The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1771-09-05 00:00:00

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WARSAW, May 15.
THE Confederates are now actually on their March towards Cracow. Their Intention is to proceed to a new Election of a King there, but we are assured that the patriotic Party, and the Russians, will not permit them to carry Matters to such an Excess of Rashness; in Consequence of which three Russian Regiments, as also Colonel Drezwick, and Major Suwarrows, at the Head of their respective Corps, have already received Orders to march against them. M. de Saldern, Ambassador from Russia, is every Day in Conference with the King.
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 3. The Turkish Vessels which sailed from the Dardanelles, to the Number of fifteen, in Order to burn the Magazines formed by the Russians in the Isle of Ispera, met with the Enemy, and were beaten by them.
PARIS, May 31. On the 27th Instant forty two Counsellors of the Chatelet received Letters of Cachet, which banish them to different Places. They have Orders to depart within twenty four Hours.
It is said that M. de Guignes, our Ambassador at the Court of London, is recalled.
We have Letters from Rochford, which say that the Women of the Isle of Rhé have occasioned a Riot on Account of a Tax that was to be laid upon Beef. We learn from Nancy that there was a considerable Riot in that Place likewise, on Account of the bad Quality of the Bread that was sold. Four Thousand Women were in Motion, and the Garrison was obliged to take up Arms to disperse them.
June 1. The new Code of Laws has at length appeared. It consists of forty Quatro Pages, and is intended for simplifying every legal Process, and lessening the Expense.
PETERSBURG, May 10. A circumstantial Account of Major General Weiseman's Expedition has been published by the Court, and it appears that with seven Hundred and twenty Men he defeated five Thousand Turks. The Officers and Soldiers acquired immortal Honour.
May 14. This City is at present the Rendezvous of many different Nations. We have Bredziah and Jedissian Tartars, Kirgizes that border on China, Georgians, Greeks, Circassians, Caburdians, and Crebans, Poles, and Cossacks, all of them differing in Physionomy, as well as in Dress and Language. The Kirgizes inhabit Mount Imaus. They have sent a numerous Embassy, which has been six Months on its Journey. Among them is a young Prince, who has twenty nine Brothers, and cannot tell how many Wives the Chan his Father possesses.
VIENNA, May 25. Couriers constantly pass and repass between our Court and those of Berlin and Petersburg, but we know Nothing of the Contents of their Despatches. The Marks of Esteem, however, which are shown to Count Orlow and Prince Dolgorucki, who are unexpectedly arrived here, clearly prove that a good Understanding subsists between her Imperial Majesty and the Empress of Russia.
Her Imperial Majesty, willing that Admission into religious Orders should be entirely free, has published an Edict by which all Legacies or Donations to ecclesiastical Bodies, under any Title whatever, are totally prohibited, under severe Penalties, both to the Donor and Donee.
LEGHORN, May 14. We learn from Calabria that they have apprehended a Robber called Bruno Grillo, who had rendered himself formidable by the many Assassinations which he has committed for these twelve Years past. He had made himself, in a deep Forest, a subterraneous Retreat, which would never have been discovered, had he not been betrayed by the Man who carried him Provisions, and who was the only human Being with whom he held any Commerce. This Villain has confessed that he committed sixty three Murders.
NAPLES, May 14. The Lava of Mount Vesuvius, having made itself a new Opening, has destroyed many Hundred Acres of Land, and ruined several Individuals.
POLAND, May 23. Obrescow, the Russian Resident, has been conducted to Semlin, an Austrian Fortress opposite to Belgrade. This is a great Step towards Peace.
ALEXANDRIA, April 19. Captain Paulin de Saint Tropes failed lately from this Port for the Morea, and was taken, off the Isle of Candia, by a Pirate, who massacred him and all his Crew.
VERSAILLES, June 5. The Dearth of Corn has reduced Franche Comte to a deplorable Situation. The King has ordered fifty Thousand Livres to be distributed among the Poor of the different Communities. The Incumbents of the different Parishes have seconded his Majesty, and distributed Alms.
LONDON, June 10.
THE Account in the Papers, which says that the Aurora was safely arrived at Bombay with the Loss of her Masts, we are assured is totally void of Truth; as the Greenwich East Indian, which is just arrived, in a short Passage from that Place, gives not the least Tidings of her, but, on the contrary, asserts she is given over there, and that they are as much at a Loss to account by what Accident, or where she met with her Fate, as we are at home. And we can take upon us to say that no Express has been received by the East India Company of her Arrival at Angrehs, or elsewhere; but that, on the contrary, they have given over all Hopes of her Safety.
We can assure the Publick that Lord Bute, notwithstanding the Affections to the contrary in some of the Papers, enjoys as good a State of Health as he has done for many Years past.
It is reported that the Spaniards have taken another Island in the South Seas.
Extract of a Letter from Paris, May 21.
"The Ministers of the War and Marine Departments have just presented to the Council their respective Projects for augmenting the Pay of the Officers, Soldiers, and Seamen, which have received the Approbation of the Council, inasmuch as the Whole tends to the Encouragement of the Military in every Respect; but as the Question is, how to fix a Fund to supply this Augmentation, the Business was postponed till farther Orders, all the Funds being already anticipated."
"The next Day the Duke de la Vrilliere laid before the Council several Letters from the Intendants of the different Provinces, informing the Court that in all the Towns, Communities, and Parishes, there had been Meetings of the Inhabitants, to which their Magistrates had not been invited; and that they had agreed and resolved that as the King's Edicts and Declarations for collecting the Land Tax, the Tax for the Maintenance of the Gendarmes, the Poli Tax, the Twentieth Penny, &c. had been registered by the Parliament, now that his Majesty had abolished that Body, the Receipt of these Taxes ought to cease, as the Cause that gave them Force and Credit had ceased. In Consequence, the Receivers of these Taxes can no longer levy them, and had Recourse to the Intendants for a Supply of Porteurs de Contraintes (Bearers of an Order, or General Warrants, to seize and imprison any Person) Soldiers, Dragoons, &c. &c. which these Intendants refused to grant without express Orders from the Court, which is greatly embarrassed at this Increase of Troubles. This is the most fatal and decisive Blow that could be struck to open the King's Eyes, and let him see the wicked Proceedings of the Chancellor; for if the People persist in refusing to pay, the King's Troops will not be sufficient to quarter one Soldier only on each refractory Individual, to distress, or in Garrison. Moreover, where must the Money come from for Payment, if every Landholder, and every private Person, refuse to pay?"
"This is our present Situation, and Nobody will venture to accept of the Premiership, nor of the Place of Comptroller General, which the Abbé de Terray still keeps against his Will."
Mr. Wilkes seems to be very industrious to secure the Livery in his Favour. He was observed on Sunday, about one o'Clock, going alone through Fleet Street, courteously bowing and shaking Hands with Numbers, till he came to St. Paul's Churchyard, where he crossed and repeated the same Civility as he returned back on the opposite Side.
