The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1772-01-30 00:00:00

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GENOA, September 30.
On the 27th, in the Morning, his Britannick Majesty's Ships Venus and Alarm arrived here, the former having on Board his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester. Soon after the Venus had dropped Anchor the Master of the Ceremonies, and the Captain of the Port, were sent on Board with a Compliment from the Republick to beg his Royal Highness would receive a Deputation of six Noblemen (who had been previously named for that Purpose) and likewise accept a Lodging which the Republick had prepared for his Reception, as also the usual Present of Refreshments; but his Royal Highness chose to decline them, at the same Time expressing his perfect Sensibility of the Civilities intended to be shown to him. His Royal Highness has since received Visits from some of the Nobility, but declines any publick Attention.
ROME, October 12. The Chevalier Edward Stuart is arrived in this City, from Viterbo.
CADIZ, October 1. The Emperor of Morocco is actually at the Head of a small Army in the northern Provinces of the Coast, but with no other Design, as it is said, than to make his Authority respected, and to cause the Tributes to be paid him with more Punctuality.
BERLIN, October 15. The King has been troubled, for several Days, with a Fit of the Gout; though the Attack was pretty violent, we have Reason to hope it will not be attended with any ill Consequences.
Prince Ferdinand has been in the greatest Danger for some Days, with a violent Fever and Inflammation of the Lungs. His Highness is in such a critical Situation, and so weak, that we are in great Fear for his Life. He has refused to take any Medicines, so that we have no Expectation but from some happy Crisis, which may bring on a free Expectoration.
PARIS, September 25. Ever since the Marquis de Monteynard hath been placed at the Head of the Department of War that Minister hath eminently distinguished himself as the Father, the Friend, and the Protector of such among the Military as have signalized themselves in the King's Service; as will appear by the two following Specimens, which are greatly to the Honour of that Minister. A German Soldier, much maimed and crippled, came to one of his Audiences lately; when the Minister perceiving him in the Crowd, went to him, and asked him his Business; The Soldier said, "to request that I may be admitted into the Hospital of Invalids, my Lord; I am quite covered with the Wounds I have received in War." The Minister granted his Request, and made him a Gratification besides; he then called one of his Attendants, and ordered him to conduct the Soldier to one of the Coaches belonging to the Court, and carry him to the Hospital of Invalids.
A Quartermaster being lately at an Audience of the above Minister, among a great Number of Officers of superior Rank, the Minister called him to him, and, after a few Moments Conversation with him, the Marquis said to the Company, "I am going to satisfy this Man immediately, whose Business is more urgent than any other Person's here, and I will then return to you."
LONDON, October 1.
Mr. Wilkes has, in a long Letter addressed to the Livery of London, endeavoured to vindicate himself in the Disputes between him and Mr. Townsend, from which we have extracted the following Passages.
"NO Man of this Age has been so injuriously treated in anonymous Paragraphs as I have been, but I never came whining to a Common-Hall on the Occasion; I seldom replied even in the Papers. The Reverend Calumniator, and others, under the Guidance of the Ministry, attack me daily; but they engage little of my Attention, never provoke my Anger, nor for a Moment shake the steady Purpose of my Soul. A manly, consistent, and disinterested Conduct in the publick Cause, I knew; was the best Answer I could give to their Calumnies; and I was sure that every Year of my Life would add to the Confidence with which I was honoured by my Countrymen.
"I joined with the Common Council in the Thanks to Mr. Townsend, together with Sir Robert Ladbroke, Trecothick, &c. not for his Speech, but for his Vote in Favour of the Printers. He says, that in the House of Commons he "gave my IMPRUDENT Actions his utmost Support." He has borrowed the Expression im-
prudent from some of the great Men, who are always cold and backward in the publick Cause. Mr. Townsend at last tells us, he thought the Vindication of the Rights of the People an imprudent Action. Such a Man would term the Revolution itself an imprudent Action. Thank GOD, our Ancestors were Heroes and Patriots, not prudent Men. Russell and Sydney were considered, by the Townsends of their Age, as imprudent Men; they risked all for Liberty. I will emulate their honest Fame, ready at any Time to purchase it at the same Price. Modern, dastardly Prudence, may reside with the Alderman of Bishopsgate Ward, at Bruce Castle; I will never visit her there. Mr. Morris told us, at the Bill of Rights, that when he pressed Mr. Townsend about the Affair of the Printers his Answer was, that he did not find he should be supported by any great Man, and otherwise it would be imprudent, therefore he did not choose to act in it. The prudent Mr. Townsend may wait the Consent of great Men; I will, on a national Call, follow instantly the Line of my Duty, regardless of their Applause or Censure. Publick Spirit and Virtue are seldom in the Company of His Lordship or His Grace.
"When the City, and the Nation, had clearly decided in Favour of the Cause of the Printers, the great Men followed, as they generally do, joined the publick Cry, and thronged to the Tower to pay their tardy Tribute of Praise to the persecuted Patriots. The Business had been completed without their Assistance. In all such Cases, I am persuaded I shall find that the People will be obliged to do their Business; but if it succeeds, they may be sure of the Concurrence and Applause of the Great, and their even entering the most loathsome Prisons and Dungeons on a short Visit or Parade.
"Mr. Townsend asks me, how he can escape the Imputation of Faction? My Answer is short and full, by a regular and immediate Discharge of his Duty, without consulting any great Man about Prudence or Imprudence.
"Mr. Townsend, Gentlemen, returns his Thanks to one Hundred and fifty two Liverymen who voted for him as Lord Mayor. I return my Thanks to the Thousands who voted against him; because they saved the City, and the Sheriffs in particular, from the Man in the World least fit to be trusted with Power, from the barbarous Hands of a haughty, cruel, and brutal Tyrant.
"I beg leave to add, Gentlemen, that I am equally emulous of doing you real Service as ambitious of your Approbation."
October 4. They write from Marseilles that the Captain of a French Frigat, lately returned from the Levant, is broke for not taking Satisfaction for an Insult given to their Flag by a Russian Corsair; and another Officer, of the same Rank, has met with the like Fate, for suffering another Corsair of that Nation to take a French Vessel in his Sight.
It is now known that one principal Reason for allowing a Popish Bishop in Canada was to furnish a Pretext for establishing a Protestant Prelacy throughout the British Colonies.
Lately died Miss Elizabeth Gordon, a Maiden Lady, at her Seat near Harwich, said to have died worth fifty Thousand Pounds, great Part of which she has left to charitable Uses; among the rest, one Thousand Pounds for erecting an Hospital for the Relief of indigent Old Maids.
Though the Colonies seem still to adhere to that one Resolution, "that they would import no Tea till the Duty laid on it here is taken off," yet it is said the Orders from them for that Article are as many, and great, this Year, as they used to be formerly.
When Mr. Sheriff Martin, on Saturday last, pulled off his gold Chain upon the Hustings, he delivered it to a Person who attended to receive it from him in Order to convey it to the new Sheriff, Mr. Wilkes, who used it for the Ceremony of being admitted into his Office; but so little Confidence did Mr. Martin repose in his Successor's Honesty, that he cried out aloud, before all the Bystanders, "Take Notice, I deliver this Chain on the Account of Mr. Bull, and you are to bring me a Receipt for it from that Gentleman." Accordingly the Man returned with Mr. Bull's Receipt. The Value of the Chain is about one Hundred Pounds.
Two Ships, Names unknown, supposed from Peterburg, to London, were lost off the North Foreland the 8th Instant, and both the Crews drowned. They were laden with Hemp, Flax, &c.
October 11. A Correspondent observes that London at present answers exactly the Character given by Juba, King of Mauritania, in Africa, of ancient Rome, namely, "that it was become venal, and ready for the highest Bidder."
Amongst the Jewels of an eminent Jeweller of this City is a Clock of exquisite Workmanship, designed for the Grand Seignior; the Case is massy Gold finely embossed, overlaid with Diamonds, some as large as a Guinea, and larger, of the finest Lustre. Pearls as big as Birds Eggs hang to two Gold enamelled Trees that grow out of the Gold Rock, on which the Clock stands; as its Pedestal, a Tree on each Side, the Fruit of which is Pearls, and Leaves of Emeralds; two great Emeralds as big as Pears, are fixed on the two Front Pillars; the Characters on the Dial Plate, which are Turkish, are of Diamonds; so are the Hands.
Wednesday a Youth about fourteen was tried before Sir John Fielding at Guildhall, Westminster, and sentenced to be transported for Life. On his leaving the Bar, he said aloud, thank you, Sir John, for damn my Eyes you have saved me from the Gallows.
The last Letters from Paris advise that the Duke de Harcourt, who some Time since refused taking the Command of the Troops in Normandy, is banished to Savitelle, in the Forest of Brittany.
Considerable Bets are laid, at the west End of the Town, on the Delivery of Port Egmont up to the English by the Spaniards. The Hound Sloop of War, which was to be despatched to bring Advices, is expected home the Beginning of December next.
