The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1771-01-31 00:00:00

VIRGINIA
GAZETTE.
With the freshest ADVICES,
FOREIGN and DOMESTICK.
IN CIVITATE LIBERA LINGUAM MENTEMQUE
LIBERAS ESSE DEBERE. Suet. in Tib. S. 28.
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WESTMINSTER, November 13.
This Day his Majesty came to the House of Peers, and the House of Commons being sent for, and come thither accordingly, his Majesty was pleased to make the following most gracious Speech.
My Lords, and Gentlemen,
WHEN I last met you in Parliament I renewed to you the Assurance, which I had before given you, that it was my fixed Purpose to preserve the general Tranquility, maintaining, at the same Time, the Honour of my Crown, together with the just Rights and Interests of my People; and it was with much Satisfaction that I indulged the Hope of being still able to continue to my Subjects the Enjoyment of Peace, with Honour and Security. Since that Time those very Considerations, which I then promised you I would never sacrifice, even to the Desire of Peace, have laid me under an indispensable Necessity of preparing for a different Situation.
By the Act of the Governor of Buenos Ayres, in seizing by Force one of my Possessions, the Honour of my Crown, and the Security of my Peoples Rights, were become deeply affected. Under these Circumstances, I did not fail to make an immediate Demand from the Court of Spain of such Satisfaction as I had a Right to expect for the Injury I had received. I directed also the necessary Preparations to be made, without Loss of Time, for enabling me to do myself Justice, in Case my Requisition to the Court of Spain should fail of procuring it for me; and these Preparations, you may be assured, I shall not think it expedient to discontinue, until I shall have received proper Reparation for the Injury, as well as satisfactory Proof that other Powers are equally sincere with myself in the Resolution to preserve the general Tranquility of Europe. In the mean Time I have called you together, thus early, in Order that I may be able to receive from you such Advice and Assistance as, in the farther Progress of this very important Business, may happen to become requisite.
With Respect to the State of my Colonies in North America, although I have the Satisfaction to acquaint you that the People in most of them have begun to depart from those Combinations which were calculated to distress the Commerce of this Kingdom, yet in some Parts of the Colony at the Massachusetts Bay very unwarrantable Practices are still carried on, and my good Subjects oppressed by the same lawless Violence which has too long prevailed in that Province.
I hope, and trust, that the Precautions which have already been used for securing this Country against the Visitation of that fatal Calamity which has of late appeared in some distant Parts of Europe, will, with the Blessing of God, prove successful; but if, from any Alteration of Circumstances, it should at any Time be found that farther Provisions will be wanted, I cannot doubt of your ready Concurrence for so salutary a Purpose.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
I will order the proper Estimates, for the Service of the ensuing Year, to be laid before you. They must unavoidably, in our present Situation, exceed the usual Amount. Every unnecessary Expense my Concern for the Ease of my good Subjects will ever make me careful to avoid; but I should neither consult their Interest, nor their Inclination, if I were to decline any Expense which the publick Security, or the Maintenance of the national Honour, does at any Time require.
My Lords, and Gentlemen,
I am sensible how little I need say to you, at this Time, to prevail upon you to unite in whatever may best promote the true Interest of your Country. In all your Deliberations upon Points of a domestick Nature, let the Extension of our Commerce, the Improvement of the Revenue, and the Maintenance of Order and good Government, be always in your View. With Respect to foreign Measures, there will, I am persuaded, be no other Contest among you than who shall appear most forward in the Support of the common Cause, in upholding the Reputation, and promoting the Prosperity, of the Kingdom. For the Attainment of these Ends, you shall ever find me ready to exert myself to the utmost. I have no Interest, I can have none, distinct from that of my People.
The humble ADDRESS of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled.
Most gracious Sovereign,
WE your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled, return your Majesty our humble Thanks for your most gracious Speech from the Throne. We beg Leave to offer your Majesty our very sincere Congratulations on the safe and happy Delivery of the Queen, and the Birth of a Princess, and to assure your Majesty of our unfeigned Joy at the Increase of your domestick Happiness, and that we consider every Addition to your illustrious House, from which these Kingdoms have received the most important Benefits, as a farther Security to our religious and civil Liberties.
We are too sensible of the Blessings of Peace not to feel the greatest Concern at any Event which threatens to interrupt its Continuance, and defeat your Majesty's wise and gracious Purpose to maintain it; but, grateful as we are for this Proof of your Majesty's paternal Regard to the Repose and Happiness of your People, we owe your Majesty no less Thanks for your anxious Vigilance over the Honour of your Crown and the Interests of your People.
We return your Majesty our most thankful Acknowledgments, as well for the immediate Demand which your Majesty has been pleased to make from the Court of Spain of Satisfaction for the Injury received, as for the instant Preparations that your Majesty made to do yourself Justice, in Case your Requisition should fail of procuring it; and we are exceedingly happy to be assured that your Majesty will think it expedient to continue prepared to assert the Honour of your Crown, and the Security of the Rights of your People, upon an Event so deeply affecting both, until the Injury shall be properly repaired, and satisfactory Proof be given of the sincere Resolution of other Powers to preserve the general Tranquility of Europe. We, on our Part, beg Leave to assure your Majesty that we will not fail to make the utmost Efforts in our Power to maintain Objects so justly dear to us as the Dignity of your Majesty's Crown and the Security of the national Rights.
We are very happy to be informed that the People in most of your Majesty's Colonies in North America are departing from those Combinations which were calculated to distress the Commerce of this Kingdom, and we hope soon to see an entire End of those unwarrantable Practices which have so long oppressed your Majesty's Subjects in one of those Provinces.
We are highly sensible of your Majesty's Goodness and Care in taking such Precautions to secure this Country against the Visitation of that fatal Calamity which has of late appeared in some of the distant Parts of Europe, and we shall always be ready to concur in any Measure that shall be found necessary to the Support of your Majesty's Endeavours for so salutary a Purpose.
We have the most grateful Sense of your Majesty's favourable Opinion of our constant Endeavours to promote the true Interest of this Country. We will, in all our Deliberations upon Points of a domestick Nature, exert ourselves for the Extension of our Commerce, the Improvement of the Revenue, and the Maintenance of Order and Government; and we flatter ourselves that your Majesty will not be disappointed in the gracious Expectations you have formed of our Zeal in the Support of your Majesty's Crown, and the Reputation and Prosperity of your Kingdoms.
His Majesty's most gracious ANSWER.
My Lords,
IT gives me great Satisfaction to find that you entertain so just a Sense of the Importance of Peace, while that desirable Object can be maintained consistent with the Honour of my Crown and the Rights of my People. You may depend upon my best Endeavours to preserve that inestimable Blessing, so long as it is compatible with Objects still more essential to the Happiness and Prosperity of my Kingdoms.
The affectionate Part you take in the happy Delivery of the Queen, and the Increase of my Family, gives me much Pleasure.
The humble ADDRESS of the House of Commons to the King.
Most Gracious Sovereign,
WE your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament assembled, return your Majesty our humble Thanks for your most gracious Speech from the Throne.
We beg Leave to offer to your Majesty our Congratulations on the happy Delivery of her Majesty, and on the Birth of another Princess; esteeming every Increase of your Majesty's Royal Family an additional Security for the Continuance of that Happiness which we have already experienced under its auspicious Government.
Among the many Proofs we have received of your Majesty's constant Attention to the Welfare and Prosperity of your People, your Majesty's earnest Desire to continue to us the Blessings of Peace could not fail to inspire us with Sentiments of Gratitude and Affection; but we could have reaped little real Satisfaction from the Enjoyment of those Blessings, had we not, at the same Time, been able to place the justest Confidence in your Majesty that you would never be induced, by a mistaken Tenderness for the present Ease of your People, to sacrifice their more essential and more lasting Interests. These we cannot but consider as having been dangerously struck at, by the Violence lately committed by a Spanish Governor upon one of your Majesty's Possessions. Under these Circumstances, your Majesty's Determination to make an immediate Demand from the Court of Spain of such Satisfaction as you had a Right to expect, and at the same Time to direct the necessary Preparations to be made, without Delay, for enabling your Majesty to do yourself Justice, in Case your Requisition to the Court of Spain should fail to procure it, demands our most hearty Acknowledgments; and we rejoice to find that your Majesty will not discontinue these Preparations until you shall have received a proper Reparation for the Injury, as well as satisfactory Proof that other Powers are equally sincere with your Majesty in the Resolution to preserve the general Tranquility. In the Prosecution of this your Majesty's Purpose your Majesty will not be disappointed in your Expectation of receiving from your faithful Commons every Degree of Support which, in the Progress of this very important Business, shall become requisite. With this View we will enter, without Delay, into the Consideration of the Supplies for the ensuing Year; and whatever extraordinary Expenses the publick Service shall require we will cheerfully provide for, in such Manner as may be least burthensome to your Majesty's Subjects.
In considering the State of your Majesty's Colonies in North America we will neglect no Means of securing the commercial Interests of this Kingdom, or of providing for the Protection of your Majesty's good Subjects there from every Degree of Violence and Oppression.
We return your Majesty our unfeigned Thanks for the timely Precautions you have used for guarding against the Introduction of that fatal Contagion which has of late appeared in some of the distant Parts of Europe; and while, with your Majesty, we place our ultimate Reliance upon the Divine Providence for our Preservation from so great a Calamity, we shall consider it as our indispensable Duty to make Use of every reasonable Precaution which human Foresight can suggest to us.
We assure your Majesty that we will apply ourselves, with all due Diligence, to the Despatch of the publick Business; in which we will not fail steadily to pursue those great Ends recommended to us by your Majesty in your Speech from the Throne, as well as by your Royal Example. And if any Hopes should have been conceived, or it may any Where have been furnished, that among your Majesty's People there were any such Differences subsisting as could in the least Degree abate the Ardour of their affectionate Attachment for your Majesty, or prevent their joining, as one Man, in seconding your Majesty's Views for maintaining, unimpaired, the Lustre of your Crown, and preserving, undiminished, the Rights of your People, we doubt not, by our Proceedings, to convince the World how false and injurious are all such Surmises, and to make it manifest that, whenever we are called upon in the Cause of our King and Country, there will be but one Heart, and one Voice, among your faithful Commons.
VIENNA, October 3.
THE 27th Ult. a Courier arrived here from the Court of Berlin, with the utmost Expedition, he having been but forty eight Hours coming. The next Day he returned with the Answer to his Despatches, which it is conjectured were of great Importance, as immediately after his Arrival our Court despatched a Courier to London, from whence it is thought that the Courts at Berlin and Vienna will join with that of London in bringing about a Peace between Russia and the Porte.