It is imagined that before Mr. Wilkes and Mr. Horne have struck a Balance they will drag in, by Way of strengthening their Cause, the Names of Half the Gentlemen in London. Such Proceedings are mean, base, and ungenerous; as they have already made free with the Names of some who perhaps never spoke to them in their Lives, and would not, upon any Consideration, have had their Names quoted in so scandalous and disgraceful a Dispute.
The Officer of Police in Constantinople lately made a sudden Visit to the Bakers of that City, and finding in the Shop of one of them some Bread short of Weight, he hung the Baker up instantly before his own Door, as a Sign hung out, as he expressed it, that People might not buy Bread there.
The last Letters from Gibraltar insinuate that a Spanish Camp was forming in the Neighbourhood of La Roche; and that one Moldivi, a French Engineer in the Spanish Service, had declared that Gibraltar was not impregnable.
The Salary of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, it is said, is to be increased four Thousand Pounds; from sixteen Thousand Pounds, its present Establishment, to twenty Thousand Pounds a Year.
Extract of a Letter from the Hague, June 4. "Letters from Vienna, by the last Post, confirm the Account of the Arrival there of the Resolution of the Court of Petersburg, and add that in Consequence of the Plan which the Empress of Russia has formed, in consenting that her Troops should not pass the Danube, General Count de Romanzow will remain with the grand Army of that Sovereign, consisting of one Hundred Thousand Men, on this Side the said River, the better to receive the Ottomans in Case they should come to attack him; and in the mean Time General Prince Dolgorucki, at the Head of fifty Thousand Men, will endeavour to get Possession of Crim Tartary."
"We are informed, by Letters from Paris, that the new Code of Laws registered on the 17th Ultimo was made publick on the 29th of the same Month. The Lawyers say that it is the Ordinance of 1607, copied almost entirely."
"Count A——ri, a Piedmontese Nobleman, against whom Lord Ligonier has commenced a Suit in England, is now at the Hague, where he resides incognito, and lodges, it is said, at the House of M. d'Arunha, the Portuguese Minister here."
A few Days since an Express arrived at the Spanish Ambassador's, from Madrid. He was in such Haste that he only stayed four Hours, and then set off again for Spain.
"We are assured, by a Gentleman just arrived from Paris, that though he saw Nothing there of the Disturbances so frequently mentioned in the Papers, yet it is certain the Court are so apprehensive of a Riot that an Edict has been published by which the People are forbidden, under Pain of the severest Punishment, to be seen talking to the Number of Half a Dozen at a Time in the Streets."
"The last Advices from Paris say that the French King is afraid to enter that City. He spends his Time entirely between Versailles and Marli, and permits his Chancellor to perform all publick Business. Not a Night passes but treasonable Papers are found pasted up in the publick Squares, notwithstanding the Vigilance of the Police. On the 28th Ultimo a Paper was stuck upon one of the Gates of the Church of Notre Dame, which concluded with these Words, Oh! for another Ravaillac. "
"A new Treaty is now on Foot between the Courts of Versailles and Turin, and nearly concluded, which, it is said, is in direct Opposition to the Treaties between the Sardinian and British Courts."
"We hear that Commodore Byron has carried out with him fresh Instructions to keep the French within their Boundaries, for carrying on the Cod Fishery at Newfoundland; as every Season, since the Conclusion of the late War, they have given great Trouble to the Governors and the Captains of the Men of War stationed there, by setting up fresh Claims to Harbours, fishing Works, &c. besides pretending a Right to the Salmon and Whale Fisheries."
"His Majesty's Ship the Panther of sixty Guns, Captain Gayton, in which the Honourable Commodore Byron was proceeding to his Command at Newfoundland, is put back to Plymouth, with the Loss of her Mainmast."
"Saturday Morning, at four o'Clock, died George Montagu Dunk, Earl of Halifax, Viscount Sunbury, Secretary of State for the Northern Department, Ranger and Warden of Salcey Forest and Bushy Park, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Northamptonshire, and one of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight of the Garter, a Governor of the Charter House, and Lieutenant General of his Majesty's Forces."
"Last Night died at his House, near Hanover Square, after a tedious and painful Illness, which he bore with the greatest Fortitude and Resignation, the Bishop of St. David's in 1744, and translated to the See of Durham in 1752, in both which Dioceses his Name will be long remembered with Honour and Regret, by Laity as well as Clergy."
"June 13. Monday Evening some Despatches were received by Count Bruhl, the Saxon Ambassador, which confirm the Accounts of an Accommodation taking Place between the Empress of Russia and the Porte; and add, that a Suspension of Arms has already taken Place."
"Private Letters from Paris assure that the Princes of the Blood, and Nobles, who have been banished, are expected daily to be recalled, and that the Affairs of that Kingdom will then be put on a more amicable Footing."
"On Tuesday there was a numerous Meeting of the Bill of Rights Society at the London Tavern, at which forty three Members dined, when the Lord Mayor subscribed one Hundred Pounds, and several other Subscriptions were received, amounting, in the Whole, to about five Hundred Pounds. Nineteen new Members were proposed for the next Meeting."
"Policies are opened at the Royal Exchange upon the Success of Mr. Alderman Wilkes's Election. Sixty Pounds are taken to return one Hundred if he should not be chosen."
"Mr. Horne's last Letter has done Mr. Wilkes more Service than any of the other particular Charges the Parish has brought against him. Such a Series of regular Facts amount to more than prima Facie Evidence; and unless Mr. Wilkes can, in his Reply, demonstratively prove that the Whole is a String of Falsehoods, the Publick in general will look upon him as the most ungrateful unprincipled Profligate that ever dared to insult Generosity and Friendship. If he should have the Adroitness to overturn all Mr. Horne's Affections, he will raise himself in the general Esteem of Mankind, and Mr. Horne will deservedly be thought an arch Fiend, able in Villainy, and practised in Deceit."
"There are now two vacant blue Ribands, the one by the Death of the Duke of Saxe Gotha, and the other by that of the Earl of Halifax, both of which will be filled up before the 25th of next Month, being the Day fixed for the Installation."
"Yesterday the Right Honourable Lord Hlde kissed his Majesty's Hand on being appointed Chancellor of the Dutchy and Palatine Courts of Lancaster, in the Room of Lord Strange, deceased. He was afterwards sworn in one of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his Seat accordingly."
