The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1771-06-13 00:00:00

VIRGINIA
GAZETTE.
With the frehest ADVICES,
FOREIGN and DOMESTICK.
IN CIVITATE LIBERA LINGUAM MENTEMQUE
LIBERAS ESSE DEBERE. Suet. in Tib. S. 28.
Printed by ALEX. PURDIE, and JOHN DIXON, at the POST OFFICE.
PARIS, March 15.
Most noble and spirited is the general Conduct of the respective Provinces of France, but more particularly does it appear by an anonymous Letter sent separately to each Prince of the Blood, to implore, for the Honour of the Kingdom, their Intercession for the Preservation of the Constitution. This Letter is conceived in the most expressive Terms, as will appear by the following Extract. "Dare, noble Prince, to represent to the King, with that Liberty, that Courage, that Respect, which is worthy a Prince of the Blood, a Prince of your Nation, the Inquietudes of the Nobility, the Alarms of the People, your own Dangers, those of the King, and those of the Subject. Assure him of our inviolable Attachment, but at the same Time of our Detestation of Slavery. Obtain the Recall of the Parliament, and the absolute Revokement of those Acts which tend to the Destruction of our very Constitution." All the foreign Papers are crowded with the Remonstrances of the different Parliaments of France against the Innovations lately crept into that Kingdom. The People there, indeed, seem to be upon the Tiptoes of Rebellion.
March 29. The Conversation of this City is engrossed by the Protest made to the King the 13th Instant, by the Princes of the Blood, against what has been done to the Prejudice of the Parliament, and delivered that Day to his Majesty at Choisy by M. de Pour, first Gentleman of the Bed-chamber to the Duke of Orleans. This Proceeding of the Princes of the Blood induced the King to call a Council on the Friday following, in which it was debated whether or not the Princes of the Blood should be banished; but such violent Proceedings meeting with great Opposition, Nothing was concluded upon at that Time.
Last Monday the Court of Aids received a Letter de Cachet, by which the King ordered to appear before him on the Wednesday following, at eleven o'Clock in the Morning, the first President, two other Presidents, and the Greffier with his Registers, it is supposed with a Design to erase the Resolutions of this Court on the 22d Instant.
The Letters Patent of the 23d of January, which established the Council in Lieu of the Parliament, have at length produced a general Effect in all the Departments of the Magistracy. Both the Remonstrance and Defence presented by the Court of Aids on the 22d have been annulled, by a Proclamation of the King's Council, issued on the 24th of March.
April 1. We have received, by Letters from Cadiz, the disagreeable News that the Oriflamme, a Spanish Galleon, was lost on the 27th of July last on the Coast of Chili. This Vessel failed from Cadiz for Lima in February 1770, with a Cargo valued at twelve Millions of Livres; the Crew consisted of three Hundred Men, and there was a great many Passengers on Board.
CADIZ, March 5. The 21st of last Month a Swedish Packet Boat left this Port, destined for Buenos Ayres, on Board of which is embarked a marine Officer of his Catholic Majesty, who carried Despatches to the Governor of that Place, and the Governor of the Malouine Islands, relating to the Arrangement between our Court and that of London.
MARSEILLES, March 22. The Sieur Boyne, an English Captain, laden with Corn from Tunis for Spain, on Account of the Bey, has on Board his Vessel a Lion, Tiger, three Horses, an Ass, twelve Sheep, and a Hundred most curious Skins of Lions, Tigers, Foxes, &c. intended for his Britannick Majesty.
BRUSSELS, April 4. It is said a Tartar lately arrived here has confirmed the Report of twelve Thousand Turks being defeated by General Dimico, and of the Russians having made themselves Masters of Widin.
From the VISTULA, March 19. The Campaign will open very soon, and will probably be a very hot One, if a Peace does not prevent it. The Russian Army, which is provided with every Necessary, has been reinforced with forty Thousand Men. That of the Turks consists of sixty Thousand Janizaries, thirty Thousand Bofniacks, and twenty Thousand Albanians.
It is certain the Turks are disposed to treat of Peace. Besides the new Grand Viziar, Abdulrazac Effendi, and Achmet Effendi, are with the Army in Quality of Plenipotentiaries, and are authorised to treat with Count Romanzoff; and Messengers are continually passing between them.
CONSTANTINOPLE, March 13. It is expected that the Russian Fleet, consisting of more than forty Ships, will attempt the Passage of the Dardanelles.
AUSTRIA, March 13. We are very busy in transporting Artillery and Troops towards Moravia and Hungary. They are to be followed by those coming from Italy, and the Low Countries. The Emperor's Baggage is ready, and all the Generals are ordered to be at Vienna the first of April. The Army in Moravia and Bohemia is to consist of sixty Thousand Men, besides that in Hungary, which is considerably augmented.
HANOVER, March 15. Some Letters received from London flatter us with the Hopes of seeing his Majesty here this Summer, together with the Duke of Cumberland.
VIENNA, March 16. A Report prevails that a Treaty of Alliance is on the Tapis between this Court and those of Petersburg and Berlin. We are assured that Prince Gallitzin, Minister of the Empress of Russia, hath demanded a Passage through Hungary for a considerable Body of Russian Troops.
We continue, with the greatest Activity, to make every necessary Disposition for an approaching War.
BERLIN, March 23. Letters from Warsaw, of the 13th Instant, contain the agreeable News that the Plague has entirely ceased in those Parts of Poland where it had raged with great Violence, and that now there were only some faint Remains of it at Mohilow upon the Dnieper.
On the 28th Instant his Royal Highness Prince Ferdinand of Prussia set out from hence for Potsdam, where his Prussian Majesty continues in perfect Health.
HAGUE, March 26. The last Advices from the Banks of the Danube import that her Imperial Majesty of Hungary has found Means to prevail with the Empress of Russia, and the King of Prussia, to come into her Measures; that in Consequence thereof the King of Poland will evacuate his Throne in Favour of the Duke of Saxe-Taschen; that his Polish Majesty, besides a considerable Sum of Money which he is to receive, is to preserve the Title of King of Poland, in the same Manner as King Stanislaus did, together with all the Estates which belong to him by Right of Inheritance in that Kingdom; that he is, moreover, to have the Dutchy of Courland (who will probably have no Issue, and whose Brother has rendered himself unworthy to succeed him) will have an ample Sufficiency given him to spend the Remainder of his Days in Ease and Retirement. This Plan of Operations is going to be carried into Execution.
LONDON, April 2.
A GENTLEMAN, speaking of Mr. Wilkes's Quarrel with Mr. Maclean, said it was but too true that he was constantly abusing his best Friends. The Ministry, observed he, were the best Friends he ever had; they have been the Instruments of paying his Debts, of putting Money in his Pocket, of making him Alderman of London, and yet he is ungrateful enough to abuse them constantly in the Face of the whole Kingdom.
Private Letters from Paris mention that Couriers are continually passing between the Courts of Versailles and Madrid, which gives Room to conjecture that some Designs of a very important Nature are now in Agitation.
Orders are sent to Chatham for the 12th Regiment of Foot to hold themselves in Readiness to march for Plymouth, there to embark for Pensacola.
Large Bets are depending that Press Warrants will be issued before the Expiration of a Fortnight.
It is reported that Measures are now taking to prevent the Effects of a certain Society in procuring either Petitions or Remonstrances on a late Occasion.
Saturday last the united East India Company entered outward at the Customhouse twelve Thousand Ounces of Silver Coin, for their Settlements in the East Indies.
We hear from Guernsey that several French Men of War of the Line are now lying at Brest Water, which can be sent to Sea on three Days Notice.
We are informed that a Letter has been received by the Committee of Inquiry into the late Riots, containing not only Information of the Cause of them, but also an Assurance where a large Party may be taken in the very Fact of Consultation about farther Tumults.
Last Saturday the House of Commons sat about an Hour and a Half, and then adjourned until the 9th; so that they have adjourned beyond the Day appointed for Mr. Wilkes's Attendance, which was the 8th.
Wednesday arrived at Court an Express from Sir Joseph York, at the Hague, which came with such uncommon Despatch that scarce any Thing like it has been known. It was dated at the Hague on Monday, as we are informed, and was received at the Secretary's Office on Wednesday. What the Contents were is kept a Secret.
Saturday the Dukes of Manchester and Portland, the Marquis of Rockingham, Earls Fitzwilliam and Tankerville, Lord King, Sir Charles Saunders, Admiral Keppel, Sir James Penryman, Baronet, Mr. Dowdswell, Mr. Burke, and Mr. Whitworth, attended by the two Sheriffs, Barker and Martin, waited on the Lord Mayor and Mr. Aldermen Oliver at their Apartments in the Tower, in Order to express their particular Regard for the Persons of those Gentlemen, and their entire Disapprobation of those Proceedings in which Sentence was passed without a full Discussion, and a most delicate Question of constitutional Law decided, by inflicting a Punishment upon Magistrates who pleaded the Obligation of an Oath without a Hearing of Counsel to their whole Defence, whereby the Foundations of parliamentary Justice have been sapped, and the Credit of this commercial City injured by the Obstruction given to publick Business.
A Plan is proposed, and under Consideration, to form the Companies lately added to each Regiment of Foot, and which are all completed, into Regiments of light Infantry; a Species of Troops which has been found exceedingly useful in foreign Service.
This Morning their Majesties removed from the Queen's Palace to Richmond, on Account of some necessary Alterations that are to be made in the Queen's Apartments preparatory to her Majesty's lying in.