October 10. Our Court is employed, in Concert with that of Berlin, to bring about a speedy Accommodation between the Russians and the Porte.
UTRECHT, October 18. If we may credit private Letters from Madrid, the Court of Spain is not in the least intimidated by the warlike Preparations of England, and is resolved not to yield to any of their Pretensions, which makes it thought that a War is inevitable.
HAGUE, October 19. Letters from Paris advise that if his Most Christian Majesty should, for Reasons of State, be obliged to enter into a War, it is very far from being his Inclination so to do; that from this Principle he has often used his Endeavours to reconcile the different Powers of Europe; nevertheless, as his Neighbours are making great warlike Preparations, his Majesty judges it to be no more than a Point of Prudence to put his Navy in the best Posture of Defence; in Consequence of which he has sent Orders to sit out all the Men of War in the different Ports with the utmost Despatch, and likewise to register the Sailors throughout the Kingdom.
A Treaty of Alliance is said to be formed between the Courts of London, Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Petersburg. Another is likewise talked of between Spain and Portugal.
TOULON, September 2. The Squadron sent before Tunis has had the desired Effect, by producing a Peace between that Regency and France, which it is said the Bey was forced to agree to, by the furious Bombardment, joined to the Cetry of the People.
October 6. The Preliminaries of Peace between the King and the Regency of Tunis, which are signed, consist of eight Articles, wherein the Bey acknowledges the Union of Corsica to France, and engages to deliver up, before the Signature of the formal Treaty, all the Subjects of that Island that were taken under French Colours, and to restore their Vessels and Effects, or pay an Equivalent; also to renew the French Right to the Fishery on their Coast, and to pay the Company the Damages sustained in driving them from the said Fishery.
LISBON, October 2. A Yacht is just arrived here Express from Rio de Janeiro, in twenty five Days, with important Despatches from our Viceroy to the Court. It brings Advice of such Hostilities having been commenced by the Spaniards against the English, in the River Plate, as they think must end in a Rupture between the two Nations. In Consequence of these Proceedings, our Governor has demanded Instructions for his future Behaviour, in Case of a War. A Report is general here that several English Ships have made their Appearance off an Island near Buenos Ayres.
BREST, October 17. Our Ministry, by Way of Precaution, have just sent Orders hither to fit out fifteen Ships of the Line, and eight Frigates.
CADIZ, October 9. This Morning one of the King's Tartans, a Packet Boat, a Brigantine, and six Barks, sailed from this Bay, under Convoy of the Emerald and Rose Men of War. These Ships are bound to Carthagena, in the West Indies, and have on Board the first Battalion of the Regiment of Savoy, a Company of Artillery, and about three Hundred Men, besides Cannon and Ball, and military Stores of all Sorts.
GENOA, October 13. The Appearance of an English Squadron in the Mediterranean has caused our Governours, according to Custom, to place Artillery on our Ramparts. The Preparations are as great on the Side of Spain as on that of England. The Spaniards have actually embarked two Thousand Soldiers at Cadiz, for America.
The last letters from Madrid say that several Members of the Spanish Ministry are strongly inclined for declaring War against England; but that the contrary Party, which is at present the most numerous, and his Catholic Majesty, were entirely for pacifick Measures.
The Master of a Vessel arrived from Spain reports that the Algerines have made themselves Masters of three Spanish Ships, which they have carried into Algiers.
PARIS, November 2. Our Ministers are at present entirely employed on some Affairs of State, which become more and more intricate. War, which we begin to consider as near, must necessarily have an Influence on the Projects for raising the Finances. We are assured that the Intendants of the Finances have been sent for to Fontainebleau, to be consulted. It is pretended that the King, every Evening, on returning from the Chase, after dressing, shuts himself up for an Hour, or an Hour and a Half, with the Comptroller General and the Duke of Villiers, and is indefatigably employed with these two Ministers on some very secret Affairs.
MADRID, October 15. Our Court having resolved to reinforce the Garrisons in America, has just given Orders for eleven Battalions to be embarked immediately for Carthagena, Porto Rico, the Havannah, Curacoa, and Campeachy.
LONDON, October 30.
THE Court of France is so well satisfied that the Differences between the Courts of London and Madrid are amicably adjusted that the Count de Chatelot is directed to repair to London, where he is expected in a few Days, his House in George Street being prepared for his Reception.
Extract of a Letter from Dublin, October 23.
At a General Assembly held at the Tholsel in this City, on the 19th Instant, the following Resolution was agreed to, and made an Act of the said Assembly.
Resolved, that it would be a very salutary and constitutional Proceeding in the Corporation of the City of Dublin to present a Petition to the King, expressive, in the most grateful Terms, of the Zeal and Loyalty which warm the Breasts of his Majesty's faithful Citizens of Dublin; and at the same Time, in the most humble and dutiful Manner, to present to the Throne the many Grievances sustained by this Kingdom in general, and City in particular, by the late Prologations of Parliament.
It is said some private Letters from Lisbon mention that the Prime Minister has publickly declared it is of little Concern to the Nation whether Portugal trades any longer with the English or not, and he even wishes all commercial Connections between them were dissolved.
They write from Gibraltar that four Russian Transports had fallen into the Hands of the Algerines, who have a numerous Fleet now cruising in the Mediterranean.
It is reported that all Press Warrants will speedily be recalled, without, however, taking off the Bounty for Seamen, for some Time.
November 1. Colonel Boyd, Deputy Governor of Gibraltar, has informed that a very large Body of Spanish Troops have drawn fresh Lines behind Gibraltar. The Regiments now embarking in Ireland are supposed to be destined for that Station, though others imagine they are destined for the Defence of Jamaica.
A Correspondent says: "A certain great Lady, upon her Arrival, being pressed, it is said, to give her Opinion on some Measures adopted in the present Situation of Affairs, very prudently declined it; and farther declared, that she should, henceforward, forbear to concern herself with Matters of State."
Mr. Alderman Sawbridge sat Yesterday at Guildhall, as Justice on the Roja, and discharged an impetuous Man, who was brought before him. Lord Bute, the Duke of Bedford, and Lord Holland, are at this Time, we hear, in a very ill State of Health.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester will be shortly nominated to the Post of Master General of the Ordnance.
Among other Regulations which the Emperor of Germany has introduced for the Good of his People, one is that he has set apart one Day in every Week for the receiving Petitions and hearing Grievances, at which Time he has strictly commanded that no Subject, however mean, shall be refused Admittance to his Presence; an Example this well worthy the Imitation of every sovereign Prince in Europe.
His Excellency the Russian Ambassador has received, by Yesterday's Mail from Holland, Advice from Warsaw, which confirms the taking the Fortress of Bender by the Russian Army, by Storm. The greatest Part of the besieged were put to the Sword, and the Confusion was so great that a few Bashiaws only, with their Retinue, escaped, with the utmost Difficulty.
The following Extract from a private Letter, lately written by his Excellency Mr. Murray, at present our Ambassador at the Porte, to one of his Friends in London, seems to countenance the Report now circulating in Holland that the Grand Seigneur has been deposed, and his Brother Mustapha raised to the Throne.
"I never in my Life knew (speaking of the Grand Seigneur) a more Gentlemanlike and sensible Man; and, to all Appearance, he is one the most humane. Since the Absence of the Grand Vizier, I have generally the Honour of seeing him once or twice a Week. The Day before Yesterday I conversed with him above Half an Hour, without a Druggerman; which, though he speaks Italian perfectly well, is an Instance of great Affability. I was amazed at the Ease with which he talked of his present Situation; he called the Empress of Russia a female Alexander. He told me he had Thoughts of putting Sultan Mustapha, his Brother, at the Head of one of his Armies. This I thought very extraordinary, as he has been often pressed to put the Prince to Death, who is a Sort of Favourite with the Janizaries."
It is reported that Despatches are arrived in Town from Petersburg, said to be relative to some Overtures made to that Court on the Part of the Grand Seigneur; and that this Morning the Russian Ambassador had a Conference, on the Subject, with the Earl of Hertford.
It is also rumoured that Letters have been received from Petersburg, mentioning that the Ottoman Porte had agreed to surrender up to the Russians, for ever, the Islands of Candia, Rhodes, Scio, and Patras, together with Part of the Grecian Peloponnesus, on Condition of procuring a speedy Peace.
The Empress of Russia, we are told, has declared that she will not make Peace with the Turks without procuring certain Privileges and Immunities for the Greek Nation.
According to private Advices from Paris, we learn that the Court had given Orders for the utmost Diligence to be used in fitting out at Toulon every Ship of War in the Royal Navy of France.
Extract of a Letter from Portsmouth, October 26.
"A Person who arrived here Yesterday from Retef, near Prest, has been to Admiral Lord Egmont, and made Oath that he left Prest last Wednesday, where the French were working Night and Day (Sundays not excepted) to fit out their Fleet. The News the Admiral despatched, by Express, to the Admiralty, last Night."

November 3. They write from Vienna that the Court of Ispahan appears greatly alarmed at the rapid Progress of the Russian Arms against the Turks.
Extract of a Letter received by Prince Calitzin, at the Hague, dated Peterfburg, October 10.
Yesterday an Express arrived here from Count Panin, with Advice that Prince Proshorowski had found Means to draw three Thousand Men, belonging to the Garrison of Oczakow, into an Ambuscade, all of whom were killed or taken Prisoners, except about four Hundred, who escaped by Flight, after abandoning three Pieces of Cannon, and several Standards."
A second Letter brings an Account of Lieutenant Colonel Volkoff's arriving, from General Totleben, at Peterfburg, with Advice of the taking by Assault, the Town of Ketaiza. The Garrison having been put to the Sword, no more than one Hundred and seventy Turkish Prisoners fell into their Hands, with seventeen Pieces of Cannon, Stores, &c.
Letters by this Day's Flander's Mail confirm the Preliminaries of Peace being signed between France and the Regency of Tunis, the Demands of the former having been complied with.
November 6. It is really a Reflection on a great Personage, and an Insult on some noble and brave Commanders, that they should be under the Control of a Board one of the lately made Members of which asked "if Newfoundland was not one of the CANNY islands?"
A Remonstrance against publick Grievances, will certainly come from Ireland.
We hear that Mr. O'Kelly has had the Sum of eight Thousand Pounds offered for his famous Horse Eclipse, but he refused it.
Extract of a Letter from Paris, October 29.
A Treaty is said to be concluded between the Emperor, the Empress Queen, the King of Prussia, France, and Spain, in Order to prevent a War in their respective Territories. This may probably abate the warlike Ardour of the English.