"Though we have lately suffered the French Ambassador and his Attendants to visit our Dockyards, a Correspondent observes that in March 1770, when an English East Indian, having lost her Masts off Ushant, steered into the Road of Brest to refit, the Intendant of the Marine sent a Message, charging the Crew not to come on Shore. The Officers, indeed, were
permitted; but so cautious were the French that they conducted them by the back Wall of the Fortress of Louvernois, a Town about twelve Miles off, where they continued for five Weeks under the strictest Inspection. In the mean Time the Ship was supplied, and being fit for Sea, the Officers were brought to Town, to a Coffeehouse near the Esplanade, where the Swiss Regiment was exercised for their Entertainment, after which they were conducted on Board their Ship, but not till it was dark; and a fast Wind springing up, they set sail the next Morning."
"June 14. Yesterday there was a grand Court and Drawing Room at St. James's, at which his Majesty was present; all the great Officers of State, foreign Ministers, &c. attended. After it was over, a Cabinet Council was held; at which the Lords North, Rochford, and Suffolk, assisted."
"Yesterday the Earl of Suffolk had a Levee, for the first Time, as Secretary of State for the Northern Department, at his Office in Cleveland Row, at which all the foreign Ministers, &c. attended."
"Yesterday the Speaker of the House of Commons, and the Solicitor General (Mr. Wedderburne) attended the Court at St. James's, and had an Audience of his Majesty, by whom they were very graciously received."
"A certain aged Lady of high Rank, we are informed, is going to make an Excursion into the Country for the Benefit of the Air , the Latitude of London being too warm for her Constitution, so that it is expected her Route will be directed towards the North."
"On Monday next the Remains of the Bishop of Durham will be conveyed to Glynde in Sussex, to be deposited in a Vault in the new Church lately built there by his Lordship."
"We are informed that the yearly Revenue of the late Lord Halifax's Estates is now (being free from Encumbrances) worth thirty Thousand Pounds a Year."
"Eighteen Horses in training, the Property of the late Jennison Shaito, Esquire, were sold by Mr. Pond, at Newmarket, last Monday, for six Thousand one Hundred and forty four Guineas. The principal Buyers were Lord Grosvenor, Mr. Storde, Mr. Blake, and Mr. Christopher Blake; the latter purchased the famous Horse Gnawpost, for seven Hundred Guineas."
"June 15. Lord North is appointed Ranger and Warden of Bushy Park, in the Room of the Earl of Halifax, deceased; and also Ranger and Warden of Salcey Park, in the County of Northampton, as being contiguous to his Estate in that County."
"It is reported that the Duke of Grafton's being appointed Lord Privy Seal was without the Consent of Lord North, who had offered it to Lord Chatham, by whom it was rejected, he insisting on Lord Camden's being restored, as likewise on a Dissolution of Parliament."
"The following Fact will show to what a Height of Impudence our London Tavernkeepers are arrived at, and how cautious the Gentlemen concerned ought to be of those in whom they confide. A few Days ago a Gentleman called at the London Tavern, to leave a Letter for the Chairman of the Society of Supporters of the Bill of Rights, at their then next Meeting. He ordered, at the same Time, Wine and a Beef Steak; while his Stake was dressing he recollected some Mistake which he had made in his Letter, and desired the Waiter to return it for him to correct. The Waiter sneeringly replied, "Sir, my Master has burnt your Letter." "Burnt it! burnt it! (replied the Gentleman) you must mistake; call "your Master." The Master accordingly came, and, with a great Deal of Gravity, confirmed what the Waiter had said; and added, he would burn every Letter that came directed to the Society, and began to cast injudicious Reflections on them. The Gentleman, who was out of Patience with the Landlord's Impudence, took his Hat and Cane and reured. Whether this extreme ill Usage is known to the Gentlemen who compose that Society we cannot tell."
"We are well assured that several Changes of Consequence will take Place, in a short Time, upon the Resignation of several great Men now in Office."
"All the foreign Ministers resident here are hourly making a Jest of the egregious Folly, and glaring Absurdity, in appointing Lord Suffolk Secretary of State, and Mr. Wheatley his Comes , neither of whom can speak a single Sentence of French. O Fleshy, Fleshy, how art thou justified! "
"Yesterday the Right Honourable Lord Suffolk kissed his Majesty's Hand on being appointed Secretary of State for the Northern Department, in the Room of the late Earl of Halifax."
"We hear that the Society of the Bill of Rights, who have again begun a Subscription for the Payment of Mr. Wilkes's Debts, will, at their next Meeting, take into Consideration the State of the fifteen Hundred Pounds which were remitted to that Society from Charlotten. The several Members of the Assembly who voted that Sum out of the publick Money did it, no Doubt, with a good Design, and for the Good of the Province, but have since found, to their Cost, that they must stand to the Loss of this Sum themselves, as it cannot now be taken from the publick Cash of the Province; and it is certainly every Way consistent with the Spirit and Conduct of so publick spirited an Institution as the Society of the Bill of Rights to preserve their Friends from being Sufferers in their private Capacity, for what they did as Members of the Assembly, especially if it be considered that many, who, in their Zeal for a good Cause, gave their Vote, can very ill afford to pay their Quota towards such a Sum of Money."
"Two Caveats are entered in Doctors Commons, against the proving of the Will of the late Earl of Halifax."
"A very powerful Association is forming in the capital Provinces of France, TO REFUSE THE PAYMENT OF ALL TAXES."
Extract of a Letter from Paris.
"We are at present in such Confusion in this Capital, and indeed all over the Kingdom, that the Ministers of State are taking every Precaution to prevent a civil War. Gentlemen and Ecclesiastics are sent to the Battle by Dozens; the new Parliament dare not transact any Business, for Fear of being arraigned by the old Parliament, Princes of the Blood, and the greatest Part of the Nobility, as an unlawful Assembly, several of them having been already threatened to be hanged up at their own Doors. The Country People from different Provinces are so numerous in this City that the Judge of Police endeavoured to clear it of them, but to no Purpose, because they can find no Bread nor Money in the Country; in short, if proper Measures are not speedily adopted, this Country will be one of the most miserable in the World. Happy then that Nation whose Liberties are preserved sacred and inviolable! there can be Nothing wanting in it to make every Thing lovely, and to flourish in it; their Trade must be extensive; their Manufactures numerous; the People easy, contented, rich, brave; the Sovereign happy, in governing reasonable Creatures in a reasonable Manner, and commanding what Principle teaches us to be fit and right. England is the Nation where these Effects are best understood, and most likely to be expected; and learn to commiserate and pity almost all the World besides."
Extract of a private Letter from the Hague, June 7.
"Our Politicians were never more puzzled than they are at present to form a proper judgement of the Turn Affairs will take between Russia and the Porte; for though a Treaty of Pacification has, for some Weeks, been talked of as an Event that would soon take Place, the Czarina's Demands are considered by the Porte as so very unreasonable that it is positively assured the Grand Seigneur has declared that he will not only rather risk another Campaign than submit to them, but if the Russians are absolutely possessed of Constantinople he would still reject them. It is generally believed that though the Court of Versailles will not visibly appear an Auxiliary to the Porte that she has had sufficient Influence upon the Court of Vienna to engage the Emperor to make the most favourable Dispositions in Favour of the Grand Seigneur, and that, under Pre-

of preventing Insurrections into his Territories, he will absolutely...
