The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1770-02-22 00:00:00

VIRGINIA
GAZETTE.
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IN CIVITATE LIBERA LINGUAM MENTEMQUE
LIBERAS ESSE DEBERE. — Suet. in Tib. S. 28.
Printed by ALEX. PURDIE, and JOHN DIXON, at the POST OFFICE.
From the LONDON CHRONICLE.
THE following speech of Queen Elizabeth is recommended for perusal. It may be got by heart, and pronounced with great propriety when any petition or address is presented, if the Ministry are, as they ought to be, capable of making the little alterations necessary to adapt it to time and circumstances.
GENTLEMEN, I OWE you my best thanks and acknowledgments for your respect towards me, not only for your good inclination, but also for those clear and publick expressions of it which have discovered themselves in retrieving me from a mistake into which I have been betrayed, not so much by the fault of my will as the error of my judgment. This had unavoidably drawn a blemish upon me, who account the prosperity of my people my chief happiness, had you not made me acquainted with the practice of these lewd harpies and horrid leeches. I would sooner lose my hand, or heart, than ever grant such privilege to any persons as may turn to the detriment of my people. I am not so blinded with the lustre of a crown as to let the scale of justice be weighed down by that of arbitrary power. The gay title of a Prince may dazzle such as know nothing of the secret of government, as a gilded pill may impose on the patient; but I am not one of those unwary Princes, for I am very sensible I ought to govern for the publick good, and not to regard my own particular, and that I stand accountable for my actions to the tribunal of him who regards Princes and peasants with an equal eye. I think it a great happiness that, by God's assistance, I have enjoyed so prosperous a government in all respects, and that he has blessed me with subjects for whom I would lay down my crown and my life. Let others be guilty of what faults or misdemeanors they will, I entreat you not to lay them, through any misrepresentation, at my door. I hope the evidence of a good conscience, and the whole tenor of my life, will bear me out blameless. You cannot be ignorant that the servants of Princes have an eye too often to their own advantage; that their faults are frequently concealed from their master's notice; and that they cannot, if they would, inspect all things, when the weight of a whole kingdom lies on their shoulders."
To the Printers of the PENNSYLVANIA Chronicle.
MY friend Lovetruth desires to be heard again. "The things that make matrimony void in China are, if the woman be talkative, and given to prating; for this alone is sufficient to turn her out of doors, and dissolve the matrimony, though they have been long married, and even have children. If this was allowed in other countries many marriages would soon be declared void, and it would be a great curb to restrain women from being too free with their tongues. The second is disobedience to the father and mother in law. In China, the sons that are married always live with their parents; so that their wives are obedient, and live in great subjection to their father and mother in law. They endure much misery by this manner of life. The third is stealing, the fourth leprosy, the fifth barrenness, and the sixth if she is jealous."
"After Scipio Africanus had vanquished Hannibal, as they were discoursing together of Generals, Hannibal affirmed that Alexander was the bravest commander the world had ever seen, but next to him Pyrrhus, and the third was himself. Africanus, with a gentle smile, asked, What would you have said if I had never vanquished you? O Scipio, says he, I would not then have made myself the third but first commander."
"The Emperor Charles V. said that the Councillors of State were the Princes spectacles, but that those Princes were very unhappy that needed them."
"Is it not a common observation that aged judges are most inclined to mildness? And whence is this but that through age and experience they have attained to a knowledge of men, who are sure to meet with the most patience and lenity from those who have the truest knowledge of them."
"Most people read books as children visit a flower garden; they amuse themselves with this or the other gaudy knot, the colour calls their eye from one border to another, the light of the present banishes the last. It is the man of real taste who takes in the flower and other gardens at one view, who considers the casts of the grounds, the crossing lines, the disposition of the walks, the arrangement of the trees, and the convenience of the shades and arbours, the propriety of the statues, and perceives the symmetry resulting from the whole."
"Though beauty is with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower, that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity, yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age, a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal, it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiments. There are strokes of sensibility, nice touches of delicacy, sense, and even virtue, which, like the master traits in a fine picture, are not to be discovered by vulgar eyes, that are captivated with vivid colours and gaudy decorations. There are emanations of the mind, which, like the vital spark of celestial fire, animate the form of beauty with a living soul. Without this the most perfect symmetry, in the bloom of youth, is but a 'kneaded clod'; and with this the features, that time itself has defaced, have a spirit, a sensibility, an inexpressible charm, which those only do not admire who want faculties to perceive."
"Homer's discovery of Ulysses to Telemachus is particularly tender and affecting; it has some resemblance with that of Joseph's discovery of himself to his brethren, and it may not perhaps be disagreeable to see how two such authors describe the same passion. 'I am Joseph, I am your brother Joseph.' 'I am Ulysses, I, my son, am he.' And he wept aloud, and he fell on his brother's neck and wept."
"He wept abundant, and he wept aloud." But it must be owned that Homer falls infinitely short of Moses. He must be a very wicked man that can read the history of Joseph without the utmost touches of compassion and transport. There
is a majestick simplicity in the whole relation, and such an affecting portrait of human nature that it overwhelms us with vicissitudes of joy and sorrow. This is a pregnant instance how much the best of heathen writers is inferior to the divine historian upon a parallel subject, where the two authors endeavour to move the softer passions. The fame may with equal truth be said in respect to sublimity, not only in the instance produced by Longinus, viz. "Let there be light, and there was light; let the earth be made, and the earth was made;" but in general, in the more elevated parts of scripture, and particularly the whole book of Job, which, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer."
"Of the uncertainty of every human good every human being seems to be convinced, yet this uncertainty is voluntarily increased by unnecessary delay, whether we respect external causes, or consider the nature of our own minds. He that now feels a desire to do right, and wishes to regulate his life according to his reason, is not sure that at any future time assignable he shall be able to rekindle the same ardour; he that has now an opportunity offered him of breaking loose from vice and folly cannot know but that he shall hereafter be more entangled, and struggle for freedom without obtaining it."
"It may be laid down as a position which will seldom deceive that when a man cannot bear his own company there is something wrong. He must fly from himself, either because he feels a tediousness in life, from the equipoise of an empty mind, which having no tendency to one motive more than another, but as it is impelled by some external power, must always have recourse to foreign objects; or he must be afraid of the intrusion of some unpleasing ideas, and perhaps is always struggling to escape from the remembrance of a loss, the fear of a calamity, or some other thought of great horror."
"The heathen philosophers exhorted man to reverence his reason, as a ray of the deity; but we can go much higher, we can exhort him to reverence the deity that dwelleth in him, and to act with such purity as becomes persons that are inspired by the Holy Ghost."
"Vice is contrary to the nature of man, as man, for it is contrary to the order of reason, the peculiar principle in man distinguishing him from other animals; nor is any thing in itself more unnatural, or of greater deformity, in the whole world, than that an intelligent agent should have the truth of things in his mind, and that it should not give law and rule to his temper, life, and actions."
"Dr. Young gives the following anecdote concerning the great Addison, principal author of the Spectators, &c. After a long and manly, but vain struggle, with his distemper, he dismissed his physicians, and with them all hopes of life; but with his hopes of life he dismissed not his concern for the living, but sent for a youth nearly related, and finely accomplished, but not above being the better for good impressions from a dying friend. He came, but life now glimmering in the socket, the dying friend was silent. After a decent and proper pause, the youth said 'Dear Sir, you sent for me, I believe, and I hope that you have some commands; I shall hold them most sacred.' May distant ages not only hear but feel the reply: Forcibly grasping the youth's hand, he softly said, see in what peace a Christian can die. He spoke with difficulty, and soon expired. Through grace divine, how great is man? Through divine mercy, how stinglefs death? Who would not thus expire?"
