The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1772-05-28 00:00:00

VIRGINIA
GAZETTE.
Which the freest ADVICES,
FOREIGN and DOMESTICK.
IN CIVITATE LIBERA LINGUAM MENTEMQUE
LIBERAS ESSE DEBERE. Suet. in Tib. S. 28.
Printed by ALEX. PURDIE, and JOHN DIXON, at the POST OFFICE.
DELAWARE LOTTERY, FOR THE SALE OF LAND BELONGING TO THE EARL OF STIRLING, IN THE PROVINCES OF NEW YORK and NEW JERSEY.
Table with 4 columns: Prize Number, Amount in £, Amount in s, Amount in d. It lists various prizes for the Delaware Lottery, including land prizes, cash prizes, and blanks.
2413 Prizes. 9862 Blanks. 12275 Tickets, at £. 4 New-York Currency, or 46s. Sterling, or ten Dollars each, is £. 49100. About four Blanks to a Prize.
The Lands and Houses have all been appraised by impartial Persons appointed for that Purpose by the Managers, and the Titles inspected and approved of by Counsel of the first Reputation in New York. The Managers are Gentlemen of the first Reputation in New York, who will see that strict Justice is done, and will make a good Title to the Persons who draw the fortunate Numbers, without any Expense of Deeds, and without any Deduction. The Drawing to begin with all convenient Speed. A List of the fortunate Numbers will be printed in the New York and Philadelphia Newspapers; such Prizes as are not demanded in three Years after the Drawing are to revert to the Society of the Hospital in the City of New York, in America, and esteemed as generous Donations to a most benevolent Institution lately established, for the Relief and Recovery of the Poor, Diseased, and Distressed, of all Denominations.
The fortunate Adventurers distant from New York shall have their Prizes paid by, or their Deeds lodged with, the Persons who delivered out the Tickets, clear of any Expense.
114 TICKETS to be had at the POST OFFICE in WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA.
Advertisement.
BEING strictly enjoined by my late Instructions to enforce the punctual Payment of his Majesty's Quitrents, it is expected, for the future, that every Sheriff should settle with the Auditor, and pay the Money into the Receiver's Office, on or before the Day appointed by Law; and all Sheriffs who are yet in Arrear to this Revenue cannot expect any farther Indulgence. RICHARD CORBIN, D. R. G.
S C H E M E OF A LOTTERY FOR RAISING THE SUM OF FOURTEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY POUNDS FOR BUILDING A COLLEGE IN Mecklenburg County, in North Carolina.
Table with 4 columns: Prize Number, Amount in £, Amount in s, Amount in d. It lists the prizes for the Mecklenburg County Lottery, including a £1000 prize, £500 prize, etc.
2016 Prizes. 3984 Blanks. 6000 Tickets, at 32s. Proc. or four Dollars, £. 9600. Fifteen per Cent to be deducted from the Prizes. The said Lottery to be drawn on the 22d Day of August next, at the Courthouse in Mecklenburg, under the Inspection of Messieurs Morris Moore, Richard Henderson, Richard Calwell, Hugh Waddell, Alexander Martin, Thomas Neale, John McKnight Alexander, and Hugh Montgomery, or any three of them, who are to be on Oath to see the same done faithfully. TICKETS to be had at the Post Office in Williamsburg, Virginia.
PROPOSALS for publishing, by Subscription, a MAP of the INTERIOUR PARTS of NORTH AMERICA. Price ONE PISTOLE. By Thomas Hutchins, Lieutenant of his Majesty's Royal American Regiment, and Engineer.
THIS MAP comprehends the whole Country that lies between the thirty sixth and forty seventh Degrees of Latitude, and the seventy ninth and ninety fourth Degrees of Longitude; in which the great Rivers Mississippi and Ohio, with the numerous smaller Streams which empty into them, as well as the Lakes Erie, Huron, and Michigan, are accurately delineated; every considerable Town of the various Indian Nations which inhabit those Regions, with the Extent of their respective Claims, are also particularly pointed out.
This Map contains an Extent of more than eight Hundred Miles in Length, and nearly seven Hundred in Breadth, which is not excelled, and hardly equalled, by any Country on the Face of the Earth, for its Beauty and the Fertility of its Soil, and which must soon become a most important and very interesting Part of the British Empire in America. The Author assures the Publick that a great Part of the Country, and most of the Rivers and Lakes, are laid down from Surveys, corrected by the Observations of Latitudes, carefully executed by himself, on the Campaigns he had the Honour of serving during the Whole of the last War, and the Department he has been constantly employed in since the final Treaty with the Western and Northern Indians, in 1764.
This Map, which is delineated on a Scale of twenty Miles to an Inch, shall be neatly engraved, and accompanied with an Analysis, or a particular Description of the Face of the Country, its Lakes, Rivers, Timbers, Soil, and Climate. The Whole to be ready for Delivery as soon as the Subscribers amount to a Number adequate to defray the unavoidable Expense of the Publication.
As the Author has been particularly requested, by a Number of Gentlemen, to undertake and publish this Map, and one Hundred Subscribers are already engaged, he wishes, for more speedily accomplishing the Design (and as the Work is meant and intended for the general Benefit and Information of his Majesty's good Subjects) that those who may think proper to encourage it will, as soon as possible, send their Names to the Post Office in Williamsburg, Virginia.
VIRGINIA, to wit. By his Excellency the Right Honourable JOHN Earl of DUNMORE, his Majesty's Lieutenant and Governor General of the said Colony and Dominion, and Vice Admiral of the same:
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS Complaint hath been made before me that Numbers of People have lately removed, and are daily removing, from the neighbouring Colonies, and settling themselves in the south western Frontier of this Dominion, upon Lands already granted by Patents to others, to the great Injury and Disquiet of such Patentees, availing themselves, in the said lawless Conduct, of his Majesty's Proclamation of the 7th of October 1763, wherein his Majesty is pleased to prohibit the Settlement of those Lands, by which they affect to think that all the Patents issued for granting any Part thereof are annulled and made void, and the said Lands thrown open to the Occupation of the first Adventurer: For putting a Stop, therefore, to such irregular and unjust Proceedings, I have thought proper, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Majesty's Council, by this Proclamation, in his Majesty's Name, to require all Persons coming under the above Description immediately to evacuate such their illegal Settlements; and if they shall refuse or delay so to do, that then the Sheriff of the County of Botetourt do use all lawful Means for removing them, and all his Majesty's Officers, both civil and military, and all other his Majesty's legal Subjects within this Dominion, to be aiding and assisting therein, as they shall answer the contrary at their Peril.
GIVEN under my Hand, and the Seal of the Colony, at the Council Chamber, in the City of Williamsburg, this 5th Day of May 1772, and in the 12th Year of his Majesty's Reign. DUNMORE. GOD save the KING.
VIRGINIA, to wit. By his Excellency the Right Honourable JOHN Earl of DUNMORE, his Majesty's Lieutenant and Governor General of the said Colony and Dominion, and Vice Admiral of the same:
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS I have received authentick Advice of the Death of her late Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales, and that his Majesty had been pleased, on that melancholy Occasion, to order in Council that in the Morning and Evening Prayers in the Litany, and in all other Parts of the publick Service, as well in the occasional Offices as in the Book of Common Prayer, where the Royal Family is particularly prayed for, the following Form and Order shall be observed, namely, Our gracious Queen Charlotte, his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, and all the Royal Family: I have therefore thought fit, by and with the Advice of his Majesty's Council, by this Proclamation, to give publick Notice thereof; hereby in his Majesty's Name, requiring every Minister and Reader within this Colony, in his respective Church or Churches, to conform henceforth to the above Direction.
GIVEN under my Hand, and the Seal of the Colony, at the Council Chamber in the City of Williamsburg, this 5th Day of May, 1772, and in the 12th Year of his Majesty's Reign. DUNMORE. GOD save the KING.
Furca naturam expelles.
SENECA has always been one of my favourite Authors. Now I had just finished reading his consolatory Chapter against immoderate Sorrow for the Loss of Friends, when a Servant came to desire me to step in to my Neighbour Beverly's. So I closed the Book, and as I did it, laying my right Hand across my Breast, thou Seneca, said I, hast steeled me at all Points; not only against the Loss of Relations, but against every other Misfortune that can possibly happen. I could now stand, with the greatest Indifference, and see World wrecked against World, and myself at last involved in the general Ruin.
I had just finished this Sentence when I was got as far as my Neighbour's Door; and by saying it, methought my Heart was become too large to be contained within my Breast. In this Humour I stepped in, and found that his Wife had a few Minutes before expired in his Arms, while three lovely Children were weeping around their deceased Mother. The good Man sat leaning his Head upon his Arm, and wiping a silent Tear from his Eye, which he endeavoured to conceal from his little Family.
