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EXTRACTS from a Sermon preached by Archbishop TILLOTSON on the 5th of November 1678, before the Honourable the HOUSE OF COMMONS on the following Text.
LUKE IX. 55, 56.
But be turned and rebuked them and said, ye know not what Manner of Spirit ye are of; for the Son of Man is not come to destroy Men's Lives, but to save them.
LET us beware of that Church, which countenanceth this unchristian Spirit here condemned by our Saviour; and which teaches us such Doctrines and Warrants such Practices, as are consonant thereto. You all know, without my saying so, that I mean the Church of Rome; in which are taught such Doctrines as these, that Hereticks , that is, all who differ from them in Matters of Faith are to be extirpated by Fire and Sword ; which was decreed in the third and fourth Lateran Councils, where all Christians are strictly charged to endeavour this to the utmost of their Power, as they desire to be esteemed and accounted Christians. Next their Doctrines of deposing Kings , and of absolving their Subjects from Obedience to them, which are not only universally believed, but practised by the Pope and Roman Church for several Ages. Indeed this Doctrine hath not been at all Times alike frankly and openly avowed, but is undoubtedly theirs; and hath frequently been put in Execution, though they have not thought it so convenient at all Times to make Profession of it. It is a certain Kind of Engine, which is to be screwed up or let down, as Occasion serves; and is commonly kept like Goliath's Sword in the Sanctuary behind the Ephod, but yet so that the High Priest can lend it out upon extraordinary Occasion. And for Practices consonant to these Doctrines, I shall go no farther than the horrid and bloody Design of this Day. Such a Mystery of Iniquity, as had been hid from Ages and Generations; such a Masterpiece of Villainy, as Eye had not seen, nor Ear heard, nor ever before entered into the Heart of Man; so prodigiously barbarous, both in the Substance and Circumstances of it, as is not to be paralleled in all the voluminous Records of Time, from the Foundation of the World. Good God! that any Thing, that is called Religion, should so perfectly strip Men of all Humanity, and transform the mild and gentle Race of Mankind into such Wolves and Tigers; that ever a pretended Zeal for thy Glory should instigate Men to dishonour THEE at such a Rate! It is believed by many, and not without Cause, that the Pope and his Faction are the Antichrist. I will say no more than I know in this Matter; I am not so sure that it is he that is particularly designed in Scripture by that Name, as I am of the main Articles of the Christian Faith; but, however that be, I challenge Antichrist himself, whoever he be, and whenever he comes, to do worse and wickeder Things than these. But I must remember my Text and take Heed of imitating that Spirit which is there condemned, whilst I am inveighing against it. And, in Truth, it almost looks uncharitably to speak the Truth in these Matters and barely to relate what these Men have not blushed to do. I need not, nay I cannot, aggravate these Things; they are too horrible in themselves, even when they are expressed in the softest and gentlest Words. I doubt not but Papists are made like other Men. Nature hath not generally given them such savage and cruel Dispositions, but their Religion hath made them so. I am loth to say it, and yet, I am confident it is very true, that many Papists would have been excellent Persons and very good Men, if their Religion had not hindered them; if the Doctrines and Principles of their Church had not perverted and spoiled their natural Dispositions. I speak not this to exasperate you, woolly Patriots and the great Bulwark of our Religion, to any unreasonable or unnecessary, much less unchristian Severities against them; no, let us not do like them; let us never do any thing for Religion that is contrary to it; but I speak it to awaken your Care thus far, that, if their Priests will always be putting their pernicious Principles into the Minds of the People, effectual Provision may be made, that it may never be in their Power again to put them in Practice. We have found by Experience, that ever since the Reformation they have been continually pecking at the Foundations of our Peace and Religion; when, God knows, we have been so far from thirsting after their Blood, that we did not so much as desire their Disquiet, but in Order to our own necessary Safety, and indeed to theirs. A reasonable and just Toleration to Dissenters of every Denomination is my Delight. But the Establishment of such a Religion, as is above described, in any part of the British Dominions, and barely to tolerate Protestantism, ought surely to awaken the Attention of every Well-wisher to our Church or State.
CAVETE!
An Admirer of the Reformation, A devoted Servant to our GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, And a warm Friend to the Protestant Succession.
PARIS, June 6.
AMONG other Things proposed for the Relief of his Majesty's Subjects, the King intends that the Lands belonging to the Nobility and Gentry, many of which pay nothing, shall be taxed in such a Manner that those of the inferior Class may be eased. The Governors of Provinces are from henceforward to be honorary Commandants only, without any Appointments annexed, his Majesty being well assured that those on whom he shall confer such Commands will be very well able to make a Figure answerable to them. His Majesty has given Orders that all Persons who have any Petitions, Memorials, or even any sealed Letters, to deliver to him, be admitted to his Royal Person, on Pain of his Displeasure against whoever shall attempt to hinder them. The King proposes to apply all the Savings he is going to make to pay off the Debts of the State.
It is said that the Queen has given a strong Invitation to the Emperor of Germany, her Brother, to make his Journey to Paris, if possible, at this Time; that they may have an Opportunity of consulting with the King on some important Affairs, in which it is necessary they should act in Concert.
June 9. All the King's Papers are removed from Versailles to La Muette, where his Majesty will look over them at his Leisure. The King's Will is the only Thing that has yet been opened. It was made in the Year 1766, and his Majesty thereby gives the Princesses, his Daughters, Pensions of 200,000 Livres each, and 100,000 Livres more to the longest Liver, independent of the Maintenance of their Household, allowed in the Expenses of the State. His Plate and Jewels, independent of those of the Crown, he gives to his Children and Grandchildren. The other Contents of the Will are not yet known.
PETERSBURG, May 17. According to the last Accounts received from the Army of Field Marshal Count de Romanzow, two Bodies of Troops, commanded by Lieutenant General Souwaroff, and the other by Lieutenant General Kamenikoy, have passed the Danube, and encamped in the Neighbourhood of the Lake Karassau, without meeting with any Obstruction from the Turks; and that the Count de Roman-
zow only waits for Orders from Court to pass that River with his whole Army. These Advices add, that the Count de Romanzow is in a very bad State of Health.
LEGHORN, June 15. Some Accounts from Corsica mention, that the 30th of last Month there was a smart Battle between the Corsicans and the Provincial Corsican Regiment in the French Service; in which the latter were beaten, and Colonel Gassori, and some other Officers, killed; and on the same Day the famous Pace Maria, with his Men, cut to Pieces a French Piquet, which so encouraged them that they marched immediately to Caccia, in Order to attempt taking the French Military Chest, which is deposited there.
LONDON, June 11.
WE hear that a great Personage is so highly pleased with the Whole of the Conduct of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland that he intends to honour him with one of the vacant Blue Ribands, and other Marks of his Favour; so that his Excellency's Motto, "Le bon Temps viendra," seems to be fulfilled.
The Conclusion of a great Personage's Letter to another great Personage, on a late Event, is said to be as follows: "And I flatter myself the good Understanding which has for some Time past subsisted between your Grandfather and me will be continued by you. This you may assure yourself, no Endeavours shall be wanting on my Part to cement such a Friendship."
'Tis Futility (to call it by no harsher Epithet) of supposing the French Laws in Quebec to be more advantageous to the Natives than the English, must be obvious to every Breast which has not an ungovernable Lust for Despotism and arbitrary Rule . Their greatest Philosophers, Voltaire, D'Alembert, Diderot, &c. have never hesitated to give the Preference to our Constitution; and the celebrated Monsieur Mezeraay (their principal Historian) discoursing with a Person of Quality, in the Beginning of King William's reign, on this Subject, broke out into the following Exclamation, which we could wish, for the Safety of this Country, was more generally impressed on the Minds of those who are vulgarly called "the Guardians of it." O fortunatos nimium bona si sua norint Anglicanas! "We had once (says he) in France, the same Happiness, and the same Privileges, which you have; our Laws were made by Representatives of our own choosing; our Money was not taken from us but by our own Consent; our Kings were subject to the Rules of Law and Reason; but now, alas! we are miserable, and all is lost. Think nothing, Sir, too dear to maintain those precious Advantages; and if ever there be Occasion, venture your Life, your Estate, and all you have, rather than submit to the Condition to which you see us reduced."
The late King of France, who was confessedly allowed to be a Man of Wit as well as a Ben Vivant , soon after the Reduction of Minorca by his Troops under Marshal Richelieu, happened to see, from one of the Windows in the Palace of Versailles, the Marshal and Madame Pompadour walking together; upon which he turned round to one of the Courtiers, and exclaimed, with a Smile of Satisfaction, "Valla mon Eper et Foureau!"
The very great Error which Government has fallen into, in Respect to American Measures, seems to originate from having too great a Dependence on the Law Officers of the Crown, who, according to their Trade, measure every Thing by the rigid Interpretation of Charters and written Laws; but such Disquisitions excite Jealousy, and intimate an unfriendly Disposition. It is common Utility, mutual Wants, and mutual Services, that should point out the true Line of Submission and Authority. Let the Americans respect the Power that created and supported them, and let us always love the Companions of our Dangers and our Glories. If we consider their Prosperity as making Part of our own, we shall feel no Jealousy at their Improvements; and they will always cheerfully submit to an Authority which they find exercised, invariably, to the common Advantage.
We are sorry to inform the Publick that Lord Chatham has a violent Return of the Gout, which is attributed to his late too great Exertion of Spirits in Favour of the Bostonians, whose Situation is indeed lamentably hard, and claims the Sympathy of every Breast that is not totally callous and devoid of human Feelings.
It is strongly conjectured that the Visit which our dignified Cicero lately paid the Neighbourhood of St. Stephen's Chapel was more to cut down the rising Popularity of the Rockingham Party than to defend the Rights and Privileges of "three Millions of innocent People," as the last Hour of his Speech was taken up in the most violent Abuse of that Juncto.
It is said, at the east End of the Town, that if we have another War there will be very little Business of Enfranchisement done in this Nation by Foreigners, which formerly was of great Advantage to us; and we had the Preference too, though our Terms were dearer than our Neighbours. We may thank the King of Prussia for all this, who is now getting such an Extent of Sea Coast as will soon render him formidable by Trade; and he will take Care to keep the Money, by giving proper Encouragement to his Subjects at home, from circulating among us, as it formerly did.
A Report has been prevalent, within this Week, that our Ministry, in Order to render themselves truly popular to future Ages, have come to a Resolution (after the India Company has reimbursed the Debts it owes to Government) to lay open new Places for Trade in the East Indies, where any bold adventurous Merchant may carry his Commodities to Market; but the India Company still continue to keep the Forts, Settlements, and Territories, they are now in Possession of in India. This Intention is truly laudable. It is hard for a wise and trading Nation, as we are, to sit down tamely and see a few interested Directors dictating publick Measures, and monopolising the Trade of the most extensive and richest Part of the Globe, to the Detriment of the whole commercial Body of the People.