ATTICUS.
BOSTON, Jan. 8.
WE are well informed that last week the Committee of Inspection went round and granted license to the merchants who had been store to open and sell them; and that this week several importers, who had stored their goods, have now absolutely refused to submit them to any farther inspection of the Committee, but are determined to open and sell them.
Last week a hog was killed at Dorchester, which, after it was dressed, is said to have weighed 800 lb. It has since been shown in this town, as a curiosity, at three coppers a sight.
We hear from Beverly that Mr. Robert Roundy killed a calf, not quite nine months old, the four quarters of which weighed 371 lb. the tallow 34 lb. the hide 55 lb. and the tongue 3 lb. and a half; the whole 463 lb. and a half. The calf was raised at Plattsburg, in New Hampshire government.
Burials in the town of Boston from January 1769 to January 1770: Whites 579. Blacks 66; total 645. Baptized 440.
Extracts of letters from London, by the last packet.
"HOLLIS is as indefatigable as his son is boundless!" "An immediate prosecution, if practicable, is to be commenced against Sir JOHN BERNARD! The great Serjeant Glynn has given his opinion, which is transmitted; and by this time, or nearly, I presume you have it!"
"Jan. 11. Our friends at New York write "that the merchants there continue firmly to adhere to their agreement; that the goods which were imported, and stored, belonging to persons in that city, did still remain in the publick store, and not in each man's own possession, and that there doth not appear in any person in that city the least desire, or inclination, to have any part of their said goods until the act imposing duties on paper, glass, tea, &c. is repealed, and other goods arrived there afterwards from Great Britain; and they write farther that if any person or persons should attempt getting any of the said goods out of the store, on any other conditions, that such person or persons would incur the displeasure and resentment of the inhabitants of that city, and be inevitably exposed to the like disgrace as Mr. Cooley, and the few others who dared to violate the said agreement."
"Jan. 15. We are assured that the Commander in Chief, when he prorogued the General Assembly, told his Council that he did not ask their advice about the matter, because he had express orders to do it. King James I. though he told his Parliament, when he dissolved it, that he had a right to do as he pleased, yet at the same time assured them that he did it by the unanimous advice of his Council."
To the PUBLICK.
IT is reported that a cursed design is on foot to ruin the credit of the merchants of this town, and enslave North America. If so, may the inhabitants behave like men, and like Christians. A FREEHOLDER.
Mess. EDES & GILL, WHEN we see the enemies of our country using every art to prevent the plan of non importation from taking effect, we are from thence encouraged to hope that it will answer the valuable purpose intended, and that our enemies themselves think so. They are done laughing at it as the efforts of an expiring faction, and treat it, as indeed it is, a matter of the last importance; knowing that, if we hold out, it must, and will, defeat their cursed plot to enslave and ruin us. They now tell us that the troops will be ordered to do that which art and chicanery would not effect; but all we have to do is to persevere, and scorn them. We seem to be near, very near, a crisis! There undoubtedly is an united scheme of the whole cabal to annoy us; but let the friends of liberty, and their country, take care, and hold the few (I do not hear of more than 4 or 5) to their contract, oblige them to fulfil their agreement. Let us hold out only a few months longer, and we and our posterity are safe from the jaws of tyranny. TOM STURDY.
To the Committee of Inspection.
GENTLEMEN, YOU were appointed, at a late general meeting of the merchants, to examine certain stores, and if any persons goods had been taken away you were immediately to advertise the names of such persons, and appoint a suitable place for a general meeting. It is reported that some tea, and other articles, have been clandestinely carried off. If this is the case, that you would, this day, do your duty, is the modest request of
THE PEOPLE.
The following hand bills were dispersed through every part of the town on Tuesday last.
THE merchants, and all others, who are any way concerned in or connected with trade, are desired to meet at Faneuil Hall tomorrow, being Wednesday the 17th instant, at ten o'clock before noon, to receive the report of the Committee of Inspection relative to the most unaccountable and extraordinary conduct of three or four persons, some of whom have sold, others removed, and others threaten to sell, their goods that have been stored, in direct violation of their solemn engagements to the contrary, and to consider and determine upon some legal and spirited measures to prevent the non importation agreement being rendered abortive, by the machinations of those few persons who, by behaving in this perfidious manner, will most audaciously counteract the whole continent in the measures now pursuing for the preservation of their liberties. As this is a matter of the greatest importance, and the credit and reputation of the trade will greatly depend upon what may be done at this critical conjuncture, it is earnestly desired there may be a very general attendance.
In consequence of the above notification a great number assembled yesterday, but as the business could not be completed they adjourned to this day, at ten o'clock.
NEWPORT, Jan. 8.
FROM Boston we hear that on the evening of the 29th ult. Mr. Fleeming, printer of the Boston Chronicle, was attacked in one of the streets of that town by a number of ruffians, who abused him very much; and it is thought he would have died of his wounds on the spot, had not a humane Negro, who knew him, taken him up and helped him home.
NEW LONDON, Jan. 12.
WE are credibly informed that about 23 years ago a child was born in the southern part of the Massachusetts Bay, who, bearing a similarity to both sexes, it was disputed what apparel it should be dressed in, but it was at last agreed to dress it in woman's, and it was baptised by the name of Deborah. This person grew up, and until lately passed for a woman; but having for some time past lodged with one of that sex, the latter found herself to be with child, and has sworn the former to be the father of it. The consequence has been that they are married together; and the father, instead of his former name, was married by that of Deborah Francis Lewis.
NEW YORK, Jan. 25.
WHEN our Assembly granted 2000 l. for the support of the troops it was understood that a great part of the money immediately to be given for that purpose out of the Treasury was to be appropriated to discharge an arrearage due to sundry persons, for articles that they had furnished. The discharge of these debts was used as an argument by the advocates who were for granting billings money why such grant should be made, urging that a great part of the money to be given was already due to some of the inhabitants. It was therefore very alarming to the friends of liberty in this city to learn that a number of memorials, from officers and other persons, had been sent to the Lieutenant Governor, and by him to the General Assembly, desiring them to make provision for the arrearage and room rent, &c. and what greatly added to their anxiety was that if these demands were paid, as it would be for debts contracted by and for the army, it would be a literal compliance with the mutiny (otherwise called the billeting) act, which requires that the articles shall first be furnished, and the debts accrue, and then the person or persons that had paid for beer, vinegar, bedding, &c. shall apply to the Assembly of the colony where such troops are quartered, who are to make provision for the payment of such sums, "in such manner as the publick charges for the provinces respectively are raised." They being entirely at a loss to know what resolution the House would come to on the subject, and as the matter was very important, they determined on calling the people together, in order to take their sentiments on it. Accordingly a hand bill was sent through the city, desiring the inhabitants to meet at Liberty Pole, on Wednesday the 17th instant, at 12 o'clock, where a vast number of them met, of all ranks, not less than 3000. The Liberty Pole being cut down the night before by the soldiers, the Gentleman that was appointed to address the people began by informing them of the design of its erection; and recommended to the inhabitants, in very pathetic terms, to drop all party differences, and unite in supporting their common liberties, then proceeded to read the following resolutions, which were agreed to, and after the other business was finished they were signed by the most of the inhabitants that then met. He then asked them whether they would signify their ab-

horrence to a compliance with the mutiny or billeting-act, which they did universally, by holding up their hands, and loud huzzas; upon which he proposed to them to appoint a committee that should call the people together, as occasion may require, which they accordingly did.