It is likewise assured that the King of Portugal has acceded to the Family Compact; which, if true, the English can have no Hopes of his Alliance in a future War.
We have an Account here that the Empress of Russia, and the Court of Great Britain, have agreed to unite their Forces, in Order to seize upon the Island of Candia in the Mediterranean, which the English are to keep. This Agreement is said to have given Rise to the Treaty above mentioned, between the Emperor, the King of Prussia, &c. However, it is not to be supposed that the Venetians, to whom Candia formerly belonged, will not tamely submit to such an Invasion.
A Truce is much talked of here between the Russians and Turks, several of the European Powers being very desirous to bring about an Accommodation between those Courts.
The expected Remonstrance from Ireland is said to be more dreaded, at the west End of the Town, than all the English Petitions and Remonstrances put together.
We hear that on Sunday next Funeral Sermons on the Death of the late Reverend Mr. Whitefield, who, it is said, died worth thirty Thousand Pounds, will be preached at all the Methodist Meeting Houses in and about London, particularly the Tabernacles in Tottenham Court Road and Moorfields.
It is reported that a Treaty of Alliance is actually on the Carpet between England, Russia, Denmark, and the States General.
The Fric Frac Ship, Lillie, from Virginia to London, is lost off the Sands, near Chichester; the People were saved.
Where is not the least Mention made in the Honourable Mr. Murray's last Despatches from Constantinople of any Revolution having happened in the Ottoman Porte.
The Spanish Ambassador, and his Lady, were both at Court on Thursday last, for the first Time these three Months.
Extract of a Letter from Venice, October 6.
Advices from Cairo mention that Ali Bey has been proclaimed Sultan of Egypt. The Manner how this renowned Gentleman mounted the Throne is as follows. Ali Bey, to accomplish this his View, first joined himself to the Divan of Egypt, in Order to release that powerful Kingdom from the Ottoman Yoke. Two Years ago he forbid the Basha, whom the Porte sent, and who had the highest Authority in the Divan, to enter the Country. This luckily ending in his Favour, he set the Divan itself aside; and, being supported by the Nation, he was proclaimed Chief. In this new Station he has raised a great Number of Troops, and put them under brave Commanders, and has made himself Master of Yemen and the other Provinces of Arabia, particularly Mecca; also the Ports to the Red Sea, and of Gila, the most capital Place for the Eastern Trade on that Side.
An eminent British House of Trade at Lisbon writes thus to one of their Correspondents here, of the 13th Ult. "Our Complaints become louder and louder, as every Day seems to produce more oppressive Measures than the preceding against his Majesty's Subjects here. We hope they will at last merit the Attention of a British Ministry, otherwise we shall be under a Necessity of abandoning this Country, which is really become intolerable."
Letters from Leghorn, by Saturday's Flander's Mail, dated the 22d of October, say that the Alarm Frigate was sunk by a Spanish Man of War in the Mediterranean.
It is said that Mr. Lyttleton, as soon as the Parliament shall have entered into a Disquisition of our present Differences with Portugal, will be again sent to Lisbon, with enlarged Powers.
We hear that the Earl of Harcourt will set out on Thursday next on his Embassy to the Court of France.
Count de Guigne, the new French Ambassador, is expected to arrive Tomorrow at his House in Great George Street.
We are informed that Part of the present Fleet is destined for the Archipelago, another Part to cruise on the Spanish Coast, and the Remainder for the Mediterranean.
A Letter from Minorca mentions that the French have lately landed a great Number of Ship Carpenters in Corsica, to be employed in building Ships of War in the Ports of that Island.
November 8. An Evening Paper says: "A certain great Lady, Lord Mansfield, and Lord North, are for Peace. A great Personage was some Time ago inclined to resent the Insult of taking Falkland Island, but since the Return of a great Lady he is not so determined. Lord Rochford, who knows the secret Disposition of the Court of Spain, is for War."
Extract of a Letter from Peterfburg.
"The Joy produced by the Successes of the Russian Arms against the Turks has, on a sudden, been eclipsed by a Cloud that over-spreads the Court, and covers all the Transactions of the Imperial Palace with impenetrable Darkness. Nothing yet has passed to the Publick but a vagrant and confused Report of Something designed, and Something discovered. Nothing is pretended to be certainly known, but that in the Night of the 4th of October the Countess Czernikoff, and the Countess D'Algarotti, were each seized, at Midnight, in their own Apartments, and carried Prisoners to different Fortresses, where none are permitted to know their Fate. On the next Morning several of the Ladies attending on the Person of the Empress were ordered to retire from the Court, and confine themselves either at their own Houses, in distant Parts of the Empire, or in different Towns named by her Imperial Majesty. Such a sudden Revolution in the Fortune of many principal Families has given Rise to different Conjectures and Reports. Some hold that a very dangerous Correspondence has been intercepted between the Countess D'Algarotti and the King of Prussia, while others no less confidently assert that it happened between her and Prince Heraclius. Some whisper that the Swedes had formed a Design to seize the Empress, and enforce the Restitution of Livonia and Finland. However this be, the Guards have been changed, and the Regiments which for some Time past have done Duty at the Palace are destined to garrison the Forts on the Frontiers of China. Some declare openly that the Countess Czernikoff having received the Knout, has confessed that she has been privy to Propositions for depositing the Empress. Others add still a blacker Crime, that she had treated for a Reward to poison her. But since whatever the Countess has confessed or denied was said to particular Commissioners, with every Precaution of Secrecy, it is apparent that these Reports can be considered as Nothing more than such Guesses as Curiosity and Ignorance will always produce. But as no Man knows the Crime of those who are now in Custody, so no Man knows what may in a few Days be charged upon himself; and a general Dejection and Dismay is visible through all the Attendants on the Court. The Affections of the People for their Imperial Mistress are portrayed in the universal Sollicitude that clouds every Face, where the Report of her Danger has been heard. It is hoped, however, by those who judge most coolly, that the worst Crime of the Ladies has been only the Discovery of some Secrets of State, and that none of them have been so flagitiously corrupt as to attempt the sacred Person of their Sovereign."
It is said that the Speech was formed by a great Personage, and that very few Alterations have been made in it by the Ministry, but such as were said to have been advised by Lord Mansfield.
The Ministry, we find, expect to receive Intelligence very soon of the taking of Falkland's Island, it being now avowed that several Ships were despatched for that Purpose early after the Receipt of the Intelligence of the Spaniards taking it.
A remarkable Coolness has, for some Time, been observed to subsist between the Ambassadors of two Northern Powers.
A private Letter from Dublin says: "It is certain the disgraceful Lift of Pensions on our Establishment will be strenuously opposed in the Remonstrance which is preparing to be sent from hence."
November 10. In an Evening Paper of last Night the following is said to be the State of the Cabinet: For War, the King, Lord Rochford, General Conway, and Mr. Rigby; for Peace, the Princess of Wales, Lord Mansfield, and Lord North.
The last Answer of the Spanish Court is said to be highly equivocal, and entirely calculated to gain Time.
The Kings of France and Spain are for Peace, their Ministers are for War.
The Remonstrance of the Westminster Bishops, presented on Wednesday, by Sir Robert Bernard, is signed "By Order of the General Meeting, John Wilkes Chairman," and not by any other Hands.
Extract of a Letter from Warfaw, October 13.
The following is a particular Account of the taking of Bender, brought by a Courier Yesterday. "On the 26th of September, when every Thing was ready for a Storm, General Panin demanded once more whether the Fortress would surrender. The Commandant answered, that was a Question to be asked in a Year's Time. Upon which the necessary Orders were issued immediately, and the Storm began at Midnight. The Russians fought with great Intrepidity, and the Garrison and Burghers made a courageous Defence. However, the Town and Fortress were scaled in a very short Time, and then a very tragical Scene ensued; for the Russian Soldiers were so furious that there was no Hope of escaping, they threw down and cut to Pieces every Thing and every Body, and it was with great Difficulty some Bathaws escaped being killed. The Loss on the Russians side, at the Time of the Storm, is reckoned at three Thousand Men, and during the whole Siege five Thousand Men killed and wounded. That of the Turks is computed at thirty Thousand, the Inhabitants of the Place included."
Extract of a Letter from Captain Westcombe, of the Rickman, from Gijon, dated off Dover, November 11.
"I failed from Gijon the 3d Instant, and on the 27th of October entered the Port of Corunna, where were twenty Ships of the Line, and twenty Transports, all French; and the Spaniards have at that Port twenty sail more of the Line, all ready for Sea. I came away by Night, expecting to be stopped if I remained until the next Day."
Great Pains are taken by the Patriots to make up the Quarrel between Mr. Wilkes and Parson Horne, but it is thought that they will not succeed; and it is reported some other patriotick Gentlemen are displeased with the Conduct of the former.
We are assured that notwithstanding Lord Mansfield sat as President of a certain august Assembly, on Tuesday, he has positively resigned the Office.
It has been observed that though Great Britain seems to have lost the Friendship of one Northern Potentate, who it is thought will be ready, on the first favourable Opportunity, to join our natural Enemies, yet, to balance this Defection, we have gained that of another Northern Power.
It is reported that a Treaty of Alliance is actually on the Carpet, between England, Russia, Denmark, and the States General.
It was this Morning current in the City that a categorical Answer will most certainly be speedily insisted on to some Demands lately made to a Southern Court.
We are assured, from the most unquestionable Authority, that a great Personage is, and has been all along, for a War.
Doctor Lucas is expected over here early next Month, with the Petition of the Freemen and Citizens of Dublin.
Advice is just received of a Ship bound to England from the South Seas having been denied the usual Supplies of Refreshment at Rio de Janeiro, a Portuguese Settlement in that Quarter.
Yesterday Morning died, at his House in Soho Square, in the seventy-seventh Year of his Age, his Grace John Duke of Argyle. He is succeeded in Honours and Estate by his eldest Son, the Marquis of Lorne, Baron of Sandridge, in England, now Duke of Argyle.
A Correspondent says that it is the general Opinion at the west End of the Town that a Rupture between France and Russia is at no great Distance.
November 13. His Majesty has been pleased to appoint William De Grey, Esquire, Attorney General, to be Lord Chancellor of Great Britain; and last Night he was sworn into that high Office, before his Honour the Master of the Rolls.
Mr. Thurloe is appointed Attorney General, and Mr. Wallace Solicitor General.
Mr. De Grey is to have a Peerage, for which the Patent is now making out.
