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CONSTANTINOPLE, December 3.
THE Russians have not quitted the Hellefpoint, as we had flattered ourselves, the Masters of several Vessels arrived from the Levant assuring us that their whole Fleet is retired to Paros; where, in all Probability, they intend to pass the Winter. It is to be feared that the Retreat of the Russians, which has facilitated the Passage of Vessels laden with Provisions to us, may reduce us to great Straits, if a third Squadron, which is supposed to be very near the Mediterranean, should present itself before the Dardanelles.
The Pacha of Bofnia, esteemed by the Sultan as a Man of Courage and great Skill in the military Art, is appointed Grand Viziar, in the Room of Hali Pacha, who is sent to Belgrade in Quality of Pacha; and the Pacha of Belgrade succeeds the new Grand Viziar as Pacha of Bofnia.
PETERSBURG, December 25. Prince Henry of Prussia set out for Moscow; and her Imperial Majesty is this Day gone to Sariko Zelo, for a Week or ten Days.
FLORENCE, December 27. Last Night, about seven o'Clock, the Inhabitants of this City were greatly alarmed by a very violent Shock of an Earthquake; but we do not hear of any Damage being done by it.
HAGUE, January 18. The Province of Friseland has just suffered a heavy Loss, by the burning of its Admiralty at Harlingen, with the Stores, Archives, and every Thing belonging to it.
PARIS, January 11. During the Year 1770 the Baptisms in this City were nineteen Thousand five Hundred and forty, ten Thousand of which were Males, and nine Thousand five Hundred and forty Females; and four Thousand seven Hundred and seventy five Marriages. The Deaths amounted to eighteen Thousand seven Hundred and nineteen, nine Thousand nine Hundred and twenty two of which were Males, and eight Thousand seven Hundred and ninety seven Females. The Number of Foundlings was six Thousand nine Hundred and eighteen, of which three Thousand five Hundred and thirty one were Boys, and three Thousand three Hundred and eighty seven Girls. In 1769 the Baptisms were nineteen Thousand four Hundred and forty five, the Marriages four Thousand eight Hundred and sixty, the Deaths eighteen Thousand four Hundred and twenty seven, and the Foundlings six Thousand four Hundred and twenty six.
WARSAW, December 22. The Chief M. Saiva has been entirely defeated by Count Branicki, near Wysokie Littewski. The former was at the Head of two Thousand Men, and the latter had only eight Hundred. Two Hundred of the Confederates were killed on the Spot, and five Hundred taken Prisoners.
MALAGA, December 11. Within these few Days all the Batteries of this Place have been mounted, and the Men are working with the utmost Expedition on two new Ones, which will be placed at the Point of the two Moles to defend the Entrance of the Port.
HAMBURG, January 18. Letters from Hanover inform us that the King of England has given Orders for remounting the Artillery, not only at Hanover, but also at Stade, Hameln, Hardeburg, Newbourg, and other Fortresses of the Electorate, to make new Baggages Waggons, Carriages, and Pontoons, and to form throughout all the Electorate most exact Lists of all the young Fellows able to bear Arms. These Preparations greatly perplex our Politicians.
VENICE, December 9. Advices from the Levant inform us that the Russians have retaken the Island and Castle of Stalimora, from whence Hassan Bey, with the Assistance of the Dulcignotes, had obliged them to retire. Admiral Spiridoff hath thought proper to make Reprisals, by causing all the Turks found in the Island to be hanged, without Mercy; because the latter, not regarding the Law of Nations, had cruelly murdered all the Greeks, and their Bishop.
LEGHORN, January 2. Letters from Spain advise that the King hath resolved to remain sole Master of the Navigation of the South Sea, and prevent the English, and other Nations, from forming any Settlement there, as well as in the Straits of Magellan. If the Preservation of the Peace, for the present, should be founded on the Restitution of Falkland's Islands to the English, an open War must soon be expected between Spain and Great Britain, since his Catholic Majesty protests against any Claim of the English to those Islands.
MADRID, January 3. Every Thing in this Kingdom announces an approaching War, and the continual Preparations of War confirm us more and more in that Idea. There are already twelve Ships of the Line ready to put to Sea, which will be commanded by the Sieur Tillic. Besides, there is at Ferrel another Squadron, completely equipped, consisting of twelve Men of War, one of which carries a Hundred and twelve Guns, five of eighty, and six of seventy Guns, with six Frigates, ready to sail on the first Notice, under the Command of the Sieur Regie.
LONDON, January 16.
WE are credibly informed that the late Duke of Bedford died possessed of a real Estate of sixty five Thousand Pounds a Year, besides about seven Hundred Thousand Pounds in the different publick Funds.
It is generally imagined that the Death of the Duke of Bedford will lessen considerably the Power of the present Ministry, and be productive of many Changes among themselves, if not their absolute Dismissal.
Orders have been sent, within these three Days, to Ireland, to raise five Thousand Roman Catholics immediately in that Kingdom, to complete the British Army.
Extract of a Letter from Emden.
"We have received Orders to prepare Quarters for seven Thousand Troops, whom we expect next Week. Their Destination is unknown, nor can we possibly guess. Many large Dutch Transports are now at Anchor, within a Mile of the Town, ready victualled to receive the Troops."
"It is reported here that the City of Hamburg is in Treaty with the King of Denmark to submit themselves to the Sovereignty of his Government; and become Danish Subjects, provided a Garrison of six Thousand Danes is maintained at Ritzenbuttle for the Protection of Hamburg, and that no private Soldier of that Garrison shall enter the City without an Order signed by one of the Burgomasters. Some of the principal Merchants are to be admitted into the Danish East India Company, and three Ships are annually to sail from Hamburg to the Indies. The Hamburgers are to receive many other Privileges in Trade. By this Treaty the City of Hamburg will receive great Riches, and will avoid the heavy Charges of supporting seven Thousand Troops."
"Before the End of this Month thirty Ships of the Line will be completely equipped for Service, at Spithead."
"Tuesday last the grand new Dock was opened at Plymouth, and received the Northumberland Man of War."
"The Fleet for the East Indies is now entirely settled. It is to consist of six Sail of the Line, with Frigates, &c. and if a War breaks out, we hear there is a cautionary Clause in the Contract, between Government and the East India Company, for increasing it. The Northumberland Man of War, with five other Vessels, is now fitting out, with the greatest Expedition, for this Destination, and the several Stores are already prepared."
"It is said that the present Duke of Bedford, when of Age, will possess near seventy Thousand Pounds a Year."
"Letters newly received from France declare that they are at present in the greatest State of Confusion; the King remaining obstinate in his Requisition of the Parliament to a Compliance with his Commands, and the Parliament are determined in their Opposition to them. The Letters conclude with saying that this domestic Warfare must soon be terminated, since the King dare not punish, and the Parliament will not obey."
"Count Frederick, Son of the late Theodore King of Corsica, is the Person appointed by the India Company to raise their Recruits in Germany."
We are assured, from very good Authority, that the Ministers of France, at the several Courts of Europe, have been incessantly using their utmost Efforts to prevent a War with this Nation.
January 19. The King of Prussia has, at this Time, some very great Scheme in Contemplation; and his present Conduct, with Respect to his Army, induces some Persons to believe that it will not be long before he will put it in Execution. This Monarch seems to portend a more formidable Foe to Britain than most People are aware of.
By the Promotion of the Earl of Suffolk it is said eight Members will be added to the Majority in the House of Commons, and three to the Majority of the House of Lords.
Lord Sandwich will remain in his present Employment, we are assured, during the Continuance of the Power of the present Ministry. His Fondness for that Department, and acknowledged Abilities, as well as because those who in all Probability would be fixed on to succeed him, are now in Opposition, all tend to evince a Prospect of his staying at the Admiralty Board.
The Number of Seamen intended to be raised is said to be very near completed; and we are told that whether there should ensue War or Peace the present Number will be kept up, that our Marine may be always in such a respectable Situation as to put it out of the Power of any of our Competitors to brave us on that Element.
Lately died Frederick III. the reigning Duke of Saxe Gotha, Uncle to his Majesty, and Brother to her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales, and one of the Knights of the Garter. It is said that the Court will go into Mourning, on the above Occasion, on Sunday the 27th Instant.
There has lately been laid before the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, in the Strand, an Improvement on the Loom, by a poor Weaver. The Alterations he has made in this useful Machine are the reducing it to a much less Magnitude than those of the usual Constructions, and the taking away entirely those Parts of the Frame Work that obstructed the Light; leaving it, at the same Time, even more commodious and effectual in its Use in all other Respects.
January 22. War, we can inform our Readers, was settled, some Time since, to have been declared on Friday last, the 18th Instant, if Something had not since intervened.
A strong Memorial, it is said, has been presented to our Ministry by Count Malzahn, the Prussian Envoy Extraordinary, in which his Majesty demands the Subsidy Money due to him in a very high and unusual Tone. This Demand on our Court amounts, it is said, to one Million five Hundred Thousand Pounds.
Extract of a Letter from the Hague, January 11.
"Our last Accounts from the Russian Fleet confirm its having quitted the Archipelago, and being gone to Port Mahon, in Order to winter there. The chief Reason which Count d'Orloff had for taking this Step is said to be his Want of Men. The Letters from Constantinople advise that the Grand Seigneur has recalled the Grand Viziar, and given him a Government; but it is not known who will succeed him in his Command, though it is supposed his Brother in Law will have it."
His Majesty having been pleased to deliver the Custody of the Privy Seal to the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, his Lordship was thereupon, by his Majesty's Command, sworn one of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and likewise Keeper of the Privy Seal; and his Lordship accordingly took his Place at the Board.
Extract from an authentic Letter from Paris, January 9.
"You may rely on the following interesting Piece of Intelligence, namely, that the French have actually planted Cloves and Nutmegs in the Isle of France, notwithstanding all the Vigilance of the Dutch to prevent them. The latter therefore can no longer be called, exclusively, the Pepper Boxes of all Europe. This was effected in the Course of the last Year. The Sea Officer who was employed in it, and who brought the News to France, has been knighted for his Services, and received both a Pension and Gratuity from the Court. He comes sometimes to a Coffeehouse which I frequent, and has shown me Specimens of the Spiceries."
"The Parliament of Paris began yesterday to exercise its Functions, but only under certain Conditions; and it is not known whether the King, or the Parliament, will prevail. The Minister of War is appointed; he is called M. Monteynard, and is deemed extremely proper for that Department. The Publick speak differently of the other Ministers appointed in the Room of the exiled."
January 23. It seems highly probable, by the Government's pursuing such vigorous Measures for completing the Armaments, that the present Convention, instead of being the Confirmation of Peace, will be only the Prelude to a War, as happened in the former Rupture with Spain in the Time of Sir Robert Walpole's Administration.