It is very alarming at this important crisis, notwithstanding the humane and benevolent treatment that the troops quartered in this city have received from the colony, and this city in particular (although we have great ground to suspect they are not stationed here to protect us) that they should be so ungrateful and insulting to the citizens as to make several attempts to blow up and cut down the Liberty Pole, which has been erected as a memorial of freedom. This base conduct is an incontestable proof that they are not only enemies to the peace and good order of this city, but that they manifest a temper devoted to destroy the least monument raised to show the laudable spirit of liberty that prevails among the inhabitants; and as the same diabolical spirit will naturally dispose them to use their utmost endeavours to enslave us, they must be considered by all men, who are actuated by a free spirit of liberty, as enemies, mortal enemies, to all that is dear and valuable to Englishmen: Impressed by these considerations, we
RESOLVE, that we will not employ any soldier, on any terms whatsoever, but that we will treat them with all that abhorrence and contempt which the enemies of our happy constitution deserve; and whereas many of them have repeatedly travelled the streets of this city, in the night, with arms, with which they have attempted to take the lives of many of the citizens, and notwithstanding made their escape, and thereby eluded the laws, and passed with impunity, therefore that the inhabitants may not for the future be intitled, and put in peril of their lives,
RESOLVED, that if any soldier shall be found in the night, having arms (except sentinels and orderly serjeants) or out of barracks after the roll is called, such as are found even without arms, and behave in an insulting manner, shall be treated as enemies to the peace of this city; and we do hereby solemnly engage, to and with each other, that we will, to the utmost of our power, strictly adhere to the above resolutions, and if possible bring the transgressors of them to condign punishment.
A correspondent in West Chester desires to inform the publick that a young man in that neighbourhood, after eating three suppers in one evening, can (by way of dessert to the fourth) eat seven yards of sausages; having given a specimen of his abilities, last Christmas, before a number of credible witnesses, sufficient to confirm the truth of the above account. All persons having occasion of such an operator, to eat any thing out of the way, may know where to apply.
A particular account of some riotous proceedings in this city, on Friday the 19th instant, was designed to be inserted in this day's paper, but we were disappointed in a promise of sending us what was said to be truth. We are apprehensive, however, that a real true account is difficult to come at, because whatever side relates a story generally does it with a bias. The Printer would be glad to give an impartial one, but since that cannot be acquired he must leave the affair to common fame. We are assured there were several persons wounded on both sides, who are all since in a fair way of recovery.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 25.
IT has been industriously reported by a few persons, who would have their own inclinations pass for those of a very respectable body of men, that the dry goods merchants of this city are determined to break through the agreement of non importation if the revenue acts are not repealed this session of Parliament, alleging "that their case is peculiarly hard, as that branch of trade, by which they maintain themselves and families, is entirely stopped, while those merchants who trade to the West Indies, or foreign ports, still carry on their business as they did before the agreement;" but we have the pleasure to inform the publick that the merchants of this city, engaged in the dry goods trade, are firmly determined to adhere to a resolution entered into upon the noblest principle, and which is the only remedy that can have the least efficacy in restoring these distressed colonies to that sound health which they have lost by the cruel treatment they have lately received, and that though these Gentlemen may suffer particular hardships, by this exertion of their virtue in the publick cause, yet they have too much good sense and integrity to sell their birth-rights for a mess of pottage, even though they should be more distressed for food than Esau was, or, for avoiding some present disadvantages, surrender, and thereby destroy, the inestimable privileges of themselves, their countrymen, and their posterity, for ages to come.
On Tuesday last, near this city, a mane of cocks was fought, when 45 Gentlemen assembled, and at the conclusion they agreed to present the prisoners in the jail with 45 pounds of meat, and 45 fourpenny loaves of bread.
Ship news extraordinary.
WE are credibly informed that as the ship called the America, which is allowed by all good judges who know her to be the finest and largest merchant ship belonging to Great Britain, was sailing down the English channel, with a fair wind, bound, with a cargo of immense value on board, for the Cape of Good Hope, some of the sailors, who had left their hats, pea jackets, and tobacco boxes, at the last port they sailed from, grew mutinous, and insisted on the ship's being put about, and returning to the port for their things. The rest of the company imagined at first that they were in joke, not believing it possible that men in their senses could, for so trifling a cause, seriously urge so unreasonable a demand; but they loudly and violently persisting in their resolution, it was represented to them "that they knew that the owners of the ship and cargo, who had met with several severe strokes in trade, had stretched their credit to its utmost extent, and risked their whole estates, in which the happiness of themselves and their families was involved, on the success of that single voyage; that, besides, every man on board had as large a venture with him as he could possible procure, and, by authentick accounts from the Cape, they were assured if they arrived there with their present cargo every one of them would make his fortune; that, on the other hand, if they should turn back, and should lose the fair wind that now blew, the whole voyage might be broken, their goods would perish on their hands, and none of them would have a shilling he could call his own; that as to their hats, pea jackets, and tobacco boxes, though they were such things as sailors were accustomed to have with them, yet they could perform the voyage, with tolerable convenience, without those articles; that it must be confessed that there was something so bewitching in the taste of tobacco, to those who had from their infancy been used to take it, that it must be extremely irksome for a while to be deprived of it, yet if they would but consider the delightful expectation, founded on such clear and strong evidence, of each man's gaining so much by this voyage as would make him easy for the rest of his life, surely they would sooner relinquish their imprudent design of returning than the certain advantages that encouraged them to persevere in their course; that every one on board was much in the same situation with them, it being remarkable that in the hurry of leaving port, when the wind and tide served, every man of them had left some of his effects behind: They were entreated, therefore, in the most tender manner, to have some pity for their fellow sailors, with whom they had been cabin boys, as well as seamen, together; for the owners, in whose employ they had been brought up, and had always failed, and who had always treated them as their children; and for themselves, who were so much interested in prosecuting the voyage."
These arguments had not the least influence on the mutinous party. They said "the rest of the company were not in so bad a situation as they were; that though several had left their hats, some their pea jackets, and others their tobacco boxes, yet none but themselves had left their hats, pea jackets, and tobacco boxes;
that as to their own interest, or that of their owners or fellow sailors, sink them! if they would value it a rope's end, until they had got their hats, pea jackets, and tobacco boxes, and damn their eyes! if they would handle a sail unless the vessel was put about."
The rest of the company were struck with astonishment and grief to find their most promising enterprise thus utterly blasted by these unhappy men; for as there were not hands enough without them to manage the ship, there was an absolute necessity for putting about. This was done, and the vessel beat back again to the port she had left. No sooner had she entered it than the wind chopped about right in their teeth, so that they could not get out again, and after continuing in that quarter for some time rose to such a height that a man of war, breaking from her moorings, ran foul of the America, stove in her side, and sunk her, receiving some damage herself. Such of the sailors as were not drowned, and among those all the mutinous people happened to be, were committed to prison, on a charge of neglecting their duty in the storm, and thereby occasioning the injury to the King's ship. While confined they were seized with an infectious disease resembling a jail fever, that spread from St. Stephen's over almost all the British dominions, with the most destructive fury. It proved so fatal to this ship's company that after languishing under it a while they all died, so that in a very short space of time these infatuated men, whom neither reason could influence to regard their own welfare nor benevolence to regard that of others, recovered their hats, pea jackets, and tobacco boxes, and lost their property, their liberty, and their lives.
The owners of the America, by the misfortune of this voyage, became bankrupts, not having a farthing left which they could call their own. They had been up against all other calamities with courage, but this was so dreadful and unexpected that they lost their spirits, finding now that the strictest industry they could use in procuring intelligence, the greatest wisdom they could exercise in planning their schemes, and the utmost resolution they could exert in executing them, could not save them from ruin, while they cherished, within their bosoms, as it were, those who counteracted and betrayed every effort of their diligence, understanding, and virtue. The remainder of their lives was truly miserable. After some time, as no person appeared to claim any property in the America, Government had her weighed up and repaired, just enough to keep her swimming in a harbour; and being turned into a hulk, she is now used as an hospital for in-curables.