By Letters from... we have Advice that a Spanish Man of War had lately put in there under Pretence of being in Want of Water and Provisions.
The Effects of Simplicity and Luxury on a State, exemplified from the ROMAN History.
MENS Occupations are generally conformable to the Manners of the Age, and the Manners suited to their Condition.
Under the Consuls, when they had no War abroad, they were agitated at home by an Evil still more dangerous.
This Kind of civil War proceeded from no Fund of Hatred or reciprocal Aversion, but rather from the evil Dispositions of those in Authority.
These Remedies palliated the Evil, but did not cure it. Rome, agitated by Turns by domestic Troubles and foreign Wars, had only Intervals of Tranquillity.
The first Magistrates, and the Generals of the Armies, cultivated their Fields, and threshed their Grain, with those Arms which had vanquished the Enemy.
History furnishes many of these Examples, not only in the early Times of the Republick, but also in those flourishing Ages when the Romans, already Masters of Italy, caused their Power to be respected beyond the Seas.
I speak not therefore of Quintus Cincinnatus alone, who was found labouring in his Field by those who came to salute him Dictator.
If the Magistrates and great Men lived in this Manner, what may we judge of the other Citizens?
In Time of Peace, the greatest Part saw the City only every nine Days. They came thither only to provide themselves with Necessaries, and to examine whether they should approve or reject such Regulations as the Magistrates caused to be proposed up at the Capitol.
Yet notwithstanding the Dissensions and Seditions which they excited more than three Ages passed, from the Expulsion of the Kings, before any Blood was shed in Rome on that Account.
Such were the Manners and principal Occupations of the Romans before that People had been corrupted by Riches and by Luxury.
This Change amongst the Romans was the Consequence of their growing Greatness.
Invincible in Labours, in Dangers, and in Adversity, they yielded to the Sweets of Rest and Prosperity, to the Charms of Plenty and of Riches.
A thorough Change immediately appeared in Rome; Nothing was seen but new Masters in Arts, which they had hitherto been ignorant of.
They began to commit to Slaves every toilsome Business, and to reserve only what was agreeable, or what was reckoned honourable.
The elder Cato never ceased to represent in the Senate the fatal Consequences of the Luxury which in his Time began to introduce itself into the Republick in Proportion as she enlarged her Power.
Fathers (said he, speaking of the Coptic Law, which was proposed to be repealed) I have often complained before you of the Luxury of the Women, and of the Men, as well Magistrates as private Persons.
The Fears of Cato were not imaginary; all he had foreseen soon came to pass.
Virtue no longer bore up against the Torrent of Vices.
In vain did the oppressed People seek Redress at Rome.
It is not a Hundred and ten Years (says Cicero) since the Laws against Extortioners have appeared amongst us.
The Senate, which had been the Refuge and Asylum of Kings and Nations, the Magistrates and Generals, who had once placed all their Glory in defending the Province, and supporting the Allies, with inviolable Justice and Fidelity, from Protectors of the World became the Tyrants of it.
That Corruption, which always begins amongst the Rich and the Great, very soon descended to the common People.
ANECDOTE of Admiral BLAKE.
EVERY Body has heard of Admiral Blake, who perhaps carried the Honour of his Country to as high a Pitch as any Man that ever lived.
ST. JOHN's (in Antigua) July 27.
The following Account of a horrid Murder and Piracy, committed on Board the Snow Esther, Charles Finnie Master, is extracted from a Memorandum taken on Board said Vessel.
ON Sunday Eve, June 22, 1771, Charles Finnie, Master of the Snow Esther, Robert Dann Half Owner and Supercargo, and Richard Bolton Surgeon, were on the Quarter Deck, the People at the same Time diverting themselves at Play scurming.
In this Situation we passed the Night.
On Wednesday, July 10th, 1771, at Half past eleven at Night, Captain Dann and the Doctor being asleep in the Cabin, they were alarmed and greatly terrified by a prodigious Noise and Scuffling on Deck.
As they knew Jenkins to be as great a Villain as any of them, though he and some others had separated on the first Quarrel after the Murder of Captain Finnie, they thought he was only decoying them up to kill them, and therefore did not go up.
followed by Captain Dann, on the Doctor's assuring him he was safe.
Thus was Captain Dann put in Possession of his Vessel again, in a most miraculous Manner; and what most remarkably shows the immediate Interposition of Providence in this Discomfiture, is that the honest Spaniard received only one Blow on the Head with a Handspike, which made a Contusion of about four Inches long.
Their Intention was to have landed Captain Dann and the Doctor on some desolate Island about the Cape de Verds, and then to have proceeded to the Brazils to sell the Vessel and Cargo.
Captain Dann, of the Snow Esther, returns Lieutenant Colonel Reynolds, of the sixty eighth Regiment, his most grateful Thanks for his Politenefs, and extraordinary Expedition.
On Tuesday Night last five of the Pirates were brought ashore under a strong Guard and lodged in the Jail, and on Wednesday Morning were brought to the Courthouse, and underwent an Examination before three of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace.
BOSTON, August 5.
By the late Vessels from Cape Nichola Mole we learn that on the 9th of July they had, at Port au Prince, on Hispaniola, another severe Shock of an Earthquake.
The following is the Copy of a Letter wrote by the present House of Representatives in their late Session to their Agent.
SIR, Province of Massachusetts Bay, June 29, 1771. YOUR Letter of the 5th of February has been laid before the House.
We severely feel the Effects, not of a Revenue raised, but a Tribute extorted without our free Consent or Controll.
We are now led to take Notice of another fatal Consequence, which we are under strong Apprehensions will follow from these parliamentary Revenue Laws.