I have a Remedy for your Distress, said I to myself; so putting on the Air of a Stoick, I sat down. Have you ever read Seneca? said I. No, answered he. My Heart exulted within me at the Reply; so I began, from that Author, to tell him that it was needless to grieve for Death, since it was unavoidable; that the Manner how was uncertain, and indifferent; that the Time when was of no Consequence, as the longest Liver only survived the shortest for a few Days; that Tears might be a Means of carrying us to the Dead, but could never bring them back to us. This will certainly do, said I; so I stopped, to observe the Effect of it. A fresh Tear fell from his Eye. I have yet stronger Consolations than these, thought I, and they will certainly answer. So I went on to observe that Death only took the Deceased from a World of Pain, Anxiety, and Trouble, to One of Peace and Serenity; and that the Spirits of the Departed looked down with Contempt upon our Ignorance, for grieving foolishly at their Welfare. Here the Tears began to flow more abundantly. I was astonished!
There is Nothing more easily given, nor more difficultly received, than Consolation and Advice. When the Mind is at Ease, she thinks that the Considerations she offers would restore her own Quiet if it was lost, and therefore naturally concludes that they should restore that of another. When she is established in the Principles of Virtue, the wonders how any One can be vicious. I thought that what I had said would have recovered me from the most affecting Scene of Woe, and I thought it should have done so to my Neighbour; so I never imagined that what Seneca had said might be unnatural, but that my Neighbour was insensible.
I will profit by these consolatory Discourses, said I, if Nobody else should; so I went home, and read them all over again, as also his Dissertation on Anger. Strange! said I, when I had finished them, what a Man my Neighbour is! Grief, Sorrow, Anger, now all appear to me in such a ridiculous Light that I think I shall never be weak enough to fall into any of them. Thanks to Seneca; would he could put my good Neighbour in the same Situation; and he certainly would do it, if the poor Man was capable of perceiving the Force of his Reasoning.
There is Nothing so apt to deceive us as our own Hearts. The Servant was laying the Cloth for Supper; I was walking through the Room in this elevated Temper; let the World go to Wreck, said I, what is that to me? Just as I was saying it, a Darling China Mug, which was a Gift from my Aunt Margery, fell plump on the Floor, and was shivered to Pieces. Devil, cried I, and lifting up my Stick, lent the poor Fellow a Blow upon the Head. He ran out of the Room in a Fright, and I ran about it in a Passion.
There was hardly any Thing I valued more than my Mug, except Seneca's Book, and it had unluckily been swept from the Corner of the Table by the Tail of the Servant's Coat, and lay among the shattered Fragments of the Mug, and among the spilt Beer which it had contained. When I observed this I grew outrageous, pulled up the Book, threw it into the Fire, pulled it out again, threw it on the Floor, stamped on it with my Foot, then flung myself into the great Chair.
As I had Nothing to vent my Rage upon, it began to subside; so I arose, and opened the Book, to see if it was spoiled. At first Sight, several Exclamations against Anger presented to me. I was struck! I will behave better for the future, said I; and Nothing, O divine old Man! shall ever make me again deviate from thy Rules!
There is Nothing easier than to make Resolutions, and Nothing more difficult than to keep them. I sat down again, laid Epictetus and Seneca on the Table before me, and turned my Reading particularly on the Contempt of bodily Pain, which, by their Help, I clearly discovered to have Nothing to do with the Mind, and was therefore firmly resolved that I would disregard them if ever any of them should attack me; so I counted upon my Resolutions as Acquisitions already made, and considering myself as above the rest of Mankind. It is an easy Thing, said I, to curb every unruly Passion; I am surprised that every Body does not do it.
In this Humour I went to Bed, perfectly superior to every Contingency; but having been frequently subject to the Toothach, I awoke in the Night in a violent Fit of it. I rung the Bell, waked the whole House, called for all my Antidotes; none of them relieved me. Disappointment doubles the Weight of my Misfortune, and frets the Mind; so I knocked my Head against the Bed Post, and committed a Thousand other Extravagancies; and at last jumping out on the Floor, I beheld Seneca and Epictetus lying on the Table. You are Liars, cried I; so I flung them, and dashed them on the Floor. You are Liars, for I find Pain affects the Body, and the Soul, and the—I will trust to you no more; so I lent for a Surgeon, and had my Tooth drawn.
The Pain was soon over, and I returned to Bed. Sweet Ease, said I, as I laid me down, how soft thou makest the Pillow upon which we lay our Heads! so I went to Sleep. In the Morning, when I got up, the Servant had again laid the two Books upon the Table. When there is Nothing to disturb the Mind she often wonders how any Thing could ever disturb her. I took up Seneca again, and soon read myself into a

thorough Contempt both of my former Conduct and of all the cross Accidents of Life. The two last Accidents, said I, came plump upon me, without allowing me any Time to fortify myself, so they overcame by a Coup de Main; but let Adversity come upon me by Degrees, let it warn me of its Approach, and then let it try if it can vanquish my Resolution. I had now an only Brother; in his tender Infancy he had been committed to my Care, and I had nourished him in my Bosom, and been to him as a Father; he had repaid me with Love and Duty; they were all he had to give. He was at this Time complaining, and his Complaints soon discovered that he was afflicted with a nervous Fever. So long as the Physician had any Hope of his Recovery, I stood firmly collected within myself. Whatever shall happen to him, said I, I will behave like a Philosopher.
As soon as I was told by the Doctor that his Disease would be fatal, my Firmness began to be relaxed, and my Resolution to fail. I remained in Suspense whether I should incline to Seneca or to Nature. When he drew his last Breath, he seemed to fix his Eyes upon me. The Look pierced my Heart; I shall remember it while I live. Seneca was discarded, Nature took Possession of my whole Soul, and the congenial Tear rushed into my Eye. I wiped it away, and while I did it, I will still be a Philosopher, said I; so I took up Seneca once more, to search for Consolation. Circumstances were changed, he afforded me none. Thou hast deceived me, said I, with Words; thou hast endeavoured to strip me of the Feelings of Nature and Humanity; but this (wiping a Tear from my Eye) informs me that thou hast laboured in vain.
My Neighbour Beverly came in, and afforded me much the same Consolation as I had done him, and with much the same Effect. After him came the Vicar of our Parish, who endeavoured to console me by every Argument that could be drawn from Scripture, Religion, and Reason. The Tear gushed faster from my Eye while he spoke.
My Relations too gathered about me, and fell upon every Method they could invent to diminish my Grief; but they were fighting against the Principle within me.
I thought I had behaved well to my Brother while alive; but, now he was dead, I thought otherwise, and every ungracious Word I had uttered to him crowded into my Memory. Great God! said I, could we think of this in Time, how differently would we behave to each other!
The tender Sentiments are the most valuable Parts of Humanity, and whoever endeavours to detract them from the Soul endeavours to rob her of the most precious Gift of Heaven. If we had no Feeling for each other, Society, and every good Office, would be at an End; but mine, said I, as I am now convinced of their Utility, shall never end but with my Existence.
CITY NIGHT REFLECTIONS.
WHAT a solemn Stillness reigns around me! All is dark and silent; the Clock has struck one; the expiring Taper rises, and sinks in the Socket; the Watchman forgets the Hour in Slumber; the Labourer and the Happy are at Rest; Guilt, Excess, and black Despair, alone are waking; the Drunkard once more fills the destroying Bowl; the Robber prowls his Midnight Round; and the Wretch, intent on Suicide, lifts his guilty Arm against his own sacred Person.
Let me no longer waste the Night over the Page of Antiquity, the Works of Genius, or the Essays of Fancy. Let me no longer distract my Brain with Reflections on past Calamities, or present Troubles; the first of which, as Time is past, are, in their Nature, remediless; and the latter, of which Patience and Resignation can alone extract the barbed Darts of Anguish from, and lessen the present Pain of. But let me, in Imagination, pursue the solitary Walk; where Vanity, ever changing, but a few Hours past, walked before me, where she kept up the Pageant, and now, like a froward Child, seems hushed with her own Importunities. Let me suppose myself within the Environs of a large and opulent City. What a Gloom hangs all around me! The dying Lamp feebly emits its expiring Gleam; no Sound is heard but of the slowly striking Clock, or distant Watch Dog; all the Bustle of human Pride is forgotten, and this sad silent Hour displays an useful Memento of the Emptiness of human Vanity.
