sold, for the Benefit of the Owners or Ensurers, on the 22d of this Instant (March) at the House of Mr. Caleb Upshaw in Accomack, and on the next Day a farther Quantity at the House of Captain John Coleburn. (2) EDWARD KER. N. B. The Goods remaining in the Ship, as also the Hull of the Ship, will be sold on the 22d of March, at the said Upshaw's.
To be SOLD, on Wednesday the 5th of May next, ABOUT ten LOTS of LAND, situated in the Borough of Norfolk, and on the main River, on one of which is erected a Brick GRIST WINDMILL in good Repair. One Half the Purchase Money to be paid on the 23d of July 1774, and the Remainder on the 23d of July 1775, upon Bond, with good Security, carrying Interest. The Lands, &c. will be shown at any Time before the Day of Sale by applying to Mr. John Smith. (1||) THOMAS TALBOT, JOSEPH HUTCHINGS.
GOOCHLAND, March 9, 1773.
RUN away from the Subscriber, near two Years ago, a likely Negro Man named JUBA, about five Feet nine or ten Inches high, between twenty five and thirty Years of Age, squints much, is an African by Birth, and speaks bad English. He is supposed to be lurking about Mattox's Warehouse in the Northern Neck, where he formerly lived with Mr. Archibald Bryce, or Hobb's Hole, in Essex. Whoever delivers him to me shall have TWENTY POUNDS Reward, and TEN POUNDS for committing him to any Jail within this Colony, so that I get him again. JOHN BOLLING.
EREDERICKSBURG, March 3, 1773.

POETS CORNER.
STANZAS written in a Wood.
A SCENE like this can seldom fail to please, Where friendly Boughs a cooling Shade diffuse; Here on this Turf let me recline at Ease, And hold sweet Converse with the Sylvan Mufe.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Stafford County, on the 31st of January last, a Convict Servant named THOMAS PHILIPS, alias HAMILTON, about twenty five Years old, about five Feet four Inches high, thick made, wears long brown Hair tied behind, a broad smooth Face, fair Complexion, thick Legs, is by Trade a Tailor, and says he was born in Hertfordshire; he had on, when he went away, a light blue German Serge Coat with a Velvet Cape, red Jacket and Breeches, a fine Felt Hat, two Shirts, one plain and the other ruffled, Country made Shoes, and white Thread or Yarn Stockings.
RUN away from the Subscriber, about the End of October last, a Negro Fellow named ANTHONY, about five Feet nine or ten Inches high, about twenty five or thirty Years of Age, with a Scar on his Face, a remarkable curly Look, speaks fast, and is of a most quarrelsome Disposition; he carried with him a Variety of Clothes, for which Reason I cannot describe his Dress. Some Years ago he lived about Norfolk, where he is well known, and I believe was the Property of Messrs. James Campbell and Company. Masters of Vessels are forbid, at their Peril, to carry him out of the Colony. Whoever delivers him to Mr. Alexander Banks at Rocky Ridge, or to me in Cumberland, shall have FIVE POUNDS Reward.
STRAYED, or STOLEN, from Roslin, near Pokahontas, in Chesterfield County, on the 2d of November last, two WORK HORSES, one of them a large light Gray, about four Feet ten or eleven Inches high, a natural Pacer, but do not recollect whether he had any Brand; the other is a middle sized dark Roan, branded on the near Shoulder TR in a Piece, and may be known by a remarkable Wart on his Breast. They had both hanging Manes, the Gray a Switch, and the Roan a pretty long Bob Tail. Whoever brings them to me shall have THREE POUNDS Reward, or THIRTY SHILLINGS for either; and if taken up at a Distance, all reasonable Charges paid.
TAKEN up, in Amberst, a STEER of a red coloured Red, with a small Piece taken off the upper Part of the End of the right Ear. Posted, and appraised to three Pounds ten Shillings.
TAKEN up, in Henrico, a dark bay MARE about four Feet eight or nine Inches high, six or seven Years old, with a Switch Tail and hanging Mane, trots and paces, and branded on the near Buttock with three Dots. Posted, and appraised to twelve Pounds.
TAKEN up, in Chesterfield, a sorrel MARE about four Feet seven Inches high, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, but no Brand can be discovered. Posted, and appraised to eight Pounds.
TAKEN up, in Amelia, a red COW with a Crop and Hole in the left Ear, and a Halfmoon and Hole in the right. Posted, and appraised to forty Shillings.
TAKEN up, in Amelia, a sorrel HORSE about thirteen Hands and a Half high, about six Years old, with a Star in his Forehead, a white Spot on one of his Buttocks, and branded on the near Buttock A. Posted, and appraised to six Pounds ten Shillings.
COMMITTED to the publick Jail, from Orange County, a Negro Man named JEFFREY, five Feet six Inches high, about twenty two Years old, pretty black, has a pleasant Countenance, is bow-legged, and such a Stranger to English that he cannot give any Account of either his Owner or the Place from whence he came.