To show how necessary foreign Servants are to keep up English Grandeur, the following Article of Intelligence will prove, viz. When a Lady, who lodges in Westminster, went to the Play, her Frenchman lighted up no less than ten Wax Candles, to delight his Eyes whilst he lay reclined on a Sopha. The Mistress of the House having Occasion to go into the Apartment, and being surprised at the Illumination, asked Monsieur the Occasion of it; to which he answered, with becoming Haughtiness, "to please himself," for he was descended from one of the best Families in France, and should be great as often as he could. For which his Lady turned him off, as soon as he heard the Story.
By a Gentleman just arrived from Naples, we are informed that there has been lately found in Herculaneum some Copies of ancient Music, intolable good Preservation. This Discovery, it is thought, will throw Lights upon a Subject hitherto but little understood by the Moderns; particularly the theatrical Music, which gave Laws at the same Time to the Declaimer and Gesticulator. They are now at unrolling and recovering the Characters, but it is expected their perfect Restoration will take up a long Time.
A very eminent Tradesman, who died last Week of a lingering Illness, desired the Physician, an old Friend who attended him, not to let his Wife know how ill he was, lest it should alarm her Delicacy; and if he should die, that he would employ such Persons as he thought fit to bury him, &c. When the Gentleman died, the Physician, to make good his Promise, sent for the Undertaker, and agreed with him for the Burial of his Friend; but in a few Hours after he was waited on by another Undertaker, to inform him that this delicate feeling Wife of the Deceased had promised him the Funeral of her Husband three Weeks before he died, which astonished the Physician much, as he had often declared she so loved her Husband that she could not survive him.
June 18. The Order of the Day being read for the Amendments made to the Quebec Bill to be taken into Consideration, the same were accordingly read by the Clerk; and the Question being put for the House to agree to the Amendments, Lord Chatham rose up, and entered fully upon the Subject of the Bill. He said it would involve a great Country in a Thousand Difficulties, and in the worst of Despotism, and put the whole People under arbitrary Power; that it was a most cruel, oppressive, and odious Measure, tearing up Justice and every good Principle by the Roots; that by abolishing the Trial by Jury, he supposed the Framers of the Bill thought that Mode of Proceeding, together with the Habeas Corpus, meer Moonshine, whilst every true Englishman was ready to lay down his Life sooner than lose these two Bulwarks of his personal Security and Property. The merely supposing that the Canadians would not be able to feel the good Effects of Law and Freedom, because they had been used to arbitrary Power, was an Idea as ridiculous as false. He said the Bill established a despotick Government in that Country, to which the Royal Proclamation of 1763 promised the Protection of the English Laws. Here the Noble Lord read Part of the Proclamation, and then entered fully on the Council and Power vested in the Governors; the whole Mode of which, he said, was tyrannical and despotick. He was likewise very particular on the bad Consequences that would attend the great Extension of that Province; that the Whole of the Bill appeared to him to be destructive of that Liberty which ought to be the Groundwork of every Constitution. Ten Thousand Objections, he was confident, might be made to the Bill; but the Extinction of the Mode of Trial above mentioned was a very alarming Circumstance, and he would pronounce him a bold Man who proposed such a Plan. When his Lordship came to the religious Part of the Bill, he directed his Discourse to the Bench of Bishops, telling them, that as by the Bill the Catholic Religion was made the established Religion of that vast Continent, it was impossible they could be silent on the Occasion. He called the Bill a Child of inordinate Power, and desired and asked if any of that Bench would hold it out for Baptism. He touched again upon the unlimited Power of the Governor in appointing all the Members, and who might be made up of Roman Catholics only. His Lordship then said, that for these, and other Reasons, he gave his hearty Negative to the Bill.
Additional Particulars of Lord Chatham's Speech in the House of Peers. "His Lordship stated, with great Force, many Objections to the Clause giving to the French Canadians so advantageous a Part of the Fisheries of Cod on the Labrador Coast, to the great Prejudice of the English Fishermen on the Banks of Newfoundland; considering the said Fisheries of Labrador as a Nursery of French Canadian Seamen, to man, in Case of a French War, any Squadrons of France in those Seas. This experienced and truly Protestant Statesman exposed, with unanswerable Force, the Train of fatal Mischiefs attending the Establishment of Popery and arbitrary Power in that vast and fertile Region now annexed to the Government of Quebec, and capable of containing (if fully peopled) not less than thirty Millions of Souls. His whole Speech breathed nothing but the Love of his Country, the true Principles of the Reformation, and of the glorious Revolution; deducing the whole Series of Laws from the Supremacy first re-vindicated under Henry VIII. down to this Day, as Fundamentals constituting a clear Compact that all Establishments by Law are to be Protestant, which Compact ought not to be altered but by the Consent of the collective Body of the People. He farther maintained, unanswerable, that the dangerous Innovations of this Bill were at Variance with all the Safeguards and Barriers against the Return of Popery and of Popish Influence, so wisely provided against by all the Oaths of Office and of Trust, from the Constable up to the Members of both Houses, and even to the Sovereign in his Coronation Oath. He pathetically expressed his Fears that it might shake the Affections and Confidence of his Majesty's Protestant Subjects in England and Ireland, and finally lose the Hearts of all his Majesty's American Subjects."
The French King is supposed to be a great Bigot. What will become of D'Alembert, Diderot, &c. in the Reign of a Prince who wishes to restore the Jesuits, and banish the Philosophers?
From the Express which is despatched by Government to Boston, the Friends of the Constitution hope that the Olive Branch will be extended (conditionally) to our Brethren on the other Side the Atlantick; which, it is hoped, will be productive of such conciliating Measures as naturally would subsist between Great Britain and her Colonies.
It is reported, in the Neighbourhood of St. James's, that Lord Howe will shortly be appointed to a very important Command, on actual Service.
The Outline of the French Ministry is said to be settled. Madame Barré is retired to the Convent of Sens, of which the late Lord Boilingbroke's Wife's Sister is Abbess. The Duke D'Aiguillon is dismissed. The Duke de Nivernois, M. de Maurepas, and M. de Castries, are the acting Ministers. They are not yet named to any Offices, but they are a Council ad interim , through whose Hands all Business passes. The Duke de Choiseul is said to be Adviser and Manager of this Measure.
Several Families of Leeds, and Yorkshire (among which are Butchers, Joiners, &c.) are disposing of their Effects, in Order to try their Fortunes in the Western World. There is scarce a Week but some are setting off from that Part of Yorkshire for the Plantations, finding it next to impossible, in the present lamentable State of Trade, and Dearness of Provisions, to provide in any Sort for themselves and Families.
American Peers and Bishopricks are again talked of, and have been submitted, it is said, to a great Personage for his Approbation.
Two more Regiments of Infantry are, it is reported, ordered to hold themselves ready to embark for New York, on a short Notice.
The Protest of the Lords against the Boston Bill, it is said, has charged the Premier very much, as he is apprehensive it will be the Means of spiriting the Americans up to resist Government, as the Generality of the People there will be weak enough to think this Protest to be the Sense of the greatest Part of Great Britain.
Lord Sandwich, we are told, will set off for Portsmouth in a few Days, to make Preparation for the Naval Review, it being at last settled to have one at the breaking up of Parliament.
The Jewels with which the Coronation Robes of the late Dauphinees of France will be ornamented are rated at near a Million Sterling, though it is privately conjectured that Half the Sum would buy the Treasury of the whole Kingdom.
Great Preparations are making, by many illustrious Personages in this Kingdom, to be present at the approaching Coronation of the King of France, at Rheims.
The Duke and Dutchess of Northumberland, it is said, are preparing to set off for Paris, to be present at the Coronation.
Lord North, it is now publickly talked of, last Week received some Intelligence from Lord Stormont, our Ambassador at Paris, which has greatly lessened his Opinion of the pacifick Intentions of the young King of France.
A Scheme is in Agitation to grant the India Company a Bounty on the Importation of low priced Teas, in Order to prevent their being smuggled here from France and Holland.
June 20. Our Customhouse Laws will, it is said, undergo a Revision, in Order to receive certain Amendments essential to our commercial Convenience.
Extract of a Letter from Cardross, near Stirling, June 8.
"The Arnpurick Society of Emigrants sent over their Deputies to America a few Days ago, with Powers to purchase Lands for them. They have raised a Sum of Money, and lodged it one of the Banks of Glasgow for that Purpose. If these People would labour diligently, and live moderately, they might do very well at home, but many of them are addicted to Idleness and Dissipation."

Bets are five to four, at the west end of the Town, that the Bostonian and Quebec Bill will turn out the Ministry before Michaelmas Day next; and five to one, War or no War, that they are outed before the first of January 1775.
The following is a Sketch of a popular Nobleman's Speech on American Affairs. "My Lords, Want of Health has hitherto prevented me from giving my Sentiments on the several Bills which have come under your Consideration with Respect to America. I hope I may therefore be indulged in the Opportunity of travelling out of the Line of the present Matter of the Day. I shall endeavour to speak with Tenderness and Caution. I know your Lordships cannot bear much. I will be, if possible, void of Offence. Was I in Boston, I would say they were wrong to destroy the Property of the East India Company. I say here, you have been the original Aggressors. A Law is passed, which may seal my Lips; but were I to speak what I think, and what I know to be constitutional, I would tell you, you have in Weakness written a dead Letter, you have set up an Image which you dare not own, and which the People of America laugh at; I would tell you, you have no Right to touch the Pocket, much less the Life, of a Fellow Subject in America. He submits himself to the Necessity of your Laws relative to Trade, and the Regulation of a national Commerce, because he sees the Necessity. He agrees to buy the Wool, employ the Weaver, and to be measured by the Tailor, you recommend; but when he has put on his Clothes, he says they are his own; he says you shall not have his Coat, because he is no longer sure of his Waistcoat and Breeches. My Lords, you have lived upon the Support and Industry of America these forty Years; you have the great Materials of Commerce not only cheaper from America than you used to have them from other Countries, but you pay for those Materials with wrought Goods, which overbalance the Account, and draws from them every Shilling they have. This is the great, the solid, the supporting, the salutary Contribution which America pays, and which saves this venerable Fabrick from falling into the Dust. They will either laugh at or resent your present Measures, with equal Success. If they have Coolness, they will make you sensible of what you lose. If they have Recourse to Arms, you must be the first, perhaps the only Sufferers. You must be undone; they may work out their Salvation. I am an old Man in publick Business; my Advice arises from Experience; it may be worth something. Recall your feanty Forces from the wretched Employment of Murder; they are neither able nor willing to execute your Commands. Be Friends with America, for your own Interest, and your own Safety; you will want her Affection when her Sword is turned against you. A few ragged Highlanders obliged you to call upon a Royal General, and a Body of disciplined Troops, to save this Country; Half a Million of brave and desperate Men, nerved to Arms, must eventually prevail. I have one Word to that Reverend Bench, I want to know how they reconcile it to the true Principles of Christianity to spill the Blood of America like Water."
