The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1772-09-24 00:00:00

VIRGINIA GAZETTE.
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L O N D O N, June 25.
W E are informed that his Majesty is about to institute a new Order of Knighthood, called the Order of Minerva, for the Encouragement of Literature, the fine Arts, and learned Professions. This new Order is to consist of twenty four Knights and the Sovereign, and is to be next in Order to the military Order of the Bath. The Knights are to wear a Silver Star with nine Points, and a Straw coloured Riband from the right Shoulder to the left. A Figure of Minerva is to be embroidered in the Center of the Star, with this Motto, Omnia possibilia Scientia. Many Men eminent in Literature, in the fine Arts, and in Physick and the Law, are already thought of to fill the Order; which, it is said, will be instituted before the Meeting of Parliament.
One of the Partners in Mr. Fordyce's House, a Gentleman of unblemished Character, has a Family, consisting of a Wife and seven Children, who are reduced in a Moment from a State of the most comfortable Affluence to the most mortifying Depths of Distress, and have all their Hopes in Life blasted in the very Moment of Security.
Within the Course of last Week the Dutch drew a Hundred and seventy Thousand Pounds out of our Funds.
The Resolution entered into by the Merchants and Traders on Tuesday, at the King's Arms Tavern, Cornhill, to indemnify the Bank of England against any Loss it may sustain by discounting Bills drawn from the North, is truly laudable and publick spirited, and cannot fail of producing the most salutary Effects. The above Resolution is already signed by upwards of fifty of the most eminent Merchants and Traders of the City of London.
The Lord Mayor, and many of the Court of Aldermen, have signed an Agreement for the same Purpose.
Several Associations of the Nobility, Gentry, and Merchants, residing at the west End of the Town, are formed for the Support of publick Credit at the present critical Juncture.
July 7. Reflections on those who have been unfortunately involved in the late Failures are ungenerous, and little characteristic of the English, especially when they appear to be directed by Party Malice, and personal Enmity to a neighbouring Nation.
In Consequence of the unwearied Applications of the Cabinet Makers, the Treasury Board have at length given Orders for the Seizure of a large Quantity of contraband Goods, lately imported under the Sanction of the Venetian Resident; and on Friday and Saturday last several Officers of the Customs, attended by some Cabinet Makers, seized in the Houses of Messrs. Wall and Reilly, in Sherrard Street, Soho, several Hundred of Chairs and Sofas, near a Tun of curled Hair, a large Quantity of Bras Nails, a great Number of Marble Tables, some very rich Slab Frames, carved and gilt, Silk Lace, Tapestry, &c. the Whole of which was immediately conveyed to the King's Warehouses at the Customhouse. Although the Quantity of these Goods is amazingly great, yet they are said to be not above one Fourth of the before mentioned Importation, consigned to Baron Berendli, the Venetian Resident. The above mentioned Tapestry was said, by Mr. Reilly, to belong to his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, and he insisted that the seizing Officer had Nothing to do with it. The Officer very deliberately examined it, and replied, "His Royal Highness is a very good Man; but you need not be under any Apprehension for its Safety, for I will lock it up very carefully in his Brother's Warehouse."
Extract of a Letter from Portsmouth, July 5. "We have a Report prevails here that his Majesty's Ship Barfleur is to follow the Fleet that failed from hence lately. We know not what Ground there is for this Report. We likewise hear that our Fleet in the Mediterranean is to be augmented."
On Friday Evening last Orders were sent to Chatham for fitting out four Men of War of the Line with the utmost Expedition, and on Sunday Morning a Messenger was sent from the Admiralty Office to countermand them.
Letters from Toulon advise that two Men of War have lately been launched there, one of a Hundred Guns, which is called the Rising Sun, the other the Invincible, of ninety Guns.
Extract of a Letter from Scotland, July 2. "I hear from every Quarter that the Resolution to discontinue Payment of the Notes of Douglas, Heron, and Company, here, has had little or no Effect upon the Credit of their Circulation. At four of the South Country Fairs, which have been the End of last and Beginning of this Week, the People hesitated about an Hour in the Morning to receive the Notes of that Company; but before Night the monied Men were desirous to have them in Exchange for other Notes, and even for Specie."
"The Resolutions of the principal Merchants and Gentlemen, in all Corners of the Country, to continue to receive and pay away the Notes of this Bank in their Money Transactions, are so numerous, that I am told the Newswriters have not Room in their Papers to insert them; so that if the Bank of England countenance their Credit in London, they will certainly have it in their Power to save this Country from the Ruin which has threatened us for some Weeks past."
A Correspondent informs us that the Inhabitants of the western Parts of Scotland have lately laboured under a great Scarcity of Grain, owing to the Failure of the two last Crops. In this Emergency they applied to their Neighbours the Irish for a Supply, who accordingly loaded several Vessels with Corn for their Relief; but on hearing of the additional Distresses brought on the Country by some late Bankruptcies, they have most humanely stopped the Ships, and unloaded the Cargoes, by which Means the common People are reduced to such Distress that an Insurrection is apprehended.
Yesterday Morning came on to be heard at Doctors Commons a Petition, by Proteit, in a Cause brought by an Innkeeper in this City against his Wife for Impotency, after being married thirty two Years. About seven Years since the Wife brought a Suit against the Husband for a Divorce, by Reason of Adultery, and rather than the Suit should be pronounced the Husband entered into a Bond to allow his Wife eighty Pounds a Year, and agreed not to bring, at any Time hereafter, any Suit against her, on the Forfeiture of two Thousand Pounds. Notwithstanding which the above Suit has been commenced, and the Trustee on the Part of the Wife has commenced a Suit for the two Thousand Pounds. However, the Judge, after having heard Counsel on both Sides, was of Opinion that the Pledger for the Wife must appear absolutely, and over-ruled the Proteit, though he greatly disapproved the bringing the Cause into Court.
An Order is come from Rome for a Set of Doctor Hill's great Work, the Vegetable System, twenty Volumes Folio, with the Cuts coloured; and a little While ago Count Firmian of Milan, and the Abbe Ferrari at Venice, received Sets. Several of our own Nobility, and Gentlemen who have Collections of fine Books, have also bespoke Sets; and it seems as if few great Libraries would be without it. The Figures of Plants in this Work are upwards of four Thousand, and the Demand of coloured Books is greater than there can be found Hands for the Supply. More than two Hundred Families are at this Time supported by colouring the Cuts of this Work; to which, if we add the Advantages that the several Businesses of the Copperplate, the Engraver, the Printer, the Rolling Press Printer, the Stationer, and many others derive from it, this Work, which is the greatest that ever was undertaken, will be found a Blessing as well as an Honour to the Country where it is published, and that the great Protection and Patronage under which it is conducted has given Support to Thousands.
Lord Sandwich is gone a six Weeks Cruise with the Squadron under Admiral Spry, in the Channel and Bay of Biscay.
Letters from Paris inform us that there had been a most violent Storm of Thunder, Hail, and Rain, in the Neighbourhood of Thoulouse, the 20th of last Month, which laid twenty Parishes under Water, carried away many Houses, destroyed the Produce of the Earth to a great Extent, and had done irreparable Damage to many Farmers in that Neighbourhood, and totally destroyed the Vineyards.
By the last Accounts from Copenhagen we hear the final Sentence of Colonel Falkenfeldt is a Dismissal from all his Employments, a Degradation from all his Honours, and perpetual Imprisonment in the Castle of Drontheim in Norway, with an Allowance only of Half a Crown a Day.
Advices are received that the Troops of the King of Prussia have taken Possession of all Polish Prussia, in his said Majesty's Name, and that the Inhabitants thereof have sworn Allegiance to him. The King has placed strong Garrisons in all the Towns in the said District, and has ordered a great Number of Convicts to work on the Fortifications, in Order to give them additional Strength. His Majesty's Dockyards at Stettin and Colberg are also enlarged, and Ships of considerable Force are begun to be built therein.
An Interpreter to the Court of Constantinople has been strangled, for giving to a certain foreign Minister a Copy of a Paper relative to some very particular Affairs which had been presented to the Grand Vizier by another foreign Minister.
They write from Prague that the famous Oculist Doctor Taylor, who had been some Time in a Convent, died there lately.
July 8. By the last Letters from Copenhagen we are acquainted that the Counsellor of Justice Struensee has set off for Lubec, the Professor Berger for Alholm, in Compliance with the Sentences passed against them; and that his Danish Majesty had refused to grant the Request of Colonel Falkenfeldt relative to the Mitigation of the Punishment designed for him, and that he was accordingly preparing to set out for Monkholm, the Place appointed for his Banishment.
By Letters from the Hague we learn that Count Orlov, first Plenipotentiary at the ensuing Congress to be held at Bucharest, had arrived at Jassy on the 25th of the said Month, on his Way thither.
Count Zarembo, who was lately advanced by his Polish Majesty to the Rank of Major General, has been lately appointed Adjutant General by that Monarch to the Crown and Republick.
By Accounts from Stockholm we hear that the Senator Count Sinclair (descended from an ancient Scotch noble Family) is appointed Governor of Pomerania, and is on the Point of setting out for that Province.
Letters from Berlin, dated June 23d, say, "the Day before yesterday Mr. Larrey, the Danish Minister at this Court, received an Express from Copenhagen, and within less than an Hour's Time set out from Berlin on a new Commission to the Hague."
Extract of a Letter from Copenhagen, June 23. "The Ministry here are not a little puzzled to scrape together seventy Thousand Dollars (in English Money about eleven Thousand Pounds) which Sum they thought to have divided among themselves. This Sum was the Amount, in Value, of Doctor Struensee's Estate and Effects; but the King of Prussia having opportunely taken this Physician under his Protection, by appointing him one of his Royal Professors in the Mathematics, his Majesty gave him Orders to make out a full and just Account of his Effects, &c. in Denmark, and to lay before him an exact Specification to the minutest Farthing, which having been done, it was immediately sent, by his Majesty's Orders, to the Danish Ministry, and a Demand for the same was instantly made in his Majesty the King of Prussia's Name: For the King insisting that his new Subject, Doctor Struensee, having not been found guilty of lese Majesty, had not incurred a Forfeiture either of his Estate in Land or of his Effects, and that consequently he was justly and legally entitled to a full Restitution of both the one and the other. This thundering Memorial the Doctor presented himself in Person, to the Danish Ministry on the 20th of June; but we have not yet learned what Answer, if any, was given to it. The Doctor, however, thought it prudent not to make too long a Residence at Copenhagen; for he set out from this City a few Hours after he had delivered this Memorial, and is gone to Lubec, on another Commission, of a more secret Nature."
The Squadron of Men of War lately failed for Newfoundland, under the Command of Commodore Shuldham, consists of thirteen Sail, including Sloops.