No less than three Expresses were sent off yesterday from the southern Departments, in six Hours preceding each other; from whence it is expected some Affairs of very great Importance protracted the final Conclusion of a very recent Transaction.
It is reported that a powerful Nabob Lord, with six of his Dependents and Adherents, has forsaken the Minority.
It is said that some noble Lords of the Minority are preparing Impeachments against certain Persons concerned in the Negotiations with a neighbouring Court.
The following remarkable Queries are addressed, in a Morning Paper, to Lord Rochford.
"Did you not know, previous to the Publication of what is called your Acceptance, that Prince Maferano had no Orders, or was in any Way authorised by his Catholic Majesty, to sign the Declaration of the 22d of January 1771?"
"Was you not with the Prince near four Hours a very short Time before his signing? And did you not come from him in a great Heat, and say, there was no making any Thing of this mulish Fellow?"
"Did you not threaten him if he would not sign? And did he not at last sign with great Reluctance, and even shed Tears afterwards?"
"How can you, as a Man of Veracity, say and sign His Catholic Majesty having AUTHORISED the Prince of Maferano, his Ambassador Extraordinary, to offer, in his MAJESTY'S NAME, &c."
On Tuesday there was a numerous Meeting of the Supporters of the Bills of Rights. Four and forty were present, when the Society came to a Resolution that they approved of the present Conduct of John Wilkes, Esquire; and likewise unanimously agreed to pay the outstanding Debts of Mr. Wilkes that were contracted before the 20th of February 1769, the Day of forming this Institution. From this the Publick may perceive that the Society have not deserted the Man who, for his publick Conduct, deserves the Thanks and Support of all true Lovers of their Country.
It is allowed by all who have heard Signiora Sirmen, who now plays the Violin at the Opera House in the Haymarket, that she brings the finest Tone from that Instrument that has been heard; she has also the great Advantage of being a very genteel and beautiful Woman.
We are assured that of all the Ambassadors since the famous Gondemar none have ever lived in such Friendship with our English Nobility as Prince Maferano, the present Spanish Ambassador. His Princess also has made many Friendships amongst our great Ladies, with whom she spends most of her Time.
We are assured that a very powerful League is formed of the Heads of the Opposition, who have a Plan in Agitation that will perplex the present Ministry more than any Thing they have hitherto met with. The above Party are determined to force them out, Root and Branch.
This Day the Right Honourable Lord Grantham kissed his Majesty's Hand on being appointed the King's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to his Catholic Majesty.
The Duke of Bedford certainly remitted to his Tenants, in Consequence of Inundations last Autumn, no less than five Thousand Pounds; a noble Instance of Generosity, which ought to be recorded to his Honour.
A certain Lady, Sifter to an unpopular Member of Parliament, after returning from a grand Assembly, missing a small Slice of Butter off a Lump which she generally marks, the Cook having given the two Chairmen the Slice to butter two red Herrings, the Lady discharged immediately the two Chairmen, Footman, and Cook.
As Numbers of Persons of elevated and dissipated Lives and Fortunes (say among them even Members of the Legislature, forgetting their Rank and Station, and the Example, as well as Laws, they are bound to give) pay often little Regard to Punctuality with Respect to the Performance of their Agreements, or Payments of their Debts, it may not be amiss to let such be disposed, and so far dishonour and dishonourable Persons, know and see what were the Sentiments and Actions of our great moral Poet Mr. Pope relative to that Point, as given by a late Writer of his Life. "He was (says that Writer) just, punctual, temperate, generous, and grateful. His strict Regard to Justice and Punctuality appeared in all his Transactions; he was exact, even to Minuteneis." The nice Sentiments (continues the said Writer) he adopted with Respect to Punctuality, appear in one of his Letters, where he observes "that Punctuality is a Branch of moral Honesty, and that an unpunctual Man is a Thief of his Neighbour's Time, which he can never repay." The said Writer farther adds, that this moral Honesty, this Virtue of Punctuality, appeared in all his Dealings and Contracts, which show with what Precision and scrupulous Caution he entered into Engagements where Punctuality was requisite. Think of, and ponder well on this, ye greatest, and, if not equally just, often the meanest of Mankind; and remember that the same great Moralist, Poet, and Philosopher, has declared, and by such truly noble Actions proved, that "an honest Man is the noblest Work of God;" and therefore, like him, live respected, esteemed, and beloved; and, like him, die revered, lamented, and celebrated here, and doubtless immortally blessed hereafter.
Wednesday Evening, as the Countess of Chatham was returning from Town to Hayes, in her Chariot, her Ladyship was set upon by four Footpads, armed with Pistols, and robbed of her Gold repeating Watch, and what Money she had about her, with which the Villains got clear off, though her Ladyship was attended by four Servants armed with Pistols.
A few Days ago Sir Sampson Gideon, Baronet, distributed a large Quantity of Bread and Money to the Poor in the Neighbourhood of his Seat in Kent, to the great Relief of many distressed Families, whose Wants have so often been supplied by the Humanity and Liberality of that worthy Gentleman.
January 26. The King has been pleased to constitute and appoint the Right Honourable John Earl of Sandwich, John Buller, the Right Honourable Henry Viscount Palmerston, of the Kingdom of Ireland, the Right Honourable Charles Spencer, Esquire, commonly called Lord Spencer, the Right Honourable Wilmot Viscount Liburne, of the Kingdom of Ireland, the Honourable Charles James Fox, Esquire, and the Right Honourable Augustus John Harvey, Esquire (in the Room of Francis Hoiburne, Esquire) to be his Majesty's Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Dominions, Islands, and Territories thereunto respectively belonging.
The King has been pleased to constitute and appoint the Right Honourable Wills Earl of Hillsborough, of the Kingdom of Ireland, and one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, Soame Jenyns, Edward Eliott, John Roberts, and William Fitzherbert, Esquires, the Honourable Robert Spencer, the Honourable George Greville, Esquire, commonly called Lord Grenville, and Thomas Whately, Esquire (in the Room of William Northey, Esquire, deceased) to be his Majesty's Commissioners for Trade and Plantations.
We are informed that every little Confidence is placed by the principal Traders and monied Men in the City on the Stability of the late Accommodation with Spain.
A Rupture between the States General and a great northern Power is by some talked of as a Matter likely to happen very shortly.
Yesterday Mr. Wedderburne was appointed Cofferer, not Chancellor, to her Majesty, with a Salary of eight Hundred Pounds a Year.
Yesterday a new Writ was to be issued out for electing a Member for Oxford, in the Room of Serjeant Nares, made a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas; also a new Writ for Tamworth, in the Room of Edward Thurloe, Esquire, made Attorney General; and a new Writ for Bihop's Castle, in the Room of Alexander Wedderburn, Esquire, made Solicitor General.
There are now at Port L'Orient, ready to embark for the Mauritius, three Battalions, named the Regiment of Clare (Irish) one Battalion of the Regiment of Artois, and one Battalion of the Regiment of Normandy.
Some Letters from Holland, of good Authority, by the last Mail, advise that the States General have ordered eighteen Men of War to be fitted out immediately; which occasions various Speculations.
A Sailor hearing of the Accommodation with Spain, said all the Lions at our Ships Heads should be taken down, and Hares put in their Room.
Extract of a Letter from Plymouth, January 24.
"Orders have come down to stop the Press Warrants for the present, but to continue to enter such as offer, either for Sea or Land Service. All Hands in the Dockyard are still employed, and there are great Preparations carrying on. Orders are this Day received for the fitting out several more Men of War, as fast as possible."
The People in general seem to be greatly discontented with the Spanish Convention. It is believed no Satisfaction will be given either for the Expense of the Armament, or Manila Ransom; and by a secret Clause, Falkland's Islands are (as is reported) to remain neutral, and possessed by neither Party. Thus all has ended in Smoke. It is thought there will be an Inquiry in both Houses into this Affair. A certain House has addressed his Majesty praying that all the Papers relating to the Affair with Spain may be laid before them.
Notwithstanding the Assurances of Peace, it seems somewhat extraordinary that the King's Bounty should still be continued for able bodied Seamen and Landmen, and that Orders were sent yesterday for a Fleet to rendezvous in the Downs, under the command of Admiral Montague.
Notwithstanding our Disputes seem for the present to be adjusted with the Court of Spain, yet we can assure the Publick, from good Authority, that there are some very material Points still to be settled with the French Court; and that Lord Rochford sent last Week a very spirited Memorial on this Head to Lord Harcourt, our Ambassador at Paris.
Notwithstanding the present peaceable Appearance with Spain, the Press was very hot about Wapping last Night, and twenty Men were taken out of a publick House near Gun Dock.
By private Letters, over Land, from India, we learn that several of the Districts in the Kingdom of Bengal had suffered considerably, for a long Time, from a dreadful Famine; and that in the District of Parnea particularly one Third of the Inhabitants had already perished for Want.
They write from Warsaw that the Budziack and Jedizandiki Tartars, to the Number of twenty Thousand, who submitted to the Russians last Year, have taken Arms against the Turks.
January 29. They write from Petersburg that in the Propositions for Peace between that Court and the Grand Seigneur his Sublime Highness had offered to pay a considerable Sum of Money for the Recovery of the Territories taken by the Russian Arms.
We are assured that eighty Thousand Russian Recruits are in March to reinforce the two Imperial Armies.
A Dutch Mail arrived at the Port Office this Evening. The most material News are the great naval Equipments in France, which we are told are carrying on with great Vigour. Fifteen Men of War of the Line, and eight Frigates, are in Hands at Toulon, and forty at Port L'Orient, which are all in such Forwardness that they have Orders to sail in May next at Brest, and the Command already is given to M. Damboyon.

About three o'Clock on Thursday Afternoon Lord North laid before the House, Room of a certain Society, by his Majesty's Command, the two following Papers.
TRANSLATION of the DECLARATION signed and delivered by Prince de Maserano , Ambassador Extraordinary from his Catholic Majesty, dated the 22nd Day of January, 1771.
His Britannick Majesty having complained of the Violence which was committed on the 10th of June 1770, at the Island commonly called Great Malouine, and by the English Falkland's Islands, in obliging, by Force, the Commander, and Subject of his Britannick Majesty, to evacuate the Port by them called Egmont, a Step offensive to the Honour of his Crown, the Prince de Maserano , Ambassador Extraordinary of his Catholic Majesty, has received Orders to declare, and declares, that his Catholic Majesty, considering the Desire with which he is animated for Peace, and for the Maintenance of a good Harmony with his Britannick Majesty, and reflecting that this Event might interrupt it, has been, with Displeasure, his Expedition, tending to disturb it; and in the Perfusion in which he is of the Reciprocality of Sentiments of his Britannick Majesty, and of its being far from his Intention to authorise any Thing that might disturb the good Understanding between the two Courts, his Catholic Majesty does disavow the said violent Enterprise, and in Consequence the Prince de Maserano declares that his Catholic Majesty engages to give immediate Orders that Things shall be restored in the Great Malouine, at the Port called Egmont, precisely in the State in which they were before the 10th of June 1770; for which Purpose his Catholic Majesty will give Orders to one of his Officers to deliver up, to the Officer authorised by his Britannick Majesty, the Port and Fort called Egmont, with all the Artillery, Stores, and Effects of his Britannick Majesty, and his Subjects, which are at that Place, the Day above named, agreeable to the Inventory which has been made to them.
