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COPENHAGEN, January 25.
THE new Chamberlain Bergenkiold is ordered to quit this City, and go to Wardberg. Counsellor Nielson, and the dismissed Lieutenant Struenfee, have each received two Hundred Rixdollars, with Orders to quit this Kingdom. The Chamber of the Police has published an Order, "that all Trades People keep their Children, Apprentices, and Families, at home on the 28th and 29th Instant, being the Birth Days of the King and Prince Royal; and the Inhabitants are also forbidden to illuminate, or make any open Demonstrations of Joy, on those Days."
February 1. The Commissioners appointed to carry on the Process against the Prisoners of State sit daily at the Palace of Christianborg, from nine o'Clock in the Morning till four in the Afternoon. The Day after to-morrow Count Struenfee will be brought before them, for the first Time, to be interrogated.
Captain Duval, who had been dismissed with Orders not to return again into the King's Dominions, having cleared himself of all Suspicion, has obtained, by way of Recompence, a Company in the Regiment of Bornholm.
NAPLES, January 14. The Air of this Place seems to have a favourable influence on his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester's Health, which improves daily.
HAGUE, February 10. The following Letter is just received here from Hamburg: "According to the last Advices from Copenhagen, Count Struenfee and his Brother, with Count Brandt, and Professor Berger, continue still to be treated with the greatest Rigour, so that their Circumstances must be very atrocious; they have large Irons on their Necks, Hands, and Feet, which are fastened to the Wall."
"They continue labouring in the Castle of Kronenbourg, Day and Night, to make the necessary Apartments there convenient for her Majesty. Such a Disposition for Mutiny appears among the People, and the Sailors, that the Guards have been obliged to make Use of Force in Order to disperse them, in Consequence of which some were wounded."
AMSTERDAM, February 6. By the last Letters from Denmark we hear that the Queen, who is confined at Kronenbourg, keeps her Health, but cannot sleep, and eats but little. The Queen Dowager carries every Thing with a very high Hand. Counts Struenfee and Brandt are allowed but a Dollar a Day for their Subsistence, and they are so fettered that they cannot feed themselves.
CONSTANTINOPLE, January 3. Fresh Advices received from the Grand Vizir's Army bring still new Misfortunes, which have occasioned very serious Conferences between his Highness, his Ministers, and the Divan.
The general Report here is that the Russians, to the Number of eighteen Thousand, have attacked and defeated, near Silistria, a Body of forty Thousand Turks commanded by the Grand Vizir Moegzoen Zade, and three Pachas. It is said likewise that some of their Shipping have entered the Port of Bodroen, and burnt there several Vessels which were upon the Stocks.
Another Account says that the Turks were commanded by four Pachas, besides the Grand Vizir; and that in Consequence of this Defeat Orders had been sent the Grand Vizir to conclude Peace immediately with the Russians upon any Terms he could, but it was not known whether he was alive.
The Porte has published a general Pardon in Favour of all its Subjects that have taken up Arms against it, not excepting even those who follow Piracy.
LONDON, January 21.
A GENTLEMAN observed at a Coffeehouse, on reading a certain Speech that it was the worst written, but carried the best Meaning with it, of any that has ever yet been published; for, continued he, many Princes would have asked for large Supplies with a much better Grace than our gracious Sovereign tells us that he has no Demands whatever to make upon his Subjects.
Another Correspondent observes, that however the intended Patriots may carp at the Royal Speech of Tuesday last, he says it must give every good Subject unspeakable Satisfaction, and therefore advises us to remember Nothing but the H.elligence which it communicates to the Publick.
On Friday last the Right Honourable Lord Sandwich, accompanied by all the Lords of the Admiralty, went on Board the Resolution Man of War at Deptford Dock, to see an Experiment made of a Machine which is fixed in the said Ship for the Purpose of making Sea Water fresh, and also for baking Biscuit and dressing different Kinds of Provisions many different Ways, by Means of but one small Fire, which answered to great Satisfaction. Lord Sandwich eat Part of a Biscuit that was baked while Provisions of different Sorts were dressed for the Ship's Crew. It is the Invention of a Gentleman at Chelsea, who obtained a Patent for it about six Months since.
The Duke of Cumberland is a very remarkable Instance of conjugal Affection in these dissipated Times, and has entirely left the Turf because the Amusement was of a Nature in which it was impossible for the Dutchess to participate.
Notwithstanding the Duke of Cumberland has parted with his running Horses, it is said he will keep his best Horses, which we are assured is the Gray Mare .
January 25. The most sensible Members of the House of Commons look for a golden Session this Winter, that is, for a Number of very salutary Laws; and as Government has now no Opposition, it must be very much the Fault of the Ministry if the Friends of their Country are disappointed in their Expectations.
At a Court of Common Council held yesterday at Guildhall, the Livery proceeded to the adjourned Business of the last Court; and first, the Recommendation from the Livery to present the late Lord Mayor with a Silver Cup of two Hundred Pounds Value, and the Aldermen Wilkes and Oliver with one of a Hundred Pounds each. This Question being then put, was carried by a considerable Majority, and the Lord Mayor was desired to provide the Cups. Mr. Alderman Oliver voted for the Amendment, and after the Question was carried, in a very spirited Speech thanked the Court for the great Honour they had done him, and that he desired his Cup might be deposited with the City Plate. Mr. Wilkes also thanked the Court, and told them that though Silver and Gold he did not much esteem, yet he was much obliged to them for this Mark of their Favour, and that he should keep the Cup himself.
February 3. The Queen of Denmark has not only grown very fat since her Marriage, as some of the publick Prints have observed, but has fallen into a Kind of Somnolency, extremely inconsistent with the Spirit of Gallantry. There is an elegant Theatre in the Court, where French Plays are exhibited twice a Week, and where the Royal Family usually assemble under a magnificent Canopy; yet here her Majesty frequently falls asleep in the full View of the whole Audience, and, if urged a little by Struenfee, who commonly stood behind her Chair, she only opened her Eyes, and returned to her former Situation.
Struenfee, the Physician, has not practised in that Capacity since his Marriage to the first Order of Nobility, but acted chiefly as Prime Minister to the King; he generally dined at the Royal Table, and was publickly for a Favourite with his Mistress that she used to lean on his Arm in a little Pergitination through the Gardens of the Palace.
January strongly reported at the west End of the Town that a Motion will be decided relative to the late Affair at Denmark, particularly with Respect to the Treatment of the Queen.
A northern Princess suckles her last Child herself, but it is said treats the first with a Degree of Negligence bordering upon Cruelty. This is at least the popular Report through her Husband's Metropolis; and hence the Voice of Scandal has proceeded to affirm that the Children are by different Fathers.
Mrs. Wyndmore, who died in Emanuel Hospital on Wednesday Night, was Cousin to Mary Queen of William III. as well as to Queen Anne. Strange Revolution of Fortune! that the Cousin of two Queens should for fifty Years be supported by Charity.
Great Wagers are likewise laid that the above Affair will involve this Kingdom in a War.
A Report prevailed last Night, and this Morning, that Advice is received of the Death of the Empress Queen of Hungary.
Advice is received from Copenhagen that on the Night the Revolt happened the French Ambassador did not appear at the Ball, but was in close Conference with the Queen Dowager's Party at his own House; which makes him so suspected that he cannot stir out without a Guard, for Fear of being destroyed by the Populace.
Captain Sutherland is gone out of the Army on Half Pay.
February 12. Last Night an Express was received from Colonel Keith, Ambassador at Copenhagen, and this Morning a Cabinet Council was held at the Cockpit, Whitehall. There is a Report current that he is confined by Order of the Regency there; but as such a Step would show the greatest Degree of Imprudence, it gains but little Credit.
The Queen of Denmark was pregnant at the Time of the late Revolution at Copenhagen, and a Report is current that she has since miscarried, and that her Health was in a very precarious Situation when the last Despatches were sent off.
Extract of a Letter from Copenhagen, January 23. "The Household of the Queen Matilda set out the Day before yesterday for Kronenbourg, except three Ladies, who were discharged. On Saturday the King went to the Opera. On Sunday his Majesty was at the Chapel Royal to hear divine Service, and that Day all was quiet; next Day there was a Diversion with Sleiges."
The King of Denmark, we hear, has sent his Majesty private Advice that he had no other Way to save the Queen's Life but by consenting to her Imprisonment. The Danish Monarch has not obtained a safe Channel for corresponding explicitly with England; and this, we hear, is the Reason why no Accounts are published in London by Authority.
A Rupture with the Danes many sensible People now imagine to be almost unavoidable; and as the Electorate of Hanover now lies quite contiguous to some Parts of Denmark, Orders have been sent, we are told, to the Hanoverian Commander in Chief to march a powerful Force towards those Vicinages, to act upon the very first Emergency.
The Danes seem as if apprehensive of a speedy Rupture, for they are diligently increasing their Land Forces, and fortifying Copenhagen on the Sea Side with such additional Force as must make it dangerous to bear down a Squadron upon their Capital.
The Prussian Forces are said to be under marching Orders, and the Frequency of Reviews among the Imperial Troops indicate together that Something is rotten in the State of Denmark, and very near destroying the publick Tranquillity of Europe.
A Correspondent says it may be depended on that the Court of Copenhagen has made no Refusal of the Queen Caroline Matilda returning to England, and that a Yacht will be sent for her early in April.
Should the Queen Consort of Denmark be even indulged with a Trial, considerate People see no Advantage whatever accruing to her Majesty from that Circumstance, as her Judges will be composed entirely of her Enemies, and must certainly sign a Warrant for their own Death unless they order her to Execution.
The Marriage said to be in Agitation between Prince Frederick of Denmark, and the King of Prussia's Niece, a Daughter of Sweden, furnishes such a Clue to the political Labyrinth as will possibly soon lead the Publick out of their present Maze of Perplexities.
The Affection so confidently made, in some of our Newspapers, relative to an Order for stopping the Danish homeward bound West India-men, and issued from our Admiralty Office, is certainly premature, as no violent Measures will be adopted till there is unquestionable Ground for the Commencement of Hostilities.
Nothing can set the Affair of continental Marriages with the Royal Family of England in so strong a Point of View as the present unhappy Situation of Denmark. We married his Majesty's Sister to the King, and are now probably on the Eve of a bloody War to revenge Injuries; whereas, had she married into a private Family at home, we should not only avoided a Rupture with our Neighbours, but possessed the amiable Princess for whose Life we now tremble with the greatest Anxiety.
It is said that his Majesty before he quitted Carlton House on Saturday was pleased to order that all the Servants belonging to his late Mother should continue to receive their usual Salaries until he shall provide for them.