Extract of a Letter from Calais, May 20.
"By what I can learn, the Death of Louis XV. will give a strange Turn to the Affairs of Europe; but no Nation is likely to be affected by it so much as England. The good old King, I really believe, entertained much Friendship for the English, and made it his principal Study to avoid a War with them. The young one, I am afraid, means to pursue a different Conduct. I am credibly informed, and I have no Reason to doubt the Information, that he has just sent a very pressing Invitation to the Pretender to visit Versailles, on Purpose to provoke the Court of London to question him about it; which I suppose will be the Case, and then a War follows in Course. This, I think, and so do most People here, is a poor Earnest of his Regard to his already distressed Country."
Extract of a Letter from Dantzick, June 3.
"After the Prussian Minister took off the Prussian Eagle from his Hotel, and left this City, going to Marienwerder, to acquaint the King with the Resolution of the Magistrates, the latter, finding it to be a serious Matter, they sent Notice to Mr. Dietz, the Prussian Resident, that they should assemble again the 2d Instant, and come to another Resolution. They accordingly assembled, and, after mature Consideration of the Consequences, they were resolved to acknowledge the King of Prussia the legal Owner of their Port and Harbour; but Mr. Mucha, Alderman for the Company of Bakers, arose, and called aloud, "It is Treachery! Treachery!" it is not in your Power, continued he, to dispose of the Property of your Fellow Citizens without consulting every Individual upon the Subject. The different Companies, who were assembled in the different Halls, sent the following Instructions to their Aldermen, viz. "to vote for nothing which reads against the Oath of Fidelity to Augustus Stanislaus, the present King of Poland, and against the Rights of the City." The Merchants, in an uncommon great Body, were assembled on the Change, and selected eight from amongst themselves, whom they sent to the Magistrates, insisting they should give a negative Answer to the King of Prussia. Some of the Magistrates attended to read the Note which they received from the Russian and Prussian Ministers, adding, that it would be Madness for a few Inhabitants of one single City to oppose so powerful a Monarch, who fought and conquered three of the greatest Powers in Europe, and the Consequence thereof would be a total Ruin of the City; but they were answered, that they would rather be ruined by the Hand of an universal Tyrant than by their own Hands. The Populace were stronger yesterday than before; they cried out, "Augustus Stanislaus, our gracious King, for ever! let us rather die Freemen than live Slaves!" The Sittings of the Magistrates lasted yesterday from eight o'Clock in the Morning till nine in the Evening, but nothing was resolved. They will assemble again to-morrow; but as nothing but Despair is seen among the Inhabitants, who would tear to Pieces every one of the Magistrates that should vote for the King of Prussia, we can foretell our Fate: The Magistrates will be obliged to resolve against the King of Prussia; the City, in Consequence, will be besieged, and Fire and Sword will probably at last consume that once flourishing free commercial City."
June 25. It may be depended upon, that a great Personage has signified his Displeasure, by Letter, on the Duke of Gloucester's dividing against the Canada Bill.
Hints of Restoration, if asked for, have been made to Dr. Franklin, but declined.
They who know the City of Boston well know that the Merchants who signed the Address to Governor Hutchinson consisted of 224 Gentlemen, and they who are acquainted with the Town well know that the far greater Part of the Gentlemen of Property are in that List.
June 27. The Quebec Act is the only Statute which has been passed these 200 Years to establish Popery and arbitrary Power in the British Dominions.
By the most authentic Accounts from Boston, we learn that the Method the Bostonians mean to defeat the late Acts passed by the British Legislature is not by open Resistance, but by a deep laid System of Combination with the other Colonies to break off all commercial intercourse with the Mother Country.
Orders were sent off to Ireland, in the Course of last Week, for four more Regiments to hold themselves in Readiness to embark for Boston, on the first Notice.
Extract of a Letter from Paris, June 20.
"We hear that the late King had four natural Children by Madame de Barré; he has provided for them in his Testament 100,000 Livres per Annum each, and the whole Sum of 400,000 Livres for the Survivor."
"The Queen has ordered that none of her Attendants appear in her Presence painted, and that no Lady at Court appear painted. Let them (said her Majesty) whom Nature has not endowed with Beauty, render themselves amiable by good Sense and Virtue."
June 28. The Quebec Bill, says a Correspondent, is only a well concerted Scheme to give a Check to the rest of our Colonies, and to keep them in Awe; and Difference in Religion, Laws, and Dependency, will keep up a strong Animosity. And there is no Doubt but every Encouragement that can possibly be afforded to those licentious Slaves, these Children of Popery, supported by a Protestant Court, will be given, in Order to subdue those headstrong Colonists, who pretend to be governed by English Laws.
Since the Parliament broke up, Orders have been sent to all the Manufacturing Counties to postpone the Completion of the Commissions which were executing for American Exportation.
Some Instructions for the North American Governors were on Saturday sent by a special Messenger to the Lord Chancellor, which passed the Great Seal on Sunday, and were returned to Town that Night.
The Freedom of the City of London will in a few Days, it is said, be presented in a Gold Box to his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, as a Testimony of the Affection and Approbation with which his late Conduct has inspired the Citizens.
His Majesty has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant Edward Abbott, of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, to be Lieutenant Governor of Fort Detroit in North America.
June 30. The most intelligent Merchants in the Boston Trade are of Opinion, that if the Port of Boston is shut up six Months the Trade will be irrecoverable, and there is no suffering the Act to take Place under a three Months Exclusion from Trade, so that they have a most ticklish Part to act.
Extract of a Letter from Paris, June 22.
"At the Arrival of the Duke de Choiseul at Court on the 22d Instant, her Majesty was so overjoyed to see him that she flew to his Arms, saying, Welcome, my Noble Duke! it is to you I owe the most important Dignity of being the Queen of France. Have not some of our neighbouring States Reason to be upon their Guards, in finding their bitter Enemy, Choiseul, so highly esteemed at our Court?"
"The King has ordered that his Palace at Thuilleries be prepared for his Reception, where he will reside now and then; and that a Box be put up in the Court Yard, into which every Individual may throw his Petition, the Key of which Box the King only is to have, and which he will open as often as he comes to the Palace."
"We hear that in Consequence of passing the Quebec Bill there are five Regiments of Papists to be raised in Ireland, which are to be exchanged for those stationed at Quebec. A Plan somewhat similar to this was adopted the latter End of last War, but dropped on the Idea of their Religion being a Bar to the Project; that Obstacle is now removed, as the Papist Faith is now established by Law ."
"We hear that a celebrated Banker, who failed about two Years ago, allowed no less a Sum for his domestick Expenses than 1000l. per Month."
"Roehampton, the late Seat of Mr. Alexander Fordyce, is said to be purchased by his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, for the Sum of 30,000 Guineas. This Purchase makes his Grace Master of four of the finest Houses, perhaps, in England."
"When Foote was last in Ireland, a young Clergyman of his Acquaintance, who was remarkably plain in his Person, was showing him a Number of Improvements he had made in his House and Gardens; then turning about to the Wit, said, "You see, Sam, I have got the Wife Tlap ." "Aye, says the other (looking him full in the Face) but I do not Half like the Bait ."
July 2. Yesterday came on to be tried in the Court of King's Bench at Westminster, by a special Jury, before Lord Mansfield, a Cause wherein Captain Elphinstone, of his Majesty's Ship Egmont, was Plaintiff, and the Printer of an Evening Paper was Defendant, for printing and publishing a Libel, reflecting on the Plaintiff's Character as an Officer; when the Jury, after being out about a Quarter of an Hour, brought in a Verdict for the Plaintiff, with 500l. Damages.
The last Letters from Paris mention that the Smallpox has made its Appearance on his Majesty, the Count de Provence, the Count d'Artois, and the Countess, and that these Royal Personages are all as well as can be expected.
July 3. A few Days since a Woman solicited to be admitted into the Workhouse of a certain Parish not many Miles from Tottenham; and upon being introduced to the Gen'm of the Vestry, a certain Person in the Commission of the Peace addressed himself to her in the following Words: Why, you impertinent Hussy! why, what does you mean by coming to impose upon us in this here Manner, whereof the parochial Laws are made for to protect the Lame, the Halt, the Blind, and the own potent Poor . Friday Night, about ten o'Clock, Mr. Rowley, Master of the London Coffeehouse, returning from Stockwell, was stopped near the Gallows, on Kennington Common, by three Footpads, who robbed him of his Watch and about 4l.
Saturday Night, between eleven and twelve o'Clock, as Mr. Bicknell, of Charter House Square, was knocking at his Father's Door, he was knocked down by a Villain, who held him on the Ground while a Woman rifled his Pockets of a Silver Watch, and about 4l. in Money.
Saturday Morning early a young Lad, about eighteen years of Age, broke into the Kitchen of Mr. Panchart, in Wells Street, Oxford Road; but being overheard, he was shot dead in the Hall by a Man who lay in the House. The Family were all out of Town.
July 4. A Letter from America observes that at the Meeting of the Merchants at Norfolk, in Virginia, on receiving the Proposal from the Bostonians to resolve on a Non-importation Agreement, till all the Acts relating to Boston were repealed, one present observed, that the Request put him in Mind of the old Fable of the Fox that had lost his Tail, and who would have persuaded his Brethren to cut off theirs. The Bostonians (says he) are the Fox first mentioned; but as Amputation is a dangerous Operation, and may be attended with great Inconveniences, it will be better to take Time to consider of it. The Meeting was accordingly adjourned for a Fortnight, and it was expected they would forget to meet again.
Last Week the Court of Admiralty at Edinburgh determined a Cause, wherein the Emigrants from Caithness were Pursuers, and a Merchant in Edinburgh Defender. The Emigrants had entered into a Contract with the Defender, who agreed to carry them to America, on their paying their Passage, amounting to upwards of 700l. which they accordingly did. The Ship sailed with them in September last, but received considerable Damage from some high Storms soon after she sailed, and was obliged to be brought from the Orkneys to Leith to be repaired; since which Time, the Emigrants, having expended all their Money for their Passage, have been subsisting on the Charity of the Publick. The Emigrants brought their Action against the Defender for not fulfilling his Contract, and for the Damages they had sustained, in being so long detained from prosecuting their Voyage. The Court of Admiralty was pleased to decree, that the Defender should repay the Money the Emigrants had given him for their Passage, with Interest, &c.
His Majesty has been pleased to grant a special Pardon, under the Great Seal, to two Gentlemen of Ireland, for all Treasons, Misprisions of Treason, Felonies, Crimes, and Offences whatsoever by them committed, and for their entering into the Service of the King of Spain.
We hear that Orders were sent last Week to Ireland for the strictest Care to be taken to prevent the raising Recruits by French and Spanish Emisaries, many of whom are said to be at present in that Kingdom.