Some private Letters from the Hague say that the States intend to have a Fleet, or a strong Squadron, at Sea early in the Spring; the Motive of the setting out, and the real Delination of which, are very differently represented.
October 12. It appears from the Letters of Mr. Whitefield, now publishing, that for the Use of the Orphan House in Georgia, from January 1738-9, to February 1770, the Sum of fifteen Thousand four Hundred and forty Pounds two Shillings and five Pence Halfpenny hath been received, and expended; and towards the Sum received Mr. Whitfield contributed no less than three Thousand nine Hundred and eighty three Pounds nineteen Shillings and three Pence. It appears also, from the above Letters, that the Lands granted by the Crown to him and his Heirs for the Orphan House are one Thousand eight Hundred and nineteen Acres, for the College two Thousand Acres, to which may be added one Thousand Acres more left by a foreign Clergyman, making in the Whole four Thousand eight Hundred and nineteen Acres.
A few Days since a Gentleman's Son (about six Years of Age, and of whom he was vastly fond) near Colchester, in Essex, happening to do some trifling Thing which displeased his Father, he gave him a Box on the Side of the Head, which immediately caused him to bleed at the Nose and Ear, of which he died in three Hours. The Father was so much shocked at the Accident, and the fatal Consequence, that he went raving mad, and died in three Days.
Some farther Particulars of the northern Couple are come to Hand, namely, that Lady Scott who is Daughter to the Earl of Errol, is about twenty, and the General about sixty five; that on his Marriage he settled fifteen Hundred Pounds a Year on her, and one Hundred Thousand Pounds on the Children that should be their Issue; that she has born him one Child, which is dead; that the Captain is second Cousin to the General, and owes his Education and Commission to the General, who had placed him in his own Regiment, and admitted him to his Table; but, on perceiving a whispering Intimacy between the imprudent Parties, he recommended, and at last insisted, that the Captain should join his Regiment; this brought on the Elopement.
Lady Scott is Granddaughter to the Earl of Kilmarnock, who was beheaded in Consequence of the Rebellion in 1745. Lord Boyd, the Son of that Earl, succeeded to the Title of Errol in Right of his Mother; and hence it is that a Peerage continues in the Family.
Of the astonishing Increase of the Trade of this Kingdom the following Fact is a recent Proof. In the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, a Survey was taken of the Shipping belonging to every Port in the Kingdom, when the largest Vessel at Liverpool was but forty Tuns Burthen, and the whole Amount of Tonnage

of all the Vessels belonging to that Port was but two Hundred and twenty three Tuns. At present there are about five Hundred Vessels belonging to it, and each Vessel, on an Average, may be supposed to carry one Hundred and fifty Tuns; so that the Quantity of Shipping, in two Centuries, has increased as two Hundred and sixty nine to one. Nay we may say it is in less than one Century that almost the Whole of this Increase has taken Place, for it is not much above eighty Years since the first Vessel failed from Liverpool in the American Trade.
A Letter from Liverpool, dated the 8th of October, mentions that Captain Griffith, of the True Blue, who is arrived there from Jamaica, brings an Account that he spoke with the Granville, from the above Place, by whom he learned that the Vessels on Shore in the Gulf of Florida were two Spanish Men of War, and six Merchantmen, from the Havannah to Spain.
By a Ship which arrived in the Downs from Dunkirk, we learn that the French Coast is covered with Wrecks; and by several Parts of Ships that floated, they appear to be Dutch. It is feared that the late high Winds have been productive of a great Deal of Damage at Sea, as Wrecks were seen not only on the Coast of France, but also on the English Coast.
October 15. Lord Chief Justice de Grey has, with great Humanity, taken the Part of the poor Prisoners who were used with such Barbarity in the Fleet Prison, and ordered them to be taken out of a Place called the Strong Room, which is one of the most unwholesome Dungeons in this Kingdom.
Sunday Morning, about four o'Clock, the Postboy driving the Mail Carriage, with the north Road Mail, was attacked and robbed, by two Men on Foot, near Houndsfield, on the Road to Endfield, who presented a Pistol to the Boy, and ordered him to drive into an enclosed Field some Distance from the Road, where, after binding his Hands and Legs, and leaving him about thirty Yards from the Carriage, they cut and broke open the Roof of it, and stole thereout the whole north Mail, except St. Ives's Bag; and in the Afternoon the greater Part of the Bags were found unopened in a Ditch, not far from the Place where the Robbery was committed, and were immediately forwarded by Express. Two Hundred Pounds Reward is offered for apprehending both or either of the Offenders, and his Majesty's Pardon if any Accomplice.
October 16. Letters from Madrid mention that a Packet, containing some important Instructions, had just been sent to Cadiz, to be shipped immediately on Board a Frigate of War for the Havannah.
A Letter from Newfoundland mentions that one of his Majesty's Ships on that Station had destroyed several Stages erected by the French on the Island of Cape Breton, being beyond the Limits allowed them for carrying on the Fishery.
It is said that the Earl of Hertford, Lord Chamberlain to his Majesty, will speedily resign; and that his Lordship will be succeeded by Lord Weymouth.
We are well informed a Bill is intended to be brought into Parliament, this approaching Session, to license the Press; and that there is now forming a Set of all the Whisperers, to ground the Necessity of such a Bill.
It is said that Sir Charles Knowles has brought over with him some very genteel Presents from the Empress of Russia to their Majesties, among which are several Yards of the finest Ermine ever imported into this Kingdom.
It is remarked, at the west End of the Town, that passing and repassing of Criers are more frequent than usual between London and the Hague.
It is rumoured that a Treaty is on the Carpet between the Court of London and Copenhagen, for Great Britain to be furnished with thirty Sail of Danish Men of War of the Line when wanted.
The Waters in the River at Utrecht are so considerably risen that there is a Number of Hands employed to secure the Dams; and the River Lek, at Jarlsfeld, hath risen forty Inches above the common Water Mark.
The Pitt, Punderdon, from Virginia to London, has been on Shore off Deal, but is got off, with considerable Damage.
It is whispered that there is at present a great Division amongst the Rockingham Party. This Fracas is said to be brought about by some late Negotiations in the Alley.
The Waters are so much out in the northern Counties that the Roads are almost impassable, and many Accidents are apprehended.
October 17. A greater Instance of Fatality, in one Family, has not been known, for many Years, than in that of Nicholas Pool, Esquire, Tobacco Merchant, in Fore Street. His Wife died last Saturday Morning of a putrid sore Throat, their Child the same Afternoon, yesterday Mr. Pool fell a Victim to the same Disease, and this Morning his Mother and Servant Maid obeyed the same awful Summons.
Extract of a Letter from Swansea, October 10. Monday Night we had a violent Storm from the S. W. in which a Danish Ship of five Hundred Tuns, laden with Salt, bound from the Mediterranean to Holland, was cast away on the Dulridge Sand, near the Bar of Neath River, and entirely lost. The Ship struck at twelve at Night, and parted in Pieces at five in the Morning. The Captain and eight of the Men saved themselves upon two Pieces of the Wreck, which came ashore at the Salt Point House, the Mouth of our River; six more of the Men, who had got upon another Piece of the Wreck, were drowned. There was soon a Report spread that the Mariners had the Plague, but never were People in better Health; they are however forced to perform Quarantine, and are guarded in a small House near the River Side. They came ashore almost destitute of every Thing; but were immediately clothed by the Liberality of some Gentlemen of the Town, supplied with Money, and now want for Nothing.
Doctor Beattie, Author of the Immutability of Truth, has lately paid a Visit to London. His great Learning, Worth, and Abilities, joined to the greatest Simplicity of Manners, have recommended him to all Ranks of People, who have contended who should caress him most. This Gentleman is as much celebrated for his Victory over the sceptical Hume as Doctor Douglas for his Detection of the Impostor Lauder.
Letters arrived yesterday from Torbay declare that on Saturday last three large Ships were met with, in great Distress, about four Leagues to the west of that Place, by a fishing Smack, whose People heard several Guns fired as Signals of Distress, but could not distinguish what Nation the Vessels belonged to; the Mainmast of one of them was cut by the Board, and another of them had lost her Rudder and Boltsprit. But the Smack falling in soon after with a Guernsey Sloop, was informed that a Fleet of large Swedish Ships had spoke with her the Day before, some of which there is the greatest Reason to fear are lost, as several Pieces of Wreck, Hencoops, and a Chest of Chinese Pictures, were taken up on the Coast of Torbay.
Tuesday there was no Court of Aldermen, owing to Mr. Townsend's not coming. Mr. Crocotch observing to Mr. Wilkes, he was sorry that they were one short ; Mr. Wilkes said, he hoped they should always be that one short ; which a little Alderman overhearing, called out, What! do you mean to ridicule me? If so, Sir, I will complain to the Court, as I know myself to be the shortest in the Company.