Saturday Wagers of five to one were laid, at a Coffeehouse at the west End of the Town, that a total Change in the Ministry would take Place before the Parliament meets according to their present Adjournment.
We are assured that the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor has, since his Confinement in the Tower, received a great Number of Letters from the Gentlemen of the Minority, to each of which his Lordship returned very polite Answers.
Considerable Bets are depending on the Release of the Lord Mayor and Mr. Aldermen Oliver, which it is affirmed will be to-morrow se'nnight.
We have Advice from Rome that the Pope has issued Orders for all Ecclesiastics that are in his Gallies to repair to that City, and do Penance there for the Crimes that occasioned their being doomed to such Slavery. He has also settled the Manner in which they are to live and be maintained.
It was said to be settled at the Council, held on Friday, to proceed vigorously against the City Magistrates; but that a great Personage expressed himself in such a Manner as to wish Things might not be carried on with too much Rigour, and that some Method might be adopted to get rid of the Business with Honour.
Yesterday Policies were opened, at several Coffeehouses about the Royal Exchange, to receive five Guineas to pay one Hundred if the Spanish Ambassador does not leave this Court on or before the 25th of April. Very few chose to underwrite it.
We hear that Terms of Accommodation have been proposed between the opposing Parties, which would at once ascertain the Dignity of the House on the one Hand and the Independence of the People on the other, in the amplest Manner; but they have not yet been accepted.
Extract of a private Letter from Berlin, March 23. "The King of Prussia continues at Potsdam, where it is reported, but I cannot say upon what Ground, that he expects a Visit from his Swedish Majesty in his Way to Sweden. The last Letters from Vienna mention that Prince Lobkowitz, the Austrian Minister to the Court of Russia, set out from thence on the 10th for Petersburg; from which our speculative Politicians conclude that the Negotiation of a Peace between Russia and the Ottoman Porte is in great Forwardness."
April 4. Yesterday the Spanish Ambassador had an Audience of his Majesty at St. James's. His Excellency made the most splendid Appearance, in Point of Equipage and Dress, of any that appeared at Court. The Report of a Design in Administration to deliver up Falkland's Islands to the Spaniards is totally void of Foundation.
We hear that the Trade to Turkey will be brought to a better Regulation, much to the Advantage of this Kingdom, but more particularly to those concerned in carrying on the several Branches of the woollen Manufactories.
We hear that twenty five Thousand one Hundred and fifty Pounds will be granted for the better fortifying the Town and Dock of Plymouth, ten Thousand Pounds for fortifying the Town of Milford, six Thousand nine Hundred and twenty seven Pounds for the better fortifying the Town and Dock of Portsmouth, and seven Hundred and eight Pounds for securing Chatham Dock.
We are informed that a Half Year's Interest will be paid on the first of July next to such Part of the Subscribers of the last Loan to the Government for six Hundred Thousand Pounds as have completed their Payments and converted their Subscription into transferrable Stock; which Payment of Interest is sooner, by six Months, than ever was before in any former Loan to the Government.
A Letter from a Person of Character and Veracity in Dublin assures that the Number of Roman Catholic Noblemen and Gentlemen who have conformed to the Protestant Religion in Ireland, from 1763 to January 1771, amounts to three Thousand eight Hundred and fourteen.
Letters in Town from the East Indies say that Commodore Lindsay had despatched the Hawke Sloop of War in Quest of his Majesty's Ship the Aurora; that she had examined all the anchoring Places in the Island of Madagascar, and every Port where it was the least probable she might have been arrived, but without any Kind of Success; for which Reason there does not now remain the smallest Hope of her Safety. The same Letters mention that this Sloop of War found the French had settled and fortified the whole eastern Coast of that great Island.
It is conjectured that the Loss of the Aurora Frigate, with the Supervisors on Board, was occasioned by the Captain attempting to make a shorter Passage, by three Weeks, than that formerly performed, by sailing through a very dangerous Strait, which had never been navigated but by two of the Company's Ships.
It is confidently asserted that the Parliament will not break up until the latter End of May.
We hear that a very great Contention prevails at this Time between the Heads of different Departments, which has not yet yielded to the passive Orders of a great Personage.
A great Personage, in a Conversation, the other Day, with one of the Secretaries of State, asked him his Opinion, "what would be the best Method of settling the present Dispute between his Parliament and the City?" To which Lord Rochford replied, "if I might advise your Majesty, the two Citizens should be sent to the Tower, and the two Onslow to St. Luke's."
A Correspondent informs us that the Business in the Lower Assembly is to be opened on Tuesday by a Speech from the Chairman of the Committee of Inquiry, immediately after which the Report of the said Committee is to be made; and that they will then proceed to debate upon the Affair concerning the City Magistrates and the Melfenger.
Notwithstanding the many scandalous Paragraphs that have been inserted for a Week past in most of the Evening and Daily Papers, to alarm the Publick by insinuating that there is a Run upon the Bank, and that the Bank Notes were at a Discount, we have Authority to assure the Publick that there is not the least Foundation for such Reports, which can be only calculated by evil minded Persons in Order to depreciate publick Credit.
A Report is now propagated that a Committee will be appointed by the House of Commons to supply the Office of Locum Tenens, and prevent Commerce and the Suspension of the chief Magistrate, Precedents of which Procedure are already upon Record.
Large Wagers are held, at the west End of the Town, that a certain Assembly will proceed against Mr. Alderman Wilkes with the greatest Severity; a great Minister having publickly declared that popular as he may be rendered by Punishment, neither the Particularity of his Situation, nor his Wishes to be prosecuted, shall furnish him with a Triumph over the Laws of his Country.
The Report of the Dukes of Gloucester and Cumberland having visited the Lord Mayor in the Tower is totally false.
They advise from Hamburg that the Low Countries are entirely under Water about that Place; the heavy Snows, which have melted away, having swelled the Rivulets to such a Degree that four Miles of the Country has the Appearance of a great Sea.
Count Malzhan, the Prussian Ambassador, we hear, is become as troublesome to our Ministry as the Envoys from the Bourbonian Compact.
The Packet brought by the Courier that arrived from Spain on Saturday last is not in Answer to those despatched from London the 6th and 11th of March, and therefore it is not very material. It contains Directions, of Course, to the French and Spanish Ambassadors, in Case they are called upon by our Ministry on Matters relating to Falkland Islands. In that Case, they are not to be very strict with Regard to the Claim of his Catholic Majesty, but they are to wait another Courier for farther Instructions. The Messenger that was despatched by Lord Rochford with the Ultimatum was to be at Paris (on his Return to London) the second Instant, and is expected here to-morrow, which it is supposed will make great Alteration in Affairs; for as our Ministers have certain Assurance of the hostile Intentions of Spain, they have insisted on their disarming immediately; and a Refusal will be looked on as a Declaration of War. As a categorical Answer was demanded, Nothing evasive will be put up with; and a Plan is fixed, on which our Ministers are determined to proceed directly. This the Publick may depend upon as Fact; and farther, that there have not been any Despatches from Madrid, received by the Secretaries of State, as mentioned in some of yesterday's Papers.
The Queen of Hungary, it is said, is marching a great Body of Infantry and Cavalry into Poland; but whether to act in Conjunction with the Russians, or otherwise, has not transpired.
A great Man yesterday asserted, at the Smyrna, that News of a very interesting Nature had been received the preceding Evening from the Continent.
It is confidently reported that a new Treaty is on the Tapis between the Courts of Great Britain, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, and that the States General are invited to join therein.
Yesterday their Majesties came from Richmond to St. James's, where there was a grand Levee; afterwards there was a Cabinet Council, at which none were present but the Lords North, Halifax, Sandwich, and Shelburne. As soon as it was over, his Majesty went to Richmond.
His Majesty has signed Commissions and Orders for the March of upwards of ten Thousand of the Militia.
Two Frigates of twenty six Guns each are ordered, by the Lords of the Admiralty, to cruise between the Land's End and Cape Finisterre.
This Day the Earl of Findlater was presented to her Majesty, for the first Time since his coming of Age and his Arrival in London. His Lordship was presented to his Majesty yesterday.
April 5. This Day the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor was brought, in a private Manner, to Lord Chief Justice de Grey's, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, by Virtue of a Writ of Habeas Corpus; when, after hearing Counsel, the Lord Chief Justice was of Opinion that he should be recommitted, as the Parliament was not prorogued. The Counsel were, Mr. Serjeant Glynn, and Mr. Lee, of Lincoln's Inn. Mr. Alderman Oliver was carried before Lord Mansfield, at his Chambers in Serjeant's Inn. The Counsel, as also his Lordship's Opinion, were the same with that of Lord Chief Justice de Grey's. They were attended by the Committee appointed by the City for conducting the Affair of the Lord Mayor and Mr. Alderman Oliver.
The Cabinet has met every Night this Week; and the general Report is, that decisive Measures are full undetermined.
The chief Thing that draws the Attention of the People at present is the Fate of the Lord Mayor and Mr. Oliver. It is said that a Motion will be made on Tuesday that they should be discharged, and that it will be agreed to; others say, that the House will proceed with Vigour.
Although the Reports of War still prevail, yet Stocks are getting up again.
It is said that the Committee of Inquiry into the Causes of the Riots have not been yet able to make any Discoveries.