to grant Taxes; so that by the Act above mentioned the Charter is, in Effect, made void. Agreeable to the Design of that Act, the Governor, it seems, is fitt to be made independent; and in Pursuance of the Plan of Despotism, the Judges of the Land, and all other important civil Officers, successively. Next follows an independent military Power, to complete the Ruin of our civil Liberties. Let us then consider the Power the Governor already has, and his Majesty's Negative on all our Acts, and judge whether the Purposes of Tyranny will not be amply answered. Can it be expected that any Law will pass here but such as will promote the favourite Design? And the Laws already made, as they will be executed by Officers altogether dependent on the Crown, will undoubtedly be perverted to the worst Purposes. The Governor of the Province, and the principal Forts in it, are probably already thus supported. These are the first Fruits of the System. If the rest should follow, it would be only in a greater Degree a Violation of our essential natural Rights. For what Purpose then will it be to preserve the old Forms without the Substance? In such a State, and with such Prospects, can Britain expect any Thing but a gloomy Discontent in the Colonies? Let our Fellow Subjects there recollect what would have been their Fate, long ago, if their Ancestors had submitted to the unreasonable and uncharitable Usurpations, Exactions, and Impositions of the See of Rome, in the Reign of Henry the eighth. Soon would they have sunk into a State of abject Slavery to that haughty Power, which exalted itself above all that is called God; but they had the true Spirit of Liberty, and by exerting it they saved themselves and their Posterity. The Act of Parliament passed in the 25th of that Reign is so much to our present Purpose that we cannot omit transcribing a Part of it, and refer you to the Statute at large. In the Preamble, it is declared that "the Realm of England hath been and is free from Subjection to any Man's Law, but only to such as have been devised, made, and ordained within the Realm, for the Wealth of the same." And farther, "it standeth, therefore, with natural Equity and good Reason, that in every such Law humane made within this Realm, or induced into this Realm by the said Sufferance, Consents, and Customs, your Royal Majesty, and your Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, representing the whole State of your Realm in this your Majesty's High Court of Parliament, hath full Power and Authority not only to dispense, but also to authorize some select Person or Persons to dispense, with those and all other humane Laws in this your Realm, and with every one of them, as the Quality of the Persons and Matter may require, and also the said Laws, and every one of them, to abrogate, annul, amplify, or diminish, as it shall seem to your Majesty, and the Nobles and Commons of your Realm present in Parliament, meet and convenient for the Wealth of your Realm; and because that it is now in these Days present seen that the State, Dignity and Superiority, Reputation and Authority, of the said Imperial Crown of this Realm, by the long Sufferance of the said unreasonable and uncharitable Usurpation and Exaction, is much and sore decayed, and the People of this Realm thereby much impoverished." It is then enacted, that "no Person or Persons of the Realm, or of any other his Majesty's Dominions, shall from henceforth pay any Pensions, Censuses, Portions, Peter Pence, or any other Impositions, to the use of the said Bishop, or of the See of Rome; but that all such Pensions, &c. which the said Bishop, or Pope, hath heretofore taken, shall clearly surcease, and never more be levied or paid to any Person or Persons in any Manner or Wise." Nothing short of the Slavery and Ruin of the Nation would have been the Consequence of their submitting to those Exactions; and the same will be the Fate of America if the present Revenue Laws remain, and the natural Effect of them, the making Governors independent, takes Place.
It is therefore with entire Approbation that we observe your Purpose freely to declare our Rights, and to remonstrate against the least Infringement of them. The capital Complaint of all North America hath been, is now, and will be, until relieved, a Subjugation to as arbitrary a Tribute as ever the Romans laid upon the Jews, or their other Colonies. The repealing these Duties in Part is not considered by this House as a Renunciation of the Measure; it has rather the Appearance of a Design to sooth us into Security in the Midst of Danger. Any Species of Tribute unreciprocated will stand as a Precedent, to be made Use of hereafter as Circumstances and Opportunity may admit. If the Colonies acquiesce in a single Instance, it will, in Effect, be yielding up the whole Matter in Controversy. We therefore desire it may be universally understood, that although the Tribute is paid it is not paid freely; it is extorted and torn from us against our Will. We bear the Inult and the Injury for the present, grievous as it is, with great Impatience; hoping that the Wisdom and Prudence of the Nation will, at length, dictate Measures consistent with natural Justice and Equity. For what shall happen in future, we are not answerable. Your Observation is just, that it was certainly as bad Policy, when they attempted to heal our Differences, by repealing Part of the Duties only, as it is bad Surgery to leave Splinters in a Wound, which must prevent its healing, or in Time occasion it to open afresh.
The Doctrine that no Agent ought to be received or attended to by Government who is not appointed by an Act of the General Court, to which the Governor has given his Assent, if established, must be attended with very ill Consequences; for besides the just Remarks you made upon it, if whatever is to be transacted between the Assemblies of the Colonies and the Government is to be done by Agents appointed by and under the Direction of the three Branches, it will be utterly impracticable for an Assembly ever to lay before the Sovereign their Complaints of Grievances occasioned by the corrupt and arbitrary Administration of a Governor. This Doctrine, which we have Reason to think was first advanced by Governor Bernard, at a Time when he became the principal Agent in involving the Nation and the Colonies in Controversy and Confusion, very probably is now become a Subject of Instruction to Governor Hutchinson*, who refuses to confirm the Grants of the Assembly to the Agents for the respective Houses. In this he carries the Point beyond Governor Bernard, who assented to Grants made in general Terms for Services performed, without holding up the Name of Agent; but Governor Hutchinson declines his Assent even in that Form. So that we are reduced to a Choice of Difficulties, either to have no Agent at all, but such as shall be under the Influence of the Minister, or to find some other Way to support an Agent than by Grants of the General Assembly. But we are fallen into Times when Governors of Colonies seem to think themselves bound to conform to Instructions, without any Regard to the civil Constitution, or even the publick Safety.
Signed by the SPEAKER.  * Since the writing of this Letter an Instruction of this Kind is arrived, which has been communicated by the Governor to his Majesty's Council, and is recorded in their Journal!
NEW LONDON, August 2.
LAST Monday arrived here Captain William Packwood, in sixteen Days from Trinity in Martinico, at which Place it was very sickly with the Measles and yellow Fever. He lost three of his People with the Fever, namely, his Cooper, Benjamin Phillimore, of Norwich, William Young, of this Town, and a Frenchman. It was still more sickly at St. Pierre, where great Numbers died daily, particularly of the Soldiers in Garrison.
Five Thousand regular Troops had arrived there from the 1st of April to the 12th of June.
PHILADELPHIA, August 19.
FROM St. Christopher's we learn that on the 16th of the July the following Men of War arrived there, in their Way to Jamaica, namely, Princess Amelia, Admiral Rodney, Captain Marshall, of eighty Guns; Boyne, Captain Burnett, of seventy; Modeste, Captain Wheelock, of sixty four; and Achilles, Captain Collins, of sixty Guns. The Diana Frigate, Captain Onslow, of thirty two Guns, and the Merlin Sloop, Captain Fotherington, of sixteen Guns, which left England with the above Ships, were not then arrived.
To the PRINTER.
AS several Hundred of the industrious Farmers and Planters of North Carolina, some of whom were in good Circumstances, have been entirely ruined by the Malpractices of the publick Officers of Government, and the Extortion of those Vultures the Lawyers, who have for Years, with Impunity, been gorging on the Vitals of that unfortunate Country, I beg you will insert the following Sketch of the Bills of Costs in one of the Courts there, as a Specimen of the Injustice of their Law Proceedings.