The last Letters from Leghorn mention that the French now carry on a very considerable Trade with the Island of Corsica.
All the Houses in the Savoy, it is said, are to be pulled down at the Expiration of the Warning given to the Inhabitants, and a Palace is to be built there for one of the young Princes, who is to be created Duke of Lancaster.
October 18. They write from Peterburg that a Petition in the Names of two Hundred and seventy poor Exiles in the Deserts of Siberia, many of whom had been banished thirty Years, had lately been presented to the Empress, which so worked upon the humane Nature of her Imperial Majesty that Orders were given for their immediate Recall, and the Expenses of their Journey to be defrayed by the Court.
The Duke of Northumberland will certainly succeed the present Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, when recalled. His Grace is greatly beloved in that Kingdom, and no One is more likely to restore Tranquillity among them than he is.
The following Notice has appeared in this Day's Papers, dated Mr. Reynold's Office, Number 39, Lime Street, October 16, 1771.
SIR, WE are well satisfied with your general Conduct in the Office you hold under us, and in Particular with the Humanity you always show to the unhappy Persons under your Care. There are, however, two glaring Abuses, of Importance, which we are determined to rectify at the ensuing Sessions on Wednesday next, and all the subsequent Sessions during our Sheriffalty.
The first is, the Prisoners remaining in Irons at the Time of Arraignment and Trial. This we conceive to be equally repugnant to the Laws of England and of Humanity. Every Person, at so critical a Moment, ought to be without any bodily Pain or Restraint, that the Mind may be perfectly free to deliberate on its most interesting and awful Concerns in so alarming a Situation. It is Cruelty to aggravate the Feelings of the Unhappy in a State of such Distraction, and Injustice to deprive them of
any Advantage for the Defence of supposed Innocence, by calling off the Attention by bodily Torture, at the great Moment when the full Exertion of every Faculty is most wanted. No Man in England ought to be compelled to plead while in Chains. We therefore are determined to abolish the present illegal and inhuman Practice; and we direct you to take off the Irons before any Prisoner is set to the Bar, either for Arraignment or Trial.
The other Abuse we are determined to reform is the taking of Money for Admission into the Court at the Old Bailey. This likewise we hold to be contrary to Law. It is one of the most glorious Privileges of this Nation that our Courts of Justice must always be open and free, that no judicial Proceedings can be had in a secret clandestine Manner, but that the Conduct of the Judges, Juries, and Witnesses, is submitted to the Eye of a judicious and impartial Publick, without any Expense, Fee, or Gratification whatever. We need not enumerate to you the constant Complaints made on this Subject every Session, and the Tumults occasioned by the Exactions of the Officers, &c. We have given Orders to our Officers to admit gratis all Persons who behave with Decency into any Part of the Court. We expect the like Orders from you to all your Servants. To inform the Publick of this Regulation, we desire you to affix the following Words in large Letters on the several Entrances into the Court, "No Money is to be taken for Admission into any Part of this Court of Justice."
We are, Sir, your humble Servants, JOHN WILKES. Keeper of Newgate. FRED. BULL.
In the Marriage Articles which are drawn previous to the Marriage of Mr. H. and the celebrated Mrs. A. there is a Settlement on the Lady's favourite Dog and Cat, in Case they should be the Survivors. This is a Fact.
Count Guignes, since his Departure from this Kingdom, has been almost constantly with his Sovereign. The Excuse he made to our Court for his so suddenly retiring is known to be a mere Excuse, as he had been making private Preparations for some Time, and even told some of his Intimates that he should not return here any more. From this extraordinary Conduct, we may easily guess that Something is hatching by the Court of France which bodes no Good to this Nation.
No People in the World are so easily gulled as the English. Of this we have a striking Proof in their so eagerly swallowing the Improbabilities originated by that unlettered stupid Blockhead, Britain. For a Man to write a History, scarce capable of writing his own Name, is most certainly a Prodigy in Nature!
October 19. No Board of Admiralty was held yesterday, as expected, for Want of a sufficient Number of Lords to compose the same.
The Earl of Rochford, Secretary of State for the southern Department, is now, and for some Days past has been, on a Visit to the Earl of Suffolk, at Charlton, in Wilts.
Lady Mary Scott is a Granddaughter of Mrs. Lockhart, Wife of Alexander Lockhart, an eminent Counsellor at Edinburgh. Who has not heard of Mrs. Lockhart, and the late Earl of Home?
If the Lord Mayor elect pursues the Plan of his Predecessor, by inquiring into the Causes of the Dearness of Provisions, and endeavouring to reduce the Price of the Necessaries of Life, he will approve himself to be, and meet with the Applause of, the good Citizen.
One great Advantage will arise from the indiscriminate Admission of Persons into our Courts of Justice: The Lives of many may be saved, by good Characters given by poor but honest Acquaintance, whose Garb might otherwise prevent their getting into Court.
A very unusual Face of Disatisfaction, it is said, appears in a Sifter Kingdom; where, notwithstanding the Address of the ministerial Agents, the Fettes imposed upon the People begin to be felt, and the Veil, which has so long obscured their Sight, is already much too far removed to suffer them to continue peaceably under it much longer.
There is a Woman in this City who enjoys an Annuity of fifty Pounds on Condition of feeding two Cats, which were the Favourites of her late Mistress. These Animals constantly sleep on Velvet Cushions.
It is reported that Britain, who is confined in Reading Jail, will be brought to Town, on his own Confession, for high Treason, in conspiring against the Life of a Great Personage.
The Constables of the City of London have drawn up a Petition to the Court of Aldermen, which will be presented next Tuesday, humbly praying that they may be allowed some Gratuity for the very extraordinary Trouble they have had during the Course of this Year.
One Canton in Switzerland has so large a Share in our Funds that an Agent from thence constantly resides here, and has a Thousand Pounds a Year merely for negotiating and taking Care of its Business in the Stocks.
At a Meeting of Gentlemen at the Adelphi Tavern, a few Days since, it was proposed by the Rofcius of the present Age that no political Healths should be drank; but forgetting himself, he drank Party without Faction . The next Gentleman, by Way of Rebuke, drank Damnation without Hissing .
They write from Madrid that the Court had given Orders for a strict Guard to be kept upon the King's Magazines and Dockyards at Ferrol and Cadiz, several Jesuits in Disguise having lately been taken up at Madrid.
The Frigates now fitting out at Plymouth, it is said, are to cruise about the French and Spanish Ports, to make strict Inquiry into the State of their several Navies.
Advice is received, by the last Ships from Antigua, that on a late Trial there, before the Honourable Stephen Lizard, Esquire, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas when the Jury had brought in their Verdict, the Chief Justice refused to take the Verdict, and found great Fault with it. The Jury persisting unanimously in the Verdict they had given, he declared it should not be recorded; for that it was contrary to Honour, Honesty, and common Sense. Whereupon the Jury immediately quitted the Court, and Mr. John Burke, one of the Counsel, and a Member likewise of the Assembly, declared in the Court that he would impeach the Chief Justice before the Council and Assembly of that Island, at their first Meeting. The Gentlemen of the Jury, who are the principal People of the Island, have also instructed Mr. Glanville, another young Counsel, and a Member of the Assembly, to assist Mr. Burke in the Impeachment. It is supposed this Matter will shortly be discussed in England.
Yesterday Cards were sent to all the Gentlemen of the Bill of Rights, from the Lord Mayor, inviting them to dine with his Lordship, next Tuesday at the Mansion House.
Extract of a Letter from the Hague, October 8. The last Letters from Dantzick advise that four Prussian Regiments of Hussars, each consisting of a Thousand Men, are upon the March towards the Polish Ukraine to raise Recruits, as it is given out, and with what farther Motives Time will discover.
They write from Stockholm that the Senators can hardly determine among themselves in what Manner to draw up the Articles to which his Swedish Majesty is to accede before his Coronation. Some are for allowing him more Power and Authority than his Father had, and others insist upon his being on the same Footing.
The Garrison of Dover was lately reinforced with two Hundred Men, the more effectually to overawe the Smugglers, who, by their clandestine Traffick, greatly hurt the County of Kent.
Yesterday Application was made to the Lord Mayor by the Friends of John Eyre, Esquire, committed on the Oaths of Thomas Fielding, William Holder, William Payne, and William Nash, for feloniously stealing eleven Quires of writing Paper. The Circumstances were so strong against the Prisoner, on whom the Goods were found, and no Defence whatever being set up by him before the Magistrate who made the Commitment, that the Lord Mayor refused to bail him. The Alderman who committed him had before refused to bail him, and it was alleged that no Instance whatever had been known of a Person bailed under such Circumstances. Mr. Eyre was, however, bailed yesterday by Lord Mansfield, himself in only three Hundred Pounds, and three Scottish Securities in one Hundred Pounds each; a Kinloch, Farquhar, and Innis. Eyre has since made his Escape.