This Morning died, at seven o'Clock, at his House in Bolton Street, Hyde Park Row, the Right Honourable George Grenville, Esquire, next Brother to Earl Temple, one of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, Recorder of Harwich, and one of the Governors of the Charter House, Author of Considerations on the Trade and Finances of this Kingdom, Regulations concerning the Colonies and their Taxes, &c. &c. and other valuable political Pieces.
It is reported that Letters are received from Peterfburg which mention that it was with the utmost Difficulty some great Persons could be saved from the Fury of the Populace when the Guards were conducting them to Prison, being accused of Treason against the State and the Empress.
Letters from the Hague mention that it is the current Opinion there that War is now inevitable between Great Britain and Spain.
Letters from Cadiz inform that an Advice Boat had just failed out of the Harbour, with very important Despatches for the Governor General of Cuba.
November 15. In the Altercation at a late Council Board, between a certain Chief and the President of a great Society (a great Personage being present) the latter urged the Expediency of sending a Fleet to Spain, which the Chief opposed, and was going to give his Reasons for dissenting from him; whereupon the President told him he did not doubt but he would explain it away with his usual Fineness, but that he was determined to speak to him, as he fain would to the Spaniards, in plain English. The Ocean of seventy Guns, and the Boyne of seventy four, are ordered into Commission at Plymouth.
It was reported Yesterday that Advice was received from Bath of the Death of the Duke of Bedford.
A Letter from an English Gentleman at the Hague says: "The States General have resolved to adopt the most perfect Neutrality, in Case of a Rupture between the other European Powers; reserving to themselves, however, the exclusive Privilege of being the general Carriers of Europe."
It is reported Advice was received Yesterday that the Court of Versailles has sent strict Orders to all their West India Settlements to suffer no English Vessel to approach any of their Ports.
We are informed that the Gentlemen of the Society of the Bill of Rights have entirely laid aside their Meetings, and have no Intention of convening again.
The following Ships of War are in Commission at Spithead, Portsmouth Harbour, and St. Helen's. Namur, ninety Guns; Ajax, seventy four; Arrogant, seventy four; Centaur, seventy four; Bellona, seventy four; Yarmouth, seventy four; Temeraire, seventy four; Belleisle, seventy four; Cornwall, seventy four; Elizabeth, seventy four; St. Antonio, sixty four; Achilles, sixty four; Rippon, sixty four; Phoenix, forty; Liverpool, thirty two; Venus, thirty six; Pallas, thirty six; Diana, thirty two; Juno, thirty two; Glory, twenty eight; Lizard, twenty eight; Emerald, thirty two; Otter, fourteen; Merlin, eighteen; Favourite, eighteen; Hussar, twenty eight; and Weazel, of fourteen Guns.
The poor rich Man's emphatically poor.——Cowley.
As there is not any Evil more generally avoided than the supposed Evil of Poverty, so there is not any supposed Good more solicitously pursued than the Possession of Riches. Riches are supposed capable of conferring every Pleasure which the human Mind is wont to desire, in this State of Existence. Hence the promiscuous Multitude, with an Impetuosity in Measure equal to their unbounded Wishes, rise up early, go to Bed late, and, with the most intense Application, endeavour to compass the Mountain of Wealth. But Experience teaches us that amongst this assiduous Throngs, who make Gold their sumnum bonum and summum totum , a few only are capable of terminating their Labours in Possession, or their Hopes in Fruition. A Train of unforeseen Events baffles their Endeavours, and prevents their possessing the delectable Object, which they have mistakenly supposed capable of conferring every Species of Happiness.
Others have more happily avoided every retrograde Motion which either Inadvertence on their Part, or the Craft of others, might occasion to impede their Progress towards Affluence. Every Plan has shown itself to have been prudentially concerted, by the Success with which it was executed; and their warmest Hopes have not been rendered fruitless, by the galling Alternative of reiterated Disappointment. Yet of this superfluous Class of Mankind, whom a gracious Providence has circumstanced with the Flowers of Affluence, how few are there who seem to enjoy the unmerited Bounty!
Insensible of the just Tribute of Gratitude to the Fountain whence every Blessing is derived, and circumscribed within the contracted Bounds of Covetousness and Self Love, they stave in the Midst of Plenty, are miserable although surrounded with Affluence, and continually repining against that Providence whose Goodness is inexpressible. And to Necessities which Charity would have taught them to relieve with a verbal Solicitation, and deal to the Crisis of plaintive Importunity, from those who are pressed
with numberless Occasions of Sorrow, they pass through Life unhappy to themselves, and unprofitable to those around them.
If there are any miserable Objects from whom Charity could dispense with the Obligations of Sympathy, it must be those who are miserably rich or penuriously affluent. They are guilty of a Sin, odious in the Sight of Heaven, contemptible with every generous Mind, and highly dishonourable to a rational Being. Gratitude is a Sensation which every Individual in the Scale of Existence, from the burning Seraph to the lowest Order of intelligent Beings, ought to cherish in his Breast towards the great Superintendent of the Universe, the Author of every Blessing. His Goodness is displayed throughout universal Nature, in a Manner, Proportion, and Degree, which, though not to be fully investigated by the feeble Efforts of the human Intellect, is, doubtless, perfectly agreeable to the Rectitude of his Attributes, and consistent with that unspeakably glorious Design which first called us from Nothing into Existence. Gratitude is especially obligatory upon those whose Lines, by the comparative Estimation we are capable of making, are cast in pleasant Places; who have assigned to them a Relaxation from the arduous Toils of the Commonality, and who walk continually under the enlivening Influence of the Sun of Prosperity, while Thousands are traversing the gloomy Valley of Toil and Adversity.
If we examine into the Cause of this Infelicity, we shall find that the Reason why Multitudes are unhappy, on whom Providence has liberally showered terrestrial Blessings, is, their Wishes have increased in Proportion to their Acquisitions. The inordinate Thirst after Something unpossessed has prevented the grateful Reception, and wise Application, of their allotted Bounty. The Enjoyment of their Wealth has been postponed to the Evening of Age, and the best Part of Life sacrificed to the Labour of Acquisitions which should have been devoted to temperate Enjoyment.
Many have pleased themselves in an unrelenting Ardour after the Accumulation of Wealth, in anticipating the Pleasures of retiring from the Hurry of Business, and a Relaxation in the Decline of Life with an immense Fortune; but they have generally reaped the Fruit of Disappointment, at the Period they proposed to have arrived beyond the Fear of it. The Passion of their Youth has grown with their Growth, and strengthened with their Strength; and Age has rivetted their Chains beyond the Power of Dissolution.
The avaritious Man of Fortune, after having enervated his Body by the Fatigues of Industry, suffered his Spirits to evaporate at the Oar, and diffipated his reasoning Powers by a long Succession of Schemes, is like a Man who has provided himself a splendid Repast and when it is served up sickens at the Sight. He sits down to enjoy his Substance at a Time of Life when the Capacity of Enjoyment is supplanted by Infirmities, which give him an alarming Notice of his Dissolution. He turns his Thoughts from the Banquet to the Grave, and finds himself hourly approaching the Confines of that undiscovered Country from whose drear Bourn no Traveller returns.
Be it therefore the Care of those who possess the Means of rendering Life easy, by a happy Competency of Temporal, to adore, in humble Gratitude, that Hand which has so distinguishably blessed them; enjoy the present Moments, by using them within the Bounds of Temperance, circumscribed by Reason.
Diffuse the redundant Blessings to the mournful Widow, the helpless Orphan, and the necessitous Poor. Cause the Heart that languishes under the Oppression of Poverty to rejoice, and the Tongues of those whom you have relieved to bless you, as the Means of their Happiness. Flee from the Penance of self-inflicted Misery, to moderate Enjoyment, and grateful Alacrity; and remember (as a judicious Author observes) that "the greatest Honour you can pay to the Author of your Being is by manifesting such a cheerful Behaviour as discovers a Mind satisfied with the Dispensations of Providence."
NEWPORT, January 7.
LAST Saturday arrived here Captain Jones, in the Schooner Polly, after a Passage of forty three Days, from Montego Bay, in the Island of Jamaica, by whom we are informed that one Yarth, in a large white bottomed Bermuda built Sloop, had turned Pirate, and taken a French Schooner with three Thousand Dollars and a large Quantity of Hides, and also robbed another; that an armed Vessel was equipped, and despatched in Quest of the Pirate, and had retaken the French Schooner, and sent her into Montego Bay, with twelve of the Pirates on Board, who were immediately committed to Jail; that a Frigate was also failed from Port Royal in Pursuit of Yarth, who it was supposed had gone towards the Bay of Honduras.
NEW YORK, January 10.
Advices by the Harriot Packet, just arrived here from England.
THE Opinion among the trading Part in general is that a War will take Place, but until it is more certain they decline making proper Encurances, and yet fear to ship their Goods for foreign Exportation at a Hazard, which occasions a Stagnation of Trade.
It is said that Lord Chatham has a Plan for accommodating all domestic Differences, which he will read in the House of Lords at the Opening of the ensuing Parliament. The Right Honourable the Earl of Egmont is dangerously ill, at his House in Pall Mall.
At a Meeting of the Electors of Westminster, held at Westminster Hall the 31st of October, in Order to draw up a Remonstrance and Petition to his Majesty, it was moved that their Members should be instructed to impeach Lord North in Parliament. This Motion was overruled, but they agreed upon the Copy of the Petition and Remonstrance to his Majesty.
The Turks have lost several important Places, and the Grand Seignior had taken the Field in Person. Letters from Cadiz of the 5th, and from Lisbon of the 14th, of November, mention that there are at those Places the greatest Preparations for, and Expectations of, a speedy War.
It is currently reported that all Differences will terminate amicably between Great Britain and her Colonies, and that Trade will speedily revive to its pristine Vigour.
PHILADELPHIA, January 14.
THE Friendship, Lillie, from Virginia to London, is lost off the Sands, near Chichester; occasioned, it is said, by the Gangs pressing all their People, and leaving the Captain, only one Man, and a Boy, to carry the Ship up, which proved insufficient to work her.
The following Paragraph is taken from a late London Paper. "We are informed that the Disputes with Respect to the Americans are in a fair Way of being terminated. The Outlines of the Agreement are said to be that the Tea Act be repealed, on Condition that a certain Sum annually be raised by the Houses of Assembly in each Province, for the Use of the Publick, in such a Manner as they shall think Proper; and that an Act of Oblivion shall pass for all that has happened, on both Sides, since the passing the Revenue Act for America."
It is said an Order is arrived in England to purchase for the Russian Troops one Million Pair of coarse Stockings. It is also said that the Demands for Woollen Cloths from the North Country were very great, and that all that could be obtained of the Manufacturers in Yorkshire was purchased to send there.