The Continuance of the Tranquillity of Europe depends upon the Answer of the Court of St. Petersburg to Prince Lobkowitz, the Austrian Ambassador, lately despatched from Vienna. This Ultimatum is, that Russia shall grant Peace to the Ottomans, by permitting Things to return to the same Situation as before the War. On the other Hand, the King of Prussia intreats the Russians to continue their Operations; and promises that, should the Austrians take Part with the Turks, he will fall upon Bohemia and Saxony with all his Forces. This being the Situation of Politics in the East of Europe, there can be little Doubt of the Flame being kept up for another Campaign. The Emperor, it is thought, is too prudent to risk the Loss of a Part of the hereditary Dominions of the House of Hapsburg for a Piece of invidious Revenge against the Russians, upon whose late Success both he and his Mother look with very jealous Eyes.
A French Jesuit, under the Direction of the Court of Versailles, manages the Cabinet of Vienna; the Reverend Father having intimated himself into the good Graces of the Empress, who is become a Bigot.
The Empress, Queen has signified, in Form, to our Court, that in Case of a Rupture on the Continent she will not become a Principal in a War in Defence of Flanders; the Revenues of that Country not being adequate, in any Degree, to the Expense of one Campaign. It is therefore highly probable that the French will be soon in Possession of all the Sea Ports of Austrian Netherlands.
April 6. A Bill is already penned, and will be brought into the House next Week, to prevent the infamous Practice of stockjobbing. The Reason that it is moved for, at this Time, is the critical Situation of Affairs in Europe; for it has been a general Practice, for many Months past, for great Operations to be made in our Funds on Account of Foreigners, on the Arrival of Couriers from the Continent; before the publick Despatches have been opened, by which Practices it is supposed to the Amount of Half a Million has been sent out of this Nation within these twelve Months past. These Matters have fully convinced the Ministers that it is high Time to put a Stop to these Plunderers of the Nation, and are determined to carry the Bill through the House as soon as possible, as an Event will shortly happen that will occasion great Alteration in the Prices of our Funds, of which our Enemies would avail themselves if not timely prevented.

A Ministry of a very extraordinary Nature has lately made its Appearance on the Continent, and is even said to be privately handed about in England.
It is said that the Commander in Chief lately failed to take Possession of Falkland's Islands as furnished with a discretionary Power to act according as he finds the Disposition of the Dons towards literally fulfilling the late Convention. The countermanding Order some Time since sent him for immediate sailing was only occasioned until these Orders and particular Instructions were completed.
Letters from Leghorn mention that the Court of Versailles is said to have discovered a Design in a certain foreign Court to make a complete Conquest of Corsica.
They write from Paris that the Establishment of the superior Councils (in the Room of Parliaments) has happily succeeded, and the Officers who compose them are all Men of Abilities, selected from among a great Number who offered their Services on the Occasion. The new Mode of Laws was expected to be registered very soon. This Code is drawn up by M. de Maupeou, Chancellor of France, who has made it the Principle of his Work to secure the Property of Individuals from the Attempts of Chicanery, by shortening the legal Proceedings, and rendering them simple and plain.
They write from Brest that five Ships of War are now fitting out there for the Coast of Guinea, with Materials and Stores for establishing a new Factory to the southward near Wampoo.
We are informed that when Mr. Harris, our Plenipotentiary, was presented to his Catholic Majesty to deliver his Credentials, which he delivered with proper Address on the Occasion, his Majesty immediately spoke to him, in French, to the following Purpose: "I have always seen you with Pleasure, but more particularly on this Occasion." Hath this the Appearance of a Dilemma, and disavowing what his Ministers and ours have agreed on in Respect to Falkland's Island, or a Continuance of Harmony between the two Kingdoms?
We hear from Cadiz that the grand Rendezvous of twenty Sail of Ships, that were ordered to be equipped, is to be at Ferrol; and that besides their usual Complement of Seamen, some Land Forces are to go on Board.
Certain Orders are given for the Fortifications of Jersey, Guernsey, and Scilly, to be immediately surveyed, and put in thorough Repair forthwith.
Orders are issued for all Officers belonging to Regiments abroad to join their Regiments forthwith; and the additional Company to each Regiment of Foot in the Service, which has been lately raised in England, is to join the Corps it belongs to.
All the Ships of the Line of Battle in Commission at Plymouth are likewise ordered up to the general Rendezvous at Spithead, which occasions some Speculation.
We hear four more Ships of the Line are ordered to be fitted out with all Expedition.
The Battalions of Foot Guards have received Orders to begin their March shortly, in Order to encamp in the Isle of Wight.
The late Proceedings of the French and Spanish Courts are expected to be laid before two great Houses during the Course of this Week.
Some Jews of Barbary have offered, that if Permission be given them to settle in some of our Sea Ports, they will, at all Times, supply the State with such Quantities of Corn, Cattle, and Provisions of all Kinds, that the Price shall always be less than at present.
They write from Amsterdam that one Hundred and forty Dutch Ships, twenty from Hamburg, eight from Altona, and six from Bremen, will sail for the Greenland Fishery this Season; in all, one Hundred and seventy four Vessels.
Advice is said to be received of the Arrival of the fifty fifth and sixty eighth Regiments at Gibraltar, and of the nineteenth and thirtieth Regiments being ready to embark for England.
We hear that the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, have adjudged the Premium of a Gold Medal for an Account of bringing up Calves without Milk. The Method proposed is attended with very little Expense, and, when generally known, will prevent the Destruction of many Calves that would be reared, were it not for saving the Milk, which is not required when other Food is given.
It is said that the King of Prussia has declared an Intention to pass some Months in England, in a private Character, this ensuing Summer; and that Directions are already given for fitting up a Seat, within a small Distance from London, for his Reception and Accommodation.
A Correspondent assures us that the young King of Sweden, during his Stay at Paris, has concluded a Treaty between the Crowns of France, Spain, and Sweden; and that he is to go to the Hague, in Order to have a personal Interview with the Prince Stadholder.
Some disagreeable Advices were reported to have been received this Morning from Ireland.
Several Members of the Minority went this Morning to the Tower, to confer with the Lord Mayor previous to their going to the House.
A Motion will soon be made in the House of Commons for the Prohibition of Corn for Exportation, which it is thought will be granted.
Yesterday the Lord Mayor, and Mr. Alderman Oliver, dined with the Officers of the third Regiment of Guards, now on Duty in the Tower, who provided an elegant Entertainment for their Reception.
We can assure the Publick that the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, and Mr. Alderman Oliver, will certainly be released from the Tower before the End of this Week.
We are assured that a great Personage most severely checked one of the ministerial Party for speaking ludicrously of the Citizens of London.
It is expected that the Common Hall to be held on Tuesday next will be the fullest ever known in the Memory of Man, and it is likewise expected that the Livery will attend his Majesty in their Gowns.
A Court of Common Council will be called in a few Days, to consider the Extent and Force of some particular Charters granted in the Reign of Richard II.
The Tower has not been so much frequented as of late since the Difference between the Citizens and Henry VIII.
Lord Camden has left off visiting Lord Chatham, whom he used to visit almost every Day.
Green Peas were sold yesterday, in Covent Garden Market, for eighteen Shillings the Quart.
According to Letters brought by Saturday's Mail, several of the principal States of Europe are at the Eve of some very great Event. At Vienna, Hundreds of Horses, Mules, and Carriages, destined for the Use of the Emperor, and the General Officers Commanders in Hungary, are seen passing through that Capital; and the different Regiments in March for that Kingdom have Orders to repair there directly, without making any Stay in the Places where they sleep. The Report of a new Augmentation in the Imperial Forces, with the daily Conferences held between Count Kaunitz and the Prussian and Russian Ministers, are Circumstances which seem to forebode speedy War. But the Advices from Mons are still more alarming. They say every Thing is in Motion; the Troops in general having not only received an Order to march into upper Austria, but also that a second Courier was arrived to hasten their Departure. In Consequence of the above, the Garrisons at Luxembourg, Brabant, Flanders, and the Hainault, are already in March; and, if these Advices say true, will be replaced by French Troops, who are likewise said to be already in Motion in Normandy and French Flanders. From Ferrara also they write that all the Austrian Troops in Italy, except two Regiments, have likewise received Orders to march directly for Hungary; and that two Thousand Mules are providing for the same Purpose. The Poles, we are told, consider these Preparations as Nothing more than winding up of the Plot which has so long desolated their Country: But, if French Troops are to occupy Austrian Flanders, the Dutch will do well to look to their Barrier; and England, in that Case, may be more concerned than at first Sight she may seem to be.
Notwithstanding it is daily and confidently asserted that the Parliament will sit till after Whitsuntide, yet several of the Ministry asserted yesterday that it will rise either the End of this Month or very early in May.
We are credibly informed that the celebrated Mr. Moleworth has proposed a Plan to the Premier for raising some Millions, in a Manner more beneficial to the Government, and less prejudicial to the Publick, than any hitherto attempted.
The grand Result of our Proceedings with Respect to the Court of Spain depends on the Answer of the Messenger, whose Arrival is hourly expected. If full and satisfactory, Lord Grantham will be despatched in Quality of British Ambassador; but if evasive and equivocal, hostile Measures will be immediately pursued.
An Evening Paper says: When Lord North was attacked on Wednesday Evening by the Mob, he cried out, "Gentlemen! Gentlemen! is this Liberty? Do you call this Liberty?" Yes (replied a Wag) and great Liberty too.