The Prince de Maserano declares, at the same Time, in the Name of the King his Master, that the Engagement of his said Catholic Majesty to restore to his Britannick Majesty the Possession of the Port and Port Egmont, cannot, nor ought, any Wife, to affect the Question of the prior Right of Sovereignty of the Malouine Islands, otherwise called Falkland's Islands. In Witness whereof, I the underwritten Ambassador Extraordinary have signed the present Declaration, with my usual Signature, and caused it to be sealed with our Arms. London, January 22, 1771.
TRANSLATION of the Earl of Rochford's ACCEPTANCE, dated the 22nd of January 1771, of the Prince de Maserano's Declaration of the same Date.
His Catholic Majesty having authorised the Prince de Maserano , his Ambassador Extraordinary, to offer, in his Majesty's Name, to the King of Great Britain, a Satisfaction for the Injury done to his Britannick Majesty by dispossessing him of the Port Egmont; and the said Ambassador having this Day signed a Declaration, which he has just delivered to me, expressing therein that his Catholic Majesty, being desirous to restore the good Harmony and Friendship which before subsisted between the two Crowns, does disavow the Expedition against Port Egmont, in which Force has been used against his Britannick Majesty's Possessions, Commanders, and Subjects, and does also engage that all Things shall be immediately restored to the precise Situation in which they stood before the 10th of June 1770, and that his Catholic Majesty shall give Orders, in Consequence, to one of his Officers, to deliver up to the Officer authorised by his Britannick Majesty, the Port and Fort Egmont, as also all his Britannick Majesty's Artillery, Stores, and Effects, on Inventory, which has been made of them; and the said Ambassador having, moreover, engaged, in his Catholic Majesty's Name, that what is contained in the said Declaration shall be carried into Effect, by his said Catholic Majesty's Orders to his Officers, shall be delivered into the Hand of one of his Britannick Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, within six Weeks; his said Britannick Majesty, in Order to show the same friendly Dispositions on his Part, has authorised me to declare that he will look upon the said Declaration of Prince de Maserano , together with the Performance of the said Engagements, on the Part of his Catholic Majesty, as a Satisfaction for the Crown of Great Britain. In Witness whereof, I, underwritten, one of his Britannick Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, have signed these Presents with my usual Signature, and caused them to be sealed with our Arms. London, January 22, 1771.
As Lord North did not favour the Room, neither in Writing, nor by Speech, with the King of Spain's Instructions to his Ambassador in London, we shall here give what is authentically the Purport of them, though perhaps it may not be exactly the Tenour.
"The King of Spain condescends, out of his Regard for his loving Brother the King of France, to relinquish Falkland's Island; but, at the same Time, protests against any Claim the English may set up to the Right."
The following is an Account of the PROCEEDINGS of a certain Assembly on the above DECLARATION and ACCEPTANCE being laid before them.
Lord North said, when the Spanish Declaration came under the Examination of the Room he would avow the Part he had taken in the Negotiation.
Mr. Dowdswell moved that all the Papers, Letters, Instructions to our Ministers, &c. relative to the taking of Falkland's Island, and the Negotiation with Spain upon the Subject, might all be laid before the Room.
Lord North consented; only he desired the Papers might be moved for in three distinct Motions, instead of being all included in one.
Mr. Dunning made an Objection as to the Idleness of the Distinction between one Motion and three, for the same Thing.
Mr. Dowdswell agreed to Lord North's Request.
Mr. Dyson made a Quibble about some Words in the Motion, conveying (as he pretended) a Meaning contrary to a Part of the King's Speech at the Opening of the present Session.
Colonel Barré showed that the Words objected to were copied exactly from the King's Speech. He compared Mr. Dyson to a Smoke Ball, and was very severe upon him. He then called the Spanish Declaration scandalous and infamous, dishonourable to the Crown, and disgraceful to the Nation . He said, when the Merits of this Declaration came under Examination, he should speak fully to it; for he had much to say upon it, and should therefore reserve himself for that Day. But at present, he could not help observing there was not a Man in England who did not condemn that Declaration. What! four Months arming! and four Months negotiating! And is this all! The noble Lord (Lord North) said in this Room, before the Holidays, that Spain should pay a Part of the Expense we have been at in making Preparations to resent the Insult; but there is not a Word of Expense in the Declaration. The Enemy was not ignorant of the Weakness and cowardly Disposition of the Ministers. The Enemy know that you dare not go to War (to Lord North) and therefore refuse to make us any Satisfaction. There is not an honest Man in England who does not abhor the present Set of Ministers, there is not a petty Prince in Europe who does not laugh at and despise them. Thus it is in the Power of any Individual to put us to an enormous Expense, and our Ministers dare not avenge the Affront! They dare not go to War, because they are afraid they will lose their Places. Thus the Nation is exposed to Insults abroad, and it is left a Prey to Jobbers and Sharps at home. A French Secretary, being in our Secret, has made near Half a Million of Money by gaming in our Funds *; and some, the highest among yourselves (L—H—, L—H—, &c.) have been deeply concerned in the same scandalous Traffick. But a Day of Reckoning will come. This Country cannot be quiet, when every Thing that is dear and valuable to the People is thus taken from them.
Lord North denied that he had ever said Spain should pay a Part of the Expense. He declared that he could not have said so; he had never entertained the least Idea of making such a Demand.
Mr. Charles Fox said, he did not remember the noble Lord to have ever made Use of any such Words.
Colonel Barré said, he had not trusted to his own Memory only for his Account of that Fact. He had asked several other Members, who all remembered the Words.
Mr. Burke said, he remembered the Words. He condemned the Declaration, in very severe Terms. He called it scandalous, infamous, and treacherous . He said the Nation would demand the Blood of those that made it. Nothing else could, Nothing else would satisfy. This Declaration, this Wisdom, this Spirit of the Ministry, this Vindication of the Honour of the Crown, this Security of the Rights of the Subject, which lies in a Nut-shell, has cost the Nation above two Millions of Money! The Land Tax was prematurely voted, or rather the Country Gentlemen have been duped out of five Hundred Thousand Pounds. The Trade of this Country has been greatly distressed and injured, forty Thousand Seamen have been voted, an additional Army of thirteen Thousand Men voted, and they must all be paid; a great Number of Ships has been put into Commission, at a great Expense to the Publick, and all this for what? Why to procure that scandalous, base, and dishonourable Declaration, that lies on the Table. The Ministers made no Reply.
Wagers are already begun to be laid that the Obligation of the present Convention does not bind the Powers that have entered into it so long as three Months.
* This is true; M. Francois, Secretary to the French Ambassador, has realized above Half a Million in the Alley. The Spanish Minister had Orders to sign the Declaration at least six Days before he did. Francois, and others, knew this. They duped their Friends. Mr. T—, &c. who wanted to get Intelligence. Mr. B— has likewise lost considerably. There were six lame Ducks on Thursday last.
At the End of last War a Commission was entered at Whitehall to liquidate the Forage and other Debts left unpaid in Germany. Out of seven Millions we paid one Hundred and eighty Thousand Pounds, and perhaps more than was due in Justice; however, his Majesty of Prussia bought up the rest, made them his own, and it is more than probable he means to pay himself. As the Electorate of Hanover is not sufficient, his Views are perhaps more extended, else why such an Army near the Channel.
An Estimate of the Expenses of the naval and military Equipments occasioned by our late Difference with Spain is preparing to be laid before an august Assembly.
A Mountebank Doctor was lately fined at Salisbury, in no less a Sum than two Hundred Pounds Sterling, for imposing on the Populace, by putting a piece of Plate as a Decoy amongst his Medicines, to induce Persons to purchase them.
The King of Denmark, as Head of the Church, has published an Ordinance that a Widower may marry his Wife's Sister, and that Brother and Sister's Children may likewise marry, neither of which could before be done without an ecclesiastical Dispensation.
They write from Leghorn that a new Leader had started up in the Island of Corsica at the Head of two Thousand Mountaineers, and threatened to create a Deal of Trouble to the French Government.
They write from Barbadoes that a French Guineaman, in her Passage between Goree and Martinico, had been cut off by an Insurrection of the Slaves, who murdered all the Crew; and that the Ship, after being tossed about for several Weeks, was found at Sea lately, with only nine Negroes alive on Board.
Yesterday an Irish Chairman, who used to ply at the Axe and Gate, in King Street, Westminster, was married at St. Margaret's Church, to a Lady whom he formerly served, with a Fortune of ten Thousand Pounds.
Extract of a Letter from Chatham, January 26. This Morning an odd Affair you may depend upon to be authentick. This Morning a Person known by the Name of Charles Waddell, belonging to his Majesty's Ship Orford, was ordered to receive two Dozen Lashes for Defection; but when tied up to the Gangway, the Culprit was discovered to be a Woman. She confessed afterwards she had travelled from Hull to London after a Man with whom she was in Love, and hearing he had entered at the Rendezvous in London, for the same Ship, the 9th Instant, on the 17th of the same Month she came on Board, and was looked upon as a very active young Fellow; but finding that her Sweetheart, who had entered for the above Ship, was run away, in Consequence thereof, she deserted yesterday in Pursuit of him, and was taken up as a Deserter on the London Road, and was brought again on Board last Night, where she was confined in Irons, and this Morning was to have received her Punishment, but the Discovery prevented it. She was immediately carried before Admiral Sir Peter Denis, who made her a present of Half a Guinea. Commissioner Hanway, and most of the Yard, made her Presents. She is about nineteen Years of Age.
February 1. Our last Advices say that Lord Milton is thought to be out of Danger from the Wound he received in the late Duel.
The following is said to be the State of the Cafe in the late Duel. Lord Milton apprehended Lord Paulet had supported some of his Tenants against him in a Lawsuit, wrote to Lord Paulet, charging him with the Fact, which his Lordship denied. Lord Milton, thinking the Truth of the Cafe warranted, challenged Lord Paulet, in the House of Lords, with having in his Possession a Lie under his Hand, and demanded Satisfaction. His Lordship denied the Charge, but readily accepted the Challenge, observing that it must be decided with Pistols, as his Sword Hand was lame. Milton vehemently urged the going immediately to Hyde Park, which Lord Paulet declined, having some Family Business to settle, but promised to meet within the Hour. After this the Blow was given. Lord Paulet went home, and having executed his Will returned to Hyde Park within the Time, where he found his Antagonist surrounded by Soldiers, who attempted likewise to arrest his Lordship, but he refused to submit. The next Day several Messages passed; and on Monday Lord Milton having got rid of his Arrest, the Affair was decided behind Montague House. This unhappy Affair is said to have taken its Rise from a Quarrel about Game.