Yesterday Mr. Dunning made a Motion, in the Court of King's Bench for a Rule to show Cause why an Information should not be granted against the Author of "Love in the Suds," when the Court were pleased to grant a Rule for the first Day of next Term.
Besides Mr. Wallis and Mr. Dunning, who are employed by a great Actor in his Prosecution for some detectable Charges which have been lately urged with as much Folly as Wickedness against his Character, Mr. Murphy and Mr. Mansfield were also engaged, and the Cause now becomes a Matter of much Expectation with the Publick.
The following Letter from Mr. Sawbridge to Mr. Bull has given great Pleasure to all the Friends of Liberty and their Country who interest themselves in the Welfare of this free City.
"DEAR SIR, O L A N T I C H, July 4. Give me Leave to congratulate you on our late Success in the City, and particularly on the great Majority by which you have been elected Alderman of Queenhithe Ward. I am convinced that whenever the Friends to the Liberties of their Country act in Concert neither the Power nor corrupt Influence of the ministerial Faction can prevail against them; it is therefore I am made particularly happy, by seeing in the Papers that, at the Meeting of the Livery at the Paul's Head, it was unanimously agreed to support Messrs. Wilkes and Townsend at the ensuing Election for Mayor. This Measure, as it meets with my entire Approbation, so it shall meet with all the Support I am able to give it; and I have the Pleasure to think will be agreeable to, and supported by, all the real Friends of the Constitution."
I am, dear Sir, Your sincere Friend, And obedient humble Servant. JOHN SAWBRIDGE."
A Letter from Edinburgh, dated July 3d, says: "We hear that all the Banks established at Glasgow have agreed to support one another, in Case there should be Occasion, in the present Emergency; but as their Solidity is well known, there will be little Occasion for this Precaution."
Yesterday upwards of sixty Felons, under Sentence of Transportation in Newgate, were shipped on Board the Vessel consigned with them to the Plantations in America. Dudley, who pretended to make some Discoveries relative to the Fire at Portsmouth, and who was convicted on his Confession on an Indictment for Perjury, was shipped amongst the other Felons.
A Messenger was yesterday despatched to our Ambassador at Constantinople, with Instructions to give his Assistance in promoting and concluding the Peace as soon as possible between Russia and the Turks; from which it is imagined, that the Empress's Troops are wanted in some other Part of the World.
A Privy Council is to be held next Friday, relative to some Affairs which have lately been received from Stockholm and other Parts. Expresses are sent to some of the Members in the Country for their Attendance.
They write from Gibraltar that the Mediterranean Seas swarm with piratical Vessels, which plunder and rob all the Ships they meet with,
except English. The Letters farther say, that the Garrison is in Health and high Spirits, being well provided with all Sorts of Provisions, since Matters have been settled with the Emperor of Morocco, by receiving the usual Presents.
Letters from Mohon, dated May 28th, say that the Danish Squadron is failed for Copenhagen, a Peace being concluded between them and the Algerines. The Letters also say, that the Crews of the Danish Squadron were reduced to Half the Number they were when they first arrived at that Port, by Sickness and Desertion. It also says, that some of the Officers had contracted Debts to a considerable Amount, for Provisions, &c. but had not the Honour to discharge them before they left the Place.
A Fleet of ten Sail of the Line, 6 Frigates, Bombketches, &c. is fitting out at Portsmouth, Plymouth, &c. They are designed, we hear, for the Leeward Islands.
At Hampstead a Person of Fortune has had her Coffin made, and brought home, which is in her Bedchamber.
So greatly is the Business at the Bank increased that at present the Clerks attend every Day, from six in the Morning till eight at Night, which is treble the Time that was usual.
Bets yesterday at the Change were ten to one that Mr. Bull would be Lord Mayor for the Year ensuing.
Extract of a Letter from Burlem, July 1. "Yesterday we took a Walk to the famous Subterranean Canal at Harecatie, which is now opened for a Mile and upwards on one Side of the Hill, and more than Half a Mile on the other; of Course, the whole must be completed in a short Time. As it is not yet filled with Water, we entered into it, one of the Party repeating the beautiful Lines of Virgil which describe the Descent of Aeneas into the Elysian Fields. On a sudden, our Ears were struck with the most melodious Sounds. Left you should imagine us to have heard the Genius or Goddess of the Mountain singing the Praises of Engineer Brindley, it may be necessary to inform you that one of the Company had advanced some Hundred Paces before, and there favoured us with some excellent Airs on the German Flute. You can scarcely conceive the charming Effect of this Musick echoed and re-echoed along a Cavern near two Thousand Yards in Length. But of all our Curiosities my Guest is most pleased with the Philosopher, as we call him here; a Person who has picked up from Roussau, Voltaire, and other Oddities of the present Age, the most whimsical System imaginable. He defends, with great Zeal, the Opinion of Doctor Smith, that our Species has not, since its Creation, been two-legged, and has many new Arguments to prove that Man is by Nature a four-footed Beast, as he expresses himself; nay more, he pretends to determine, by certain abstruse Reasonings, in what Year of our Lord (to use his own Words) the human Form first became erect. He wishes for an Acquaintance with the worthy Gentleman who so gracefully appeared on all-four at Madam Cornely's, and hopes to see the Day when this Example will be universally followed. The most honourable and most creditable Employments in Life he compares to robbing on the Highway, and picking of Pockets; Commerce, to a Number of Children removing Stones or Rubbish from one Place to another; Society, Government, Laws, Religion, every Thing esteemed great or useful, at Times fall under the Lash of this rural Cynick."
On Saturday se'nnight there was the greatest Storm of Hail ever known, at Elmhurst near Litchfield. Some of the Stones measured four Inches round, and came with such Force that they broke great Part of the Windows of Elmhurst Hall, and the Glass Frames in the Garden, and did great Damage among the Trees, &c.
July 9. Yesterday Despatches were received at the Secretary of State's Office from his Excellency Lord Grantham, the British Ambassador at the Court of Madrid, which were immediately communicated to his Majesty.
The Duke of Gloucester daily gains Strength, and since his Arrival in England no Symptoms have appeared to indicate the Return of his Royal Highness's Disorder.
The Augusta Yacht, with Lord Sandwich on Board, arrived at Southampton on Sunday last from Plymouth, accompanied by the Hazard Sloop of War and the Grace Cutter.
An Express has been sent for Lord Sandwich, so that the intended Survey of the Dockyards in this Kingdom will not be completed this Time. A Packet received from abroad, it is said, occasioned this; but, by what we can learn, it is not of any very great Importance.
Application has been made to a great Personage, by the principal Creditors, to have Mr. Fordyce sent for from France; and we are told that if he does not appear to the Statute, which ends the 16th Instant, Application will be made to the Court of France to have him delivered up.
The Edinburgh Paper, dated July 4th, contains two very long Lists of Right Honourable and respectable Names of Persons determined to support the respective Banks of Douglas, Heron, and Company, in the Town of Ayr, and that of the Perth united Banking Company in the Town of Perth.
The Members of the new Order of Knighthood about to be instituted, under the Name of the Order of Minerva, may fitly be comprehended in the following Couplet of Harry Carey's:
"Poets, Painters, and Musicians, Churchmen, Lawyers, and Physicians."
Mr. Wilkes, it is said, is now actually in League with the Duke of Richmond. The Publick, therefore, may form great Expectations from the renewed Efforts of these State Despilers.
Nothing surely exposes the Ignorance of those meddling People in the City, called Patriots, so much as their repeated Motions for instructing their Members to exert themselves in shortening the Duration of Parliaments. Can their Folly prompt them so far as to believe that the Whole Kingdom are to take the Cue from them? Impossible! for Shame, then, ye would-be Patriots! you cannot insult the People more than to hint that you expect them to emulate you.
A Correspondent says, it is easy to propose Difficulties and Doubts, whether in Politicks, in Trade, in Science, in Law, or Religion; but it is not so easy to solve them, as a Fool may ask more Questions than ten wise Men can answer. If I (adds our Correspondent) were to propose one very essential Question to the present Age, it should be, When will this sharping, tricking, and cheating one another, cease? When shall Gaming cease, and Trade return?"
July 10. Yesterday there was a Drawing Room at St. James's, at which their Majesties were present; after which their Majesties dined at the Queen's House, and returned to Kew in the Evening.
The Coolness, or rather Insensibility, of the present Administration, becomes every Day more and more apparent. It is certain that they are continually receiving Expresses from different Quarters on the present critical State of Affairs all over Europe, and that they have Intelligence of the utmost Consequence now before them; yet there is scarce one Word of Truth in the Accounts of Councils daily announced in the Papers, and those which have really been held have been upon very different Occasions.
A Correspondent, who has observed for some Years past that the Negotiations of this Country are extremely pacifick, sends us Word that he thinks he has discovered a Method of settling all the Differences now subsisting upon the Continent in the most amicable Manner; and, as a Proof, offers to bet any Sum that the King of Prussia will be prevailed upon to relinquish all his newly acquired Territory, provided the King of Great Britain will honour him with the Title of Grand Master of the Order of Minerva, which is shortly to be instituted.
Extract of a Letter from Ayr. "Universal Bankruptcy is not the only Evil we are threatened with. Absolute and unavoidable Famine, if publick Credit is not immediately

restored, must be the Fate of this Part of the Kingdom; for though the Noblemen and Gentlemen, by their spirited and steady Conduct on this alarming Occasion, have fully restored the Credit due to the Notes of Douglas, Heron, and Company, so that they now pass as freely as ever in this Country, yet it is not in their Power to restore the Credit of the Nation abroad while it remains to much clouded at London. Our only Dependence for Grain, at present, is on Ireland; and no sooner had the disagreeable Situation of publick Credit at London reached that Country than they unleaded several Vessels ready to sail with Grain for this Town, on Pretence that they were not sure if the Bills drawn on London for the Price would be honoured.
"We are still very quiet; but if we are obliged to dismiss our Labourers and Manufacturers for Want of Money, amidst a real Scarcity of all Kinds of Vires, the Consequences would indeed be very serious."
It is evident by the publick Actions as well as Speeches of the Ministry that they imagine the People of England have not common Understanding, and may be imposed upon by any Appearances or Affections, however false and ridiculous; for at this very Juncture, when the Credit of the Publick hath just received such a Shock from the corrupt, weak, and partial Measures of the Minister, as to shake the main Pillars of Government, his Tools and Agents are busily employed in boasting of his Wisdom and Firmness, or of his having conquered all Opposition, and restored the Peace and Quiet of the Kingdom. But Nothing can be more certain than that the Blow which makes publick Credit still rotten originates in, and springs from, the negligent and imprudent Conduct of the Administration; and that the Credit of the Nation never can recover its former Vigour and Stability till wiser Men, and better Measures, are employed. As to his conquering all Opposition in the House, it does not show his Wisdom, but their Corruption. It proves, to the Conviction of every honest Man, that the Money of the Publick hath been profusely applied, to the worst of Purposes; that the People cannot rely on, or expect, any good Services from their Representatives in Parliament, when such a Corrupter stands at the Head of their Treasury; and that the Nation must find out some Method of redressing themselves, or curing this grievous Disorder in their Representatives, and of restoring their broken Constitution. To rob the Publick of their Money, and apply it to subvert the Integrity of their Representatives in Parliament, is certainly a complicated Crime of the highest Nature; it is High Treason against the Majesty of the Publick. And yet have we not heard the submissive and treacherous Temper and Disposition of Parliament, owing to, and flowing from, that very Crime, applauded from the Throne?