There may come a Time when this temporary Solitude may be made continual, and the City itself, like its Inhabitants, fade away, and leave a Desert in its Room. How have the most noted Cities, nay Empires, once triumphed in Existence, obtained their Victories, and reigned in Pomp and Splendour for a While! then, with short sighted Presumption, have they promised themselves immortal Lustre. But where are now the Cloud-capp'd Towers, the gorgeous Palaces, of ancient Greece and Rome! The musing Traveller wanders over the awful Ruins of these; he revives their ancient Splendour in his Mind, and feels the transitory State of human Grandeur and every earthly Possession.
Here, says the meditating Mind, stood their Citadel, but now overgrown with Weeds; their Senate House, where they harangued with nervous Eloquence and Strength of Argument, is now the Haunt of every noxious Reptile. Temples and Theatres stood here, now only an undistinguished Heap of Ruins; they are fallen! Luxury and Dissipation made them feeble. The Rewards of State were conferred on amazing rather than useful Members of Society; Riches and Opulence invited the Plunderer, and at last swept the degenerated State into general Destruction.
How few appear in the Streets, which but a few Hours ago were crowded! and they who appear no longer now wear their daily Mask, or attempt to hide their Wickedness or their Misery. But who are those who make the Streets their Couch, and find a short Repose from their Wretchedness at the Doors of the Opulent? Tell me, every feeling Heart, is there a Circumstance demands your Pity more than those whose Circumstances are so humble to expect Redress, and their Distresses too great even for Pity! The World seems to have disclaimed them; Society turns its Back upon them, and gives them up to Infamy and Hunger. These poor shivering Females have once seen happier Days; but, deluded by a Villain, and deserted by their Friends, have been forced into the horrid Paths of Prostitution, and are now lying at the Doors of their Betrayers, and suing to Wretches whose Hearts are insensible to Calamity, and dead to every Feeling of Humanity or Benevolence.
Why was I born to feel the Sufferings of Wretches I cannot relieve? Poor houseless Creatures! the World will give you Reproaches, but will not give you Relief. Why was this Heart of mine formed with so much Sensibility and Tenderness, without a Capacity of relieving the Wants and Miseries of our Fellow Creatures? This Sensibility makes, indeed, the Heart that feels it more wretched than the Object that sues for its Assistance. But let me turn from these Scenes of Infamy and Distress to the sanctified Hypocrite, who has been talking of Virtue and Honesty all Day; and now, under the Cover of Night, practises every Vice, the Reverse of all he has harangued in Praise of. Well says the immortal Milton: For neither Man, nor Angel,
Can discern Hypocrisy, the only Evil That walks invisible, except to God alone.
But the unexpected Daybreak from on high shall withdraw the Veil from his Hypocrisy, and put an End to his double Dealing, as it does now to my Reflections.
From ESSAYS on various SUBJECTS, lately published.
OUR Business in this World is not to sit down and be satisfied, but to rub on through many Duties, with just Accommodations enough to support us among them in a cheerful Frame of Mind, and is at all Times disposed to relish the Beauties of Nature and the Comforts of Society, though not enough attached to them to make the Parting difficult.
To form any other Notion of Happiness than this, is a Folly that will punish itself. Duty excepted, all the Concerns of human Life are of slight Importance; and when once we have possessed our Minds of that Belief, all those mysterious Phantoms that gave us such real Anxiety will immediately disappear. The Opinion of the World, Figure, Obscurity, Poverty, Wealth, Contempt, Fear, Pain, Affliction, will appear to be momentary Concerns, and therefore little worth long Hours of serious Thought; yet all Things are worth so much, that, just as far as Reason directs us, it is Matter of Duty to pursue, or avoid them. But when Choice has Nothing to do, Content is every Thing. Content did I say? I should have added, Gratitude; for much, indeed, the State even of this World deserves.
Convinced by Reason, and Religion, that the Evils of Life are mere Phantoms, prepare yourselves with Resignation to submit to them, with Constancy to support them. To lay in such a Stock of Strength you must call in the Assistance of many a leisure Hour, of many a serious Thought, of many an earnest Resolution. By these Means all will grow clear in your own Mind, Reflection will become your best Friend, and most agreeable Companion; and whatever Destiny attends you, you will acquiesce in it with Pleasure.
But your Misfortune is that of a splenetic Constitution; a Day's flight Disorder, a heavier Temperament of the Air, immediately affects you so as to alter to your Fancy the whole Frame of Nature. Fix it well in your Mind, that those gloomy Imaginations are deceitful. The bountiful Creator was not mistaken, when, pleased with his completed Work, he declared that "all was good." The Scheme of Providence and Nature is infinitely so, and its Contemplation is an inexhaustible Source of De-
light. Life has its gloomy Scenes; but to the Good they only prove an awful Exercise of Duty, supported all the While by the Assurance of Reward. Life has its cheerful Moments too, which to be good no Sorrow can embitter. Thus whilst the Pleasures of Religion, of Benevolence, of Content, of Gratitude, of every innocent Gaiety, of free Society, of lively Mirth, of Health, and all those infinite Objections of Delight which smiling Nature offers us, whilst these are real and substantial Enjoyments, that Ill which we might fear from the Deprivation of some of them, and even of Life itself, is proved to be an imaginary Terror. This we have numberless Opportunities of knowing; but, blinded by Passion, or weakened by Constitution, we perpetually run into the common Mistake. We form to ourselves such a false Idea of human Happiness, that, when we might behold, and be favoured by the Goddess herself, we fly from her in Fright, because she is not adorned just with those Trappings in which our Fancy has dressed her out. Restless, we still shift from Place to Place, to find what we do not know when we see it; and restless we shall ever be, if, for a Fit of the Spleen, or an unanswered Wish, we imagine that a just Degree of Happiness is not within every Body's Reach. If you have any Sense of Gratitude to that Providence which formed you for Happiness, avoid this gloomy Errour. Let refined Reason fix your Judgment, and then let common Sense direct your Practice.
From a late English Paper.
SIR, THE following is an Observation of Doctor Brown, in his "Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times."
"The Sexes have now little other apparent Distinction beyond that of Person and Dress; their peculiar characteristic Manners are confounded and lost, the one Sex having advanced into Boldness, as the other have sunk into Effeminacy."
This Work was published in the Year 1757; and so greatly are our Manners improved since that Time, that, in the Year 1772, a Man's Habit is the constant Morning Dress of two young Ladies of Character, well known in the polite World, who not only wear it within Doors, but frequently walk the Streets, and even pay and receive Morning Visits in that becoming Garb.
It appears that the English Ladies make a Point of going into every Fashion which they hear exploded by sensible People; witness the present fashionable Head Dress, which certainly took its Rise from Lady M. W. Montague's Description of the German Ladies Dress at Vienna.
"I cannot (says her Ladyship) forbear giving you some Description of the Fashions here, which are more monstrous, and contrary to all common Sense and Reason, than it is possible for you to imagine. They build certain Fabricks of Gauze on their Heads, about a Yard high, consisting of three or four Stories, fortified with numberless Yards of heavy Riband. The Foundation of this Structure is a Thing they call a Bourlet, which is exactly of the same Shape and Kind, but about four Times as big, as those Rolls our prudent Milkmaids make Use of to fix their Pails upon. This Machine they cover with their own Hair, which they mix with a great Deal of false, it being a particular Beauty to have their Heads too large to go into a moderate Tub. The Hair is prodigiously powdered, to conceal the Mixture, and set out with three or four Rows of Bodkins, wonderfully large, that stick out two or three Inches from their Hair, made of Diamonds, Pearls, red, green, and yellow Stones, that it certainly requires as much Art and Experience to carry the Load upright as to dance upon Mayday with the Garland. Their Whalebone Petticoats outdo ours by several Yards Circumference, so cover some Acres of Ground. You may easily suppose how this extraordinary Dress sets off and improves the natural Ugliness with which the Almighty has been pleased to endow them, generally speaking. Even the lovely Empress herself is obliged to comply, in some Degree, with these absurd Fashions, which they would not quit for all the World."
A new ENGLISH MEDICINE, or infallible CATHOLICON for all Diseases.
IT is acknowledged by the Followers of the new Philosophy that what is commonly called Sympathy and Antipathy is Nothing else but a natural Tendency and Inclination, Abhorrence and Aversion, to the Proportion and Disproportion between the Atoms and Pores of such Bodies as at a Distance mutually act and re-act upon each other; as in the Case of Olfaction, when one Person has extended or dilated his Jaws he has set the whole Company into the same Posture, for the subtle Effluvia of him who yawned first imperceptibly convey themselves into the nervous Membrane of the Oesophagus, which swells, and causes an Irritation in others, and by dilating it obliges the Mouth to answer the Motion of the nervous Fibres, it being lined with the same Membrane. By the Transition of these Effluvia I have known a Cit commence a Poet, and his Brain has been agitated and disturbed barely from the Verses that he has sucked from the Mouth of a Player. Upon these Principles, we may conclude that Hemp, though in the Flower, and at a great Distance, may operate by Ventilation, and cause a Twitching and Irritation upon a Neck it designs more closely to encircle; nay, I have heard that those Effluvia have had such an Effect upon the Brain of some People that whenever they have passed by a Hemp Shop they were always taken with an immoderate Sneezing.
