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The UNFORTUNATE LOVERS. A Novel. By Doctor SMOLLET.
ALCANOR was the Son of a London Merchant, bred up in the Business of his Father, to which he succeeded in his early Youth; and in a little Time distinguished himself, not only by his Knowledge in Trade, but also by his Probity of Heart and Generosity of Sentiment. Nor was he deficient in personal Accomplishments; his Figure was remarkably agreeable, his Address was engaging, and no Pains had been spared in giving him the Advantage of a general Education.
He was in the Way of acquiring a very large Fortune with the first Noble, at a publick Assembly, the elegant and amiable Eudofa, Daughter of an eminent Trader, to whom his Circumstances were well known. He was deeply struck with her external Appearance; and, having found Means to intimate himself into her Acquaintance, discovered a Thousand Charms in her Understanding and Disposition, which at once completed the Conquest of his Heart. It was not long before he disclosed his Passion to the dear Object, and had the ravishing Pleasure to find he had inspired her with very favourable Sentiments of his Character.
After some Time spent in the endearing Effusions of mutual Love, he applied to the Father, and made a formal Demand of her in Marriage. His Proposal met with a very cordial Reception; and Alcanor was admitted into the Family, on the Footing of a future Son in Law. The Day was already appointed for the Marriage, after all the Articles of Interest had been settled to the Satisfaction of both Parties, which, by the sudden Failure of foreign Correspondence in the Course of the last War, Alcanor was obliged to pay. He communicated his Distress to Eudofa's Father, and produced his Books, by which it appeared that his Effects were not equal to the Discharge of his Debt, though they were sufficient to pay the Interest. He could not call them in Time enough to support his Credit. The Merchant laid he was sorry for his Misfortune, but made no Offer of Assistance; on the contrary, he told him bluntly that he could not expect he would follow his Daughter on a Bankrupt, and forced Alcanor to leave. The Reader may conceive what an Effect this Treatment has upon an ingenious Mind, endeared by an extraordinary Share of Sensibility. He retired to his own House, harbouring with Orléans and Indignation. The generous Eudofa, being apprised of what had passed between her Father and her Lover, seized the first Opportunity of writing a Letter to Alcanor, informing him of his Misfortune in the most pathetic Terms, giving him all her revolutionary Assistance, and offering to give him a Share of her Fortune by a clandestine Marriage. He gladly accepted the Proposal, and immediately returned to Eudofa, who received him with the utmost Tenderness and Sorrow. He found her in a Room by herself, where she was seated on a Couch, supported by Pillows, and leaning her Head on her Hand. She was pale and wan, and her Eyes were red with Weeping. Alcanor fell at her Feet, and embraced her. She raised him up, and seated him by her side. They were both silent for some Time, overcome with Sorrow. At length, impotent of Grief, so long in Silence of her Sorrow, she resumed her Breath, and said, 'I have returned to you, my dear Alcanor, to tell you that I am still your faithful Lover, and that I will die with you, or live with you, as Fortune wills.' Alcanor, deperate in his Fortune and his Love, took a Pistol from his Bosom, and said, 'If my Father will not give you to me, I will die in your Arms.' Eudofa, seeing his Resolution, seized the Pistol, and said, 'No, my dear Alcanor, I will not suffer you to die. I will go with you, and share your Fortune.' Alcanor, seeing her Resolution, said, 'I will go with you, my dear Eudofa, and share your Fortune.' They then left the House, and went to the Church, where they were joined together by a Clergyman. After the Ceremony, they went to the House of the Father, where they found him dead. Alcanor, seeing him dead, said, 'He has paid the Penalty of his Cruelty.' They then went to the Sea, and embarked on a Ship, which was attacked by a pirate. Alcanor, seeing the pirates, said, 'I will die with you, my dear Eudofa.' They were both killed by the pirates. The Ship was then taken by the pirates, and the Pirates were then defeated by a British Ship, which took the Ship and the Pirates. The British Ship then returned to England, and the Pirates were then hanged. Alcanor and Eudofa were then buried in a Church, where they were joined together in Death.
The tender-hearted Eudofa, being informed of his Request, immediately visited him in his Apartment, accompanied by the Clergyman, and a female Relation who lived with her as her Companion. Approaching his Bedside, she condoled with him on his Misfortune, begged he would think himself at home, and command every Thing in her House as freely as if it were his own. He no sooner heard her Voice than he started; and, raising himself in his Bed, rolled his Eyes around as if in Quest of some favourite Object. His Ear was more faithful than his Memory; he remembered and was affected by the Strain, though he could not recollect the Ideas to which it had been annexed. After some Pause, he exclaimed, "Excellent Lady! I could wish to live, in Order to express my Gratitude, but it will not be; you have given Shelter to a poor weary Pilgrim, and your Charity must till farther extended in seeing his Body committed to the Dust. I have, moreover, another Favour to ask; namely, that you and this good Clergyman will attend my last Will, which is locked in a Paper Case deposited in my Portmanteau."
So saying, he delivered the Key to the Doctor, who opened the Trunk, found the Paper, and was desired to read it aloud in the Hearing of all present. The Will was written by the Hand of Alcanor himself, who, in Consideration of his tender Affection for the incomparable Eudofa, which Nothing but Death should cease from his Heart, had bequeathed to her all his worldly Substance, exclusive of some charitable Legacies. When the Name of Alcanor was pronounced, Eudofa started, grew pale, and trembled with strong Emotion; yet she considered his Situation, and refrained her Tears, while her Eyes poured forth a Torrent of Tears, and the Chair shook under her with the Violence of her Agony. The humane Clergyman was not unmoved at this Scene. He had often heard the Story of her unfortunate Love, and by his sensible Compassion enabled her to bear her Affliction with Temper and Resignation. He no sooner perceived the Names of Alcanor and Eudofa in the Will than he was seized with extreme Wonder, and sympathising Sorrow. His Voice faltered, the Tears ran down his Cheeks, and it was with the utmost Difficulty that he read the Paper to the End. Then observing the Agitation of Eudofa, he conducted her into another Room; where, her Grief and Surprise becoming too strong for her Constitution, she fainted away in the Arms of her Companion. When she recovered from this Swoon, she gave Vent to her Sorrow in a loud Passion of Tears and Exclamations; after which she became more calm, and begged the Doctor would endeavour to prepare Alcanor for an Interview with his long lost Eudofa. He forthwith returned to the Merchant, but was in too much Confusion to communicate the Discovery with Discretion and Composure.
Alcanor, though blind, had perceived the Lady's Agitation, as well as the Clergyman's Disorder, and was not a little surprised at their abrupt Departure. His Mind had already formed an Assembly of the most interesting Ideas before the Doctor returned; and, when he began to expatiate on the mysterious Ways of Providence, he was interrupted by the Surgeon, who, raising his Head, and clasping his Hands, exclaimed aloud, "O wonderful Heaven! it must, it must be the incomparable Eudofa!" At Westminister's entered the Apartment, kneeled by the Bedside, and taking him by the Hand, "It is (cried she) the unfortunate Eudofa, O my Alcanor! is it thus we meet!" A long Silence ensued, during which she bathed her Hand with his Tears. At length she spoke to this Effect: "These are not the Tears of Sorrow, but of Joy, Eudofa then lives! She remembers, she retains her Regard for her hapless Alcanor! It was, indeed, the kind Hand of Providence that threw me on this hospitable Shore! O my dear Alcanor! how I have beheld those dear Features which I have so often contemplated with Admiration and Delight! But I am satisfied." The Scene of this affecting Scene I cannot pretend to describe. Alcanor's Wound, in the next Dressing, had the Appearance of a beginning Gangrene; nevertheless, the Ball, which had been lodged among the Nerves and Sinews of the Neck, was now with Ease extracted; and his Eyesight was immediately restored. Having scuttled his temporal Affairs, and made his Peace with Heaven, he on the fourth Day expired in the Arms of Eudofa, who was the sole and last Object on which his Eyes were fixed. She did not long survive her unfortunate Lover. Her Grief so much exhausted her Constitution, and brought her to the Grave, after she had endowed Alms Houses for the Maintenance of twenty poor Cripples, bequeathed a handsome Fortune to her Kinswoman, a considerable Present to the Clergyman, and a large Sum to the Poor of the Parish. At her own Desire, she was buried in the same Grave with her Lover; and over them is raised a plain unembellished Tomb of black Marble, with this modest Inscription, "Dedicated to the Memory of Alcanor and Eudofa."
ROME, August 10.
WE are assured that the last Courier extraordinary which arrived here from France brought to the Pope the entire Conclusion of a Treaty, that will soon be made publick, whereby the Territories of Benevento, Avignon, &c. are restored to the Holy See. ASTIA, August 12. It is said that on the Arrival of M c leod, the new Lieutenant of this Island, our Government will be put upon the same Footing as that of Genoa. The new Fortifications and the Citadel, which are erecting in Order to put the Town of Corte in a proper State of Defence, are already in great Forwardness.
LONDON, September 15.
THE Cause of the Prohibition of the Publication of the Utrecht Gazette, which is mentioned by the last Holland Mail, is best explained by the following Article, inserted in the said Paper, of the 30th of August. "We have been told by a Minister, in giving in our Gazette, Number forty five, under the Paris Article of August the fifty, the Contents of certain Letters from Compeigne; wherefore we retract fully and wholly every Thing inserted in the said Article, as contrary to the Request of the august Persons therein named, it never having been our Intention to give them the least Offence." The following is the offensive Article alluded to; and which the Court of France so highly resented as to insist upon a Complaint being made against the Printer to the States General, by the Dutch Ambassador. "Paris, August 5. According to Letters from Compeigne, the Dauphiness having suffered hitherto to be prevailed on, by a Petition presented to her on Behalf of the Affair last Year, has not only forgiven the Disgust they had given her, but that, in Order to show that she granted them a full Pardon, she ordered on the 24th instant about eighty of them to be assembled in the Forest; and having joined them with the Royal Family, and a numerous Retinue, they were once more adopted for the Saddle. After the Formation of such a Cavalcade, she proceeded from the Forest to the Castle of Compeigne, with Flutes playing, escorted by an infinite Number of Spectators. The Count d'Artois had the Pleasure of letting himself fall; several Ladies were obliged to do the same; the Countess de Noailles got a Tumble also, which however did not degrade her Dignity. The Dauphiness proposed to renew this Kind of Diversion, which affords Talk and Amusement for the whole Court."