Friday Evening, as Mr. Aldrich, of Chancery Lane, and his Wife, were coming to Town from Uxbridge, they were stopped between Shepherd's Bush and Acton by three Footpads, who took from them what Cash they had, and a Gold Watch. One of them struck Mrs. Aldrich with a Pistol across the Mouth, because she made Resistance, whereby she was much hurt.
Extract of a Letter from Marseilles, June 13.
"We have just received the disagreeable News, that the Minerva, a Russian Man of War of 54 Guns, on Board of which was Admiral Synawin, met in the Mediterranean, in her Way from Leghorn to Peterstburgh, with a Barbarian Squadron; and after a Battle of near four Hours, the Russian Man of War was sunk, and every Soul on Board perished."
"The Spanish armed Ships of War in the Mediterranean increase every Day; there are at present about twelve Ships of the Line, and twice the Number of Frigates and small Vessels of that Nation, cruising in that Sea."
We learn from Bastia, that General Count Narbonne, the French Commander in Corsica, has despatched a Courier to his Court, desiring a formidable Reinforcement to be sent into that Island, as the Rebels are become so powerful that the French Troops are actually in Danger.
Extract of a Letter from Plymouth, July 1.
"The Fate of the Vessel that was sunk for Experiment is at last determined, irrecoverably lost. The Launches and Barges of the Dockyard have been striving to get her up, ever since Tuesday. Yesterday they raised her up five Fathoms; but one Hawser breaking, the other (for there were two) slipped from under her, and she is now entirely given up. They had got her almost within a Cable's Length of the Shore, when the Hawser broke, and she is supposed to have rolled down the Beach, as it is amazingly steep, and got among the Rocks, as they have ineffectually tried to get Hold of her again. The Men and Barges are all returned to the Yard this Day."
"When she went down she had three small Buoys, one painted white, one red, and one black, which the Man who went down in her said he could send up at Pleasure, and promised to do; the first, if he was very well, the second, if middling, and the last if very bad. The first of these came up yesterday, in taking the Turns round her (as supposed) to weigh her. It is still believed that the Project is feasible, and would have succeeded but on Account of the Badness of the Bottom, there being Rocks (as said) upwards of sixty Feet high near the Spot where the Vessel was sunk."
"Lord Sandwich, and the Gentlemen who came with him, are still here, but leave this Place on Monday next."
A few Days since one Isaac Ibes, a poor Man who used to get his Living by selling Matches, found in an old Box, at his Lodgings in Hart Street, Southwark, a Lottery Ticket of the Year 1753; which, upon Inquiry, proved a Prize of 500l. with seventeen Years Interest due thereon.
We have received Advice from Senegal, that some Gentlemen of the Factory had just returned from making a Tour of 500 Miles above Podore Factory and Settlement, and gave a very agreeable Account of the inland Country, abounding in Ivory, Gold Dust, and Gums.
We are assured, from good Authority, that Advice was yesterday received of the King of Prussia's having actually opened the Sieges of the Cities of Dantzick and Thorn.
A Cabinet Council is summoned to be held this Evening at Kew, on some Matters of Privacy and Importance.
Yesterday a Messenger was sent off from St. James's, charged with some important Despatches to Thomas Wroughton, Esq; his Majesty's Ambassador at Warlaw.
Some spirited Measures respecting the Payment of the Manila Ransom are, we are assured, now under Consideration.
We are, from good Authority, assured that Lord Clive will shortly be sworn of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council.
The much talked of Defalcation of a Noble Lord, lately deceased, will, we are assured, be clearly accounted for in a short Time.
It may be depended upon, that some interesting Intelligence respecting Crab Island will soon be laid before the Publick.
Some private Instructions are now making out to be forwarded to his Excellency Sir Ralph Payne, K. B. Governor of the Leeward Islands. It is asserted, that his Grace the Duke of Leeds, and his Son, the Marquis of Caermarthen, will soon come before the Publick in important Offices.
Lord Mansfield has been of late much closeted at Kew, as has the Lord Chancellor, the Attorney and Solicitor General.
Some considerable Regulations in the Business of the Exchequer are soon to be carried into Execution.
We are assured that some extraordinary Orders for military Preparations will soon be issued from the War Office.
It may be depended upon, that a great Number of new Brass Cannon is ordered to be cast immediately, by the Board of Ordnance.
Two Men of War and two Frigates, we hear, are now preparing to take an active Station on the Baltic.
We hear from Guatimala, that another Earthquake has destroyed those Houses, &c which were left standing by that which happened in July 1773; that the Inhabitants fled to the Country, where they are building Huts to live in; and they purpose founding a new City, on a Spot of Ground nearer the Sea.
July 5. This Day a Common Hall was held at Guildhall, when the Numbers of the Poll for Sheriffs were reported, and the Majority being greatly in Favour of Alderman Plover and Mr. Hart, they were declared duly elected. Alderman Plover thanked the Livery, in a concise and pertinent Speech. Mr. Hart likewise returned his Thanks to the Livery, but was so much intimidated that he with great Difficulty could proceed so far as to be understood. The Speeches of Messieurs Grieve and Williams on the same Occasion were well delivered, and received with great Applause.
July 6. We are confidently assured, the Parliament will be dissolved very soon after the Prorogation of it.
The Designs of the Ministry can be no longer a Secret. They have already, in Fact, though not in Form, declared War against the North Americans; for in the Duties proposed to be laid on all Rums imported into Quebec, they have put the French, Danish, and Dutch, on a Level with those from America, Sixpence per Gallon being the Duty intended for each.
Since the Accession of the present French King to the Throne of that Kingdom, there have been several Messengers sent from hence to Lord Stormont, at Versailles. It seems as if there was a Necessity of temporising greatly, and it will be well if his Lordship suffers no great Perplexity from such a Variety of Instructions and Orders.
Upon the King's giving his Royal Assent to the obnoxious Quebec Bill, and thereby breaking his Coronation Oath, led me to inquire the Framers and Advisers of it, when it was said the Scotch were the first that framed and advised it. Our Recentment then ought to fall upon them, who, not content with having every Place of Profit both in and out of the Kingdom, are, Weed like , sapping, undermining, and subverting this once happy Constitution. Is there an Ambassador scarce abroad but is Scotch, a Governor or Consul but what is Scotch? Look at home, you will see them in the most lucrative Employ, and the Navy and Army filled with them. Is there a Command in the Navy given but a Scotchman has it? The same likewise in the Army. All this is not to be wondered at; if the Thane and Jeffries issue their Mandate to the respective first Lords of the Treasury and Admiralty, the Secretary at War, &c. it must be complied with, for they hold their Places upon no other Tenure: Therefore, until the Thane and Jeffries have lost all Confidence of their Master's Ear, the Scotch will ever be promoted in Preference to the English. So prone to Tyranny and absolute Power are the Scotch, that even the Dey of Algiers would not suffer the Consul Fraser to land there, for Fear of being deposed by him.
It is said that the Names of those who voted for the Quebec Bill are circulated in almost every City and Borough in England and Scotland, and the next General Election will determine whether the Pope or the Voice of the People is to choose a British Parliament.
We are assured that the naval Preparations at the different Seaports have been ordered to be expedited ever since the Arrival of the Intelligence from Boston.
Yesterday Morning died at Holland House the Right Honourable Henry Fox, Lord Holland, Baron of Foxley, in Wilts, Clerk of the Pells in Ireland for Life, and also for the Lives of his two Sons. His Lordship is succeeded in Title and Estate by his eldest Son Stephen Fox, Esq; now Lord Holland, which vacates his Seat in Parliament for the City of Salisbury.—Also, at his Seat at Little Ealing, Zachariah Pearce, D. D. Lord Bishop of Rochester.
At a Tea Party, a few Evenings since, where the Company were warmly engaged in Conversation, the Lady of the House forgetting to put the Tea into the Pot, filled it with Water, and poured it out; when a Lady in Company immediately informed her, "Perhaps, Madam, you think you have been making Tea, but you have only been making Water ."
To the PEOPLE.
I WILL follow the Quebec Bill to the Throne, as I would the Framer of it to a Scaffold. I have told the King, that if he assents to the Bill he will break his Coronation Oath; and a Breach of an Oath, whether in a King or a Peasant, I call Perjury. The English Government is founded on an Agreement mutually entered into by the King and People. The King swears, that the established Laws and Customs of the Realm shall be the Rule of his Conduct, and that he will govern, in every Respect, according to them. The People take an Oath of Allegiance, but it is conditional: They are bound to obey no longer than the Sovereign adheres to the Terms of his Oath; for it would be absurd to suppose the People fettered down to a Promise after the first Magistrate has thought himself at Liberty to sport with the most solemn Engagements. I therefore repeat it, that the Moment a King of England shall perjure himself that Instant are his Subjects absolved from their Allegiance; the Compact is broken; the Government founded on that Compact is dissolved.
It is no Excuse, at the Bar of Reason, to allege that the Prince was ill advised; for, after repeated Warnings, who but an obstinate Semblance of Majesty would persist in the Wrong? It is of no Consequence to the People whether a King perjures himself at the Instigation of Bute, Mansfield, Jeffries, or the Devil; he who is so wicked as to violate his Oath, at the Instigation of Knaves, is too weak to be trusted with the Rights of honest Men.
I have only, then, one Question to ask of the People; it is this, if ever they should be so unhappy as to live under a perjured Prince, whether they would not sooner see another Scaffold erected at Whitehall than another Coronation in Westminster Abbey? If I know any Thing of the Spirit of Englishmen, the Scaffold would be crowded with Heroes, the Abbey with Children, for the Sake of the Rareeshow; whilst thus would run the general Shout of the People, Off with the Head that pays no regard to the Sacredness of an Oath .
A SCOTCHMAN.
July 11. The Premier, it is said, has declared positively that the Boston Port Bill shall never be repealed while he has a Head, but kept hanging over the Heads of the Colonies.
Extract of a Letter from St. Edmund's Bury, July 5.
"The signing the Quebec Bill has given great Spirits to the Roman Catholicks of this County; they now begin to triumph, and do not scruple to declare that in a few Years they shall have the same Privileges allowed them here as the Roman Catholicks have at Quebec. We have at this Time four Mass Houses, which are open every Day, one in the Southgate Street, one in the Northgate Street, one in the Westgate Street, and one in the Ribbygate Street; they draw a Number of People after them, especially the lower Sort, whom they obtain by Presents, &c."
July 15. Yesterday Lord and Lady Chatham came to Town, with Lord Pitt, who yesterday Afternoon set out for Portsmouth, to embark for North America, after which Lord and Lady Chatham returned to Hayes.
July 15. This Day a Cabinet Council was held at St. James's, upon Affairs of Importance, but no Part of the Subject Matter has as yet transpired.