A Correspondent observes, that the present Dispute about the Liberty of the Press will, in all Probability, give a mortal Wound to arbitrary Power. The House of Commons have in a Manner given up the main Question, the Power of calling upon or imprisoning the Printers at their Pleasure; and are now wrecking their Vengeance on some of their own Body, who have been so honest as to withstand their illegal Attempts. The Appearance of Mr. Wilkes on Monday, according to the Order of the House, it was thought proper to evade, by not meeting that Day; and when they met on Tuesday, no Notice was taken of the new Recognizance Bill of the Grand Jury, for prosecuting Whatham the Messenger of the
House, which is, in Fact, acknowledging their late Procedure to be contrary to Law. It will be a hard Struggle before the Representatives of the People can get the better of their Constituents. It is likely that some of the Advisers of those violent Measures will pay dear for this Stretch of Power.
April 11. Yesterday, in a Committee of the whole House, Sir Charles Wentworth in the Chair, the Budget was opened by Lord North, who proposed a Lottery, which he said he was sure the People would like; the Tickets to be at thirteen Pounds each, and ten per Cent. to be discounted out of the Prizes. He said, in the last Lottery, many Gentlemen had lost by them, as they were sold under Par; that the present Sessions opened with demurring, Plague, and a War, but that all was blown off; however, that we were still in a critical Situation with Spain, for we did not know how soon we might have a War there. But he hoped the Peace would last a long Time, and he assured the House, if there was no War, he would, next Sessions, move for the Land Tax to be three Shillings in the Pound instead of four. He likewise moved for two Hundred Thousand Pounds to be allowed for the Navy, as there were one Hundred and fifty Ships in Commission, with Frigates and Sloops. He took Notice of the present Disturbance and Disputes, and of the House being disobeyed, and a Faction being raised to throw every Thing in Confusion. He paid a great Compliment to the Sovereign, of whom he gave the greatest Character. Lord North was answered by Mr. Dowdeswell, who said he did not understand what the noble Lord meant; first we were at Peace, and then at the Eve of War! that he could not tell how to determine one Way or the other. Mr. Burke, Colonel Barré, and Mr. Thomas Townshend, spoke also with their usual Eloquence. There was no Division, and the House broke up about eight o'Clock last Night. The Committee will make their Report this Day.
Lord North, when he opened the Budget yesterday, informed the House that upwards of seven Millions would be wanted for the Services of the Year, including one Million five Hundred Thousand Pounds to be drawn from the Sinking Fund.
His Lordship also declared that a Saving of a Thousand Pounds had been made out of the ten Thousand Pounds allowed for the Support of the Foundling Hospital, with several other similar Acts of Frugality.
Some material Regulations are now in Agitation in Order to be laid before two great Assemblies, to lessen the Prices of all Kinds of Provisions in this Metropolis in future.
The Earl of Holderness is made Governor to the Prince of Wales, Leonard Smelt, Esquire, sub Governor, Doctor Markham, Bishop of Chester, Preceptor, and Mr. Jackson sub Preceptor.
Admiral Elphinstone, and his two Sons, arrived at Berlin on the 16th of March, from Leipzig. The Day after they were introduced to his Prussian Majesty, and immediately continued their Route to the Court of Petersburg.
Yesterday ten per Cent. was given at New Lloyd's, to return one Hundred, if a War should be declared against Spain within these three Months.
Yesterday Sir George Pocock paid a Visit to his Majesty at the Queen's Palace, for the first Time this two Years.
Sir Peter Denis will hoist his Flag on Board the Barfleur Man of War of ninety Guns, Captain Hammond, and proceed in her from Spithead with the Fleet under his Command for the Mediterranean. The Barfleur is ordered round from the Nore for that Purpose.
It is said that Lord Viscount Howe is very soon to be appointed to the Command of a Squadron at Spithead.
This Day was held a full Board of Admiralty, when Expresses were sent off to Portsmouth and Plymouth.
It was yesterday reported that a Motion would have been made, by a ministerial Member, for the Discharge of the Lord Mayor and Mr. Alderman Oliver; but, from the Disposition of the Treasury Bench, we can assure the Publick that no such Thing is intended, and it is now supposed they will remain in the Tower till the Parliament rises.
They write from Madrid that ever since the Convention with England a certain Ambassador continues to be received with an apparent Coolness at Court.
The Merlin Sloop of War is sailed from the Downs, with Despatches for Admiral Harland; who is to rendezvous at the Canaries, with the Fleet under his Command, in his Way to the East Indies.
All the Men of War at the Nore and Blackstake, as well as Plymouth, are ordered to repair with all Expedition to the general Rendezvous at Spithead.
It is thought the Intention of ordering all the Men of War to Spithead is for a general Review of the Fleet, and that their Majesties purpose to visit Portsmouth this Summer; a Yacht being ordered to be got ready in the River, and to go round to that Port to be in Readiness for their Reception.
It may be depended upon that a Fleet of four Sail of the Line sailed from Cadiz for the Havannah the 20th of last Month, having on Board two Companies of Artillery, and a Quantity of Provisions.
April 12. It is said that in the Partition Treaty, now finally settled, between the Emperor of Germany, the Empress of Russia, and the King of Prussia, it is agreed that Austrian Silesia is to be ceded to the Emperor, that Polish Prussia and the maritime Town of Dantzick are to be guaranteed to the King of Prussia, and that most of the new conquered Countries lately Part of the Turkish Dominions are to be guaranteed to the Empress of Russia. This is the great Outline of the Treaty, and will be carried into Execution as soon as the Forage sufficient for the Entertainment of three such great Armies is ready for the Scythe, which will be early in June next.
April 14. Advice is said to be received of a smart Engagement between the grand Turkish and Russian Fleets, off the Island of Tenedos; in which the former were totally defeated, and their capital Men of War, with all their Men, sunk and destroyed.
It is confidently reported that a Treaty of Marriage is on Foot, and will shortly be celebrated, between his Grace the Duke of Devonshire and Lady Betty Hamilton, Daughter in Law to his Grace the present Duke of Argyle, and Daughter to the late Duke of Hamilton.
We hear some Papers, of a dangerous Tendency, were found this Morning near the Royal Exchange.
Yesterday a Manuscript Paper, of a treasonable Nature, was found stuck up in one of the Avenues leading to the House of Commons, which was ordered to be taken down and destroyed.
Last Night the Right Honourable Lord North had a private Conference with his Majesty, which lasted above two Hours, on the present unhappy Divisions in the Nation; by Order of the King himself.
Last Night several Packets of Despatches were sent off to the different Ministers residing in the northern and southern States.
It was yesterday reported that a Sloop is despatched to recall the Squadron destined for Falkland's Island.
Yesterday some Despatches were received at the Secretary of State's Office, brought from Lisbon by the King George Packet Boat, Captain Michell.
According to some Letters from the Hague, the Politicians there are of Opinion that the general Tranquillity of Europe seems to be upon a very unstable Footing; a great Variety of Circumstances tending to prognosticate that the present Calm will be of very short Duration.
On the 27th past the States General issued a Placart, forbidding all Persons to enlist the Subjects of the Republick, particularly Seamen, for foreign Service; and enjoining the latter not to leave the Country without Leave, and such as are absent to return home.
A second Placart was published the same Day, enjoining the Vessels destined for the Greenland Fishery not to put to Sea until they should deliver every tenth Man of the Ship's Company, or twelve Florins in Lieu of him, to man the Ships of War lately put in Commission. All other Vessels, except East India Ships, fishing Boats, and Vessels that carry three or four Hands only, are to deliver every fifth Man.
We are assured that Orders will shortly be given for the Importation of Provisions of all Kinds, live and dead, from Ireland and the Continent, Duty free, until the first of September next.
A Correspondent assures us that there have been exported from the Counties of Kent and Sussex, within two Months past, above two Thousand five Hundred Head of Cattle, of different Kinds, to the Continent. This pernicious Method, which is the true Cause of the high Price of Meat, surely deserves the Attention of the Legislature.
Besides the Ships of War fitting out at Brest, Port L'Orient, and Rochfort, a Squadron is equipping, with great Diligence, at Toulon; which is to consist of one Ship of eighty Guns, five of seventy four, three of sixty four, and two of fifty four, which will be joined by seven or eight Frigates.
It is said Notice hath been given by the Premier that both Houses of Parliament will be prorogued on the 2d of next Month.
The second Reading of the Bill for the Exportation of Cattle will come on next Thursday in the Lower Room.
We are informed that Mr. Almon Wilkes received a Letter, by the Penny Post, containing only this single Question, What is the Government? To which the patriotic Alderman returned for Answer, A Set of Knaves and Fools.
Notwithstanding they have of late crowded all their Sails, it is said the patriotic Party have made very little Way; however, this is the less to be wondered at, as they sail with a north Wind full in their Teeth.
GLASGOW, April 18. Extract of a Letter from Calcutta, in the East Indies, to a Gentleman in this Place, dated August 1770.
I INFORMED you in my last that Coffin all Kawn was on his March for Bengal; but has since been quiet, and we are now under no Apprehensions of War from him or any other of the Country Powers, every Thing being peaceable here, and likely to continue so. India Stock must rise. However, you will, no Doubt, have been informed of the terrible Famine which has raged in the Provinces of Bahar and Bengal. The former has lost near one Half of its Inhabitants, on a moderate Computation. We cannot stir out of Doors without seeing Numbers lying dead in the Streets and Roads in and about the Town, notwithstanding many People are constantly employed in removing them. It is dreadful to hear the Cries of so many poor Wretches starving to Death in the Streets. We are afraid of an epidemical Distemper, from so many Carcases lying exposed in this putrifying Climate. This cruel Famine put a Stop to Trade for some Time; but, Thanks be to God, it is now over, and Trade begins to revive. In the City of Patna alone perished above a Hundred Thousand, from whence you may judge of the immense Numbers carried off by this terrible Calamity.