I FIND, on opening the Cask of PEWTER which I formerly advertised, that it is marked with the A ciphered Initials W W, with a Cross under the A. The Owner, on proving his Property, may have it by applying to JOHN GOODRICH.
A CAUSE having arose to prevent Mr. Francis Hay from continuing the Direction of Messrs. William Cuninghame and Company's Business at Dumfries, he is succeeded therein by Mr. William Cuninghame, to whom, or to his Order, all Persons indebted for Transactions with the deceased Mr. John Neilson, or Mr. Hay, on Account of the said Company, are desired to pay the respective Sums they owe.
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, will most certainly be put into the Hands of a Lawyer, without Respect of Persons.
THE Inspectors at Page's and Crutchfield's Warehouses take this early Opportunity of informing the Publick that no Tobacco will be shipped by them from their respective Warehouses unless the Inspection Money accompanies the Notes or Orders.
TAKEN up, in Amelia, a white HORSE about four Feet four or five Inches high, and branded on the near Shoulder with something resembling a Heart. Posted, and appraised to four Pounds.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, by Virtue of a Deed from Mr. Benjamin Chapman to the Subscriber, on Thursday the 1st of April, if fair, otherwise next fair Day, at Hix's Ford, in Brunswick County,
ALL the Estate of the said Benjamin Chapman, consisting of twenty likely NEGROES, many of whom are very choice Fellows, about thirty good WORK HORSES, OXEN, STOCKS OF CATTLE, SHEEP, and HOGS, &c. &c. Credit will be allowed till the 25th of December next for one Half the Purchase Money, and ready Money to be paid for the other Half.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Fauquier, on the 29th of December last, a likely Virginia born Mulatto Boy named CHALES, who I understand calls himself Charles Huler, and says he is a Freeman; he is about nineteen Years old, five Feet four or five Inches high, had on, when he went away, a Virginia Cloth Coat and Waistcoat mixed with black and white Yarn and Cotton, lined with blue Shalloon, and trimmed with plain white Metal Buttons worked with Blue, a Pair of Negro Cotton Breeches dyed of a pale Blue, with Half of each Waistband white, a Pair of Plaid Hose, and a blue Duffel great Coat.
LOST from Mr. Wild's Rack, on Saturday the 20th of last Month, a dark bay GELDING about four Feet nine Inches high, with a hanging Mane and short Switch Tail, the Hair much worn off his Sides by the Traces of a Waggon, he paces slow, trots easy, has a sprightly Look, and is a likely Horse, except his Rump, which is remarkably short.
DOCTOR GRAHAM, OCULIST and AURIST, AT PHILADELPHIA,
THUS publickly gives Notice that he purposes to be at Williamsburg about the Middle of April next, where those Persons whose Circumstances or Situation have precluded them from the Benefit of applying for Assistance at Philadelphia may consult him in all Disorders of the Eye and its Appendages, and in every Species of Deafness, Hardness of Hearing, Ulcerations, Noise in the Ears, &c.
WHEREAS I intend shortly to remove from the Place where I now live to Fincastle County, on the Western Waters, it is expected that all those Gentlemen who have Business to do with me will attend at the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, where I shall be from the 25th of April next to the 25th of the said Month, in Order to have all those Accounts which are now unsettled properly adjusted.
WHEREAS, by the Death of Mr. John Smith, the Partnership between him and myself, of Course, is dissolved, this is therefore to inform those indebted that it is expected they will immediately make Payment of their respective Balances, or close their Accounts on the Books by giving Bonds.
N. B. There is a genteel Assortment of GOODS on Hand, suitable for the Spring, which I will dispose of at a low Advance.
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, a Quantity of low Grounds which may be made good Meadow with little Expense;
RUN away from the Subscriber, in the Night of the 9th of November last, two Negro Fellows, namely: NAT, a tall stout made Negro, knock kneed, a little bald, wore a Truss when he went off, which he may probably have on when taken, is a good Cooper, and understands Something of the Carpenter's Trade.
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 Subscriber will sell, on reasonable Terms, his LAND and HOUSES whereon he now lives, known by the Name of HOOD'S, in Prince George, on James River.
For SALE, in the Town of NEWCASTLE, A LARGE two Story DWELLINGHOUSE, with three commodious Rooms on a Floor, each with a Fireplace.
RUN away from the Subscriber, at Peterfburg, about the Middle of September last, a very likely Negro Man named PHILL, about twenty Years of Age, of a yellow Complexion, and about five Feet nine Inches high, proportionably made.
I will give THREE POUNDS Reward to any Person who will deliver said Slave to me, or to Mr. Hugh McMeikin at Portsmouth, and FORTY SHILLINGS to secure him in any Jail, and give Notice thereof.
TWENTY POUNDS REWARD FOR apprehending JOHN HUTCHINSON, who ran away last Night from the Subscriber, in Lancaster.
For SALE, A VALUABLE TRACT of LAND lying on both Sides of Hyunting Creek, in Halifax County, containing five Hundred Acres, the Soil of which is exceeding good for Tobacco and Corn.