The Naturalists tell us there are two Sorts of this Produce, which is hot in the second and dry in the first Degree, and that the one is not near so fatally influential upon human Bodies as the other. If the Atoms act upon a Body from the white Hemp, they cause only an Irksomeness in the Spine, and betoken a Workhouse or a Bridewell, a Whip, or a Cat o'nine Tails; if they operate upon the Wrists, the Hands are seized with a dead Palsy, and their Motion suspended for some Time. But if the Atoms emit from that of the more dingy Complexion, they threaten the Trachea, or the Windpipe, and are utter Enemies to Respiration and vocal Muffick, and hinder swallowing, which the Anatomists call a voluntary Motion. Let this Plant pass through never so many Modifications, it still retains its efficacious Power; but when it is twisted and turned to a Necklace, its Action is more violent than when it was distusive, and the Twitching upon the Jugulars is stronger and stronger, for the pestilential Effluvia being forced out by Contraction, they more violently incorporate with the Collum, and cause a Suffocation. If they act upon the Head, they cause a Disorder in the Brain, a Dimness in the Eyes, a Distortion of the Mouth, a Lividness in the Face, and a Blackness in the Neck; and if they operate at the same Time upon the Lobe of the left Ear, it is certain Death, and Death is the infallible Cure of all Distempers. This admirable Necklace cures all Diseases, external and internal; it is an infallible Remedy for the Cough; it cures the Quinsy, relieves the Spleen, it carries off all Aches and rheumatic Pains, and rectifies all secret Injuries, broken Constitutions, and ill Habits of Body; in fine, it is a sovereign Remedy against all Diseases but the Diabetes. It cures all chronick Diseases, as Love, Melancholy, Vapours, &c. It cures Lying, Pervocations, &c. by being externally applied; and no Specific that ever yet appeared upon the Theatre of the World can vie with the Cures that have been performed by HEMP.
COPENHAGEN, February 22.
THE King's Messenger, who was sent to London on the 18th of last Month (Mr. Brummer) is returned with Despatches of Consequence. Every Body is desirous to know whether the Letters that are brought from London to the Queen will be delivered to her at the Castle of Kronenbourg. The Cabinet Secretary Panin is, since his Examination, closer confined than he was before; he cannot see his Wife nor Children. Three Secretaries are appointed to the Commission, for the more speedy Expedition of the Trials of the State Prisoners. More Persons are taken into Custody every Day for Conspiracy.
HAMBURG, February 26. It is said the Sieur Struenfee, Superintendent General of the Churches in the Duchies of Sleswick and Holstein, was seized with a Fit of Apoplexy upon receiving the News of his Son Count Struenfee's Imprisonment, and died upon the Spot. He often expressed great Concern at the rapid Advancement of his Son; and when he heard that he was made Prime Minister, he said, with great Warmth, that he had rather have received Advice of his Death.
BONN, March 2. From Ober Oim we have received the following very extraordinary Relation of an Event which happened in that District between the 10th and 14th of February, when a Vineyard, five Hundred Paces long, and from seventy five to a Hundred broad, was removed from an Eminence into the Valley below, and by the Force of its Fall raised the adjoining Plain, with the Trees growing on it, in several Places, to the Height of twenty Feet, and that the Earth continued in Motion when the Letters came away. The Damage could not be at that Time ascertained; but there were at least fifteen Acres of Vineyard ruined, each of which is computed to be worth one Hundred and sixty Florins. The Road which goes through the Vineyard is so filled up that it will take about a Month to make it passable. The Ground where the Vineyard was is now entirely a Bed of Clay. This extraordinary Event is supposed to have been caused partly by subterranean Waters, and partly by those which descend in great Quantities from the Mountain Klopberg; and probably the great Rains, which have fallen for several Years past, have contributed to it.
L O N D O N, March 13.
THE following Changes in the Law are talked of to take Place after the Session: Lord Mansfield to have the Seals, Sir Fletcher Norton to succeed Lord Mansfield, the Attorney General to succeed Lord Chief Justice De Grey, who is to retire; and Mr. Solicitor General to be Attorney General; who is to succeed Mr. Wedderburne is not said.
It is whispered that the Decisions of the Court of Denmark are not intended to transpire in this Kingdom, let their Severity of seeming Injustice be what they may; it being a fixed Point with Government to preserve the Peace of Great Britain, though at the Price of their Honour.
It is privately whispered that the Queen of Denmark's Head was struck off the 27th of last Month.
Charitable Men ought still to be indulged in their Doubts respecting the Criminality of the Queen of Denmark, as every Information against her originates from her Enemies; even the Confession of Struenfee is evidently extorted, by the Terrors of the intended Torture.
Advice is just received that a secret Negotiation is now on Foot between the Courts of Berlin and Denmark, highly detrimental to the Interests of Great Britain and her Allies.
March 16. Leave is given to bring in a Bill in the House of Commons for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters, in his Majesty's Dominions in America.
Leave is given to bring in a Bill to prevent fraudulent Admissions into the Company of Merchants trading to America.
March 21. The Right Honourable the Earls of Lincoln and Hertford are, we are informed, to go to Copenhagen, to fetch out the Queen of Denmark.
The Ministry have received certain Advice of some dangerous Designs hatching by the Spanish Court against Jamaica, and some other Places in the West Indies.
Some new Imposts are talked of to be laid on America, before the Rising of the Parliament.
March 28. On Wednesday the Danish Minister had a Conference of upwards of an Hour with Lord Suffolk, after which they both of them waited upon the King together, with whom they were closeted for some Time. What was the particular Circumstance that gave Rise to this Audience is not known, but it was observed that Baron Dieden returned from the Presence seemingly with a very dejected Countenance.
It is said that a Negotiation is set on Foot by the Duke of Grafton, and Lord Hertford, for placing Earl Gower at the Head of the Treasury. The Duke of Grafton is to preside at the Admiralty Board, in the Room of Lord Sandwich, who, it is reported, will be offered a Vice Treasurership, or the Post Office. The Duke of Marlborough is to succeed to the Privy Seal, and the Lords Weymouth and Rochford are to be Secretaries of State. Lord North will be offered Mr. Rigby's present Post. The Duke of Portland's Estate, and Popularity, will be permitted to recover what Lord Townshend has sacrificed in Ireland. The Friends of Lord North at the Treasury will be removed, and succeeded by some of the Devonshire. The inferior Arrangements are few, and not yet concluded.
GLASGOW, April 2. The Military that marched from this Place last Week for Ireland got Orders not to embark, on Account of Advice being received that the late Disturbances there were entirely quelled, and that the principal Insurgents were already apprehended and sent to Dublin.
Extract of a Letter from London, March 31. "The Lords have passed the American Mutiny Bill, also the Militia and other Bills."
NEW YORK, May 3.
BETWEEN two and three o'Clock yesterday Morning a terrible Fire broke out in or near the Distillery back of Mr. Benjamin Hildreth's, St. George's Square, in this City, and rented by Messieurs Bolio and Spriggall. It being a dead Time of the Night, the Fire had got to a great Height before the Inhabitants could assemble. The Wind being at about north west, the Flames soon reached the wooden Buildings adjoining, and carried all before them to the Front of Water Street; and notwithstanding the Inhabitants present did all in their Power, on this very melancholy Occasion, the following Houses were burnt on the north Side of Water Street: Two Houses wherein Mr. Finley and John Bennet lived, owned by Mr. Thomas Arder; that wherein Alexander Montgomery lived, his own Property; that wherein William Irwin lived, owned by Benjamin Hildreth, as also a Storehouse and Stable; that wherein John Freeborn lived, owned by one Willis; that occupied by Pelatiah Haws, belonging to Augustus Van Horne; with a Storehouse and Stable, the Property of the Widow Walton. The House on the south Side of Water Street, wherein Mr. Springall lives, was twice caught by the Flames, but was as often happily extinguished; and two Houses in a narrow Street, to the eastward of where the Fire originated, the Property of Henry Kip, and occupied by Peter Hansen, and John Moore, were much burnt.