The Ship Virginia, Captain Thompson, from Clyde to Rotterdam, laden with Tobacco, is ashore at Goree, on the Coast of Holland, and full of Water.
ABERDEEN, April 1. Last Week died George Keith, in the Parish of Netherbanchory, in the hundredth Year of his Age. He followed his ordinary Business till within twenty Days of his Death, and continued sensible to the last. Thirty eight of his Children and Grandchildren, and fifteen of his great Grandchildren, accompanied his Funeral.
Last Week died, within two Miles of Slains Castle, James Dickie, in the Hundred and ninth Year of his Age.
Last Week a Woman in the Parish of Alford, of the Age of fifty seven, was delivered of a Bastard Child.
NEW BERN, May 24.
ON Wednesday last an Express arrived in Town from his Excellency the Governor, with an Account of his having had a Battle with the Regulators, and gaining a most signal and complete Victory; the Particulars of which, as near as we can collect from the several Accounts of this decisive Stroke, are as follows.
His Excellency having reached Hillsborough, with about one Thousand three Hundred of the Troops, and finding the Regulators were at about forty Miles Distance above him, embodied in Arms, to oppose the provincial Forces under his Command, immediately marched from thence to attack them, in Case they should refuse to comply with the Terms he offered them; which were, to give up their Principals, lay down their Arms, and swear Allegiance to his Majesty.
On the 16th Instant, being within a Mile of them, his Excellency received a Messenger from them, with Terms of an Accommodation; but they, being wholly inadmissible, he marched to within a small Distance of them and formed, in one Line about Half his Men, the other Half forming a second Line, at about two Hundred Yards Distance, by Way of Reserve. The Regulators, to the Number of at least two Thousand five Hundred, immediately formed within twenty or thirty Paces Distance, and behaved in a most daring and desperate Manner. His Excellency again proposed Terms to them, which they spurned at, and cried out for Battle. His Excellency then immediately ordered the Signal of Battle to be given, which was a Discharge of the Artillery, when instantly ensued a very heavy and dreadful Firing on both Sides, for near two Hours and a Half; when the Regulators, being hard pressed by our Men, and forty galled by the Artillery, which played incessantly on them with Grape Shot, gave Way on all Sides, and were pursued to the Distance of a Mile through the Woods and Bushes, our Troops making great Slaughter among them, as they did not make a regular Retreat, but ran in great Confusion to all Quarters from whence they apprehended the least Danger.
The Killed and Wounded on our Side, in this Battle, through the immediate Interposition of divine Providence, are very inconsiderable; the Killed not exceeding ten, and the Wounded about sixty, among which is the Honourable Samuel Cornell, Esquire, of this Town, who received a slight Wound in his Thigh. But of the Regulators three Hundred were found dead on the Field next Morning, and a very great Number wounded. About twenty or thirty were made Prisoners; and chief of their Ammunition and Baggage, consisting of hunting Shirts, Wallets of Dumplings, Jackets, Breeches, Powder Horns, Shot Bags, &c. were taken, with a Number of Horses.
The glorious and signal Victory of this Day, gained over a very formidable Body of lawless Desperadoes, under divine Providence, is much to be attributed to the cool, intrepid, and Soldier-like Behaviour of his Excellency the Governor, who was in the Centre of the Line during the whole Engagement, and in the most imminent Danger, having had his Bayonet shot away with a Musket Ball. Nothing could equal the Firmness and Intrepidity with which our Troops behaved, the Craven and Beaufort Detachments, on the right Wing, sustaining a very heavy Fire for near Half an Hour, and the Carteret and Orange Detachments, on the left Wing, performing Wonders, for raw and unexperienced Militia, who scarce have had Time since their enlisting to learn the Exercise.
We have the greatest Probability to think that this signal Victory will cool the regulating Spirit, and put a final End to the most formidable and dangerous Rebellion that ever arose in America; but if they are still insatuated, and will rush on to their Destruction, his Excellency is now joined by the Wake, Johnston, and Cumberland Detachments, also by Colonel Waddell from Salisbury, and in a much better Condition to reduce them to Obedience.
The following is a Copy of what the Governor gave in publick Orders, the 17th of May, the Day after the Battle of Alamance.
THE Governor, impressed with the most affectionate Sense of Gratitude, gives Thanks to both Officers and Soldiers of the Army for the vigorous, and generous Support they afforded him yesterday, in the Battle near Alamance. It was to their Valour and steady Conduct that he owes, under the Providence of God, the signal Victory obtained over obstinate and infatuated Rebels.
His Excellency sympathizes with the Loyalists, for the brave Men that fell and suffered in the Action; but when he reflects that the Fate of the Constitution depended on the Success of the Day, and the important Services thereby rendered their King and Country, he considers this Loss (though at present the Cause of Affliction to their Relations and Friends) as a Monument of lasting Glory and Honour to themselves.
The Dead to be interred at five o'Clock this Evening, in the Front of the Park of Artillery. Funeral Service to be performed, with military Honours to the Deceased.
After the Ceremony, Prayers and Thanksgiving for the signal Victory it has pleased Providence yesterday to grant the Army over the Insurgents.
Yesterday divine Service was performed in the Church in this Town, by the Reverend James Reed, Minister of this Parish, to offer up our Prayers and Thanksgivings to the Almighty for the very signal and glorious Victory obtained by his Excellency the Governor, over obstinate and desperate Rebels, near the great Alamance River, in Orange County, on the 16th of this Instant; a Day that ought to be had in perpetual Remembrance, by every loyal Subject of this Province, for their very great Deliverance and Rescue from the Hands of a lawless and furious Mob.
WILLIAMSBURG, June 13.
THIS Day his Honour the President, with the Advice of his Majesty's Council, was pleased to issue a Proclamation for the Meeting of the General Assembly on Thursday the 11th of next Month; in Order that the Representatives of the People may have an Opportunity, thus early, to take under Consideration the distressful Situation of the Sufferers by the late most extraordinary Frosts.
On Monday last Ralph Wormeley, Junior, Esquire, agreeable to his Majesty's Warrant, under his Sign Manual, was sworn in one of his Privy Council of this Dominion, and accordingly took his Seat at the Board.
We hear from North Carolina that the Regulators have entirely dispersed since their late Defeat; that their Ringleaders have fled to the Mississippi; that one of them has been executed, and it was expected more would undergo the same Fate; and that Numbers of them had come in, taken the Oaths to the Government, as required of them by his Excellency Governor Tryon, and made the proper Submission.
We learn that Captain Wignell, who is arrived in Rappahannock, in five Weeks from Liverpool, brings an Account of Alderman Wilkes being committed to Newgate.
Arrived in James River, from Glasgow, the Homer, Haste, Pearl, Speirs (via Rotterdam) and Thomas, Robertson.
On Monday last, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, the following Criminals were brought to their Trials.
William Robinson, from York County, for Felony, guilty: Death. Matthew Thorp, from Augusta, for Felony, guilty: Death. James McDowell, alias Benfon, from Prince William, for Felony, guilty: Death. James Anderson, from Norfolk, for Felony: Acquitted. John Brown, from Spotsylvania, for Felony: Acquitted. John Barnett, from Frederick, for Felony: Acquitted.
The REAL LAYMAN's Piece came too late for this Week's Paper, but shall certainly have a Place in our next.

An Answer to the Protest of the Reverend SAMUEL HINLEY, Professor of Moral Philosophy in William and Mary College; and the Reverend THOMAS GWATKIN, Professor of Mathematics, and Natural Philosophy, in William and Mary College.
AS I am placed at the Head of a Committee, by two Reverend and respectable Professors of the College, in a Protest which they have published against the Proceedings of a late Convention; and as I made the Motion for the Measure against which they protest, it may be expected from me that I should say something in Reply to the said Protest. I have therefore sat down with an Intent to satisfy, as well as I can, that Expectation.