They write from the Hague that a Loan of seven Millions of Ducats had just been negotiated there, for the Use of the King of Prussia.
The same Letters add, that Matters being compromised with the Algerines, the additional Re-employment of four Men of War, destined for the Mediterranean, had received Orders to sail for the East Indies.
It is said our Court have actually assented to accede to the new Treaty proposed by her Czarish Majesty to the Courts of London, Vienna, Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Turin. All the other Powers have signed it.
Letters from Berlin mention that the King had ordered a Detachment of eight Thousand Men, with ten Pieces of Cannon, to march directly into Poland, which Order was put in Execution the 20th of last Month.
Many Changes in Administration have lately been mediated, but not one has taken Place. A good Understanding now prevails, and we hear that all Thoughts of any material Alteration are entirely laid aside.
An eminent Dignitary in the Church, we are told, lately sent five Shillings in Money to every Prisoner in Distress confined in his Diocese.
They write from the West of England that the Colony Agents there are very busily employed in engaging some Hundreds of the best Manufacturers in the Woollen Branch to go over to New York and Boston, on great Encouragement.
In a certain Cause in Trial of Bastardy, in a neighbouring Kingdom, the Opinion of the Lord was given in the Defendant's Favour, not because the Legitimacy of his Birth was proved to the Judge's Satisfaction, but because it seemed hard to deprive a Person already in Possession of his Estate. In religious Disputes, the same Sentiment prevails here: The thirty nine Articles are retained, not because they are the genuine Offspring of Scripture, but because they are in Possession.
We hear that the interior Clergy, the Curates especially, intend to petition Parliament, at their next Meeting, for Redress of the many and great Oppressions imposed on them by their Reverend but Egyptian Taskmasters, that require them Salaries adequate to their laborious Duty.
On Tuesday last there was a grand Bull-baiting in Tothill Fields, Westminster, when upwards of seventy Bull Dogs were set loose, and afforded excellent Sport. The Bull broke his Collar, run among the Populace, tossed several Persons, but happily no Lives were lost. It is supposed near ten Thousand Persons were present.
PORTSMOUTH, July 7. Orders came down yesterday for fitting for Sea several Ships of the Line as fast as possible, the Names of which are not yet transcribed. We have had here the greatest Plenty of Mackerel that ever was known, which has been a great Relief to the Poor, as all other Sorts of Provisions are excessive dear.
PLYMOUTH, July 5. We have this Day received Advice from Rochelle of a French Frigate of thirty Guns being lost within three Leagues of that Place, in a Storm the 2d Instant, and that most of the Crew perished. Fresh Orders came last Night to the Dockyard, but what they were we know not; however, fresh Hands are employed in the Yard.
CANTERBURY, July 4. On Tuesday last, in the Afternoon, passed through this City her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia, on her Road to Walmer Castle; and yesterday Evening, about nine o'Clock, returned to this City. On her Arrival she was ushered in with Ringing of Bells, and every Street through which she passed was crowded with an infinite Number of Spectators. A Party of the Royal Regiment of Scotch Greys, quartered in this City, was drawn up in the High Street, opposite the Red Lion (at which Inn her Royal Highness lodged all Night) to compliment her on her Arrival. To gratify the Curiosity of the Publick, she continued some Time at the Window, which was acknowledged by the repeated Huzzas of the People. Her Royal Highness was accompanied by the Marchioness of Lothian and Lady Anne Noel, and attended also by Mrs. Middleton and other Ladies on her Establishment. Tomorrow the proceedings to the Marquis of Lothian's, at Greenwich, where she intends to continue all Night, and from thence to London.
EDINBURGH, July 1. Monday last night passed through Kincardine O'Neil about ninety Men, Women, and Children, all from the Shire of Sutherland, on their Way to Glasgow, from whence they are to embark for America. Not above three in the whole Company could speak English, and even those very imperfectly.
And we hear from Dundee that last Week arrived there upwards of one Hundred Emigrants, with about thirty Children, mostly on the Bread, also from the County of Sutherland, on their Way to Greenock, to procure Passage to America. They say many more will follow their Example. They allege the same Reason for their Conduct as the former Emigrants from Sky, to wit, the enormous Price of all Sorts of Provisions, and the Oppression of their Superiors.
Tuesday last night came into the Bay of Aberdeen the Neptune of London, from the Greenland Seas, with ten Fish and one Thousand four Hundred Seals on Board. She reports that the Fishing has been very successful this Season.
GLASGOW, July 2. We hear from London that the Panic with Regard to Credit has now greatly subsided. Some People are of Opinion that the Bank of England's Resolution of discounting few or no Bills, of any Kind, was a Scheme formed to distress the private Bankers, and to alarm People, so as to withdraw their Cash out of their Shops, and to lodge it with the Bank. Neither the Bank, or private Bankers, in London, allow any Interest for Money lodged with them, which makes Banking a very lucrative Trade, as they can apply great Part of the Money so lodged in discounting Bills, &c. The Bank, it is said, has now begun to discount more freely, but not till after they had been threatened by the Merchants and Bankers to have a Run made on themselves if they refused to discount good Bills. We hope that the worst is now over, and that Credit will soon flow in its proper Channel. We hear that an Order has been sent to the Carron Works, from Russia, for thirty Thousand Tons of Iron Cannon, mostly thirty two Ponders. This is one of the largest Orders ever sent to Scotland; the Value will amount to near Half a Million Sterling.
Monday they began cutting down Hay in this Neighbourhood; it is generally a fine Crop, and all Kinds of Grain look very well. There never was known a better Season.
We hear from Kirkwall, in the Orkneys, that on the 10th Instant no less than three Hundred Dutch Busses and Doggers rendezvoused in Brafs Sound, from whence they proceeded to the Herring Fishery; which, from the best Accounts, promises to be extremely plentiful.
WILLIAMSBURG, September 24. THE Thomas, Robert, from Glasgow, Orange Bay, Somerville, and Neptun, Wine, from London, and the Prince of Wales Guineaman, Givens, with about four Hundred Slaves, are arrived in James River.
A Vessel put back to Norfolk a few Days ago, bound to Liverpool, having sprung a Leak at sea.
Advertisements.
JUST arrived from Africa, the Ship Prince of Wales, James Bivins Commander, with about four Hundred fine healthy SLAVES; the Sale of which will begin at Bermuda Hundred, on Tuesday the 8th of October, and continue until all are sold. JOHN WAYLES. RICHARD RANDOLPH.
COLONEL BYRD begs the Favour of the Gentlemen who purchased Negroes of him last December, at the Rocky Ridge, to pay their Money to Mr. David Patteson, who will deliver up their Bonds on receiving it.
To be SOLD at Williamsburg, on Tuesday the 10th of November next, before the Rawleigh Tavern,
ALL that exceeding fine PLANTATION and TRACT OF LAND belonging to the Subscriber lying at the FALLS of JAMES RIVER, in Chefe-field County, containing upwards of two Thousand Acres, which, on Account of its Richness and Situation, is deservedly esteemed the most valuable Plantation in this Colony, and equal to any in America. It is in good Order for Cropping; about two Hundred and fifty Acres of it will be sowed in Wheat this Fall, from which may be expected to be reaped at least four Thousand Bushels. There is a very good Dwelling-House on it, and a Stream of Water runs through the Land sufficient for a Mill; and though it has been thought that the low Grounds were much injured by the great Fresh, yet the present Crop, which was planted where the Fresh was supposed to do most Damage, is as flourishing as could be wished for. Any Person inclined to purchase may satisfy himself, by viewing and examining it before the Sale.
The TOBACCO WAREHOUSES at the Rocky Ridge, the PROFITABLE FERRIES on each side of the River, and the very valuable FISHERY known by the Name of Sandy Hook, with several of the ONE HUNDRED ACRE LOTS in Henrico County drawn in the Subscriber's Lottery, will then also be offered for Sale. Reasonable Credit will be allowed, and the Payments divided, to suit the Purchasers, and the Whole be paid by them in two Years; to be settled, and agreed on, at the Day of Sale.
On Tuesday the 8th of December will be sold, at the Rocky Ridge, upwards of ONE HUNDRED FINE SLAVES, many valuable Tradesmen among them; also such of the above Lands as may remain unsold at Williamsburg, and the Stocks of CATTLE, HORSES, &c. belonging to the Falls Plantation. Six Months Credit will be allowed the Purchasers of Slaves and Stocks for one Half the Purchase Money, and twelve Months for the Remainder. Bond and good Security to be given by all the Purchasers of the Lands, Slaves, and Stocks; and the Bonds to carry Interest from the Date, if not discharged when due.
W. BYRD.
NOT being able to stop the Progress of the Smallpox in my Family, I have determined to inoculate immediately, and am under a Necessity of making Use of the Houses arthe Landing at Berkley for that Purpose. I thought it necessary to give this publick Notice, to prevent People who have not had the Smallpox from coming on Shore at that Place, which will, for some Time, be extremely dangerous.
I shall remain at the Mill, and will take all possible Care to keep it free from Infection; so that all Persons may very safely do Business there, as usual. (2) BENJAMIN HARRISON.
THE Subscriber having rented WILKIN's FERRY and ORDINARY at Flower de Hundred, takes this Opportunity to inform the Publick that he will be there by the October General Court, where such Gentlemen as please to favour him with their Custom may depend on good Accommodation for themselves and Horses, and a ready Passage. He flatters himself that he shall give entire Satisfaction, which may induce many to cross at his Ferry, as it is certainly, by six or seven Miles, the nighest Way from Petersburg to Williamsburg. (11) SHERWOOD LIGHTFOOT.
SUFFOLK, September 1, 1772.
WHEREAS I have kept Messrs. Balfour and Barraud's Store in this Place, as their Clerk, ever since October 1-66, and now having declined the Business, all Persons indebted to the said Store are hereby desired to take Notice that they are to pay their respective Balances to those Gentlemen, who only can give proper Discharges. GARDNER FLEMING.
NORFOLK, September 1, 1772.
ALL Persons indebted to our Store at Suffolk, lately kept by Mr. Gardner Fleming, are to take Notice that no Payment can be admitted made to any Person but to us, or to Mr. Thomas Langston, whom we have appointed to succeed Mr. Fleming. BALFOUR & BARRAUD.
WILLIAMSBURG, August 27, 1772.