The Writer of the Whisperer hath been connived at, some say encouraged, by the Ministry, with a Design, not of punishing the Licensiousness, but of restraining the Liberty of the Press; which, however they may boast of their Power of doing Mischief, will never be so submitted to by the People.
General Scott, whose Lady lately eloped with Captain Sutherland, has been by much the most successful at Play of all the modern Members of a certain House in St. James's Street. He has more than once won twenty Thousand Pounds at a Sitting, is said to have acquired at Play not less than one Hundred and fifty Thousand Pounds, and acquired it with the utmost Honour, by no other Means than a great Superiority of Knowledge, and a Coolness of Temper which no Run of ill Luck could ever ruffle.
A Suit is said to be already commenced in Doctors Commons against Lady Mary Scott and Captain Sutherland for criminal Conversation.
It is now very confidently asserted that Lord Hillsborough's Visit to his Estate on the other Side of the Water, instead of Business or Amusement, is a Stroke of Policy superior to any that has hitherto been practised by Administration.
The Paragraph in the Papers of this Week which mentions Lord Hillsborough's giving Premiums for the Conversion of Roman Catholicks to Protestantism, and the well known Practice, vice versa , of the Papists
both in England and Ireland, reminds us of a droll Thing once said by a Cabin Boy on this Subject. The Boy had been at Lisbon, where he had received five Moidores for abjuring the Protestant Religion. This Circumstance he afterwards revealed to another Boy, in a subsequent Voyage. His Confidant reproaching him for having driven a Bargain of such a Kind, why not (said the Renegado) why should I not take the Money for changing? Was not my Religion better than theirs? It is plain they thought so, or they would not have given me so much to Boo .
It is said that the Duke and Duchess of Grafton are preparing to make a Visit to the Court of Madrid, where they intend to reside for some Time.
They write from Birmingham that the present flourishing State of the Hardware Manufactories there exceeds even what it was before the American Resolutions against the Importation of British Goods.
Orders are despatched to Minorca to send home an exact List of the Militia of that Island, which occasions much Speculation among the Politicians.
The Papers having announced the unlooked for Appointment of a certain Baronet to a Seat in Council, it is but a Piece of Justice (as a Completion of a Farce) to give the following Anecdote, which is a Fact, to the Publick. The King and Queen were at the petit Piccadilly of The Commissary on Wednesday at Covent Garden, and were extremely delighted with the Character of the Commissary, which his Majesty greatly admired for its poignant Wit and Satire against the Mushroom Race of Gentry in general. The King (knowing it to be a Piece of Foote's, and that Foote's Pieces were usually living Characters) asked the Earl of H. if the Commissary was meant for any Person particularly. "The World, Sir, says (replied his Lordship) and I believe it is a Truth, that it is intended for a Portrait of your Majesty's new Privy Counsellor."
October 21. The Value of the late Lord Baltimore's Property in America is estimated at a Million Sterling. The Places in the Proprietary's Gift are very numerous, and very lucrative. Maryland is, besides, already well peopled; and if Doctor Franklin's Calculation is right, which doubles the American Population every twenty five Years, that Province, in the Course of a Century, will be greatly superior in Wealth and Numbers to many Dominions on the Continent of Europe.
The Hope, Baxter, from North Carolina, is arrived at Poole, dismasted.
Extract of a Letter from Prestonpans, October 7. "In the Month of June, this Year, Messieurs William Caddell and Sons, and Company, of this Place, consigned to me a Parcel of Stone Ware, to sell for their Account at Oporto. About six Weeks before I arrived there a Prohibition to import that Article had taken Place, wherefore I was obliged to grant Bond, under the Penalty of one Hundred Pounds Sterling, that none of it should be landed; and the more effectually to prevent it, two Customhouse Officers were put on Board, to whom I was obliged to pay Wages. Their Forms required that I should wait upon the chief Man under the King of Portugal at Oporto, to whose House I was attended by the British Vice Consul. We were there received not as free Subjects of his British Majesty, but as the vilest of his Most Faithful Majesty's Slaves. The Vice Consul was admitted within two Rooms of this great Man, and I only to the highest Step of a Staircase which led to his Apartments. He at last deigned to make his Appearance (a huge fat Fellow, with a broad rosy Countenance) and asked for an Invoice of the Goods, which being given him, he dismissed us in a surly Manner, saying, that we should hear from him anon. The Invoice he kept in his Possession twenty four Hours, that he might have an Opportunity (as I afterwards understood) to mark what Part of the Goods were most proper for his own Use. The Event showed it: Next Day some Persons he had sent came on Board, tore open the Casks at their Pleasure, and chose what was most proper for their Purpose. I only begged them to allow me to sell what Casks they had ullaged, which was refused, and they went on without so much as thanking me. It would have been absurd in me to contend with that Man, as I was not acquainted with the Forms of Procedure in these Cases; but if our Ministry can sit down tamely with such Robberies, farewell to the Preservation of British Property in Portugal."
We are credibly informed that Mr. Alderman Wilkes has lately had a present of twenty Tuns of Canal Coal, by a Society of Gentlemen from Liverpool in Lancashire.
On Saturday se'nnight the Corporation of Rochester voted the Freedom of that City to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Messieurs Wilkes and Bull, the present Sheriffs, and Martin, Esquire, the late Sheriff; and on Saturday, being the Court Day of the Corporation of Rochester, the Lord Mayor, and Messieurs Wilkes and Bull, the Sheriffs, went there to take up their Freedoms, where they were received by firing of Cannon, displaying of Colours, &c. and a genteel Entertainment was provided for them by the Corporation.
The Court of Lisbon, at the Instance of Lord Rochford, has given Orders for the Ship Argyle, which was seized at the Brazils by the Portuguese Governor, to be restored, with all her Lading and Stores. The Captain is also set at Liberty.
It is said that as fast as the present Pensioners on the Irish Establishment die the Pensions will cease, not to be revived in Favour of any other Person.
The Canada Paper Money being now certainly recovered, as we hear, from France, it is confidently asserted that Lord North is determined to make the Spaniards pay the Manila Ransom, and to convince his Countrymen that under his Administration no Potentate on Earth shall offer an Injury with Impunity to England. Pray Heaven this Intelligence may be true! as a Minister who acts upon the Sui Vires with foreign Enemies must take Care to give Satisfaction at home, and speedily terminate the Dissentions which at present distract this miserable Country.
The Princess Dowager of Wales is at present much afflicted with a Cancer in her Mouth, which seems to baffle the Power of Medicine, though the first Physicians have consulted upon her Royal Highness's Case, on the earliest Appearance of the Malady.
It is reported that the Lords of the Admiralty have appointed Mr. Hawkesworth, the Author of The Adventurer , to write the Voyage of the Endeavour round the World.
It is said that in a few Days proper Persons will be appointed to receive the Evidence of Britain, and that if he cannot support his Allegations a Method will be adopted at once to clear the Characters against which he has brought Charges and to punish him for his Impostures upon the Publick.
There are upwards of one Hundred Prisoners in Newgate, who have been committed to the several Jails, since the End of last Session, in only twenty seven Days.
On the 4th Instant died at Dublin, in Ireland, the celebrated Charles Lucas, Esquire, M. D. Member of Parliament for that City.
November 7. The Duke of Cumberland is gone to France with Mrs. Horton, a Widow (and Sister to Colonel Luttrell) whom he has married. He has left a Letter to a great Personage, informing him of the Event, and that he will not return to England until the King will receive and acknowledge her as the Duchess of Cumberland. We are also informed that the Royal Family is in great Sorrow on this Event.
The following is an Extract of a Letter received from Sir John Dick at Leghorn, on Tuesday last. "His Royal Highness of Gloucester has been again terribly afflicted with the Inflammation in his Side, attended with his usual Symptoms, Faintings, Languors, and Hickup; the latter of which has been particularly troublesome to him, and seems to threaten a confirmed Syncope, or Convulsion."
November 9. We are extremely happy to be able to assure the Publick, from Authority, that a Courier arrived yesterday with the News of his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester being entirely out of Danger.
The Levee that (according to Notice on Thursday) was to have been yesterday at the Queen's Palace, was countermanded by Order of his Majesty, and it was held at St. James's, in Consequence of Notice being sent to all the foreign Ministers of the agreeable Intelligence received of his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester being in a fair Way of Recovery.
By a Gentleman just arrived from Calais, we are assured that the Duke of Cumberland, Colonel Luttrell, and Mr. Fettiplace, arrived there last Sunday from Dover, with Mrs. Horton, and Lord Irnham's Chaplain, and that the Duke of Cumberland and Mrs. Horton were married the same Day. They resided, when this Gentleman came away, at Grandire's.
A Spanish Man of War has taken one Barbary Corsair, and sunk another in the Mediterranean.