   A PLAN TER. William Few had six Actions for trifling Differences and Debts, one of which was discontinued; the Bill of Cost was,     Second Verdict, for £ 1 19 8 Debt and Cost, £ 8 13 0   Third Verdict, for 7 0 0 Do. and Do. 9 18 1   Fourth Verdict, for 0 13 4 Do. and Do. 21 1 0   Fifth Verdict, for 1 1 2 Do. and Do. 7 5 4   Sixth Verdict, for 0 0 0 Cost, 11 4 6   13 6 5   £ 10 15 0 £ 71 3 4   10 15 0   £ 60 13 4  
So that, in recovering ten Pounds fifteen Shillings, the Costs are sixty Pounds thirteen Shillings and fourpence.
Advertisements.
TREASURY OFFICE, Sept. 3, 1771.  THE General Proprietors of TOBACCO lately destroyed at different Warehouses may receive the Money due to them, as soon as their Accounts are settled, and properly certified. It is hoped that the NEW EMISSION OF TREASURY NOTES is effectually guarded against Counterfeits and Forgeries, being printed upon the same Sort of Paper as the last, with the same and some other additional Checks. To prevent the Practice of PASTING other PAPER on the BACKS of the NOTES, by which the Transparency of them, and the initial Letters wrought in the genuine Paper itself, might be obscured and obliterated, I think it advisable to subjoin a Clause of the late Act of Assembly, under the Authority of which the Notes are issued.
RO. C. NICHOLAS, Treasurer.
EXTRACT from the ACT of ASSEMBLY.
"And whereas PASTING of PAPER on the Back of such Treasury Notes may be a Means of preventing the Detection of Forgeries, Be it farther enacted, that no Person shall be entitled to a Redemption of any Note on the Back of which any other Paper shall be so pasted; but if any Treasury Note shall be accidentally torn, wetted, or otherwise defaced, the Proprietor thereof shall be entitled to receive the Amount thereof from the Treasurer, upon returning such Note to him, to be burnt as aforesaid."
To be SOLD to the highest Bidders, on Thursday the 3d of October, before Mr. Wyld's Door, in Blandford,
ABOUT twenty likely BLOODED HORSES, MARES, and COLTS; also three MULES, each a Year old last Spring. Twelve Months Credit will be allowed, the Purchasers giving Bond and Security to AUGUSTINE WILLIS.
To be SOLD, in the Town of PORTSMOUTH, THREE LOTS of LAND, conveniently situated upon the Water Side, as there is sufficient Water for any Ship within a few Yards of Low Water Mark, which, with a small Expense, might be converted into a very fine Wharf, whereon might be built Warehouses, &c. The above Lots lie in the most advantageous Spot of any in Portsmouth, being contiguous to the Ferry, and on that Account easy of Access to Norfolk; for which Reasons the Subscriber preferred them, who was the first Person that settled there, and had his Choice of all the Lots when the Town was planned.—On the Lots are several Dwellinghouses, and a large Store, with Plenty of Room to build Stores sufficient for any Company that may choose to settle thereon for Trade. They will be put off in four Divisions, or all together, as it will suit Purchasers. For Terms apply to the Subscriber, living on the Premises.
FRANCIS MILLER.
TAKEN up, by the Subscriber, in Southampton, near the Courthouse, a BLACK HORSE, a natural Pacer, about four Feet five Inches high, twelve Years old, not branded, and a Bell on. Posted, and appraised to four Pounds ten Shillings.
RICHARD RICKS.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, on Monday the 28th of October, on the Premises,
A VALUABLE TRACT of LAND, containing five Hundred and thirty three Acres, lying in New Kent County, on the north Side of Chickahominy Swamp, about three Miles above Mr. William Holt's Forge (it being the Place I formerly lived in) whereon is a good Dwellinghouse, thirty two by eighteen, with all other convenient Outhouses, and the Plantation in good Order for Cropping.—At the same Time and Place will be SOLD about twenty Head of CATTLE, with the Stock of HOGS. The Time of Credit to be agreed on at the Day of Sale.
JONATHAN PATTERSON, Senior.
To be SOLD at Norfolk, on Thursday the 19th of September, for ready Money,
SUNDRY very valuable NEGRO MEN and WOMEN, belonging to the Estate of Richard Knight, deceased.
BENJAMIN KNIGHT.
ALL Persons who have any Demands upon the Estate of Mr. Henry Tucker, deceased, are desired to make them known; and those indebted to that Estate are requested to make immediate Payment. Attendance will be given, at Williamsburg, from the 25th of October to the End of the General Court, in Order to receive the Money then due by the Purchasers of the personal Estate of the said Tucker, in Halifax and Norfolk Counties. As the Circumstances of the Estate render it impossible to give any Indulgence, those that neglect to pay at that Time may depend on having their Bonds put in Suit.
JAMES GLASSFORD, Attorney for NIEL JAMIESON, Administrator.
BEDFORD County, August 19, 1771.
I INTEND for Scotland in a short Time.
JOHN HOOK.
STOLEN out of the Subscriber's Pasture, on Wednesday Night, the 28th of August, a CHESTNUT HORSE, very low in Flesh, about fourteen Hands and a Half high, has a hanging Mane, a Switch Tail, two white Feet behind, a small Blaze in his Forehead, and a Brand on the off hind Buttock. Something like the Figures 36, but very dull. Whoever takes up the said Horse, so that the Owner may get him again, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward, and FIVE POUNDS on Conviction of the Thief.
THOMAS DONCASTLE.
STRAYED or stolen, about two Months ago, a DARK BAY HORSE, about fourteen Hands and a Half high, with a small Star in his Forehead, a hanging Mane, Switch Tail, and no Brand. TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward will be given to any Person who delivers the said Horse to the Subscriber, in York Town.
DAVID THOMPSON.
WILLIAMSBURG, September 5, 1771.
RUN away last Night, from the Subscriber, an Apprentice Lad about seventeen Years of Age, named RICHARD HOBBDAY, who wears his own light coloured Hair, and had on a dark coloured Ruffa Drab Coat and Breeches, and a Virginia striped Waistcoat. Whoever delivers him to me shall have a Reward of TWENTY SHILLINGS.
HUMPHREY HARWOOD.
MECKLENBURG, September 1, 1771.
RUN away from the Subscriber, this Day, an Apprentice Lad named EDWARD WILSON, a clear Mulatto, a Carpenter and Joiner by Trade. He is about eighteen Years of Age, about five Feet seven Inches high, has long black Hair, tied behind, much inclined to curl, has a Scar on the Top of his right Foot, which he got by the Stroke of an Adze, and as he walks his Ankle cracks remarkably. He had on when he went away a short Bath Coating Coat, a Sky blue Duroy Waistcoat, and Osnaburg Breeches; and he carried with him two Check, two brown Shoering, and one white Shirt, also a Pair of Check and a Pair of Osnaburg Trousers, with a brown Holland Waistcoat. Whoever delivers the said Apprentice to me, within two Miles of Mr. Lewis Parham's Store, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, besides what the Law allows.
PHILIP MALLORY.