The Household Surgeons began embalming the Body of the Princess of Wales on Saturday, in the Afternoon.
It is said that his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland was sent for on Friday Evening to take Leave of his Mother, but was so affected at the Message that he could not go, and at the News of her Death was taken very ill.
Yesterday her Grace the Dutchess of Argyle, and Lord Willoughby, the Lady and Lord in Waiting, sat in the Presence Chamber at St. James's, to receive the Compliments of Condolance from the Nobility to their Majesties, the Pages attending with Books for that Purpose to enter all their Names. The same Ceremony was used at the Princess of Brunswick's House, in Pall Mall.
Yesterday the Right Honourable the House of Peers voted an Address of Condolence to their Majesties, to be presented by the Lords with white Staves; as did the Honourable House of Commons on the same Occasion, to be presented by such Members as are of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.
What little the Princess Dowager's numerous Charities left her to bestow, it is generally imagined she has bequeathed to the Princess of Brunswick. Her Diamonds, however, many think her only Wealth; and these are Articles which Royalty cannot properly convert into Money, like those who are placed in humbler Situations.
The remains of the late Princess Dowager of Wales were last Night folded up in the leaden Coffin, and on Thursday will be put in two other Coffins, the one Elm, the other Cedar, for the Outside, which last is to be covered with Crimson Velvet and Coronets, and on Friday Evening to be carried in a Hearse and escorted by a Party of Horse Guards to the Prince's Chamber, and deposited in Henry the seventh's Chapel.
Yesterday her Grace the Dutchess of Northumberland paid a Visit to her Majesty at the Queen's House, in a private Manner, attended only by two Footmen.
By our Letters of the 18th of January from Warsaw we learn that the Wife of the Miller who had the good Fortune to lodge his Polish Majesty in his homely Hut is brought to Bed of a Son, and that as soon as it was known at Court his Majesty ordered the Countess of Oginski, and another Lady of high Rank, to bring the Child to the King's Palace, when and where his Majesty, and the Bishop of Cujavien, were Witnesses to its Baptism; on which Occasion a Present of one Hundred Ducats was made to its Mother, and the Child itself was ordered to be left at Court, under his Majesty's Protection.
February 14. Last Night some Instructions of a very secret Nature, under the Great Seal, were sent off to the British Ambassador at a northern Court.
It is looked upon as certain that a Russian Army of sixty Thousand Men will enter Poland by the first of May.
It is believed, by the deepest Politicians, that the whole Nation will be in Flames before the End of July, as every Tendency to a Peace between the Russians and the Porte is vanished.
By his Majesty's Ship the Florida, arrived at Spithead, a Letter has been received from Captain Burr, of his Majesty's Sloop the Hound, dated at Port Egmont, in Falkland's Island, the 10th of November last, giving an Account that in the preceding Month two Spanish Vessels had arrived there with such Artillery, Stores, &c. which could not be restored to Captain Stott at the Surrender of the Island; and that a Spanish Commissary appointed for the Purpose had delivered them to Captain Burr, with the greatest Punctuality and Exactness.
Her Imperial Majesty of all the Russias, the Admiral Elphinstone the Honour to send him a very large and costly Medal, struck in Commemoration of the burning the Ottoman Fleet at Chesme.
February 10. A Letter from Warsaw says: The Prussian Troops in this Kingdom have received Orders to act openly against the Confederates, on Account of the latter's having had the Audacity to cut in Pieces forty of their Men.
Extract of a genuine Letter from Elsinore, January 23. "It is all in Confusion on this Side the Isle of Zealand, and the Swedish Troops are in Motion at Seeland, on the opposite Shore. The Queen is confined at Kronenbourg, and is reported to be exceedingly ill. God send all may end well. French Politics have prevailed; and we are assured the King has signed a new Treaty with his Most Christian Majesty, and Sweden, no Way to the Advantage of the Commerce of Great Britain. The publick Opinion is that the Prince Royal will be declared illegitimate, and the King's Half Brother proclaimed Successor to the Throne. Count Guildendieu keeps the Garrison here continually under Arms, as the common People have committed several Outrages on the Houses of some of the Persons connected with the new Administration. A Report has just been circulated that the common People at Copenhagen have taken Arms and opposed the new Council, and that great Numbers of them have been destroyed by the Soldiers."
According to the last Letters from Copenhagen, the strictest Secrecy is observed with Respect to the Motives of the late Revolution, and the Manifesto upon that Subject is not to be published till after the Trial of the Prisoners, which will be with as much Expedition as the Nature of the Thing will admit of. These Letters add, that notwithstanding the pretended Disinterestedness of the Count de Struenfee it is known that he has accumulated, within a very few Years, upwards of a Million Danish Crowns.
Extract of a Letter from the Hague, February 1. "We have received Advice from Berlin that the King of Prussia is secretly taking great Pains to procure an honourable and suitable March for his Niece the Princess Sophia Albertina of Sweden, and that he has his Eye upon the King of Poland, and this Alliance would be a Means of restoring the Tranquillity of that Kingdom. It is even hinted that his Prussian Majesty has made Overtures upon this Subject to the Polish Monarch."
The last Letters from Madrid advise that the King of Spain having been informed that Messieurs Babic, a French House at Cadiz, failed lately for upwards of one Million four Hundred Thousand Piastres, and that there is great Reason to apprehend some more Failures in Consequence of the above in other trading Cities in that Kingdom, his Catholic Majesty immediately ordered an Embargo to be laid on all French Ships then at Cadiz, and seemed then determined not to permit Foreigners to settle as Merchants there for the future. These Letters add, that the King of Spain having discovered that his Confessor held a secret Correspondence with the Jesuits, notwithstanding his Majesty's express Orders to the contrary, has not only dismissed him, but has caused him to be arrested, and it is thought will bring him to a publick Trial.
February 18. We have the Pleasure to assure the Publick that the Report respecting the Death of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland is untrue. From what Circumstance this Report took its Rise is unknown, but it is certain that it was universally credited, and that a Gentleman who came from Windsor on Saturday Morning last, and whose Veracity it was generally thought might be entirely relied on, averred that the melancholy Event, to his certain Knowledge, was too true.
The Report of the Duke's Death was so confident that even on Saturday Morning many of the Officers in Waiting at St. James's were in Doubt about the Truth, and only conjectured, from the Circumstance of there being a Court that Day, that it had no Foundation in Reality.
It is said that her Royal Highness the Princess of Brunswick offered to pay the last Tribute of Affection to her deceased Mother as chief Mourner at the Funeral, and his Majesty was desirous of indulging his Sister's Inclinations; but it being suggested to her Royal Highness that she might not be able to support such an affecting Situation, she prudently declined it.
The Affliction that surrounds the Throne, from various Quarters, has inspired even Junius with Humanity; for we are informed that after he had wrote a very stinging Letter to a great Personage, concerning the Conduct of his Relations, he relented, and instead of sending it to the Press committed it to the Flames.
The Princess Dowager, some Time before her Death, made a Present to her Majesty of the Diamonds and Jewels she wore at his Majesty's Coronation, and to his Majesty she gave the large Table Diamond Ring which her Royal Consort, his Father, used to wear.
One of the Princesses of Prussia has been already formally demanded for Prince Frederick, and it would be beneath her Dignity to be any Thing less than the Queen of Denmark.
A Prussian Ambassador Extraordinary is on his Way to Paris. It is now beyond all Doubt that a certain northern Hero is at the Bottom of the late Revolution in Denmark.
Yesterday an eminent House in London received an Express from Madrid, with the News that his Catholic Majesty's Ship of War the Castle and the Juno had, in November last, both foundered at Sea in the Bay near La Vera Cruz; that one of these Ships had on Board a great Quantity of Spice, and that the other had on Board four Thousand three Hundred Bags of Cochineal, of which three Thousand Bags had been saved with some little Damage, but the remaining one Thousand three Hundred Bags, it is apprehended, would be entirely lost. This News had so instantaneous an Effect upon the Change that Cochineal was sold at one Pound ten, one Pound eleven, and one Pound twelve Shillings.
A Letter from Copenhagen, dated the 29th of last Month, says: "The Counsellor Struenfee continues in Irons, but his Hands are at Liberty, and he frequently plays at Chess with the Officer that has the Charge of him. He is to be interrogated to-morrow, for the first Time, by the Commissioners appointed to try the State Prisoners."
Extract of a Letter from Dover, February 19. "This Morning, at nine o'Clock, her Royal Highness the Princess of Brunswick went on Board one of the bye Boats belonging to Messieurs Minet and Factor, which failed immediately for Calais. Her Royal Highness was saluted by the Castle, Forts, and Vessels in the Harbour. Her Royal Highness is just now (two o'Clock) landing at Calais, as the Cannon are heard to salute at that Place."
It is said that this Morning Lord Sandwich and Sir Edward Hawke were sent for by his Majesty to the Queen's Palace, where they had a Conference with him.
It is said that there are now several Men of War lying off Portsmouth that have received Orders to hold themselves in Readiness for an important Expedition, the Particulars of which will soon be made publick.

Monday Advices were received at St. James's from Sir Joseph Yorke, his Majesty's Ambassador at the Hague, said to contain some important Advices; they were taken under Consideration by the Privy Council on Tuesday.
The Dutch, it is reported, are making Preparations which seem to indicate an Intention of taking an active Part in continental Affairs, if a general Rupture (as is expected) should be the Consequence of some northern Commotions.
A Letter from Berlin mentions that the Forces of that Kingdom, at this present Time, consist of two Hundred and fifty Thousand Men.
We are informed that the Right Honourable the Lords Mansfield and Camden have formed a most excellent Scheme for the Benefit of both Debtor and Creditor, which will shortly be laid before the Parliament.
A few Mornings ago Mr. Wilkes was observed walking in a very melancholy Manner in the Bird Cage Walk, St. James's Park. A Dispute between Doctor Wilson and the Patriot is supposed to have stopped the Circulation of the Cash, and to have thrown the Sheriff into the disagreeable Dilemma of concerting Ways and Means for raising the necessary Supplies.
On Sunday last a most affecting Sermon, upon the peculiar Situation of the Royal Family, was preached at Queen Street Chapel, from the following Words: "Father, if thou be willing, remove this Cup from me; nevertheless, not my Will, but thine, be done." The Preacher took Occasion to introduce the Affliction of the Royal Family in so pathetic a Strain as to draw Tears from the whole Audience.
That some Changes of a political Nature have taken Place in the Court of Copenhagen is a Circumstance notoriously known to Europe, but the secret Spring of these Changes is still confined to Denmark, or has not at least been communicated with any Certainty to the People of England.