It is resolved, at all Events, not to repeal the Boston Port Bill. Lord North says, it will keep good for Years in America, though not used. However, to qualify it, in some Respect, it is in Agitation to create forty American Baronetcies; which, properly conferred, Ministry think it will go a great Way in co-operating with their Designs of recovering the Harmony of that Country.

The late deplorable Accident on Board the Kent, it is thought, will occasion an Order to forbid Salutes to any but the Royal Family.
On Thursday Evening Captain Fonnereau, who went out with Captain Cook on a farther Discovery to the South Seas, arrived in Town from Portsmouth, having brought with him a Native from those Parts, and yesterday Morning waited on Lord Sandwich, at his House in the Admiralty; and on Sunday next they are both to wait on his Majesty, at St. James's.
We are told, that a Plan is certainly in Agitation to send the Felons sentenced for Transportation to the East Indies, instead of Virginia, Maryland, &c. from whence they return so soon to be hanged.
July 16. Lord North was with the King a long While yesterday, and it is said that some unwelcome News brought him to Town.
A Person at Paris is said to have invented a Time Piece, which, by the Use of a particular Spring, will go without winding up.
They write from Paris, that it is currently reported in that City that the King of Sweden is poisoned; but this Report wants Confirmation.
Orders are given for three Men of War to sail with the first fair Wind as a Reinforcement to Commodore Shuldham's Fleet, on the Newfoundland Station.
July 18. Some Pasquinades, of a serious and treasonable Nature, have been stuck up publicly at the Palace of St. James's. No publick Notice hath been taken of such Libels.
The King's flying Effort is increased, and the Soldiers ride with their Swords in Hand.
There are Men of melancholy Dispositions, whose Zeal for their Country, and Tenets of their Religion, may make them desperate.
A certain great Man has often said, that the most disagreeable Task he has to go to repeat his Minister's Speech in a certain House. The last Visit will make the Repetition more disagreeable. It is a Thousand Pities that the same great Man hath not more Discernment to discover that a wicked Ministry commit Acts obnoxious to Law and the Country; and then, while they screen themselves, they shove him forward to bear the Brunt of the Storm.
Preparations, of a very singular Nature, are now confidently talked of on the Continent.
The People of America are still unanimous to abide by the Exportation and Importation Resolutions.
July 19. On Sunday the wild Indian that was taken on an Island in the South Seas, by Captain Cook, of the Endeavour, was privately presented, by the Earl of Sandwich, to his Majesty at Kew.
A Correspondent observes, that when the Americans threaten us with a Non-importation Agreement they threaten what would be a Revenge upon themselves, as such a Measure would intolally raise Divisions among themselves, to which must contribute to the Ruin of that deluded People.
If we are to have a War (said a Patriot a few Days since) all the old Rogues must turn out, for no Body will lend them a Shilling. Allowing that to be the Case, said a ministerial Bystander, the new Rogues will turn in, and pick it out of their Pockets.
GLASGOW, June 30. We hear from Carron, that Orders are received from Spain for making 1000 Pieces of large Cannon, which are preparing with all Expedition.
In digging for a Foundation to a House in North Leith, last Week, a Pair of solid Gold Candlesticks were found in the Rubbish. The Proprietor, Captain John Crawford, is determined to inspect the Ground carefully, as it is thought some more Treasure may be found.
The Greenland Fishery has turned out much more success ul this Year than for many Years past, all the Ships that went out this Season having returned nearly full.
EDINBURGH, July 1. Several Gentlemen at Leith have signed an Agreement to wear Scots Broadcloth only, under a Penalty of 5l. Sterling for each Transgression.
This Season affords a most pleasing Prospect of a fine Crop; and, as an Instance of it, we are authorised to inform the Publick that one Farmer in the County of Fife has offered to furnish a Baker with 3000 Bolls of Wheat, all growing in his Possession, and the Produce of this Year.
PHILADELPHIA, August 17.
THE Delaware Lottery, for the Sale of Lands belonging to the Earl of Stirling, began Drawing on Burlington Island last Thursday, and by yesterday Afternoon they had drawn 5400 Tickets, and expect to finish on Thursday next; the great Prize is still in the Wheel.
Extract of a Letter from London, July 8.
"The Fox Indian, bound to New England, has on Board 30 Chests of Tea, shipped on the 6th Day of July, by Anthony Bacon, Esq; of London. This Tea is general supposed to be a Speculation of the Minister."
Extract of a Letter from Boston, August 20.
"Letters by Captain Scott have this Moment arrived. He brings Intelligence that the People in England are rubbing up their Eyes, and begin to awake. Governor Tryon is said not a little to contribute to this. He told the Lords of Council, that it would not do to treat the Yorkers as he did the Regulators; they were a very different Kind of Men. He said all the Force he had could not have saved the Tea, and therefore he sent it back. He was asked what he thought of the present Measures adopted towards the Americans? He answered, they would undoubtedly produce a Conquest. And what would be the Result of that? He replied, he could not take upon him to say; perhaps the Loss of all North America."
WILLIAMSBURG, September 15.
By Captain Gorham, from New York, we have Papers from thence to the 8th of this Instant, which advise that on Monday the 5th the Delegates from the different Colonies met in General Congress at Philadelphia, and made Choice of the Honourable PEYTON RANDOLPH, Esq; of this City, to be their Chairman, and Mr. Charles Thomson their Secretary; after which they adjourned, and intended to proceed on Business in a few Days.
The City of New York was put into the greatest Consternation last Monday Evening, in the Evening, by the Arrival of an Express from Connecticut Government, with the News "that General Gage, having sent a Detachment of the Military to seize on the Provincial Magazine, a Skirmish ensued, wherein several of the Country People were killed on the Spot; that the Troops afterwards retreated to Boston, whereupon the Ships of War began to fire on the Town, and continued battering the same all Night; and this, it was said, happened on Friday the 2d of this Instant." Expresses, with the above melancholy Intelligence, had been despatched through Connecticut, and several other Governments, it being universally believed to be true; and so great was the Alarm, occasioned by the Hostilities said to have happened with his Majesty's Troops, that the whole Colony of Connecticut was in Arms. A Gentleman who came from Hartford, in said Government, said he saw 2000 Men, completely armed, march through that Place, on their Way to assist the Inhabitants of Boston; but on being informed that there was no Occasion for them (the whole Account being discovered to be utterly void of Foundation, and propagated likely by some wicked Incendiary for the vilest Purposes) they fired two Volleys, and each Man returned quietly home. The Alarm had spread as far as Philadelphia, Expresses having been sent there from New York; the Inhabitants were in the utmost Consternation, and the Bells, 'tolling', rang a whole Day.
Extract of a Letter from Frederickburg, September 14.
"Since Colonel Preston's Letter to you, we have Advice, by one Bell, who is just arrived in this Town from Kentucky, that Hancock Taylor and James Strother were both killed, as they were returning from the Mouth of that River, where they had been to survey some Lands. Hempshall, who was missing when Colonel Preston wrote to you, is since come in; he was with Taylor and Strother when they were fired upon by the Indians. Taylor lived several Days after he received his Wounds, and came with Hempshall and Bell at least a Hundred Miles towards the Settlements. John Willis, John Ashby, and several others, are still missing; but they are gone down the River, it is believed."
"Very liberal Contributions have been made, in this Place, for the Relief of the Poor in Boston. Mr. MANN PAGE, Jun. one of our Representatives, has taken uncommon Pains to promote the Subscriptions, and I dare say his most sanguine Expectations are fully answered."
NEW YORK, September 8. A Letter from Rhode Island, dated the 5th Instant, says: "By the latest Accounts from Boston, we learn that General Gage seized the publick Stock of Gunpowder in the Magazine at Cambridge, about 250 Quarter Barrels, one Day last Week, ordered it to the Castle, and a Detachment of his Troops were proceeding to Medford, a Town adjoining Charlestown, for the same Purpose. This Measure gives great Umbrage to the People, although General Gage is warranted by the Charter of Massachusetts Bay to commit the publick Ammunition to the Custody of such Persons as he shall deem meet." A great Number of People (it is said they were armed) gathered at Cambridge last Week; the Report here yesterday Morning was, that there were 30,000 of them, but the latest Accounts bring them down to 1500; that upon hearing the Resignation of several of the Counsellors, they said they were satisfied, and retired to their respective Homes.
Various Reports are propagated concerning the Resignation of the Counsellors; by the most authentic Advice, seven or eight at most have resigned. The Jurors refused serving at the Boston Superior Court last Week, which hath occasioned an Adjournment for a short Time. Very strange and exaggerated Accounts are spread every Day through the Country, some of which I do not doubt may have reached you."
By Captain Miller, in 43 Days from London, we learn that forty Vessels, with Corn from America, arrived at Lisbon in the Course of two Weeks; that the King of France was well of the Smallpox; that the Court of Great Britain had lately remitted a large Sum of Money to the King of Prussia, who had not got Possession of Dantziek, but that it was imagined he would soon be able to effect the same, through the Mediation of the Empress of Russia, between whose Troops and the Turks there have been several Skirmishes, mostly to the Advantage of the former.
We are informed that Captain James Chambers has commenced a Suit in London for the Recovery of the Damages he sustained in the destroying a Quantity of Tea, which he some Time ago brought to this Port.
The 10th and 52d Regiments are ordered from Quebec, to join his Majesty's Troops at Boston.
Lieutenant Governor Oliver has been compelled to resign his Seat in his Majesty's Council of the Massachusetts Bay.
Applications having been made to the King in Behalf of several Persons of Rank to be appointed Governor of this Province, his Majesty declared he would allow of no more Solicitations until the State of Governor Tryon's Health would allow him to determine whether or not he could return to the Administration of Government in this City. Should the Means using for this Gentleman's speedy Recovery prove ineffectual, we are assured that Sir George Bridges Rodney, Baronet, is most likely to succeed, though he will find a powerful Competitor in a Relation of the Earl of Dartmouth.
It is said to be in Contemplation that the King shall appoint Dr. Jonathan Shipley, the Bishop of St. Asaph (whose celebrated Speech in Favour of the Liberties of this Country engages so large a Share of this Day's Paper) to be Archbishop and Primate of all North America, and that he will have two Suffragan Bishops under him.
A Vessel is arrived at Philadelphia from England, after a very short Passage, by which we are informed that Dr. Benjamin Franklin had embarked and failed for Philadelphia, several Days before the Departure of the above Vessel.
THE Members of the Frederickburg JOCKEY CLUB are to meet on Saturday the 1st of October, at which Time a Committee will be appointed to adjudge the Premiums. GEORGE WEEDON, Secretary.
CHARLES CITY, September 13, 1774.