THE Subscriber begs leave to inform the Publick that he has lately arrived from Liverpool, and just opened Shop next Door below the Post Office; where he intends carrying on the WATCH and CLOCK BUSINESS in all its Branches; and as he served a regular Apprenticeship to one of the most eminent Watchmakers in the City of Dublin, he hopes it will be some Inducement for the Publick to favour him with their Commands, which shall ever be his particular Study to discharge with the greatest Punctuality, and on the most reasonable Terms. Those who please to favour him with their Commands may depend on their being gratefully acknowledged by their most humble Servant, (6) ROBERT EGAN.
N. B. All Sorts of REPEATING, HORIZONTAL, and SHOP WATCHES, repaired in the best Manner.
HALIFAX (North Carolina) September 3, 1772.
WHEREAS the Copartnership between Messrs. John Alison and Company of Glasgow, and us, dissolved the 1st of this Instant, we therefore expect every Person indebted to us, at any of our Stores in North Carolina, to pay off, or give Bonds immediately for the Balances due to us at that time. For the future, the Trade will be carried on at our Stores by a new Company, under the Firm of Alison, Young, and Company, and under the Management of the former Agents in North Carolina, by whom our Customers may expect to be well used, and furnished with Goods on the best Terms, as formerly. YOUNG, MILLER, and Company.
KING GEORGE, September 20, 1772.
AS I intend for Britain next Spring, I would be glad to dispose of the Plantation whereon I now live, containing about four Hundred Acres of LAND, whereon are several valuable Peach and Apple Orchards. The House is large and commodious, with all necessary Outbuildings, and commands a most agreeable Prospect of both Potomack and Rappahannock Rivers. For Terms apply to the Subscriber, on the Premises, within two Miles of Leeds. THOMAS OSWALD.
ANY discreet Tradesman (especially a CARPENTER) content if he can make a genteel Provision for himself and Family, by an honest Industry, and not ambitious to rank as a Gentleman, simply in these Qualifications, Extortion, Insolence, and Laziness, may expect Encouragement by settling at Richmond Town. (2)
ON Monday the 12th of October next, being Leet Court Day, will be exposed to publick Sale six Hundred and twelve Acres of valuable LAND lying in the said County, within two Miles of Leesburg, and Half a Mile of a Bolting Mill. The Subscriber will be on the Land by the 9th of October, in Order to show it to any Person inclining to purchase. VINCENT BURT.
WILLIAMSBURG, September 24, 1772.
STOLEN or STRAYED from my Pasture on the 6th of this Instant, a BROWN HORSE about fourteen Hands three Inches High, branded on the left Side R W. He was poor, and had a fore Back. Whoever will bring him to me shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS. PEYTON RANDOLPH.
WANTS a Place, as a BOOK-KEEPER, a Person that can be well recommended. Inquire of the Printer.
To be SOLD at publick Vendue, for ready Money, on Tuesday the 6th of October, at Norfolk, SEVERAL Hogsheads of MUSCOVADO SUGAR, to defray the Expense of re-shipping the Ship Ruby, Keyser Ruden Commander, lately put into this River in Distress from the Island of Jamaica, bound for London. (21) WILLIAM and JOHN BROWN.
HALIFAX County, NORTH CAROLINA, September 10, 1772. IMPORTED last Year from London, by Captain Thomas Lilly, into York River, a Bale of BROWN ROLLS, No. 5, 10 Z, which has never came to the Subscriber's Hands. I will be much obliged to any One who has it in Possession to send it to Mr. John Hamilton, in Nansemond, or write to him where to apply for it. JACOB CHRISTOPHER ZOLLICOFFER.
WILLIAMSBURG, September 24, 1772.
COMMITTED to the Publick Jail, from James City Prison, a Runaway Woman named MOLLY, who says she belongs to Charles Budd, of Charles City County. She is five Feet two Inches high, and appears to be about forty Years old, has a prominent Nose, and by her Complexion would pass for one of the Indian Race. Her Owner is desired to apply for her, prove her Property, and pay Charges. PETER PELHAM.
TWENTY POUNDS REWARD.
RUN away from the Subscriber in King William, CAESAR and KATE, very likely Virginia born Negroes. Caesar is about forty Years old, of middle Stature, well made, strong and active, has a remarkable Scar on one of his Heels, which was nearly cut off when a Youth, some Scars, or Indian Marks, on one of his Arms near the Shoulder, and an R on each of his Cheeks, with which he was branded by the Sheriff of Dinwiddie; but as it is many Years since, it may now be scarcely visible. Kate is pretty tall, near forty Years of Age, and both she and her Husband, Caesar, have dark Complexions, their Teeth somewhat worn with Pipes, are smooth tongued, and very sensible. They had Variety of Clothes, and Articles for House keeping not very portable; hence it is imagined they will attempt to get a Distance by Water, and then probably endeavour to pass as free Persons. Whoever will bring the said Slaves to me shall have the above Reward, if taken out of the Colony, or TEN POUNDS for either; if within fifty Miles from home, FIVE POUNDS for each; and FIFTY SHILLINGS for each, if under that Distance. ROBERT RUFFIN.
RUN away from the Subscriber, the 7th of August last, a Negro Man Slave named QUASH, about five Feet ten Inches high, about twenty five Years of Age, is lusty, very black, has a down Look, and large Eyes; had on when he went away an old blue Cloth Jacket and Breeches, Osnaburgs Frocks, and an English made Hat, but may have changed his Clothes for others. He is much cut on the Backside, by whipping, or the Marks of his Country. He is a new Negro, could speak no English, but may have learned to speak some since he went away; he could speak middling good French, and is an artful Fellow. Whoever takes him up, and delivers him to me in Norfolk Borough, shall have THREE POUNDS Reward, if taken in this Colony, and FOUR POUNDS if taken out thereof. All Persons are forewarned from entertaining or harbouring him. (11) PAUL HEERRITTER.
FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
FOR apprehending JOHN HUTCHINSON, who ran away last Night from the Subscriber; he is a likely stout Man, about five Feet ten Inches high, a Blacksmith by Trade, and was born in York in England; his Clothing is a Duroy Coat of a brown Colour lined with white Durants, the Coat quite new, a white Shirt, and brown Linen Trousers. He carried with him a brindled Water Dog, which I expect is still with him, as it was a great Favourite. I imagine he will procure himself other Clothes, as he has carried some Cash with him, and also change his Name. The above Reward will be paid on securing him in any Jail in this Colony, or delivering him to me, in Lancaster County. (4) THOMAS POLLARD.
STOLEN from the Subscriber, in Petersburg, a CHESTNUT SORREL MARE six Years old, four Feet nine or ten Inches high, has a Star in her Forehead, both hind Feet white, a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, a Blemish in her right Eye, paces, trots, and gallops, and branded on the near Buttock R. A. Whoever brings the said Mare to me shall have THREE POUNDS Reward, and on Conviction of the Thief TEN POUNDS. (11) DANIEL DODSON.
STRAYED or STOLEN from the Subscriber at Osborne's, about the 13th of June last, a BAY HORSE about four Feet six or seven Inches high, eight or nine Years old, has a short hanging Mane and Switch Tail, some white Hairs at the Root of his Tail, one of his hind Feet white, some saddle Spots, paces slow, but has no Brand perceptible. Whoever delivers the said Horse to me shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, or THREE POUNDS on Conviction of the Offender. (11) THOMAS W. IRWIN.
TAKEN up, in Bedford, a DARK BAY MARE four Feet seven or eight Inches high, has some Saddle Spots, had on an old Pair of Shoes, paces naturally, and branded on the off Shoulder and Buttock R, that on the Buttock very dull. Poled, and appraised to four Pounds. WHITEHEAD RYAN.
TAKEN up, in Isle of Wight, a BLACK STEER with some white Spots under his Belly and upon each Side, and one upon his Rump; has a Star on his Forehead, and is marked with a Square under his right Ear and a Slope under the left. Poled, and appraised to fifty five Shillings. (11) DAVID CHALMER.
BY the Death of the late Mr. Starke several of his Clients, who have Suits depending in the Courts of York and Halifax, are without any Person to attend their Causes. Left some of them should go undetended, and others have their Suits dismissed for Want of Prosecution, they are desired, without Loss of Time, to employ some Person to attend their Business. The Attorneys of those Courts will readily lend their Assistance to finish his Causes.
FREDERICKSBURG, September 8, 1772.
HUNTERS and TALIAFERRO beg Leave to acquaint the Publick that they have opened Store in this Place, at Hunter's Ferry Landing, and in Falmouth, at Number 72, on the main Street, where the greatest Assortment of European Goods will be sold, on much more reasonable Terms, than any hitherto imported. (4)
NORFOLK, September 8, 1772.
THE Subscriber informs his Customers, and others, that he has a Quantity of IVORY on Hand, and will turn BILLIARD BALLS of all Sizes, at ten Shillings a Pair, and smoothes old Ones at five Shillings. They may depend upon being served with Care and Despatch, by the Subscriber, in Church Street. HARDRESS WALLER.
NORFOLK, September 17, 1772.
IFOREWARN every Person from taking John Lewthwaite out of the Colony, or harbouring him, at their peril. ELDRED FISHER.

SEVERAL Casks of NAILS , and some other Articles, damaged in the Elizabeth , Captain Bright , will be sold for the Benefit of the Insurers, at Edward Stabler's Store , in Petersburg , on Wednesday the 30th of this Instant, September . (2)
GLOUCESTER, September 16, 1772. I INTEND for ENGLAND immediately. (1) JOSEPH DAVENPORT.
To be SOLD, About two Hundred Hogsheads of TOBACCO , on Rappahannock River . For Terms inquire of the Subscriber, in Port Royal . (2) ROBERT GILCHRIST.
To be SOLD at Vendue, on Wednesday the 30th of this Instant (September) on the Premises, THE TANYARD, HOUSES, LAND, &c. belonging to the Estate of Thomas Thompson , deceased, all in good Repair for carrying on the Business, lying on the Fork of the Road leading from Norfolk to Princess Anne , and to Tanner's Creek , about Half a Mile out of the Borough of Norfolk ; also three likely NEGRO FELLOWS , who have been used to work at the Tanning Business, and one of them a tolerable good Currier; likewise a FIFTY POUND SHARE in the TOWN POINT COMPANY WHARF . Credit will be allowed the Purchasers until December next, on giving Bond and Security. (2) JOHN LAWRENCE, } Executors. MATTHEW PIRIPP, }
To be LET on Charter, to any Part of Europe, THE Brig MOLLY , Macley Reed Master , Burthen two Hundred and fifty Hogsheads of Tobacco, or seven Thousand Bushels of Grain, and only fifteen Months old. For Terms apply to the Subscriber, in Norfolk . Who has for Sale Isle of May Salt , Barbados and Grenada Rum , Sugar , Molasses , a few Quarter Casks of Lisbon Wine five Years old, and Rhode Island Rum . JOHN GREENWOOD.