On Saturday last Mr. Montany's Negro Man, who had misbehaved, and was a remarkable Drunkard, was sent to Bridewell, and underwent the usual Discipline of the House for such Offences; namely, a plentiful Dose of warm Water and Salt to operate as an Emeric, and of Lamp Oil as a Purge, in Proportion to the Constitution of the Patient. Of these he took about three Quarts of the one, and two and a Half Spoonfuls of the other (also a Jill of New England Rum) which operated very powerfully, attended with a violent Sickness, which obliged him to lie down; and between eight and nine at Night he was discovered to be dead. He had been drunk three Times that Day before he was brought to Bridewell, and was not sober when the Discipline began. Several Physicians and Surgeons attended, the Body of the Negro was opened, and no Marks of Violence external or internal appearing, the Coroner's Inquest brought in their Verdict that he died of excessive Drinking, co-operating with the Effects of the Medicines he had taken; but that Mr. Dobbs, the Operator, was innocent of his Death.
WILLIAMSBURG, May 28.
THE Pitt, Punderfon, and Golden Fleece, Howard Esten, from London, are arrived in York River. Captain Waterman failed with them, and may be hourly expected. The Nautilus, Peterson, was to leave London the first Week in April; and the Lunn and Lloyd, Necks, about the last of April.
[DEATHS.] Mr. Thomas Hornsby, of this City, in an advanced Age; who by Industry and Application acquired a large Fortune in Trade, with the fairest Character.
Advertisements.
A BALE of RUGS, marked C R No. 1, imported last Fall in the Chatham Frigate, Captain John Anderson, not being come to Hand, the Subscriber will be much obliged to any Person with whom it may be lodged to forward it to him at Rocky Ridge. JOHN TURNER.
NORFOLK, May 25, 1772. JUST imported from London, in the Cochran, Captain Dubie, an Assortment of MEDICINES; to be sold by the Subscriber, Wholesale and Retail, at a low Advance, for ready Money. ALEXANDER GORDON.
ALL Persons indebted to the Subscriber, either by Bond or open Account, are requested to meet at his Store in Sussex County on Saturday the 13th of June, when the Debts due by Bond are expected to be discharged, and those due by open Account to be reduced to Specialties, with Security if required. There being a Necessity for the Subscriber to settle his Affairs, he flatters himself due Regard will be paid to this Advertisement. JOHN ATKINSON.
GLOUCESTER Courthouse, May 21, 1772.
NOTICE is hereby given that a great COCK MATCH, which was made some Time ago to be fought at the Battery in this County, is now agreed by the Gentlemen concerned to be fought here on Witsfun Monday.
To be SOLD,
FOUR Hundred Acres of LAND lying on Beaverdam Fork, on Chink Creek, in Louisa County. The Terms may be known by applying to Mr. David Clifham, who lives convenient, and will show the Land to any One inclined to purchase. ELIJAH GRAVES.
Just IMPORTED from London, and to be SOLD by the Subscriber at his Shop in Williamsburg, cheap, for ready Money.
A VARIETY of Williamson and Son's best SATIN SHOES and PUMPS; white, blue, and black CALIMANCO SHOES and PUMPS; also CHILDRENS MOROCCO and CALFSKIN SHOES and PUMPS. ROBERT GILBERT.

To be SOLD at publick Vendue, at the SWAN Tavern in York Town, on Monday the 22d of June,
ALL the personal Estate of JAMES MITCHELL, deceased. Six Months Credit will be allowed, on giving Bond and approved Security. All Persons who have any Demands against the said Estate are desired to bring in their Accounts, that they may be adjusted; and those who are indebted are requested to make immediate Payment to JANE MITCHELL, Executrix.
RUN away from the Subscriber, a Negro Fellow named JEREMIAH, about thirty Years of Age, speaks good English, and sensibly, one of his Legs is smaller than the other, and turns a little inwards; he has been used to the Sea, I believe was born in the West Indies, and now suppose him to be gone towards Norfolk. I will give TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward, besides what the Law allows, to any Person who secures him in any Jail till I get him again, and FORTY SHILLINGS if delivered to me in Bedford. WILLIAM DUDLEY.
CHESTERFIELD, May 18, 1772.
STRAYED from Osborne's, in September last, a COW and HEIFER, and a dark red CALF that was neither cut nor marked; the Cow and Heifer are of a brindled Colour, both marked with two smooth Crops and a Nick under each Ear, but one of the Nicks under the Cow's Ear is closed up again, and the other is not ripe, she had on a small Bell with a broad Leather Strap that had been broke, and a large Brass Buckle to it. I believe they were both with Calf when they went away. Whoever informs me where they may be found shall have TEN SHILLINGS Reward, besides all reasonable Charges for their Trouble. THOMAS REID.
COMMITTED to Charles City Jail, on Tuesday the 10th Instant (May) a Negro FELLOW, who says his Name is Tom, and that he belongs to Mr. Hardin Perkins of Buckingham. From an Advertisement in Mess. Purdie & Dixon's Paper of March 1772, he appears to be the same Negro advertised by Mr. Perkins, as he exactly answers the Description. The Owner is desired to take him away, and pay the Charges to JAMES EPPES, Jailer.
COMMITTED to SMITHFIELD Jail, a Negro Man named TOBY, who says he belongs to Thomas Pritchett of the County of Pasquotank, in the Province of North Carolina; also a Negro Man who says he is the Property of Lucy Turner of Southampton, in Virginia. The Owners may have them on proving their Property, and paying Charges. JOHN TAYLOR, Jailer.
WANTED, on Charter for Port Glasgow, a VESSEL that will carry four or five Hundred Hogheads of Tobacco. For Terms apply to JOHN HAMILTON, & Co.
KINGSMILL, May 20, 1772.
IMPORTED in the Ritchie, Angus M c Larty Master, the following Parcels of GOODS, namely, L B M in a Diamond, No. 1 a Bale, 2 a Cask, 3 a Bottle, 4 a Box, 1 and 2 Casks, 3 and 4 Bundles, three Iron Pots, one Bundle of Steel, and three Grindstones. As the above Goods have never been delivered, it is supposed they are landed with some Person on Rappahannock River, and it will be taken as a Favour if the Person with whom they are left will give Notice of it to William Harrison, in Georgetown, or to LEWIS BURWELL.
TO BE LET, THE WELL ACCUSTOMED SWAN TAVERN IN YORK TOWN. For TERMS APPLY TO THE SUBSCRIBER. THOMAS NELSON, Junior.
FALMOUTH, May 12, 1772.
I HAVE lately empowered Mr. JOHN LEUSTACE of this Town (in Place of Mr. David Kerr) to collect the Debts due to the late Copartnership of Wedrow and Neilson, and beg that speedy Payments may be made by those indebted to the Concern, as this and the next Week's Advertisement really will be the last in publick for that Purpose. ALEXANDER WODROW, Surviving Partner.
MILNER's, May 19, 1772.
IMPORTED in the Annie, Robert Pollock, last Fall, and not come to Hand, the following PACKAGES: B C a Bale of DUTCH BLANKETS, No. 42. Ditto, 1 Ditto - OSNABRUGS, - No. 48. B H, with a Crow's Foot between the Letters, two Casks of NAILS, No. R and E E. Ditto, a Bale of RUGS, No. 16. AB a the AB in a Piece, a Bale of COTTON, No. 4. Ditto, three Casks of NAILS, No. D. E. F. Whoever can give Information where any of these Packages are lodged will confer an Obligation on BUCHANAN & CUNISON.
RICHMOND, May 12, 1772.
AS I intend for GREAT BRITAIN some Time in the ensuing Fall, I beg the Favour of all those who are indebted, either to the Store kept by me at Stocko, or to that kept by Mr. Thomas Reed in Amherst, on Account of Messieurs Alexander Speirs, John Bowman, and Company, of Glasgow, to have their Balances adjusted before my Departure; and as many of the Accounts have been long due, such it is hoped will make Payment, and prevent a more disagreeable Application, as no farther Indulgence must be expected. The Goods, after September next, will be sold at Stocko under the Direction of Mr. Robert Burton, and in Amherst under that of Mr. George Weir. JAMES M c DOWALL.
GRAY's CREEK, May 20, 1772.
ALL Persons indebted to me are desired to make immediate Payment, as they may depend no farther Indulgence will be granted. ALEXANDER BOAKE.
WILLIAMSBURG, May 19, 1772.
LOST between this and Burwell's Ferry, or left at some House where I have been doing Business, two MEMORANDUM BOOKS. If they should be found I shall esteem it a Favour they may be left at Mr. Southall's, where a Reward will be given. They can be of little Use to any but the Owner. DANIEL HUTCHINGS.
MANCHESTER, May 12, 1772.
SOME Time ago Hooper and Jones's BOND was left with me to receive Payment, which I have obtained, but do not remember who put it into my Hands. I should be glad to pay the Money to the proper Person. JAMES LYLE.