January 17. Yesterday Captain Ross arrived here from St. Croix, with whom came Passenger Captain Marshall, who informs that about the 19th of December a Spanish Sette arrived at Porto Rico from Cadiz, in twenty two Days, the Captain of which reported that War was expected to be declared in a Day or two after he failed; upon which the Governor ordered all the English off the Island, and they immediately set to Work in erecting new Batteries, mounting the Guns, and making the greatest Preparations for War imaginable.
By Captain Belford, in eight Weeks from Cadiz, we learn that they were in daily Expectation of War being declared there; that they were very busy, working Night and Day, in erecting new Batteries, and mounting their Cannon; and that Troops were daily arriving there, from different Parts of the Country.
Extract of a Letter from Cadiz, October 9.
"I am sorry to tell you that I think Things still look embroiled, and I much fear that they may come to some Extremity. The greatest Security against it is the poor Condition this Country is in, they having neither Men nor Money to go to War with; so that if they are brought into it it will be very reluctantly, and I believe them to be disposed to make any Kind of Concessions to avoid it, of which I hope our Rulers in England may make a proper Advantage. The Affair which has happened in South America has undoubtedly been a Blunder on the Part of their Governors, and others there; and in Case of an Accommodation, which I have still sanguine Hopes of, they may be brought to a severe Account."
Extract of another Letter from the same Place, October 23.
"Things are exceedingly embroiled, though I am not without Hopes they may be adjustable; but it is good to guard against the worst. In Case of War, the Portuguese are likely to be brought in; and I am of Opinion that Spain means either to attack them or Gibraltar. Should the Portuguese take Part with the House of Bourbon, they will of Course experience our Resistance; and you will do well to be cautious how you adventure Cargo to those Parts of Europe, for some Time to come."
Copy of a Letter from Cadiz, November 6, 1770.
I TAKE the Liberty to inform you, as a private Censal for his Majesty here, and being lately employed as a Factor for many of his Majesty's Subjects concerned in the Trade of the Colony which you preside over, that there is, for the present, the strongest Appearance of a Rupture be-

between the Courts of Great Britain and Spain, which may be a Means of many Vessels arriving from his Majesty's Plantations in North America, in the different Ports of this Kingdom, after a War may be declared, and consequently being made it is of. I have taken every Precaution which occurred to me towards preventing such Vessels as may be on their Way from coming into this Port, or others in Spain, should a Rupture actually happen; and I give you this Notice, that you may make such Use of it as your Prudence may suggest, towards preventing other Vessels being despatched to these Parts, until after Accounts are received of these Clouds being dissipated, which I sincerely with may be favourably and soon, so as to enable his Majesty's Subjects trading this Way to pursue and resume their Trade with Security and Safety. I have the Honour to be, Sir, your most obedient, And most humble Servant, JAMES DUFF.
To the Honourable JOHN PENN, Esquire. Extract of a Letter from London, November 7.
"I think there is good Reason to suppose that the Duty on Tea will be repealed this Session, in which Case I hope Things will again subside into that regular Channel which they flowed in before the Eruption of the late Disorders. What has passed will, no Doubt, excite a constant Jealousy in the Americans of any future Encroachments of arbitrary Power; and will, I trust, be a Lesson to Ministers to avoid the Agitation of so dangerous a Requisition as that of an American Revenue."
Extract of another Letter from London, of the same Date. "With Regard to our Dispute with Spain, you may be assured, from good Authority, it is now reduced to a mere Punctilio, and that there is no Doubt of their Submission. The French Court too dread Nothing so much as breaking with us at present. These important Particulars you may depend on. But if, contrary to all reasonable Expectation, the present Misunderstanding should at Length occasion a War, our Fleet is in excellent Order. Eighteen Ships of the Line, with a great Number of Frigates, are already manned, and can put to Sea in a Week; fifty more can be ready in a few Months; and the whole English Nation are quite alive and alert, in Contemplation of a Rupture with their ancient Enemies. "As for our Finances, you may also be assured (and from good Authority likewise) that the Sinking Fund this Year (viz. from Michaelmas 2769 to Michaelmas last) amounts to two Millions eight Hundred and thirty three Thousand eight Hundred and sixty Pounds, which is just four Hundred and twenty one Thousand and seventy four Pounds more than it was last Year; a Sum which, together with an additional Shilling Land Tax, is sufficient to carry on a naval War, without laying any farther Burthen upon the People. A Situation this which our Enemies know, and tremble at."
"Next Week the Parliament assembles, when we shall soon see what our publick Affairs will take. It is thought the Parliament will not take on the Duty on Tea, nor give up the Right of Taxation in America. I most sincerely with this, and every future Dispute, may be conducted, so as best to promote the Prosperity and Happiness of the Whole. I can never be brought to think our Interests are, or ought to be, separate."
Extract of a Letter from London, November 9. "We are fluctuating between Peace and War, our Ministers know not which. They have risen in their Demands upon Spain, when they found the French advising that Court to Peace. This may disgust the Spaniards so much as to make them determine upon War; we shall know in a very few Weeks."
Extract of a Letter from London, November 12. "Our Opinion, in general, is changed from War to Peace; however, all is mere Conjecture until the King meets his Parliament Tomorrow, when the Speech will, in some Measure, inform their Judgments. At present there is no Certainty."
13th, in the Evening. "Just come from the House, where I heard the King's Speech. It is too general to form an Opinion from; but, from the Manner of debating it on the Court Side, a War will be, if it can be with any Propriety."
Extract of a Letter from London, November 15. "The Right Honourable George Grenville, Esquire, died the 13th Instant. It is not clear how publick Matters will turn out. From all that can be learnt, though it is very possible Things may end in a War during the Course of next Summer, yet it is still thought more probable that they will terminate peaceably. The better we are prepared for War, however, the more likely are we to secure Peace."
Extract of a Letter from St. Christopher's, December 7. "There are thirty Sail of Privateers at Martinico and Guadaloupe, ready to put to Sea; and should a War be declared, our Seas will be full of them. The French have bought up all the Powder and Shot that is at St. Eustatia."
By Captain Calley, arrived at Marblehead, from Cadiz, which he left the 5th of November, we learn that the Court of Great Britain had demanded six Millions of Dollars of the Spaniards, as a Reimbursement for the Expenses which their late Infraction has occasioned, and for completing the Manila Ransom; but that the Spaniards would agree to pay no more than three Millions, on which the Messenger set out for London, having remained at Madrid only nine Hours.
WILLIAMSBURG, January 31.
By a Vessel arrived at Norfolk, from Gibraltar, in a short Passage, we have Advice that the Spaniards had fortified Cadiz with great Expedition, and marched sixteen Thousand Troops into its Neighbourhood; and that they were putting the whole Kingdom in a Posture of Defence. Mr. Duff, the British Consul at Cadiz, was expected at Gibraltar.
A Ship belonging to Mr. Glassell in Fredericksburg, one Bruce Master, is lost off Bermuda; she had five Hundred and sixty Hogheads of Tobacco on Board. The Crew were saved, with the Sails and Rigging.
To the Reverend the Clergy of VIRGINIA, and particularly to the Reverend and Honourable C—m—y H—ks.
Having heard of an Act of Assembly, passed last Session, that nearly affected the Interest of our Body, I impatiently wanted to see it, for some Time, and lately casually come across a Copy of it; and, by what appears to me, I think it no less subversive of our Establishment, and little less injurious to our Properties, than were the Twopenny Acts themselves. For, by the Structure of the Act, our Payments are put off a Month at least longer than they were by the old Law; and instead of levying Tobacco in the old Way, it is recommended to the Minister and Vestry, at the laying of the Levy, to agree in Money for the Price of Tobacco. But how can they do this, unless they can divine in October what the Price of Tobacco will be the July following? Which is a Thing impossible. If they do not agree, the Churchwarden, or Collector, is directed to buy Tobacco for the Minister in June Court; and if he is not paid off in ten Days, the Minister is to have a Judgment against him. But does not the Chicanery of the Law furnish Men with Means to evade such Judgments? By replaving, &c. Or, suppose June Court should be a rainy Day, and the Court not meet and do Business, the Matter must be put off until July Court; and if that too should prove a bad Day, it must be put off until August Court, and so on, i. e. in other Words, our Tobacco perhaps may come to our Hands when it is too late either to ship it or sell it; not to mention this other Hardship, that if it is paid in Transfer (and the Law does not say whether it is or not) there will be still more Time lost in cropping it.
Had the Option been left to the Minister in Summer, when the Price of Tobacco is settled, and not in the October before, when it is not settled, nor by the Nature of Things can it be settled, until Commerce brings the Thing to its true Value, then the Minister and Vestry might have contracted confidently with Justice, and there would have been no Danger of hurting one or other of the Parties.
Another Inconvenience will attend the Execution of this Act. The Vestries, we may presume, will be for settling the Price of Tobacco as low as they can, in Hopes to pay their own Quotas at that Price; so that the Ministers will be reduced to this Alternative, either to take their Tobacco at a Price fixed by the Vestries, or to defer the Reception of it until late in the Summer, when all the good Tobacco is bought up or shipped, and the Trash that will then be bought by the tricking Collector for the Minister not fit to be shipped or sold. Which makes me observe, lastly, then the Act defeats its own End, which the Title and Preamble sets forth to be, to guard against Frauds and Exactions in the Collectors ; for cannot he cheat then as well as sooner in the Year! But, I suppose, as only the Clergy can be cheated then, it was not worth the Legislator's While to guard against that.
And now, Mr. C—m—y, if these Remarks be right, and well founded, how could you, who have the Honour of a Seat at the Council Board, chiefly, as I take it, to be a Watchman and Guardian for the Rights of the Clergy, how could you sit the, I say, as an unconcerned Spectator, and see so injurious an Act pass, as, in Effect, amounts to a total Subversion of our Establishment? Our late Right Honourable and worthy Governor, I am sure, was so good a Man that he would not have passed such an Act had he been made acquainted with the true Nature and Design of it. Wherefore, as the Matter is past Remedy here, let the Clergy be convened, that some Steps may be taken elsewhere, before the Shackles of Slavery are rivetted upon us by the Sanction of the Royal Assent. PHILO-DICAIOS.
To Messrs. PURDIE & DIXON.