To be SOLD at Charles City Courthouse, on Wednesday the 7th of October, being Court Day, pursuant to the last Will and Testament of Littlebury Hardyman, deceased,
SUNDRY Tracts of LAND , purchased by the said Decedent of the Estate of Mr. William Kenyon , to wit: A Watermill, with four Acres of Land adjoining; one Tract of a Hundred and thirty six Acres; one Ditto of two Hundred and ninety eight Acres, called Fontaine's ; one of three Hundred and thirty four Acres, called Rick's ; one of a Hundred and forty eight Acres, Whitehead Swamp ; one of four Hundred and thirty four Acres, Meadow Plantation ; one of four Hundred Acres, adjoining Ballard's ; and one of two Hundred and ninety six Acres, adjoining Brecks . For ready Money, or short Credit, as shall be agreed on at the Day of Sale. WILLIAM GREEN MUNFORD, Executor.
On Thursday the 15th of October will be SOLD, on the Premises, for ready Money, by the Sheriff of Frederick, pursuant to a Decree of the County Court of Frederick, at the Suit of Richard and Peter Footman, and others, against Jacob Hite,
THAT valuable Tract of LAND in Berkeley (late Frederick) where the said Jacob Hite lives, containing one Thousand nine Hundred and fifty two Acres; also three Tracts of LAND adjoining the same, one of which contains four Hundred and fifty seven Acres, another two Hundred and nine Acres, and the other five Hundred. At the same Time and Place will be sold, for ready Money, pursuant to the above mentioned Decree, twenty seven valuable SLAVES , the Property of the said Jacob Hite , by THOMAS RUTHERFORD, Sheriff.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, at Mr. Thomas Craufurd's Store, in Brunswick, on Thursday the 22d of October, by Virtue of a Deed of Trust from Lemuel Lanier, late of the said County, to the Subscriber,
THE LAND whereon the said Lemuel Lanier formerly lived, lying on Hick's Creek , near Pennington's Ford , adjoining the Lands of Ravenhurst's Estate and Jane Hick's , Junior, and containing about a Hundred and sixty Acres, greatest Part of which is good Tobacco Land; there is on the said Plantation a good Dwelling-house, and other Outbuildings, and a Grist-mill; it is in tolerable Order for Cropping, and may be entered upon as soon as the present Crop is finished. Also six likely Virginia born NEGROES , consisting of Men, Women, and Children. Credit for Part of the Money will be allowed the Purchasers, on giving Bond and Security to ROBERT TURNBULL.
To be SOLD by publick Auction, on Monday the 5th of October, at TODD's Warehouse, in KING and QUEEN,
THE Remains of the Store formerly kept at that Place by Mr. Robinson for Daingorfe's , amounting to about four Hundred and fifty Pounds Sterling, together with several Pieces of Household Furniture. Six Months Credit will be allowed for all Sums above twenty five Shillings, on giving Bond and approved Security to ROBERT McCANDLISH.
TAKEN up by the Subscriber, at one of Mr. David Roff's Quarters, on Staunton River, in the County of Pittsylvania, a gray MARE about eight or nine Years old, four Feet four Inches high, paces slow, and branded on the near Shoulder WP in a Piece. Posted, and appraised to five Pounds ten Shillings. GEORGE HERNDON.
TAKEN up by the Subscriber, at one of Mr. David Roff's Quarters, in the County of Pittsylvania, a dark bay MARE about eight or nine Years old, four Feet seven or eight Inches high, trots, and branded on the near Shoulder R . Posted, and appraised to eight Pounds. GEORGE HERNDON.
TAKEN up, in King William, a dark BROWN HORSE about four Feet seven Inches high, has a long roached Mane, and Bob Tail, and branded on the off Buttock A . Posted, and appraised to twelve Pounds. WILLIAM THOMPSON.
TAKEN up, in Westmoreland, a likely blooded bay MARE with a dark Mane and Tail, about fourteen Hands high, and judged to be seven Years old; she is neither docked nor branded, has a Scar on each Hip Bone, the one on the off Side the largest, a Scar on each Thigh, and some Saddle Spots. Posted, and appraised to fifteen Pounds. PHILIP SMITH.
TAKEN up, in Chesterfield, a sorrel MARE about six Years old, four Feet six or seven Inches high, with a Switch Tail and hanging Mane, a Star in her Forehead, and branded on the near Buttock A . Posted, and appraised to five Pounds. ABRAHAM BURTON.
TAKEN up, in Berkeley, a small bay MARE about four Years old, twelve Hands high, trots, and is branded on the near Buttock O . Posted, and appraised to five Pounds. ROBERT ALDRIDGE.
TAKEN up, in Henrico, a yellow bay HORSE about seven Years old, four Feet seven Inches high, with a Star in his Forehead, a Bon Tail and bushy Mane, branded on the near Shoulder GL , and on the off Buttock G . Posted, and appraised to twelve Pounds. PETER CLARKE.
TAKEN up, in Amelia, the following Cattle, namely: A brindled STEER, marked with a Crop and Overlook in the left Ear, and a Hole in the right; a brindled COW, marked with a Crop in the left Ear, and a Hole in the right; a COW CALF not marked; and a red COW marked with a Crop and two Sits in each Ear, as well as can be discerned. Posted, and appraised to seven Pounds ten Shillings. WILLIAM JONES.
TAKEN up, in Berkeley, a roan HORSE about fourteen Hands and a Half high, between eight and nine Years old, and branded on the near Buttock with a large Blotch . Posted, and appraised to six Pounds. SAMUEL OLDHAM.
TAKEN up, at Colonel Burwell's Plantation on Buffalo Creek, a black MARE about four Feet three or four Inches high, with a white Spot in her Forehead, and one on her fore Leg, and branded on the near Buttock S . Posted, and appraised to three Pounds fifteen Shillings. MARTIN STURMAN.
TAKEN up, at Colonel Burwell's Plantation on Buffalo Creek, a sorrel MARE about four Feet five Inches high, branded on the near Shoulder O , and on the near Buttock with a small Stump Iron . Posted, and appraised to thirty five Shillings. MARTIN STURMAN.
MESSIEURS Robert and Robert Boyle and Sons, of London, Merchants and Partners, on the 29th of June last executed a Deed of Assignment of all the said Company's Debts and Effects in Virginia to Edward Payne, Esquire , Governor of the Bank of England , and Rene Payne of London, Merchant , in Trust, that an equitable Division may be made of the said Debts and Effects amongst all the Creditors of the said Company; and on the same Day the said Edward Payne and Rene Payne , and the said Company, executed a Power of Attorney to the Subscriber, empowering us, jointly and severally, to receive and transmit the said Debts and Effects: Notice is therefore given to the several Debtors to the said Company that Attendance will be given by the Subscriber, or one of them, at Williamsburg , from the 20th of October to the End of the General Court. No Indulgence can be given after. JOHN TAYLOR. ARCHIBALD RITCHIE. N. B. The Assignment and Power of Attorney are recorded in Richmond County, for the Satisfaction of those concerned.
THE Subscribers having, for these eight Years past, been Factors for Messieurs Ware and Company, have now declined the same, and desire all Persons indebted at the Stores kept by them to come and pay off their respective Balances; and those who cannot must give their Bonds, as there is a Necessity for an immediate Settlement of the Concern. The Stores will be continued by us, upon our own Accounts, to their usual Extent, and the same Indulgence given to good Customers as has been before. BURNLEY & BRAIKENRIDGE. N. B. We have a Quantity of Goods to dispose of in the Wholesale Way.
FREDERICKSBURG, September 1, 1772. HAVING a very large Assortment of European and other GOODS on Hand, many of which were imported from London, &c. this Summer, I would willingly lump off the Whole, or in Parcels, at a very low Advance, for Cash, Tobacco, Bills of Exchange, or at a short Credit, with Security. In the mean Time I will sell them in smaller Parcels, or by Retail, at fifty per Cent. Advance on first Sterling Cost (by real invoice) for ready Money, or Tobacco. (4) GEORGE MITCHELL.
NORFOLK, August 31, 1772. I INTEND to leave the COLONY soon. JOHN LEWTHWAITE.
NORFOLK, September 1, 1772. AS I intend to leave this Place soon, I request all who are indebted to me, either by Bond or open Account, to be expeditious in discharging the same. Those who fail to comply with this Request need expect no farther Indulgence. All who have Demands against me are desired to make them known, that they may be immediately satisfied. JOHN SMITH.
IMPORTED, in the Lunn and Loyd, Captain Necks, and to be sold very cheap by the Subscriber, who has just opened a Druggist and Apothecary's Shop in the upper End of Richmond,
A LARGE and complete Assortment of DRUGS and MEDICINES. Also white and brown Sugar Candy; Barley Sugar; best and common Raisins; Almonds; Figs; Orange Chips; Citron; candied Ginger and Elingo; Mace; Cloves; Cinnamon; Nutmegs; Allspice; Ginger; Pepper; Spanish Licorice; Pearl Barley; Sago; Salop; Vermacelli; Harts Horn Shavings; Icing; Saltpetre; best Sallad Oil; Gold and Silver Leaf; Dutch Metal; Spirit and Oil of Turpentine; Eau de Luce; Smelling Bottles; Essence of Bergamot; Ditto of Lemons; Coppeas; Brimstone; Alum; Bluestone; Potash; Verdigris; Vermillion; Tow; Lint; Ivory and Pewter Syringes; Crucibles; black Lead Pots; Jesuits Drops; Ratierian's Drops; Stoughton's Elixir; Freeman's and Godfrey's Cordials; Anderson's and Lochey's Pills; Pectoral Balsam of Honey; Anodyne Necklaces; Greenough's Tincture for the Teeth and Gums; Blackley's Lixivium for the Stone and Gravel; Norris's Drops; Squire's Elixir; James's Fever Powders; Capers; Olives; Walnuts; Anchovies, &c. JOHN POWELL.
A GOOD Barber, that understands dressing of Hair, making Wigs and Tettes, &c. will meet with good Encouragement from the Gentlemen and Ladies in the Town of Hampden . Any Person who is complainant, sober, and a good Tradesman, may make above a Hundred Pounds a Year. Such a One is immediately wanted. For SALE,
ENFIELD, in Halifax County, North Carolina, containing about a Thousand Acres of Land, on which are good Peach and Apple Orchards, a large commodious Brick Dwellinghouse with four Rooms on a Floor, and other good Houses. The Storehouses are at present rented to Mr. Alexander Telfair for eighteen Pounds a Year. Part of the said Tract may be made a fine Meadow. Any Person inclined to purchase may know the Terms by applying to Colonel John Bradford , adjoining the said Plantation, Allen Jones of York , or to the Subscriber. (T) MATTHEW JONES.