RUN away from the Subscriber, about the first of August last, a Negro Man named PETER, by Trade a good House Carpenter, Cooper, Bricklayer, Plasterer and Whitewasher, and Gardener, about five Feet five or six Inches high, rather of a yellowish Complexion, and a little pitted with the Smallpox; his Clothing as usual for Crop Negroes, except a Cotton Coat instead of a Waistcoat, which is dyed of a dark brown Colour. He formerly belonged to Mr. Willis of Gloucester, and by him given to Mrs. Kennon of this County. He worked some Time at Kennon's Mine in Buckingham, and has lived on the Eastern Shore; and I am of Opinion he is lurking in one of those Neighbourhoods, or endeavouring to get to Mr. Kennon's in North Carolina, where he may be harboured by his Negroes. I will give 30s. to any Person who will deliver him to me, if taken in Charles City, 40s. if in any other County, and if out of the Province 5l. and I hereby forewarn all Masters of Vessels and others from harbouring or carrying him out of the Colony. (4||) JOHN WEST.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Dinwiddie, a Negro Man named S I P; he formerly ran away and passed for a Freeman, by the Name of Richard Hunt. He is about 43 Years old, five Feet six or seven Inches high, has a very down Look, and is branded on the right Cheek SV, but so dull as not to be perceived without strictly searched for. Whoever brings the said Fellow to me shall have 20s. Reward, besides what the Law allows. (2||) SALATHIEL VAUGHAN.
RUN away from the Subscriber, about the 20th of April, a Mulatto Fellow named PETER BROWN, by Trade a Painter, but can do Carpenters Work, about 35 or 40 Years of Age, five Feet eight or nine Inches high, of a dark Complexion, slim made, thin Visage, has lost several of his upper fore Teeth, is fond of Singing, and sings and whistles well; has several Suits of Clothes, therefore I cannot describe his Dress. He was some Years past tried for a Robbery, and found guilty, but obtained the Governor's Pardon on suffering one Year's Imprisonment. After that Time he was sold to Mr. John Fox of Gloucester, with whom he lived one or two Years; he then ran away and passed for a Freeman in the Counties of King William, Caroline, and Hanover, where he was taken up and brought home. As he has a Wife at Mr. Benjamin Hubbard's, it is likely he may be lurking in that Neighbourhood, or near Petersburg, where he was raised. Whoever takes up the said Runaway, and delivers him to me at Osborne's, shall have 40s. Reward. All Persons are forbid from harbouring or carrying him out of the Colony. (1) PETERFIELD TRENT.
WILLIAMSBURG, September 6, 1774.
I BEG Leave to inform the Publick, and particularly those Gentlemen who were pleased to take my Subscription Papers to their respective Counties, to raise a small Sum of Money in each for the Encouragement of making SALT, that after viewing many Places on this and the other Side of the Bay, and on the Sea Coast of the Eastern Shore, I have now fixed on a very convenient Spot on that Coast for erecting proper Works; and as nothing more can be done on my Part without Money, I must beg the Favour of them to forward such Sums they may be able to collect, to Robert Carter Nicholas, Esq; who is so kind as to take the Trouble of receiving and paying the Money out to me. Proper Security shall be lodged in his Hands, for any Sum that I may draw. The Certainty of my being able to make Salt, as good as any whatever, is hardly to be doubted, from the several Experiments which I have made, and which are pretty fully testified by Gentlemen of Veracity, whose Certificates will be lodged in the Hands of Mr. Nicholas.
Gentlemen will readily see the Necessity I am under of requesting speedy Assistance, when I inform them that I have for some Time past devoted my whole Attention to this Business, and given over every other Pursuit from which my Family might have derived any Advantage, and that, in Order to put the Works in as great Forwardness as was in my Power, I have incurred a considerable Expense, and been obliged to contract for some of the necessary Materials. JAMES TAIT.
MR. TAIT having produced to me a Sample of Salt made on the Eastern Shore, together with the Certificate of a Gentleman of unquestionable Credit, I have no Doubt, with proper Encouragement, of his succeeding in his proposed Scheme; from which, it seems highly probable, that this Country will reap the greatest Advantage. I shall therefore most cheerfully comply with his Request, and take great Pleasure in contributing every Thing in my Power towards carrying it into Execution. ROBERT C. NICHOLAS.
WILLIAMSBURG, September 8, 1774.
I INTEND to leave the Colony immediately. (||) MARY THECHER.
GLOUCESTER County, September 7, 1774.
THE Subscriber, understanding as many Branches of the WEAVING BUSINESS as any Person in this Colony, would be very glad to set up a Manufactory for weaving LINENS, COTTONS, WOOLLENS, and SHIP CANNVAS, which he will engage shall not be inferior to any imported from Britain. He was employed for three Years by Warner Lewis, Esq; of this County, to whom he refers any Gentleman for his Character and Abilities in his Profession; and will be ready to wait upon any One, at any Time or Place. WILLIAM ROBERTS.
WARWICK, September 1, 1774.
THE STORE here, of late kept by me on Account of Messrs. Dreyton, Mordaunt, and Co. of Gwynne, is now in the Charge of my Brother David Leitch, and the said Company's Store in Prince Edward County, hitherto managed by Mr. Henry Benjamin Lightfoot, is under the Direction of Mr. John Graham. The Business of the Stores will, on the same Account, be prosecuted so far to their usual Extent as the Situation of publick Affairs will admit. The Debts due to this Store I continue to collect, and those contracted with Mr. Lightfoot will remain with him for the same Purpose. It will be deemed obliging in those whose Accounts are open, and inconvenient to be discharged, immediately to close them by Bond, or other Specialty, as may be approved of. JOHN LEITCH.
WILLIAMSBURG, September 8, 1774.
THE Legatees of Mr. Joseph Scrivener, deceased, being very pressing to receive their respective Dividends of his Estate, it is expected that all Persons indebted thereto, by Bond, Book Debts, or for Goods purchased at the Sale, will make Payment by the ensuing October Court, as no longer Indulgence can or will be given by the Executors. WILLIAM TREBELL, ROBERT NICOLSON.
WARWICK, August 30, 1774.
I INTEND to leave the Colony immediately. ANDREW FRENCH.
WILLIAM DAVIS, TAILOR, YORK TOWN,
BEGS Leave to inform the Publick that he carries on his Business at that Place, and will be much obliged to those who may please to favour him with their Custom, as he will ever make it his Study to pay strict Attention to their Commands. He will furnish the following Articles complete for ready Money, viz. A Suit of the best Superfine Cloth, middle Size, 7l. 10s. Do. of Casimir, 8l. Do. of Duoy lined through, 4l. 5s. Do. of Sagathy lined, 4l. 15s. A best Bath Coating Surtout Coat, 2l. 18s. A Bath Coating Coat and Waistcoat, 3l. 10s. A Suit of the best Jeans faced, 4l. 10s. He will wait upon any Gentleman within twenty or thirty Miles, and furnish them with any other Wearing Apparel at the same reasonable Rates. And that the Quality of them may not be doubted, if they are not made according to Agreement, or Orders sent, no Gentleman is desired to receive them, or make any Satisfaction whatever. (||)
To be SOLD or RENTED immediately, in Halifax Town, North Carolina,
A VERY commodious Dwelling-House, and all necessary Outhouses, with seven Lots and four Acres of Land adjoining, all paled in, lately the Residence of Mr. James Milner, Attorney at Law. Whoever is inclined to purchase, or rent, may apply to the Subscriber, living in Northampton County. (||) SAMUEL PEETE.
To be RENTED, in Warwick, A STOREHOUSE, Lumber House, and Dwelling-House, conveniently situated for Trade; also several Houses fitted for the Reception of Travellers, to whom good Encouragement will be given by the Inhabitants. For Terms inquire of BERNARD MARKHAM.
For SALE at Norfolk, on the 1st of next Month,
THE Brig LIGHTFOOT, of 100 Tons Burthen, British built; likewise all her Stores, Tackle, and Appurtenances. The Time of Payment will be made easy to the Purchaser. The Vessel is very strong and well built, and her Sails, Rigging, &c. in good Condition. She may be viewed on Saturday next, and from that Time to the Day of Sale. For farther Particulars apply to Messrs. Phipps and Bowdoin, Merchants, in Norfolk, or the Subscriber in this Town. York, Sept. 7, 1774. JOHN H. NORTON.
To be RENTED for any Number of Years, and Possession taken the 25th of October next,
THE STOREHOUSE lately occupied by Mr. Adam Fleming, which has all necessary Conveniences for a Merchant, with a good Storehouse at Law Point Landing; it is needless to describe the Situation of the Store, as it is generally known, being next House to the Tavern. For Terms apply to the Subscriber, in Cabin Point. ARCHIBALD DUNLOP.
ISLE of WIGHT, September 1, 1774.
DICK, the Property of the Subscriber, absconded about ten Days ago; he is a black Fellow, well set, about five Feet six Inches high, has remarkable white Teeth, thick Lips, and a Scab above his right Ear. He went off in a Boat, in all Probability to make his Escape out of the Colony. I will give a Reward of 20s. if taken in the Colony, 40s. if brought home to me, and 4l. if taken and secured out of the Colony, so as I may get him again. I forewarn all Masters of Vessels from harbouring or carrying him out of the Colony, at their Peril. HEZEKIAH HALLIDAY.
MECKLENBURG, September 3, 1774.
RUN away from the Subscriber, about two Months ago, a likely Mulatto Lad named ISAAC BEE, formerly the Property of the late President Blair, and is well known about Williamsburg, where I am informed he has been several Times since his Elopement. He is between eighteen and nineteen Years of Age, low of Stature, and thinks he has a Right to his Freedom, because his Father was a Freeman, and I suppose will endeavour to pass for one. He can read, but I do not know that he can write; however, he may easily get some One to forge a Pass for him. I cannot undertake to describe his Apparel, as he has a Variety, and it is probable he may have changed them. Whoever apprehends the said Slave and delivers him to me, or to Mrs. Burwell, in Williamsburg, shall have 40s. All Masters of Vessels are forewarned from carrying him out of the Country. LEWIS BURWELL.
STRAYED, or STOLEN, from the Subscriber, about the first of July last, a small SORREL HORSE,
about six or seven Years old, four Feet five or six Inches high, had a hanging Mane and Switch Tail when he went from me, one of his hind Feet, near the Footlock, by a Strain, seemed to be crooked up in a Knot bigger than the other, he trots only, and is branded, to the best of my Remembrance, on the near Buttock, TPL in a Piece. Whoever brings the said Horse to me in Coochland, near Judd's Ferry, shall have 40s. Reward, if brought forty Miles, and in Proportion for a greater Distance. (2||) CHARLES SAMPSON.
EAST WAREHOUSE, Gloucester County, September 5, 1774.
STRAYED, or STOLEN, out of the College Pasture, the 10th of last Month, a very DARK BAY MARE, about fourteen Hands high, a natural Pacer, has some Saddle Spots, a small Star in her Forehead, a high Roach Back, her Mane hangs on the off Side, and she is branded on the near Buttock, I believe, with an R. Whoever delivers the said Mare to the Reverend Mr. John Dixon, at the College in Williamsburg, or to me at East Warehouse, shall have 40s. Reward; or on giving me an Account where I may get her, 20s. Reward. THOMAS DIXON.