We hear from Tenbury, in Worcestershire, that a Lace Manufacturery has been lately set on Foot there by a noted Milliner from Bath, who has fixed some French People there to teach the poor Inhabitants the Art of weaving that Article, &c. and that the Work goes on prosperously.
A Letter from Yarmouth, dated the 28th of last Month, says, a violent Storm began here last Night about ten o'Clock, and lasted till this Morning. The Damage done to the Shipping in our Road is incredible.
February 2. The last Letters from Vienna advise that the Empress Queen has ordered her principal Generals to get ready their Field Equipages. This News very much engages the Attention of our Politicians.
We hear from Chatham that they are very busy there in fitting out Ships for Sea. Five Ships of the Line were ready to sail down the River the 29th of last Month, and several more ready to follow them. It is thought that the late Embargo laid on Provisions in Ireland has brought about the late famous Convention or Declaration, as neither French or Spanish Fleets can be easily victualled without Irish Beef and Pork. As soon as they get provided by the Help of our good Friends the Dutch, or any other Powers, it is expected their Fleets will put to Sea, and make a Declaration of another Kind.
A Court of Common Council will be held some Day next Week, in Order to consider of a Remonstrance to his Majesty on the Spanish Declaration, unless the Determination of the House of Commons renders such a Proceeding unnecessary.
By Captain Rogers, of the Delight, just arrived at Poole, in thirty Days from Cadiz, we learn that the Spaniards were proceeding with the utmost Diligence in the maritime Preparations, and that it was publicly said there Gibraltar would be immediately attacked.
An Express is sent down from the Admiralty to the Commissioner of his Majesty's Dockyard at Plymouth to keep all the Artificers still at Work as brisk as possible, Sunday included.
It is asserted, by the latest Advices from Paris, that the King of France has dissolved the Parliament of that Kingdom.
The Treaty negotiating between the Court of Turin and the Republick of Genoa will, according to a Correspondent, be attended with very interesting and alarming Consequences.
His Sardinian Majesty has given Orders for increasing his Army to thirty Thousand Men.
Letters from Toulon advise that on the 19th Instant the Workmen in the Dockyards were augmented, in Order to finish, with the utmost Dispatch, fifteen Men of War of the Line and eight Frigates; and that at Port L'Orient they were fitting out forty Men of War, which were all to assemble next May at Brest. Mr. Bambeyon is to have the Command of the latter. The same Advices add that the Grand Master of Malta has refused the Russian Ships the Liberty of wintering at Malta; and that in Order to guard that Port against any Surprise he has ordered Guns to be mounted upon the Batteries and Forts, and obliged all Persons above fifteen Years of age to bear Arms.
C L U B N E W S.
The Duke of Richmond, as to the Declaration, said he could not leave the Room without making one Observation upon it, which was distinct from all Information that the Papers might produce; and it was, that he wondered any Minister should dare to accept, in the King's Name, a Declaration in which the Right of Sovereignty of the Island is brought into Dispute; that in the Time he was in Administration the Spanish Ambassador had attempted to make it a Matter of Discussion, but that he, and he believed all other Ministers to this Day, had never suffered it to be so much as made a Matter of Doubt.
The Majority overruled the Question, as usual. It is said that the Sandwich Convention was extorted from the Court of Madrid by the King of France, with no less a Threat than the Dissolution of the Family Compact in Case of Non Compliance.
Lord Chatham, it is said, has, by some Means, obtained an authentick Copy of every single Paper that passed between Great Britain and Spain in a late Negotiation; and intends, it is said, to compare what he has with what may be delivered in, as the Whole of that Correspondence by the Ministry, whence it is apprehended some important Discovery may be made.
A Motion was made on Tuesday, in a great Assembly, for preventing such Debtors from taking Refuge in the Verge of the Board of Green Cloth as owe above three Hundred Pounds.
DUBLIN, January 5. A Number of Fellows, armed with Hangers, broke into the Lodgings of a Widow Gentlewoman in Dolphin's Barn, Lane, who has a Daughter between twelve and thirteen Years of Age entitled to a handsome Fortune, and carried her off by Force, after cutting several People in the House.
Mr. WILKES's Speech to the Society at the LONDON TAVERN, the 22nd of this Month.
I HAVE always made it a Maxim to retire when any private Affair, relative to myself, became the Subject of your Discussion, that no Delicacy might prevent any Member of a Society to which I am so much obliged from using every proper Freedom in Debate. All of you I considered as my Friends, and therefore apprehended no Inconvenience from being absent; but by some Fatality, for which I cannot easily account, I have been lately held out to you in a Light which I little expected, and which, I am sure, I little deserved. At your last Meeting, as soon as I
left this Room a certain Gentleman took the Liberty of entertaining you for an Hour and a Half at my Expense. Where he could find Matter for such a tedious Harangue, except in his own indistinct Ideas, and verbose Diction, I am utterly at a Loss to determine. Certain I am that in my publick or private Conduct he could find Nothing; that, fairly and candidly examined, would afford him sufficient Subject for a Speech of ten Minutes in Length; much less for a long-winded Oration, more sleepy than a Scotch Parson's Sermon. The Success which he then met has emboldened him to make a publick Attack, and he hopes to provoke me to engage in a literary Warfare. Of the Severity of his Pen I am not afraid; I am only afraid of degrading myself in the Estimation of the Publick by the Contest, not that I dread to undergo the severest Examination before the Tribunal of the People. No, I hold myself accountable to them for every Part of my publick Conduct; because, though unjustly superadded, I still reckon myself their Servant. Nor do I decline an Examination of my private Life. If I am subject to Impertinences, I believe they are human, and venial. Here I stand ready to answer for them to the Nation in general, and to this respectable Society in particular. If any Person has Objections to start, let him stand forth and challenge me Face to Face. I desire to conceal Nothing. The whole Tenour of my Life has been such that I need not blush at a single Scene. The Publick, by your Assistance, has supported me with much Generosity; and I should be the basest of Men, in Return, if I did not devote my Life to its Service. Hitherto I am not conscious of having failed in my Part, and I am resolved to adhere to the same Plan; and, if it should be found necessary, to lay down my Life in the Cause of the Publick. That these my Intentions may not be frustrated I find it necessary to clear my Character of some late Aspersion; and as I know no Body of Men who are more capable of doing Justice than this Society, I call upon my Accusers to produce their Charges, while I am here to confute, or be confuted. Your Knowledge of the actual State of our Affairs will prevent the Dispute from running to that enormous Length which a Newspaper War must infallibly produce. Here there will be no Room for Subterfuges, Evasions, or Misrepresentations. We must adhere to plain Matter of Fact, and the Affair will soon come to an Issue. If this Challenge should be refused, you must naturally conclude that I am invulnerable, and that my Adversaries are not so open and ingenuous as they pretend. Let them act as they please, I am resolved to remain with you this Evening, both in Order to give them a fair Opportunity of making their Attack, and to prevent any disagreeable Altercation which might arise from your not being acquainted with Facts."
The Reverend Mr. Horne said, that he looked upon Mr. Wilkes's Speech as a Challenge to himself; that he would make no Professions of Patriotism, but allow his Actions to speak for themselves; that, if he knew himself, his Principles were at least as disinterested as those of Mr. Wilkes; that he had never received a Sixpence for being a Patriot, but that he had expended many Pounds in the Cause, &c. &c. Thus he went on, in a vague and general Strain, defending his own Conduct, and casting oblique Reflections on Mr. Wilkes; but as he never defended to Particulars, or attempted to prove any Charge against his Antagonist, it was moved that the Society should approve of Mr. Wilkes's Conduct. Upon this Mr. Horne declared that they might as well expel him; and he proposed, as an Amendment of the Motion, that Mr. Wilkes himself should draw up the Resolution. This Stroke of Humour was little regarded, and the Resolution passed. Yet Mr. Horne still remains unexpelled!
For the MORNING CHRONICLE. A little TABLE TALK.
SIR, THE Spit was drawn, the Pie come in, the Potatoes pared, and all before the Kitchen Fire, myself in the Dining Room had actually begun to nibble my Nails through very Hunger, all for Want of Mrs. Figg's Presence. She was not abroad, Mr. Woodfall, for I heard her Voice in her own Room; I thought she was documenting Betty for some Misconduct. Poor Betty was below; she heard her Mistress's Voice, and thought she was demonstrating, or remonstrating, some Matter of Consequence to me. We were both wrong, for my Wife was reading out "Sergeant Glynn's Speech when he made the Motion, &c." The Speech finished, Mrs. Figg came directly into the Dining Room, and rung for Dinner. With the Carving Knife in her Hand, and just entering the Beef, Mr. Figg, says she, are you a Judge of Law and Fact? My Dear, says I, you shall see my Judgment upon Lean and Fat as soon as you please to help me. I have been trying, says Mrs. Figg, if I could speak the learned Sergeant's Sentiments with a tolerable Grace. I with you had done it after Dinner, Madam, for it was too long a Grace before Meat; all the Things are Half cold. Well, Mr. Figg, says she, I hope Mr. Glynn will revive the Motion, carry his Point, and make all the Jurymen in England Judges of Law as well as Fact, in all Cases. Well, well, Mrs. Figg, if the Sergeant can, by any Sort of Motions, turn unlearned Jurors into Conjurors, I have no Manner of Objection. Come, my Dear, the next Glass be to my Lord Chatham, which was done accordingly. Aye, aye, says Mrs. Figg, these two infirm old Gentlemen are the Supporters of Britannia and all her Concerns; she leans upon them, while they lean upon Crutches. Is it so, my Dear? says I. Too true, Mr. Figg, too true. Why then, my dear Girl, those Crutches are, truly and strictly speaking, the Props of the Nation. Too true, too true, Mr. Figg; and I thought she dropped a Tear of piteous Apprehension lest these Sticks should break, or their Owners drop off the Stage some Time or other. Come, come, my Dear, says I, though either of those said Catastrophes should happen (if we get but safely over the second of February) Britannia may yet do well, and Lord Chatham and the learned Sergeant, though dead, may yet speak; for I would propose their Crutches to be suspended for ever over the Heads of the President of one House, and the Speaker of the other, with a legible Remember Me, pendant from them. Don't you think, Love, this would be an Adequate, or a sufficient Monitor and Terror to arbitrary Ministers, corrupt Judges, and all that are in Government? She gave me a Nod of Approbation, and so the Dinner was finished.
Mr. Woodfall, I am, once more, Your humble Servant, R. FIGG.