On Wednesday last a poor Woman was convicted at Hicks's Hall of stealing a Mass of Soup from a Cook's Shop at Hockley in the Hole, Oldkenwell, and sentenced to be transported for seven Years. She pleaded, that being pregnant she longed for the above; but as she took the Rason as well as the Soup, it was made Felony. The Toast of the Day is, "An End to all Disputes, except who shall serve his Country most effectually."
September 18. Some time since a Wit, in Company with other Gentlemen, went into a certain Tavern, and cried, "Waiter, bring us a Bottle of Nis Bles , Hoc do you hear, a Bottle of Hock ?" But after having waited some Time, and none being brought, he rang the Bell and asked the Waiter why his Order was not obeyed; who readily answered, "I thought you had declined it."
September 19. The inferior Clergy in general, it is said, preach the Sermons composed in the last Century; and their superior Brethren, it is well known, preach not at all. What able Defenders of our most holy Religion will this Kingdom be blessed with in a few Years!
September 20. There is an Auctioneer, not far from the Borough, who happens to be a Justice of the Peace, and he is so tenacious of his Dignity, when in the magisterial Chair, that he once committed a Man to Bridewell, during the Space of one Month, for calling him plain Mr. S. instead of His Worship. When the poor Man was released from his Confinement he attended at a publick Sale, when the same Magistrate was exalted above the People; and on every Lot that was put up, in the full Crowd, the poor Sufferer bawled out, "A Penny more, an't please your
Worship," to the no small Diversion of the Company, and Confusion of this ill-important Kratick.
The late Fracas which happened between a Scoundrelly Dummet and an amiable young Lady at Bath, which has been so a long the Subject of publick Entertainment, is at last amicably settled, after the following Plan: The Baronet pays to Mrs the Sum of three Thousand Pounds, leaving her in the Possession of the Presents he made her during the Courtship; and to the Father a Thousand Pounds, to defray the Expenses he was at in entertaining him, and buying his Daughter Charlotte and Frances .
Extract of a Letter from Calais, September 8. Lord Warwick arrived here yesterday, and set out immediately for Paris, from whence he will proceed in a short Time to Metz , in Order to treat about some Affairs of Consequence concerning the Commerce of that City with England.
This Day the Chevalier Pain arrived here from Spa, with the Princess Poniatowski, Sister to the King of Poland. Her Journey to England is a profound Secret; the Governor and Staff Officers of this City having had Notice not to pay her the same Honours they did four Years ago, when she went over to England, where she kept house .
Mr. Salvador, who within these three Month has made two Travels to Paris, arrived here this Evening, in his Way to London, accompanied by the first Secretary of the Sieur De Verge, Deputy of Commerce from Bourdeaux to Paris. They have formed a Plan for making a Revolution in the Funds, in Order to procure Relief in the Finances of France in which the Jews will find their Account.
The Plague increases Day by Day in Smyrna, and its Environs; in one Village, where there were eight Hundred Inhabitants, more than three Hundred died in the Space of four Days. The Plague was never known to make such Havock in less Time; and every Day, and every Night, and there are no Persons to be seen in the Streets but the People belonging to the Church, and the Grave Diggers; and Pensions are so scarce that it is very difficult to get even Bread or Corn.
September 25. His Majesty, in Council, was this Day pleased to order that the Parliament, which stands prorogued to Tuesday the 6th of October next, should be further prorogued to Tuesday the 20th day of November following.
A few Days ago died one William Hope, Cardmaker at Piccadilly, aged seventy six. For the last forty Years of his Life he had been afflicted in his Garden, and never lay in a Bed the whole Time, nor ever offered at any Body. The Reason of his refusal was to avoid being occasioned by a Disappointment in Love.
September 26. Yesterday there was a Levee at the Palace, at which the Earl of Suffolk, Lord North, Lord Egmont, Lord Mansfield, &c. attended.
After the Levee was over his Majesty went to Grosvenor House , and from thence to Richmond .
There was no Council yesterday at St. James's, it being deferred, by Order, till another Opportunity.
The Right Reverend the Bishop of London attended the Levee yesterday, and had the Honour of a Conference with his Majesty.
Advice is received from Madagascar that a Ship called the Hope Master, from Bourdeaux, is seized there by the Natives, who have set the Captain and Crew on Shore, and gone off with the Ship and Cargo. The People were in a few Days taken on Board a Dutch Ship, in Order to bring them home.
We hear that a celebrated Adversary (belonging to a Company of Comediens lately formed, and now performing at a capital Town in Italy ) has sent Challenges to two young Comedians here, inviting them to Italy for a Satisfaction, as a Reparation for their Affronts upon her Comedies. Tell them they have both thought proper to decline accepting it.
It is said that Mr. Alderwick will be very earnestly concerned in the Nomination for the Office of Lord Mayor, inasmuch that there were some Morning post on Mr. Muth against any other Candidate.
Orders are sent to all the Seaports in the Mediterranean, to prevent any Seamen of Great Britain from serving in any foreign Service.
The Alarm Friar, which failed when the Venus , last Year, had her main Topmast before the got clear of the English Channel, has no Accident happened to either the Ship or her Voyage.
Notwithstanding the great Scarcity of Silver Coin, we are assured that there are at this very Time no less than seven Hundred Thousand Pounds of that Specie in the Possession of a publick Company.
We are told that Orders are issued from the War Office for all the Officers belonging to the Artillery Companies at Portsmouth and Plymouth to join their respective Corps with all possible Expedition.
Yesterday their Excellencies the Prussian and Russian Ministers had a long Conference at the latter's House at Richmond , in Consequence of some recent Expresses from their respective Courts.
It is said that three or four Frigates will be ordered immediately to cruise on the Coast of Ireland, in Consequence of some private Intelligence lately received from thence.
We are informed that there are several Agents in Ireland buying up Beef, Pork, &c. for the French Service, which are sent to France as English Bottoms.
On Sunday Evening two Foreigners of Distinction landed at Dover, from Calais; their Retinue consisted only of a Servant each, and a third Companion, who appeared lower of Dignity. They lay off immediately for the Seat of a noble Earl, near Canterbury, where they lay all Night, and the next Morning they set off for London. This is certain.
A Correspondent informs us that there have been launched at the Dock-yard of Breil , since the 24th of June last, four Ships of the Line; the Septentrion of sixty four, the La Royale of sixty, the St. Elizabeth of sixty, and the Centurion of fifty six.
In a Dispute lately between two Gentlemen of opposite Parties, one accused the Ministry, among other Things, for the many Attempts to destroy the Freedom of the Press. Do you ever read a Newspaper, says the other? Do not the Writers say just what they please, and of whom they please? Can the Press be more free than it is?
An Opinion prevails very strongly in the City that the present Lord Mayor will be called upon at the Meeting of Parliament, by the Friends of a certain Juncto, to make a Submission; and if he should refuse, which is not to be doubted, a Motion will be made for his Contempt. This makes the Friends of Liberty among the Citizens the more determined to see him re-elected to the Mayoralty.
The glorious Duke of Cumberland was a favourite Sign in former Days. His present Royal Highness has not as yet signified his Concourse enough to be posted at an Alehouse; but the most notorious Bawdyhouse in Pymouth has lately done him the Honour to take him for its Protector, and represented an admirable Likeness of his Royal Highness with the original black Bob, and the dear little Lock of Hair in his Hand.
September 23. This being the annual Day for the Election of Lord Mayor for this City, there was a very numerous and respectable Appearance of the Livery at Guildhall for that Purpose. Methuen, Alderman Wilkes and Bull were sworn in Sheriffs for the ensuing Year, as were Mr. Reynolds Deputy Sheriff. After this, Mr. Recorder, in a very sensible, eloquent Speech, came forward and spoke with great Propriety on the various and important Duties of Magistracy in general, particularly on that of the City of London, and recommended to the Livery to choose out of a respectable Number of Names, that would be read to them, one most fitting for that important Office. The Speech being received with great Applause, the Recorder retired, when the following Candidates for the Mayoralty came forward, and addressed the Livery to the following Purport. Mr. Alderman Sawbridge said, "that he took that Op-

particular to indicate his Character from several Assertions he had been... by an invidious Paragraph Writer, in the Newspaper...
A Writer to Junius says: "I will now ask the most misguided of the Multitude, even those who halloo loudest for your Party, whether, if you had wrote to one of them, as you have done to a most distinguished amiable Prince..."
To the Editor of the GENERAL EVENING POST. "It has for some Time past been Matter of great Astonishment how the good credulous People of this Kingdom have been suffered to be deceived so long by the Letters published in the different Papers under the Name of Junius..."
This, Sir, is strictly true, from whence, I hope, you will publish this in your next; and if any Reader should doubt the Facts I mention, I am willing to convince them of the Truth more particularly, if they will signify it through your Paper.