To be LET on Charter to any Part of Europe, THE Ship BETSEY, Henry Young Master, Burthen about four Hundred Hogsheads, or ten Thousand Bushels. For Terms apply to BOLDEN, LAWRENCE, & Co. Who have for Sale a Quantity of very fine IRISH BEEF in Barrels, and LIVERPOOL SALT in Sacks. NORFOLK, September 2, 1772.
To be SOLD, and entered on the 1st of January next A TRACT of LAND in Halifax County, containing one Thousand seven Hundred and fifty eight Acres, a considerable Quantity of which is rich low Grounds, is good for Tobacco and Grain, with good, new Houses and Barns. It is needlessly for me to give any Description of this Tract, as no Person will purchase without seeing the Ground and Conveniences; and should the Purchasers be desirous to divide the Land, it will be agreeable to the Seller. The Times of Payment will be made very easy, three yearly Payments, the first twelve Months after Possession. For Terms apply to Mr. John Baird , Merchant in Prince George , to whom Bond and Security is to be given, or to the Subscriber, on the Premises, who will show the Land. Mrs. Perrin's Dower in this Land is laid off. WILLIAM WADE.
TWENTY POUNDS to kill, or THREE POUNDS to take,
ISAAC, an outlawed Mulatto Fellow, belonging to the Estate of the late Colonel Richard Johnson . His Height is about five Feet nine or ten Inches, wears his own Hair, which is remarkably black, and curls well. He is a well disposed Fellow, rather plausible and insinuating when sober, and when in Liquor, which he is very subject to, is stubborn, and inclined to be impudent. He absconded from this Place about the 20th of July last, and is supposed to be harboured by Colonel John Snelson's Negroes, near this Place, among whom he has a Wife, or by his Brother, John Kenney , a Mulatto Slave belonging to Mr. Thomas Johnson of Louisa . He carried with him a Variety of Clothes, and claims a Property in a likely gray Mare about four Feet two or three Inches high, which he probably will make Use of to convey him from one Refuge to another. (T) W. JOHNSON.
YORK, September 9, 1772. THIS is to forewarn all Persons from crossing through my Corn Field, at their Peril. THOMAS DIGGES.
NORFOLK, August 1, 1772. THIS is to certify to the Publick that Mr. Nathaniel Stevenson and myself were in Partnership in the Wig-making and Hair-dressing Business in this Borough, but finding it does not answer my Purpose, at any Rate, to continue any longer, I desire the said Stevenson will return and settle with me, as I am determined not to be answerable for any further Debts but such as I may contract myself. WILLIAM GOODCHILD.
RUN away from the Subscriber, near Sun-dae River Church, the 20th of July last, two Negroes, one a Fellow, about twenty Years old, can speak some English , and appears sensible; he is middle sized, and well made, has a good Counter-nose, one of his Hands is remarkable, occasioned either by Fire or some Marks made while in Africa ; he carried with him two new Blankets, a new Hat, an Osnaburg Shirt, Check Breeches, and several other Things. The other is a Woman, about sixteen Years old, spare made, good Features, but cannot speak any English ; I believe she was dressed in Osnaburgs, is the Fellow's Wife, and imagine she is entirely governed by him. I bought them of Mr. Hugh M'Kin a short Time past, before which they were kept some Time in Petersburg , where perhaps they may endeavour to conceal themselves. I will give FIVE POUNDS to any Person that contrives them to me, or FIFTY SHILLINGS for such Intelligence as I may get them again. WILLIAM WAIT.
AUGUST 25, 1772. RUN away from Petersburg, four or five Weeks ago, a Negro Man named JACK , a stout, black Fellow, with reddish Eyes, thick Lips, and an ill-natured Countenance; he is artful when sober, but very apt to get drunk, is about thirty Years of Age, and believe he was born in the West Indies , from whence he is just come. He had on, when he went away, a new Felt Hat, a Sailor's Canvas Frock and Trowsers, a long Coat of white Osnaburgs, and long Trowsers of the same. He is a pretty good Sailor, and understands Something of the Ship Carpenter's Business. We imagine he has hired himself on Board some Vessel, and will attempt to escape to the West Indies , under the Character of a Freeman. We will give a Reward of THREE POUNDS to any Person that will deliver him to us at Norfolk , or Petersburg . ELLBECK, ROSS, & Co.
To be SOLD at Caroline Courthouse, on Tuesday the 13th of October, if fair, otherwise next fair Day, FIFTY choice blooded HORSES, being the whole Stud of the late Colonel John Baylor . Credit will be allowed the Purchasers till the first of April , giving Bond and Security to JOHN ARMISTEAD, NATHANIEL BURWELL, } Executors.
To be SOLD by Auction, on Monday the 28th Instant (September) at Williams's Warehouse, in KING WILLIAM, THE Remains of Mr. Philip Winckhead Claiborne's STORE GOODS, amounting to about four Hundred Pounds, which are good in Kind, and many of them suitable for the Fall Season. Credit will be allowed for all Sums above twenty five Shillings until the 10th of August next, on giving Bond, with approved Security. I will kill a good Bargain to any Person that would purchase the Whole, any Time before the Day of Sale. (4) GEORGE BROOKE.
To be SOLD, on Thursday the 1st of October next, at the late Dwellinghouse of Captain Benjamin Cocke, deceased, in Brandon, Prince George, PART of the personal Estate of the Deceased, consisting of Negroes, Horses, Cattle, Hogs, Sheep, the Household Furniture, and Plantation Utensils. Also five Hundred Acres of Land lying in Southampton , joining Nottoway River . Whoever inclines to purchase said Tract, is desired to apply to Mr. Benjamin Clements , who joins it, and will show the whole Tract. Credit will be given for all Sums above twenty Shillings until next April Court. (4) JAMES COCKE, PLEASANT COCKE, } Executors.
To be SOLD, EIGHT Hundred Acres of LAND in Albemarle, lying on the north Side of the Rivanna River , on both Sides of Long Island Creek ; also eight Hundred Acres of LAND in Dinwiddie , lying on the north Side of Hatcher's Run , a Hundred Acres on the south Side of the said Run, and a LOT in the Town of Blandford . Credit will be allowed until the next April or June Court. For Terms apply to Thomas B. Griffith in Louisa , or William Griffith in King and Queen , one of whom will attend on the 2d of November in Williamsburg . (6)
To be SOLD, A TRACT of LAND, containing a Hundred and eighty three Acres, in the County of Nelson , contiguous to the Lands of Captain Edward Wright and the Dismal Swamp , pleasantly situated on the main Road, and within a Mile of the River. The Plantation is in good Order for Cropping, and a Sufficiently of Land cleared to work eight Hands, with very valuable Improvements thereon, and may be entered on the first of January next. As the Land in the lower Part of the County is known to be in general very good, I think it needlessly to amplify. Any Person inclined to purchase may be shown the Place, and know the Terms, by applying to me, on the Premises. (4) JAMES MURDAUGH.
TEN POUNDS REWARD.
RUN away, on the 18th of August, from the Subscriber, in Essex, near Hobb's Hole, a Negro Man named LUKE , alias JACK , about twenty five Years old, five Feet six or eight Inches high, had on, when he went away, a Pair of old blue Cloth Breeches, Osnaburg Shirt, and a short Cotton Vest, and carried with him a green Cotton Vest, a Pair of Russia Drill and a Pair of Nankin Breeches, a white Linen Shirt, and two Pair of Yarn Hose. He is a likely, well set Fellow, remarkably bow-legged, of a very black Complexion, has very white Teeth, and I believe one of his fore Teeth is out; he has some Scars on one or both of his Buttocks, which he got when a Lad. This Fellow formerly belonged to Mr. Lewis Aliman , of Isle of Wight , from whom he ran away when he was a Lad, and passed as a Freeman in this Neighbourhood for seven or eight Years, until he was condemned by Essex Court for Felony, when he confessed he had a Master, and was reprieved by the Subscriber. He was hired a Carpenter, but during the Time of his Elopement went several Years by Water. He may attempt to change his Name again, and pass as a Freeman, or transport himself out of the Colony; all Masters of Vessels are hereby forbid to carry him off, at their Peril. I will give the above Reward to any Person who will deliver the said Slave to me, or FIVE POUNDS to secure him in any Jail, and give Notice thereof. (T) JOHN EDMONDSON, Junior.
THREE POUNDS REWARD.
RUN away, on the 8th of July last, from the Subscriber's Plantation near Frederick Zimmerman's Ordinary, in Culpeper, an English Convict Servant Man named JOHN BOOKER, about thirty three Years old, five Feet six Inches high, with a narrow Visage, ruddy Countenance, a little pitted with the Smallpox, dark Hair uncut, was born in Torkshire , speaks broad, is fond of Liquor, and talkative; he has been about two Years in the Country, is a good Ditcher, and well acquainted with the Country Business. He had on, and took with him, two brown coloured Coats, one with Twist, and the other with flat Metal Buttons, a lapelled Scarlet Jacket, his Breeches much the same with the Coats, several Shirts, two Pair of Shoes, Yarn Stockings, and brown Trowsers; he had with him a Box of Wafers, a Parchment covered Memorandum Pocket Book, will probably have some Kind of a Pass, and change his Name. This Fellow, with one belonging to Mr. William Allan of Culpeper , ran away last April , and were advertised in this Gazette; Booker delivered himself to a Man in Albemarle , who brought him home, but the other made his Escape, and my Fellow has now made another Elopement, without any Kind of Provocation. I will give the above Reward to any Person who will deliver him to Mr. Edward Stevens at Culpeper Courthouse , to the Overseer at my Plantation, or to me in Fredericksburg ; or FORTY SHILLINGS if secured in any Jail, so that I get him again. (T) JAMES DUNCANSON.

POETS CORNER.
The TOUCH to know a TRUE FRIEND.
NEVER did hold all that glitters is Gold, Unless by the Touch it be try'd; Nor never could find that 'twas a true Sign To judge a Man by the Outside.
GENERAL POST OFFICE, New York, November 1, 1772.
NOTICE is hereby given, that on Account of the new Regulation of the Post from Canada, which is to arrive every Tuesday Evening at this Office, and the weekly Post from the Eastward and Southward arriving every Wednesday, the Mail going from hence by the Packer's will, for the future, be closed at twelve o'Clock at Night, on the first Wednesday in every Month (being the same Time it closes at the General Post Office in London for America) and a Packet despatched therewith the next Day for Falmouth.