GENTLEMEN,
I AM very sorry that the obstinate Folly of your Correspondent of the 13th of December has obliged me to resume my Pen in Vindication of my Right to the Signature C. R. and the several Performances to which it is affixed. From his long Silence after my last Publication I began to think that he was not altogether insensible to the Impressions of Truth, that he was ashamed of his Conduct, and had Prudence enough not to persevere in it; but, it seems, I was mistaken. The few Remains of Virtue which he still possessed were not able long to restrain him. He has, at Length, got the better of them; and the last State of this Man is worse than the first. No longer satisfied with attacking my Property, he has dared also to claim what belongs to my Friend; and, what is an Aggravation of his Crime, he is bellowing out Honour, Truth, and Justice, at the same Time that he is committing Rapine. Oh Virtue! to what bale Ends art thou prostituted! How easy would it be for me to retort upon him the Charge of Falsehood and Injustice, with all those angry and abusive Epithets which he has so liberally bestowed upon my Friend; and me! But he would not feel them; the Voice of Reproach has too often sounded in his Ears to permit me to expect that he would now regard it. Besides, the Goodness of my Cause frees me from the Necessity of accepting the Assistance of ill Language. Conscious of her native Strength, I leave such low ungenerous Resources to your C. R. or B. E. or Decenter, who has no other to apply to. In a former Piece, after mentioning the different Performances of which I had been the Author, I proved, from Uniformity of their Style, Spirit, &c. that my Claim was just; and also demonstrated that the Pretensions of my Antagonist were groundless, from the little Similarity there was between his and those Performances. He has been pleased, in his last Piece, to imitate me in giving a Catalogue of what he pretends he wrote, but has not advanced one Argument to convince the Publick that his Catalogue is true. It may not be amiss here to caution the Publick against those Imitations of B. E. which may be also found in his last Performance. Ingenious as he may think them, some little Contradictions, and Evasions, of which the true B. E. would not be guilty, prove them Counterfeits. As his Assertions are without any other Support than Abuse, the Publick, I imagine, will readily excuse any farther Refutation of them. I shall therefore, for ever, take my Leave of this Usurper, unless he is able, by his Writings, to convince me that he is, what I do not at present think him, a Gentleman; and shall conclude with a few Words to Mr. Henry. He has endeavoured to persuade you, Mr. Henry, that under his Mark my Friend B. E. had injured you. Do not believe him. B. E. has neither personated him nor wrongfully wounded you. He has too much Honour and Humanity to be capable of either. The Signature B. E. he indeed assumed, and his Whim for choosing these two Letters, though it be Something ridiculous, is yet very pardonable in an old Man. When young, he valued himself much on his rhetorical Talents, and met with a good Deal of Applause from the Exercise of them. Though he is now old, he has not forgot what he was in his Youth; and whenever any great Orator of the present Time is mentioned, he fancies himself described. You know Mr. Burke has lately cut a great Figure, and has been much the Subject of Conversation. Whenever this great Man was introduced my Friend's Imagination began immediately to compare his Idea with his own; and, after frequent Repetitions, has formed them so much alike that he thinks B. E. represents him as well as his own Name could. This will convince you that the first Part of C. R. or B. E.'s Accusation was false, and you will clear him of the latter Part when I tell you his Motive for mentioning your Map in the Manner he did. As he is a Man of Genius, he immediately discovered that there were many Errors in your Map. These the Goodness of his Heart would not suffer him to ascribe to your Incapacity, but to your good Taste, which directed you to a better Disposition of Gentlemen's Seats, and to assign more beautiful Dimensions and Courtes to the Rivers, than those which Nature had allotted them. But though his Opinion was so indulgent, he well knew others might, with a good Deal of Propriety, suggest that Ignorance was the Cause. To be beforehand, therefore, with such ill-natured Folks, he allowed your Mistakes (which indeed he could not deny) but at the same Time excused them in the Manner before mentioned. As for my Part, I subscribe to my Friend's Opinion, having often seen your Maps hung up in Houses, not because they were reckoned useful, but ornamental. C. R.
Advertisements.
THE Officers, and others, who may be principally interested in the Grant of two Hundred Thousand Acres of Land under Governor Dinwiddie's Proclamation in 1754, and confirmed to them by an Order of Council of the 15th of December 1769, are earnestly requested to meet at Winchester on Monday the 4th of March next. GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Pursuant to a Decree of Augusta Court, SUNDRY very fine SLAVES will be sold at Fort Lewis, in Botetourt County, on Saturday the 2d of March next, for ready Money; being part of the Estate of Alexander Boyd, deceased. DAVID ROSS.
NORFOLK, January 25, 1771. A SMALL CARGO OF LISBON SALT TO BE SOLD BY INGLIS & LONG.
MECKLENBURG, January 22, 1771. I INTEND to leave the Colony the ensuing Spring, and to return in the Fall. In my Absence the Business will be carried on, as formerly, by Mr. Joseph Speer. ALEXANDER BOYD.
PITTSYLVANIA, January 14, 1771. I INTEND to leave the Colony in February next. CHAMPNESS TERRY.
ALBEMARLE, January 1, 1771. WHEREAS the Subscriber has lost Bonds, &c. to the Amount of two Hundred and twenty five Pounds, viz. Thomas Johnson, Minor, with John Boswell Security, for one Hundred Pounds; Rowland Jones do. for a Hundred Pounds; Henry Rowland do. for eleven Pounds ten Shillings; Thomas Tadlock do. for three Pounds; and Isaac Peck do. for nineteen Shillings; likewise an Order on Orlando Jones for nine Pounds, with Interest until paid: I hereby forewarn all Persons from taking an Assignment of any of the above Bonds, and will be much obliged to any One who delivers them to CHARLES HUDSON.
NORFOLK, January 28, 1771. WHEREAS Captain James Mudie, of Gloucester County, has taken into his Possession (by a sham Bill of Sale) from Mary Cunningham, of the same County, a Negro Wench named PHILLIS, and a Child called NANCY, since which Time the Wench has had several Children; and as I have Reason to believe the said Mudie intends to sell or convey them away in a private Manner, I hereby forewarn all Persons from purchasing any of the said Negroes, as I shall take proper Steps to recover them, and will seize upon them wherever I can find them. ABRAHAM COWPER.
URBANNA, January 25, 1771. Journeyman Tailors, who understand their Business well, will meet with good Encouragement by applying to JOHN CRAIN.
Wanted on CHARTER, to load Tar and Turpentine in NORTH CAROLINA,
A VESSEL of about fifteen Hundred Barrels Burthen. For Terms apply to James Marsden in N. of K. or the Subscriber at Richmond; who have for Sale a Quantity of good S.F.N.E. TWINER. STORRS & ELLIS.
JANUARY 21, 1771.
ON the 10th of this Infant was found by a Negro, about seven Miles above Petersburg, a SILVER WATCH. Any Person giving a proper Description of the same, and paying the Expense of advertising, may have her by applying at Mr. John Bland's Store in Blandford.
ABOUT the 29th of December last a Chestnut Mare, belonging to Mr. Henry Brown, was taken out of my Pasture and rode away by a Negro Fellow of Colonel Washington's, and carried to the upper Quarter in New Kent, where she has since been seen. She is about thirteen Hands high, between three and four Years old, has a small Star in her Forehead, a Snip on her Nose, a hanging Mane and bob Tail, is a natural Pacer, but not branded. Whoever brings her to me, in James City County, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward. THOMAS DONCASTLE.
To be SOLD, on Tuesday the 19th of February, at the late Dwelling Plantation of Charles Walden, deceased, near Mr. Hubbard's, in Caroline County, for ready Money,
TWO Tracts of LAND, one whereon he lived containing a Hundred and ninety two Acres, the other on the opposite Side of Mattaponi River, in King William County, containing one Hundred and twenty five Acres. Some Part of the Tract in King William the Widow is to have for her Life. Also twelve likely Virginia born SLAVES, STOCKS of all Sorts, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, and some fatted PORK, which may be had of John Walden any Time before, about one Hundred Barrels of CORN, with the Fodder. An undoubted Title will be made to every Thing by JOHN WALDEN, CHARLES WALDEN, } Executors.
To be SOLD, on Monday the 18th of February, at the Subscriber's Plantation, near BURK's Bridge, in Caroline County,
ABOUT four Hundred Acres of very good LAND, being Part of the Tract he lives on. It is all first and second low Grounds, very level, and will produce any Thing usually cultivated in this Colony. It is subject to a Mortgage to Mr. James Miller, Merchant in Port Royal. Also several choice Virginia born SLAVES, amongst which are some Tradesmen, subject to a Mortgage to Mr. Edmund Pendleton. The Mortgagees will attend the Sale, allow a reasonable Credit to be given, and release their Interest, upon Bond and Security being given to them. JOHN WILY.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidders, on Thursday the 28th of February, on the Premises,
THE Plantation whereon the Subscriber now lives, containing one Hundred and seventy five Acres, with good Improvements upon it; the Terms for which will be agreed on at the Day of Sale. At the same Time will be sold ten Virginia born SLAVES, for ready Money. Also will be sold, or leased, nine Hundred Acres of LOW GROUNDS on Meherrin River.—I desire that all my Creditors will meet me, the Day before the Sale, at my House. SIMON TURNER.
To be SOLD, on Tuesday the 19th of February, at the Plantation whereon Drury Dunn, deceased, lately lived, upon MONK's Neck Creek, about seven Miles from Petersburg, in Dinwiddie County, for ready Money,
EIGHTEEN likely SLAVES, consisting of Men, Women, Boys, and Girls, among whom are some fine Sawers, Coopers, and Carpenters. And at the same Time and Place will be sold, upon Credit until the 10th Day of December next, about forty more likely SLAVES; also the Stocks of CATTLE, HORSES, and HOGS, a neat RIDING CHAIR, and all the HOUSE and KITCHEN FURNITURE, PLANTATION TOOLS, and a large Crop of CORN and FODDER, the Purchasers giving Bond and approved Security to WILLIAM DUNN, HENRIETTA DUNN, } Administrators.
To be SOLD, and entered on immediately,
A TRACT of LAND, containing by Estimation two Hundred and fifty Acres, in Prince Edward and Charlotte Counties, five Miles above Moore's Ordinary, and lies on both Sides of a main Road, which leads to most Places of Note on James and Appomattox Rivers. On the Premises are the following Houses, mostly new, and in good Repair. A Dwellinghouse thirty two by sixteen Feet, two good Rooms below, a Brick Chimney, with a Fireplace below and above, the Roof covered with Plank, and well shingled; two good Rooms might be made above, and at a very trifling Expense. A good Kitchen, with a Shed at the End, a Dairy, Stable, and Well, which affords excellent Water; and I believe there is a good Spring convenient. Some of the Land would produce Tobacco, but, in general, will answer for Grain of every Kind; and it is well timbered. It is thought to be the best Place in the upper Parts either for a Merchant or Ordinary Keeper, or both, as it lies on a very publick Road, and is convenient to a fine Tobacco Country. I purpose to sell it at a very moderate Price, and will give five, six, seven, or eight Years Credit. Bond, and good Security, will be required, with Interest, to commence two Years after the Date of the Purchase. The Title is indisputable. Apply to Mr. Samuel Wimble in Charlotte, or to the Subscriber in Pittsylvania County. JOHN WIMBISH.