A Catalogue of NEW BOOKS and PLAYS, just going to be published, and of the Names of the respective Authors. The Hypocrite, a Farce. By his Majesty. The Art of breeding Rabbits. By her Majesty. A new and expeditious Method of learning to speak Greek with Fluency. By the Prince of Wales. A Dissertation on the Church Catechism, and on the Mystery of playing at Taw. By the Bishop of Osnaburg. The Art of drawing Corks. By Lord Weymouth. A new Way to pay old Debts. By John Wilkes, Esquire. The Life of God in the Soul of Man. By the Reverend John Horne. Maidenhood well lost. By Miss Vanfitter. The virtuous Wife. By Mrs. Bailey. The Vestal Nun, a true History. By Lady Harrington. Laugh and lie down. By Lady Grosvenor. The Devil to pay. By Junius. Wives Excuse, or Cuckolds make themselves. By Lord Grosvenor. The Rival Milleners. By Mrs. Rheda and Miss S—; in Bow Street. Wife to be let. By Mrs. Bailey. Adventures of Half an Hour. By the Duke of Cumberland. All for Love. By Miss Hunter. Wife's Revenge. By Lady Percy. Platonic Love. By Mrs. Cornwell and Mr. Bradshaw. The Petticoat Plotter. By the Princess Dowager of Wales. Fashionable Lady. By Mrs. Leffingham. The Clandestine Marriage. By Lady Waldegrave and the Duke of Gloucester. The Forsaken Shepherdess. By Lady Waldegrave. Kiss my A—je is no Treason. By Lord Northington. 'Tis an ill Wind that blows Nobody good. By George Bellas. The Wolves guarding the Sheepfold. By the House of Commons. The Man after God's own Heart. By Lord Sandwich. The Fool of Quality. By the Duke of Cumberland. The Court of Comus. By Mr. Rigby. The Arcanum Magnum, or the three Angles of a Triangle proved equal to three right Angles. By Doctor Goldsmith. The Virtues of a Pension explained and exemplified. By Doctor Johnson. King and no King. By his Majesty. Wit without Money. By Edmund Burke. Money without Wit. By Sir Robert Ladbroke. The Banquet of the seven wise Men. By the protesting Aldermen. The wife Men of Gotham. By Ditto. Neck or Nothing. By Lord North. The State Jugglers. By the Ministry. The Informer, or the Way to grow rich. By Sir James Lowther. A Penny saved is a Penny won. By Lord North. The tame Husband, or the Cuckold putting his Horns in his Pocket. By the Duke of Grafton. The distressed Lover. By Mr. Harris. The Art of twisting. By Sheriff Baker. The Art of cringing. By Lord Barrington. The Court Spy, or Telltale. By Lord Burgherth. The complete Linguist. By Lord Suffolk. The French Rake. By Lord Rochford. The lame Duck. By Laughlin Maclean. Ditto. By George Dempster. Miss in her Teens. By Sir George Colebrooke. The Muckworm. By Peregrine Cuff. Every Man his own Broker. By Judge Aston. The Bedlamite. By Mr. Morris.
LEEDS, September 3. On Thursday last the fifteenth Regiment of Foot, quartered in this Town, were reviewed in Chapel Town Moor, by the brave and intrepid Lieutenant General Monckton, when the Men went through their Revolutions, &c. to the entire Satisfaction of the General, and a numerous Concours of Gentry, &c. who were assembled there from various Parts of the Country. The General could not conceal the inexpressible Pleasure he felt at the Review of those brave English Veterans, in Peace, and in their own Country, who he said had all to cheerfully ventured their Lives along with him in that dangerous and memorable Attack, but glorious Conquest of Quebec, in which the General himself was so shockingly wounded that he left Part of his Lungs upon the Field of Battle; and the Conquest, great as it was, is thought by some to have been dearly bought, by the Loss of that intrepid and almost immortal General Wolfe.
From the LONDON CHRONICLE of August 22. To the PRINTER.
SIR, NOTHING is more scandalous, when the Distresses of this unfortunate Country are such as to be beyond our Neighbours are in a worse Condition than ourselves. Such a Condition is perfectly similar to the Comfort which was once offered to a confined Doctor, who was desired not to mind his Misfortune, because an intimate Acquaintance of his, lately convicted of a Highway Robbery, was then ordered for speedy Execution.
It is the great Misfortune of the French to suffer for the Guilt of their Forefathers; their Liberty is lost, and their Situation is beyond the Reach of Relief. But the Case is widely different with the People of Great Britain; they are free, and have a Right to expect, nay to require, that their publick Concerns shall be conducted in the Manner most likely to promote their evident Prosperity. If this is not done, it is their Right to interpose for the Dismissal, Control, or even Punishment of Ministers, whose Negligence, or whole Tyranny, endangered the publick Happiness of the Kingdom. Mismanagement in other Countries is no Excuse for Mismanagement in this, nor can the Miseries of any neighbouring Nation ever afford Satisfaction to the benevolent Bosom of an Englishman.
But though we have heard so much about the Distresses of other Nations, it does not, from the Conduct of any, if we except only the People of France, appear that our Neighbours are really in a deplorable State. Ten Years are elapsed since the Conclusion of the late Peace, and the Mainia Ransom is yet unpaid. Nay Portugal, the Creature of our Hands, the Dependent upon our immediate Bounty, violates her Treaties with us, and promotes her own partial Interests, at the notorious Expense of her Protector. Whatever the real Situation of our Neighbours, therefore, may be, it is obvious that they entertain no very high Idea of ours, or they would not thus hazard a Rupture with us, in the open Face of Europe. As to France, she is a known Deceiver in Politics, and has often meditated a Blow against this Kingdom, when the herself appeared to be undone. Who, that knows any Thing of History, can be ignorant how Lewis the fourteenth kept the united Universe at Bay when seemingly tottering on the Verge of Destruction, and found continual Resources within himself to baffle the utmost Efforts of his Enemies. Let us think of these Things, and let us also recollect, that, notwithstanding the present imaginary Ruin of the French, they have been some Time industriously collecting a Force at the Island of Mauritius, which is probably intended for a more important Purpose than a Settlement on Madagascar; though even a Settlement on Madagascar is a Circumstance which we should prevent, by every Means in our Power. Portugal, above all Things, requires our particular Attention: Their Proceedings have, of late, been uniformly injurious to us, in a Variety of Ways, and as ungratefully favourable to the Trade of our Enemies; so that, if we should be again plunged into another War, there can be no Foundation for supposing the will not take an active Part against us. In all other Parts of Europe we are wholly without a Friend, but such as we must purchase on Terms manifestly prejudicial; at the same Time that Discontent is raging in England, Ireland, and America; that our Affairs are in an evident State of Disorder in the East Indies; that Population is declining, from the unsupportable Weight of Taxes; and the whole System of national Resource greatly impaired, so as to leave us almost hopeless in the future Day of Exigence.
This Picture, Mr. Printer, is no flattering Representation of our comparative Superiority in the political Balance of Europe; and should animate us to the utmost Exertions, in Order, as much as possible, to become prepared for the Hour of Calamity. But, instead of turning their Labours to these essential Objects of national Felicity, the sole Struggle of our Patriots is to harrafs the Administration. Every truly great Principle of publick Good is sacrificed to personal Resentment, or intermixed Ambition; and instead of complaining that Government does no more for our Preservation, it is really surprising how, amidst the endless Wantonness of Opposition, they have been able to do so much. The whole Business of Parliament is now a private Quarrel about Places: The Session opens, and the Minister is attacked; the Attack produces a Defence; the Defence opens fresh Sources of Accusation, and the Prorogation arrives before any Thing of Consequence can possibly be done for the real Advantage of the People. From the Specimens which we have received of Lord North's Abilities since his Appointment to the Treasury, in re-establishing an Intercourse with America, in abrogating parliamentary Privilege to the Servants of Members, in electing Representatives during the Periods of Receits, and in regulating the Mode of deciding upon contested Elections, the most flattering Consequences are to be expected, if he is only allowed what the Sportsmen term fair Play, by the Hounds of Opposition. But if he is to be run down the Instant he suggests any Measure for the general Welfare, or to be eternally pursued with a personal Cry, merely because he is a Minister, it will not be in his Power, it will not be in any Minister's Power, treated thus unfairly, to retrieve our Finances from Confusion. An Administration there must be; and Opposition, for the Sake of Opposition, may make the Government cautious not to give any new Cause of Complaint, yet it will wholly incapacitate the Servants of the Crown from effectually establishing the Security of the People. The Determination with Respect to General Warrants, Mr. Printer, is universally considered as an important Acquisition in the Favour of Liberty, yet it is by no Means so essentially valuable to the Subject as the Abrogation of parliamentary Privilege in Cases of Debt. An Individual suffered perhaps occasionally by General Warrants, but Thousands were hourly injured by the Privilege in Cases of Debt; and it is really surprising that the present Reign should be considered as oppressive by popular Declaimers, since no Period in our History can show more Instances of exalted Attention to the publick Freedom. It is fashionable to celebrate the late Prince, by Way of reflecting on his Successor; but good and venerable as George the second really was, were the Judges made independent in his Time? Were General Warrants pronounced illegal in his Time? Was parliamentary Privilege contracted in his Time? Or was the Press in his Time tolerated with a Licence unlimited? Our Patriots will feel the Force of these Questions, whatever Answer they may think proper to make; and I shall have Justice from their Hearts, though their Tongues may reproach me with being a ministerial Hireling.
ARTHUR HASLERIG. BOSTON, November 28. From the MASSACHUSETTS SPY, November 28.
Mr. THOMAS. I WAS not a little surprised when I heard that Mr. Hutchinson has laid before the Honourable Board the Piece published in your Paper, of the 14th Current, under the Signature Mucius Scævola, and that the King's Attorney was ordered to prosecute the Publisher, and that a private Gentleman of this Town should be cited to be interrogated relative to said Publication. Until now I never heard that it was unlawful barely to ask, and to desire, the Assistance of our Fellow Citizens in this important Inquiry, whether the Person in the Chair is a lawful and constitutional Governor, yea or not? If an Officer arrests me in the Street, I have a Right to know from him whether he be in Fact a lawful Officer; if he refuses to satisfy me in this Point, I have a Right to resist him, unless it appear, from the Notoriety of his Practice, that he is an Officer, and has been commonly submitted to. These Inquiries are of the UTMOST IMPORTANCE to a FREE People, and this is all that Mucius intended in the offensive Publication.