EDINBURGH, January 22. A particular Account of the Fire which broke out in the Leith Market on Saturday last.
FOR the Satisfaction of our Country Readers, many of whom will, no Doubt, have near Connections, as well as the Sufferers, in the contiguous Buildings, and consequently may naturally have been greatly alarmed, we shall now endeavour to be as particular on this Subject as possible.
The Fire was first discovered only a little before six o'Clock in the Evening, in the Garrets of the large Stone Tenement at the Head of the old Bank Close, though it had by that Time got a great Length, and baffled all the Efforts that were made to put an immediate Stop to it, by its having communicated itself to the Story below, when it burnt with amazing Violence, especially on the back Side. Here, therefore, the principal Strength of the Fire Engines was directed, by being placed in Gosford's Close and the old Bank Close, while one from Leith played in the Front. All Means, however, to stop its Progress downwards, proved abortive. It defended with amazing Rapidity, until it got to the second Story, when many People flattered themselves with the Hopes of its being got the better of, by the Furniture having been all got out, and the Lining of the Rooms, as well as every other Piece of Timber Work about them, being knocked down and thrown over the Windows. These necessary Precautions, however, were equally unsuccessful with every other which had been formerly put in Execution; and though its Appearance was far from being so alarming as when in the upper Stories, as there was so little Fuel left, yet it was found impossible to prevent its reaching the Shops on the Street, which it accordingly did, and the Fire was not entirely extinguished until yesterday Morning at eight o'Clock. The Shops were possessed by Messrs. Dalgleish and Henderson, Grocers, and by Mr. Ronaldson, Baker; the first Story by General Lockhart of Carnwath, the second by Mr. Porterfield, the third by Hay Campbell, Esquire, Advocate, the fourth by Mr. John Bell, Writer to the Signet, the fifth by John Hume, Esquire, of Newwells; and the Garrets, we hear, were occupied, at Times, by the Servants of some of the Gentlemen in the under Stories. Mr. Cunningham's House, Writer to the Signet, was the next adjoining in the back Part; but by the Gable Wall being very thick and strong, it remained untouched by the Fire. Various are the Accounts which have been circulated concerning the Beginning of this melancholy Affair; but as we do not choose to give any Thing to the Publick on vague Reports, we shall be silent on that Head, farther than just observing that it is more than probable it was occasioned by the Negligence or Carelessness of those Servants who had been in the Garrets in the early Part of the Afternoon.
We cannot enough applaud the publick spirited Conduct of several Gentlemen of this City, shown so conspicuously in the Part they acted on this Occasion, who were equally assiduous and enterprising, in endeavouring to put a Stop to the Conflagration, with the Firemen, and other Trade-men, assembled for that Purpose. They could not, indeed, be more forward for the only Emulation among the Whole seemed to be who should be most forward in stopping the Flames, or preventing their spreading farther, regardsless of Danger, and every other Consideration. To the proper Directions given by the Magistrates, and this intrepid and Praisa-worthy Spi

in the Gentlemen and Firemen, is to be attributed, in an eminent Degree, the confining of a Fire which once threatened Destruction and Devastation to the whole Side of the Street within the Walls of the Tenement where it first began, though the very next Land to it was a wooden One. Two of the People employed in these laudable Attempts, one of the name of Mitchell, a Carpenter, and the other Robertson, a Cadie, unhappily perished, by the Roof falling in; and several more were greatly bruised and scorched, whom the Magistrates have ordered all imaginable Care to be taken of. The two unfortunate Sufferers were this Day interred, whose Funerals were attended by the Magistrates, and many of the principal Inhabitants.
It is impossible to describe the Fear and Consternation with which the Breasts of most People were filled who had their Dwellings near the Place at which the Fire broke out, as it had so dreadful an Appearance. Every One was anxious to save their most valuable Furniture, expecting an immediate Visitation of this Calamity; and many, we are afraid, will be great Losers, by trusting their Effects to those Mifcreants who are always ready to offer their Assistance upon such Occasions, in Order the more effectually to plunder the distressed. The Magistrates, who constantly attended the Fire, in Order to prevent the wicked Designs of such Wretches as much as possible, applied for, and obtained, a Party of the Military from the Castle, whom they stationed at proper Places, to prevent thieving; and also gave Orders for the New Church to be opened, for the Reception of the Goods and Furniture of those who resided below the Fire, and the Weigh House for those who resided above it. And this Day a Proclamation was issued, for the Owners to appear and claim them; and for every One, in whose Custody any Goods were lodged, without knowing the proper Owners, to bring them to the Council Chamber, in Order to be claimed.
We hear the most Part of this once spacious and elegant Tenement was ruined in the Edinburgh Friendly Enturance Office, except the Shops, which we hear are ensured in the Sun Fire Office.
We had almost forgot to mention the necessary and active Part the Brewers in this City and Suburbs took in this common Calamity. To their Praise it is said, Nothing was wanting on their Part to supply the Engines with Water, having their Carts constantly employed in driving it in Barrels from all Corners to the Fire.
We hear that a strong Box, belonging to Mr. Hume of Ninewells, containing some very valuable Papers, is found, but that it is almost the only Thing in his House which has escaped the Flames.
Extract of a Letter from Kirkwall, January 5. "About a Month ago a very singular Circumstance happened near this Place. A Gentlewoman, in the eighty seventh Year of her Age, had her great Granddaughter married about twelve Months ago, whose Age was then eighteen, and who was delivered about eleven Months after her Marriage; so that the old Gentlewoman has lived to see her Grandchild's Grandchild. There are two similar Cases with this, taken Notice of by Mr. Derham, in his Physico-Theology; and I do not remember to have met with any other in Story. One of them is related of Mrs. Mary Honeywood, of Charing, in Kent, who died in the ninety third Year of her Age. The other is one of the Dalburg's Family, of Basil, in a Diſſich in Latin, in English thus: "Rise Daughter and go to thy Daughter, for thy Daughter's Daughter has a Daughter."
BOSTON, March 18. Extract of a Letter from the Right Honourable the Countess of Huntingdon, received a few Days ago by the December Packet.
I CANNOT express how much I feel myself obliged by your most kind Attentions shown to me in communicating, with so much Tenderness and Respect to dear Mr. WHITEFIELD, the Account of his falling asleep. Thirty Years very intimate Friendship with him must make it a severe Stroke to all the remaining Self Love that it found in his Friends. I loved him, and highly honoured him, and this from the fullest Conviction that as a Minister of the Gospel, and one so highly favoured of God, I have never known, and this through and to the End of his blessed Pilgrimage on Earth."
At the Town Meeting last Tuesday was read an elegant and pathetic Letter from the famous Doctor Lucas, of Dublin, in Answer to one sent him by the Committee appointed to transmit the Account of the Massacre in Europe. In this Letter the Doctor sympathises with his American Fellow Sufferers, and enumerates so many Instances of military Barbarity, Infatuation, and unbounded Licentiousness, as demonstrates that Law is the Will of the Ministry for that Kingdom. He laments the Ignorance, Difference in Religion, and consequent Want of unanimity, in the People, which renders them an easy Prey to any Kind of Force that would enslave them; professes a high Esteem for America, and still hopes the unanimous Efforts of her wise and virtuous Children will have much Effect towards a general Restoration of constitutional Liberty.
Charles Boulogne, the French Boy who was convicted of Perjury, was yesterday sentenced to be set in the Pillory for the Space of one Hour, to be whipped twenty five Stripes, and to pay Costs.
NEW YORK, March 25.
On Monday last was celebrated, at the House of Mr. De La Motagne, the Anniversary of the Repeal of the Stamp Act, where a great Number of the principal Inhabitants of this City, Friends to Liberty and Trade, dined on an elegant Entertainment which was there prepared. The Day was spent with the greatest Cheerfulness and good Order, and the following Toasts were drank on the memorable Occasion.
 1. The King.  2. The Queen.  3. The Prince of Wales, and Royal Family.  4. Lord Dunmore, and the Province.  5. The Lieutenant Governor, and the Honourable Members of his Majesty's Council.  6. Our present worthy General Assembly.  7. His Worship the Mayor and Corporation.  8. Great Britain and her Colonies, Infamy and Disgrace to the Enemies of either.  9. Navy and Army.  10. The Man who having saved the Parent pleaded with Success for her Children.  11. The Marquis of Rockingham, and the rest of the patriotick Ministry in the Year 1766.  12. The glorious Majority of both Houses of Parliament in 1766.  13. The spirited Burgeſſes of Virginia in 1765.  14. The Pennsylvania Farmer.  15. May his Majesty never want a Pitt at the Head of his Ministry, or a Pratt to preside at his Courts of Justice.  16. Alderman Wilkes.  17. Doctor Lucas.  18. Loyalty, Unanimity, and Perseverance, to the true Sons of Liberty in America.  19. May the Authors of Discord, and Promoters of intestine Feuds, meet with their just Demerits.  20. Prosperity to Ireland, and the worthy Sons and Daughters of St. Patrick.  21. The German Protestants throughout the World.  22. The American Assemblies who treated a certain ministerial Mandate with the Contempt it deserved.  23. May the illustrious House of Hanover rule the British Empire to the End of Time.  24. An honourable Accommodation, or a speedy and successful War.  25. Trade and Navigation.  26. The Chamber of Commerce.  27. The Marine Society.  28. Liberty of the Press.  29. The Enemies of Oppression and arbitrary Power in Great Britain and elsewhere.  30. The Day. 
Messages of civil Compliment were exchanged by those Gentlemen and the Friendly Brothers of St. Patrick, who dined at the Queen's Head Tavern; as also with a Number of other Gentlemen who dined at Protestant Hall, at Mr. Samuel Waldron's, on Long Island.
On the 24th of last Month died at Roxbury, near Boston (New England) in the 77th Year of his Age, his Excellency WILLIAM SHIRLEY, Esquire, formerly Governor of that Province, and a Lieutenant General in his Majesty's Army.
The Lord Hyde Packet, Captain Goddard, arrived at Falmouth in twenty Days from this Port.
WILLIAMSBURG, April 18.
On Tuesday, Yesterday, and this Day, the following Criminals were brought to their Trials at the General Court, namely:
RICHARD Sowerbut, from Chesterfield, for Felony: Guilty. Peter Brown, from Dinwiddie, for grand Larceny: Guilty. Moses Grimes, from King George, for Felony: Acquitted. Henry Parmister, from Hampshire, for Murder: Guilty. Charles Diall (alias Jones) from Amelia, for Felony: Acquitted. Mary Staunton, from Norfolk, for Felony: Acquitted. Emilia Whiting, from Fauquier, for the Murder of her Child: Acquitted. John Thompson, from Charles City, for Felony: Acquitted. Charles Oates (alias Jackson) from York, for Burglary: Guilty. Matthias Nuttle, from Amelia, for Horsestealing: Acquitted. Henry Collier, from Surry, for Murder: Guilty of Manslaughter. James McDonald, from Spotsylvania, for Felony: Laid over until June. Thomas Sampson, from Gloucester, for Murder, takes his Trial tomorrow; it is imagined he will be acquitted.