BOSTON, Jan. 8.
To the PRINTERS.
SINCE the Tories are so set upon ruining this continent, as not even to scruple the violating their own plighted faith, rather than not perpetrate it, what man that loves his country will deal with them! Will any true son or daughter of liberty sip the juice of that accursed exotic tea, lest it should be a part of the late importation of these vile ingrates! Let it be remembered that the Minister has not even flattered us that the duty upon tea shall be taken off; and what is the reason? Why it is because these importers and their friends, the enemies of the country, have wrote him that the people of this country will not deny themselves a dish of tea for the sake of their liberty! And I am afraid there is too much truth in it. Consider what you are doing, ye fair daughters of the land, and be wise, for your selves and your posterity.
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman in New York to his friend in Boston, Dec. 22, 1769.
YOURS of the 21st ult. is come safe to hand, with the pamphlet in vindication of the town of Boston, wherein I verily think the Nettemham Baronet is nettled; and that the General, if he is not altogether callous (which some affirm) must feel the lash. As to affairs in Great Britain, our opinions coincide exactly. I firmly believe there will be very serious work before they purge themselves of the leaven of unrighteousness. Those who are called our friends may be very desirous to promote a repeal on commercial principles; but I asked you if you imagined they would consent to our enjoying all the rights of a free people, in order to gain your attention to the improbability of it. I am not by any means for considering those events as remote, when we daily see such enormous strides taken by the enemies of the constitution, who may, unless timely prevented, bring all into anarchy here as well as in Europe, in order to erect a tyranny or despotism.
"Relative to our affairs here, though we could not procure regular instructions to our representatives, yet as soon as there was ground for suspicion they were plied with sundry letters from different hands; a copy of one of which I enclose you, and leave you to guess the author."
GENTLEMEN,
As friends to you and our country, and its constitution, we conjure you, each and every of you, by the sacred trust with which you are invested, by the love of liberty, your country, posterity, and every valuable enjoyment in life, not to consent to grant any supplies to the troops on any terms whatever. We do not mean to insult you, neither do we expect to intimidate you; we are too justly impressed with a due veneration for the dignity of your offices as legislators to offer you any indecency, but to be silent in a time of such imminent danger we conceive would be highly criminal. We therefore beg your patience whilst we recite some of the many evils which you will unavoidably entail on your country and constituents if you do, contrary to nineteen twentieths of your fellow citizens inclinations, give away their substance to the sworn enemies of the British constitution; that is, the present Ministry of Great Britain, and their tools the military. In the first place, you will set a most unconstitutional example, which will always be cited as a precedent; and you must be too well acquainted with the power of example to make any comment of our necessary thereon. The military establishment, as it has been every where else, will be enlarged, luxury and voluptuousness will be the certain concomitants of a standing army; commerce, industry, and frugality, will be despised, together with mechanism and agriculture, the two grand sources of wealth and independence. Secondly, you will most unjustly impose on your countrymen and constituents a twofold interest; that is, one for a permission to do what no power upon earth has any right to prevent their doing, viz. furnishing themselves with a necessary medium of trade, the other for a sinking fund, or the contingencies of government, &c. Thirdly, you will thereby annihilate the freedom, honour, dignity, and every thing worth contending for, of your own House; as at one vote you link yourselves to the abject state of an executive body, who are obliged to do as they are commanded, by the insolent mandate of every cringing sycophant, the descendant of some small hopes or other perhaps. Fourthly, you will, ipso facto , forfeit all federal confidence of the colonies, which at this time is so essentially necessary to our political existence, together with the will and esteem of your constituents and American brethren, besides erecting to yourselves a monument of everlasting fame! These are only a few of the evils that will inevitably result from your granting supplies to those mercenaries, at this time. But should you, on the contrary, persevere in a free, noble, emulous, and consistent conduct (for it appears very inconsistent to us to oppose the stamp and revenue acts, &c. &c. and yet grant money to the troops, either on a ministerial or parliamentary requisition) then will you acquire true renown and glory, which no age, no length of time, no series of years, will ever cancel in the minds of your fellow citizens! nay unborn posterity will celebrate your names with festive acclamations! Yes, you will be enrolled among the glorious company of martyrs to the British constitution! Thus we have, in a few words, set good and evil before you; choose which you list, and the Lord reward you accordingly.
From a number of your friends and constituents, To John Cruger, James Delancey, Jacob Walton, and James Jauncey, Esquires, Representatives for the city and county of New York, in General Assembly convened.
From the BOSTON GAZETTE.
The following piece was first published at New York. The General Assembly there resolved that it was a libel; and Lieutenant Governor COLDEN issued his proclamation against it as such, offering a reward of £. 100 to any person who should discover the author or authors. Whether it be in truth a libel the American publick, a grand tribunal! will judge. There cannot be any doubt but the inhabitants of the city and colony of New York have abundant reason to be displeased with the conduct of the Assembly in granting their money to maintain a standing army against their consent, nor can it be the least mitigation of the conduct of the REPRESENTATIVES of the people who voted for it that they did not know the minds of their constituents. They could have known their sentiments, and they ought to have suspended their votes upon a matter of so interesting a nature until they could have consulted their constituents. We have no reason to suspect the firm attachment of our brethren and fellow sufferers, the inhabitants of New York in general, to the common cause; we hope they will explicitly make known their sentiments, as the citizens have done. In the mean time we are not so much concerned at this instance of conduct in the Assembly as to consider that the vote was carried in a very thin House, there being a majority of ONE only, of 23 members present.
IN a day when the minions of tyranny and despotism in the mother country, and the colonies, are indefatigable in laying every snare that their malevolent and corrupt hearts can suggest to enslave a free people; when this unfortunate country has been striving under many disadvantages, for three years past, to preserve their freedom, which to an Englishman is as dear as life; when the merchants of this city, and the capital towns on the continent, have nobly and cheerfully sacrificed their private interest to the publick good, rather than to promote the designs of the enemies of our happy constitution; it might justly be expected that in this day of constitutional light the representatives of this colony would not be so hardy, nor be so lost to a sense of duty to their constituents (especially after the laudable example of the colonies of Massachusetts Bay and South Carolina, before them) as to betray the trust committed to them. This they have done in passing the vote to give the troops 1000 l. out of any monies that may be in the Treasury, and another thousand out of the money that may be issued, to be put out on loan, which the colony will be obliged to make good, whether the bill for that purpose does or does not obtain the Royal assent. And that they have betrayed the liberties of the people will appear from the following considerations, to wit: That the Ministry are waiting to see whether the colonies, under their distressed circumstances, will divide on any of the grand points which they are united in, and contending for with the mother country, by which they may carry their designs against the colonies, and keep in the Administration; for if this should not take place the acts must be repealed, which will be a reflection on their conduct, and will bring the reproach and clamour of the nation on them for the loss of trade to the empire which their mal conduct has occasioned.
Our granting money to the troops is implicitly acknowledging the authority that enacted the revenue acts, and their being obligatory on us. As these acts were enacted for the express purpose of taking money out of our pockets without our consent, and to provide for the defending and support of government in America, which revenue we say, by our grant of money, is not sufficient for the purpose aforesaid, therefore we supply the deficiency.