Indeed I have said, "an Englishman should never part with a Penny but by his Consent, or the Consent of his Agent, &c." This certainly must be a harmless Proposition, the Truth of which is known by Intuition. I assign a Reason why we should not consent, namely, because "Money forced from us, meaning by the Revenue Acts, is appropriated, "in Part at least, to hire a Man to tyrannize over us, whom his Master "calls our Governor." This Idea was suggested in a ministerial Paragraph, in a late London Paper, in which it is intimated that the sole Reason why the Ministry undertake to pay our Governor, &c. is because the Pay, or Hire, has always operated as a Bribe, and that when they are hired by the People over whom they preside, they, having such a Check, always favour the Interest of the People. That the Minister whom I have called bis, that is Mr. Hutchinson's Master, doth apply the Money forced from us by Revenue Acts to this Purpose is very evident, and we have no Reason to think that he can have any other Intention than that mentioned in the said London Paragraph. We also know Mr. Hutchinson has refused his Assent to a Bill for his Support: This shows his total Independence on us. The Paper that gives Offence says, "This SEEMS to be Mr. Hutchinson's Situation, THEREFORE "(namely, because he is independent) I cannot but view him as an "Usurper, &c." This is proposed as a Matter to be inquired into, and the Rule by which we are to try this Opinion is the CHARTER, where in this People referred to themselves the Privilege of paying Governors. It appears from hence they compliment the King with the Privilege of nominating and appointing only. That the paying Governors lies with the People, even by Compact, appears by the perpetual Instructions which have been given to Governors to apply to the People for their Ways, or HIRE. Indeed I have this strong Conclusion, which I supposed naturally followed the Premises, namely, "until he does, that is, "stipulate with the People, for his Support, he is no legal Governor." If the Premises and Reasonings are false, Mr. Hutchinson must be acknowledged a constitutional Governor. I have not pretended to determine this Matter, but refer it wholly to his Majesty's Council, upon whose Shoulders the Government must rest if it should appear to be true that the Minister has mistaken the Charter Rule in the Appointment of a Massachusetts Governor. There is Nothing in all this that has a Tendency to disturb lawful and constitutional Authority: I appeal to my Countrymen, whose Peace, Freedom, and Happiness, I esteem as my chief Joy.
MUCIUS SCÆVOLA.
December 2. Governor Hutchinson has prorogued the General Assembly of this Province to the 22nd Day of January next, then to meet at Harvard College in Cambridge.
We hear from Tewksbury that on the 7th of last Month one Jeremiah Kidder, junior, of that Town, a Youth eighteen Years of Age, being in Pursuit of a Hawk which had seized and was devouring a Fowl in a Thicket of Bushes near the House, when he had crept within two Rods Distance from the Place, one of his Sisters, about thirteen Years of Age, having, unknown to him, got there before him, was picking up the Feathers of the Fowl, when through the Bushes he saw some of the Hair of her Head, which, from the Resemblance of Colour, he took to be the Hawk, and fired at it. His Father, and another Man, being near him, asked if he had killed the Hawk; he said he believed he had, but going to the Place was soon convinced of his fatal Mistake, and cried out that he had killed one of the Children. The Girl was carried into the House, not dead, but seemingly without Feeling or Sense; and though so terribly wounded in the Head continued to breathe in the same State of Insensibility till the ninth Day, when she expired. The Verdict of the Coroner's Inquest was, that her Death was accidental, and that her Brother was the involuntary Cause of it. The Accident gave him the greatest Grief and Distress, which was aggravated by the uncharitable Speeches of some malevolent People, who, without knowing the Circumstances, ventured to pronounce that he ought to be hanged for it.
NEWPORT, November 25.
LAST Friday Conrad Flack, of this Town, Baker, was apprehended on Suspicion of his having mortally wounded his Wife. His Apprentice, Abiather Wilson, who had got on Board one of the Packets to go to Providence, was also apprehended. Flack, on Examination, gave but a poor Account of the Affair; but by Wilson's Evidence it appeared that about eleven o'Clock the preceding Night a high Quarrel arose between Flack and his Wife, and that she called him many hard Names, struck him, and threw a Plate at him, upon which he caught up the Tongs and threw them at her with such a Force that one End entered her right Temple and stuck fast in her Head, upon which she fell, without speaking a Word. Flack immediately ran out; and Wilson seeing his Mistress fall, flew to her, but finding the Tongs sticking in her Head, he ran out after his Master and told him he had killed his Wife, and begged he would not run off and leave him. Upon this they both returned into the House, raised Mrs. Flack up, pulled out the Tongs, and bound some Paper, &c. over the Wound, and then Flack went for a Doctor, pretending his Wife had fallen with her Head against the Tongs. After the Doctor had been there and examined the Wound, and Flack found there was no Probability of his Wife's recovering, he told Wilson that he was afraid he should be brought into Trouble; that he would give Wilson up his Indentures, and furnish him with Money for Expenses if he would go off, that he might not be an Evidence against him; and accordingly Wilson, early in the Morning, went on Board one of the Packets, but by some Delay or other the Packet had but just made Sail and got a few Rods from the Wharf when she was hailed by the Sheriff in Quest of Wilson.
Both Flack and Wilson were committed to close Jail after they were examined; and the Woman died yesterday Morning, having never spoke since she was wounded. The Jury of Inquest brought in their Verdict wilful Murder, by said Flack.
December 2. We hear from Tiverton that a most contagious Distemper among Sheep rages there, which is called a Throat Ail, and is most mortal among fat Sheep, but Store Sheep do not wholly escape. They survive but a few Minutes after they are first taken.
Friday last arrived here the Brig Diamond, Captain John Toman, in twenty two Days from Hispaniola, who the 13th of last Month took twelve Frenchmen off a Rait about a League from the West Caucas, they having been cast away on said Caucas nine Days before. The same Day he spoke with Captain Monro, in a Sloop bound to Providence, in this Colony, and put three of the Frenchmen on Board him, and brought the other nine in here.
NEW YORK, December 5.
ON Thursday last, three o'Clock A.M. died at Morrisania, Henry Binker, aged one Hundred and one Years. As his Mother was not blessed with a Family Name, he took that of his Sire, a distinguished Sea Officer in the Service of the States General, who disposed of the English of this Province. With Submission to the wife Servants of the Publick, we beg Leave to observe that he faithfully performed every Trust reposed in him by three successive Generations, and saved Masters whom when Infants he had carried in his Arms. As he was never engaged in any of the numerous social Connections, he was no bad Judge, no corrupt Magistrate, no iniquitous Guardian, but possessed the simple and domestick Virtues of Diligence, Faithfulness, and Sobriety. Blush, O Liberty and Science, when you behold these amiable Qualifications thinning with distinguished Lustre in the Conduct of an ignorant Slave! Like the ancient Patriarchs, he lived to a good old Age, and was the Father of near two Hundred Souls, comprehended in four Generations, many of which left the Stage before him. He was a good Steward of few Talents: We humbly hope, therefore, that he is now rewarded with many, by the great Master, Judge, and Father of all.
We hear from the Nine Partners, in Dutchess County, that about three Weeks ago, in the dead Time of Night, the Storehouse of Messieurs James and Ezra Read, of that Place (Merchants of very considerable and extensive Business, who are Brothers and Partners) by some unknown Accident took Fire, and was entirely consumed, together with a large Quantity of Goods of all Kinds, lately received, a large Quantity of Country Produce, and all their Books of Accounts, &c. the Whole supposed to be to the Value of fourteen or fifteen Thousand Pounds. The Store was situated between their two Houses, about forty Rods from each. Mr. James Read being from home, his Wife was first alarmed by the Light of the Flames shining in at the Windows; and soon after the Family of the other Brother, by the Explosion of the Gunpowder in the Store. The most probable Conjecture is, that the Store had been robbed, and set on Fire to prevent Suspicion. The Fire had been carefully secured late in the Evening, and no One left to guard the Store, except a faithful Dog, who was burned in it.
December 12. On Tuesday Night, the 3d Infant, the Sloop John, Captain Waddel, bound in from the West Indies, was driven ashore at Sandy Hook, and supposed to be bulged. The Captain, by the Slipping of his Foot, fell overboard, and was drowned, though all Endeavours were used to save him; his Brother, Mr. William Waddel, who leaped after him, narrowly escaped sharing the same Fate.
It was the Thursday before that Captain Thomas Randal, junior, coming in from Sea, was drowned at the same Place, being struck over by the Boom.
Extract of a Letter from Captain Joseph Crew, belonging to the Brig Anna, from Boston for this Port, to a Gentleman in Town, dated Norwalk, December 4.
"This waits on you to advise you of my unhappy Situation, and great Misfortune. On the first Instant, about twelve o'Clock, coming into this Harbour, the Vessel struck on Green's Reef of Rocks, the Wind blowing strong about W. S. W. About two o'Clock it veered to W. and by N. when we let go our Anchors, in Order to keep her from going ashore, but could not clear the Rocks of either Side, if we out. Thus we lay striking the Ground till Evening, when her Rudder snapped, and the Wind increased to a high Storm, which continued all Night. About four next Morning we found her Hold two Thirds full of Water, so that we were obliged to flip and run her as far on the Shore as we could, in Order to preserve our Lives. The Wind continued strong to the Westward all next Day, and no Boat could come on Board; so that little of the Cargo is saved, and I fear the Vessel will be entirely lost."
On the 2d Instant his Excellency the Governor issued a Proclamation, whereby the General Assembly of this Province is prorogued till the 7th Day of January next, then to meet and proceed to Business.
Extract of a Letter from a Person of Eminence in London, no less distinguished by his Piety than literary Merit, to his Correspondent in this City, dated August 12.