It is said that the King has been advised to forbid the Duke of Cumberland's appearing at Court for some Time, as the best Method of expressing his Disapprobation of such shameful Conduct.
A Correspondent, in Answer to the Query some Time since proposed in our Paper, "Who is the greatest Genius of the Age," says, that since the late Manoeuvre at Calais, all the World must be convinced it is his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland.
We hear that Mrs. B—— is so greatly affected at the Duke of Cumberland's Marriage that she is obliged to be watched Night and Day, as her Friends are apprehensive of ill Consequences.
Junius engages to make good his Charge against Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, some Time before the Meeting of Parliament; in Order that the House of Commons may, if they think proper, make it one Article in the Impeachment of the said Lord Chief Justice.

It is said that Lord Irnham has been sent for by a great Personage, relative to the Duke of Cumberland's Marriage.
The vulgar Error which has so long prevailed in this Kingdom, respecting the Marriage of any of the Royal Family with a Subject, seems now pretty well cleared up; for though it might be extreme good Policy to avoid every such Connexion, yet there is undoubtedly no Law whatsoever to prevent it.
On Friday last, in the Evening, John Eyre, Esquire, who, though worth upwards of thirty Thousand Pounds, was convicted at the Old Bailey, and sentenced to Transportation, for stealing eleven Quires of common Writing Paper.
We hear that upon the current Report of the Death of the Duke of Gloucester the Journeymen Tailors immediately demanded an Advance in their Wages.
Orders were sent over to Ireland last Week for the several Regiments on that Establishment to be augmented.
Proclamations will be issued the 2d of December for the Members of Parliament to meet the 20th of January next.
It is said Mr. Townsend's Refusal to pay the Land Tax has greatly embarrassed the present Administration, as the Law must now decide upon the Legality of the Middlesex Election. It will incidentally come in Question in the Action brought by Mr. Townsend against the Officer who distrained for the Land Tax. This fiery Trial, it is said, will be carried into the Court of King's Bench, to the no small Satisfaction of a Chief Justice of another Court.
Yesterday, at the Admiralty Sessions in the Old Bailey, John Shoals was tried for the wilful Murder of Allan M'Coy, on the 14th of January 1769, on Board of the Black Prince, about three Hundred Leagues from Anamaboe, in Africa, and also for running away with the said Ship, and turning Pirate. It appeared, on the Evidence, that soon after the Black Prince left Bristol, the Sailors having entered into a Conspiracy to turn Pirates, they forced the Captain and nine of the Officers, &c. into the Longboat, gave them a small Quantity of Provisions, and left them to the Mercy of the Waves, in Consequence of which they perished. Having thus got rid of their Commanders, they elected new Ones in their Stead from among themselves. Allan M'Coy, who was their Cook, having incurred their Displeasure, they tried him by a sham Court Martial, who unanimously condemned him to be hung up at the Yard Arm. The Prisoner was charged with having sat in the Court Martial, and having assisted in the Execution; he was charged in the Indictment for murdering M'Coy, by hanging him, but the Rope broke immediately upon drawing the poor Creature up to the Yard Arm, by which he fell into the Sea, and was drowned. He was therefore acquitted of the Murder, but was afterwards tried for Piracy, of which he was found guilty, and immediately received Sentence of Death.
A Warrant, marked twelve Thousand Pounds, has been issued against the Goods and Chattels of a certain Irish Earl; to evade the Execution of which, it is said, he has caused his Household Goods and Furniture to be removed to his Country Seat, by which Means Mr. Sheriff Wilkes, it is supposed, will lose five Hundred Pounds, and his Colleagues the like Sum.
Edmund Junius, the Irish Jesuit, according to a Correspondent, is so involved in the above Nobleman's Misfortune, that had it not been for the Agency so seasonably conferred on him it is thought he also must have decamped.
The Princess Dowager of Wales is perfectly recovered from her late Indisposition.
It is said the Earl of Rochford has repeatedly desired Leave to resign, but has received a peremptory Denial; and notwithstanding his Lordship's Dislike, he still continues very assiduous in the Business of his Office. The Canada Bills being done at Paris on the 1st Instant, at thirty four per Centum, gives People some Hope that they will be paid off in a short Time.
November 12. Yesterday Afternoon another Express arrived from his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester at Leghorn, which not only confirms the former agreeable and pleasing Account of his being thought to be out of Danger, but likewise of his being entirely recovered.
A Correspondent lopes his Majesty, or at least that her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales, will now be satisfied with all the happy Events of the Middlesex Election; for had they not put the Luttrell Family so forward it is certain it would not have been near so much known, and they cannot now surely disdain an Alliance with a Person whom they thought so happy an Instrument in their Hands for overturning the most sacred Privileges of the Subject.
The repeated Affronts which the Spaniards offer to this Nation begin to give some Disgust to a great Personage, upon which there are very spirited Memorials remitted to the Court of Madrid.
All serious People are very nearly concerned at the late Match of the Duke of Cumberland, foreseeing that very disagreeable Consequences must arise from such a Connexion.
The Republican Party are very warm and zealous in the Defence of a late unpopular Marriage, but it is plain these Enemies to Kings rejoice at every Act that may lessen the Royal Family in the Eyes of the Publick.
A Report prevails that a large Sum of Money will be remitted, on an important Occasion, to the Mediterranean.
We are told, among the new Regulations intended to be made in the Army, the following is one, that no Soldier, being discharged from the service, shall be stripped of his Clothes.
We hear that the Crews of all his Majesty's Ships on foreign Stations are ordered to be augmented.
We hear that Colonel Luttrell disclaims being in the least privy to the Marriage of his Sister with the Duke of Cumberland.
It is said that a great Personage lately entered into the connubial State will make the Tour of Italy before he returns to England.
We are informed that four Councils have been held relative to the late Affair at Carthagena, but the Result of these Deliberations has not yet transpired.
It is confidently reported that his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland has expressed himself in the strongest Terms, that, in Case his Dutchess is not received at St. James's in a Manner suitable to his Dignity and Pre-eminence, he will join the Society of Bill of Rights, and for ever oppose the Court Measures with all his Interest.
Mr. Dunning was three Hours with the Duke of Cumberland upon his setting out. Their Carriages were both at the Duke's Door at the same Time.
The following is his Majesty's most gracious Answer to the Address of the House of Commons in Ireland.
"His Majesty receives with great Satisfaction the loyal Address of the House of Commons, and thanks them for their affectionate Congratulations on the Increase of his Royal Family."
"His Majesty accepts, as a new Proof of their Zeal, and dutiful Attachment to his Person and Government, their Assurance of cheerfully granting the necessary Supplies for the publick Service, and fees with Pleasure that they are determined to use their utmost Endeavours to put an effectual Stop to such illegal Outrages as have been lately committed in some Parts of Ireland."
"Their Attention to those two important Objects, the Linen Manufacture, and Protestant Charter Schools, will always be approved by his Majesty, and they may depend on his Concurrence in whatever shall tend to promote the Prosperity of his Kingdom of Ireland."
Extract of a private Letter from Hamburg, November 1. "It is said for certain that an Account is arrived of the King of Prussia's Preparations for War in Saxony, and that he is to begin his March the 9th Instant with ten Thousand Men. It is added, that the Troops from Brunswick are the first to begin. The Reason is, that he has discovered the Saxons have assisted the Confederates in Poland." They write from the Hague, that it is thought the King of Prussia is meditating to seize on Polish Prussia.
Edward Manwaring, Esquire, who has been a strenuous Supporter of Administration in America, is, we hear, to be appointed a Member of the Board of Commissioners there, in the Room of John Robinson, Esquire, who, it is said, is to be appointed to the Chief Justiceship of North Carolina, vacant by the Removal of Mr. Howard to the Chief Justiceship of New York.
BRISTOL, September 28. Last Sunday died, in the ninety second Year of her Age, that faithful and distinguished Labourer in the Gospel, amongst the People called Quakers in this City, LYDIA POCOCK. Commissioned from on high, she was indefatigable in founding an Alarm to the Supine; but the Law of Kindness was on her Lips to the Penitent and Broken-hearted. She was of a cheerful and benevolent Spirit: Uncircumscribed by the narrow Bounds of Party Distinction, she shined forth bright and diffusive as Meridian Rays to the whole Creation; nor did the Infirmities of Age prevent the Ardour of her Mind, for she continued zealous and active in the Cause of Religion to the last; and, whether viewed in her publick or private Capacity, was the sincere Christian, and the faithful Servant of her great Master.
Vale, O decus melioribus agite paucis! Vale eternum, aeterna fruitur quiete.
BIRMINGHAM, September 30. A young Couple went to be married last Wednesday at Tamworth Church, when the Clergyman coming to that Part of the Ceremony, "Will thou have this Woman to thy wedded Wife?" the Man replied, "No, nor never will." He threw down the Ring, and immediately ran out of the Church.