STRAYED, or STOLEN, from Ambrose
Reine's in Spotsylvania, the 16th of August, a LIGHT SORREL HORSE, about fourteen Hands high, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, a Blaze in his Forehead, both of his fore Feet and one of his hind Feet are white, had a small Bell about his Neck, but no Brand. I have some Reason to believe he was stolen, and carried to Orange County. Any Person that will deliver the said Horse to me, at Mr. Henry Gurner's Mill in Essex, or to Mr. Reuben Zimmerman near Frederickburg, shall have 20s. Reward. (2) BENJAMIN BRAGG.

POETS CORNER. The FREETHINKER'S FAITH.
A N Esquire born, a Templar bred; The Bible I have never read. Your Bishops, down from Paul to Grindal, Are Affes all to Hobbes and Tindal; Toland's and Woolfson's Words are better Than any testimonial Letter. My Reason to my Will subsides, And then my Passions are my Guides. Let Conybeare or Sherlock write, With Leland, for the Gospel Light; Such Books as theirs I never handle, The Law of Nature is my Candle. The Law which most my Temper suits, I claim in common with the Brutes; The law of Whoring, Eating, Drinking, The just Result of fair Freethinking. True British Liberty, in my Sense, Is but another Word for License; For, though the Clergy would corrupt us, Post Mortem nulla est Voluptas. And with this Thought my Heart I cherish, Proud Man is like the Beasts that perish.
To be SOLD altogether or in Parcels,
A TRACT of LAND containing 1000 Acres, lying in the lower End of Caroline County, on Pamunkey River, 100 Acres of which are low Ground, adjoining Horn Quarter, belonging to the Honourable Thomas Nelson, Esquire. On the said Tract there is a good Plantation cleared, fit to work ten Hands, on which will be sowed fifty Bushels of Wheat; there are all necessary Outhouses, with a tolerable good Dwelling-House. Also a Tract of Land in King William County, containing 306 Acres, late the Property of Doctor Robert Campbell, within five Miles of Hanover Town, and where the Subscriber now lives. This Land is well improved, with all necessary Accommodations for a Family. For Terms apply to WILLIAM JONES.
FALLS of POTOMACK, in VIRGINIA, August 22, 1774.
THE Subscriber being just arrived from Great Britain, with a Number of Engineers and Artificers, in Order to remove the Obstructions to the Navigation of Potomack River, at and above the lower Falls, and thinking himself fully qualified for such an Undertaking, agreeable to his Proposals before his Embarkation for Europe, he is desirous to have a Meeting of his principal Subscribers and others, interested in this necessary Work; and considering it most convenient to all concerned to have the same at George Town in Maryland, he proposes that it shall be there on Monday the 26th of September, at which Time and Place he will certainly attend, and be ready to lay before them an accurate Plan and Estimate of the Expense. Also an Act of the Virginia Assembly, and likewise a Subscription from some of the principal Proprietors, &c. of the Province of Vandalia, now residing in England, for the farther Encouragement of the proposed Undertaking. JOHN BALENDINE.
WILLIAMSBURG, August 31, 1774.
LOST , a few Days ago, a SILVER WATCH, Maker's Name Moore, London, No. 5253. A Reward of 20s. will be given upon delivering it to the Printer.
TAKEN out of my Garden House the 23d Instant (August) a PINCHBECK WATCH. Whoever will bring the said Watch to me, in Williamsburg, shall have 10s. Reward. WILLIAM HORNSBY.
For CHARTER, THE Ship Landsdale, James Grayson Master, a very good Vessel, well fitted and sound. For Terms apply to Richard Squire Taylor, in King William County.
W O O L L E N S.
THE Subscriber expects in daily, by the Kingston Packet, Captain Joseph Turner, from Hull, a large Assortment of coarse Woollens, viz. Six Quarter Cloths with necessary Trimmings, and other small Packages (of about 40s. Sterling Value each) consisting of coarse Duffles, Friezes, Fearnought, Halfthicks, Bearskins, Kendal Cottons, Negro Blanketing, Bed Blankets, White Plaids, Rugs of different Kinds, and other Goods which he will sell reasonable for Cash, or short Credit. Norfolk, August 30. (tf) JOHN STONEY.
For SALE,
A TRACT of LAND in Charles City County, on Chickahominy River, containing 340 Acres, whereon is a Brick Dwelling-House, with two Rooms on a Floor, and a spacious Passage above and below, a Kitchen, Brick Dairy, and a Number of excellent Fruit Trees. The Plantation is remarkable in its Situation for Fishing and Fowling, and descended to the late Littlebury Cocke on the Death of his Mother Mrs. Mary Tyrie; which Land the Subscribers are desirous may be sold, for, and towards, the Payment of Littlebury Cocke's Debts. Those who are desirous of purchasing the Land are desired to apply to Colonel William Edie and Mr. William Green Munford, who are properly authorised to treat for the same, by REBECCA H. COCKE. JAMES B. JOHNSON. REBECCA JOHNSON.
To be SOLD, for ready Cash, at Amelia Courthouse, on Thursday the 22d of this Instant (September) being Court Day,
A TRACT of LAND, containing by Estimation 100 Acres, whereon a William Grigg now lives, and adjoining the Lands of Thomas Pavey, George Hightower, and George Long. It is sold by Virtue of a Deed of Trust from said Grigg, to John Taub, Esq; and Richard Booker and Co. THOMAS SHORE.
Just imported in the Mary & Jane, Captain Chapman, and to be SOLD by the Subscribers in Williamsburg,
A FRESH Assortment of DRUGS and MEDICINES. Also Anchovies, Capers, Allspice, Pepper, Ginger, Best Sallad and Barbets Oil, Durham Mustard, Sago, Salop, Saltpetre, Cloves, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Hungary, Honey, Lavender, and Orange Flower Waters, Anodyne Necklaces, Court Plaister, White and Brown Sugar Candy, Barley Sugar, Candied Almonds, Carraway Comfits, Orange Chips, Prunes, Essential Salt of Lemons, which makes good Punch, and takes all Kind of Stains and Spots out of Linen, &c. Anderson's Lockyer's, and Keyser's Pills, Eau de Luce, Hill's Balsam of Honey, Do. Tinctures of Valerian, Golden Rod, Elixir Bardana, and Essence of Water Dock, Turlington's Balsam, Godfrey's and Freeman's Cordials, James's Fever Powders, Bateman's and Jesuit's Drops, British Oil, Stoughton's Bitters, Blackie's Lixivium for the Stone and Gravel, Squire's and Daffey's Elixirs, Dickinson's Drops for Convulsion Fits, Copperas, Logwood, Borax, Birdlime, Red and White Lead, Verdigris, Prussian Blue, French and Pearl Barley, Breast Pipes, Nipple Glasses, Urinals, Smelling Bottles, Tooth Brushes, Antimony, Brimstone, Spelter, Zinc, Rotten Stone, Pewter Syringes, Lancets, Crucibles, Black Lead Pots, Pill Boxes, Vials, Gallipots, Glister Pipes, &c. JAMES CARTER. WILLIAM CARTER.
For CHARTER to any Part of Europe,
THE Ship Sparling, William Priestman Master, Burthen about 500 Hogheads, 13,000 Bushels, or 2500 Barrels. For Terms apply to the Subscribers, in Norfolk. (8) JOHN LAWRENCE, & Co.
Who have just imported in said Vessel, from Liverpool, Irish Linens, Osnabrugs, Kendal Cottons, Felt Hats, Sail Canvas, Mould and Dipped Candles, Hard Soap, Nails, Loaf Sugar, Fine Salt, Coals, Queen's China Plates in small Crates, Seine Twine, Bottled Beer, Cheese, &c. &c. They have also for Sale West India Rum, Old Spirits, Muscovado Sugar, Coffee, Ginger, Pimenta, Molasses, Madeira Wine, &c.
To be SOLD, on the Premises, to the highest Bidder, on Thursday the 29th of September, if fair, otherwise next fair Day,
A VALUABLE TRACT of LAND in the lower End of Brunswick County, at Taylor's Bridge, containing, by Estimation, about 8 or 900 Acres, but it shall be surveyed before the Day of Sale, and the exact Quantity ascertained. There are 4 or 500 Acres of this Tract, fine rich low Grounds, on Maberin River, exceedingly well adapted for Indian Corn, Wheat, and Tobacco, as also for raising of Pork, there having been considerable Quantities sold from this Plantation for several Years past. It has Plenty of Timber upon it, with Land enough cleared to work ten or twelve Hands, and is convenient to Church and Mill. One Half of the Purchase Money to be paid next April, and a reasonable Credit will be allowed for the Remainder, on giving Bond with approved Security to SAMUEL S. MCROSKEY. N. B. At the same Time and Place will be sold the greatest Part of the Stock, Utensils, &c. belonging to the said Plantation.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Caroline County,
the 21st of May last, a likely Negro Fellow named SOLOMON, about 20 Years of Age, and will be free at 31, but he pretends to be free now. I do not remember what Clothes he had on. One of his Eyelids is slit with a Blow, but I cannot tell which. He has a Wife at Mr. John Bickerton's in Hanover County, and has been seen at Richmond. His Father, a Negro Fellow called Kitt, lives at Colonel Archibald Cary's in Chesterfield. Any Person that will bring me the said Fellow, or secure him so as I may get him, shall have 31. Reward. BENJAMIN HUBBARD.
AUGUST 20, 1774.
MR. Joseph Herndon and Mr. James Lewis of Spotsylvania are empowered to transact all Kinds of Business for me relating to the Estate of Roger Dixon, deceased; and all Payments made to them, or to Mr. Oliver Towles, Attorney at Law, heretofore empowered, will be good, and allowed by me. The Remainder of the said Estate will be offered for Sale at the Fair in September, at Fredericksburg, consisting of Household and Kitchen Furniture, several vacant Lots, and a Tract of Land three Miles from the Town, called Chalky Level. Six Months Credit will be allowed, on proper Security. I shall likewise offer for Sale my Warehouses at Dixon's and Falmouth Inspections, also my Plantation above the Town of Falmouth; for these twelve Months Credit will be allowed, on giving Bond with approved Security to (4) JOHN DIXON. N. B. The lower Plantation will be rented.