"An American Episcopate is certainly wanted, and if we have not Virtue and Sense of Religion enough to establish One it may be apprehended that our Chastisement may, by the secret Conduct of God's Providence and Grace, turn to your spiritual Advantage, and our civil Feuds, Distresses, and Emigrations, hereafter supply your Wants in this Particular. With me, however, I doubt not but you will readily join in earnest Wishes that Heaven may avert the Judgments we justly deserve, and that the Redress of your Grievances may not rest on this precarious Issue. There is Reason to think your Case will not be taken into Consideration; the Subject, indeed, was dropped during the Heat of our late Party Rage, but is now more talked of than ever. It is the Opinion of many that sending Bishops to America is a Measure dictated by Motives of good Policy, as well as of Justice and Piety. These, you may be assured, are the Sentiments of several leading judicious Men here; of some in the Ministry, and of others who have no Connection with them. You do me but Justice when you suppose that I heartily with Success to your Endeavours for procuring an Episcopate. I look upon it as the Want of an Essential; and I

cannot conceive how any Person who is a Friend to religious Liberty can oppose your Scheme, when the Bishops you desire are not to be vested with any temporal Powers, but with such only as are spiritual. Bishops of this Sort can make no Innovations in civil Matters, nor can they possibly interfere with, or endanger, the religious Rights or Privileges of others; and it will be found very difficult to assign any good Reason why the national Church should not have that full Toleration which all other Denominations are indulged with in the Plantations, and thereby be raised to an Equality with them. You have my best Wishes in this Affair, which so nearly concerns the Welfare of the Church of God; nor shall my Endeavours be wanting to second yours, when they can be serviceable."
PHILADELPHIA, December 12.
THE first Part of this Month set in with severe Cold and Snow, so that the Ice made in our River impeded the Navigation greatly; but on Tuesday last the Weather was considerably more moderate, attended with Rain in the Night, and yesterday Morning all the Vessels that were loaded, to the Amount of fourteen or fifteen Sail, went down.
December 16. Last Thursday arrived here the Right Honourable Lord William Campbell, Governor of Nova Scotia, Brother to the Duke of Argyle, with his Lady, and on Saturday set out for South Carolina. We hear his Lordship intends to return to this City in the Spring, on his Way to Halifax.
We hear that a large Schooner, from Virginia for this Port, came into our Bay on Tuesday Morning, the 3d Instant, and cast Anchor; but a severe Storm began about four o'Clock in the Afternoon, when she was drove out to Sea, and has not since been heard of.
WILLIAMSBURG, January 2.
THIS Day arrived here, on his Way to the Southward, his Excellency the Right Honourable Lord WILLIAM CAMPBELL, Governor of Nova Scotia, with his Lady.
Next Week the Theatre in Norfolk will be opened by the American Company of Comedians, where they are to remain but a short While, as they intend for this Place again by the Meeting of the General Assembly, and to perform till the End of the April Court. They then proceed to the Northward, by Engagement, where it is probable they will continue some Years.
His Majesty's Frigate Arethusa, of thirty two Guns, Captain Hammond, is arrived in Hampton Road.
[MARRIAGES.] THOMAS JEFFERSON, Esquire, one of the Representatives for Albemarle, to Mrs. MARTHA SKELTON, Relict of Mr. BATHEURST SKELTON.
The following Address was presented to his Excellency the Governor in the Course of last Month, but did not come into our Hands till a few Days ago.
To his Excellency the Right Honourable the EARL of DUNMORE, his Majesty's Lieutenant and Governor General of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, and Vice Admiral of the same: The ADDRESS of the MERCHANTS and FREEHOLDERS of the Town of PORTSMOUTH.
May it please your Excellency, ANIMATED by a Sense of Duty and Regard, we beg Leave to pay our Tribute of Congratulation on your Excellency's safe Arrival in this Dominion.
From your Character, and approved Administration in a neighbouring Province, we preface the most happy Effects to this Colony from your Government; and it is with such Hopes that we are cherished under the Lofs of our late worthy Governor, Lord BOTETOURT.
Although, at all Times, we were fully impressed with the warmest Sentiments of Loyalty and Affection to his Majesty, yet in this Instance we must also declare our peculiar Gratitude to him for distinguishing this Colony by a Choice of Rulers, not less eminent by their Virtue and Abilities than by their Rank.
As the Encouragement and Promotion of Trade must necessarily become a capital Object of your Attention, we presume, in that View, to recommend this Town, yet in its Infancy, to your Excellency's Notice and Patronage; and may we hope hereafter to deserve it better, from our Importance to the Community.
Whilst we are thus extending our Prospects, allow us to indulge the Wish that your Excellency may long continue to preside over us with Honour and Satisfaction to yourself, Advantage to the Colony, and endeared to every Inhabitant of it; and finally, your Toils be gratified by a favourable Acceptance from your Royal Master.
His EXCELLENCY's Answer. I AM extremely obliged to the Merchants and Freeholders of the Town of Portsmouth for their Address, and kind Wishes for that which is the Height of my Ambition to attain.
I shall strive, with unwearied Diligence, to fulfil the Hopes which they have conceived of my Administration; and in my Attention, which is due, to so important a Concern as the Trade of the Colony, I shall be happy to find Opportunities of assisting to enlarge and extend that of the Town of Portsmouth.
To the Honourable JOHN T—YL—E, Esquire.
ALTHOUGH honoured with the Notice of so respectable a Person as yourself, I have little Leisure, or Inclination, to appear in the publick Papers: However, rather than be thought ungrateful, I must beg you will design to accept my best Acknowledgments for the Care you have taken to snatch me from that Obscurity in which your patriotic Junius Americanus has very properly placed me. I have carefully perused the Reproduction of his Letter, with your Annotations, which Mr. Rind informed me was commanded by yourself; and my Obligations would not have been at all lessened had Truth directed the Pen of that wretched modern Plagiary, at least in some small Part of what regarded myself.
You must, from your Conduct on this Occasion, give me Leave to suppose you approve, and have adopted, the Sentiments of this Writer; or my Acknowledgments will seem to want a proper Foundation: Your having favoured this Part of the World with a second Edition of his Letter sufficiently evinces the Justice of this Conclusion. The Letter is directed to the Earl of Hillsborough, and is well known to be the Production of a late Export, whose Name I believe you would not choose I should mention.
Your being one of his Majesty's C—nc—l in this Colony has, no Doubt, made you much better acquainted with his Lordship's Conduct than I can pretend to be, and that Acquaintance may have induced you to patronize a Writer who is so liberal of his Abuse; but however well satisfied you may be of the Justice of it, believe me there are but few in this Country, to whom your Junius is known, but would be led to doubt, from the single Circumstance, of his being the Author. I have heard, and from pretty good Authority too, that we were indebted to this noble Lord for the Choice and Appointment of our late excellent Governor: This Act of his Administration will endear him to many, and prevent any Injury to his Reputation from the feeble Attempts of the whole Race of Junius Americanus.
I am represented as having, with another, petitioned for the Repeal of a Law passed by the late Assembly respecting the Court of Hufings; which, Junius tells us, has been, in Consequence of that Petition, refused the Royal Assent. Junius Americanus is wrong to suppose me possessed of Abilities equal to his own, or to conclude, because he can arraign and condemn Ministers at his Pleasure, I can controul the Legislature of this Country. That I ever saw or heard of a Petition to effect a Repeal of the Law I most solemnly deny, nor do I believe any Petition from the Attorney or Shopkeeper ever existed, except in the now disordered Brain of poor Junius Americanus. For my private Sentiments of that Law, I am not amenable to any Man; and if a private Letter of mine, which may have been intercepted by this watchful Guardian of our Liberties, contained those Sentiments, I fear no Danger from it, not being conscious to myself of having violated any Law, or given just Offence to any Person. Till Junius is at the Head of a Committee for the Inspection of all private Letters which are designed to pass the Atlantic, I shall not think myself accountable to him for what I write. If the Law be repealed, I believe it is for some better Reason than Junius has given us, and that its Fate has not been at all influenced by my Opinion against, or his in its Favour. No, my well known Friend, neither your Partiality to me, nor high Opinion of yourself, can make you entertain such a Thought. Attributing the Miscarriage of the Law, first to me, then to the Scotch Merchants, and lastly to the Earl of Hillsborough, serves at once to evince your Consistency and Love of illiberal Abuse. That there are bad Men the Produce of every Country (Virginia, which gave Birth to Junius Americanus, not excepted) I readily own; but to produce no better Proof of the Depravity of a Set of Men than their being of this or that Country, shows you to be driven to a wretched Shift indeed. A Day passes not over your Head that you do not see Men of that Country which you delight to abuse whose Example you would do well to imitate. Your frequent Attempts to sow Dissensions among us, and to promote unnatural and impolitic Divisions, sufficiently attest your Regard for this our native Land. Ever in the wrong in the Steps you have taken to obtain some lucrative Employment, I venture to prophesy your Conduct on this Occasion will hardly promote you to the Agency of this Country, notwithstanding your Promise to distinguish yourself by the most proper and spirited Conduct.
And now I have only to repeat my Request, that the Person to whom (in Imitation of his Junius) I have taken the Liberty of addressing this Letter, will be good enough to accept such Thanks as are due from One on whom he has conferred a Favour, when he intended an Injury; and to be assured, that, free and independent as himself, I shall, upon a similar Occasion, do my Duty, as I did upon that when he happened to be Defendant in the Court of Hufings, and to which I owe the Favour of his Notice.
JOHN TAZEWELL.
Advertisements.
A COURSE of LECTURES on the Elementary Ideas of Poetry, including the general Principles of Composition, will be read by S. HADLEY, Professor of Moral Philosophy, &c. in William & Mary College.
Gentlemen who choose to attend are requested to send their Names before the 10th of February, as the first Lecture will be delivered on the Afternoon of that Day, at four o'Clock.
Price of Attendance THREE PISTOLES.
YORK Town, January 1, 1772.