BOSTON, December 23.
CAPTAIN Matthews, in a Schooner bound from Marblehead to the Eastward, is cast away on Odiorne's Point, at the Entrance of Piscataway Harbour, and drove to Pieces, but the People all saved. Captain Tycocks, belonging to the Eastward, is ashore on Frost's Point. Captain Bell, from Philadelphia, on Hampton Beach; Vessel and Cargo, it is thought, will be saved. A Vessel is ashore on York Ledge, the Master's Name unknown; it is supposed the People were drowned. A Schooner at Winter Harbour is entirely lost, and another cast ashore. It is feared there is a Number more ashore farther to the Eastward.
December 26. We have had for several Days past as severe cold Weather as has been known for many Years past, the Harbour mostly frozen up.
PHILADELPHIA, January 9.
THE Brig Speedwell, Captain Wilson, from this Port for Cork, mentioned in our last to be ashore on Mud Island, was so leaky after getting off that she was obliged to return here on Sunday last to refit.
The Schooner Lovely Lass, Captain Dewick, from Virginia for this Place, ran ashore on Hog Island last Saturday, as she was coming up the River.
The Ship Marquis of Granby, Captain McIlvain, from Londonderry for this Port, having beat off the Coast two or three Weeks, was obliged to put into Maryland, and is arrived safe at Baltimore.
The Ship Admiral Hawke, Captain McAdon, from Quebec for Londonderry, with a Load of Wheat, &c. sprung a Leak when seventy Leagues off Cape Clear in Ireland. They providentially fell in with a Vessel bound to Scotland, who took Captain McAdon and his Crew on Board, and landed them near Londonderry, they being obliged to quit the Ship, as the Pumps were choked by the Wheat, and had seven Feet Water in her Hold.
Our River is now so full of Ice that Navigation is at a Stand.
January 13. On Saturday Morning last died, in the eighty eighth Year of his Age, Doctor JOHN KEARSLEY. He was born in England, and came into this Province about the Year 1711. He was much esteemed as a Man of Eminence and Skill in his Profession, and for many Years was engaged in the most extensive Practice, both in the City and Country. By his frugal Temperance, and regular Mode of living, he preserved, until within a few Weeks before his Death, an uncommon Share of Health and Activity, so that he may be said to have deserved the good old Age he attained to. He had Talents for publick and civil Life. He was long one of the Representatives for this City in the House of Assembly, and distinguished himself so much, in every Debate where the Liberty or Interest of the Province was concerned, that he has often been born from the Assembly to his own House on the Shoulders of the People. He was well acquainted with the Principles of Architecture, a Monument of which we have in Christ Church; a Building, which (in the Opinion of Strangers) in Point of Elegance and Taste, surpasses every Thing of the Kind in America. To this Church, and to the Christian Religion as professed in the Church of England, he was warmly attached; so much that, amidst the many busy and active Scenes he was constantly engaged in, he was seldom absent from the publick Worship of the Sanctuary. We hear that he has bequeathed several handsome Legacies to the Poor.
WILLIAMSBURG, January 30.
THE Elizabeth, Captain Howard Esten, which lately sailed from York River, was stranded on the Coast of France the 7th of October last, in a Gale of Wind and thick Weather; the People were saved.
On the 24th of December last, at two o'Clock in the Morning, the Sloop Peggy, Robert Tompkins Master, was drove ashore and lost, with a valuable Cargo, on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina; the People were saved.
The Randolph, McNabb, George, Coats, Sally, Buchanan, Thomas and Mary, Dunsley, Anne and Mary, Power, Royal Exchange, Woodford, Brilliant, Patterson, and Prince of Wales, Clark, are arrived at London; the Friendship, Phebe, at Liverpool; and Assistance, Farish, at Whitehaven.
[Marriages.] JOHN HATLEY NORTON, Esquire, to Miss SALLY NICHOLAS, eldest Daughter of Robert Carter Nicholas, Esquire, Treasurer of this Colony.
[Deaths.] Mr. JAMES MITCHELL, of York Town, in his sixty eighth Year; a Man who was as generally esteemed as any in the Colony.
Advertisements.
MR. GIFT presents his Compliments to the Gentlemen who shipped him Tobacco on Board the Elizabeth, Howard Esten Master , lately stranded on the Coast of France, takes this first Opportunity, via New York , to inform them (as he cannot write to every Person by the Packet) that their Tobacco was ensured at ten Pounds a Hoghead.
WANTED.
A MILLER, who is a white Man, for a common Gristmill within a Mile of Williamsburg, to whom good Wages will be given. SAMUEL COKE.
WILLIAMSBURG, January 30, 1772.
HAVING received from London, on Commission, a Parcel of neat GOODS, and as disposing of them in my Store will interfere with both my Time and Business, I purpose selling them every Evening, during the Sitting of the Assembly, till all are sold. They consist chiefly of the nearest and newest fashioned flowered, spotted, and plain Cloaks, Hats, and Bonnets, of different Sizes and Colours, white and coloured Silk quilted Coats, fine black Calimanco Ditto, fine India Chintz, Pattern Calicoes and Cottons with or without Borders, Book Muffins, Terefas, a large Assortment of handsome new-fashioned Silver, Gold, flowered, and plain Riband, French Bead Necklaces and Earrings, Mens fine Hats, Satin Shoes, Ladies nearest Tiaret Riding Hats elegantly trimmed, with Turbans, Feathers, &c. Boys Beaver and Satin Whimsey Caps, quilted Satin Puddings for Children, Ivory, Box, Tortoiseshell, and Horn Combs by the Dozen, Silk Laces, Pins, Powder Bags and Puffs, with new Musick for the Harpsichord, Flute, and Violin, Writing Paper, &c. &c.
She continues to sell, at her Store, as usual, a very neat Assortment of MILLINERY, HABERDASHERY, HOSIERY, and JEWELLERY, the Goodness and Fancy of which the hopes will be a sufficient Recommendation to her former Friends and Customers; to whom she returns her most grateful Acknowledgments for the extraordinary Encouragement she has hitherto met with, and shall make it her Study to merit a Continuance of their Favours, by importing the newest and best Goods to sell at a reasonable Advance, by their obedient Servant, CATHARINE RATHBELL.
WILLIAMSBURG, January 27, 1772.
THE Subscriber begs Leave to inform the Publick that he still continues to occupy the House, on the south Side of the Capitol, where the Gentlemen Burgess may depend upon the best Treatment, on the most reasonable Terms, from Their very humble Servant, RICHARD SINGLETON. N. B. Good Stables, Pastures, &c.
WILLIAMSBURG, January 29, 1772.
WHEREAS my Apprentice ( Thomas Mansford ) has eloped from me since Christmas Eve, and is not yet returned, I do hereby offer a Reward of TEN SHILLINGS, besides what the Law allows, to any Person that will bring him to me. I have great Reason to suspect his being with his Father, and forewarn all Persons from harbouring or employing him, as I am determined to prosecute them to the utmost Rigour of the Law.
JONATHAN PROSSER.
CAROLINE, January 25, 1772.
THE Bonds taken for the Sale of Colonel Bernard Moore's Negroes, being due the 5th of next Month, are lodged with the Subscriber to receive; and those indebted are desired to be prepared either to discharge them before (in Case Application should be made) or at the ensuing April General Court, where I shall attend in Order to collect the Money. No Indulgence will be granted after that Time. EDMUND PENDLETON, Junior.
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 Colvill to grant Deeds to Mr. John Sample , his Heirs or Assigns, for a certain Tract of LAND called Maryland , in Fredrick County , and Province aforesaid, containing six Thousand three Hundred Acres, we the Subscribers, being Assigns of the said Sample , and having received from the Executors of Colonel Colvill 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 Coffeehouse of Philadelphia , Baltimore , and Annapolis , in the Hands of Cumberland Wilson 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 inclining 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 Seat 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 Schuando 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.
WILLIAMSBURG, January 20, 1772.
WHEREAS my Wife Anne and myself cannot agree in the Management of our Affairs, these are therefore to forewarn all Persons from giving her Credit on my Account, as I will not pay any of her Contractions after the Date hereof. The Debtors to the Estate of Matthew Abby , deceased, are desired to make speedy Payment, that I may be enabled to pay the Creditors, who are desired to bring in their Accounts against the said Estate.
GEORGE JONES.
To be SOLD at Dumfries, on Monday the 2d of March, being Prince William Court Day, THE valuable PLANTATION whereon Mr. William Bennett , deceased, lived, containing between seven and eight Hundred Acres, on which is a good Dwellinghouse pleasantly situated, with Outhouses, and fine Orchards of Apple, Peach, and Cherry Trees; it is fit for Cropping or Farming, and lies about three or four Miles from the said Town of Dumfries . Credit will be given for Part of the Purchase Money, by the Administrator.