To be SOLD,
A TRACT of LAND in Surry County, containing 450 Acres, known by the Name of Cabin Point, on which are a new Set of Brick Warehouses, which bring in about 70l. a Year, and a new Brick Merchant Mill completely fitted with two Water Wheels on a never-failing Stream, within 100 Feet of the Wharf. The Land is very good for Grain, and has about 40 Acres that may be made fine Meadow. This is one of the most improveable Estates in the Country. Half the Purchase Money to be paid in twelve Months, the other Half may lie for seven Years, on good Security being given, and punctual Payment of Interest. If the Land is not sold by Christmas, it will be rented out. (tf) BENJAMIN HARRISON.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Brunswick County,
on Poplar Creek, WILLIAM FOGG, an indentured Servant about 23 Years old, six Feet high, well made, has a clear Skin under his Clothes, but his Face and Hands are much tanned with the Sun. He carried away with him a blue Coat, red Waistcoat, one or two white Shirts, two Pair of Thread Stockings, a Pair of plated Buckles, two white Stocks, and two Osnabrug Shirts and Trousers. He says he served his Time in London under a Blacksmith, which Trade he understands very well. There went away with him one MOSES WILLIS, who has been a Waggoner, about five Feet or nine Inches high, of a swarthy Complexion, wears his short black Hair, had on an old Virginia Cloth Waistcoat, a Check Shirt, Osnabrug Breeches, an old Beaver Hat, and has one of his Feet very much hurt by a Waggon running over it. The said Moses Willis is a Freeman, and much used to travelling about the back Parts of this Country; I therefore suspect, by his Means, that the said William Fogg will make his Escape. They have been seen to cross Black's Ferry on Roanoke, and it is probable they will make for South Carolina. Whoever takes up the said William Fogg, and delivers him safe to me, at my House, shall have 31. Reward; and if confined in any of the publick Jails, so that I receive him, 30s. Reward. (4) EDWARD TRAVIS.
FOR SALE,
THE noted and well accustomed TAVERN in James City County, about fifteen Miles from Williamsburg, on the main Road leading to New Kent Courthouse and Ruffin's Ferry, with about 500 ACRES of LAND in good Order for Cropping, having six Fields under good Fencing. The Time of Payment will be made very easy to a Purchaser, and the Land, &c. shown by applying to the Subscriber, on the Premises. (tf) THOMAS DONCASTLE.
To be SOLD, to the highest Bidder, at Amelia Courthouse, on the 10th of January next,
TWENTY very likely SLAVES, to satisfy a Debt due to James and Robert Donald, & Co. Credit will be allowed till the 10th of October 1775. Bond and Security to be given to the said Company; and if Payment is not made to the Day, the Bonds will carry Interest from the Date. (7) WILLIAM WATSON.
NEW YORK, July 27, 1774.
FIFTY POUNDS REWARD,
WHEREAS , on the 19th of June last past, a certain JOSEPH THORP was entrusted with a considerable Sum in Half Johanneses, of nine Pennyweight, to be delivered by him at Quebec, and as he has not yet made his Appearance there, with other suspicious Circumstances, it is apprehended he is gone off with the Money. He is a Native of England, about six Feet high, swarthy Complexion, very dark keen Eyes, and pitted with the Smallpox, of a slender Make, stoops as he walks, talks rather slow, with some small Impediment in his Speech. He lived some Time in Boston, from whence he removed to Quebec, assuming the Character of a Merchant in both Places; he was also once in Trade in Newcastle, Virginia, and has a Brother settled there. It is believed he went on Board Captain John F. Prunyn, for Albany, and took with him a blue Casimir and a dark brown Cloth Suit of Clothes. Whoever secures the said Joseph Thorp, in any of his Majesty's Jails on this Continent, shall be entitled to ten per Cent. on the Sum recovered, and the above Reward of 50l. when convicted. Apply to Curson and Seton of New York, Joseph Wharton, Junior, of Philadelphia, Robert Christie of Baltimore, James Gibson and Co. Virginia, John Bondfield of Quebec, Melatiah Bourne or John Rowe of Boston. It is requested of those who may have seen this Joseph Thorp, since the 19th of June last past, or know any Thing of the Route he has taken, that they convey the most early Intelligence thereof to any of the above Persons, or Greenwood, Rifson, and Marsh, in Norfolk, or to Robert Pleasants and Co. at Four Mile Creek, Henrico County; the Favour will be gratefully acknowledged. All Masters of Vessels are forewarned from taking him off the Continent. (tf)
To be RENTED annually, or for a Term of Years,
SWAN'S POINT FERRY and BOATS, with two good Dwelling-Houses, all necessary Outhouses, an exceeding fine Pasture, and Land sufficient to work four Hands, under a good Fence. For Terms apply to the Subscriber. (tf) JOHN HARTWELL COCKE.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Amherst County,
the 10th of July, a Mulatto Woman Slave named SALL, though commonly goes by the Name of Sally Grey; she is of a middle Size, well shaped, Virginia born, and about 25 Years old; had on, when she went away, a brown Linen Jacket and Petticoat, and I cannot learn that she carried any other Clothes with her. She is of a numerous Family of Mulattoes, formerly belonging to a Gentleman of the Name of Howards, in York County, from whence I purchased her a few Years ago, and where probably she may attempt to go again, or perhaps into Cumberland, or Amelia, where I am informed many of her Kindred live. I shall esteem it a particular Favour of those Gentlemen who have any of her Relations in their Possession, to have her apprehended, if she is discovered lurking about their Plantations; and I will give a handsome Reward, besides what the Law allows, to any Person who will deliver her to me. (6) GABRIEL PENN.
FOR SALE,
TWO THOUSAND Acres of LAND, lying on the River Shenando, in the County of Frederick, eight Miles above Abby's Gap. One Third of the Purchase Money to be paid on the Day of Sale, and an extensive Credit will be given for the Remainder. Mr. James Brown will show the Land to any Person inclineable to purchase, and I shall be on the Premises the 15th of November next. (tf) NATHANIEL BURWELL. ISLE of WIGHT, July 19, 1774.
To be SOLD,
THE Sloop PROVIDENCE, Burthen about 45 Tons, only nine Months old, very well built, neatly finished off, completely found, has large Accommodations, and sails remarkably fast. For Terms apply to Captain Charles Thomas at Norfolk, or to (tf) BENJAMIN HARRISON, Junior.
Pursuant to a Decree of the Honourable General Court, and by Letter of Attorney from Colonel George Mercer of Virginia, now in London, will be sold at publick Auction,
ABOUT 3500 ACRES of LAND in the County of Loudoun, near West's Ordinary, about twelve Miles from Leesburg, forty from Alexandria, and thirty five from Dumfries, on Potomack. This Land is well known, by the Description of Bull Run Mountains, and is very fertile, --Also 6500 Acres on Shenando River, in the County of Frederick, opposite to Snicker's Ordinary, and binding on the River about seven Miles. As this Tract is Part of a Survey one of the first in that Part of the Colony, its good Quality cannot be questioned, it is well watered, will admit of two Mills on Land Streams, and others on the River; there are now on it six Plantations well improved for Cropping, 110 Slaves, and very large and choice Stocks of Horses (some of the Dray Breed) black Cattle, Hogs, and Sheep; which, together with the Crops of Corn and Wheat now growing (expected to be upwards of 2000 Barrels and 5000 Bushels) will be sold on the Premises, on the 24th Day of November next, or next fair Day. The Loudoun Lands will be sold at West's Ordinary, on the 21st Day of the same Month. Both Tracts will be laid off in Lots to suit every Kind of Purchaser, who may see them by applying to Mr. Francis Peyton, near the Loudoun Land, and Mr. William Dawson, who resides on the Shenando Tract. Among the Slaves are two good Blacksmiths, two Carpenters, and an exceeding trusty and skillful Waggoner. The aged black Cattle, and grown Hogs, will be fattened for Slaughter. Purchasers above 25l. will be allowed twelve Months Credit, on giving Bond and Security to the Subscribers, who will be prepared to make Conveyances. (20) JOHN TAYLOR. GEORGE WASHINGTON.
For LIVERPOOL,
THE Ship GREENWOOD, Mackey Reed Master, loads at Norfolk, has two thirds of her Cargo already engaged, can take in 200 Hhds. of Tobacco on Liberty of Consignment. Any Gentlemen inclining to ship by her will please to send their Orders to Mr. Richard Taylor of Peterburg, Mr. Richard Squire Taylor in King William County, or to us at Norfolk. (tf) GREENWOOD, RITSON, & MARSH.
To be RENTED, from Year to Year, or for a Term of Years,
BELVOIR, the beautiful Seat of the Honourable George William Fairfax, Esq; lying upon Potomack River in Fairfax County, about fourteen Miles below Alexandria. The Mansion House is of Brick, two Stories high, with four convenient Rooms and a large Passage on the lower Floor, five Rooms and a Passage on the second, and a Servants Hall and Cellars below, convenient Offices, Stables, and Coach House adjoining, as also a large and well furnished Garden, stored with a great Variety of valuable Fruits, in good Order. Appertaining to the Tract on which these Houses stand, and which contains near 2000 Acres (surrounded in a Manner by navigable Water) are several valuable Fisheries, and a good Deal of cleared Land in different Parts, which may be let altogether, or separately, as shall be found most convenient. The Terms may be known of Colonel Washington, who lives near the Premises, or of me in Berkeley County. (tf) FRANCIS WILLIS, Junior. NORFOLK, April 21, 1774.
NOTICE is hereby given, that a Number
of Vessels will be wanted this Summer to bring about 6000 Tons of STONE from Mr. Brooke's Quarry on Rappahannock, and land the same on Cape Henry, for the Lighthouse. Any Person, or Persons, inclineable to engage in such Work, are desired to treat with Matthew Phipps, Paul Loyall, and Thomas Newton, Esqrs. The Directors of the Lighthouse will also be glad to purchase one or two FLAT BOTTOMED VESSELS, from 80 to 120 Tons Burthen. (tf) BASSETT MOSELEY.
FOR SALE,
A TRACT of LAND in Amelia County, containing 500 Acres, about four Miles below the Courthouse, it is remarkable fine Land for Grain, and will bring good Tobacco. The Plantation is in good Order for Cropping, sufficient to work six or eight Hands, with all necessary Houses. Any Person inclineable to purchase may depend on having a Bargain, and know the Terms by applying to (tf) WILLIAM MARSHALL.
For SALE,
ABOUT twelve Thousand Acres of exceeding rich TOBACCO LAND, in Amherst County, whereon are several Plantations and Improvements sufficient to work forty or fifty Hands. There is on the said Land for Sale a very valuable GRIST MILL, lately built, with a Stone Dam and a Pair of good Cologne Millstones, which Mill has for two Years past got upwards of 100 Barrels of Toll Corn, and is situated on a never failing Stream. The Land will be shown by William Womack, who lives at one of the Plantations, and the Prices of the Land made known by him. One or two Years Credit will be allowed, Interest being paid for the second Year, and also for the first, if the Money is not paid agreeable to Contract. The Land is to be laid off and surveyed by Colonel William Cabell, at the Expense of the Purchaser. Deeds will be made upon Bond and approved Security being given, either to Colonel William Cabell, or the Subscriber. Six per Cent. Discount will be allowed for ready Money, or good Merchants Notes. If any Person will choose to exchange Lands in the lower Part of the Country, on or near some navigable River, that are good, it is more than probable we should agree. (tf) CARTER BRAXTON.