At a Court of Common Council, held at Guildhall this Day, a Motion was made that the Lord Mayor be requested to call a Common Hall for the Purpose of instructing the City Representatives to support the intended Motion of Mr. Alderman Sawbridge in the House of Commons respecting triennial Parliaments; when, after long Debates, his Lordship absolutely refused to call a Hall. The Court then referred the Question, "Whether the Common Council have not a Right to insist that the Lord Mayor shall call a Common Hall on their Requisition," to the Consideration of the Committee who are instructed with the Prosecutions against the Companies for disobeying the Mayor's Precedent; and it was also recommended to them to search for Precedents, and report them as soon as possible. It was also ordered, if his Lordship should not be satisfied with the Report of the said Committee, that the Court would immediately issue their own Precedent, which they are authorized to do by an Act of Common Council passed in the Year 1748.
A Letter from Mr. Adair, Surgeon General, which arrived from Naples on Saturday, gives a very flattering Account of the State of his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester's Health. The stony Concretions which he threw up from the Lungs have ceased to appear, and his Pulse was firmer, and less intermitting, when the Post came away, than it has been since the Arrival of Doctor Jebb and Mr. Adair.
Letters from Leghorn advise that a smart Engagement had happened between a Russian Frigate of twenty six Guns and a Danish Ship of the same Force, in which the latter blew up, and the Russians narrowly escaped the same Fate.
It is looked upon as certain that a Prussian Army of sixty Thousand Men will enter Poland by the first of May.
Letters from Aleppo, of the 17th of November, assert that an Earthquake has happened in the Desert, which overturned all the stately Ruins of Balbec. The Earth opened in different Places, and has disclosed a vast Variety of Catacombs full of Stone Coffins, with Inscriptions in great Preservation, many of which have been exactly taken on the Spot, and are sent to England to be deciphered by the Antiquaries.
February 19. Yesterday the Right Honourable Lord North acquainted the House that he had a Message from his Majesty, which was read by Mr. Speaker, and is as follows:
GEORGE R. His Majesty being desirous, from paternal Affection to his own Family, and anxious Concern for the future Welfare of his People, and the Honour and Dignity of his Crown, that the Right of approving all Marriages in the Royal Family (which ever has belonged to the Kings of this Realm, as a Matter of publick Concern) may be made effectual, recommends to both Houses of Parliament to take into their serious Consideration whether it may not be wise and expedient to supply the Defect of the Laws now in force, and by some new Provision more effectually to guard the Descendants of his late Majesty King George II. (other than the Issue of Princesses who have married, or may hereafter marry, into foreign Families) from marrying without the Approbation of his Majesty, his Heirs, or Successors, first had and obtained.
An humble Address was returned to be presented to his Majesty, to return his Majesty the humble Thanks of the House for his most gracious Message, and to assure his Majesty that they will not fail to take his Majesty's Message into their most serious Consideration. The said Message was to be taken into Consideration this Day, and they afterwards deferred.
The Empress of Russia, safe in the Inaccessibleness of her Dominions, has declared that she will not accept of the Mediation of any other Power in settling a Peace with the Porte. She declared to Prince Lobkowitz, the Imperial Ambassador, that though she wished to live on good Terms with his Court, yet she did not understand what Right they had to prescribe Terms to a Nation which has always been, and must continue, independent of every other Power; that it was unprecedented in the Court of Vienna to propose to reap Advantage from a War in which they had taken no Part; and as for her own Part, she would never consent to a Measure which would rob her of her just Renown, which her Arms had acquired.
The Policy of the Marattos has rendered a War with the Company necessary, it being an established Maxim with them that without an Acknowledgment is paid for Peace to be quiet is a Mark of Fear.
It is supposed that before this Time the Portuguese are driven out of Goa. They, however, may re-establish themselves, by paying an annual Tribute.
The Coolies of Guzaret have defeated Major Kee, sent against them by the Presidency of Bombay.
It is thought that more Stock, especially of India, will be in the Market by Saturday next than has been known for many Years, in one Day.
Letters from India mention that the Marattos, in the Month of August last, delivered the pretended Mogul Emperor of Delhi from the Hands of his Vizier, who had shut him up in his Citadel. The Government of the Jates is annihilated, and that People have become Subjects to the Marattos.
February 21. It is thought that the Admission of the new Commissioners of the Revenue in Ireland will occasion a Dissolution of their Parliament, otherwise the Court Party may be out-voted in every Question.
It is said that it is now under Consideration to compel the Council of Grenada to admit the Roman Catholics into the Council, which is contrary to Law, and will be opposed with Spirit.
The late Step of the King of Denmark's delivering over his Son to the Queen Dowager, it is thought, will be of fatal Consequences. The Ends of the Party, it is supposed, will be completed before the Ice is broke which now blocks up the Harbour of Copenhagen.
The Refusal of the Lord Mayor of London to call a Common Hall, for instructing their Members to support Mr. Sawbridge's Motion for triennial Parliaments, make a great Noise. The Livery threaten to go down in a Body to the House of Commons the 24th, the Day on which the Motion is to be made.
It is said that a Motion is intended to be made in the House of Commons, very soon, for opening the Ports for the free Importation of such Articles of Life as bear more than a moderate Price.
Accounts from Nottinghamshire mention the Floods being greater, and the Waters higher, than has been known in the Memory of the oldest Man living. The Duke and Dutchess of Kingston, and divers Persons of Distinction, have been stopped upon their Journey to Town.
To such a low Pitch has fallen the Grandeur of France that her Monarch has consented to receive a Subsidy from the Marattos, for the Use of three Regiments from Mauritius, to discipline their Infantry.
This Morning a Messenger arrived from Copenhagen, and a Council was summoned to meet directly, when all the great Officers of State assisted.
On Tuesday died, at his House upon Great Tower Hill, John Stewart, Esquire, an eminent Virginia and West India Merchant.
We are told that the Distress of a great Family at the west End of the Town has much abated since the Arrival of the last Advices from Copenhagen.
An Extract from Doctor Gordon's Sermon upon the Causes and Consequences of evil speaking against Government, preached before the University of Cambridge.
"By Means of certain ingenious Refinements, indeed our Laws have lost their Weight. They have been strained, and pulled so much towards the Side of Freedom that there is not Force enough left in them to correct Offences. Our Patriots, through their Zeal in Favour of good Men (in which, to do them Justice, they appear perfectly disinterested) left possibly
hereafter some of that Character might be affected by it, have rendered all Authority nerveless against the bad; whilst even our Juniors, those great Bulwarks of English Liberty, have been carefully instructed to attend rather to the Consequences of their Verdict upon the Liberty of the Subject than its Relation to either Equity or Justice, and the greatest Security to every peaceful Man at present for the quiet Possession of his Life and Property may seem to lie in that Power which looks least favourable to civil Liberty. May Faction never occasion the Use of it to be applied to other Purposes."
Monday Night was opened, for the first Time, the much talked of Reception of fashionable Pleasure, the Pantheon, to a crowded Company of between fifteen Hundred and two Thousand People. Imagination cannot well surpass the Elegance and Magnificence of the Apartments, the Boldness of the Paintings, or the Disposition of the Lights, which last are reflected from gilt Vases suspended by gilt Chains. Besides a Number of Ornaments that decorate the Rotunda, or great Room, there is a Number of Statues in Niches below the Dome representing most of the Heathen Gods and Goddesses, supposed to be in the ancient Pantheon of Rome. To these are added three more of white Porphyry, the two first representing the present King and Queen, the last Britannia. The Whole is composed of a Suite of fourteen Rooms, all of which are adapted to particular Uses, and each affording a striking Instance of the Splendour and Profusion of modern Times. In Point of Consequence, the Company were an Olio of all Sorts; Peers, Peeresse, Honourables, Jew Brokers, Demireps, Lottery Ensurers, and Quack Doctors.
In a Letter addressed to Junius, the Writer says: "There evidently appears, at this Time, to be a deliberate Intention in a certain Class of Writers (among whom you, Junius, are confessedly the most distinguished) to render a Restraint upon the Liberty of the Press apparently necessary; but notwithstanding the Licentiousness with which that inestimable Bulwark of Freedom, religious as well as civil, hath of late been used, I hope neither the present nor any other future Ministry will ever attempt to fetter it. Whatever Truths it conveys to us must, in some Degree, tend to publick Utility; and the Rakeshoods with which it so frequently teems, though they may be so, and are believed for a Season, must gradually lose their Effect, and finally terminate in the Disgrace of their Authors. May Contempt, therefore, be your and their sole Punishment; and may you never be prevented from sinking into Oblivion by any Species of Persecution from our Rulers. If they continue to do their Duty, the good Sense of the Nation will applaud and support them; nor need they, in that Case, to dread the Effects of any Opposition, much less the feeble Stings of anonymous Scribblers."
Thursday last died at Ophurst, near Litchfield, the Widow Clum, aged a Hundred and thirty eight Years, who had lived in one House a Hundred and three Years. She has left two Daughters and a Son, all upwards of a Hundred Years old.
We learn, by our Letters of the 17th of December from Constantinople, that several Russian Frigates have been lately seen in the Euxine or Black Sea, which have even fired upon some Turkish Ships there, and which latter had with great Difficulty escaped from the former. This Event having been authentically ascertained, and duly notified to the Marine Department in Constantinople, six Zebecs and four Gallies were immediately ordered out on a Cruise in the Black Sea, and particularly at the Mouth of it, for the Safety of the Castles called the Cayax. And in a Postscript to this Letter we have Advice that Ali Bey had taken by Storm the City of Scida (otherwise Sidon) in Syria, on the 26th of October, which he intends to make the capital Seat of his Government in all Syria, to which he invites all the Jews from every Quarter of the Globe to come and settle, promising them not only to have the free Exercise of their Religion, but also full Liberty of trading, and even an Admission into all the Departments of Government, as natural Members of the same. At Gaza, Damascus, and Aleppo, Ali Bey has an Army of sixty Thousand Men.
Though Mr. Charles Fox has pledged himself to move for a Repeal of the Marriage Act, we are informed that the matrimonial Laws will be made uncommonly strict with Respect to the Royal Family, and that all his Majesty's Posterity will be fettered in their Inclination because the Duke of Cumberland has exercised his Inconformity so less to Law than advantageously for the Kingdom. His Marriage neither calls for our Treasure nor our Blood, and a single War with Denmark (to say Nothing of Lives lost) will consume more Money than is requisite to make the most brilliant Establishments on his Line to the latest Generations.
The Person of Struenfee, the Danish Favourite, has been much talked of in the Newspapers; we therefore think it necessary to acquaint our Readers that he is a Man about the middle Size, is under forty, and generally reckoned to be possessed of extraordinary Abilities.