To be SOLD, on Tuesday the 25th of February, at ROCKY RIDGE, SIXTEEN likely SLAVES, consisting of Men, Women, Boys, and Girls; for which Credit will be allowed the Purchasers until the 10th of June ensuing, on giving Bond, with approved Security, to the Subscriber. At the same Time will be sold four other SLAVES, for ready Money. LITTLEBURY COCKE.
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 . JOHN GREENWOOD.
PORTSMOUTH, January 1, 1772.
WENT away from Portsmouth, one Peter Goffegon Coboggen , with a dark Complexion, pitted a little with the Smallpox, black Hair, about twenty two Years of Age, about five Feet four or five Inches high, has followed the Water ever since he was a Boy, and has taken a Boat twenty Feet Keel, eight Feet wide, three Feet four Inches deep in the Hold, decked with Juniper Plank; a white Bottom, black Gunwales, and two small red Streaks between the black and white, with all her Sails and Rigging, and is supposed to be gone to Beaufort , in North Carolina . Whoever brings the Boat, and the said Coboggen , to me, in Portsmouth , shall have FIVE POUNDS Reward. MAXIMILIAN GRIMES.
PETERSBURG, January 4, 1772.
STOLEN out of my Stable, by a Negro, on Friday the 27th of December, a bright sorrel HORSE, five or six Years old, about fourteen Hands and an Inch high, with a blaze Face, a hanging Mane, short Switch Tail, and white Feet. TWENTY SHILLINGS will be paid on the Delivery of the Horse to me, in Petersburg , and on Conviction of the Thief FIVE POUNDS. DAVID BLACK.
TAKEN up, in Goochland, a small bay MARE about four Feet five or six Inches high, branded on the near Buttock with an S over a W, has a long Tail and Mane, some Saddle Spots, and some gray Hairs on her fore Feet. RICHARD D. HINES.
WILLIAMSBURG, January 23, 1772.
THE Gentlemen who formerly favoured me with their Company, as Lodgers, are hereby notified of my Removal to the House lately occupied by Mr. George Davenport , below the Capitol, where they may depend on the best Treatment from Their very humble Servant, JOSEPH KIDD.
ON the 24th of December last I purchased a Slave of Mr. John Brown, in Williamsburg, for fifty five Pounds ten Shillings, and gave him my Bond, with Mr. Ninian Minnis Security, payable the 10th of June next; but as I find myself deceived in the Purchase of the said Slave, I am determined not to pay it, and hereby forewarn any Person from taking an Assignment thereof. JAMES DONALD.
ONE or two good Journeymen SHOEMAKERS will have the very best Encouragement from the Subscriber, at Warwick , on James River . THOMAS PEMBLE.
WILLIAMSBURG, January 23, 1772.
PRIVATE LODGINGS may be had for seven or eight Gentlemen, during the Assembly, at the Coffeehouse, near the Capitol.

***** P O E T S C O R N E R. *****
The SEASONS. A SONG for the LADIES.
W HEN Chloe first, with blooming Charms, Invited Lovers to her Arms, She look'd a dainty Thing; We saw her Beauty, own'd her Wit, And, as the Smile most fit, We call'd the Period SPRING.
The hasty Moments pass'd away, We saw her bright Meridian Day, And Woman's State become her; The prudent Mother, and the Wife, Diffus'd around her all the Life, And all the Blifs of SUMMER.
Advancing on in Life's Career, The Maids to Chloe lent an Ear, And what she knew she taught them; Her sage Advice dispersing round, Till every prudent Virgin found The richest Fruits of AUTUMN.
But Chloe's Charms are faded quite, Yet Honour can't allow it right Of well-earn'd Praise to flint her; For she who Summer well employs Will reap the Autumn's solid Joys, Nor dread the Frost of WINTER.
***** CUMBERLAND, January 10, 1772.
I HAVE for Sale about fifteen Hundred Acres of LAND on Dan River, and three very fine PLANTATIONS in Cumberland County, one of which is the Plantation whereon I now live, on which is a very good Dwellinghouse and all convenient Outhouses, a well accustomed Grist Mill on a constant Stream, a Peach Orchard of eight or ten Thousand Peach Trees, a fine Apple Orchard, and every other Kind of Fruit. For Terms inquire of JOHN MAYO.
A DRAB coloured GREAT COAT, almost new, with a Velvet Cape, was taken out of Mrs. Davis's, in Williamsburg, on Saturday the 30th of October last, and wore, it is imagined, by some Gentleman, to his Lodgings (the Night being rainy) where he left it. It will be taken kind of any Person who has got it to send it to Mrs. Davis, or to the Post Office.
To be SOLD cheap, for ready Money,
A WELL built SCHOONER, about twelve Months off the Stocks, Burthen about two Thousand eight Hundred Bushels. For Terms apply to John Heath, at Cabin Point.
NORTHAMPTON, January 15, 1772.
RUN away, or STOLEN, from the Subscriber, a Negro Fellow named JACK, about twenty Years of Age, Virginia born, black, and slim made, and about five Feet seven or eight Inches high. I am afraid a certain Peter Goffison, formerly a Skipper from this Shore, but lately served on Board a Man of War's Tender, may have carried him to the Western Shore; the following are my Reasons for suspecting him: My Slaves inform me he has been endeavouring to persuade them to go with him and he will free them; that the said Fellow went off with him; that he requested them to advise him how to rob me, and even told them he would make away with me if they should be detected. Add to this, that on my detecting him in a Matter where he was about to defraud me, he vowed he was determined to have Satisfaction. As I have these Reasons to suspect him, and lost another Negro Fellow some Time ago, whom I imagine he has also inveigled away, I do hereby caution the Publick to be aware of buying any Slaves of this Man; and I do hereby promise to repay the Purchase Money to any Person who shall convict him of selling this, or any other Slave he may have carried away clandestinely. I will give TEN POUNDS Reward for apprehending JACK, and the like Sum for the other, whose Name is JACOB, or upon their being secured in such a Manner as to enable me to get them again. And I do also promise to pay a Reward of FIFTY PISTOLES if the Fellow is convicted of stealing either of them. JOHN STRATTON.
RUN away from one of my Flats, when at the Falls of James River, about the 1st of this Instant (January) a Virginia born Negro Man named SCIPIO, about thirty Years of Age, six Feet high, stoops very much, is knock-kneed, has remarkable long Feet, and speaks plain, but deceitful. He was once the Property of Mr. Archibald Ritchie, Merchant, at Hobbs's Hole, where I suspect he now is, as he was taken up near that Place last Fall. He carried with him a Bearskin Jacket pretty much worn, Osnaburg Shirt and Trousers, a Pair of Yarn Hose, and a Pair of coarse Shoes, such as are usually sold in Stores. Whoever brings him to me, at Warwick, shall have a Reward of FORTY SHILLINGS, besides what the Law allows, or TWENTY SHILLINGS if secured in any Jail in this Colony, so that I may get him again. SIMON FRASER.
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 Hobbs's Hole, and another Time at Essex Courthouse, and is now supposed either to be in that Part of the Country or lurking about Mattax 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.
TAKEN up, in York County, a sorrel HORSE about four Feet five or six Inches high, with a Blaze in his Face, three white Feet, a roached Mane and Bob Tail, without any perceivable Brand. Posted, and appraised to three Pounds. CHARLES MILES.
TAKEN up, in Goochland, a black MARE about eight Years old, four Feet three Inches high, with a Switch Tail and hanging Mane, a white Streak on her Back about three Inches long, branded on the off Buttock yH in a Piece, and on the off Shoulder yy, with a Stroke across them resembling a Fleshhook. Posted, and appraised to five Pounds. JOHN PARRISH.
RICHMOND Town, January 8, 1772.
I INTEND for Britain next Summer, and I request all those that have open Accounts on my Books to settle and pay them off, that I may be enabled to settle all my Affairs before the 1st of April. My Possessions in Richmond are for Sale; the Conveniencies, the Goodness of the Houses, Gardens, and Land, with a Variety of the finest Fruit Trees, are so well known that they need no farther Description. There is likewise about eight Acres of Land adjoining Rocker's Landing, where, with little Trouble, Landings and Wharfs may be made for Vessels to load and unload at all Times, without waiting a Moment, and entirely out of the Way of Freshes. Any Person inclineable to purchase may know the Terms, and view the Premises, by applying to the Subscriber. Likewise a large Assortment of MEDICINES, SHOP UTENSILS of all Kinds, to be sold very reasonably. ROBERT BROWN.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, on Friday the 14th of February, on the Premises,
A TRACT of LAND in St. Luke Parish, Southampton County, about five Miles from the Courthouse, containing five Hundred and sixty eight Acres, whereon are two Plantations, with convenient Houses to each, valuable Apple Orchards, and a large Quantity of Lightwood. A good Title will be made to the said Land, which belongs to the Estate of Thomas Sturges, deceased; and the Purchaser will have twelve Months Credit, upon giving Bond and Security to WILLIAM HAY, Attorney for the Coheirs in England.