THE Subscriber, at PITTENWEEN, just below the NEW DISTILLERY, near NORFOLK, has for Sale WEST INDIA RUM by the Hoghead, and a considerable Quantity of HONDURAS HIGHLAND MOHOQANY, equal in Quality to any Jamaica, from fourteen to forty Inches square, and from eight to fifteen Feet long, which he will dispose of on very reasonable Terms. As he has now removed from Norfolk to the above Place, and intends declining Trade till his old Affairs are settled, he requests that all Persons indebted to him may make speed Payment, and those who have any Demands are desired to apply soon, that they may be discharged. WILLIAM CHISHOLM.
THE repairing of the Chapel at CABIN POINT, and enclosing the Churchyard with Posts and Rails, will be let to the lowest Undertaker, at the said Chapel, on Monday the 1st of June. For Particulars inquire of the Subscribers.
JOHN COCKE. WILLIAM SHORT. WILLIAM SIMMONS. JAMES BELSCHES.
To be SOLD, pursuant to a Decree of the Honourable the General Court, at publick Auction, on the Premises, on Tuesday the 14th of July, and entered on the 1st of January,
A TRACT of LAND, in the County of Northumberland, belonging to the Estate of the late Mr. John Smith, deceased, known by the Name of Flier's Bay, containing sixteen Hundred and eleven Acres, on which is a Brick Dwellinghouse in good Repair, and all necessary Outhouses; the Situation is very beautiful, and the Quality of the Land inferior to none in the lower Part of the Country. Twelve Months Credit will be allowed the Purchaser, on giving Bond and approved Security. At the same Time will be sold, on three Months Credit, about sixty NEGROES, large STOCKS of all Sorts, and a considerable Quantity of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. And on Friday the 17th of the same Month will be sold, by the same Authority, in the County of Gloucester, and entered on the 1st of January, eight Hundred Acres of LAND lying on the Dragon Swamp, Part of which is good low Grounds, and about fifty Acres of Swamp. Twelve Months Credit will be allowed, giving Bond, with good Security, to GEORGE PURDIE. JOHN BOWDOIN. JOHN SMITH. JOHN LEE.
Just IMPORTED by the Subscriber, and to be SOLD at his Store in PORTSMOUTH, for ready Money, or on short Credit,
A WELL assorted CARGO of GOODS suitable to the Season, among which are SHIRTINGS from one Shilling and four Pence to six Shillings a Yard, DAMASK TABLECLOTHS, and in Suits, PORT WINE, Kenton's bottled PORTER, RAFFEE SNUFF scented and plain, RUSSIA SAIL CLOTH, best London waxed and grained CALF LEATHER, &c. &c. JAMES INGRAM.
To be SOLD at PUBLICK AUCTION, on WEDNESDAY the 10th of JUNE, TWO LOTS in the Town of Portsmouth, late the Property of Albert Nisbet, Esquire. Any Person inclined to purchase may see the Lots by applying to Mr. John Goodrich. WILLIAM AITCHISON, Administrator.
For SALE, SEVERAL Thousand Acres of LAND in the Counties of Mecklenburg, Halifax, and Pittsylvania, from five to twenty Shillings an Acre, according to Quality and Distance. For Terms apply to Roger Atkinson, near Petersburg.
WILLIAMSBURG, May 20, 1772.
STOLEN, or STRAYED, from the Subscriber, the 9th Instant, a large bay HORSE about fourteen Hands high, branded on the Buttock B, some Saddle Spots, roached Mane and Bob Tail, one of his Sides galled, occasioned by his being rode hard about three Weeks ago. THREE POUNDS Reward will be given on Conviction of the Thief, or TEN SHILLINGS upon Delivery of the said Horse to BENJAMIN BUCKTROUT.
TAKEN up, in Bedford, five Head of CATTLE, namely: A brindled STEER with a Star in his Forehead, and two Underkeels; a black STEER and a red pied COW of the same Mark; a black COW with a white Face, and white along her Back, marked with a Swallowfork in the right Ear, a Crop and Underkeel in the left; and a red BULL with two Crops and two Nicks. Posted, and appraised to ten Pounds. NICHOLAS CONNER.
TAKEN up, in Amherst, nine HOGS, namely, three red Sows and a red Barrow, a black Sow and Barrow, a blue Sow and Barrow, and a sandy coloured Barrow, each marked with a Crop and Slit in the left Ear, and a smooth Crop in the right. HUGH ROSE.
TAKEN up, in King William, two HEIFERS, one of them brindled Colour, and the other a red and white, marked with a Swallowfork and Underkeel in each Ear, and were both with Calf when they came. Posted, and appraised to three Pounds five Shillings. THOMAS WALLER.
To be SOLD at WARWICK, on Saturday the 30th Instant (May) for the Benefit of the Ensurers, SUNDRY Goods damaged in the George, Captain Coats, consisting of SINDIAGOODS, DUROYS, WILTONS, CASIMIRS, and GERMAN OSNABRUGS. Six Months Credit will be allowed. JOHN LEITCH.
STRAYED from the Subscriber, in Chesterfield, a bay HORSE, four Feet four Inches and a Quarter high, has had a Kick on his fore Footlock Joint, which is very remarkable, and is branded on the near Buttock with Something like G. Whoever brings the said Horse to me, or gives me Information so that I may get him again, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward. ARCHER TRAYLEN.
CABIN POINT, May 6, 1772.
ALL Persons indebted to the Estate of Mr. John Heath, deceased, are desired to make immediate Payment; and those who have any Demands against the said Estate are desired to make them known to RICHARD COCKE, LEMUEL COCKE, Executors.
ELIZABETH CITY, May 10, 1772.
PURSUANT to the last Will and Testament of Henry Allen, deceased, and the Decree of the County Court aforesaid, on Thursday the 28th of this Instant (May) at the Courthouse, will be sold six Virginia born SLAVES, three of them Fellows, and brought up to the Plantation Business; the other three are Wenches, one of which is a good House Wench. Twelve Months Credit will be allowed the Purchasers, on giving Bond, with good Security, to JOHN ALLEN, Junior, Executor.
MILNER's May 12, 1772.
I INTEND to leave the Colony in a few Weeks, and to return next Spring. In my Absence, the Business of Cuming, Warwick, and Company, will be carried on in the usual Manner by Mr. James Monroe, a Partner. ANTHONY WARWICK.
GRAY's CREEK, May 12, 1772.
I INTEND to leave the Colony soon after the Oyer Court. JAMES BAIRD.
WANTED,
A DISCREET active Woman, as a Housekeeper in a Gentleman's Family. Such a One, properly qualified, may meet with Encouragement by applying to the Printer of this Paper.
TAKEN up by the Subscriber, on the Dividing Creek, in Northumberland, last December, a small ROWING BOAT, twelve Feet long and six in Width, valued at five Pounds. THOMAS INGRAM.
THE Owner of the Lots drawn in Colonel Byrd's Lottery on the north Side of James River, Number 444, 472, 492, 447, 448, 494, 495, 419, 420, 513, and 514, may hear of a Purchaser by applying to the Subscriber, in Richmond Town. ROBERT DU VAL.
ELIZABETH STRACHAN and SISTERS have just imported, from London, a fresh Assortment of MILLINERY, in the newest Taste, and to be sold cheap, for ready Money, at their Shop in Richmond Town, among which are the following Articles: Full Suits of Blond and Minionet Lace, scalloped Gauze and Book Mullin Ditto, Cockhay Caps, Mary Scott's Puff and Lappets, fashionable Gauze Caps, Riband and Shenell Ditto, Lace and Italian Flower Caps, French and Italian Breast and Head Flowers, worked Mullin and Lawn Aprons, flowered Gauze Ditto, penciled Gauze Ribands and others, Italian Stomachers and Knots, Riband and Shenell Ditto, Apron-wide Book Mullin, common Width Ditto, plain and flowered Gauzes, Mens Kid and Buckskin Gloves, Womens coloured and white Kid Gloves and Mits, black and white Silk Ditto, Mens Cotton and raw Silk Stockings, Tabby and Ticking Stays, Long Lawn, Humhums, thick Mullins, striped bordered thick Mullin Handkerchiefs, &c. &c.
A BOX, marked B S, No. 35, containing Silver Ware, Pocket Books, &c. the Property of Robert Cils or of Northumberland, was, by Mistake of my Mate, sent to some Gentleman who had Goods last Fall by the Anne. Whoever finds the Box to the said Robert Gilmore shall be paid all Charges thereon, and will greatly oblige ROBERT POLLOCK.
WESTMORELAND, May 4, 1772.