GLASGOW, February 6. The Frost still continues, and for several Days past has been more intense than has been known since the Year 1740. Milk and Beer have been frozen in several Cellars in Town, and the Bottles broke to Pieces. The River Clyde is entirely frozen for many Miles, and the Merchants are now obliged to cart their Goods to Port Glasgow and Greenock. The Navigation of the River being shut up for these five Weeks past, must be a considerable Loss to the Contractors for levying the Tunnage, and the Mills in the Neighbourhood are all likewise stopped.
A Correspondent expresses his Surprise that no Mention is made of the Bankrupt Bill now preparing to be laid before the Parliament. It is a Matter of the greatest Consequence to North Britain, and should be published and sent to every Town in Scotland before it is applied for. It is of infinitely more Consequence than the Game Law, which so engrossed the Attention of most Counties, who have appointed Committees to meet upon this weighty Affair, namely, the securing all the Hares and Partridges to themselves, while the Property of the whole Country is left to be run away with by every Rogue who chooses to pocket their Money.
Advices from the South of Scotland mention the Fall of Snow as very deep, and that the Storemasters are obliged to feed their Sheep by the Hand.
Postscript of a Letter from Kilmun, February 4. "A few Days ago the Wife of one White, in Glenmashan Parish, was lately delivered of three fine Boys at a Birth; who, notwithstanding the Severity of the Season, were soon after carried three Miles in Order to be baptised. They are stout Fellows, and all likely to do well. Such are the Effects of our Highland Air, Temperance, and Exercise."
February 20. We are happy to hear that the Commerce of this Country with the southern Part of this Island is now so favourable to us that the Bank of Scotland began to draw Bills on London for any Notes payable in Edinburgh at forty five Days Date, and we are now informed that the Banking Company of Douglass, Heron, and Company, are to draw Bills on London for all such Notes at forty Days Date. It is an old Observation, that Exchange is the true Barometer of Commerce, and to find it lower here than it has been for some Time past must give real Pleasure to every Lover of his Country.
February 27. They write from Greenock that the Brig Murders, Simon McDonald Master, from St. John's, North America, in Ballast, was cast away on the Point of Towart the 12th Instant.
The Grounds being mostly covered with Snow for these two Months past, and the Frost still continuing, has obliged a Number of Graziers in the Parishes of Strathven and Kilbride to harrow their Grounds with Horses, to prevent their Cattle and Sheep from starving. A Gentleman in the Country writes that for several Days past an incredible Number of uncommon small Birds have been observed flying about in the Fields in large Bodies, consisting of twenty or thirty Thousand; and being struck with so uncommon an Appearance, he went out with his Gun and shot several of them. Their Legs and Feet are black, have a short thick Bill, and a white Tuft above each Ear; the utmost Feather of each Wing is white, Back and Breast of a Lark Colour, and about the same Size. It is supposed this severe Season has obliged them to leave their usual Place of Residence.
Orders have been sent to the several Ports of this Kingdom, from the Honourable Commissioners of his Majesty's Customs, requiring an Account of the Number of Horses exported to foreign Parts since the Year 1750 inclusive, in Order to be laid before Parliament. It is much to be wished that a greater Duty were laid on all exported, the present One being only five Shillings for every Horse, Mare, or Gelding.
Extract of a Letter from Liverpool, February 14. "We hear that the Reverend Thomas Wilkinson, of Kirby, near this Town, hath invented a Perambulator which not only gives the Distances in Miles, Chains, and Links (with a little Trouble, at each Turning or Station) but draws a Plan of the Work at the same Time, on a Sort of plain Table, without the Help of Scale or Compasses."
From the ALARUM BELL of KINGS.
Newly written by the celebrated VOLTAIRE. EUROPE shuddered with Horror and Indignation at the Assassination of the King of Poland. The Blows he received have pierced every Heart. But what sovereign Power is there which endeavours to avenge him? Will it be the Holy Virgin, before whom these Assassins swore upon the Gospels, in the Hands of a Dominican, to murder the best and wisest Sovereign Poland ever yet had? Our Lady of Olenitchova, indeed, works daily Miracles, but she has not performed that of preventing the Designs of the Conspirators; and hitherto our Lady of St. Peterburg is the only One who vindicates the Honour and the Rights
of the Throne. We see still, to the Shame of all the Christian Powers, Turkish Garrisons in the Polish Towns; and, without the real Miracles of the Russian Armies, the Ottomans would be at this Time in Warsaw.
The barbarous Tyrants of Constantinople, so often sullied with the Blood of their Brothers, and their Vaziers, treat all the European Sovereigns as the old Romans formerly did the petty Princes of Cappadocia and Judea. They consider our Ambassadors as no more than Consuls for the Merchants.
When an Ambassador is admitted to the Audience of the Grand Vizier, this Barbarian, lolling upon a Sophia, obliges him to sit down upon a little Stool, speaks only four Words to him, and then dismisses him; two Ushers take him by the Arms to make him turn round upon his Heel and bow before their Master, and the Servants hoot at and hiss him. At least it is not long ago since this Ceremony was observed.
How does the same Ottoman Porte treat the Ministers of a State against which it intends to declare War? It begins by confining them in Prison. Thus Mustapha, now the reigning Sultan, ordered the Minister Plenipotentiary of Russia to be shut up in the Castle of the Seven Towers. This insolent Affront, offered to all Princes in the Person of this Minister, has been amply revenged by the Victories of the Count de Romanzoff, by the Fleets which came from the Extremity of the North to reduce the Ottoman Fleets to Ashes, in the Sight of Constantinople itself, under the Command of the Count d'Orloff, and by the Conquest of four Provinces, which the Princes Galitzin, Dolgorouki, and so many other illustrious Generals, have wrested from the Ottomans.
So many reiterated Exploits cry aloud to the rest of Europe, "Second us, and the Tyranny of the Turks is destroyed."
Our Posterity will one Day be unable to conceive that we have had this one only Opportunity, and yet have not made a proper Use of it; and if that famous Piast, John Sobieski, that Vanquisher of the Ottomans, was to return into the World, what would he say to see his own Countrymen uniting with the Turks against his Successor?
The foolish Croisades lasted formerly about a Hundred Years, and now a wise Union of two or three Princes is impracticable? Millions of People went to perish in Syria and in Egypt, and we are afraid to suffer Constantinople to be taken, when Egypt itself stretches out its Arms to us; and this fatal Inaction is called Policy! True Policy is first to drive out the common Enemy. Leave to Time the Care of arming you hereafter against each other. You will never want Opportunities for cutting one another's Throats.
From the CONTEMPLATIVE MAN: Or, the History of CHRISTOPHER CRAB, Esquire, of NORTH WALES:
A Scene between the Parents of Christopher Crab, who were People of very singular Dispositions, and Captain Goret, a Gentleman of very amiable Qualities.
OFFIE, my Dear (says Mrs. Crab) as I am a Gentlewoman (an Expression the often used) you shock me beyond Measure. Swear before a Lady! one may easily guess what Sort of Company your Club consists of, and I am very glad to hear you are determined to go no more amongst them. But there is another Thing: I see you have got a Pipe, and that filthiest of all Weeds, Tobacco, before you; I hope, Mr. Crab, you do not think of smoking in my Parlour; if you must needs indulge yourself in this beastly Custom, do it in your Shop, for I cannot allow it here. Zounds, Madam (says Mr. Crab, having promised before Marriage to call her Madam whenever he spoke to or of her) must I neither smoke abroad or at home? 'Sblood, is not this my own House? Did not I purchase it with my own Money? And sha'nt I do what I please in it, Madam? No (says Mrs. Crab) positively no, my Dear (speaking in that calm Manner which is very apt to produce a Storm in the Person it is spoken to) but do not put yourself in a Passion; you know it was agreed before we were made one Flesh (yawning) that I was to have my Way in every Thing; I am sure you would not be worse than your Word, my Dear. Here Mr. Crab muttered softly to himself, one Flesh! I believe you are a Part of that Swines Flesh that the Devil entered into.
Mrs. Crab, who only caught the Words the Devil entered, replied, my Dear, how can you be so rude, you see it is Captain Goret; how could you talk of the Devil's entering!
It was the Captain, sure enough; and he came very opportunely, as he had often done before, to prevent a more violent Rupture. This old Officer had served many Years with great Reputation; he was as brave as he was unfortunate; though he had often deserved a golden Chain, he came off with a wooden Leg only at last. But he had acquired what made him more valuable to all that knew him, the Art of pleasing, or rather the Art of making People pleased with themselves. He had great Knowledge of the World, and his long Acquaintance with Adversity taught him to meet future Disappointments with a cheerful Countenance. He was affable, good natured, and obliging.
Such was the State that Providence kindly placed him in Mr. Crab's Family; for the Captain's Age and Infirmities rendering him unfit for longer Service, he was permitted to go out upon his Pay, as a Reward for all his Toil and Sufferings; and having sought an Asylum in some cheap Part of the Island, he fixed his Abode at ———, trusting, as he well might, to his own Abilities to procure Happiness and Content wherever he came. He had now lodged and boarded with Mr. Crab about two Years, and passed his Time very agreeably; which the Reader may be a little surprised at, upon a Supposition that the coarse Behaviour of Mr. Crab must ill suit with the good Breeding and Civility of the Captain. But it had quite a contrary Effect: The Loftiness and affected Delicacy of Mrs. Crab's Manner, contrasted by Mr. Crab's Rudeness and Vulgarity, afforded no small Matter of Entertainment, and their frequent Bickerings furnished the Captain with Opportunities of showing his Dexterity in the Art of reconciling Friends and conciliating Differences; a Talent that, at the same Time it carries with it a most pleasing Sensation to the human Heart, gives the Possessor a remarkable Superiority over those on whom it is exercised.
The Entrance of Captain Goret into the Parlour did not in the least interrupt the Altercation that was going on between Mr. and Mrs. Crab. The Captain had been too often Witness of their domestic Strife to be treated with Ceremony upon these Occasions. Mrs. Crab, therefore, availed herself of his Appearance, hoping that he would determine the Matter in Dispute in her Favour, as his natural Politeness had ever inclined him to support the Cause of the Fair Sex, when it was not inconsistent with Justice and Propriety.
Captain (says Mrs. Crab) you are come at a lucky Moment to convince my Husband of the Reasonableness of my Request. I am sure you will be of my Opinion, which is, that no Gentleman should either swear or smoke Tobacco.
Madam (answered the Captain) your Conversation was so loud that I could not avoid overhearing what passed before I came into the Room, and I am sorry to say that my Sentiments do not entirely agree with yours. Mr. Crab, it seems, has been driven from his Club by the Impertinence of a young Pedant, who knows not his Place in Life, and he now seeks for that Recreation at home which he can no longer enjoy abroad. It is your Interest, Madam, to encourage this Resolution in him, and to contribute every Thing in your Power to make the Change agreeable. Swearing is generally the Result of Anger and Disappointment; and the Learned say that Nothing tends so much to calm the Passions, and smooth the rugged Part of Life, as a Pipe of Tobacco.