He is supposed to be gone towards Hampton.
WANTED, TWO JOURNEYMEN TAILORS, who are sober discreet Lads, and complete Workmen. Such may have Encouragement by applying to me in Williamsburg.
ROBERT NICOLSON.
A Set of BLACKSMITHS TOOLS to be sold cheap. Inquire as above.
New in the Press, and speedily will be published, by JOHN DUNLAP, at the newest Printing Office in Market Street, PHILADELPHIA, and will be delivered to the Subscribers agreeable to the original Proposal, Price (bound) five Shillings Pennsylvania Currency, printed on a fine Paper, and an elegant Type.
ALL THE POETICAL Writings, and some other Pieces, OF THE Reverend NATHANIEL EVANS, A.M.
Late Missionary in Gloucester County, New Jersey, and Chaplain to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Kilmorey, of the Kingdom of Ireland.
N. B. As the List of Subscribers will be committed to the Press in a few Weeks, it is hoped that all those who are desirous of encouraging this Publication, and who may not yet have subscribed, will send their Names, without loss of Time, to the Printer of this Paper. The SUBSCRIBERS shall have their Books printed on a fine writing Paper.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Prince Edward, some Time in June 1770,
a Negro Lad named WINDSOR, who for several Years past has waited upon me, and is acquainted with most Parts of the Country. He is a sensible and artful Fellow, about five Feet high, a handsome lively Look, and speaks quick. He was taken up by Mr. William Mitchell of York, and committed to that Jail, at which Time he called himself William Florence, and said he was free, and, by the Assistance of some other Negro imprisoned with him, broke the Prison. He has since been seen about Williamsburg, near which Place perhaps he is still concealed. He carried away with him a brown Holland Coat, blue Broadcloth Waistcoat, two white Linen Shirts, two Pair of Osnaburg Breeches, and good Shoes and Stockings. As I have Reason to apprehend he will endeavour to get on Board a Vessel, in Order to make his Escape out of the Colony, I do hereby forewarn all Masters and Commanders of Vessels from taking him on Board. I will give TEN POUNDS to any Person that will contrive him to me, and FIVE POUNDS for such Intelligence that I may get him.
WILLIAM WATTS.
IMPORTED in the Virginia, Captain Robertson, YORK Town, August 29, 1771.
bertson, a choice Assortment of COARSE IRISH LINENS; CALICOES, GERMAN OSNABRUGS, HEMPEN ROLLS, COARSE WOOLLENS and HOSE for NEGROES, also a Quantity of LOAF SUGAR and PEPPER; which the Subscriber will sell by the Package, or Quantity, at a reasonable Advance, for CASH.
WILLIAM REYNOLDS.
WHEREAS the Subscriber has lost or mislaid SEVEN of the Honourable William Byrd's LOTTERY TICKETS,
belonging to Mr. Alexander McCauley, to which were drawn seven Hundred Acres of Land, namely,     No. 2365  a Prize of 100 Acres,  743    6770  —  746    2895  —  747    5932  —  754    8832  —  755    4700  —  756    9918  —  757   
He gives this publick Notice, to prevent any fraudulent Use being made of them. The Honourable William Byrd, Esquire, and his Trustees, made Mr. McCauley a Deed for the above seven Hundred Acres, in July last.
JAMES LYLE.
To be LET, to the LOWEST BIDDER, THE BUILDING of a WAREHOUSE at the CAPITOL LANDING,
forty Feet by twenty, with one tea Foot Shed. Also the repairing of another Warehouse. Those who incline to undertake the same are desired to attend at Mr. Matthew Moody's, near the Landings, on Tuesday the 10th of next Month, at eleven o'Clock.
JOHN PRENTISS.
August 29, 1771.
THOMAS NELSON, Junior.
WILLIAM DIGGES, Junior.
BY the Virginia, Capt. Robertson, PURDIE and DIXON have imported a fresh Assortment of all Kinds of Paper,
fine large Dutch and Hudson Bay Quills, fine Japan Ink, shining Sand, red and black Dutch Sealing Wax, red and black Inkpowder, red Ink in Vials, near Silver and Steel Pencil Cases, Pewter Ink Chests and Stands, Edinburgh Inkpots, red and black Lead Pencils, broad and narrow red Tape, Ivory Folders, Morocco Pocket Books and Als Skin Memorandum Books of different Sizes, best Reading Glasses in Tortoiseshell Cases mounted with Silver, common Ditto, Temple and common Spectacles, German Flutes (some of a new Construction) Violins, Hardham's best Rappee, &c. &c. Also the following Musick, namely, Instructions for the Harpsichord, Violin, and German Flute; Pasquali's Thorough Bafs for the Harpsichord; Boccherini and Burgess Senior's Lessons for the Harpsichord; Midas, the Padlock, and Love in a Village, for the Harpsichord, Voice, German Flute, Violin, or Guitar; the Maid of the Mill, and Cuaning Man, for the Harpsichord, Violin, German Flute, and Hautboy; Periodical Overtures for the Harpsichord, Piano Forte, &c. eight Italian Sonatas for two Violins or Flutes, with a Thorough Bafs for the Harpsichord, by several eminent Composers; Pispar's Minuets, with Variations for the Harpsichord; Arnold, Galuppi, and Mazzanghi's Sonatas for the Harpsichord; Pasquali, Campioni, Schobert, Juff, Pugnani, Florio, Lates, and Richter's Sonatas; Stamitz's Concertos, Duets, and grand Orchestra Trios; Gasparini's Trios; Corelli's Solos; Vivaldi's Cuckoo Concertos; Barbella and Reinard's Duets.—Mrs. Madden's sovereign Oil for Bruises and Strains; Doctor Radcliff's famous Purging Elixir; Bateman's Pectoral Drops; Stoughton's, Squire's, and Daffy's Elixirs; Turrlington's Balm; Britis's Oil, for Consumption, Coughs, and other inward Disorders; Frances's Female Strengthening Elixir; Hooper's Female Pills; Szeifrin's Electary for the Stone and Gravel; and Pike's Ointment for the Itch.
THE Subscriber gives this publick Notice,
that he is now settled at the Plantation which belonged to the late Mrs. Batop, and where the late Doctor Alexander Dalgleish boarded, with an Intent to practise PHYSICK and SURGERY. He now willingly offers his Service to those who may stand in Need of his Assistance, and will be proud to receive their Favours. He has most Sorts of Drugs and Medicines, and many other Things in his Way, all good in their Kinds, to dispose of at a reasonable Price for ready Money.
WILLIAM CARTER.
He is inclined either to sell, or rent by the Year, his Dwelling-house and Lots in Palace Street, which may be entered on by the first of October next. For the Terms apply to Mr. John Carter, Merchant in Williamsburg.