AS I have found the Method formerly taken insufficient to satisfy all my Creditors, and notwithstanding I have given up all my Effects I am still likely to suffer, there having some Judgments lately gone against me, I now would beg all my Creditors, or their Representatives, to meet at next Westmoreland Courthouse, and I will there lay before them all that remains in my Power to do for them, and hope that those who have obtained Judgments will delay distreasing me until they see what then may be done; and if Nothing but confining my Person will satisfy them, they shall then have it in their Power. GILBERT CAMPBELL.
N. B. We, Mr. Campbell's Trustees, likewise beg his Creditors may meet at the above Time and Place, that we may make a Dividend, and do what is in our Power to serve him. WILLIAM FLOOD. HUGH HAMILTON.
NEWCASTLE, May 1, 1772.
AS the Subscriber intends to leave this Colony shortly after the ensuing JUNE Oyer Court, he requests all those who are in Arrears to the Store kept by him at this Place, for David Cochran and Company, to settle their respective Balances before his Departure. The Store will be continued in his Absence, to its usual Extent, by Mr. Francis Irwin, who will be properly authorised to settle all the Company's Concerns. DAVID COCHRAN.
NORTHUMBERLAND, May 10, 1772.
I INTEND to leave the Colony in a few Weeks. THOMAS MAIN.
TAPPAHANNOCK, May 8, 1772.
AS it is now two Years since I discontinued Store-keeping on my private Account in this Town, and those indebted to me have had the greatest Indulgence, I must request them to come and pay off immediately, and those who have any Claims against me to bring them in, that they may be settled and paid. The Store I formerly kept at this Place has been under the Management of Mr. William Shedd, on Account of Mr. Call and Swetten, since May 1770, where Customers may depend on a regular Supply of Goods, and the same civil Usage and Indulgence as formerly.
I have for Sale some Lots in this Town, on which is a genteel two Story House, with necessary Outhouses and Gardens, pleasantly situated on the Bank of the River. Any Person inclined to purchase may have them on very reasonable Terms, either for ready Money, or Bond on Interest with a long Credit. The Purchaser may likewise have the Furniture, and House and Kitchen Servants, which are good, provided the Servants are willing to live with him.
The Land and Houses where Mr. William Shedd formerly kept Store in this County will be offered for Sale, at this Place, on the third Monday in July, being Essex Court Day. Any Person inclined to purchase, by private Sale, may treat for them between this and that Time. ARCHIBALD M c CALL.
I have also for Sale a very honest and capable Negro SKIPPER, well acquainted with the Bay and Rivers, and who has had the Charge of Bay Craft for upwards of twenty Years.
ESSEX, May 1, 1772.
I INTEND to leave the Colony very soon. ANDREW CRAWFORD.
ESSEX, May 1, 1772.
AS Mr. Andrew Crawford, late Factor, in Essex, for James Ritchie and Company of Glasgow, Merchants, intends to leave this Colony very soon, it is expected, and required, if any Person has any Claim against James Ritchie and Company for Transactions with Andrew Crawford, that such Persons shall immediately give in their respective Claims to Andrew Crawford and the Subscriber, and have the same settled and adjusted prior to the said Crawford's leaving the Colony, and that all Persons who had Store Dealings, in Hobb's Hole, with Andrew Crawford, and whose Accounts are not finally settled, will immediately examine their respective Accounts on the Books in the Possession of the Subscriber, and have their Accounts settled, as Claims against James Ritchie and Company for any Transaction with Andrew Crawford, although said to have been formerly given in, will neither be discounted nor paid by the Subscriber after the said Crawford leaves the Colony. WILLIAM WODDROP.
A BOX, containing twelve Pair of Didbury's Shoes, marked D in a Diamond, No 1, imported in the Bayley, Captain Danby, last Fall, is not yet come to Hand. Any Person with whom the said Box may be lodged will please to forward it to me at Warwick, and the Favour shall be acknowledged. SIMON FRAZER.
ARRIVED in James River, from Africa, the Polly, Captain Duncombe, with four Hundred and fifty fine healthy SLAVES; the Sale of which will begin at Bermuda Hundred, on Monday the 25th Instant (May) and continue till all are sold. Credit will be given upon Merchants Notes, or other good Security, and a Discount allowed for ready Money. BURNLEY & BRAIKENRIDGE.
As soon as the Sale is finished, the said Ship, which is a new Vessel, and in very good Condition, will sail for Bristol, and will take in Tobacco at six Pounds a Tun, delivered along-side.
GEORGE III. by the Grace of GOD of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. to the Sheriff of Halifax County, greeting: We command you to summon Robert Wynne, Junior, John Wynne, and Llewelling Jones, to appear before our Justices of our said County, at the Courthouse, on the third Thursday in this Month, to answer a Bill in Chancery exhibited against them by John Jamieson and Son, James Buchanan, Andrew Buchanan, Walter Brock, Robert Haffie, William Buchanan, and Duncan Rose. And this you shall in no Wise omit, under the Penalty of a Hundred Pounds; and have then there this Writ. Witness Robert Mansford, Clerk of our said Court, at the Courthouse, the 12th Day of May, in the 12th Year of our Reign. ROBERT MUNFORD.
Just IMPORTED, in the Unity, Captain Gosley, a large Assortment of fine GOODS, and to be sold by the Subscriber, namely:
PASTE Necklaces and Earrings, fine Paste Stomacher and Sleeve Knots, Buttons in Sets, Paste Sprigs, Garnet set in Gold, plain Gold and Paste Lockets, plain Gold and Paste Stock Buckles, Paste Shoe Buckles, Mocha Buttons set in Gold, plain and labelled Decanter Corks, Silver mounted chased and plain Corals and Bells, Tortoiseshell Toothpick Cases, Smelling Bottles in Ditto, neat Paper Snuff Boxes, fine Steel Scissors, Silver Pencil Cases, Silver Shoe Buckles, Silver Thimbles, plain Gold and Pebble Sleeve Buttons, Sword Cases, Didbury's Shoes, Wax Tapers on Brass Frames, very useful for Merchants, and many other Articles too tedious to insert. C. RATHBELL.

POETS CORNER.
STANZAS addressed to the Master of the Ceremonies at Bath, and said to be written by a noble Lord.
YOU'VE a difficult Task, my friend WARD, to perform, To secure Number One, and the Publick to please;
For SALE, ALL that Tract or Parcel of LAND lying in Pavesworth Parish, in the County of Gloucester, known by the Name of Paradise, containing, by a Survey, fourteen Hundred and forty six Acres.
To be SOLD at PASQUOTANK Courthouse (North Carolina) on the 10th of June next, to the highest Bidders, at publick Vendue, the following Tracts of LAND:
BETWEEN three and four Hundred Acres on the north Side of Pasquotank River, about three Miles below the Courthouse, with three small Houses thereon; it is exceedingly well timbered, chiefly high Land, Part of which is cleared, an agreeable Situation, and commands an extensive Prospect.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, or at private Sale, the first Friday in July, at Chesterfield Court, A VALUABLE Tract of LAND, in the same County, containing one Hundred and seventy Acres.
I HEREBY give Notice to all those who are indebted to John Fortune, Junior, deceased, of Albemarle County, to come and make immediate Payment; such as fail may expect no longer Indulgence.
To be SOLD for ready Money, before the Raleigh Tavern, this ensuing June Court of Oyer and Terminer,
TWO Hundred and seventy nine Acres of LAND, situated in the lower Part of King William, and lying about three Miles from Ruffin's Ferry.
To be SOLD, on moderate Terms, A TRACT of LAND lying on Mobjack River, in the upper Part of Southampton County, containing a Thousand Acres, two Hundred Acres, Part thereof, low Ground.
To be SOLD at Tappahannock, pursuant to a Decree of Essex Court, on the 20th of July, if fair, otherwise next fair Day, TWO LOTS in the Town of Tappahannock, belonging to William Harkaway, late of the said Town, and mortgaged by him to James Ritchie and Company.
STRAYED, or STOLEN, from the Subscriber, in Richmond Town, some Time last Fall, two HORSES, one a Bay about ten or eleven Years old, four Feet five or six Inches high, branded on the near Buttock B.
To be SOLD by the Subscribers, Mortgagees of Mr. Peter Copland of Pittsylvania, and the said Mortgagees, in Parcels, for the Benefit of the Subscribers, and others,
SIX Thousand Acres of valuable LAND, lying on Smith's River, Beaver and Rocky Creeks. It is laid off in small Lots; and we do guarantee and confirm the former Sales of the Lands made to sundry Persons by the said Mortgagees, which were subject and liable to our Mortgagee, provided the Bonds for the same already taken, or to be taken, are made payable to us.