In short, Madam (says the old Gentleman, smiling) do you but consent to Mr. Crab's smoking; and I'll be answerable for his leaving off swearing.
Mrs. Crab, though she was not very well pleased with the Captain's Decree, gave a Nod of seeming Approbation, took up one of the Cane Chairs, wished them a good Night, and retired to her Chamber.
She had scarce got out of the Room before Mr. Crab, looking over his left Shoulder towards the Door, and extending his right Arm, gave the Captain a hearty Squeeze by the Hand, saying, a Thousand Thanks, a Thousand Thanks to you, noble Captain, this is a great Point gained.
Then, filling his Pipe, he smoked away most manfully, whilst the Captain finished the Bottle of Fontenoy which he had began that Day after Dinner.
WILLIAMSBURG, April 30.
THE Royal Exchange, Woodford, from London, and the John, Breakhill, from Liverpool, are arrived in James River.
Advertisements.
BY Decree of the Honourable the Court of Vice Admiralty, to be sold, for ready Money, at York Town on Monday the 4th of May, the Ship JENIFER, with her Tackle, Apparel and Furniture; also a large Quantity of GIN in Casks, Barrels and Jugs, five Hundred STONE and EARTHEN JUGS, &c. &c. JOHN TYLER, Ma.

TREASURY OFFICE, April 29, 1772. I TAKE the Liberty of reminding the several Purchasers of the publick Tobacco, at different Warehouses, that their Bonds are payable the first Day of next Month. It is hoped the utmost Punctuality will be observed, as NO INDULGENCE CAN BE GIVEN. RO. C. NICHOLAS, Treasurer. N. B. To prevent Disappointments, the Office will be open every Day, throughout the Court, from Sunrise till two o'Clock; and occasionally, in private Times, as Business may offer.
MARY DICKINSON informs the Publick that she has removed to the Store above the Coffeehouse, near the Capitol, and has just imported, from LONDON, a fresh Assortment of JEWELLERY, MILLINERY, and other GOODS, namely, Lustrings, Tafetas, Chintzes, &c. various Sorts of Necklaces, Earrings, large Sprigs and Passe Pins, plain and set Combs, Lockets and Crosses, Garnet and Marcasite Hoops, Ditto Tortoiseshell lined with Gold, many little curious Watch Trinkets, set Shoe, Knee, and Stock Buckles, Gold Bands, Buttons, and Loops, Sword Knots, fine China Hose, &c. Ladies Riding Hats, Boys blue and black Satin Caps and Feathers, Satin Cloaks and Bonnets, blue and white Satin Pumps, white and blue Satin Quilts, Blond and Minionet Laces, Gentlemens fine Minionet Lace Ruffles, complete Suits of Ditto for Ladies, Ribands, Riband Lace, Italian and Silver Stomachers and Knots, true Italian Fancy Caps, Nosegays and Breast Flowers, Egrets and Plumes, fine striped bordered Mullin and Lawn Handkerchiefs, laced and flounced Ditto, Cambricks, fine Book and thick Mullins, Gauzes, Catgut, Queen's Net-worked Mullin Aprons, Lawn and Gauze Ditto, Gentlemen and Ladies Silk, Kid, and Lamb Gloves, Woolpacks with Drop Curls, netted Hoods, Gauze and laced Caps, and many other Articles too tedious to mention.
A GENTEL PHETON Will be SOLD, on FRIDAY the 8th of MAY, At PUBLICK VENDUE. THIS Carriage is not more than eighteen Months old, is in excellent Order, very strong, and newly lined and painted. There is Harness for four Horses, made not above nine Months ago, genteelly ornamented with Brass Plates, &c. Any Person inclining to purchase the above at private Sale may, by applying to David Douglass, see it, and be informed of the Terms.
NORFOLK, April 27, 1772. HAVING taken Mr. James Ballantine into Partnership with me, we beg Leave to inform the Publick that at our Shop, facing the Parade, we mend and make all Sorts of PLAIN, REPEATING, and MUSICAL CLOCKS; also PLAIN, REPEATING, and HORIZONTAL WATCHES, with or without Gold Cases, in the neatest Manner. As we both served a regular Apprenticeship to our Trade in London, and worked some Time after in several principal Shops there, such Gentlemen as will favour us with their Custom, either in the making or mending Way, may depend on having their Work faithfully done, by their humble Servants, WILLIAM SKINKER. JAMES BALLANTINE.
HANOVER Town, April 25, 177, 1772. THE Subscriber intending for Britain soon after the October General Court, those indebted to the Store kept by him in this Place, to prevent Disputes in his Absence, are requested to come and adjust their Accounts, either by making Payment or giving Bonds for their Balances. ROBERT PATTERSON. N. B. The Goods on Hand I will sell at a low Advance.
To be SOLD by publick Auction, at HAMPTON, on Thursday the 28th of May, being Court Day, A VALUABLE Tract of well-timbered LAND, containing a Hundred and fifty six Acres, with convenient Houses and other Improvements thereon, lying within five Miles of Hampton, and two Miles from a good fishing Place on James River. It will be shown (and agreed for privately, if desired) at any Time between this and the Day of Sale, by applying to ROBERT MANSON. N. B. The Terms, and Time of Payment, will be made known at the Sale, if not disposed of by private Bargain.
To be SOLD at Sussex Courthouse, in July next, THREE likely SLAVES, namely, BOB, a young Fellow, who is a good Shoemaker; a Negro Woman named SUE, and her Daughter FORTUNE, a very likely young Wench. I have a proper Title to these Negroes, which I advertised in Mr. Rind's Gazette in the Year 1767. I shall attend the Sale, unless any private Agreement can be made, which may be known by applying to MATTHEW HOLT.
STRAYED, or STOLEN, about the latter End of May last, a bright bay HORSE about four Feet nine Inches high, seven or eight Years old, gaunt made, his Mane has been roached, but much grown out, the Part near his Withers hangs on the off Side, and the other Part on the near Side, is pretty much Crest-fallen, paces well, and branded on the near Buttock O, but very blind. Whoever brings the said Horse to me, in Goodland, shall have THREE POUNDS Reward. CHARLES LEWIS.
STRAYED, or STOLEN, from the Subscriber, near Woodson's Store, in Prince Edward, about the 20th of October last, a sorrel MARE about four Feet seven or eight Inches high, branded on the near Shoulder with a Stirrup Iron, has some Marks of the Polevil, and was with Foal when she went away. I will give FORTY SHILLINGS Reward on her being brought to me, or for such Intelligence as will enable me to get her again. HENRY SMITH.
STRAYED, or STOLEN, from the Subscriber, in Charlotte, some Time last October, a sorrel COLT about four Feet seven Inches high, two Years old last August, with a Star in his Forehead, and branded on the near Shoulder w; he is docked, but not cut. Whoever brings the said Colt to me shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward; and if stolen, and the Thief convicted, FIVE POUNDS. WILLIAM HARVEY, Junior.
TAKEN up, in Augusta, a gray MARE about ten Years old, four Feet five Inches high, very much sway backed, trots naturally, and branded on the near Shoulder D. Potted, and appraised to five Pounds ten Shillings. JOHN BURK.
TAKEN up, in Augusta, a bay MARE between twelve and thirteen Hands high, six Years old, with a small Star in her Forehead, but no perceivable Brand. Potted, and appraised to six Pounds. THOMAS FEMSTER.
WILLIAMSBURG, April 23, 1772. MATTHEW HOLT begs Leave to acquaint the Publick, and his Friends in particular, that he has opened a Store, on the south Side of the Capitol, next Door to Mrs. Asgill's, where both dry Goods and West India Commodities may be had upon very reasonable Terms for Cash, or short Credit. He would be very much obliged to those who are indebted to him to pay off their Accounts, &c. this April Court, as Indulgence cannot be granted any longer. To be SOLD, a very likely Fellow named YORK, who is a good Butcher; also a likely Fellow named CESAR, who understands Ditching, Gardening, and all Kinds of Plantation Business. For Terms apply as above.
THE Subscriber begs Leave to inform the Publick that he has rented, and is now in Possession of, the Ordinary at Charles City Courthouse; where he hopes to be properly provided for the Accommodation of Gentlemen, and their Horses, by the Height of the present April Court. JAMES EPPES.
CAROLINE, April 20, 1772. THE noted Horse FEARNOUGHT, now in high Order, will cover this Spring, on the former Terms, and at the same Place. Just imported from LONDON, and selling by the Subscriber,
A LARGE Assortment of MILLINERY, and other GOODS, consisting of the neatest Hats, Cloaks, Bonnets, Terefas, and Whisks, Caps, Hoods, and Fillets, worked Linen, white Satin and Lustrings Stomachers and Knots, Italian Flowers, Safes and quilted Puddings for Children, black and white Silk Aprons, white and coloured Satin and Sarcenet quilted Coats, Patent Net Hoods, flowered Patent Aprons and Pieces for Ruffles and Handkerchiefs, equal in Beauty to joining Lace, fine white and black Silk and Worsted Breeches Patterns, Breast Flowers, Mullin, Cambricks, Gauze, and Catguts, white and coloured Satin, Queen's Silk and Stuff Shoes, white and coloured Silk Hose, ribbed Thread and Cotton Do. Gloves and Glove Strings, Silk Mts at 4s. a Pair, new fashioned Hair Collars, Boys trimmed Satin Caps, Ladies newest fashioned riding Hats bound and trimmed with Turbans and Feathers, new Musick, both Dances and Songs, Gentlemens fine Beaver Hats, thin Bone and Packthread Stays, fine Night Caps, French Beads and Bugles, Stone, Silver, Pinchbeck, and gilt Buckles, set Combs, plain Do. of all Sorts, Stone and Gold Brooches, Stone and other Pins, Marcasite Lockets, Silver bowed Scissors, Silver Teaspoons, Tea Tongs, Pap Boats and Sponge Eggs, Etwee Cakes and Pocket Books, Travelling Shaving Cakes and Shaving Powder, Silver Screws and Shoe Claps, Fruit Knives, Pocket Rules, Gold and Silver Hatbands, Canes and very neat Riding Whips, Toys for Children, Bead and Marcasite Earrings, Passe Do. with and without Drops, plaited Shoe Buckles, bordered and spotted Gauze Handkerchiefs, Hair Nets and Powder Bags, Watch Papers, Fillagres Trinkets, Inkpots, Fiddle Strings, with many other Articles too numerous to mention. C. RATHBELL.