Just IMPORTED from LONDON, in the LUNN & LLOYD, Captain NECKS, and to be sold at the lowest Rates for ready Money, or short Credit, by the Subscriber, in Richmond,
A FRESH Assortment of MEDICINES of all Kinds: Elixir Bardana, Essence of Waterdock, Pectoral Balm of Honey, Turlington's Balm of Life, Bateman's Drops, Bile Beans, Huxham's and Lavender Waters, Daffey's Elixir, Greenough's Tincture for the Teeth, Gums, and Tooth-ach, Spirits of Turpentine, Anderson's, Leeky's, and Hoope's Pills, Sago, Salop, Ivory and Pewter Syringes with Pipes, a large Quantity of the best Peruvian Bark, Rhubarb, Glauber and Epsom Salts, Materials for Bitters, &c. &c. I expect my Customers will be so kind as to pay off old Balances, and outstanding Debts, at or before the October General Court, as I intend to Britain in the Spring, if possible.
VIRGINIA, &c. At a GENERAL COURT held at the CAPITOL, MAY 7, 1772.
John Bowdoin, and Isaac Smith, Merchants, surviving Partners of L. uttson Eyre, deceased, Plaintiffs, Against John Smith, Edward Smith, and Matthew Smith, Infants, Augustine Smith, Martha Jacquet, Jacquet Ambler, Sarah Smith, Thomas Smith, Wilson Miles Cary, James Buchanan and Company, of London, Merchants, Edmund Pendleton, and Peter Lyons, surviving Administrators, &c. of John Robinson, Esquire, deceased, Peter Presley Thornton, and Sarah his Wife, and Mary Ambler, Jacquet Ambler, Robert Carter Nicholas, Wilson Miles Cary, and John Blair, Executors, &c. of Edward Ambler, deceased, Defendants.
THE Defendant John Smith is appointed Guardian to the Defendants Edward and Matthew Smith, who are Infants, to defend them in this Suit; and, by Consent of Parties, this Cause was this Day heard upon the Bill, Answers, and sundry Exhibits. On Consideration whereof it is decreed, and ordered, that George Purdie, John Bowdoin, John Lee, and John Smith, Gentlemen, or any two or more of them, after giving convenient Notice in the Virginia Gazette, sell, at publick Auction, the Lands in the Counties of Gloucester and Northumberland known by the Names of Dragon Quarter and Fleet's Bay, comprised in the Indentures of Mortgage in the Bill mentioned, at twelve Months Credit, to be entered upon the first Day of January next, and also the Slaves, with their Increase, and other Things in the said Mortgages mentioned, at three Months Credit, taking Bonds, with sufficient Security, from the Purchasers, and return an Account thereof to the Court; that Dudley Digges, Thomas Nelson, Junior, and David Jamieson, Gentlemen, or any two of them, do state and settle the Claims of the Plaintiffs and the Defendants, and of any other Creditors of John Smith, deceased, in the Bill named, who may desire it, and make Report thereof to the Court; and that the Sale of the Lands in the Counties of Spotsylvania and Culpeper, made by the said John Smith in his Lifetime, be confirmed to the several Purchasers thereof, upon their paying the Purchase Money; and that the several Mortgagees, the Defendant John Smith, and the Defendants Edward and Matthew Smith, when they shall arrive at the Age of twenty one Years, release to those Purchasers, and the Purchasers of the Lands and Slaves to be sold under this Decree, all their Right and Interest in the said Lands and Slaves, unless the said Infants shall show Cause to the contrary within six Months after they come of Age respectively.
All Persons having any Claims against the Estate of John Smith, deceased, are desired to lay them before the Gentlemen appointed by the Decree of the Honourable General Court, between this and the 28th of October next, as the Plaintiffs in the above Suit intend to move for a final Decree at that Time.
To be SOLD, FOURTEEN Hundred Acres of exceeding good TOBACCO LAND in Stafford County, on the Branches of Aquia and Potomack Runs, extremely well timbered and watered, twelve Miles from Falmouth, and ten from Aquia. One Half the Land rents for thirty Pounds a Year; there is a small Plantation on the other Part the Land, and a Mill near the Plantation, it not privately sold, will be set up at twelve Hundred Pounds, on the 18th of October next. Also eleven Hundred Acres of Land on Rocky Run, in Stafford County, the Rents of which amount to four Hundred and thirty Pounds of Tobacco; either in Lots, or altogether, as may suit the Purchasers. An indisputable Title will be made to the Land, by the Trustees of Charles Carter.
STOLEN the 17th of July, from the
Subscriber, in Frederickburg, a likely strong bright bay HORSE, about fourteen Hands and a Half high, eleven Years old, has no White on him, except a few Saddle Spots, not branded, has been docked very short, and has little Hair in his Mane or Tail; his Mane hangs on the near Side, he paces a little, trots hard, was shod all round, and has been used in a Chair. TEN DOLLARS Reward will be paid the Person that delivers him to Mr. John Turner, at Rocky Ridge, or to WILLIAM REID.
To be SOLD on the Premises, on Friday the 4th of December next,
TWO Hundred and sixty three Acres of LAND in Amherst County, adjoining to the Tobacco River Mountains, whereon is a Plantation, with all convenient Houses on the same, in good Order for Cropping, sufficient for working seven or eight Hands; the Land is exceeding rich for Tobacco, Corn, Wheat, or Hemp. At the same Time will be sold twelve very valuable SLAVES, mostly Men and Women, amongst which is a good Sawer, and one that has worked several Years in a Blacksmith's Shop; as also all the Stock of Horses, Cattle, and Hogs, belonging to the said Plantation, with all the Crop of Corn and Fodder made thereon, and all the Plantation Utensils. Twelve Months Credit will be allowed the Purchasers of the Land, or longer, if found necessary at the Day of Sale, and nine Months Credit for the Slaves, Stock, Corn, and Utensils, upon good Merchants Bonds, or Notes, bearing Interest from the Day of Sale, payable unto John Barnes, Esquire (to whom the Estate belongs) the Sale of which will be conducted by AMHERST, July 16, 1772. GABRIEL PENN.
NORFOLK, July 29, 1772.
THE Subscriber having provided convenient Warehouses for the Reception of Goods, purposes selling on Commission, either by private Sale or publick Vendue, and begs Leave to assure the Publick that his best Endeavours shall be used to dispose of any Goods given him for Sale to the most Advantage, and that they may expect the greatest Punctuality in the Payment of the Proceeds, being determined to continue the Business no longer than he finds he can do so; and, in Order to enable him to do this, he hopes every Person purchasing at any of his Sales will be punctual in their Payments, without which he must labour under Difficulties in supporting his own Credit. He has also opened an ENSURANCE OFFICE; any Orders from the Country for Insurance will be as punctually complied with as if the Persons were present, the greatest Care taken to have good People to the Policies, and that they shall be sent by the first safe Conveyance. Gentlemen who do not regularly attend the General Courts, and Courts of Oyer, are requested to forward the Premiums with their Orders, as it is customary here to pay them at signing the Policies; those who attend the Courts may pay the Premiums there. JAMES ARCHDEACON.
DINWIDDIE, June 13, 1772.
STOLEN from the Subscriber, on Friday Night the 12th Instant, a bay HORSE about four Feet seven Inches high, with a short Switch Tail and hanging Mane, paces, trots, and gallops very well, has remarkable good Spirit, was shod before, but his Brand, if any, is not remembered. I will give TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward on Delivery of the Horse to me, and FIVE POUNDS on Conviction of the Thief. (T) NEILL BUCHANAN, Senior.
For SALE,
THE following Tracts of LAND, in Pittsylvania, namely, four Hundred Acres on Banister River, six Hundred and seventy on Beaver Creek, three Hundred and forty five on Barb's Creek, three Hundred and eighty on Leatherwood, and four Hundred on Snow Creek. These Lands were formerly the Property of Mr. Samuel Gordon, deceased. The Price, and Time of Payment, may be known by applying to me in Peterburg. JERMAN BAKER.
To be LET on LEASE,
A VERY large and commodious HOUSE in the Town of Peterburg, built for a Tavern, and well fitted for that Business; it is two Stories high, has a Number of very convenient Lodging Rooms, and large and small Rooms for the Entertainment of Guests. Any Person qualified for the Business of a Tavern Keeper, with a proper Capital, may find this as advantageous a Situation as any on the Continent. Apply to the Subscriber, who lives on the Premises. THOMAS EGLETON.
A Catalogue of BOOKS, STATIONARY, &c. to be sold at the Post Office, Williamsburg.
F O L I O S. BEAWES's Lex Mercatoria. Burkitt on the New Testament. Jacob's Law Dictionary. Lord Hardwicke's Cases. Bishop Lightfoot's Works. L'Estrange's Josephus. QUARTO S.
Bougainville's Voyage round the World. Cambridge's Account of the War in India. England's Bloody Tribunal. Heister's Surgery. History of Westminster Abbey. Lediard's History of the Germans. Life of Lord Herbert. Swan's Designs in Carpentry. Simpson's Apollonii Pergæi Locorum Planorum. Fifth Volume of Mrs. Macaulay's History of England. OCTAVO S.
Africain's Midwifery. Baretti's Introduction to the most useful European Languages. Bechman's History of Scotland. Bennet's Christian Oratory. Baretti's Travels, through England, Portugal, Spain, and France. Bradbury on Gardening. Present State of the British Empire in Europe, America, Africa, and Asia. Boswell's Travels through Louisiana. Book of Martyrs. Beattie on Truth. Broughton on Futurity. Brookes's Practice of Physick. Buccaneers of America. Callander's Voyages to the Terra Australis, or Southern Hemisphere. Churchill's Sermons. Celine's History of Himself, and of the Time he lived in. Dittion on the Resurrection. Dictionary of the Bible. Emerion's Fluxions. Select Essays from the Encyclopedy. Edinburgh Dispensary. Ferguson's Tables and Tracts. Do. His Astronomy. Do. On Electricity. Fair's Inquiry into Animal Motion. Family Companion for Health. Frazer's History of the famous Kouli Khan. Gordon's Accomplant. Goldsmith's Roman History. Do. His History of England. Guthrie's Geographical Grammar. Do. His Epistles to Atticus. Young Gentleman and Lady instructed. History of George III. Hammond's History of the Bible. Hill's Family Herbal. Howell's Letters. Harris's Life of Oliver Cromwell. History of Greenland. Hellmann's Lectures in Natural Philosophy. History of California. Hume's Essays. Do. His History of England. Harris on the Diseases of Infants. History of Paraguay. Hutchinson on the Passions. Do. Of Beauty and Virtue. Hurd's Dialogues, Moral and Political. History of Magna Charta. James's Dispensary. Ledran's Observations and Operations. Love's Surveying. Mannings on Female Diseases. Mair's Book-Keeping. Martin's Philosophical Grammar. London Medical Observations. Milne's Surgery. Macbride's Essays. Miller's Gardener's Kalendar. Nelson's Festivals and Fasts, &c. Noble's Elements of Perspective. Osmer on Horses. Penn's No Cross No Crown. Pierre Viaud's Shipwreck and Adventures. Moore's Practical Navigator. Potter's Mathematicks. Paschal's Thoughts on Religion, &c. Priestley on Perspective. Pilgrim's Progress. Price on Annuities. Ray's Travels, through Germany, Italy, and France. The Religious Philosopher. Rowning's Philosophy. Romaine's Sermons. Rouppé on the Diseases of Seamen. Revival of Shakespear's Text. Secker's Sermons. Do. His Lectures on the Catechism. Stockdale's Antiquities of Greece. Simpson's Algebra. Do. His Geometry. Stewart's Tracts, Physical and Mathematical. Stackhouse's History of the Bible. History of the Spanish Settlements in America. Mrs. Stewart's Meditations. Switzer on Gardening. Sherlock on Death. Seed's Sermons. Sharp's Surgery. Do. His Arguments in Defence of Christianity. Montequieu's Spirit of Laws. Tilloth's Advice to the People, with Respect to Health. Taylor's Holy Living and Dying. Universal English Dictionary. Van Swieten's Abridgment. Whitefield's Sermons. Watt's Principles of Astronomy and Geography. Do. His Philosophical Essays. Do. Logic. Do. Sermons. Whyte's Cases in Surgery. Whaley's Poems. Walch's History of the Popes. Wilson's Surveying. Gilbert's Law of Evidence. Every Man his own Lawyer. The Biographical Dictionary.