ALL Persons indebted to the Estate of Mrs. Elizabeth Burcher, deceased, are desired to make Payment; particularly those who failed giving in their Bonds, as they will be deemed to carry interest from the Day they became due. All those who have any Demands against the said Estate are requested to make them known; and such as are entitled to the Estate are desired to attend at York Town on the 22d Instant, in Order that the Estate may be settled.
JOHN BURCHER. JOHN HAY.
THE Subscriber has for Sale about seven
Thousand Acres of LAND, four Thousand of which lie in the County of Buckingham, known by the Name of the Buckingham Tract, and is all very valuable high Land; the other Tract, which lies on both Sides of Willis's Creek, in the Counties of Buckingham and Cumberland, contains upwards of four Hundred Acres of exceeding rich low Ground, and very good high Land, with Tobacco Houses, and others, sufficient for twenty Hands. It will be sold in Lots, or altogether, as may be agreed on, and will be shown by Mr. Cory Harrifon, at the Fork of Willis's Creek. For Terms apply to
ARCHIBALD CARY.
LOST, at the New Kent Election, a large red Morocco Leather POCKET BOOK, with some Notes of Hand, some Bonds, and the following Tobacco Notes signed Mercabith & Timberlake:
No. 41, Gross 1230, Tare 107, Neat 1123. No. 42, Gross 1235, Tare 98, Neat 1137. } sweet scented. No. 43, Gross 1235, Tare 100, Neat 1135. }
Whoever delivers the said Book and Papers to Richard Timberlake, of the aforesaid County, shall have TEN SHILLINGS Reward, and be asked no Questions.
To be SOLD, on Credit till October 1772,
TWO Hundred and twenty Acres of LAND on Rock Castle Neck, in Goochland County, on the Road between the Courthouse and Dun-geness, and within eight Miles of the Courthouse. John Hedges lives on the Land, and will show it to any Person inclining to purchase. A good Title will be made, on giving Bond and Security to David Roff.
JARVIS JACKSON.
AT Cumberland Courthouse, on Monday the 27th Instant (January) will be sold, to the highest Bidders, forty likely SLAVES. The Terms will be made known on the Day of Sale. ARCHIBALD CARY.
To be SOLD, at Cumberland Town, in New Kent, on Friday the 24th of this Instant (January)
THE Sloop ELIZABETH, a Sea Vessel that carries about two Thousand five Hundred Bushels, with all her Cables, Anchors, Sails, &c. The Time of Payment will be made agreeable to the Purchasers, on giving Bond and Security as usual.
To be SOLD, at Newport Glebe, in Isle of Wight, on Monday the 10th of February, if fair, otherwise next fair Day,
SUNDRY genteel new HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, seventy or eighty Barrels of Indian Corn, some Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, &c. Credit will be allowed till the June Court, on giving Bond and Security to H. JOHN BURGES.
The GLEBE is in good Order for Cropping, and will be rented to a careful Tenant.
To be SOLD at publick Auction, on Thursday the 23d of this Instant (January) being Court Day,
SEVERAL very likely SLAVES, consisting of fine Virginia born Fellows, Boys, and Wenchies; also the Stocks of Cattle, Hogs, Horses, Corn, &c. belonging to the Estate of Captain Samuel Pryor, deceased. Six Months Credit will be allowed the Purchasers, on giving Bond and good Security to the Administrator. All Sums under twenty Shillings for ready Money. WILL PRYOR, Administrator.
COMMITTED to Dinwiddie Jail, on the 15th of October last, a short yellow Virginia born Negro, who says he belongs to William Watt of North Carolina; he had on a Sheeting Shirt, a spotted labelled Jacket, a green Cotton One, Buckskin Breeches, an old Pair of Boots, and a Half worn bound Hat. The Owner is desired to take him away, and pay Charges.
EDWARD PEGRAM, Junior, Jailer.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Northampton, about the 27th of November last, a Negro Fellow named JACOB, about twenty four Years of Age, middle sized, very black, and smooth faced, with little or no Beard, has a Stoppage in his Speech, and if strictly examined, or suddenly asked a Question, cannot directly give an Answer. He is supposed to be carried across the Bay by a certain Person who frequently passes and repasses from the eastern Shore to Norfolk and Portsmouth. Whoever secures him so that he may be restored to me shall have FIVE POUNDS for his Trouble, and all reasonable Expenses allowed, if he is taken on the western Shore. I will give TWENTY PISTOLES on Conviction of the Person who took him away.
JOHN STRATTON.
THOSE indebted to Robert and Robert Bogle and Scott, of London, Merchants, are desired to take Notice that if they fail to discharge their respective Balances before, or at, this next April General Court, the Subscriber (who will then attend, and is now furnished with their several Accounts, properly authenticated) will immediately commence Suits, without Respect to Persons. The indulgence already granted, he hopes, when considered, will induce them to prevent this disagreeable Measure. WILLIAM BOGLE.
To be SOLD at the POST OFFICE, WILLIAMSBURG,
DOCTOR Chandler's Answer to the Objections and Misrepresentations of Doctor Chauncy, and others, in Regard to the proposed AMERICAN EPISCOPATE. Two Volumes, Price seven Shillings. An ADDRESS from the CLERGY of NEW YORK and NEW JERSEY to the EPISCOPALIANS in VIRGINIA, occasioned by some late Transactions in that Colony relative to an AMERICAN EPISCOPATE. Price one Shilling and threepence.
HANOVER, December 21, 1771.
I HEREBY give Notice that Captain Jacob Handley has my Bond in Possession for upwards of twenty Pounds, since the Execution of which our Connections have been such as to bring the said Handley in Arrear to me; I therefore forewarn any Person from taking an Assignment of the said Bond, as it will not meet an Acceptance from FORTUNATUS CRUTCHFIELD.
HANOVER Town, December 23, 1771.
I INTEND for England immediately, and to return in the Spring. HARDIN BURNLEY, Junior.
N. B. STRAYED, or STOLEN, on the 25th of September, a sorrel HORSE about five Feet high, with a light hanging Mane and Switch Tail, branded on the near Buttock R.A., but not very plain, has a good Deal of White in his Face, two or three white Legs, his fore Hoof much inclined to split, was shod before, and paces and gallops. Whoever brings me the said Horse shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, and FIVE POUNDS if the Thief is secured. HARDIN BURNLEY.
Mr. BAKER, Surgeon Dentist,
BEGS Leave to inform the Gentry that he is now at Mr. Maupin's, in Williamburg, and will wait on them on receiving their Commands. He cures the SCURVY in the GUMS, be it ever so bad; first cleans and scales the Teeth from that corrosive, tartarous, gritty Substance which hinders the Gums from growing, intests the Breath, and is one of the principal Causes of the Scurvy, which, if not timely prevented, eats away the Gums, so that many Peoples Teeth fall out flesh. He prevents Teeth from growing rotten, keeps such as are decayed from becoming worse, even to old Age, makes the Gums grow up firm to the Teeth, and renders them white and beautiful. He fills up, with Lead or Gold, those that are hollow, so as to render them useful; it prevents the Air from getting into them, which aggravates the Pain. He transplants natural Teeth from one Person to another, which will be as firm in the Jaw as if they originally grew there, without any Ligament. He makes and fixes artificial Teeth with the greatest Exactness and Nicety, without Pain or the least Inconvenience, so that they may eat, drink, or sleep, with them in their Mouths as natural Ones, from which they cannot be discovered by the sharpest Eye. He displaces Teeth and Stumps, after the best and easiest Methods, be they ever so deep sunk into the Socket of the Gums. He has given sufficient Proof of his Abilities in this Art to the principal Nobility, Gentry, and others, of Great Britain, France, Ireland, Holland, and other principal Places in Europe and America; also to upwards of two Thousand Persons in New York and Boston.
N. B. His DENTRIFICE is quite free from any corrosive Preparation, will restore the Gums to their pristine State, will prevent the Toothach, and render the Breath delicately sweet, if the tartarous Substance is off the Teeth, and will remedy all those Disorders that are the Consequence of scorbute Gums. It may be had, with proper Directions, at his Lodgings; each Pot is sealed with his Coat of Arms, as in the Margin of the Directions, to prevent Fraud.
LOST, in HAMPTON Road,
A YAWL belonging to the Brig Molly, of Norfolk, Samuel Mackinson Commander. It is about eighteen Feet Keel, painted green above, and yellow below, a white Bottom, rows with six Oars, and had a Chain and Rope to her. Whoever delivers her to Mr. Eilbeck, Merchant, in Norfolk, shall have a GUINEA Reward.
SAMUEL MITCHELL.
LOST, on Saturday the 14th of this Instant (December) from on Board the Brigantine Alice, George Carlton Master, in Lynhaven Bay, nearly opposite to Crump's Hill, an ANCHOR of about eight Hundred Weight, with a new ten Inch CABLE, on which was a Buoy and two empty Barrels, and a Buoy on the Anchor. At the Time they were lost Cape Henry bore E. S. E. distant about two Leagues, and Crump's Hill S. S. E. about the same Distance. Whoever finds them, and will deliver them to us at Norfolk, shall be paid the customary Salvage. JAMES & JOHN TAYLOR.
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, Still, Brewing Coppers, Sugar Boilers, Fullers and Hatters Coppers, Capuchin Plate Warmers, Tea Kitchens, all Sorts of Ship, Fish, and Wash Kettles, Stew Pans, Dutch Ovens, Tea Kettles, Saucepans, Coffee and Chocolate Pots, Brass Mill Work, Furniture for Coach and Chair Harness, Fenders, Andirons, Candlesticks, Cocks, &c. at the most reasonable Rates. Also tins and mends all Sorts of old Copper and Brass Kitchen Work, and gives the best Prices for old Copper, Brass, Pewter, or Lead. All Orders from the Country will be punctually attended to. N. B. He deals for Coffs, or Country Produce.
DECEMBER 10, 1771.