Just arrived, and to be SOLD by ROBERT MACGILL, Bookseller, during the present General Court, at the House of Mr. William Rind, in Williamsburg,
A SMALL Collection of BOOKS, consisting of HISTORY, ENTERTAINMENT, NEW NOVELS, SONG BOOKS, some LAW BOOKS, and a few DIVINITY BOOKS; likewise a neat Assortment of Ladies and Gentlemens MOROCCO POCKET BOOKS, with or without Instruments; also a Variety of MERCHANTS ACCOUNT BOOKS. N. B. Printed Catalogues, with the Prices annexed, may be had gratis.
DR. KEYSER'S famous PILLS are to be bad, with full Directions for their Use in all Cases, at JOHN M. GALT'S Shop, near the Capitol, in Williamsburg,
WHO takes the Liberty to give the Publick some Particulars relating to them, that such Persons as are suffering under any Degree of a CERTAIN DISEASE may be encouraged to use the Means for their Recovery, which have hitherto been successful beyond all the other Inventions of human Subtlety.
The Preparation has been discovered only eleven Years. The Patient is most effectually cured without any Inconvenience to himself, or being exposed to the Shame and Confusion of his Disorder being known to the nicest Observer. When he is condemned to a torturing Salivation, he finds himself blessed in a Reprieve by substituting this Medicine; and it has ever been found a certain Cure after the noisome and excruciating Torments of filthy Salivations have failed. His Majesty ordered the most rigid and nicest Examinations, by twenty seven of the principal Physicians and Surgeons, to be made, not only immediately upon the Persons having been treated with the Medicine, but even for the Space of two Years afterwards, to see if the Cures of all the numerous Patients were durable; when, to the eternal Honour of Doctor Keyser, there was not found a single Instance of Failure. This occasioned the King to establish an Hospital, where these Pills alone are administered, and from whence seven Thousand Soldiers have been dismissed since the 20th of April, 1763, perfectly restored to Health. His Majesty, in Reward for such important Services to Mankind, has settled an Annuity of seven Hundred and fifty Pounds upon the ingenious Inventor.
The happy Effects of Keyser's Pills have been often proved in white Swellings, Asthmas, Suppressions of Urine, in the Palsy, Apoplexies, Sciaticks, in the Green Sickness, and more especially in the Yaws.
The Cures are attested by the Duke of Bedford, and Lord Ligonier, in England; and the Dukes of Nivernois, Choiseul, and Praslin, in France.
WE certify, to all whom it may concern, that since the Establishment of our Hospital, in the Year of our Lord 1757, for the Use of the Soldiers of the French Guards, it appears, by the Registers of the said Hospital, that Mr. Keyser's Medicine has already cured five Hundred and fifty eight Soldiers, who (by the Accounts of our Physicians and Surgeon Majors) were afflicted with the most severe and inveterate Disorders, many of which were unconquerable by repeated Salivations and other Methods, without our having lost a single Man; whereas, before Mr. Keyser's new discovered Remedy, we generally lost near Half the Number of those who were treated for this Disorder by the best Methods then in Use: That we caused the strictest and repeated Examinations to be made of the Cures performed; and having no other Motive but that of Humanity in the Preservation of Mens Lives, we thought it therefore, our Duty to give particular Attention to this Object, in Consequence, of which we have supported it with our warmest Protection, &c.
We certify, moreover, that, in Consideration of the continual Success of this Remedy, examined and acknowledged, it has pleased his Majesty to purchase the Secret, and to grant a Pension of ten Thousand Livres a Year to Mr. Keyser, which is notorious to all Paris, as also an exclusive Privilege of making and vending his Medicine during his Life; that Mr. Keyser's Remedy is adopted, and made Use of by Order of the Government, in all the military Hospitals of the Kingdom, from whence we daily receive Letters filled with the greatest Encomiums on its superior Virtues.
We have, therefore, signed the present Certificate with our own Hands, sealed with the Seal of our Arms, and counter-signed by our first Secretary, the 20th of April 1763.
BEDFORD. LIGONIER. Marshal Duke of BIRON. Duke of CHOISEUL. Duke of PRASLIN. Duke of NIVERNONS.
(Signed) And underneath by their respective Secretaries, with the Seals of their Arms annexed.
••• They are sold in Boxes, with printed Directions for taking them, at two Dollars and a Half and five Dollars each.
††† This Medicine is sold for Mr. James Rivington of New York, the only Person appointed by Doctor Keyser to vend them in America.
To be SOLD on the Premises, to the highest Bidder, on Monday the 4th of May, if fair, otherwise next fair Day,
A TRACT of LAND lying in Fauquier County, containing by Estimation seventeen Hundred Acres, commonly known by the Name of The Cobler's Tract. Six Months Credit will be allowed, the Purchaser giving an Execution Bond, with approved Security, to THOMAS TURNER.
N. B. The LAND will be sold altogether, or in Parcels, as may best suit the Purchasers. Five per Cent. Discount for ready Money.
For SALE, A TRACT of LAND in Bedford, above the Courthouse, containing two Hundred and ten Acres, the Timber upon which is red Oak, Hickory, and Poplar. There is a small Plantation upon it, with a Dwellinghouse, sundry Outhouses, and other Improvements. Any Person inclining to purchase may know the Terms by applying to Mr. Alexander Stewart, at Rocky Ridge, or to the Subscriber, living near the Premises. JOHN CLEMENT.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, on six Months Credit, at Chesterfield Courthouse, on Friday the 2d of October next,
TWO Thousand Acres of LAND on Swift Creek. It is exceeding good for Grain, very well timbered, and will be sold altogether, or in Parcels, as may best suit the Purchasers. It is five Miles from Peterburg, and about the same Distance from Osborne's Warehouses. Any Person inclining to purchase may see the Land, any Time before the Day of Sale, by applying to John Randolph, Executor of Henry Randolph, deceased.
To be LEASED, for a Term of Years, and entered upon immediately,
A TRACT of LAND, containing one Hundred and fifty three Acres pleasantly situated, opposite to the Borough of Norfolk, called Windmill Point, on which are two Brick WINDMILLS completely fitted for grinding, with a large BAKEHOUSE which contains four Ovens and three Bolting Mills, all under one Roof, and a large GRANARY sufficient to contain four or five Thousand Bushels of Wheat; also several NEGROES, among whom are Millers, Bakers, a Cooper, a Wench; likewise a commodious DWELLINGHOUSE, with four Rooms on a Floor, and all necessary Outhouses belonging thereto. Any Gentleman inclining to take a Lease of the above Place may know the Terms by applying to me, on the Premises. ROBERT TUCKER.
N. B. The Subscriber would be glad to undertake the manufacturing of any Quantity of Wheat, or Seconds, on reasonable Terms, not exceeding fifteen Thousand Bushels.
RUN away from the Subscriber, at Rocky Ridge, on Friday the 17th Instant (April) an indentured Servant Lad named JAMES PATTESON, about five Feet four or five Inches high, well set, with yellow Hair, and a fair Complexion; he had on, when he went away, a blue Waistcoat and Breeches, Shoes, and gray Stockings, but no Buckles. The same Night he ran away he went on Board the Betty, Captain Ramsay (the Ship he was imported in) and stole from thence sundry Wearing Apparel, which it is probable he will make use of. They were a blue Waistcoat lined with white Flannel, a Pair of striped Canvas Trousers, and two striped Holland Shirts marked C M. All Masters of Vessels are forewarned, at their peril, from harbouring or carrying him out of the Colony; and I hereby offer a Reward of FORTY SHILLINGS if he is secured in any Jail so that I may get him again, or delivered to Mr. William Russell, at Rocky Ridge, or to me in Charles City County, near the Long Bridge. ALEXANDER GORDON.
To be SOLD, on the Premises, to the highest Bidder, on Wednesday the 29th of July,
SEVENTEEN Hundred Acres of LAND, formerly the Property of Mr. Nathaniel Edwards, Junior, deceased, lying on the south Side of Meherin River, in the County of Brunswick, a great Part of which is good for Tobacco. Six Months Credit will be allowed, the Purchaser giving Bond, with approved Security. WILLIAM EDWARDS.
For CHARTER to any Port in BRITAIN, The Brigantine BETTY, now on the Stocks at Alexandria, Burthen about three Hundred and twenty Hogheads, and will be launched on or about the 15th of May. For Terms apply to Mr. William Templeman in Fredericksburg, or to me in Alexandria. WILLIAM WOOD.
EIGHT POUNDS REWARD.
RUN away, on Monday the 6th Instant (April) from my Plantation in Culpeper, near Frederick Zimmerman's Ordinary, an English Convict Servant Man named JOHN BOOKER, born in Yorkshire, about thirty three Years old, five Feet six Inches high, with a narrow Village, ruddy Countenance, a little pitted with the Smallpox, and dark Hair untiied; he speaks broad, is fond of Liquor, and talkative, has been near two Years in the Country, and is an excellent Ditcher. His Clothes consisted of a Frieze Frock, almost new, not lined, with Metal Buttons, cut in the Fashion, with a Button and Strap to the Hip, Breeches of the same, but more worn, an old black Jacket, new Felt Hat, Yarn Stockings, and Country Shoes tied with Strings, the Heels and Soles thick nailed. Also went off, at the same Time, with the above, another English Convict, belonging to Mr. William Allan, adjoining my Plantation, named THOMAS DRYBROW, a tall stout Fellow, with a full Swarthy Face, which appears to be swelled or bloated, and wears his own thick fancy curled Hair; he had on, and took with him, two Onnaburg Shirts, a Pair of old brown Rolls Trousers, old Leather Breeches, a coarse Kersey Fly Coat with Metal Buttons, the Body lined with Plaid, an old blue Jacket without Sleeves, good Shoes, an old Felt Hat, and Country made white Yarn Stockings, much wore. It is probable they may change Clothes with each other. The above Reward shall be paid to any Person who will deliver the said Servants to Mr. Edward Stevens, Merchant at Culpeper Courthouse, the Overseer at my Plantation, or to me in Fredericksburg. FOUR POUNDS will be given if they are secured in any Jail, so that we may get them again, or in Proportion for either of them. JAMES DUNCANSON.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Essex, about seven Miles below Tappahannock, upon Rappahannock River, some Time last August, a very likely Negro Man named JOE, about twenty three Years of Age, a very tall slim Fellow, with little or no Beard, yellow Complexion, thick Lips, a sulky Look, and a Bending in his Knees; his Variety of Clothes makes it needless to mention any Particulars. He has been used to going by Water some Time past, in a Sloop belonging to Mr. Archibald McCall, but was hired to Doctor Ewen Clements last Year, who employed him to work upon his Plantation, and Sometimes to go up and down the River in a Flat to Fredericksburg, and was in his Service when he went off. As he is an artful cunning Fellow, I expect he will attempt to pass for a Freeman, and get on Board a Vessel. All Masters are therefore hereby forewarned from harbouring or carrying him out of the Colony. Whoever brings him to me, or secures him in any of his Majesty's Jails so that I may get him again, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward if he is taken in the Colony, and THREE POUNDS, besides what the Law allows, if he is taken out thereof. WILLIAM GATEWOOD.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Prince Edward, on the 19th of June last, a Mulatto Man named TOBY, about twenty two Years of Age, of the middle Stature, thin made, with gray Eyes, white coloured Hair, little or no Beard, stoops in his Shoulders, and is of a brisk Motion; there is a Difference in his Thumbs, but of which I do not remember; he has a small Scar in his Face, and was brought up to the Planter's Business. I expect he will endeavour to pass for a Freeman, if not a white Man. TEN POUNDS Reward will be given if he is taken in Carolina, and FIVE POUNDS, besides what the Law allows, if he is taken in Virginia. BENJAMIN WIMBISH.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Dinwiddie, on Tuesday the 14th Instant (April) a Negro named BOB, about twenty three Years of Age, five Feet ten or eleven Inches high, by Trade a Blacksmith, very dark and thin visaged. Whoever apprehends the said Slave, and brings him to me, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, if he is taken in Virginia, and THREE POUNDS if taken in Carolina, besides what the Law allows. ROBERT WALKER.