The PRINTER to the Author of a Piece signed A VIRGINIAN.
SIR, I RECEIVED your Performance, with the Cash you enclosed for its Publication; and whereas (to use your own elegant Language) after an accurate Examination of the Contents (though I fancy your epistolary Abilities may miss the expected Praise, as I don't think it worth While troubling the Publick with the Whole of your Piece) yet, being undoubtedly entitled to its Desert, I have, very confidentially, inserted as much as I think, your three Shillings will pay for; and for the rest, as considering the sole Property and Disposal now vested in me, converted it to that service occasion to which it could only be adapted.
[Death.] Mrs. CATHARINE DAVENPORT, Relict of Mr. George Davenport, late of this City.
** In the Will signed by Mr. Richard Kello, Clerk of Southampton, directed to the Sheriff of that County, and published for several Weeks in this Paper, we made the following Mistake: Captain Williams was called Captain Williams, Son and Heir at Law of Captain Williams, whereas the Summons ought to have been for Captain Williams, Son and Heir at Law of Captain Williams, deceased, to appear, &c.
Advertisements.
APRIL 18, 1771.
THE Naval Officers, and County Court Clerks, are desired to pay the Emoluments of Government that will be due to me the 25th of this Month to the Treasurer, who is so obliging as to undertake to receive them for me. W. NELSON.
For CHARTER, THE Ship JOHNSTON, Thomas Wilson Master, Burthen about three Hundred Tuns, mounting fourteen Guns, and Men in Proportion. For Terms apply to Hopburn and Mitchell, or the Commander. PORTSMOUTH, April 16, 1771.
WANTED, A JOURNEYMAN who understands the Riding Chair Business; such a One will meet with good Encouragement by applying to the Subscriber, in Petersburg. WILLIAM BRADLEY.
To be SOLD by Wholesale, at the Store lately kept by Smith & Jameſon,
THE GOODS now on Hand, amounting to upwards of eight Hundred Pounds Sterling. The Invoices may be seen, and the Terms known, by applying to LAWRENCE SMITH. As very little Regard has been paid to my former Advertisement, those indebted to the Store must blame themselves if they find their Accounts in the Hands of an Attorney immediately after the General Court.
WILLIAMSBURG, April 18, 1771.
JUST imported, an Assortment of Articles suitable for the Season; also a large Quantity of Scotch THREADS of all Sorts, which I sell Wholesale and Retail very reasonable. JACOB ALLAN. N. B. Those Gentlemen that used to lodge at the late Mrs. Davenport's may depend on good Accommodation for themselves and Horses, as usual.
AS twelve Months are nearly expired since the Store kept at Todd's, on Account of Messrs. McCall and Elliot, of Glasgow, by the Subscriber, has been discontinued, it is expected that such Persons as are indebted there will be ready, upon Application, to discharge their respective Balances; and it may be depended upon that such as do not will be sued, as the Indulgence already given the Customers has been such that no farther can be allowed, or reasonably expected. I have about fourteen Hundred Pounds Sterling worth of GOODS, which I would sell cheap. ROBINSON DAINGERFIELD.
ROCKY RIDGE, April 2, 1771.
THE Subscribers having filled up a Tobacco Note, No. 1867, 1228, 137, 1091 neat, payable to William Mills, dated Rocky Ridge Warehouse, March 28, 1771, which is supposed to have been taken off their Table by some ill designing Person. This is to forewarn any Person from purchasing the said Tobacco Note, as another Note was granted Mills for the same. SCOTT & BRANCH, Inspectors.
Just imported in the Nelly Frigate, Captain Archibald Greig, from London,
A LARGE Assortment of DRUGS and MEDICINES, to be sold by the Subscriber, Wholesale or Retail, at a low Advance, for ready Money. ALEXANDER GORDON.
JOURNEYMEN TAILORS will meet with good Encouragement by applying to the Subscriber, at Osborne's Warehouse, in Chesterfield County. WILLIAM SKINNER.
To be SOLD at Fredericksburg, on Thursday the 20th of June, being Spotsylvania Court Day,
THE DWELLINGHOUSE now possessed by me, with the Timber Yard adjoining, whereon are erected a Kitchen, Smokehouse, and every Convenience necessary for a Family; it is situated on the main Street in Fredericksburg, and may be easily converted into a Store. Credit will be given until October General Court for one Half the Money, and until April General Court for the other Half. THOMAS MILLER.
For SALE, A TRACT of LAND in Mecklenburg County, on the Head of Butcher's Creek, containing one Thousand four Hundred and ninety Acres; it will be laid off in small Parcels. Any One inclining to purchase may see the Land, and know the Terms, by applying to Mr. Lewis Burwell of the said County. JOHN BURWELL.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, on the Premises, on Thursday the 6th of June,
A TRACT of LAND in Dinwiddie County, containing about five Hundred Acres, whereon Mary Winston lately lived. There is on the said Land a large new Dwellinghouse, and all necessary Outhouses; the Plantation is in good Order for Cropping with ten Hands; it is about thirty Miles from Petersburg. Credit will be given until the first of January 1772. And on Monday the 29th Instant (April) will be sold, at the same Place, all the personal Estate of the said Mary Winston, consisting of HORSES, CATTLE, SHEEP, and HOGS, and various Kinds of HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE. The Credit for the said personal Estate to be agreed on at the Day of Sale. JOHN COLEMAN, Executor.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, for ready Money, on the 24th of this Instant (April) on the Premises,
A TRACT of LAND lying in Amelia County, upon Cellar Creek, containing, by Estimation, one Hundred Acres; also three Virginia born SLAVES, by Virtue of a Deed of Trust made to me by Abraham Wells. HERBERT HAYNES.
To be SOLD, and entered on at Christmas, A PLANTATION on Bennet's Creek, in the County of Nansemond, containing, by Estimation, one Hundred and forty five Acres, with good Improvements thereon. For Terms apply to Wills Couper, in Suffolk.
RUN away from Charles City, in September 1769, a Negro Fellow named CHARLES, of a yellow Complexion, about seven and twenty Years of Age, five Feet eight or nine Inches high, and is an artful cunning Fellow; had on, and carried with him, when he went away, sundry Clothes, but of what Sort more than in common is not remembered, only a Bearskin great Coat, and a Pair of large Silver Shoe Buckles. He is a Sawer and Shoemaker by Trade, and carried with him his Shoemaker's Tools. The Fellow reads well, and is a great Preacher, from which I imagine he will pass for a Freeman. I hereby offer a Reward of FIVE POUNDS for apprehending him, if taken in the Colony; if out of it, TEN POUNDS. SARAH FLOYD. N. B. The above Fellow ran away the 16th of February 1765, and was absent near two Years.
RUN away last June was a Twelvemonth, out of Albemarle County, a Negro Man named JAMES. He is a pretty large Fellow, and had on, when he went away, an Osnaburg Shirt, Cotton Jacket and Breeches; his Coat has Hearts on the Hips behind, and on the Shoulders, doubled and quilted, with Horn Buttons; he has lost a Piece of one, or each, of his Ears, and has a large Beard. He is about eight and twenty Years old, a Virginia born Fellow, and speaks very good English. He has been taken up in Gloucester County, and was brought into Louisa, from whence he made his Escape, and is supposed to have made down that Way again. Whoever takes up the said Fellow, and convey him to me in Duckington, near Willie's Creek, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, besides what the Law allows. JOHN BUSH.
RUN away from the Subscriber, at Osborne's Warehouse, on Tuesday the 26th of March, a likely Virginia born Negro Man named NED, about five Feet ten Inches high, well made, and remarkably black. He is a Virginia born Negro, and very sensible; on one Side of his Mouth (but which I cannot recollect) there is a Scar; which he speaks quick he stammers a little, and is somewhat addicted to drinking. He had Changes of Apparel, so that I cannot describe that in which he went off. As he has a Wife at Mr. Peterfield Trent's, in Slacks, it is most probable he may be lurking about the Falls of James River. Whoever will bring the said Runaway to me here, or secure him where I may get him, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward, besides what the Law allows. JOHN B. FOESE.
RUN away from the Subscriber, on Tuesday the 26th of March, a likely Virginia born Negro Man named CANDLEMAS, of a yellow Complexion, about nineteen Years of Age, five Feet six or seven Inches high, and has a Scar on the right Side of his Face. He had on, and took with him, white plain Jacket and Breeches, a short black spotted Cotton double breasted Jacket, a Virginia Cloth Jacket without Sleeves, checked with blue and red. He formerly belonged to Mr. Holt Ralston of King William, and I imagine is gone there again. Whoever will bring the said Slave to me, near Beavis's Bridge, in Amelia, shall have THREE POUNDS Reward. JOHN ELLINGTON.
ISLE of WIGHT, April 15, 1771. RUN away from the Subscriber, the Beginning of this Month, a Negro Fellow named BURTON, about five Feet four Inches high, of a yellow Complexion, has blue spotted Negro Jacket and Breeches, and an Osnaburg Shirt. He was taken up some Time ago, and made his Escape by cutting his Overseer in several Places with a Knife. Whoever apprehends the said Slave, and secures him so that I may get him again, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward, besides what the Law allows. GEORGE NARSWORTHY. All Masters of Vessels are forewarned from carrying him out of the Country, as he is outlawed.
TAKEN up, in Cumberland, a pied Cow marked with a Crop and two Slits in each Ear; also a brinded YEARLING marked with a Crop and two Slits in the right Year, and a Crop and Underteel in the left. Posted, and appraised to fifty five Shillings. SAMUEL HYDE SAUNDERS.
TAKEN up, in York County, a small black MARE, has no Brand that I can perceive, two white Feet, a Switch Tail, and hanging Mane. Posted, and appraised to fifty Shillings. CHARLES HANSEORD.
TAKEN up, at the Little Fork, in Culpeper, a black HORSE COLT about two Years old, neither docked nor branded. Posted, and appraised to fifty Shillings. HERMAN BACK.
TAKEN up, in Sussex, near Surrey old Courthouse, about the Middle of February last, a Mouse coloured MARE, but since she shedded is a dark bay; she is about four Feet five Inches high, docked, but has no Brand perceivable, and is about fifteen Years old. Posted, and appraised to forty Shillings. LAURENCE SMITH.
TAKEN up, in Dinwiddie, a dark bay HORSE with a Blaze in his Face, shed before, has a Switch Tail and hanging Mane, about four Feet seven or eight Inches high, nine or ten Years old, and branded on the near Buttock IF. Posted, and appraised to eight Pounds. RICHARD NEWMAN.