With Respect to the first and second Heads of the Protest. The Clergy did not meet to do any Business in the Way of Representation. The whole Body was properly summoned, on this Occasion, to act for themselves, and themselves only. Had the Clergy met as Representatives, twelve of them might very well have represented a Hundred; because, we see, in other Bodies of Men, that a Hundred represent Thousands, and five Hundred represent Millions. On summoning the Clergy to meet and act in a Body, there never was an Instance of their all meeting in this Dominion; and except they who attend are to be considered as the whole Body, on any particular Occasion, they have no Rule among them by which to settle what shall or what shall not be a Convention of the Clergy. And as small a Number as the Clergy present at this Convention have, before now, done Business as the Body; such as addressing the Governor, &c. For these Reasons, the Clergy present were of Opinion that they were a regular Convention; but yet, in Consideration of their Fewness, they were unwilling that their Sentiments, on such an Occasion as they were called together upon, should be adopted for the Sentiments of their whole Body, absent as well as present. They therefore disagreed to the Motion for addressing the King by themselves, without the Concurrence of their absent Brethren; but agreed to the Motion for appointing a Committee to draw up an Address, and take the Sentiments of their Brethren upon it, out of Convention. These were two very different Motions, and there was, evidently, no Contrariety in rejecting the one and espousing the other; but the whole Conduct, in this Point, was very suitable to the Circumstances of the Meeting. There is no Difference, I suppose, between the Sentiments of the Clergy in Convention and out of Convention, except in the Form of taking their Sentiments. They have certainly this Advantage in giving their Sentiments out of Convention, that they may do it upon the greatest Deliberation. And the Favourers of an American Episcopate desire the Clergy of this Colony to make Use of every Opportunity, they shall have, to inform themselves thoroughly concerning that Subject; to read and hear every Thing they can, pro and con, before they sign, or refuse to sign, the Address that will be proposed to them; and to do Nothing rashly. As to the Business of rescinding , which the Protesters complain of, if the Clergy at the late Convention had, or did rescind any Thing, this Behaviour does not surely deserve the Name of being contrary to all order and Decorum . On the other Hand, it showed a Solicitude in the Clergy, which ought, and I believe does take Place, in all Bodies of Men, a Solicitude that Nothing be left upon their Minutes, as their Act, but what they do finally, and upon the most mature Deliberation, approve. A Court of Justice, in solemn Determination of Property, does, I have understood, on the last Reading of their Order next Mornings, on more Care and Consideration, very commendably undo what they had done the Day before.
With Respect to the third Head of the Protest, the Expression American Episcopate does not necessarily include a Jurisdiction over the other Colonies. It includes a Jurisdiction over none but the Clergy of one or more Colonies, as may be thought most proper. If it should be thought proper by his Majesty to make a Diocese of Virginia alone, and put the Clergy of it under the Government of a Bishop appropriated to themselves, it would be an American Episcopate . But if Virginia should not be thought large enough for a Diocese, or the Clergy of it not esteemed numerous enough to employ the Care and Attention of a Bishop; if it should be thought fit to comprise the Clergy of Maryland, and of some other of the northern Provinces, as well as Virginia, in one Diocese; the Clergy of Maryland, and some other more northern Provinces, have already petitioned for an American Episcopate. How an American Episcopate, if it was to extend farther than is here supposed, can materially affect the natural Rights and fundamental Laws of the Colonies in general, I cannot apprehend; because I think the Colonies in general to be, in this, a happy Copy of the Parent Country, that Episcopal Government in the Church is interwoven with the Constitution of the State. Of this I am very confident, or otherwise I should, by no Means, have engaged in the Measure, that such an American Episcopate, as is at present desired, by any of its Favourers, as far as I can judge, can affect, in the least Degree, neither the natural Rights, nor the fundamental Laws, nor the Property, nor the legal Privileges, civil or religious, of any Body of Men, or of any Individual whatsoever.
With Respect to the fourth Head of the Protest, I cannot discern how the Establishment of an American Episcopate, at this Time, can any Way weaken the Connection between the Mother Country and her Colonies, or that it has any the least Relation to the present unhappy Disputes between them. I have a better Opinion of the sensible and leading Men among Protestant Dissenters than to imagine that, while they enjoy every Liberty they can desire in their religious Societies, they can think it unreasonable in the Clergy of the Church to endeavour at retaining themselves under Episcopal Government, especially if that Episcopal Government may be had without Injury to the Property, Rights, civil and religious, of the Protestant Dissenters themselves, or of any other Persons. I know of no such ill-disposed Men as are either willing or able to endanger the very Existence of the British Empire in America. If the Protesters know of any such, they do very well to put the British Empire in America upon its Guard against such evil-minded and desperate Enemies.
In the fifth Article of the Protest, the Clergy who agreed to the Measure complained of are charged with extreme Indecency in proposing to make such an Application without the Concurrence of the PRESIDENT, COUNCIL, and REPRESENTATIVES of this Dominion; and the Protesters proceed so far as to call it an Usurpation, repugnant to the Rights of Mankind . These are very hard Words, but I hope they mean no more than to terrify us with the Sound of them. Let us consider, as well as we can, how far those Clergymen who favour the proposed Plan of an American Episcopate, and have agreed to the Measure protested against, may be supposed to act herein agreeably, or not, to the Minds of the Legislature, and of the People in general. The Laws of this Country, and consequently the Law-makers, have committed all the Parishes in it to Ministers who shall have received Episcopal Ordination; to Ministers who must be attached to Episcopal Government in Preference to any other Form of Church Government; to Ministers, Part of whose Duty and Trust it is to pay Obedience to the Episcopal Authority; and to preserve themselves, by all legal and gentle Means, under that Obedience. The Honourable his Majesty's Council have, long ago, requested the Bishop of London to commission his Commissary to exercise that Authority, which had been usual in this Dominion, over the Clergy; and, consequently, they requested the Bishop to take out his own Commission from the King: A sufficient Proof that his Majesty's Honourable Council of this Dominion, as becomes Members of the Church of England, prefer the Episcopal to any other Form of Church Government. Four successive Bishops of London have adhered to an Aversion, whether you call it Refusal or Forbearance, for taking out a Commission from the King to qualify them to give proper Commissions to their Commissaries for exercising their Authority over the Clergy in this Country. Under these Circumstances, their Honours have lately set on Foot an Inquiry whether they may not, as a General Court, deprive any Clergyman, who deserves to be deprived of his Office. They, with the principal Gentlemen, and I suppose the Generality of People, feel the Hardships of particular Parishes in having no Tribunal before which a Minister can be properly and incontestably deprived of his Parish, let his Conduct be ever so culpable; and he cannot, surely, be a good Clergyman who does not sympathize with them in these Feelings. I am thoroughly satisfied that their Honours have no other Reason for desiring that an offending Clergyman should be deprived of his Office by the General Court, but the necessitous Circumstances of the Church in this Country. They are moved by Nothing in this Affair but a due and generous Attention to the Want of a proper Government of the Clergy, as Ecclesiastical Persons. On the other Hand, the Clergy, from Principle, it may be expected, are averse to Episcopal Authority, in the Hands of Laymen. Not to enter into the Dispute about which is the best and most Apostolical Form of Church Government, which does not come into the Question before us, Episcopal Authority, in the Hands of a Bishop, is fitter and safer, the Clergy allege, than in the Hands of Laymen, though Persons of the first Rank, and of greatest Judgment in the Community; for two Reasons. First, who can be so fit to deprive a Minister of a Parish, nay even, to go farther, and take away his Right to act as the Minister of a Parish, in any Part of his Majesty's Dominions, by cancelling his Orders, as the Person who gave him these Orders, and qualified him to act as the Minister of a Parish? Besides, under this Head, the Clergy allege that a Bishop will visit, will advise, will direct his Clergy in their Duty, and prevent, by these Means, some from becoming Objects of Punishment; which is the most humane and desirable Part of his Office. But this most humane and desirable Part of his Office cannot be performed by the General Court, or by Episcopal Authority in the Hands of Laymen. Secondly, though the Clergy are well persuaded of the good and benevolent Design of the Honourable his Ma-
jesty's Council, yet this good and benevolent Design, and the Consequence that may arise from the Step to be taken from such an Alteration in the Form of Church Government, as that of placing Episcopal Authority in the Hands of Laymen, are manifestly two different Subjects. If such an Alteration as this should take Place here, who can say that it may not be copied, with Amendments or Decorations, in other of his Majesty's Provinces? Who can say that it may not occasion, in Process of Time, a Struggle among the various Species of Dissenters for introducing, establishing, and setting up amongst, the several Forms of Church Government, to which they, in their respective religious Societies, are severally attached? Who can say that it may not be fatal to the Church of England, in America? And if it be, who can say what Effects this Ruin of the national Church in America may have upon the civil States of America? If we are to take History and Part Experience, for our Guide, we know that Episcopal Government in the Church, and Monarchical Government in the State, fell together in the Mother Country, and that their joint Fall led the Nation into a long Variety of Confusion, under which it could find no Rest till it restored both these Forms of Government. Now, under the Obligations laid upon the Clergy, by the Laws of the Country, to choose the Episcopal Form of Government before any other Form of Church Government, under no pressing and reasonable a Call from the Honourable the Council, from other Persons of high Rank and Consideration, and I think I may say the People in general, for some proper Rule and Government respecting the Clergy, and under as reasonable an Aversion in the Clergy to Episcopal Authority placed in the Hands of Laymen, what can be imagined so suitable to our Circumstances, so likely to content all Parties concerned, as such an American Episcopate as shall afford a far better Government of the Clergy than either Commissaries or the General Court can pretend to provide us with, and shall have no Kind of Concern with any Persons whatsoever besides the Clergy? I cannot help being persuaded that sensible, judicious, and good Men among the Dissenters, while they are left to the Enjoyment of their own Privileges in the amplest Manner, will not envy the Church a Favour which the Clergy of it think necessary and useful for the Government of themselves. There are, I suppose, disorderly Persons among the Dissenters as well as in the Church; and such may be willing to see bad Ministers get into the Church, by the Difficulty which a Bishop must be under to judge of the Merit or Demerit of Candidates for holy Orders at the Distance of three Thousand Miles; they may be glad to see that there is no Way of removing bad Ministers out of the Church, or out of their Parishes; they may be desirous of making their own Advantages of such Irregularities. But such disorderly Persons, if there be any such among the Dissenters, it is evident, deserve no Encouragement. Several Reasons may be assigned which hinder the Favourers of the Measure protested against from being so sanguine as to expect the open and active Concurrence of the Legislature. Were they to undertake this Business, Fears might be raised on the one Hand, and Hopes on the other, that through their Favour the Bishop might obtain Powers which we neither have to give him nor desire should be given him by any other Persons. The Clergy desire Nothing, on this Occasion, but a fit Ruler for themselves. In this they are most immediately concerned; other People remotely, so far as they may receive Benefit from good Order among the Clergy, in the regular and diligent Discharge of their Functions, and no farther. If the Clergy, in such Circumstances, may not be allowed, without waiting for farther active and open Concurrence, which it is not likely for them to obtain, to speak their Grievances and Apprehensions in an humble Address to the Head of the Church, who cannot be supposed of being ready to do any Thing unreasonable at the Instance of the Clergy, they seem not to enjoy equal Freedom with the Ministers in other religious Societies. In a Word, we are not so vain as to imagine ourselves able to go through with a Business of this Nature, in the Face of an Opposition from any considerable Number of Persons of Weight and Consequence among the Laity, much less of an Opposition from the Legislature. All our Hopes of Success are founded in the Perfection that we are acting Nothing contrary to the Minds of the Legislature, or of the People in general. We desire to conceal Nothing of our Intentions. The Address proposed will soon be in the Hands of as many People as are willing to peruse it. If it contains any Harm in it, it will be the easiest Thing in the World to overset it; and make us retire to that inward Satisfaction which belongs to them who have meant well for the publick Good, and meditated no Injury to any Individual.