RUN away from Richmond Town, on the 19th Instant (April) a Servant Man named PETER FISKIN, a Scotchman, and a Tailor by Trade, well set, with long black Hair; he had on a brown Cloth Coat, red Waistcoat, and black Breeches, and took with him a French gray Suit, &c. Whoever delivers him to me, or secures him so that I may get him again, shall have THREE POUNDS Reward. JOHN ORR.
TAKEN up, in Mecklenburg, a black HORSE about four Feet and a Half high, and branded on the near Buttock 4. Potted, and appraised to eight Pounds. REUBEN MORGAN.
TAKEN up, in Charlotte, the following Strays, namely, a small black MARE with a long Bob Tail, a white Spot on her near Flank, some Saddle Spots, is branded on the off Shoulder SI, and had on a Bell.—A sorrel HORSE COLT about a Year old, neither cut, docked, nor branded. Potted, and appraised to five Pounds.—A bay COLT about two Years old, with a large Star in his Forehead, his two near Feet white, neither docked nor branded. Potted, and appraised to four Pounds. JAMES HUNT.
TAKEN up, in Amelia, a yellow bay MARE about four Feet eight Inches high, six or seven Years old, with a long bushy Tail and roached Mane, two Saddle Spots on each Side of her Back, paces naturally, and branded on the near Buttock NW. Potted, and appraised to ten Pounds. AMBROSE CUMPTON.

POETS CORNER.
REFLECTIONS ON MORTALITY.
GOD's vast Existence ne'er decays, His Age doth never grow; Past, present, future, in his Sight Are one eternal Now.
THE AMERICAN EDITION of the first and second Volumes of Judge BLACKSTONE's COMMENTARIES on the Laws of England is just arrived, from Philadelphia, at Mr. William Rind's, and at Messrs. Purdie and Dixon's, in Williamsburg.
A few Sets of the American Edition of ROBERTSON's celebrated HISTORY of CHARLES V. complete, in three Volumes Octavo, at the small Price of three Dollars, may be had as above.
MONDAY the 30th of MARCH, 12th Geo. III. 1772.
ORDERED, that Mr. TREASURER do cause the Names of all the Sheriffs who have failed to collect and account for the publick Taxes, together with the Balances due from them respectively, to be published in the VIRGINIA GAZETTE, at such Times as he shall think proper, before the 10th Day of November next.
TREASURY OFFICE, April 14, 1772. ALL those COLLECTORS who continue in Arrear to the Treasury may be assured that I shall pay implicit Obedience to the above Order, besides taking all other necessary Steps to enforce the most speedy Payments.
THE Subscriber has Goods in Packages for Sale, at a low Advance for ready Money, or short Credit; also the Remainder of a Store, which he will dispose of at a low Advance, and give one, two, or three Years Credit. Both Invoice and Inventory may be seen by applying to me at Cabin Point, or at the next Meeting of the Merchants in Williamsburg.
Wanted immediately,
A PERSON to attend in a Store who will be constant and assiduous, understands Accounts, and can write a good Hand. Also a Youth about fourteen or fifteen Years of Age, who can read well, and write tolerably. Inquire at the Post Office.
KING & QUEEN, March 31, 1772.
WHEREAS my Apprentice, Christopher Lewis, has absented himself from my Service, I therefore forewarn all Persons from employing or entertaining him under any Pretence whatever.
THE convenient, well built Brick House, on the main Street, in Frederickburg (formerly advertised) being still unsold, with two Lots, or Half Acres of Ground, adjoining, together with a Water Lot, on deep Water, and a back Lot at a small Distance, will be offered for Sale, on Tuesday the 26th of May, being the second Day of the Fair.
Twenty Pounds Reward.
CARRIED off by a certain Lynde Valentine, who failed from Pungo-geague the 27th of last Month, an Apprentice named JAMES WATERS, about nineteen Years old, has been bred to the Sea, was born in Scotland, wears his own Hair, which is thin and short, he is well set, but rather under the middle Size. Also a Negro Man Slave named ISAAC, the Property of Mrs. Catherine Justice, and hired to me; he is about twenty four Years old, of a yellowish Complexion, well made, of the middle Stature, and his Hair is intermixed with Wool. This Lynde Valentine, by an Extract from the Customhouse Books, appears to be Master and Owner of the Sloop Sally which was built in Massachusetts in 1767; she is square sterned, Burthen, according to Register, thirty Tuns, registered in Rhode Island the 19th of May, 1767, and cleared out at Port Accomack the 19th of March, 1772, for Antigua. Her Cargo is as follows, namely, two Hundred Bushels of Corn, ten Thousand five Hundred Feet of Scantling, seven Thousand two Hundred Hoghead Staves, one Thousand Hoghead Heading, four Thousand five Hundred Hoops, and one Thousand Feet of Plank. It is supposed he will make for some Dutch or Danish Port, particularly Santa Cruz, and there offer the Negro for Sale. His Sloop has a new Mainstay, which is the only new Sail she has, a patched Square sail, Boot-topped with Lime, and a new Topmast, which is remarkably short; her Name is painted in Capital Letters on her Stern. I will give the above Reward if the Negro and Servant be properly secured, so that I may get them again, and on Conviction of the Thief; or TEN POUNDS, besides reasonable Charges, on Delivery of the Negro only.
NABOB, a complete DRAY HORSE,
STANDS at Marlborough (the Seat of the late John Mercer, Esquire, deceased) till the 1st Day of June, when he will return to Colonel Mercer's lower Quarter, on Shenando, for the Use of that Neighbourhood. It is presumed Nothing more need be said in Favour of NABOB than that Colonel Mercer, while at London, imported him for his own Use. He is at Marlborough purely for the Benefit of that Estate, but any Person inclining to avail himself of so convenient an Opportunity of getting his Breed, may do so at the Rate of two Pistoles the Season, or two Dollars the Leap; the Cash must be sent with the Mares. Excellent Pasturage, and the best Care (though not to be answerable for Lofs) will be found till Harvest.
SWAN'S POINT FERRY, April 2, 1772.
HAVING undertaken the Charge of the ORDINARY, and FERRY, at this Place, I take this Method to present my Compliments to the Publick, and inform them that I will immediately furnish every Necessary for keeping the said Ordinary in as handsome a Manner as I possibly can; and, as the April General Court is now approaching, hope it will not be amiss to assure all Persons who may travel to and from Williamsburg, by Way of the Ferry at this Place, that I will use every Endeavour to give the fullest Satisfaction, nor shall any Pains be wanting to give the utmost Despatch to Passengers crossing at the said Ferry. Gentlemen who may have Reason for sending their Servants without Money for Ferriage, will please to furnish them with a Note.
N. B. All Persons indebted to me, by Bond, or otherwise, are desired to make immediate Payment.
THE noted HORSE PARTNER, now the Property of the Subscriber, will stand this Season, at my House, in Goochland, and will cover at five Pounds each Mare, and on no other Terms. Good Pasturage, and the greatest Care taken of the Mares.
SORRY, April 1, 1772. SOME Time in the Year 1762 I gave my Bond to Henry Collier, for eighty Pounds, which I have long since paid. The Publick is desired not to take an Affirmation of the said Bond, as I have a sufficient Receipt for its being paid.
RUN away from the Subscriber, on the 1st of March, a small black Fellow named MICHAEL, formerly the Property of Samuel Apbley, of James City County, near Williamsburg; he is a sensible, smooth-tongued Fellow, and had on, when he went away, a Cotton Jacket and Breeches, Osnaburg Shirt, and Shoes and Stockings. I imagine he is lurking about Williamsburg. Whoever brings him to New Kent Courthouse, or to me in King William, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward, besides what the Law allows.
TAKEN up, in Frederick, a small bright bay MARE about thirteen Hands high, fifteen Years old, with a Star in her Forehead, a Snip on her Nose, and branded on the near Buttock W. Posted, and appraised to four Pounds ten Shilling.
THE Subscriber, Executrix to the Estate of her late Husband, Matthew Rothery, deceased, hereby requests all those who have any Demands against the Deceased to bring in their Accounts, properly attested; and those who are indebted to the said Estate, or to Rothery and Moken, are earnestly entreated to an immediate Compliance of their Contracts, and Payment of their respective Dues, at the April General Court. There will be sold, at Vendue, on Tuesday the 12th of May, for ready Money, the Ship MOLLY, with all her Materials, consisting of Sails, Rigging, Anchors, Cables, &c. belonging to the said Estate; also a Hundred Pound Share in the Town Point Company Wharf. There will also be sold, a few Months hence, two Thousand three Hundred and fifty Acres of LAND, lying up the Southern Branch, Part of which has a Quantity of choice Timber on it, with a Grist Mill, now in Repair, which rents for sixty Pounds a Year, and a convenient Place to erect a Saw Mill. A large Flat can come within a few Yards of the Mill. Any Person inclining to purchase may know the Terms by applying to the Subscriber, who has for Sale, or to hire, several valuable SLAVES, among whom are two that have been used to work in a Blacksmith's Shop.