This was the point of view in which these acts were considered by the Massachusetts and South Carolina Assemblies; and, to prevent that dangerous constitution, they refused it. On this important point we have differed with these two Assemblies, and do politically approve of all the tyrannical conduct of the Ministry to the Bostonians, and by implication censure their laudable and patriotic denial; for if they did right (which every sensible American thinks they did) in refusing to pay the billeting money, surely we have done wrong, very wrong, in giving it. But our Assembly say they do their duty in granting the money to the troops, consequently the Massachusetts Assembly did not do theirs in not obeying the ministerial mandate. If this is not a division in this grand point I know not what is, and I doubt not but the Ministry will let us know it to our cost; for it will furnish them with arguments, and fresh courage. Is this a grateful retaliation to that brave and sensible people for the spirited and early notice they took of the suspending act? No, it is base ingratitude, and betraying the common cause of liberty.
To what other influence than the deserting the American cause can the Ministry attribute so pusillanimous a conduct as this of the Assembly? So repugnant and subversive of all the means we have used, and opposition that has been made by this and the other colonies to the tyrannical conduct of the British Parliament! To no other. Can there be a more ridiculous farce to impose on the people than for the Assembly to vote their thanks to be given to the merchants for entering into an agreement not to import goods from Britain, until the revenue acts should be repealed, while they at the same time counteract it by countenancing British acts, and complying with ministerial requisitions, incompatible with our freedom? Surely they cannot.
And what makes the Assembly's granting this money the more grievous is that it goes to the support of troops kept here not to protect but to enslave us. Has not the truth of this remark been lately exemplified in the audacious domineering and inhuman Major Pullaine, who ordered a guard to protect a sordid miscreant that transgressed the laudable non importation agreement of the merchants, in order to break that which is the only means left them, under God, to baffle the designs of their enemies to enslave this continent? This consideration alone ought to be sufficient to induce a free people not to grant the troops any supply whatever. If we had no dispute with the mother country, that made it necessary not to coincide with any thing that might destroy our freedom, reasons of economy and good policy suggest that we ought not to grant the troops money.
Whoever is the least acquainted with the English history must know that grants frequently made to the Crown are not to be refused but with some degree of danger of disturbing the repose of the kingdom or colony. This evinces the expedience of our stopping these grants now, while we are embroiled with the mother country, that so we may not, after the grand controversy is settled, have a new bone of contention about the billeting money, which must be the case if we do not put an end to it at this time; for the colony, in its impoverished state, cannot support a charge which amounts to near as much per annum as all the other expenses of the government besides.
Hence it follows that the Assembly have not been attentive to the liberties of the continent, nor to the property of the good people of this colony in particular. We must therefore attribute this sacrifice of the publick interest to some corrupt source. This is very manifest in the guilt and confusion that covered the faces of the perfidious abettors of this measure when the House was in debate on the subject. Mr. Colden knows, from the nature of things, that he cannot have the least prospect to be in administration again; and therefore, that he may make hay while the sun shines, and get a full salary from the Assembly, flatters the ignorant members of it with the consideration of the success of a bill to emit a paper currency, when he and his artful coadjutors must know that it is only a snare to impose on the simple, for it will not obtain the Royal assent. But while he is solicitous to obtain his salary, he must attend to his posterity; and as some of his children hold offices under the government, if he did not procure an obedience to its requisitions, or do his duty, in case the Assembly refused the billeting money, by dissolving them, his children might be in danger of losing their offices. If he dissolved the Assembly, they would not give him his salary.
The Delancey family knowing the ascendancy they have in the present House of Assembly, and how useful that influence will be to their ambitious designs to manage a new Governor, have left no stone unturned to prevent a dissolution. The Assembly, con-

scious to themselves of having trampled on the liberties of the people, and fearing their just resentments on such an event, are equally careful to preserve their seats, expecting that if they can do it at this critical juncture, as it is imagined the grand controversy will be settled this winter, they will serve for seven years, in which time they hope the people will forget the present injuries done to them. To secure these several objects the Delancey family, like true politicians, although they were to all appearance at mortal odds with Mr. Colden, and represented him in all companies as an enemy to his country, yet a coalition is now formed, in order to secure to them the sovereign lordship of this colony, the effect of which has given birth to the abominable vote by which the liberties of the people are betrayed. In short, they have brought matters to such a pass that all the checks resulting from the form of our happy constitution are destroyed. The Assembly might as well invite the Council, to save the trouble of formalities, to take their seats in the House of Assembly, and place the Lieutenant Governor in the Speaker's chair; and then there would be no waste of time in going from House to House, and his Honour would have the pleasure to see how zealous his former enemies are in promoting his interest to serve themselves. Is this a state to be rested in when our all is at stake? No, my countrymen, rouse! imitate the noble example of the friends of liberty in England, who rather than be enslaved contend for their rights with King, Lords, and Commons. And will you suffer your liberties to be torn from you by your own representatives? Tell it not in Boston! publish it not in the streets of Charlestown! You have means yet left to preserve an unanimity with the brave Bostonians and Carolinians, and to prevent the accomplishment of the designs of tyrants. The House was nearly divided on the subject of granting the money, in the way the vote passed, that one would have prevented it; you have therefore a respectable minority. What I would advise to be done is to assemble in the fields, on Monday next, where your sense ought to be taken on this important point; notwithstanding the impudence of Mr. Jauncey, in his declaring in the House that he had consulted his constituents, and that they were for giving money. After this is done, go in a body to your members, and insist on their joining with the minority to oppose the bill; if they dare refuse your just requisition appoint a committee to draw up a state of the whole matter, and send it to the Speakers of the several Houses of Assembly on the continent, and to the friends of our cause in England, and publish it in the newspapers, that the world may know your sentiments on this matter, in the only way your circumstances will admit, and I am confident it will spirit the friends of our cause, and chagrin our enemies. Let the notification to call the people be so expressed that whoever absents himself will be considered as agreeing to what may be done by such as shall meet; and that you may succeed is the unfeigned desire of  A SON OF LIBERTY. NEW YORK, Dec. 16, 1769.
Description of a new machine for pumping vessels at sea without the labour of men. [From the minutes of the American Society for promoting useful knowledge.]
WHEN a vessel springs a leak at sea, which cannot be discovered, instead of exhausting the crew with continual working at the pumps, they may form, with very little trouble, a machine to discharge the water, which will work itself, without any assistance from the hands on board. Let a spar or spare topmast be cut to the length of eight or ten feet, or more, according to the size of the vessel; mortise four holes through the thickest end, through which run four oars, fixing them tight, exactly in the middle; to the four handles nail on four blades, made of staves the size of the other ends, which will form a very good water wheel, if the oars are strong; then fix into the opposite end what is commonly called a crank; the iron handle of a grindstone would suit extremely well; if not to be had, any strong bar of iron may be bent into that form, wedging it tight, to prevent its twisting round; then nail up a new pair of chaps on the fore part of the pump, for a new handle to be fixed in, which will point with its outer end to the bow of the vessel; this handle will be shot on the outside, but as long on the inside as the diameter of the bore of the pump will admit, in order that the spear may be plunged the deeper, and of course make the longer stroke; the handle must be large enough to have a slit sawed up it sufficient to admit a stave edge-wise, which must be fastened with a strong iron pin, on which it may work; the lower end of the stave must be bored, to admit the round end of the crank; then fix the shaft with the oars (or arms) over the gunwale on two crotches, one spiked to the gunwale, and the other near the pump, cutting in the shaft a circular notch, as well to make it run easier, by lessening the friction, as to keep the whole steady. A bolt must be fixed in each crotch, close over the shaft, to keep it from rising; as soon as the wheel touches the water, it will turn round, and the crank, by means of the stave fixed on its end, will work the handle of the pump.