STOLEN from along-side the Snow Cam-bridge, Robert Hutton Master, lying near Tarpley's Bar, on Wednesday the 6th Instant (May) at Night, a LONGBOAT and YAWL, both of which are well known at Leeds Town, the upper Part of the Stern of the Yawl being broke.
STRAYED from Richmond, on Sunday the 3rd Instant (May) two gray MARES, one of which is about four Feet nine Inches high, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, trots and gallops, and branded on the near Buttock SH;
STOLEN, on Saturday Night the 25th Instant, a dark bay HORSE about fourteen Hands high, with a blaze Face, hanging Mane and short Switch Tail, both Hind Legs white, paces slow, and trots and gallops.
TAKEN up, in Dinwiddie, a small bay HORSE about five Years old, with a Half hanging Mane and Bob Tail, but has no perceivable Brand.
TAKEN up, in Fauquier, a black HORSE about thirteen Hands and a Half high, with a blaze Face, white Eyes, white Feet, Bob Tail, roached Mane, branded on the Buttock P P, and trots and paces well.
TAKEN up, in Spotsylvania, a yellow brinded STEER about four Years old, with crumpled Horns, marked with a Crop in the right Ear, and a Half Crop, Swallowfork, and Underkeel in the left.
TAKEN up, in Prince Edward, a small Iron gray HORSE about four Years old, four Feet four Inches high, with a roached Mane and Switch Tail, and branded on the near Buttock with a Horse Shoe.
TAKEN up, in King William, a dark bay HORSE about four Feet six Inches high, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, a Star in his Forehead, a Snip on his Nose, some Saddle Spots, and branded on the near Buttock with three Strokes.
TAKEN up, in Brunswick, a large Chestnut sorrel HORSE about four Feet nine or ten Inches high, with a flaxen Mane and Tail, no perceivable Brand, and paces and trots.
TAKEN up, in Goochland, two BARROWS and two SOWS, marked with a Crop in the left Ear, and a Slit and Underkeel in the right.
TAKEN up, in Albemarle, a young red STEER with a white Face, both Ears cropped, a Slit in one Ear, and a Slit and Underkeel in the other; also a red and white STEER marked as the above.
STRAYED from the Subscriber, at Milner's Warehouse, a bay HORSE about five Years old, fourteen Hands and a Half high, with a Switch Tail and hanging Mane, but no Brand perceivable.
RUN away from the Subscriber, a Negro Man named DERBY, about twenty five Years of Age, near six Feet high, a slim black Fellow, and plays on the Fiddle with his left Hand, which he took with him; he had on, when he went away, a Virginia Cloth Jacket, an Osnaburg Shirt, and a Pair of blue Broadcloth Breeches.
RUN away from the Subscriber, a likely Virginia born Negro Man named SIMON, about twenty eight Years of Age, five Feet ten or eleven Inches high, and well proportioned; he is of a yellow Complexion, is endeavouring to pass for a Freeman, and calls himself Simon Hermon.
To be SOLD at Edenton, North Carolina, on Tuesday the 16th of June next, by publick Vendue, TWENTY five valuable SLAVES, HORSES and CATTLE, several SEA VESSELS, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, and a Quantity of EUROPEAN and WEST INDIA GOODS.
NORFOLK, March 25, 1772. THE Subscriber, Executrix to the Estate of her late Husband, Matthew Rothery, deceased, hereby requests all those who have any Demands against the Deceased to bring in their Accounts, properly attested; and those who are indebted to the said Estate, or to Rothery and Mahan, are earnestly entreated to an immediate Compliance of their Contracts, and Payment of their respective Dues, at the April General Court.
For SALE, THE following Tracts of LAND, in Pittsylvania, namely, four Hundred Acres on Banister River, seven Hundred and seventy on Beaver Creek, three Hundred and forty five on Burch's Creek, three Hundred and eighty on Leatherwood, and four Hundred on Snow Creek.
Six Thousand three Hundred Acres of LAND to be sold at Frederick Town, on Thursday the 28th of May next.
By Virtue of an Act of Assembly of the Province of Maryland, empowering the Executors of Colonel Thomas Calvert to grant Deeds to Mr. John Seople, his Heirs or Assigns, for a certain Tract of LAND called Maryland, in Frederick County, and Province aforesaid, containing six Thousand three Hundred Acres, we the Subscribers, being Assigns of the said Seople, and having received from the Executors of Colonel Calvert sufficient Deeds for the Land aforesaid, do hereby undertake to dispose of the same, at the Time and Place above mentioned.
It is laid off in Lots, in the most advantageous Manner, so that only one of them will make one, two, or three good Settlements, as will appear by the Plat, a Copy of which may be seen at the Coffeehouses of Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Annapolis, in the Hands of Cumberland Wilson at Dumfries, Adam Stewart at George Town, and Charles Beatty at Frederick Town, who will direct those desirous of seeing the Land to a Person acquainted with the Boundaries, or near the Premises, who will show them the same; but as we intend to meet on the Spot ourselves, a few Days before the Sale, in Order to run the Lines, &c. those inclined to purchase will have an Opportunity of viewing it with us, by attending from Monday the 25th of May till the 28th, being the Day of Sale.
This Land is very suitable for Planting or Farming, being well watered and timbered, no Settlement having ever been made on it, and is a very good Soil. It lies along the Banks of Potomack River, adjoining it for a considerable Way, near to Harper's Ferry, the main Road from which to Frederick Town (a very flourishing, populous Place) runs through it, from which Place it is only distant about nine Miles, from George Town, the Seat of the County, forty five Miles, and from Baltimore about sixty five, at each of which Places a constant and ready Market may be found for all Kinds of Produce.
Its Situation on Potomack River must be of considerable Advantage to it, and in Time may add immensely to its Value, when the Navigation is opened, which may be done, without any great Difficulty, for a considerable Distance, there being at present a tolerable Navigation both below and above, it lying near the Shenandoah Falls, from whence, up to Fort Cumberland, a Hundred and ten Miles, Battoes now frequently pass, and downwards, to the Seneca Falls, twenty five Miles, which is within twenty Miles of George Town.
It will be sold in separate Lots, or altogether, for Sterling or current Money, as may best suit the Purchasers; one Third to be paid down at the Sale, another Third payable in twelve Months, and the other in two Years, on giving Bond and Security, with Interest till paid. A most undoubted Title will be made the Purchasers.
ADAM STEWART. THOMAS MONTGOMERIE. CUMBERLAND WILSON.
To be SOLD, or RENTED for a Term of Years, and entered upon immediately, A COMMODIOUS well built STORE in the Town of Petersburg, adjoining the Tobacco Warehouses, three Stories high, with a good Room fronting the Main Street, four good Rooms with Fireplaces, and a Granary, with a Cellar that will hold sixty Hogsheads; also a Warehouse forty Feet by twenty, built last Year, Stable, and Kitchen that is also new.
WARRASQUEAK Bay, November 18, 1771. RUN away from the Subscriber, in Isle of Wight, a Negro named JACK, about five and thirty Years of Age, five Feet ten Inches high, a slim, clean made, talkative, artful, and very saucy Fellow. Also a Negro Woman named VENUS, thirty two Years old, five Feet four Inches high, stout made, very smooth tongued, and has been five Years accustomed to the House.
JAMES HALDANE, COPPER SMITH and BRASS FOUNDER from Philadelphia, in Church Street, near the Church, Norfolk, MAKES and sells all Sorts of COPPER and BRASS WORK, namely, Stills, Brewing Coppers, Sugar Boilers, Fullers and Fatters Coppers, Capuchin Plate Warmers, Tea Kitchens, all Sorts of Ship, Fish, and Wash Kettles, Stew Pans, Dutch Ovens, Tea Kettles, Saucepan, Coffee and Chocolate Pots, Bras Mill Work, Furniture for Coach and Chair Harness, Fenders, Andirons, Candlesticks, Cocks, &c. at the most reasonable Rates.
All Orders from the Country will be punctually attended to. N. B. He deals for Cash, or Country Produce. Those who have old Bras, Copper, Pewter, or Lead, to dispose of, are desired to apply to Mr. Joseph Kidd, in Williamsburg, or to Mr. McCaa, in Hampton, who will receive it for me, and pay them the Value; they will likewise receive old Work to be repaired.
To be LET on LEASE, A VERY large and commodious HOUSE in the Town of Petersburg, 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.
For SALE, THE LAND whereon I live, in Middlesex, containing about two Thousand two Hundred Acres, in good Order for Cropping, with Orchards and Buildings equal to any in the Colony; also thirteen Hundred Acres on the River Pianketank, in the County of Gloucester, with a Mill, and good Orchards. The Stocks, which are very large, may be had with the Lands. Any Person inclined to purchase may know the Terms by applying to