ALL Persons who have any Demands against me, on Account of the Estate of Robert Walton, deceased, late of Cumberland County, are hereby requested to make them known by the last Day of August next, as on that Day I purpose to sell, to the highest Bidder, at my House, sundry back LANDS belonging to the said Estate, in Order to satisfy all Demands that may then appear against it, and that my Executorship may be finally closed and discharged.
THE Weather setting in very bad on the third Day of the Sale of Mr. Benjamin Grymes's Estate (before advertised by his Trustees) prevented the Whole from being sold, this is to give Notice that on the fourth Monday in May next, being Fair Day, will be sold, in Frederickburg, on Credit till the 25th of April 1773, between twenty and thirty SLAVES, a Tract of LAND, containing two Thousand Acres, near Lewis's Bridge, which will be sold altogether, or in Parcels as can be agreed on at the Sale; also a Tract, containing sixteen Hundred Acres, adjoining Recovery Furnace Tract, a BRIG about one Hundred Tuns Burthen, several WAGGONS, CARTS, and their GEER, sundry BEDS and other HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, as well as all the BOOKS, and every Thing else belonging to the Estate of the said Grymes. Five per Cent. Discount will be allowed for ready Money, and all Bonds not discharged at the Time they become due to bear Interest from their Dates.
For SALE, THE following Tracts of LAND, in Pittsylvania, namely, four Hundred Acres on Banister River, seven Hundred and seventy on Beaver Creek, three Hundred and forty five on Burch's Creek, three Hundred and eighty on Leatherwood, and four Hundred on Snowy Creek. These Lands were formerly the Property of Mr. Samuel Gordon, deceased. The Price, and Time of Payment, may be known by applying to me in Petersburg.
To be SOLD, or RENTED for a Term of Years, and entered upon the 1st of March,
A COMMODIOUS well built STORE in the Town of Petersburg, adjoining the Tobacco Warehouse, three Stories high, with a good Room fronting the Main Street, four good Rooms with Fireplaces, and a Granary, with a Cellar that will hold sixty Hogheads; also a Warehouse forty Feet by twenty, built last Year, Stable, and Kitchen that is also new. The Lot is well enclosed, and the Whole is in good Repair. For Terms apply to Richard Lamb, on the Premises, or to the Subscriber, in Norfolk.
JAMES HALDANE, COPPER SMITH and BRASS FOUNDER from Philadelphia, in Church Street, near the Church, Norfolk,
MAKES and sells all Sorts of COPPER and BRASS WORK, namely, Stills, Brewing Coppers, Sugar Boilers, Fullers and Hatters Coppers, Capuchin Plate Warmers, Tea Kitchens, all Sorts of Ship, Fish, and Wash Kettles, Stew Pans, Dutch Ovens, Tea Kettles, Sauce pans, Coffee and Chocolate Pots, Brats Mill Work, Furniture for Coach and Chair Harness, Fenders, Andirons, Candlesticks, Cocks, &c. at the most reasonable Rates. Also tins and mends all Sorts of old Copper and Brats Kitchen Work, and gives the best Prices for old Copper, Brats, Pewter, or Lead.
All Orders from the Country will be punctually attended to. N. B. He deals for Cash, or Country Produce. Those who have old Brats, Copper, Pewter, or Lead, to dispose of, are desired to apply to Mr. Joseph Kidd, in Williamsburg, or to Mr. McCann, in Hampton, who will receive it for me, and pay them the Value; they will likewise receive old Work to be repaired.
Six Thousand three Hundred Acres of LAND to be sold at Frederick Town, on Thursday the 28th of May next.
BY Virtue of an Act of Assembly of the Province of Maryland, empowering the Executors of Colonel Thomas Calvill to grant Deeds to Mr. John Semple, his Heirs or Assigns, for a certain Tract of LAND called Merrylands, in Frederick County, and Province aforesaid, containing six Thousand three Hundred Acres, we the Subscribers, being Assigns of the said Semple, and having received from the Executors of Colonel Calvill sufficient Deeds for the Land aforesaid, do hereby undertake to dispose of the same, at the Time and Place above mentioned.
It is laid off in Lots, in the most advantageous Manner, so that only one of them will make one, two, or three good Settlements, as will appear by the Plat, a Copy of which may be seen at the Coffeehouses of Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Annapolis, in the Hands of Cumberland Wilton at Dumfries, Adam Stewart at George Town, and Charles Beatty at Frederick Town, who will direct those desirous of seeing the Land to a Person acquainted with the Boundaries, on or near the Premises, who will show them the same; but as we intend to meet on the Spot ourselves, a few Days before the Sale, in Order to run the Lines, &c. those inclined to purchase will have an Opportunity of viewing it with us, by attending from Monday the 25th of May till the 28th, being the Day of Sale.
This Land is very suitable for Planting or Farming, being well watered and timbered, no Settlement having ever been made on it, and is a very good Soil. It lies along the Banks of Potomack River, adjoining it for a considerable Way, near to Harper's Ferry, the main Road from which to Frederick Town (a very flourishing, populous Place) runs through it, from which Place it is only distant about nine Miles, from George Town, the Seaport of the County, forty five Miles, and from Baltimore about sixty five, at each of which Places a constant and ready Market may be found for all Kinds of Produce.
Its Situation on Potomack River must be of considerable Advantage to it, and in Time may add immensely to its Value, when the Navigation is opened, which may be done, without any great Difficulty, for a considerable Distance, there being at present a tolerable Navigation both below and above, it lying near the Shenando Falls, from whence, up to Fort Cumberland, a Hundred and ten Miles, Battoes now frequently pass, and downwards, to the Seneca Falls, twenty five Miles, which is within twenty Miles of George Town.
It will be sold in separate Lots, or altogether, for Sterling or current Money, as may best suit the Purchasers; one Third to be paid down at the Sale, another Third payable in twelve Months, and the other in two Years, on giving Bond and Security, with Interest till paid. A most undoubted Title will be made the Purchasers.
ADAM STEWART. THOMAS MONTGOMERIE. CUMBERLAND WILSON.
GOOCHLAND, January 13, 1772.
RUN away from the Subscriber, some Time ago, a likely Negro Man named SUBA, talks but indifferent English, and squints pretty much. He ran away twice before, was once apprehended at Hobb's Hole, and another Time at Essex Courthouse, and is now supposed either to be in that Part of the Country or lurking about Mattox Warehouse, as he once lived there with Mr. Archibald Brice. I will give FIVE POUNDS for taking him up, and SIXPENCE a Mile for conveying him to me from the Place where he may be apprehended; and in Case it should be inconvenient to bring him to me, I will give the above Reward for securing him in the Jail of the County where he is taken.
JOHN BOLLING.
WARRASQUEAK Bay, November 18, 1771.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Isle of Wight, a Negro named JACK, about five and thirty Years of Age, five Feet ten Inches high, a slim, clean made, talkative, artful, and very fancy Fellow. Also a Negro Woman named VENUS, thirty two Years old, five Feet four Inches high, stout made, very smooth tongued, and has been five Years accustomed to the House. They worked in the Dismal Swamp about two Years, under Mr. John Washington, and carried with them several different Kinds of Apparel. Whoever delivers the said Negroes to me, or secures them so that I may get them, shall have a Reward of FORTY SHILLINGS for each.
NATHANIEL BURWELL.
WILLIAMSBURG, December 19, 1771.
WHEREAS the Revenues of the College, unless more Care and Exactness be used in the Collection of them, cannot continue equal to the Expenses; and whereas a considerable Amount is due to the College, which arises from small Sums easy to be paid by each individual Debtor, all Persons concerned are therefore desired to take Notice of the following Regulations, passed at a late Meeting of the President and Masters:
If any Person who owes Money to the College on Bond does not either pay off all the Interest, that is or shall be due, on or before the 10th of May next, or in the mean Time give a new Bond, with approved Security, for the whole Debt, both Principal and Interest, his Bond shall be put into a Lawyer's Hand on the said 10th of May, with Orders to bring Suit, and obtain Satisfaction for it as speedily as the Forms of Law will permit. If, after the said 10th of May, the Interest due on any Bond be not regularly paid, at the Expiration of each Year, the Bond shall be put in Suit without farther Notice or Delay.
A salutary Order of the Visitors and Governors, directing every Boarder, on his Admission into the College, to pay for six Months Board in Advance, is evaded and rendered nugatory if the like Sum be not paid per Advance by every Boarder at the End of each Half Year. All, therefore, who are in Arrears for Board, are required to discharge them by the said 10th of May. On Failure, the Boarder shall be dismissed from the College until the Accounts against him be discharged, or recovered by Suit. And after the 10th of May next, if Payment for Board in Advance, as above mentioned, be neglected, the Boarder shall not be suffered to continue in the College for more than one Month after such Neglect, but shall, in that Time, be sent away with his Account, and shall not be received again till it be discharged.
All Surveyors who have not settled with the Burfar of the College, for all their publick and private Surveys since the General Court in April last, are required to settle with him before the 10th of May next, under the Penalty of being superceded, and having their Bonds sued. If among these Surveyors there be any from whom Nothing is due to the College, it is demanded of them, under the same Penalty, to transmit to the Burfar attested Declarations of there being Nothing due from them to the College. And, after the 10th of May next, if any Surveyor shall omit sending attested Accounts or Declarations (as above specified) annually, he shall be superceded, and have his Bond sued.
That this Advertisement may not be treated with that Contempt which several Notices of the like Kind have met with, and that no Body may hereafter plead Want of due Information concerning the Premises, this Advertisement is to be printed weekly in the Gazette until the 10th of May next ensuing. By Order of the President and Masters.
ROBERT MILLER, Burfar.
To be LET on LEASE,
A VERY large and commodious HOUSE in the Town of Petersburg, built for a Tavern, and well fitted for that Business; it is two Stories high, has a Number of very convenient Lodging Rooms, and large and small Rooms for the Entertainment of Guests. Any Person qualified for the Business of a Tavern Keeper, with a proper Capital, may find this as advantageous a Situation as any on the Continent. Apply to the Subscriber, who lives on the Premises.
THOMAS EGLETON.
For SALE,
THE LAND whereon I live, in Middlesex, containing about two Thousand two Hundred Acres, in good Order for Cropping, with Orchards and Buildings equal to any in the Colony; also thirteen Hundred Acres on the River Pianketank, in the County of Gloucester, with a Mill, and good Orchards. The Stocks, which are very large, may be had with the Lands. Any Person inclining to purchase may know the Terms by applying to
AUGUSTINE SMITH.
ALL Persons may be supplied with this PAPER at 12s. 6d. a Year, and have ADVERTISEMENTS (of a moderate Length) inserted in it for 3s. the first Week, and 2s. each Week after. All Sorts of PRINTING WORK done at this Office in the neatest Manner, with Care and Expedition.