TAKEN up, in Albemarle, a white MARE about twelve or thirteen Years old, very much fleabitten, about four Feet three or four Inches high, her Mane has been roached, and her Tail bobbed, branded on the near Buttock H, with a middling sized Bell on. Posted, and appraised to four Pounds. BENJAMIN THURMOND.
TAKEN up, in Spotsylvania, a small black MARE, branded on the off Buttock T; she is undocked, and has a large Star in her Forehead. Posted, and appraised to three Pounds ten Shillings. GEORGE FULLER HARRIS.
TAKEN up, in Pittsylvania, on Sardy River, a sorrel Horse, blind of his right Eye, branded on the right Buttock X, has a small Star in his Face, several Saddle Spots on his Back, and had on a small Bell. Posted, and appraised to six Pounds ten Shillings. JOSEPH CUNNINGHAM.
APRIL 7, 1771. THIS is to give Notice to all my Creditors that I intend to take the Benefit of the Insolvent Act at Cumberland Court in April. HARTWELL MACON.
FIFTY very fine SLAVES, Men, Women, Boys, and Girls (among them some good Tradesmen) will be sold in Williamsburg, on Wednesday the 8th of May, for ready Money, before the Raleigh Tavern.
APRIL 5, 1771. ABOUT twenty likely SLAVES, Virginia born (Men, Women, Boys, and Girls) will be sold at Amelia Courthouse, on Tuesday the 25th Instant, being Court Day, for ready Money, or good Merchants Notes payable at the June Court of Oyer; for which the Purchasers will have an indisputable Title made to them.
WANTED in NORBORNE Parish, Frederick County, A SCHOOLMASTER well qualified to teach Writing and Arithmetic; if Latin also, the more agreeable, and the Salary enlarged. It will not be expected that he should teach more than fifteen or twenty Scholars. For farther Particulars inquire of the Printer of this Paper; or of J. Neuse at Piedmont, in the said County. None need apply but such as can have an undoubted Character for Diligence and Sobriety. N. B. It is thought a Dancing Master likewise would meet with Encouragement in the above County. 12
To be SOLD at Fredericksburg, on Monday the 20th of May, being Fair Day,
ABOUT fifty choice SLAVES, used to Cropping and Farming; for which twelve Months Credit will be allowed, on Bond, with Security, bearing Interest from the Date. Five per Cent. discounted for ready Money.
I have also some other Slaves to dispose of at private Sale, among whom are two House Carpenters and Coopers, a Ship Carpenter and Caulker, three Watermen (one of whom has gone Skipper of a Sloop for some Years past, and is well acquainted with the Bay and most of the Rivers in Virginia and Maryland) with a few House Servants.
I will likewise sell the Plantation whereon I now live, in King George County, opposite to Fredericksburg (with or without the Feny) with another valuable Plantation at the Great Marsh, in Fauquier County. Both of them are laid down in Farm, and may be had with or without the Slaves, Stocks, and Corn thereon. Credit (if required) will be extended to one, two, or three Years, to suit the Purchaser. JAMES HUNTER.
To be SOLD, on Monday the 29th of this Instant (April) at Thomas Gilliam's, Senior, in Southampton,
A PIECE of exceeding good TOBACCO LAND, containing four Hundred and twenty nine Acres. Two Hundred and fifty Pounds to be paid down; and twelve Months Credit for the Remainder, the Purchaser giving Bond, with approved Security, to HENRY HARRISON.

POETS CORNER.
THE HERMIT.
AT the Close of the Day, when the Hamlet is still, And Morts the Sweets of Forgetfulness prove...
GENERAL POST OFFICE, New York, January 22, 1771.
HIS Majesty's Postmaster General having (for the better facilitating of Correspondence between Great Britain and America) been pleased to add a fifth Packet Boat to the Station between Falmouth and New York...
Just IMPORTED in the Matty, Captain Fox, and to be sold reasonably by the Subscriber, in Williamsburg, A LARGE Assortment of DRUGS and MEDICINES; also white and brown Sugar Candy, Spanish Licorice, Grotts, Isinglass, Prunes, Pearl Barley, Sago, Salop, Hartshorn Shavings, Saltpetre, Borax, Salad Oil, Barbary Oil, Oil Cloth, Hungary and Lavender Waters, Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace, Nutmegs, Ginger, Pepper, Allspice, Sticking Plaster, Hill's Elixir Bardana, Essence of Water Dock, Tincture of Valerian, Tincture of Golden Rod, Jesuits Drops, Lancets, Anderson's and Lockyer's Pills, James's Powders, Anodyne Necklaces, Stoughton's, Daffy's, and Squire's Elixirs, France's Female Strengthening Elixir, Turlington's and Fryar's Balsams, Bateman's Drops, Freeman's and Godfrey's Cordials, British Oil, Verdigris, Vermilion, Gold and Silver Leaf, Dutch Metal, Breast Pipes and Nipple Glasses, Oil of Turpentine, Rotten Stone, Rosin, Copperas, Logwood in Chips, Blue Stone, Potash, Alum, Brimstone, Greenough's Tincture, Tooth Brushes, Clyster Pipes, &c. &c. &c. JAMES CARTER.
To be SOLD for ready Money, at the Raleigh, on Thursday the 2d of May, SUNDRY fine Virginia born SLAVES, belonging to the Estate of Mr. Charles Blacknall, deceased. MARY BLACKNALL, JOHN DIXON, Executors. Likewise a good CHARIOT, and HARNESS for four Horses.
To be SOLD by Auction, by Virtue of a Deed of Trust from William Cole, for the Benefit of his Creditors, at Charles City Courthouse, on the first Wednesday in May, TWENTY five valuable Virginia born SLAVES, and sundry Leases of the Buckland Tract of Land lying in the said County, granted for three Lives and twenty one Years, to the Amount of about three Hundred Pounds a Year; and on the next Day will be sold at Swinney's, at the House of the said William Cole, a large Stock of CATTLE, HORSES, HOGS, and SHEEP, with all the HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE of the said Cole. The Slaves and Leases will be sold for three Years Credit, viz. three yearly Payments, the first without Interest, and the two last with Interest. The Stocks, &c. will be sold on twelve Months Credit. Bond and Security for the Whole to be made by the Purchasers to the Honourable William Byrd, Esquire.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Lancaster, on the 24th of December last, a slim Negro Fellow named WILL, about five Feet ten Inches high, between thirty and forty Years of Age, and has been bred to Gardening and taking Care of Horses. Whoever secures the said Fellow, so as I get him again, shall have THREE POUNDS Reward; and if brought to my House, FIVE POUNDS. JOHN WORMELEY.
RUN away from their Master, this Day, two Irish Servant Men. One named THOMAS TODD, five Feet seven or eight Inches high, of a reddish Complexion, wears his own long Hair, is a Shoemaker by Trade, and has stolen all my Tools; he took with him a Pair of Ruffa Drill Breeches, a Sailor's Pea Fearnought Jacket, Check and brown Sheetings Shirts, and I believe a white One. The other named DENNIS FERRELL, five Feet two or three Inches high, of a whitish Complexion, and is a Miller by Trade; he had on Cotton Velvet Breeches, a brown coloured Coat, and such a Jacket and Shirts as the other. Each of them stole a Horse; one a large dark bay, branded on the near Buttock resembling NL in a Piece, was gored in the Belly last August, and his Guts show through the Rim on the off Side; the other a sorrel, with a bald Face, and branded on the near Shoulder W. They also stole a Bearskin great Coat with Metal Buttons, a Pair of neat stitched Pumps, one Pair of Womens Shoes, some upper Leather, and two Mens Saddles, one of them new. Whoever will apprehend the said Runaways, and bring them to me, or secure them so as I get them again, shall have FIVE POUNDS Reward. WILLIAM WILLIAMS.
TAKEN up, in Spotsylvania, a small Bull Stag, of a reddish Colour, with sundry white Spots about him, white Face and Legs, and is above five Years old; marked with a Crop, Slit, and Underkeel in the right Ear, and a Crop in the left. Posted, and appraised to thirty five Shillings. JOHN WALLER.
TAKEN up, in Cumberland, a white Mare about four Feet five or six Inches high, branded on the near Buttock XD, and has got on a Bell marked A C. Posted, and appraised to five Pounds. WILLIAM HAMBLETON.
CUMBERLAND County, March 25, 1771. EDWARD CARRINGTON intends to leave this Colony in a very short Time.
THOMAS GLASS, GOLDSMITH and JEWELLER,
HEREBY informs the Publick that he has opened Shop in the Town of Hanover, where Ladies and Gentlemen may be supplied with Plate and Jewellery in the most fashionable Taste, and on reasonable Terms. He also cleans and repairs CLOCKS and WATCHES in the neatest and best Manner.
FOUND, some Time ago, A REMARKABLE SILVER WATCH, which the Owner may have on proving his Property, paying the Charge of this Advertisement, and giving a small Gratuity to the Finder. Inquire at the Post Office.
NEWMARKET, March 23, 1771. FEARNOUGHT will cover the ensuing Season, as usual. JOHN BAYLOR.
FREDERICKSBURG, March 23, 1771. I INTEND to take Shipping for London in August next, and to be back here early the ensuing Spring, and earnestly request all those whose Accounts and Bonds are now due to this Concern, and at the Store kept by me here, to make speedy Payments, which will greatly oblige me. In my Absence the Business will be carried on by Mr. Hugh Stuart, whose Transactions with my good old Customers (or whatever good new Ones choose to trade or have Dealings here) will, I am persuaded, give universal Satisfaction. GEORGE MITCHELL.
N. B. I intend, in about a Month hence, to move to a Store on the fourth Side of the Street, almost opposite to this, and just above the Long Ordinary.
WILLIAMSBURG, April 4, 1771. ALL Persons who have any Demands against the Estate of Mr. Frederick Bryan, deceased, are desired to send their Accounts, properly proved, to William Trebell, and they shall be immediately discharged. Those who have Money belonging to the Estate, on Bond, are requested to discharge the Interest to the Time of Mr. Bryan's Death; or the Principal will be called for, without farther Notice, by WILLIAM TREBELL, WILLIAM MOODY, Junior, FREDERICK BRYAN, Executors.
FREDERICKSBURG, March 26, 1771. ALL Persons indebted to Mess. Robert and Robert Bogle and Scott, of London, are hereby desired to pay off their Accounts to Mr. William Bogle, who will attend at next General Court, and is fully empowered by the Subscriber for that Purpose. As the utmost Indulgence has already been granted, those who fail to settle their Accounts with him then will be sued immediately. JAMES ROBB.
To be SOLD, on Thursday the 25th Instant, at Hicks's Ford, in Brunswick County, for ready Money, or Merchants Notes payable the last of the Court,
TWENTY five choice Virginia born SLAVES, amongst which are some valuable House Servants. An indisputable Title will be made the Purchasers on the Day of Sale. Should the Day prove bad, they will be sold the next fair Day.