ANECDOTE of a PHYSICIAN.
FABRICIUS HILDANUS, a great physician, and a very good surgeon, once happened to find himself singularly embarrassed. He was called to see a peasant, into whose eye flew a sparkle of iron. He attempted different ways to extract it, and even made use of some instruments; but the sparkle escaped him by its tenuity, and all his operations served only to occasion an inflammation in the peasant's eye. Fabricius returned home quite pensive, despairing of success, when his wife, being informed of what had passed, began to laugh at her husband's manner of treating his patient. The doctor's being put to a nonplus did not argue she in her turn should be reduced to a like dilemma; so that, desirous to enjoy her triumph over him, she told her husband that she would be glad to accompany him to the patient, and that perhaps she might be of some help to him. Fabricius, little thinking any farther attempt would be attended with success, assents to every thing, and obeys his wife, who bade him hold the patient's eye lid as wide open as he could. This done, she forthwith drew out of her pocket a loadstone, which she moved about as near as she could to the surface of the eye, and the same instant the sparkle of iron flew out towards the loadstone and the patient found himself relieved. Fabricius's wife, as may be well guessed, did not remain mute on this occasion. She received the testimonies of the peasant's gratitude; but, what undoubtedly flattered her most, was her husband's acknowledging that were it not for her he should not have the least idea of so fortunate a resource.
A copy of a letter from the sister of a Right Honourable Lord, who lately eloped with a Gentleman to France, addressed to her mother.
DEAR MADAM, CALAIS, October 25, 1769. I HAVE anticipated every parental uneasiness you must have felt from the moment you discovered I left your house. As I have therefore been the occasion of it I think myself in duty bound to give you as early an explanation of my conduct as possible, flattering myself, when you come to balance it properly in your mind, I shall be acquitted even from your understanding, without the interposition of maternal tenderness. "Ever since I could associate an idea I have looked upon matrimony as the source from whence we were to draw the most
finished happiness, or accumulated misery. Clear in this opinion, I thought persons could not be too circumspect in their choice, and that every thing that led to this was to be primarily pursued. I was confirmed in this theory by the contrary practice of most of my acquaintances, who, dedicating their pursuits to interest and connections, so far lost sight of happiness that divorces frequently succeed the marriage rites; however, shocked by such examples, I was determined to benefit by the lesson. Mr. M— introduced himself to my acquaintance; his person, his manner, his address, in short, that queque chose that determines every sentimental man or woman's fate in love, soon furthered the introduction to my heart. Our mutual sentiments thus known, the rest may be easily guessed: I agreed to marry and clope with him; a post chaise and four soon carried us to Dover, and a few hours afterwards landed us here.
"As my husband may want the fortuitous appendages of rank and fortune, I expect to be told I have acted imprudently and manly ; but this is a vulgar error, that, amongst many others, is adopted without any authority. How can I be guilty of the former, when I have acquired every thing my heart wished for? Or how of the latter, when by the laws of nature he is my equal?"
"Be superior then, my dear Madam, to vulgar opinions. Consider how much better it is to see your daughter happy than either rich or titled ; pleased, though in an humble situation, than miserable in an elevated one; the affectionate wife of private Mr. M—, than the legal prostitute of some Right Honourable Lord."
"I shall leave you to these reflections, hoping they will produce the wished for consequences, and beg leave to subscribe myself, With great duty and respect, Your affectionate daughter, ..."
WILLIAMSBURG, Feb. 22.
WE hear from Albemarle that about a fortnight ago the house of Thomas Jefferson, Esq; in that county, was burnt to the ground, together with all his furniture, books, papers, &c. by which that Gentleman sustains a very great loss. He was from home when the accident happened.
The small-pox, we learn, has for some time past been very prevalent in Cumberland and Amelia, and that there is great reason to apprehend the contagion will spread to several of the adjoining counties; that many Gentlemen have had their families inoculated, and from the success which has attended that practice it is thought it will be generally adopted.
[DEATHS.] JOHN SEMPLE, Esq; attorney at Law, in King and Queen; and Captain JOHN PERRIN, in Gloucester. They were both Gentlemen much esteemed in their counties, and by all their acquaintances.
Entered in the upper district of James river.
Feb. 19. Little Fanny, John M c Kerell, from the lower district, in ballast.
19. Fair Virginian, William Ker, from Madeira, with 7 pipes, 1 hhd. and 7 quarter casks of wine.
Cleared.
Feb. 17. Mary, James Frazier, for Barcelona, with 11,890 bushels of wheat, and 5000 pipe staves.
21. Speedwell, Olinan Cox, for Salem, with 915 bushels of wheat, 473 bushels of corn, 10 bushels of beans, and 10 barrels of flour.
Advertisements.
JUST IMPORTED, NEAT and complete assortment of A GOOD S, suitable for the season, imported in the ship Hanbury , Capt. James Esten , from London, and to be sold cheap, for ready money or short credit, at our store in Norfolk . BALFOUR & BARRAUD.
A Match of Cocks to be fought at Suffex courthouse, on Monday the 16th of April , between the Charles City and Suffex Gentlemen; to show 25 cocks for 10l. a battle, and 50l. the odd battle. At night there will be a ball for the reception of the Ladies and Gentlemen.
ROBERT OWING.
THIS is to inform the publick that the subscriber, living near Hobb's Hole , in Essex county, is by his Excellency the Governor appointed escheator of the counties of Gloucester , Middlesex , King and Queen , King William , Essex , Caroline , and Spotsylvania , in the room of John Semple , Gentleman, deceased.
WILLIAM YOUNG.
SURRY county, Feb. 20, 1770.
WHEREAS my wife JANE BRADLEY has eloped from my bed and board, along with her daughter Lavinia , who have plundered me of every thing they could lay their hands on, this is to forewarn all persons from trusting them on my account, for I will pay no debts they may contract from the date hereof.
JOHN BRADLEY.
ALL persons indebted to Crutfield's inspection are hereby desired, it being the last time, to pay off their respective balances immediately, which will enable us to pay off the debts due from the warehouse.
TALLEY & HUDSON.
For BRISTOL, with liberty of consignment, THE ship RIALTO (lately rebuilt, and made very commodious for passengers) Freeman Phelps commander, and will sail by the 1st of May , most part of her lading being absolutely engaged. For freight or passage apply to the said commander on board at Ruffin's ferry, or to Thomas Thomas at Newcastle .
First, and even now (owing in some measure to this circumstance) my demand is far from being satisfied; add to this the uncommon hardship of being obliged to account for what I gained on the sales of Negroes, which I had purchased as a common bidder, at places where the sales were made at his particular desire. In that same September 24th he makes me break engagements I never made, save when quite cool, insult the sheriff, swear like himself, without provocation, and, in short, do many things which might well enough become him, but of which I think no man ever had, nor I hope ever shall have reason to accuse me. Were I to make use of such strange figures as he does in that what do you call it of September 24th, I might reconcile the greatest contradictions, and even say that Mr. Benjamin Grymes is a man of modesty and truth. Now for his last advertisement, the cause of this address, there he is once more at confession that I purchased the furnace legally, I suppose, for he does not say to the contrary, yet he still keeps me (illegally) from possessing it, either from the timidity of affairs, or from some defect in our laws, which it would seem cannot put a man into possession of what he has fairly purchased, and in my case at a very dear rate too. But here comes the secret: He says I sold it to him. When, Mr. Grymes ? Where, Sir, did I sell it to you? What did I get for it? Who is to pay me? What! no writings between us about a matter of such consequence, especially when you know I would not take your word for a shilling? The tale tells badly. He says he has it under hand; I challenge him to produce any letter of mine in which there is any thing more (by any possible interpretation) than an offer, provided he would give me such security as I should like for fulfilling the terms to be a greed on. This he amused me with, but never produced. Indeed I imagine it was now out of his power, for confirmation of which see his letter of 29th September , 1769, annexed, and copied exactly from the original. Since then nothing has passed between us about the furnace except one letter of October 2d, to which I never made any answer, from this account of this bargain he says I made, and from the letter already referred to, I think it appears very plainly that, unless a man is bound by making an offer of any thing which is not accepted on the terms offered, I cannot be said to have sold the furnace to Mr. Grymes . But as this is an appeal to the unprejudiced, I leave it to them to determine how far I may be justly blamed, and how much I have been blamed unjustly.  WILLIAM CHAMPE.