THIS is to inform those who bought Lands of me that I shall attend at Culpeper Courthouse from the 10th to the 12th of April next, in Order to make Deeds to the several Purchasers, and to receive the Money due on their Bonds; which if they fail to, they may expect to be immediately sued. ALEXANDER SPOTSWOOD.
PISCATAWAY (in Essex) December 20, 1771.
HAVING discontinued the Store kept at Tappahannock on my Account, I have opened, this Fall, a large and genteel Assortment of GOODS, lately imported from London, at my Landing, on Piscataway Creek, about a Mile from the Mouth of it; where all Persons may be supplied on very low Terms for Cash, Tobacco, Corn, Plank, Shingles, or Staves, as well as on Credit. MERIWETHER SMITH.
THE Creditors of Anthony M c Kittrick, and Company, being disappointed in the Meeting proposed at the October Court, all Persons who have any Demands against that Company are desired to send an Account of their Claims to the Subscriber, at Fredericksburg, before the April Court, when a Dividend is intended to be made. HENRY MITCHELL.
NORFOLK, December 26, 1771.
THE TALLOW CHANDLER's Business is still carried on by the Subscriber, at the NORTH AMERICAN Coffeehouse, in Church Street; where he makes and sells the best moulded CANDLES at ten Pence Halfpenny a Pound by the Box, dipped Ditto at nine Pence Halfpenny. Gentlemen who please to favour him with their Custom may depend on his utmost Endeavours to give Satisfaction. ROGER PEARSE.
He keeps genteel LODGINGS for Gentlemen, with good Stables and Provision for Horses.
PURSUANT to the last Will and Testament of William Stith, deceased, to be sold on the Premises, on Tuesday the 6th of February next, altogether, or in Parcels, as may best suit the Purchasers, about fifteen Hundred Acres of LAND on Herring Creek, in Charles City County, with easy Payments, which will be made known at the Day of Sale. Good Security will be required. ROBERT WALKER, Executor.
To be SOLD,
THE Plantation whereon my deceased Father lived, in Charles Parish, York County, containing two Hundred and thirty six Acres, with a Brick House and several Outbuildings; it lies convenient to Church, Mills, Fish, and Oysters. A good Title will be made, and the Terms may be known by applying to Mr. William Stevenson, Merchant, in York Town, to Mr. Alexander Graham, Merchant, at the Halfway House between York and Hampton, who lives near the Plantation, or to me, in Macklenburg. JOHN TABR.
To be SOLD, at Colonel Boswell's, in Hanover County, on Tuesday the 14th of January,
A TRACT of LAND belonging to Nathaniel Webb Dandridge, Esquire, which is laid off in convenient Lots. A sufficient Title will be made, and twelve Months Credit allowed the Purchasers, on giving Bond and Security to JOHN JOHNSON.
For SALE, and to be entered on immediately,
TWO Tracts of LAND, one of which contains nine Hundred and fifty Acres, and the other four Hundred, lying on the Branches of State River, in the County of Buckingham, with all necessary Houses for Cropping, and is convenient to Church, Mill, and Courthouse. Any Person inclining to purchase may know the Terms by applying to the Subscriber, on the Premises. WILLIAM SALLIE, Senior.

POETS CORNER.
ODE ON JANUARY.
On yon black Cloud behold Aquarius stand, Poising an ample Urn in either Hand! The Load he sways, then swiftly pours In Cataracts the Deluge down; The rough Wind howls discordant with the Showers, And Nature knits each Feature to a Frown.
ANY Person well qualified for a BOOK-KEEPER, on Application to Messieurs Purdie & Dixon, will meet with good Encouragement.
RUN away from the Poor House belonging to St. Paul's and St. Martin's Parishes, Hanover County, in November 1770, an outlawed Negro named PHILL, about five and thirty Years of Age, middle sized, of a yellow Complexion, an artful, smooth, talkative Fellow, and probably may endeavour to pass for a Freeman. He has worked some Time at the Carpenter's and Cooper's Trades, but knows very little of either. He formerly belonged to the late Speaker (Robinson) of King and Queen. When he went away he had on the usual Negro Dress, and some sundry other Clothes. Whoever delivers him to me shall have FIVE POUNDS Reward, if he is taken in the Colony, and EIGHT POUNDS if out thereof. * * * Masters of Vessels and others are hereby forewarned from carrying him out of the Country. JOHN LAWRENCE.
STRAYED, or STOLEN, from Charlotte Courthouse, on the 4th of this Instant (December) a white HORSE about five or six Years old, four Feet ten Inches high, paces and trots, one of his fore Hoofs is black, and the rest white, shod before, and branded on the near Shoulder G. Whoever brings the said Horse to me, upon Ward's Fork, in Charlotte County, or gives me such Intelligence as will enable me to get him again, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward, if he is taken in the Colony, and FORTY SHILLINGS if out thereof, besides FIVE POUNDS on Conviction of the Thief. GEORGE HANNAH.
For CHARTER to SPAIN, PORTUGAL, or any Port in BRITAIN, THE Snow BETSEY, Burthen about two Hundred and fifty Hogheads of Tobacco, a strong new Vessel, and built purposely for the Grain Trade. For Terms apply to Mr. Gavin Lawason, Merchant, in Falmouth, or to the Subscriber, in Northumberland. ROBERT GILMOUR.
DECEMBER 10, 1771. I HEREBY forewarn all Persons from hunting on my Lands, as those who persist in so doing may expect to be prosecuted. ALEXANDER SPOTSWOOD.
WANTED, at Cabin Point, a SCHOOL-MASTER who can teach English, Writing, and Arithmetick. Such a One, with proper Recommendation, will meet with Encouragement by applying to JOHN COCKE. JAMES BELSCHES.
WILLIAMSBURG, December 19, 1771.
WHEREAS the Revenues of the College, unless more Care and Exactness be used in the Collection of them, cannot continue equal to the Expenses; and whereas a considerable Amount is due to the College, which arises from small Sums easy to be paid by each individual Debtor, all Persons concerned are therefore desired to take Notice of the following Regulations, passed at a late Meeting of the President and Masters: If any Person who owes Money to the College on Bond does not either pay off all the Interest, that is or shall be due, on or before the 10th of May next, or in the mean Time give a new Bond, with approved Security, for the whole Debt, both Principal and Interest, his Bond shall be put into a Lawyer's Hand on the said 10th of May, with Orders to bring Suit, and obtain Satisfaction for it as speedily as the Forms of Law will permit. If, after the said 10th of May, the Interest due on any Bond be not regularly paid, at the Expiration of each Year, the Bond shall be put in Suit without farther Notice or Delay. A salutary Order of the Visitors and Governors, directing every Boarder, on his Admission into the College, to pay for six Months Board in Advance, is evaded and rendered nugatory if the like Sum be not paid per Advance by every Boarder at the End of each Half Year. All, therefore, who are in Arrears for Board, are required to discharge them by the said 10th of May. On Failure, the Boarder shall be dismissed from the College until the Accounts against him be discharged, or recovered by Suit. And after the 10th of May next, if Payment for Board in Advance, as above mentioned, be neglected, the Boarder shall not be suffered to continue in the College for more than one Month after such Neglect, but shall, in that Time, be sent away with his Account, and shall not be received again till it be discharged. All Surveyors who have not settled with the Burfar of the College, for all their publick and private Surveys since the General Court in April last, are required to settle with him before the 10th of May next, under the Penalty of being superseded, and having their Bonds sued. If among these Surveyors there be any from whom Nothing is due to the College, it is demanded of them, under the same Penalty, to transmit to the Burfar attested Declarations of there being Nothing due from them to the College. And, after the 10th of May next, if any Surveyor shall omit sending attested Accounts or Declarations (as above specified) annually, he shall be superseded, and have his Bond sued. That this Advertisement may not be treated with that Contempt which several Notices of the like kind have met with, and that no Body may hereafter plead Want of due Information concerning the Premises, this Advertisement is to be printed weekly in the Gazette until the 10th of May next ensuing. By Order of the President and Masters. ROBERT MILLER, Burfar.
RUN away, some Time in April last, a Virginia born Negro Man named DAVID (alias David Gafes) about thirty Years old, five Feet nine or ten Inches high, remarkably well made, has lost one or both of his great Toes by being Frost-bitten, one Finger next the little One has been hurt, which occasions it to stand erect, and has lost some of his Teeth. He had on, when he went away, a Cotton Jacket and Breeches, and an Osnaburg Shirt. Whoever brings him to me, in Lunenburg, shall have five Pounds Reward. WARREN BEUFORD.
TAKEN up, in Cumberland, a sorrel Mare with a Star in her Forehead, a Snip on her Nose, branded on the near Buttock P, and on the near Shoulder H K. Pasted, and appraised to four Pounds five Shillings. THOMAS BOLLING.
TAKEN up, in Dinwiddie, a small bay HORSE with a Star in his Forehead, a Sprig Tail and short Mane, and branded on the near Shoulder J. Pasted, and appraised to twenty five Shillings. WILLIAM JONES.
TAKEN up, in Henrico, a young bay HORSE about four Feet seven Inches high, the left hind Leg white, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, and branded on the near Shoulder and Buttock B. Pasted, and appraised to fifteen Pounds. SAMUEL LUCAS.
TAKEN up, in Dinwiddie, a small brinded and white HEIFER, and a small red and white STEER, both marked with a Crop and two Slits in the right Ear, and an Underkeel in the left. Pasted, and appraised to one Pound seventeen Shillings and Sixpence. NATHANIEL HOOD.
TAKEN up, in Dinwiddie, a small black HORSE four Feet four or five Inches high, about fourteen Years old, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, and branded on the near Buttock I S. Pasted, and appraised to four Pounds. EDWARD WALKER.
TAKEN up, in Hanover, a reddish brinded STEER with a white Spot on his Forehead and down his Face, some White on his Belly, a Crop in both Ears, and a Slit in the left. Pasted, and appraised to three Pounds ten Shillings. THOMAS RAILEY.