What shall I say of the sixth Article of our Protesters? They are perfectly satisfied with the mild, just, and equitable Government of our excellent Diocesan . These Words, when we look for this celebrated Government, should mean that they are perfectly satisfied to be under no Government of any Kind. Had this Government, which they speak of with such Encomiums, existed; the Proceedings, which I have already mentioned, of the Honourable the Council, would never have taken Place. Could they be so disingenuous as to extoll the Absence of all Government under the Terms mild, just, and equitable Government , in Order to make an ill-timed Compliment to the Bishop of London? I must not, I cannot suppose it. I attribute, then, this Mistake, to their having been too little Time in the Country to know its Circumstances and Situation. If they can show any Act of Government by the Bishop, or his Commissary, respecting disorderly Conduct in Clergymen (painted by one of these Protesters, at the Convention with high Colouring) for twenty Years past, they may be allowed to speak of this Government with the Epithets above mentioned; but if they cannot, they must permit us to think them as yet unacquainted with our Affairs, and that the Epithets of mild, just, and equitable , should not be so trifled with as to be applied to a non Entity. The fairest, and I suppose the truest Construction, that can be put upon the Conduct of the Bishops of London, in not taking out Commissions from the Crown to exercise Authority over the Clergy in the Colonies (the Consequence of which has been that their Authority has, in Fact, ceased in this Colony, to go no farther) is, that they, as well as many other English Bishops, recommend, in their Sermons before the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts, an American Episcopate. According to these Gentlemen, then, the English Bishops, including the Bishops of London, are in a Conspiracy with several Bodies of Clergymen in America, and with Bishops and others who have left Legacies for an American Episcopate, to strip the Bishop of London—of what? Of an Authority which he does not exercise, but is willing should be exercised by an appropriated Bishop. The Oath of canonical Obedience , which these Gentlemen mention, can have Nothing to do in the Matter; for that Oath equally binds them to obey the Authority of the Bishop of London, while they are under his Authority, and the Authority of the new Bishop, when once shall be appointed by the Head of the Church. After all, the Plan proposed for an American Episcopate, if it be carried into Execution, instead of taking Authority from the Bishop of London, may confer Authority upon him; for the Plan contains no Objection to a Suffragan Bishop , acting under the Authority of his Lordship the Bishop of London, as his Metropolitan . On the other Hand, if we did aim to take Authority from the Bishop of London, and to have it given to another Bishop more conveniently situated for the Exercise of it, and if the Bishop of London had some Unwillingness to part with this Authority, I am very confident that the Bishop of London would blame none of his Clergy for preferring the publick Interest of the Community to personal Regard or Reverence for his Lordship.
In the last Article of the Protest, the Authors have particular Objections to that Part of the Resolution of the Convention by which the Committee are directed to apply for the Hands of a Majority of the Clergy of this Colony to the Address proposed, as a Method of proceeding contrary to the universal Practice of the Christian Church in Relation to Acts of an Ecclesiastical Nature, and unworthy the Decorum and Dignity by which so venerable a Body, as that of the Clergy, ought ever to be guided. The Answer to this has been, in a great Measure, anticipated. What I have farther to observe is, that the Protesters seem desirous of engaging us in long and frivolous Disputes about the universal Practice of the Christian Church, about what Acts are, and what are not, strictly speaking, of an Ecclesiastical Nature, and would lead us into a tedious Chase in hunting for Precedents for our Conduct; that Precedents may be had for what we are doing, from the Practice of the English Clergy, who, if I mistake not, sign circular Addresses, not in Convocation, but in the Manner in which ours is proposed to be signed; that this Method is suitable to the present Circumstances of the Clergy in Virginia; that these Protesters, under high Pretences of Regard for the Decorum and Dignity by which so venerable a Body, as that of the Clergy, ought ever to be guided, seem content that so venerable a Body should remain under no Authority, and should have no Decorum and Dignity among them. For only observe their Manner of reasoning; which, when stripped of high sounding Words, is no other than this. A sufficient Number of Clergymen, to make a Convention fit for signing Acts of an Ecclesiastical Nature, cannot be brought to assemble, either through the Want of Authority in the Commissary, who calls them together, or through the Want of a warm Love of Order among themselves. Acts of an Ecclesiastical Nature cannot be signed by them, in their separate Capacities, out of Convention; because this is contrary to the universal Practice of the Christian Church. Therefore they can sign no Acts of an Ecclesiastical Nature any Way. Without a Power to sign such Acts, without a Power to ask for a just and reasonable Authority to bring them together, without a Passion for Regularity among themselves warm enough to bring them together, there can be no Decorum and Dignity in this venerable Body. It cannot, in such Circumstances, be, with Propriety, even called a Body. If the Clergy, by espousing the Measure which I have endeavoured to defend, should be thought to deviate somewhat from the ordinary Road, surely the Clergy, who at present are in a State of Anarchy, as a Body,
may be pardoned for that one Irregularity or Obliquity which is intended to put an End to all Irregularity and Obliquity, by bringing them, as a Body, under Government, without which it is absurd to expect that even the Clergy should, as a Body, ever be guided by Decor and Dignity . JOHN CAMM.
Advertisements.
WILLIAM & MARY College, June 11, 1771. HAVING, with the Approbation of his Honour the President, appointed the Reverend Mr. Witte , Rector of Albemarle Parish , in Suffolk , to act for me, during my Absence, as Commissary to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of London , in the Examination and Recommendation of Candidates for Holy Orders, I think it very necessary to give publick Notice of this Appointment. Application, therefore, is to be made to that Gentleman by such Candidates; and I am confident his Letters to his Honour the President, and the Bishop, will have all just and proper Regard paid to them. The COMMISSARY.
On a Motion made, THURSDAY, June 12, 1771. ORDERED, THAT the Clerks of the several County Courts in this Colony do transmit to the Clerk of this House, in the first Part of every Meeting of the General Assembly, a List of the Tithables in their Counties, containing the Names of such Tithables; and that they transmit also, at the same Time, a List of the publick Charges of their respective Counties. ORDERED, That the Clerk of this House do cause the same to be published in the Virginia Gazette . By the House of Burgesscs. GEORGE WYTHE, C. H. B.
To be SOLD, on Tuesday the 18th Instant, ALL the personal Estate of Mr. Richard Knight , deceased, at his late Dwellinghouse in the Borough of Norfolk , consisting of sundry HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, four COWS, two HORSES, a few SHEEP and GOATS, a single RIDING CHAIR, CART, &c. &c. for which Credit will be allowed until the 25th of October next for all Sums above five Pounds, on giving Bond, with approved Security. All Persons indebted to the Estate of the said Mr. Richard Knight are requested to discharge their respective Balances immediately, and those who have any Demands against the said Estate are desired to apply for Payment to JOHN LAWRENCE, JOHN GREENWOOD. } Administrators.
To be LET on Charter, for Glasgow, A SHIP of about four Hundred and eighty Hogheads, or one of about Half that Burthen, on reasonable Terms. Apply to Mr. Nat Campbell at Richmond , or to the Subscriber at Rocky Ridge . JAMES LYLE.
To be SOLD, pursuant to the last Will and Testament of WILLIAM STITH, deceased, FIFTEEN Hundred Acres of LAND, lying on Herring Creek , in Charles City County , adjoining the Buckland Estate , and Berkley Tract . Any Person inclined to purchase the Whole, or any Part of it, may know the Terms by applying to the Subscriber, in Dinwiddie . ROBERT WALKER.