Mr. Grymes's letter referred to.
Col. William Champe, S I R, Sept. 29, 1769. THE express returned only last night from Col. Thornton , and, as I promised you should hear from me immediately, I now send my son with this, to whom I have given Col. Thornton's letter to Mr. Holladay and myself, which he will give you a fight of, upon honour not to communicate the contents to any one. You will plainly see the inconsistencies between this and former letters laid before you, also the transactions last April court, in regard to your motion, when Col. Pendleton plead Col. Thornton's privilege, and Col. Taylor had the direction of that affair. If you persevere the letters, I am to be chargeable; but, to convince the world of the mistake, I shall be ready to move off on notice.
You will see I am enjoined to call a meeting, but on comparing the two letters you will find what dependence there is, so that you can determine whether to trust to such a chance or procure a tenant, or look out for a market for the works. I should be glad to know if you will rent the furnace to my son to work up the stock we have provided, as it will be attended with great expenses to move it to Maryland. We have not been able to get men to do the needful yet, about making a wheel, putting in a hearth, repairing houses, &c. that the place is like a wreck; I wish you could see it. Being now entirely deserted by my pretended friends, I am at liberty to try to get security; but part of a sentence in Col. Thornton's letter to me seems to forbid it, so that I am in doubt what steps to take, and must remain so until I hear from you. I had rather rent to blow up this stock than ask any person to be my son's security, lest I should be refused, or censured by my creditors. I have done every thing on my part, to do justice to all my creditors, which I hope they will own, for my peace sake; and as I think you cannot reproach me justly, I hope you will be silent on that head, and not mention the indifference of others, who may shortly have more to answer for than the loss of my estate. I am your humble servant,
B. GRYMES.
ISLE of WIGHT, Feb. 10, 1770.
WHEREAS my wife Elizabeth Allmond has eloped from my bed and board, this is to forewarn all persons from trusting her on my account, for I will not pay any debt she may contract.
WILLIAM ALLMOND, sen.

To be SOLD to the highest bidder, on Thursday the 15th of March next, at Halifax courthouse, being court day,
TWO valuable TRACTS of LAND, belonging to the estate of Mr. Anderson Stith, deceased. One of the tracts lies on the rivers Dan and Hyco, in Halifax county, and contains 1000 acres; and the other lies on Coleman's creek, in the said county, and contains about the same quantity. And on Tuesday the 10th of April next will be sold, at Prince George courthouse, being court day, a tract of well timbered land, belonging to the said estate, containing about 109 acres, lying in the said county of Prince George, about four miles from James river, near the land of Mr. Pinckard. Twelve months credit will be allowed for one half the purchase money, and two years for the other half, the purchasers giving bond and good security to
Tdf. JOANNA STITH, Executrix.
WHEREAS Mr. HENRY ALLEN, of Elizabeth City county, did on the 18th of December 1769 advertise two small plantations on Back river, near Hampton, with 50 acres of wood land near the plantations, I take this method to inform him that I have 594 acres of good land in Brunswick county, lying on the Cat Tail creek, with a good plantation, very well supplied with houses and orchards, and cleared ground sufficient to work six or eight hands, and well timbered and watered, which I will give him in exchange for his land on Back river; and, after seeing each others lands, if there is any boot deserving it shall be paid. My plantation is convenient to market, both to Carolina and Petersburg. If the said Allen should be inclined to exchange, he may advertise it in this paper, that I may know his mind; and let him mention in the advertisement what time he will come and view my land, and afterwards I will come down and view his, as I will swap or sell a great bargain in mine. ANTHONY IRBY.
CUMBERLAND, Jan. 25, 1770. RUN away from my plantation in this county JACK and JOSHUA, two who appear to be about 22 years old each. Jack is a stout black fellow, about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, speaks remarkable quick, and his whiskers grow down his face. Joshua is about the same height of Jack, but not so thick, has a deceitful smile when he speaks, and has a wen over one of his eyes. They are well clothed in the usual manner for Negroes, but it is probable they will change their clothes, as they are cunning and of a roguish disposition. I expect they will make towards Norfolk and the lower parts of Carolina, as I purchased them there a few years ago. Whoever brings me the said runaways, or secures them so that I get them again, shall be amply rewarded by JOHN MAYO.
NANSEMOND, Jan. 31, 1770. RUN away from Isle of Wight county, about six months ago, a likely well made Negro fellow named WILL, about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, and about 20 years of age. He was formerly the property of Col. Lemuel Riddick, and is the same fellow that was valued in his lottery at 7c1. and drawn by Solomon Shepherd, jun. of whom I purchased him. It is imagined he is now in the neighbourhood of Col. Riddick's, or Mr. Shepherd's. Whoever takes him up, and delivers him to me at Milner's warehouse, in Nansemond county, shall have a reward of 40s. besides what the law allows. ANTHONY WARWICK.
RUN away from the subscriber in Buckingham a young Negro fellow named SOLOMON, about 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high, well made, has a large scar behind one of his ears, supposed to be occasioned by a burn, and had on when he went away a good suit of Negro cotton, but has several kinds of sailors clothes with him, which he will very likely wear while gone. He is an African born, but speaks very good English, and is a very sensible artful fellow. He lately belonged to a Gentleman in Norfolk, to which place he will probably endeavour to get. Whoever takes up the said Negro, and will deliver him to Mr. Neil Campbell in Richmond, or secure him so that I get him again, shall have 5l. reward. DAVID PATTISON.
RUN away from the subscriber's plantation, on Namo-zeen, in Dinwiddie county, last September, a very likely Negro girl named POLLY, about 15 years of age, tall and spare, and of a dark complexion. Whoever apprehends her, and conveys her to me in Prince George, shall have 40s. reward. WILLIAM ROBERTSON.
TREASURY OFFICE, Feb. 7, 1770. ALL persons having demands on the publick Treasury are desired to present them, and they shall be immediately discharged. It is hoped the new emission of Treasury notes is effectually guarded against forgeries. Besides the many checks which the different devices and the great variety of types afford, the particular kind of paper on which the money is impressed must add greatly to its security. In the bills of five and two pounds the capital letters T. W and in those of three pounds and twenty shillings the letters KER, are wrought in white letters in the paper itself, and may be easily perceived through the signers names; on the upper margin runs a white chain wrought likewise in the paper, and equally discernable. The opposite and lower edge is indented to serve as a tally with the books, which will be always kept in the office. This, added to other precautions used on the occasion, will furnish an almost infallible criterion to distinguish the genuine from counterfeit bills, if forgeries should be attempted, provided the holders of the money can be prevailed with to preserve it from clipping, and to avoid pasting paper on the backs of the notes. If they will not, I shall not think the Treasury obliged to exchange other money for defaced bills, unless they happen to be injured through accident. RO. C. NICHOLAS, Treasurer.