TAKEN up, in Augusta, a dark bay HORSE about five or six Years old, paces and trots, has a small Star in his Forehead, and had a Bell on. Pasted, and appraised five Pounds ten Shillings. JOHN RISK.
TAKEN up, in Amelia, a brinded HEIFER with a Slit and Half Crop on the upper Side of the right Ear, and a Hole and Half Crop in the left. BENJAMIN BRANCH.
TAKEN up, in Chesterfield, a red and white STEER with two smooth Crops, a Hole in the left Ear, and two Slits in the right. Pasted, and appraised to three Pounds. Also a white BARROW with a Boh Tail, and marked with a smooth Crop in the right Ear. Pasted, and appraised to twenty Shillings. JOHN ARCHER.
CABIN POINT, December 14, 1771. THE Subscribers, Trustees of Mr. William Simmons's Estate, will be able to make a Dividend of the Money received on that Account by the ensuing General Court; his Creditors are therefore desired to transmit an Account of their respective Claims to us, that they may then receive a Proportion of the Money in Hand, and determine us on the Disposal of the Remainder of the said Estate. JAMES BUCHANAN, } Trustees. JAMES BELSCHES, }
To be SOLD, A VALUABLE Tract of LAND lying on Sandy Creek, in Pittsylvania County, containing twelve Hundred Acres, a considerable Part of which is low Ground, being the Land which lately belonged to Mr. William Kennon, of Charles City. Any Person inclined to purchase may know the Terms by applying to Mr. Thomas Tuille, in Pittsylvania, or to CABIN POINT, Dec. 14. 6 JAMES BELSCHES.
For SALE, THIRTEEN Hundred and thirty five Acres of LAND, with three Plantations thereon, lying in Nansemond County, within seven Miles of Suffolk. Also two Hundred and fifty Acres within eight Miles of Hog Island, in Surry County, convenient to James River, and well improved. Any Person inclined to purchase may know the Terms, and be shown the Land, by applying to the Subscriber, who lives on the last mentioned Tract. THOMAS NEWBY, Junior.
TAKEN up, in Amelia, a brown coloured HEIFER about three Years old last Spring, with some White in her Forehead and under her Belly, marked with a Crop and Nick under the right Ear, and a Crop in the left. Pasted, and appraised to thirty Shillings. MILES BOTT.
TAKEN up, in Amelia, a bay MARE about four Feet and an Inch high, with some Saddle Spots on her Back, and branded on the near Buttock E. Pasted, and appraised to fifty Shillings. MILES BOTT.
TAKEN up, in Chesterfield, a large pied red and white COW, marked with a Crop in the right Ear. Pasted, and appraised to three Pounds. JAMES HARRIS.
TAKEN up, in Goochland, a black and white STEER about four Years old, marked with an Underkeel in each Ear; also one about two Years old, marked with a Crop in one Ear, and a Hole in the other. Pasted, and appraised to three Pounds five Shillings. WILLIAM HARRISON.
TAKEN up, in Cumberland, a very dark bay MARE about the middle Size, with several Saddle Spots on her Back, docked long, and seems to have been branded on the near Buttock A. Pasted, and appraised to eight Pounds. JOHN HOLMAN.
TAKEN up, in Chesterfield, a middle sized black MARE with a Blaze in her Face, her near hind Foot white, some Saddle Spots, a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, shod all round, and branded on the near Buttock with a Stirrup Iron. Pasted and appraised, to eleven Pounds. EDMUND LOGWOOD.
TAKEN up, in Chesterfield, a brinded pied BULL marked with a Crop and Underkeel in the right Ear, and a Half Crop in the left, with a Piece out of the upper Side. Pasted, and appraised to thirty Shillings. HENRY HATCHER.
TAKEN up, in Amelia, a red STEER about five Years old, marked with two smooth Crops, and the Ears cut very short. Pasted, and appraised to five Pounds. THOMAS WALTHALL.
TAKEN up, in Caroline, a bay HORSE with a Star in his Forehead in the Shape of a Heart, his near hind Leg white almost to the Knee, and branded on the off Buttock T. Pasted and appraised, according to Law. ALEXANDER WHITE.
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. THOMAS EGLETON.
To be SOLD, A TRACT of LAND containing five Hundred and forty three Acres, on Butterwood, in Amelia County, formerly belonging to Mr. Samuel Gerson, of Blandford. The Land is good, and there are valuable Improvements on it. Also to be let on Lease, or sold, two LOTS in the Town of Blandford, on Appomattox River, at present in the Occupation of Mr. Patrick Ramsay, with a Storehouse, and every other necessary Building for a Merchant in considerable Business. For Terms apply to PETERSBURG, November 10. JERMAN BAKER.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Lancaster, on the 9th of this Instant (July) a Virginia born Negro Fellow named GEORGE, about twenty six Years of Age, five Feet seven or eight Inches high, a well made Fellow, tolerably black, has a small Scar across one of his Eyebrows, and a Nick in the under Part of one of his Ears, but which I cannot be positive. He speaks clear, discourses well, and plays well on the Fiddle. As he has some Time gone by Water, I expect he will endeavour to get on Board a Vessel, in Order to make his Escape. This is, therefore, to forewarn all Masters of Vessels either to harbour or carry him off. Whoever takes him up, and contrives him to me in the County above mentioned, shall have FIVE POUNDS Reward, if taken in Virginia, and if out of the Colony TEN POUNDS, and all reasonable Expenses paid. RICHARD CHILTON. N. B. I would have any Person, should they take the said Runaway, to secure him well, as he is a very deceiving Fellow.
To be SOLD, altogether, or in Lots, ABOUT two Thousand seven Hundred Acres of good LOW GROUNDS on both Sides of Roanoke River, and two Hundred Acres of HIGH LAND two Miles distant, lying in the Counties of Halifax and Bertie, twenty five Miles below the Town of Halifax, North Carolina. There are about six Hundred Acres of the Land cleared, with an Apple Orchard, a good Dwellinghouse, Dairy, Smokehouse, Negro Quarters, &c. Any Person inclined to purchase may know the Terms by applying to the Subscriber, in Prince George. RICHARD KIDDER MEADE. N. B. There is a good FISHERY on the said Land.
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 AUGUSTINE SMITH.
VIRGINIA, sc. At a General Court held at the Capitol October 14, 1771. James Agar, Esquire, of the Kingdom of Ireland, Plaintiff, against Lewis Burwell Martin, of the said Kingdom, and William Harrison, Defendants. THE Defendant Martin being beyond Sea, and not having entered his Appearance according to the Rule of this Court, on the Motion or the Plaintiff, it is ordered that the other Defendant, who hath Effects of the said Martin in his Hands, as is suggested, do not pay, convey away, or secrete such Effects, except pursuant to former Decrees against him, until the farther Order or Decree of this Court concerning the same; but that he deliver up such Effects, or so much thereof as will be of Value sufficient to satisfy the Demand of the Plaintiff, unto the said Plaintiff, upon his giving Security to the Clerk of this Court for the Return of such Effects, in such Manner, and to such Persons, as the Court shall hereafter adjudge. And it is farther ordered, that the said Defendant (Lewis Burwell) do appear here on the first Day of the next Court, to answer the Bill of the Plaintiff; and that a Copy of this Order be, within fifteen Days, inserted in the VIRGINIA GAZETTE, for two Months successively, and published on some Lord's Day, immediately after divine Service, in the Parish of St. Anne, in the County of Albemarle, and posted up at the front Door of the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburg. BEN: WALLER.
NORFOLK, October 31, 1771. 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.
WILLIAMSBURG, October 15, 1771. COMMITTED to the publick Jail, from Buckingham Prison, a Negro Man named SHARPER, a likely well made Fellow, who seems to be about twenty two Years of Age, speaks broken English, and either cannot or will not tell his Owner's Name, or from what Part of the Colony he came. Whoever has a just Claim to him is desired to take him away and pay Charges. PETER PELHAM, K. P. G.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Lancaster, on the 24th of December last, a Negro Man named WILL, about five Feet eight or nine Inches high, between thirty and forty Years of Age, but looks older than what he really is. He has been at Work in Norfolk for some Time past, and went by the Name of William Moore, as a Freeman. He is a very good Hostler and Gardener; and what may detect him sooner, he is very fond of Liquor, and when drunk very quarrelsome and saucy. Whoever will secure him in any Jail, and give me Intelligence so that I may get him again, shall have FIVE POUNDS, and if brought to me FIFTEEN POUNDS, paid on the Delivery of the Negro. JOHN WORMELEY.
AS I intend to remove up the Country next Fall, I would sell my Plantation in King & Queen County, which consists of six Hundred and fifty five Acres of LAND, pleasantly situated on Mattaponi River, about six Miles above West Point, and has on it a very good neat convenient Brick House with two large Rooms, two Closets, and a Passage on a Floor, with good Cellars under it, two very pleasant Porticoes, one above and the other below Stairs, neatly finished, with Banisters and India Work, a very convenient Storehouse sixty Feet long, with two Floors and a Cellar, and all other Out-houses necessary, Garden, &c. in good Order. The Land is good for Corn, and with Manure will produce fine Tobacco. There is also belonging to the above mentioned Tract one Hundred Acres of Marsh, lying opposite, on the other Side the River, which is very convenient for getting Hay, &c. Any Person inclined to purchase may be shown the same, and know the Terms, by applying to JOHN MEREDITH. Who has also for Sale another Plantation in King & Queen County, just below West Point, known by the Name of Gough's Point, containing two Hundred Acres, adjoining the Land of Mr. Samuel Meredith, on which is a good Deal of Marsh that with little Expense might be made a valuable Meadow. The Land is well timbered, but no Improvements on it. I have also three LOTS in West Point for Sale, whereon is a neat little Dwellinghouse with two Rooms on a Floor, and an old Kitchen. The above mentioned Land will be sold together, or in separate Tracts, as may best suit the Purchasers. TF