D U O D E C I M O S.
Adventures of a Jesuit. Ambrose's War with Devils. Adventures of an Atom. Adison's Works. Arminius on the Diseases of Infants. The Apocrypha. Third and fourth Volumes of The Bank Note. Boyle's Pantheon. Baxter's Saint's Everlasting Rest. Bartlett's Farriery. Bracken's Farriery. Lord Boilingbroke's Works. Beveridge's Thoughts on Religion. Madam Boege's Letters. Betsky: Or, the Caprices of Fortune. Voltaire's History of Charles XII. Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. History of Charles Wentworth. History of Miss Charlotte Manners. Clarissa Harlowe. Young's Centaur not fabulous. The Classical Dictionary. Corasanti: Or, the distressed Friend. Collections of Poems, by eminent Hands. Compendium of Geography. Chambeau's Geography. Young's Night Thoughts. History of Mr. Cecil and Miss Gray. The Contant: Or, the History of Miss Wellstone and Miss Mosely. Devi upon Two Sticks. Duty of Man's Works. Don Quixote. Doddridge's Sermons. Dodsley's Poems. Adventures of David Simple. Essays on Song Writing, with a Collection of choice Songs. History of Emily Montague. The English Censor, containing an Account of whatever is curious in Painting, Sculpture, &c. in the Palaces and Seats of the Nobility and Gentry. Fatal Friendship. By a Lady. Rousseau's Eloisa. History of Eliza Mufgrove. The False Step: Or, the History of Miss Brudenell. President Forbes's Works. Fielding's Works, complete. Fordyce's Art of Preaching. Fairy Tales, by the Countess D'Anois. The Apparition, or Female Cavalier. The Guardian. Adventures of Gil Blas. Gerhardt's Meditations. Amusements of the German Spa, by Doctor Limbourg. Gould's Account of English Antiquities. History of England, in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to his Son. Humphrey Clinker, by Smollet. Hervey's Meditations and Contemplations. Harriot: Or, the Innocent Adulteress. The Historical Companion, being an Introduction to the political History of all Nations. Woolaston's Life and History of a Pilgrim. Joseph Andrews. Instructions for a young Lady, in every Sphere and Period of Life. Vertot's History of the Knights of Malta. Dryden's Fables. The Prediction: Or, the History of Miss Lucy Maxwell. Life of John Bunce, Esquire. The Maid of Quality: Or, the History of Lady Lucy Layton. The new Clarissa: Or, the History of Miss Melmouth. Marmontel's moral Tales. The Modern Couple: Or, the History of Mr. and Mrs. Davers. Memoirs, containing the Lives of several Ladies of Great Britain. By the Author of John Bunce. Boyle's Collection of choice and safe Remedies, very useful in Families, and fitted for the Service of Country People. Life and Adventures of Madam de la Sarre. Moore's Fables for the Female Sex. Milton's Works. Masson's Collection, in Prose and Verse, for the Use of Schools. Edinburgh Medical Essays. Martin's Universal Gazetteer. New Manual of Devotions. The Old Maid: Or, the History of Miss Ravenworth. Blacklock's Poems. The Pleasing Instructor. Kimber's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Pliny's Epistles. Pope's Works, complete. Peruvian Tales. Lewis's Patriot King. Piutarch's Select Lives. Parnell's Poems. Mrs. Rowe's Letters. Rowe's Lucan. Rochefoucauld's Maxims. Reeves's History of London. Do. His History of the World. Rollin's Ancient History. The Rambler. The Scotchman: Or, The World as it goes. Secret History of Whitehall. Solyman and Almena. Yorick's Sentimental Journey. Sermons to Affes. Shakespeare's Works. Swift's Works, complete. The Spectator. Montequieu's Spirit of Laws. Tom Jones: Or, the History of a Foundling. Tilloth on Health. The School, being a Series of Letters between a young Lady and her Mother. The Fault was all his own. The Favourite, a moral Tale. Tristram Shandy, complete. The Turkish Spy. The Triumvirate: Or, Memoirs of Andrews, Beville, and Carew. Tom Fool, his History. Test of Filial Duty. The Partisan, or the Art of making War in Detachment. Vertot's Revolutions of the Roman Republick. Voltaire's Familiar Letters. Do. His Works complete. Warden's Collection for the Use of Schools. The World by Mr. Fitzadam. Watts's Poems. Do. His Scripture History. Waller's Works. Yorick's Sermons, complete. The Younger Sister: Or, The History of Miss Somersel. Hoyle's Games. The Economy of Human Life. Cole's Fables. Blackwall's Sacred Classics. The Masque, Merry Companion, and Cheerful Companion, Song Books. The New Week's Preparation. Entick's Spelling Dictionary. Harvey's Sermons. Gordon's Young Man's Companion. Boston's Fourfold State. Willison's Afflicted Man's Companion. The Court Kalendar for 1772. Holden's Essay on Muck. Fisher's Young Man's Companion. Hill's, Mair's, Fenning's, Pardon's, Wingate's, and Cocker's Arithmetick. Sir Isaac Newton's Universal Arithmetick. Wyld's Practical Surveyor. The Mariner's Compass rectified. Erskine's Gospel Sonnets. Richardson's Esop's Fables. Townsend's Royal Farrier. The Unfortunate Mother's Advice to her absent Daughters. Bracken's Pocket Farrier. Mrs. Rowe's Devout Exercises of the Heart. Shower's Reflections on Time and Eternity. Lord Halifax's Advice to a Daughter. Willison's Balm of Gilead. Memoirs of the Countess de Barre, the French King's Mistress. Watts's Psalms and Hymns. Russell's Seven Sermons. The Attorney's Pocket Book. The Family Prayer Book. Telemache, and Gil Blas, in French. Boyer's and Palairet's French Grammars. Chambeau's French and English Fables. D'Aubichon's French Exercise Book. Byron's Voyage to Patagonia, in his Majesty's Ship Dolphin. Letters to the Ladies, on the Preservation of Health and Beauty. Dialogues on the Conduct of Human Life. Walpole's Life of Richard III. The Good Samaritan, or complete English Physician. Crebillon's Night and Moment, a Dialogue. Cadogan on the Gout, and Falconer's Observations on Doctor Cadogan. Sir James Jay on the Gout. The Life, Adventures, Intrigues, and Amours, of Jemmy Twitcher. Observations on the Buildings and Improvements of London. The Carpenter's Companion. The Joiner and Cabinet Maker's Pocket Director. Regulations for the Prussian Infantry. Young's Merchant, a Poem on the British Trade and Navigation. Smith's Pastors. The Concubine, a Poem. The Prostitute, a Poem. Doctor Langhorne's Fables of Flora. The Art of Confectionary, or the Method of preserving all Sorts of Fruit, dry and liquid. Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, his miscellaneous Tracts. The Grecian Daughters, a Tragedy. An Hour before Marriage, a Farce. A Variety of small History Books, and other pretty Books for Children. Church Bibles and Prayer Books. School Bibles and Testaments. Large and small Prayer Books, in different Bindings. A great Variety of GREEK and LATIN SCHOOL BOOKS. M U S I C K. Stamitz's Orchestra Trios. Fisher's favourite Minuet. Brewster's Vauxhall and Grotto Songs. The Cunning Man, a musical Entertainment. Abel's favourite Overtures. Pasquali's Thorough Bass made easy. Burgess Senior's Lessons for the Harpsichord. Corelli's Solos. Stamitz, Barbella, Reinauds, and Florio's Duets. Gasparini's Trios. Instrumental Parts to Stamitz's Concertos. Schwindl, Lates Junior, Richter, Campioni, Pasquali, Just, Pugmani, and Bezozzi's Sonatas. Instructions for the Cornett and German Flute. Violins, Screw and common Bows, Bridges, and Strings. Ivory and other German Flutes, some of a new Construction. S T A T I O N A R Y. Paper of all Sorts and Sizes. Blank Books, ruled and unruled, of all Sizes. Best Dutch and common Quills. Black and Red Wax and Wafers. Shining Sand. Fine Japan Ink, and Inkpowder. Red Ink, and Powder. Pounce, and Pounce Boxes. Ivory Folders. Slates and Pencils. Black Lead Pencils, and Silver and polished Steel Pencil Cases. Pewter Inkstands. Edinburgh Inkpots. As Skin and Ivory Memorandum Books. Reading Glasses. Temple Spectacles. Martin's best Visuals. Red Tape, broad and narrow. Cases of Mathematical Instruments. Playing Cards. Message Cards. Folio Paper Cases. A complete Set of elegant MAPS, framed in Mahogany, with Spring Rollers. A large and very fine Pair of GLOBES. A THEODOLITE, Spirit Level, Protractor, and Chain, with a complete Set of Surveying Instruments. P A T E N T M E D I C I N E S. Daffey's Elixir, Betton's British Oil, Bateman's Pectoral Drops. Hooper's Female Pills. Swinifen's Electary for the Stone and Gravel. Pike's Ointment for the Itch. Radcliffe's famous purging Elixir. Frances's female strengthening Elixir. Stoughton's Bitters. Turlington's Balsam.
J U S T P U B L I S H E D,
THE VIRGINIA ALMANACK for the Year 1773, calculated according to Art, and referred to the Horizon of every One's Understanding, but more especially those who have got a Bit to spare to buy an Almanack; wherein the Reader may see (if he have any Eyes, and be neither drunk nor asleep) many very remarkable Things, worthy his Observation.
ALL Persons may be supplied with this PAPER at 12s. 6d. a Year, and have ADVERTISEMENTS (of a moderate Length) inserted in it for 3s. the first Week, and 2s. each Week after. All Sorts of PRINTING WORK done at this Office in the neatest Manner, with Care and Expedition.