To be SOLD at publick Auction, on Tuesday the 19th of next Month, pursuant to a Deed of Trust from Robey Coke to the Subscriber,
ALL the HOUSES, and five LOTS of LAND, whereon the late John Coke, deceased, lived, in the City of Williamsburg, at present occupied by Mr. Richard Hunt Singleton. The Terms will be agreed on at the Sale, which will be on the Premises. RICHARD BROWN.
NORFOLK, January 26, 1771. COMMITTED to the Jail of Suffolk, a Negro Wench with her Child, who says she belongs to George Jordan of North Carolina; also a Negro Fellow, who says he belongs to Benjamin Ruffin of Southampton County. The Owners are desired to send for them, and pay Charges to WILLIAM GRANBERRY, Jailer.
If Elizabeth Holland, Daughter of William Holland, heretofore of James River, in Virginia, Shipwright, and of Agnes his Wife (and which said Elizabeth Holland is supposed to have lived in or near New York, or on or near James River, or York Town, in Virginia, in North America) be living, or (if dead) hath left any Issue, she, or such Issue, may hear of Something greatly to her or their Advantage, by applying to Alexander Colden, Esquire, Postmaster at New York, or Mr. John Dixon, Postmaster at Williamsburg, in Virginia; and any Person who knows of the Death of the said Elizabeth Holland, when she died, and whether she left any and what Issue, is requested to give Information thereof to the said Alexander Colden, Esquire, or Mr. John Dixon.
JANUARY 15, 1771.
THE Instructions I have lately received renders it my Duty to urge the Payment of his Majesty's Quittents with the utmost Punctuality; the several Sheriffs, therefore, herein concerned, are desired to take Notice that it is expected they will make their Payments immediately, for all Arrears, and in June and October next for the present Year's Collection. And whereas great Inconvenience attends the Payment, being delayed until the Business of the General Court is over, Notice is hereby given that Merchants Notes will not be allowed in the Office, unless made payable the 24th of April and October in each Court. RICHARD CORBIN, D. R. G.
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 Quality then described; therefore that it needs 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 Williamsburg. BRYAN BRUN.

POETS CORNER.
A FRAGMENT.
FOR AGAINST. THRICE happy, happy Lives, - Who are from Wedlock free. They lead who marry Wives - Most irksome Days will see.
For CHARTER.
THE Ship GREENVALE, John Bowie Master, Burthen about one Hundred and fifty Tons, an extraordinary good Vessel. For Terms apply to Mr. David Cochran, at Newcastle, Hepburn and Mitchell, Captain Bowie, on Board the Ship at Portsmouth, or
THE Subscriber has for SALE several valuable Plantations on Roanoke River, in Halifax County, North Carolina, with a Quantity of the best Tobacco low Grounds to each, and all in good Order for Copping, and well improved; some likely Slaves, and Stocks of all Kinds.
On Wednesday the 13th of February next will be SOLD, in the Town of Blandford, to the highest Bidders, pursuant to the last Will and Testament of Walter Boyd, deceased.
A PARCEL of very valuable NEGROES, consisting chiefly of good Watermen, House Servants, and a Man Cook and Gardener. Also several Plats that will carry from twelve to forty Hogheads of Tobacco, completely fitted with Masts, Sails, &c. Likewise some valuable Lots, in the said Town, whereon is a commodious Dwellinghouse, with all convenient Office Houses, and a large Garden, formerly the Property of Mr. Peter Randolph Bland.
All Persons who have any Demands against the Estate of Mr. Boyd are desired immediately to let them be known to the Executors, that they may provide for Payment; and all those indebted are requested to discharge their Balances, or give Bond between this and the 25th of April next, for after that Time all open Accounts will be put into the Hands of an Attorney.
MARY HILL, PETERSBURG, has just imported, from LONDON, a Variety of SILKS, MILLINERY, and JEWELS, which she will sell at a very low Advance, for ready Money, or Merchants Notes.
BEST white Lustings, plain and flowered white and black Satins, white Sarcenet, Alamos, white and black Persians, superfine white and black plain and flowered Satin Cloaks, Sarcenet and Persian Shades, Terfas, Satin Bonnets, black and white Silk Gloves and Mits, red do. plain and netted Gauze, Book Mullin, Stomachers and Sleeve Knots, Laced and plain Caps, Boys Caps and Feathers, do. Hats, best black and white Satin Shoes, Calimanco do. Mens Leather Shoes, Breast Flowers, Plumes, black and white Blond Lace, best Handkerchiefs, common do. a Variety of Ribands, Fans, sewing Silk, Silk Laces, Tape, Bobbin, Jacob's Ladder, Footing, Pins, Needles, Marbles, Skeleton Wire, best French Wax Necklaces, common do. Silver Watches, Paste Shoe, Knee, Hat, and Shirt Buckles, Silver Thimbles, plated Spurs, Steel Watch Chains and Keys, best French Paste Earrings, common do. a Variety of Paste Hair Sprigs and Pins, Marcassite do. Paste Combs, plain Tortoise-shell and Horn do. Bristol Sleeve Buttons and Studs, and a neat Assortment of Country made GOLD and SILVER WORK.
GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. to the Sheriff of Southampton County, greeting: We command you that you summon Captain William, and Heir at Law of Captain William, deceased, to appear before our Justices of our said County Court, in Chancery, at the Courthouse of the said County, on the second Thursday in February next, to answer a Bill in Chancery exhibited against him and Stephen Williamson, by Thomas Williamson, and John Hyndman, Merchants; and this he shall in no wise omit, under the Penalty of one Hundred Pounds; and have then there this Writ. Witness Richard Kello, Clerk of our said Court, at the Courthouse, the 10th Day of January, 1771, in the eleventh Year of our Reign.
Pursuant to the last Will and Testament of the late Reverend Charles Jeffery Smith, deceased, will be SOLD, to the highest Bidders, at Providence Forge, New Kent County, on Monday the 18th of March.
ONE undivided Moiety of a Tract of good level LAND, well timbered with Pine, Oak, and Cypress, containing, by old Surveys, two Thousand five Hundred Acres, with the Appurtenances, situated in the Counties of New Kent and Charles City, on both Sides of Chickahominy River, whereon are several Plantations in good Order for making Grain of all Sorts, which it produces very plentifully. There is on the Land a well built FORGE, in good Repair, with every thing necessary for carrying it on in the most profitable Manner; also two well built WATER GRIST MILLS, with three Pair of Stones, and a BOLTING MILL that goes by Water, which are well accustomed from both the said Counties; likewise a well built SAW MILL. All which Works are convenient to Navigation, and on a large and constant Stream of Water. Also several Dwellinghouses with Brick Chimneys, a large Storehouse, Granary, Smith's Shop, and many other convenient Houses; all newly built, in the best Manner; and a good FISHERY.
Also to be sold, at the same Time and Place, one Half of a VESSEL, Burthen about twelve Hundred Butts, tundry European and West India GOODS, STOCKS of all Kinds, PLANK, SCANTLING, SMITHS TOOLS, and other Things; possessed by Mr. Smith, in Partnership with Mr. William Holt.
At the same Time and Place will likewise be sold a TRACT of good LAND, containing five Hundred Acres, adjoining the former, on which is a Brick Dwellinghouse, and sundry Outhouses; a delightful Situation, with an agreeable Prospect. Also two NEGROES, and a large and valuable Collection of BOOKS, of which Mr. Smith was sole Owner. Credit will be allowed for one Half the Purchase Money for all Sums above fifty Shillings until the 30th of April next, and for the other Half until the 30th of October, the Purchasers giving Bond, with good Security, to
To be SOLD.
A TRACT of LAND in Pittsylvania County, on Dan River, containing nine Hundred and forty three Acres, great Part of which is extraordinary good low Grounds, with two Plantations now in Order for Copping. Also one other Tract of LAND, on Sandy River, containing four Hundred Acres, with two Plantations thereon. The Land is good, and the Range inferior to none. For Terms inquire of the Subscriber, on the Premises. THOMAS OWEN.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidders, at Suffolk, on the second Monday in February, being Nansemond Court Day, for Money, or Bills of Exchange, April Credit.
THE Schooner WINDSOR, a well built new Vessel, Quarter decked, square Topsails, and completely rigged and furnished, Burthen about three Thousand Bushels. Any Person inclineable to purchase before the Day of Sale may know the Terms by applying to Mess. Josiah Granbery, John Driver, or the Subscriber. She has only made one Trip to New York, and may be seen at Suffolk. JOHN KING.
NORFOLK, January 14, 1771. RUN away last Night from the Ship Boyne, at Gosport, a Sailor Lad named DANIEL JOHNS. He is about eighteen or nineteen Years of Age, well made, five Feet six or seven Inches high, and wears his own Hair, which is short and black; had on a short blue Jacket, and Canvas Trousers. It is imagined he went off in Company with three Seamen, from the said Ship, viz. GILES HAMMOND, thick, short, and stout made, of a fair Complexion, and has white Hair, tied behind; had on an old blue Jacket, and Canvas Trousers. PHILIP ROLLINGS, slender made, five Feet ten Inches High, of a sallow Complexion, and has short black Hair; had on an old red Jacket, and Check Trousers. ROGER GOUT, thick, short, and stout made, has dark Hair, is full faced, and much pitted with the Smallpox; had on a brown Jacket, and Canvas Trousers. Whoever secures the said Daniel Johns in any of his Majesty's Jails in this Colony, and will give Information thereof to the Subscribers, shall have THIRTY SHILLINGS Reward. INGLIS & LONG.
Who have for Sale Loaf, Lump, and Muscovado SUGAR; Jamaica, Antigua, Grenada, and Northward RUM; Jamaica SPIRIT; Barbadoes CANE SPIRIT; CHOCOLATE; SOAP; TALLOW CANDLES; Susquehanna River HERRINGS; Madeira WINE five Years old, London Quality; a small Quantity of Prunac and Frontiniac WINE; a Parcel of WHEAT FANS, of the best Make; MARBLE FLAGS, twenty four Inches and a Half and twenty Inches square, blue and white veined; double OIL FLINTS, &c. HEMP, WHEAT, FLOWER, and Indian CORN, taken in Payment.