To be SOLD to the highest bidder, on Thursday the 15th of March next, at Halifax courthouse, being court day,
A TRACT of LAND, lying on the head of Grassy creek, in the county of Halifax, containing about 1000 acres, which belonged to Major Harry Gaines, of the county of King William, deceased. Two years credit will be allowed, the purchaser paying interest after the end of the first year, and giving bond and good security to the administrators of John Robinson, Esq; deceased. Tdf.
To be SOLD, by virtue of a power of attorney granted to the subscribers, altogether or in parcels, as will best suit the purchasers,
THREE thousand acres of LAND, in Charlotte county, on Horsepen creek, great part of which is exceeding good tobacco land, whereon is a very good grist mill, dwelling-house, and other necessary houses for cropping, a good orchard with about 400 bearing apple trees, and ground cleared sufficient to work 10 or 15 hands. The time of payment will be made easy, the purchasers giving bond with approved security to EDWARD WADE, THOMAS COLLIER, JOHN COLLIER.
On Monday the 26th of February next will be SOLD to the highest bidder, on the premises, pursuant to the last will and testament of Nathaniel Maynard, deceased,
SIX hundred and forty acres of very good LAND, lying in Brunswick county, on both sides of Sturgeon creek, with sundry valuable improvements thereon. The time of payment will be agreed on at the day of sale. The EXECUTORS.
COMMITTED to Suffolk jail, in Nansemond, a Negro man named MOSES, about 36 or 37 years old, about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, says he is a freeman, has lost one of the fore teeth of his lower jaw, his upper teeth rotten, and has a scar on his right cheek. The owner may have him, on paying charges, of WILLIAM GRANBERY, Jailer.
TAKEN up, in Cumberland, a gray mare, about 4 feet high, with a hanging mane and bob tail, branded on the near buttock S, and on the off shoulder 73 potted, and appraised to 35s. THOMAS HARRIS.
THE subscriber, TAVERN KEEPER, in Halifax town, North Carolina, has removed from the house he formerly lived in to that lately occupied by Thomas Wild, in the same place. He takes this method to acquaint all Gentlemen, who please to favour him with their custom, that they may depend upon being well used, and genteely accommodated. WILLIAM MARTIN.
On the 20th day of March next (if fair, otherwise next fair day) will be SOLD on the premises, to the highest bidder,
THE subscriber's plantation in New Kent county, two miles above the Long Bridge, ten from good warehouses on York and James rivers, fourteen from New-castle, eighteen from Richmond, and eight from Mr. Holt's forge. It contains about 500 acres of level land, 200 of which are excellent low grounds, proper for wheat, tobacco, or meadow; great part of the remainder is fine tobacco, the rest very good corn land, and the uncleared ground abounds with large white and red oaks, cypress, and ash. There is also on it a good situation for a mill, with a pretty good stream of water, which might be made sufficient for the whole summer at a small expense, by letting a neighbouring run into it. The buildings, which have been finished within four years, consist of a handsome and commodious dwelling-house, with its offices, an overseer's house, and several large framed barns and tobacco houses. The plantation is now in excellent order for cropping, as there is a large opening under very good fences, and the ground is fresh. At the same time and place will also be sold the SLAVES, HORSES, CATTLE, HOGS, TOOLS, and FURNITURE. Credit will be allowed for all sums exceeding 5l. to the 25th of October next, upon bond and good security, and 5 per cent. discount for ready money. Those inclined to purchase the land may be shown it any time before the day of sale, by PETER RUSSELL. Tdf.
N. B. Having been informed that many persons have been hitherto prevented from purchasing this plantation by a malicious report that I had won it at play of Col. Burwell Bassett, I think it requisite to assure the publick that the said report is a most groundless calumny, as I never had any gaming transactions with that Gentleman, of which I make no doubt he will sufficiently satisfy whoever will take the trouble of asking him; nor is it under any encumbrance whatsoever. P. R.
THE executors of Colonel CARTER, late of Clive, hereby desire to give notice that the lands upon Broad run and Kettle run, in the counties of Fauquier and Prince William, appertaining to that Gentleman's estate, will be exposed to sale, on Tuesday the 15th of May next, for ready money, to the highest bidders, for the several lots into which those lands will be laid off. Their value and convenience have been sufficiently set forth in a former advertisement for this purpose, and it is presumed every person intending to purchase has long before this time made himself sufficiently acquainted with their goodness. They contain upwards of 12,000 acres. The sale to begin at Captain George Nevill's, in the county of Fauquier, and continue until the lots are all sold. Tdf.
To be SOLD, on Wednesday the 14th of March next, at the plantations of John Lidderdale, Esquire, at Ward's fork, in Charlotte county,
A VERY valuable TRACT of LAND, containing 557 acres, remarkable for producing fine tobacco and wheat, is well watered, having many fine streams on it, and is an excellent place for stock. There are three plantations cleared sufficient to work 30 hands, under good fences, with all convenient houses, barns, Negro quarter, &c. and is in fine order for cropping; and for the convenience of purchasers is laid off in lots of about 400 acres, from the old survey, and may be viewed at any time. It will be sold together or in parcels, as may be most agreeable to the purchasers. At the same time and place will be sold about 100 choice SLAVES, chiefly Virginia born, amongst which is a great number of fine young fellows, women, and girls, an exceeding good cooper and carpenter, with his tools, and several fine handy fellows that have been foremen or managers at the out quarters. Also, at the same time and place, will be sold several yoke of fine draught oxen, all the stocks of cattle, hogs, and horses, with the crop of corn and fodder; likewise the carts, ploughs, and working tools, belonging to the plantations. Three years credit will be allowed for the land, on paying interest after the first year, and twelve months credit for the slaves and flocks. Bond, with approved security, will be required.
BENJAMIN WALLER, JOHN WAYLES, RICHARD HANSON, } Attorneys in fact for John Lidderdale, Esq; N. B. Five per cent. discount will be allowed for ready money.
To be SOLD at Petersburg, on Wednesday the 7th of March, to the highest bidders,
ONE hundred fine VIRGINIA born SLAVES.
Twelve months credit will be allowed, the purchasers giving bond with approved security; and five per cent. discount will be allowed for ready money. Gentlemen merchants notes, payable in April General Court, will be taken as payment, and the above discount allowed. Tdf. LEWIS BURWELL.
STOLEN from on board the Peggy's flat, lying at Petersburg, on the 6th instant, the following tobacco notes.
   No. Neat.     At Blandford, 534 1188 James Shelton.   1236 1142 do.   1237 1194 do.   783 1120 John Freeman.   1313 1114 do.   349 1120 do.   Robert Bolling's, 861 1089 Joseph Royster.   John Bolling's, 470 1220 Abraham Sablett.   604 1105 Jacob McGehee.   105 1021 James Murray's est.  
Whoever returns the above notes to Mr. Richard Booker, at Petersburg, or to the subscriber, shall have 40s. reward, and no questions asked. If they are offered for sale it is desired they may be stopped, as the tobacco will not be delivered for them. WILLIAM ASHBURN.
A YOUNG man of University education, understanding the languages, natural and moral philosophy, and the mathematicks, likewise book-keeping and accounts clearly, writes an extraordinary hand, has had the management of several stores, and the collection of debts to a very large amount, would be glad of employment in some genteel business, on reasonable terms. He can bring an unexceptionable character. Any Gentleman wanting such a person may either advertise or apply to Mr. Purdie by letter.
ALL Persons may be supplied with this PAPER at 12s. 6d. a Year, and have ADVERTISEMENTS (of a moderate Length) inserted in it for 3s. the first Week, and 2s. each Week after. *** All Sorts of PRINTING WORK done at this Office in the neatest Manner, with Care and Expedition.