To be SOLD, on long Credit, the three following Tracts of LAND, viz. ONE Tract containing four Hundred Acres, lying in Spotsylvania County, on the Head of Bluff Run, about eighteen Miles from Fredericksburg. One other Tract lying in Amherst County, on Owen's Creek, containing four Hundred Acres; it is well timbered, and a good Soil for Tobacco and Indian Corn. One Tract lying in Pittsylvania County, on Sycamore Creek, near Captain Benjamin Clement's, containing two Hundred Acres; this is likewise good Tobacco Land. Any Person inclined to purchase either of the above Tracts of Land may know the Terms by applying to Mr. Charles Irving, Merchant in Albemarle County, or to the Subscriber in Richmond Town. The above Lands are the Property of John Loving, Senior, of Amherst County, but made over by a Deed of Trust to the Subscriber. Two Years Credit, or longer if required, will be given, on Bond and approved Security. WILLIAM MITCHELL.
STRAYED, or STOLEN, some Time in the latter End of last Summer, from a Plantation on Buffalo, in Prince Edward County, belonging to the Estate of William Randolph, Esquire, deceased, a very likely sorrel Mare, some of her Feet white, and a Blaze in her Face, three Years old next May, neither docked nor branded. Whoever will bring her to me, or to the Overseer on the Plantation, or give such Intelligence that I may get her again, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS. RICHARD EGGLESTON.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Williamsburg, DAVID DAVIS, an Apprentice Lad about twenty Years of Age, about five Feet ten Inches high, walks very straight, wears his own light brown Hair, which is tied, is much marked with the Small-pox, and a Cabinet Maker by Trade; had on, and took with him, a new light coloured Cloth Coat and Breeches, a new Waistcoat of reddish Wilton Cloth, an old brown Coat and Waistcoat, a Pair of Breeches of a lighter Colour, new Shoes, and an old Hat. He likewise took with him a brown shagged Dog with a short Tail, that had an Iron Collar. Whoever conveys the said Apprentice to me shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward. BENJAMIN BUCKTROUT. I forewarn all Persons from harbouring him, and Masters of Vessels from carrying him out of the Country.
THE Subscriber having been bred to Physick in his younger Years, and having attended particularly to this Study for these three Years past, now purposes to practise on the most moderate Terms. He cannot with Sincerity boast of having attained the Ne plus ultra of the Asculapian Art, nor yet of acquiring any superior Degree of Knowledge in this Science; but flatters himself that, by a vigilant and due Attention to the Indications and Effects of Nature in those sick Persons who should, through Choice or Necessity, be committed to his Care, he may be able to afford them proper and timely Assistance. W. STARK.
The Copartnership in a medicinal Shop between Doctor Bland and myself being dissolved, the Debtors are desired to be as expeditious as possible in making Payment. The Shop will be furnished as before, with Medicines of the best Quality, and Prescriptions made up in the most accurate and elegant Manner.
A MEETING of the Creditors of Mr. David Galloway, at the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, on the 7th May, is requested by the Trustees. 6
To be SOLD at publick Auction, on Thursday the 25th of April, before the Raleigh Tavern, in Williamsburg, A VALUABLE Tract of LAND, containing four Hundred and eighty Acres, commonly called and known by the Name of Timson's Neck, lying in York County, about five Miles from this City, and is bounded by York River and Queen's Creek, where there is a great Variety of Fish and Oysters. The Time of Payment will be agreed on at the Sale. ORLANDO JONES.
To be SOLD, on reasonable Terms, HIS Majesty's PATENT, or Grant, for twenty Thousand Acres of LAND in West Florida. Any Person, or Persons, inclined to purchase may be informed of the Particulars by inquiring of Joseph Ogden, at the Sign of the Cross Keys, the Corner of Chesnut and Third Streets, Philadelphia.
Just IMPORTED, and to be SOLD by the Subscribers, in NORFOLK,
A QUANTITY of very fine Jamaica COFFEE, PIMENTA, GINGER, MUSCOVADO and REFINED SUGARS, LIVERPOOL SALT, Crates of EARTHEN WARE, &c. &c. &c. BOLDEN, LAWRENCE, and Company.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, on the Premises, pursuant to an Act of Assembly, on Wednesday the 15th of May,
TWO Thousand eight Hundred Acres of LAND, being the upper Part of a Tract belonging to Armistead Lightfoot, Esquire, in Brunswick County. It will be laid off into Lots, to make it convenient to the Purchasers; and any Person inclined to buy may be shown it by applying to Thomas Glasson, who lives on it. Credit will be allowed until the first of November next, upon giving Bond and Security to LEWIS BURWELL, JAMES BURWELL, THOMAS MANN RANDOLPH, JOHN WOODSON, Trustees.
For SALE, and may be entered on in NOVEMBER next, THE LAND whereon I now live, containing two Hundred and seventy four Acres. It is exceeding good for Grain, Tobacco, &c. and lies so level that nine Tenths may be plowed with the greatest Ease. The Improvements on the same consist of a Plantation, in good Order, sufficient for working seven or eight Hands, the Whole lying to the Plow; an Ordinary House fifty four Feet long, finished off in a complete Manner, has three Rooms with Fireplaces below Stairs, besides lodging Rooms, and three Rooms above Stairs, one of which has a Fireplace; a House twenty Feet in Length, and sixteen in Width, with two Rooms below, and one above Stairs, wherein lives the Clerk of the County, and keeps the Office; two Kitchens, one of which is very valuable; a Dairy, Meathouse, Barn, fine strong Stables, Corn Houses, two fine Gardens, of the best sowed Framing and Pales; and, in short, every Convenience that is necessary for the Ordinary and Plantation Uses. There are also, on the same Plantation, two large standing Stores kept, of very considerable Trade; the Storehouses are large and commodious, the cheapest of which did not cost less than a Hundred and fifty Pounds; to each Storehouse belongs a House for the Residence of the Merchants, one of which cost upwards of a Hundred Pounds, the other upwards of seventy five; there also belongs to the Stores fine strong Stables, &c. There are two Tailors Shops, with Kitchens, and other Conveniences, belonging thereto; as also three Blacksmiths Shops, &c. The Rents of which, in the Whole, amount pretty considerably. Besides these two Stores on my Plantation, a third, of considerable Trade, is settled (for the Convenience of their Diets, &c. in the Ordinary) within, or about, three Hundred Yards from my Ordinary Door, on Land that does not belong to me. This Place is more commodiously situated, and better calculated for Trade, than perhaps any of the back Parts in this Colony at least, if not on the Continent. To every Dwellinghouse, Store, &c. (Tailors and Blacksmiths Shops excepted) are good Brick Chimneys, the Houses underpinned with Bricks, and good Cellars, and all in good Repair. The Whole of the Buildings are placed uniform, in Lines and Squares, so as to resemble a Town. None of the Buildings have been built over eight Years, and almost all the valuable Buildings within five Years. The Situation is high, and remarkably healthy, commanding a delightful Prospect of the Mountains and Country round. It lies about eight Miles from Amherst Courthouse, on the main Carolina Road, which is greatly used by Travellers, and, together with the great Resort of Gentlemen to this Place, consumes as much Liquors as cost me annually three Hundred Pounds, besides Provisions for Men and Beasts. As Persons at a Distance inclining to purchase may better judge whether it would be worth their While to come and see the Place, I think it not amiss to inform them that I will take eight Hundred Pounds for the Place, and give a reasonable Time for Payment, which is many Hundred Pounds below the intrinsic Value of it.
I will also sell to the Purchaser (if required) most of the Furniture belonging to the Ordinary, at least ten good Feather Beds, with Furniture to the same; Walnut and Mahogany Tables, Chairs, &c. &c. N. B. All the Merchants, Storekeepers, Clerk of the County, their Servants, &c. are boarded in the Ordinary, the Profits of which are pretty considerable to me. GABRIEL PENN.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Prince Edward, some Time in Junelast, a Negro Lad named WINDSOR, who for several Years past has waited upon me, and is acquainted with most Parts of the Country. He is a sensible and artful Fellow, about five Feet high, a handsome lively Look, and speaks quick. He was taken up by Mr. William Mitchell of York, and committed to that Jail, at which Time he called himself William Florence, and said he was free, and, by the Assistance of some other Negro imprisoned with him, broke the Prison. He has since been seen about Williamsburg, near which Place perhaps he is still concealed. He carried away with him a brown Holland Coat, blue Broadcloth Waistcoat, two white Linen Shirts, two Pair of Osnaburg Breeches, and good Shoes and Stockings. As I have Reason to apprehend he will endeavour to get on Board a Vessel, in Order to make his Escape out of the Colony, I do hereby forewarn all Masters and Commanders of Vessels from taking him on Board. I will give TEN POUNDS to any Person that will contrive him to me, and FIVE POUNDS for such Intelligence that I may get him. WILLIAM WATT.
For SALE, TWENTY Thousand Acres of LAND, in the Counties of Frederick and Hampshire, which was advertised some Years ago in this Colony, and the neighbouring Provinces, and its Situation and Qualities then described; therefore think it needless to repeat them now. It will be sold very cheap, and reasonable Time of Payment will be allowed the Purchaser, or Purchasers, for one Half of the Purchase Money; who may be shown the Premises by applying to the Subscriber, in Winchester. BRYAN BRUIN.
Wanted on CHARTER, to load Tar and Turpentine in NORTH CAROLINA,
A VESSEL of about fifteen Hundred Barrels Burthen. For Terms apply to James Maraden in Norfolk, or the Subscribers at Rickmans; who have for Sale a Quantity of good SEINE TWINE. STORRS & ELLIS.
RUN away from the Subscriber, on Saturday the 26th of January, an indentured Servant Man named WILLIAM READ. He is a well set Fellow, about five Feet ten Inches high, and speaks the West Country Dialect pretty broad; had on, and took with him, a dark coloured Duffel short Frock Coat, a Pair of blue Plains Breeches with a spotted Cotton Waistband, a Pair of Yarn Stockings, Check Shirt, and Virginia made Shoes. He is a Farmer, and understands Something of making and laying Bricks. Whoever delivers the said Servant to me at West Point, in King William County, or secures him so that I may get him again, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward. JOHN WEST.
RUN away from the Subscriber, at the Falls of James River, the Middle of last Month, a Negro Man named DAVY, belonging to the Hon. William Byrd, Esquire, about thirty Years old, five Feet eight Inches high, and very stout made; he is of a yellow Complexion, has a down Look, and a Defect in some of his fore Teeth. He is supposed to be lurking about Hanover Town, Petersburg, or going towards Carolina. Whoever will apprehend the said Fellow, and bring him to me, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward; and if taken out of the Colony, FIVE POUNDS. DAVID PATTESON.