WILLIAMSBURG, January 16, 1772.
I INTEND for Liverpool soon, purposing to return in a few Months; the Business of the Store will be carried on, as usual, by Mr. John Turner. Those who are still indebted to Mr. Charles Gooch, of Liverpool, will please to take Notice that I have empowered Mr. William Ruffel, Deputy Sheriff of York County, to collect the same in my Absence. JACOB ALLAN.
URBANNA, January 9, 1772.
TAKEN up by the Subscriber, last November, in Chesapeake Bay, near Winter Harbour, in two Fathom Water, a Ship's KEDGE ANCHOR of about three Hundred Weight, with above a Hundred Fathoms of six Inch HAWSER to it, two large Iron hooped Buoys and Buoy Ropes. The Owner may have them on proving his Property, paying Salvage, and the Expense of this Advertisement. HUGH WALKER.
N. B. I should have advertised them immediately when taken up, but on receiving a Letter from one William Richardson (without either Date or Place of Abode) who gave a Description thereof, said he would take them away, and desired me not to advertise them, I concluded it necessary to wait a While.
LOST, some Time ago, a dark brown HORSE about fourteen Hands three Inches high, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, and trots and gallops. He was seen in Caroline, a little below Colonel Baylor's, and I imagine he is either in that County, King William, or Hanover. I will give a genteel Reward to the Person who brings him to my Plantation, at Newport, or informs me where I may get him. ALEXANDER SPOTSWOOD.
TAKEN up by the Subscriber, some Time last July, in York River, a little below West Point, an old Moses BOAT about sixteen Feet Keel, her upper Works much shattered. Posted, and appraised to twenty Shillings. The Owner may have her by applying to me, in New Kent. JOHN TOWNES.
HAMPTON, January 16, 1772.
ONCE more I desire all Persons indebted to me to make Payment to Mr. Walter Peter, Merchant, at Cabin Point. Those who fail to make a speedy Settlement must expect to have their Accounts put in Suit. JAMES M'CAW.
NORFOLK, January 8, 1772.
TAKEN up, on the 30th of DECEMBER last, on the Horseshoe, a large ANCHOR, near fifteen Hundred Weight, with a small new Buoy. The Owner may have it on proving his Property, and paying as the Law directs. PETER SPARROW, Junior.
THE Residue of the Estate of Benjamin Grymes, consisting of about one Hundred and twenty Negroes, several Horses, Oxen, Waggons, Carts, Household Furniture, and Books, also about two Thousand Acres of Land, upon Mattapony River, in Spotsylvania County, which will be laid off in Lots and put under Enclosures, will be sold on the first Monday in February, at the Plantation where the said Grymes now lives, which is about six Miles from Fredericksburg, on Credit till the 25th Day of April, 1773, the Purchasers giving Bond and Security to the Trustees, who will attend the Sale, and make a good Title. 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 Date. The two Vessels, before advertised, being a Brig and a Schooner, about one Hundred Tons Burthen each, will be sold by the Subscriber, at any Time between this and the Day of Sale. ANTHONY THORNTON, Junior. Agent to the Trustees.
N. B. There are among the Negroes some good Colliers, Carters, Forgemens, Watermen, and a very good Furnace Keeper. The Publick may be assured the Negroes, Horses, &c. above advertised, will be sold at the Time and Place appointed.
RUN away from the Subscriber, at Cabin Point, on the 5th of December, two Negroes, namely, GROVES, a stout made Fellow, about five Feet eight Inches high, between twenty five and thirty Years of Age. FRANK, a stout likely Negro, about five Feet nine or ten Inches high, and about twenty five Years of Age. They carried with them, when they went off, two new Duffel Blankets, and the other Part of their Clothing much ragged and tore. They formerly belonged to Mr. Thomas Stokes, of Gloucester, in which County, and in Mr. Stokes's Neighbourhood, I understand they are lurking. Whoever apprehends the said Slaves, and delivers them to me, at Cabin Point, shall have a Reward of FIVE POUNDS. All Persons are forewarned harbouring or carrying them out of the Colony, at their Peril. WILLIAM HENDERSON.
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 saucy Fellow. Also a Negro Woman named VENUS, thirty two Years old, five Feet four Inches high, flat-nosed, 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.
NEWCASTLE, January 8, 1772.
IMPORTED in the Tibby, Captain Robert Boyd, from Glasgow, this Fall, a CASK and a CASE marked WC, No. 1 and 2, containing Snuff, which is never yet come to Hand. It will be esteemed a Favour if any One can give me Information thereof, and shall be thankfully paid all Expenses in forwarding it to me. WILLIAM CRAIG.
STRAYED, on the 4th of October last, a likely bay HORSE, three Years old last Spring, four Feet six or seven Inches high, branded IB in a Piece, one hind Foot white, with a hanging Mane and Tail, and trots and gallops. Whoever brings him to me, at Osborn's Warehouse, in Chesterfield, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward. AARON HASKINS.
THE Subscriber has for Sale about seven Thousand Acres of LAND, four Thousand of which lie in the County of Buckingham, known by the Name of the Buckingham Tract, and is all very valuable high Land; the other Tract, which lies on both Sides of Willis's Creek, in the Counties of Buckingham and Cumberland, contains upwards of four Hundred Acres of exceeding rich low Ground, and very good high Land, with Tobacco Houses, and others, sufficient for twenty Hands. It will be sold in Lots, or altogether, as may be agreed on, and will be shown by Mr. Gary Harrison, at the Fork of Willis's Creek. For Terms apply to ARCHIBALD CARY.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Ches- terfield, the latter End of October last, a Negro named GEORGE, five Feet seven or eight Inches high, upwards of forty Years of Age, has a Scar on his right Arm, occasioned by a Burn, leans very much to his left Side as he walks, and is outlawed. Whoever brings the said Slave to me, or secures him in any of his Majesty's Jails in this Colony, shall have THREE POUNDS Reward. MARK EDWARDS.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in North- ampton, about the 27th of November last, a Negro Fellow named JACOB, about twenty four Years of Age, middle sized, very black, and smooth faced, with little or no Beard, has a Stoppage in his Speech, and if strictly examined, or suddenly asked a Question, cannot directly give an Answer. He is supposed to be carried across the Bay by a certain Person who frequently passes and repasses from the eastern Shore to Norfolk and Portsmouth. Whoever secures him so that he may be restored to me shall have FIVE POUNDS for his Trouble, and all reasonable Expenses allowed, if he is taken on the western Shore. I will give TWENTY PISTOLES on Conviction of the Person who took him away. JOHN STRATTON.
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, Lattic Ovens, Tea Kettles, Saucepans, Coffee and Chocolate Pots, Brass 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 Brass Kitchen Work, and gives the best Prices for old Copper, Brass, Pewter, or Lead. All Orders from the Country will be punctually attended to. N. B. He deals for Cash, or Country Produce.
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 superseded, 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 superseded, 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.
To be SOLD,
A TRACT of LAND containing five Hundred and forty three Acres, on Butterwood, in Amelia County, formerly belonging to Mr. Samuel Gordon, of Blandford. The Land is good, and there are valuable Improvements on it. Also to be let on Lease, or sold, two LOTS in the Town of Blandford, on Appomattox River, at present in the Occupation of Mr. Patrick Ramsay, with a Storehouse, and every other necessary Building for a Merchant in considerable Business. For Terms apply to PETERSBURG, November 10. JERMAN BAKER.
To be SOLD, altogether, or in Lots,
ABOUT two Thousand seven Hundred Acres of good LOW GROUNDS on both Sides of Roanoke River, and two Hundred Acres of HIGH LAND two Miles distant, lying in the Counties of Halifax and Bertie, twenty five Miles below the Town of Halifax, North Carolina. There are about six Hundred Acres of the Land cleared, with an Apple Orchard, a good Dwellinghouse, Dairy, Smokehouse, Negro Quarters, &c. Any Person inclineable to purchase may know the Terms by applying to the Subscriber, in Prince George. RICHARD KIDDER MEADE.
N. B. There is a good FISHERY on the said Land.
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 fourteen 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 inclineable to purchase may know the Terms by applying to AUGUSTINE SMITH.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Lancaster, on the 24th of December last, a Negro Man named WILL, about five Feet eight or nine Inches high, between thirty and forty Years of Age, but looks older than what he really is. He has been at Work in Norfolk for some Time past, and went by the Name of William Moore, as a Freeman. He is a very good Hostler and Gardener; and what may detect him sooner, he is very fond of Liquor, and when drunk very quarrelsome and saucy. Whoever will secure him in any Jail, and give me Intelligence so that I may get him again, shall have FIVE POUNDS, and it brought to me FIFTEEN POUNDS, paid on the Delivery of the Negro. JOHN WORMELEY.