IMPORTED from Glasgow, in the Bogle, Captain Patrick Bogle,
TWO Casks, one of NAILS, the other of COPPERAS, without any Mark or Number. And from London, in the Charming Nelly, Captain John Carnaly, a large Bundle of ALUM. The Owners may have them, by applying to the Subscriber, at Hobbs's Hole.
JAMES LANG.
COMMITTED to Suffolk Jail, on Suspicion of being a Convict Servant,
a Man about five Feet eight or nine Inches high; he has brown Hair, of a fair Complexion with Freckles, says he is a Weaver by Trade, and that he came from Glasgow, but gives various Accounts of himself. Likewise a Negro Man about the same Height, well set, and very black; says he is a Freeman, and at other Times says he has a Master, but will not tell his Master's Name. The Negro has not any Marks that I remember.
WILLIAM GRANBURY, Jailor.
WANTED, A WOMAN of a good Character who is acquainted with House-keeping,
and would be willing to take the Charge of a large Family. Inquire of the Printer.

POETS CORNER.
CARE and GENEROSITY. OLD Care, with Industry and Art, At length so well had play'd his Part...
HIS Majesty's Postmaster General having (for the better facilitating of Correspondence between Great Britain and America) been pleased to add a fifth Packet Boat to the Station between Falmouth and New York...
TAKEN up by the Subscriber in Buckingham, near Willis's Mountains, on Buffalo Creek a middle sized SORREL MARE about four Feet six or seven Inches high...
For SALE, or to be RENTED for a Term of Years, and entered upon immediately. THE capital Prize drawn in the Honourable William Byrd's Lottery, consisting of a DOUBLE FORGE and valuable GRISTMILL...
The UTENSILS, and OLD IRON, belonging to the Forge, will be sold on reasonable Terms.
To be SOLD, on Thursday the 19th of September, at King William Court,
MY STORES and LOT at West Point, which I advertised some Time ago, but did not describe them. The Storehouses are new, twenty eight Feet by sixteen each, stand close to the Water Side...
FREDERICKSBURG, August 20, 1771.
TO be SOLD, at the Townhouse in Fredericksburg, on the 24th Day of September next (being the second Day of the Fair) several Articles belonging to the Estate of the late JOHN MERCER, Esquire, deceased...
VIRGINIA, &c. At a GENERAL COURT held at the Capitol, April 27, 1771.
John Barnes, and Thomas How Ridgate, Merchants, and Plaintiffs, against John Cresbie, and William Cresbie, James Kirk, Jonathan Hall, and George Gilpin, Defendants, In Chancery.
THE Subscribers have on Hand about seven or eight Hundred Pounds Sterling Worth of EUROPEAN and EAST INDIA GOODS, which they would sell in the Wholesale Way on reasonable Terms...
For SALE. THE following TRACTS of LAND, two thousand Acres in Mecklenburg County, on the Branches of Blue Stone Creek, adjoining the Lands of Colonel Robert Munford...
A HUNDRED valuable SLAVES will be sold at Rocky Ridge, for ready Money, or Merchants Notes payable at the ensuing General Court, on Thursday the 26th of September...
To be SOLD. A VALUABLE Tract of LAND in Pittsylvania County, lying on Mayo and Smith's Rivers, containing ten Thousand and fifty five Acres. Any Person inclined to purchase may know the Terms by applying to Colonel Samuel Jordan...
WANTED, a MILLER that understands the Management of a MERCHANT MILL. A good Recommendation will be necessary.
THE TOBACCO saved at Sbocko, Byrd's, Rocky Ridge, and Warwick Warehouses, will be sold publickly, at Richmond, on Wednesday the 4th of September...
COMMITTED to Northumberland Jail, on the 22nd of July, a NEGRO MAN, who says his Name is Charles, that he formerly belonged to James Pride, Esquire, of York...
COMMITTED to Chesterfield Jail, on the 25th of July, a NEGRO MAN named Sam. He says he belongs to Mrs. Elizabeth Wallis, of Norfolk...
STOLEN out of the Subscriber's Desk, between the 1st and 7th Instant, about eighteen Pounds Virginia PAPER MONEY, among which were two Bills of five Pounds...
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Lancaster, on the 24th of December last, a Negro Man named WILL, about five Feet eight or nine Inches high, between thirty and forty Years of Age...
TAKEN up by the Subscriber, near Leeds Town, almost thirteen Months ago, a BLACK MARE, about fourteen Hands high, branded on the near Buttock H V...
To be SOLD by the SUBSCRIBER, at their Store in PORTSMOUTH, LOAF, Lump, and Muscovado Sugar, Jamaica Spirits, Antigua and Northward Rum, Chocolate, Madeira Wine...
HANOVER, August 14, 1771. ALL Persons indebted to the Estate of Captain GEORGE HUBBARD, of London, deceased, are desired to make Payment to the Subscriber...
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, upon the Premises, on the 25th Day of October next, A TRACT of LAND in Dinwiddie County, on the Branches of Namaseux Creek, near Hutchings's Ordinary...
For SALE, and may be entered on immediately, THE LOT and HOUSES, near Cabin Point Warehouses, at present occupied by Mr. Walter Peter. There are four Acres of Land well enclosed...
As I intend to remove up the Country next Fall, I would sell my Plantation in King & Queen County, which consists of six Hundred and fifty five Acres of LAND, pleasantly situated on Mattaponi River...
Who has also for Sale another Plantation in King & Queen County, just below West Point, known by the Name of Gough's Point, containing two Hundred Acres...
VIRGINIA, &c. At a GENERAL COURT held at the Capitol, May 4, 1771. John McDowall, Plaintiff, against Ebenezer McCulloch, and George Young, of Edinburgh, North Britain, Bankrupts...
THE Defendants Ebenezer and George being beyond Sea, and not having entered their Appearance according to the Rule of this Court, on the Motion of the Plaintiffs, by their Counsel, it is ordered that the other Defendants...
To be SOLD at Fredericksburg, on Monday the 23rd of September, being Fair Day (the Sale formerly advertised being prevented by Badness of Weather)
A BOUT fifty choice SLAVES, used to Cropping and Farming. Twelve Months credit will be allowed, on Bond, with Security, bearing Interest from the Date. I have also some other SLAVES to dispose of at private Sale...
CHARLESTOWN, South Carolina, April 11, 1771. THE St. CECILIA SOCIETY give Notice, that they will engage with, and give suitable Encouragement to, MUSICIANS properly qualified to perform at their Concert...
To be SOLD. A VALUABLE Tract of LAND, containing five Thousand five Hundred and fifty seven Acres, in Ward's Fork, Charlotte County, which is in fine Order for Cropping...
To be SOLD, on long Credit, the three following Tracts of LAND, viz.
ONE Tract containing four Hundred Acres, lying in Spotsylvania County, on the Head of Bluff Run, about eighteen Miles from Fredericksburg. One other Tract lying in Amherst County, on Owen's Creek...