STRAYED or STOLEN from the Subscriber, in Frederickburg, on the 26th of December last, a bay MARE about thirteen Hands high, with a roached Mane and bob Tail, her Brand I have forgot, though believe it was WF. She trots and canters very well, and is about nine Years old. Whoever will bring her to me shall receive FIFTEEN SHILLINGS Reward. GEORGE WEEDON.
RUN AWAY from the PRINTING OFFICE, last SATURDAY Night, JAMES CAREY.
A Lad about seventeen Years of Age, whom (out of Compassion, and through his Importunity) we paid thirteen Pounds for, to release him from being sent to Maryland and sold as a Servant. Although he might have been held as a Servant here, we rather chose to get him bound as an Apprentice, to put him on a Footing with the other Lads in our Office. He has been well used, and genteelly clothed, which any One will easily discover from the Goodness and Quantity of the Clothes he has taken with him. He has ten Shirts, four of them quite new; a new Suit of Clothes, of a dark coloured German Serge, with yellow gilt Buttons; a new fine Hat, several Pair of good Worsted and other Stockings, new Shoes, and wears a black Silk Cravat. He has, besides, a good Suit of Fustian, a light coloured Cloth Coat and red Flannel Jacket, and sundry other Wearing Apparel. He is fresh coloured, wears his own Hair, generally tied behind, which is dark coloured, walks short and quick, is stout made, speaks thick, and much on the Brogue, he being a Native of Ireland. Whoever secures the said Apprentice, so as we get him again, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, besides what the Law allows. He is supposed to be gone to the Southward. PURDIE & DIXON.
ALL Persons indebted to the Estate of the Reverend Charles Jeffery Smith, deceased, or to the Partnership of the said Smith with William Holt, are desired to make Payment before the 18th Day of March next, or they must be sued without farther Notice. Mr. Smith's Executors having no Power to grant any Indulgence. All Persons who have any Demands against Mr. Smith, or the said Partnership, are desired to make them known. J. K. BURBRIDGE, } Executors. B. DANDRIDGE, } WILLIAM HOLT.
TAKEN up, in Caroline, a bay HORSE about fourteen Hands high, with a small Star in his Forehead, shed before, but no Brand perceivable; likewise a black MARE about four Feet six Inches high, with hanging Mane and switch Tail, but not branded. Posted, and appraised, the Horse to eight Pounds, and the Mare to five Pounds. JOHN BELL.
JAMES CITY County, January 17, 1771. THE Ordinary late Ashley's, and formerly kept by the Subscriber, which is on the main Road to Williamsburg, and about six Miles distant from it, is again occupied by him; where Travellers, and others, will meet with good Entertainment for themselves and Horses. ALEXANDER WALKER.
WILLIAMSBURG, January 17, 1771. GOOD Encouragement will be given to Journeyman SHOEMAKERS, who are acquainted with their Business, by THOMAS SKINNER.
To be SOLD, on WEDNESDAY the 13th of February, pursuant to the last Will and Testament of Mr. Anthony Hay, deceased.
THAT noted and well accustomed Tavern in Williamsburg called the RALEIGH, which has every Convenience to it, and an exceeding fine Stable and Pasture adjoining. At the same Time will be sold the Stock of LIQUORS, a great Quantity of HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, some CHAIRS and HARNESS, CARTS and HORSES, CATTLE, SHEEP, &c. Also a very good DWELLINGHOUSE on the back Street, where Mr. Hay formerly lived, with a large Cabinet Maker's Shop and Timber Yard, and all necessary Out-houses for a Family. And on Tuesday the 7th of May will be sold, before the Raleigh Door, nineteen NEGROES belonging to the said Estate; among them a very good Cabinet Maker, a good Coachman and Carter, some fine Waiting Boys, good Cooks, Washers, &c. Six Months Credit will be allowed for all Sums above five Pounds, the Purchasers giving Bond and Security; and for the Raleigh, the Time of Payment will be agreed on at the Day of Sale. WILLIAM TREBELL, } Executors. ROBERT NICOLSON, }
N. B. All Persons who have Demands against Mr. Hay's Estate are requested to make them speedily known, that Provision may be made for discharging them; and those indebted thereto are desired to make immediate Payment. It is hoped none of the Creditors will put the Estate to any unnecessary Charge, by Suits, when we assure them the best Means will be used to pay the Debts with all Speed, and when it is considered that Mr. Hay has left a large Family, whose tender Years entitle them to some Indulgence.
RUN away from Petersburg, on the 26th of last Month, a Negro Man named GABRIEL, a likely well made Fellow about two and twenty Years of Age, and entitled to Freedom at the Age of thirty one. He formerly belonged to the Estate of Mr. Benjamin Hubbard, in Caroline, to which County it is probable he may be gone. A Reward of FORTY SHILLINGS, besides what the Law allows, will be paid to any Person who delivers him to me, or secures him so that I may get him again. JOHN McNABB.
On the 4th of March next, at Prince William Courthouse, will be SOLD,
A TRACT of LAND containing about eight Hundred Acres, within three Miles of Dumfries, on which is a neat DWELLINGHOUSE, pleasantly situated, and other convenient Houses for Copping. And on the 2d Day of April next, at Winchester, will be sold a Tract of LAND in Frederick County, containing two Hundred Acres, known by the Name of David Wood's Creek. The said Lands were directed by Captain William Bennett, deceased, to be sold by his Executors, to satisfy his Creditors. Long Credit will be given for great Part of the Purchase Money. WILLIAM CARR.
To be SOLD at the Plantation where Mr. Robert Alcock lives, in the County of Culpeper, on the last Day of February,
TWELVE Thousand Acres of Land, lying in the Fork of Rappahannan and Robinson's River, in the said County. Credit will be given until the 25th of October following, the Purchasers giving Bond and Security to the Executors of the Honourable Philip Grymes, Esquire, and a Discount allowed, at the Rate of five per Cent. per Annum, for prompt Payment. The Land will be sold in Parcels, and Mr. Alcock has Directions to show it to any Person who is desirous of seeing it before the Day of Sale. CHARLES GRYMES. BENJAMIN GRYMES, Junior.
TAKEN up, in Louisa, a Mouse coloured young HORSE about four Feet four Inches and a Half high, has a black Mane and Tail, a black Stroke down his Back, a few white Hairs over the right Eye and in his Forehead, branded on the near Shoulder Y, and on the near Buttock S. Posted, and appraised to seven Pounds. RICHARD COLE.
TAKEN up, in Warwick, Chesterfield County, a black HORSE about four Feet six or seven Inches high, with a hanging Mane and switch Tail, is branded, but not plain enough to be discerned, having been galled, but has a remarkable white Stroke down his near Cheek, as if done by a Halter. Posted, and appraised to eight Pounds. MATTHEW BRANCH.
TAKEN up, in Dinwiddie, a bay MARE about four Feet four Inches high, four Years old, but has no Brand perceivable. Posted, and appraised to forty Shillings. PETER STAINBACK.
To be LET on CHARTER, for any Port in Britain, or to any Port to the Eastward,
THE new Ship MORANT BAY, James Craig Master, which will be ready to take in her Load by the first of February next. Any Person inclineable to charter may know the Terms by applying to said Master, or of the Subscribers. She has excellent Accommodations for Passengers. LOGAN, GILMOUR, & Co. NORFOLK, December 25, 1770.
RUN away from the Subscriber, about the 26th of September last, two young Negro Men; the one named JACK, the other SAM. JACK is about five Feet six or seven Inches high, very black, is well made, and of a pleasing Countenance; had on when he went away a blue short Jacket, pretty much worn, an Osnaburg Shirt, and a Pair of Osnaburg Trousers, blackened much with Tar, as he had been lately working on Board a Vessel, but had neither Shoes nor Stockings. SAM is of the yellowish Cast, a low squat Fellow, has remarkable bow Legs, and of a surly Countenance; had on when he went away a Jacket of a light Colour pretty much worn, an Osnaburg Shirt, a new felt Hat, and a Pair of Osnaburg Trousers much like Jack's, and has neither Shoes nor Stockings. These Negroes left a Waggon on the Road to Mr. Charles Irving's in Albemarle County, and I expect will make for Norfolk, as they were brought from thence by Captain John Kerr, of whom I purchased them. Whoever delivers the said Negroes to me, at Richmond Town, or secures them so as I can get them, shall have FIFTY SHILLINGS Reward for each, besides the Allowance by Law. NEIL CAMPBELL.
HANOVER, Town, July 25, 1770.
THE Subscriber having discontinued the Store kept by him in this Town, requests all those who are indebted to him to settle their Accounts immediately, by Payment or otherwise. This Advertisement, together with the Indulgence he has already given, he hopes, will save farther Application, as all those who do not comply with it may expect to have their Accounts put into an Attorney's Hands, without other Notice, or Respect of Persons. He has a Quantity of Goods, which he will sell on reasonable Terms, for ready Money or short Credit. JOHN SMITH.
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 gone 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.
For SALE,
A PLANTATION situated in Nansemond County, Distance from Suffolk seven Miles, from Norfolk twenty seven. It contains one Hundred and seventy nine Acres, one Third of which is not yet cleared, has on it a very good two Story Brickhouse, with Outhouses proper. Any One inclineable to purchase may know the Terms by applying to James Mordaugh in Nansemond, or Bryan Cresbie in Portsmouth.
VIRGINIA, sc.
At a GENERAL COURT held at the Capitol, November 5, 1770.
John Spear, and Matthias Spear, executors, &c. of John Wicorich Spear, deceased, plaintiffs, against John Judia, late of Frederick county, Virginia, and Henry Grapel, defendants.
THE defendant John Judia being beyond sea, and not having entered his appearance according to the rule of this court, on the motion of the plaintiffs, by their counsel, it is ordered that the other defendant, who hath effects of the said John Judia in his hands, as is suggested, do not pay, convey away, or secrete such effects, until the farther order or decree of this court concerning the same; but that he deliver up such effects, or so much thereof as will be of value sufficient to satisfy the demand of the plaintiffs, unto the said plaintiffs, upon their giving security to the clerk of this court for the return of such effects, in such manner, and to such persons, as the court shall hereafter adjudge. And it is ordered that the said defendant, John Judia, do appear here on the first day of the next court, to answer the bill of the plaintiffs; and that a copy of this order be, within fifteen days, inserted in the Virginia Gazette, for two months successively; and published on some Lord's day, immediately after divine service, in the church of the parish of Frederick, in the county of Frederick; and be also posted up at the front door of the CAPITOL, in the city of Williamsburg. BEN. WALLER.