DUMFRIES, June 6, 1771. WHEREAS the Subscriber carried on a Trade in Charles County , in the Province of Maryland , in Company with John Semple , now of Prince William County , in the Colony of Virginia , from the Year 1757 to the Year 1763, when the Partnership was dissolved; and in the Year 1760 the said Semple purchased of Messrs. John Carlyle and John Dalton , for the Behoof of that Concern, a Lot of Land in the Town of Alexandria , for which the Subscriber paid the Purchase Money, by Semple's Bill of Exchange drawn on him on Account of the Company, on which Lot the Company made several valuable Improvements; and afterwards, in the Year 1764, the said Semple took a Deed in his own Name for the said Lot and Improvements; and whereas, by the Articles of Copartnership, the said Semple bound himself not to draw any Money or Effects from that Concern, until the whole Debts due by it were fully satisfied, and totally paid off: This, therefore, is to forewarn any Person or Persons whatsoever from taking any Assignment of the said Lot, without the Consent of the Subscriber, who solely manages and transacts the Business of the said Partnership ( Mr. Semple not having had any Management therein these six Years past) otherwise his or their Right will be of no Validity, as I shall dispute the Title John Semple may presume to assign him or them, it being diametrically repugnant to the Spirit, Meaning, and express Words of the said Articles of Copartnership, recorded in Charles County aforesaid. JAMES LAWSON.
THE Sale of the personal Estate of the late John Mercer , Esquire, deceased, being again prevented by bad Weather, it is appointed to be on Thursday the 20th Instant, if fair, otherwise next fair Day. For Particulars see this Gazette of the 25th of May last.—There are among the Books of Mr. Mercer about two Hundred Copies of his old Abridgment, in which are many Precedents very useful to Magistrates. I will sell them at five Shillings each; and they may be had at Marlborough , my House, or Williamsburg , during the General Courts. The Price of the late Abridgment is ten Shillings each, to be had at the same Places. JAMES MERCER.
To be SOLD, A VERY good Tract of LAND, on Warrawuck Bay , James River , in Isle of Wight County , about ten Miles below Hog Island , containing above three Thousand five Hundred Acres, wherein are three Plantations cleared, and in good Order for Cropping, containing thirty five Hands. On the Manor Plantation is a handsome Brick House, sixty by twenty six, two Stories high; well finished and wainscotted, with two Brick Out-houses forty Feet by twenty, Barns, Stables, and every other necessary House, a handsome Garden, completely laid off, a Hundred and five Yards by seventy five. On the three Plantations there are at least seventeen Hundred Apple Trees, and a great Variety of other Fruits. Near the said Land is a Tract containing eighty five Acres, with a well accustomed Mill thereon, and as fine a Stream as any in the Colony. Any Person inclined to purchase the above Tracts of Land, or any Part thereof, may know the Terms by applying to the Subscribers, who live on the Spot.—To be sold also, an exceeding rich Tract of high Land, containing near a Thousand Acres, lying on Roanoke River , between Burns's and Edwards's Ferrys, about fifteen Miles below Halifax Town , North Carolina , well wooded and watered, is beautifully situated, and convenient to Church and Mill; a sufficient Quantity thereof is cleared to employ fifteen Hands, and is in good Order for Cropping. For Terms apply to Mr. Wylie Jones , North Carolina , or to the Subscribers. ROBERT BURWELL. NATHANIEL BURWELL.
To be SOLD, on the 25th Instant (June) at twenty five Shillings an Acre.
ONE Hundred and thirty five Acres of well wooded LAND lying on James River , in Warwick County , about six Miles from Hampton , with an Apple Orchard, and many other Fruit Trees thereon. Sixty Pounds of the Purchase Money will be required on the Day of Sale, and two Years Credit allowed for the Remainder, on giving Bond, with approved Security, to ROBERT BROWN.
LATELY imported, in the Commerce, from Glasgow , without a Bill of Lading, two Casks marked S in a Diamond, No. 1 and 2. The Proprietor may have them by applying to Mr. Henry Lockhead , Merchant in Petersburg . DAVID CONKIE.
VINEYARD, York County, June 13, 1771.
STRAYED away, two STEERS. One all black, about four Years old; the other pied, about three Years old, white on the near Shoulder and Flank. Both are bob tailed, and the pied One's Tail is tipped with white. They are cropped and fit in the Ears, and have a Hole bored through their Fronts. Whoever will bring the said Steers, or inform the Subscriber where he may have the same, shall have all reasonable Charges allowed them. ANDREW ESTATE.

POETS CORNER. A SONG to the Memory of the late Lord BOTETOURT, Governour of VIRGINIA. To the Tune of God save great George our King, &c. GRATEFUL Virginia may Blest that auspicious Day Botetourt came; He did defend our Laws, And gave our Country Cause To sing, with loud Applause, Botetourt's Fame. Religion and Learning were His first and greatest Care, He their Support; Let others Example take And him their Pattern make, For their and our Sake, Business their Sport. Active and diligent, Prudent and vigilant, Botetourt liv'd; Virtue his only Guide, Temperance and Truth his Pride; That he so early dy'd, Virginia griev'd. Just, noble, generous, Steady, not timorous, Botetourt stood; May his Successors be As good and great as he, And join to Loyalty The publick Good.
HIS Majesty's Postmaster General having (for the better facilitating of Correspondence between Great Britain and America) been pleased to add a fifth Packet Boat to the Station between Falmouth and New York, Notice is hereby given that the Mail, for the future, will be closed, at the Post Office in New York, at twelve of the Clock at Night, on the first Tuesday in every Month, and despatched by a Packet, the next Day, for Falmouth. By Command of the Deputy Postmaster General. ALEXANDER COLDEN, Secretary.
COMMITTED to the Jail of Chesterfield, on the 23d of May, a Lad whose Name is Abraham, about seventeen or eighteen Years of Age, of a yellow Complexion, and says he belongs to Philip Cockram of Halifax County. The Owner is desired to pay Charges, and take him away. JAMES BALL, Jailer.
TREASURY OFFICE, June 5, 1771. I WOULD gladly exchange GOLD and SILVER for any of the old or new PAPER MONEY, especially such as is torn or defaced. RO. C. NICHOLAS, Treasurer.
NEWCASTLE, June 4, 1771. ALL Persons indebted to the late Partnership of Johnson and Tinley are requested to repair to the above Place, and finally settle their Accounts, on or before the 25th of October next, as the Subscriber intends to embark for Great Britain directly after the Expiration of that Time. Those who fail, I must beg Leave to inform, will be unhappy enough to settle their Accounts with a Lawyer. WILLIAM JOHNSON.
FREDERICKSBURG, May 28, 1771. THE Subscribers this Day became Partners in the Practice of PHYSICK and SURGERY, and have opened a Shop on the main Street, opposite to Mr. Henry Mitchell's Store, furnished with a large Assortment of DRUGS and MEDICINES of the best Quality, just imported from London; where Gentlemen of the Profession, and others, may be supplied at easy Rates, for ready Money. HUGH MERCER. EWEN CLEMENTS.
THE Negroes at Westover took up, in the Fresh last Week, a fifteen Hoghead FLAT, a large FERRY BOAT, and a Hoghead of TOBACCO marked MFD, No. 4, which has sustained but little Damage. The Owners are desired to apply there for them. WILLIAMSBURG, June 6, 1771.
JOURNEYMEN BRICKLAYERS will meet with good Encouragement by applying to HUMPHREY HARWOOD.
HANOVER, June 1, 1771. I INTEND for ENGLAND immediately. MERIWETHER SKELTON.
For SALE, At the old Store, near Cabin Point, in Surry, A PARCEL of European GOODS, to the Amount of about three Hundred Pounds Sterling, consisting of Irish Linens, German Onabugs, Mens and Womens Shoes and Pumps, Felt Hats, Mens brown Thread Hose, Stationary, Wool, Tow, and Cotton Cards, several Pieces of Duroy, with Trimmings, several Casks of sixpenny and twentypenny Nails, Plantation and Carpenters Tools, Gunpowder, Shot, and a Variety of other Articles. These Goods are all from London, and great Part of them just imported in the Randolph, Captain Walker. Fifty Pounds ready Money will be required of the Purchaser, who will be allowed Credit for the Remainder until the first of April 1772, on giving Bond, with good Security. An Inventory of the Goods may be seen at any Time, and farther Particulars known by applying to THOMAS FENNER.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, on Thursday the 13th of June next, at the late Dwellinghouse of James Long, deceased, in the Town of Blandford,
SUNDRY HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, together with a complete Set of WIG-MAKING Utensils, and a Variety of HAIRS, newly imported. Six Months Credit will allowed for all Sums above twenty five Shillings, on giving Bond, with Security, to ELIZABETH LONG, Executrix. ** All Persons indebted to the Estate of the said Long are desired to make immediate Payment, and those who have any Demands against it to make them known by the Day of Sale.
To be SOLD, ONE Hundred and ninety six Acres of LAND, lying on the east Side of Deep Creek, in Warwick County, pleasantly situated on the Mouth of the said Creek, well timbered with Pine and Oak, and not above forty Acres cleared in the Whole. The Land is very good for Corn, Wheat, or Tobacco, affords excellent Pasturage for all Kinds of Stock, and is very convenient to fine Fish, Oysters, and wild Fowl. Any Person inclined to purchase the said Land may know the Terms by applying to the Subscriber, at Warwick Courthouse. ROBERT BROWN.
BLANDFORD, May 27, 1771. THE Subscribers have missing two Casks marked WR, No. 1 and 2, containing Shot and Bar Lead, imported last Fall in the Blood , Captain Hugh Wylie. Whoever has such Casks in Possession, and will send a Line to us, the Charges shall be paid, and the Favour acknowledged. BOYD & POYTHRESS.
TAKEN up by the Subscriber, in Charles City, a small bay MARE about four Feet three Inches high, branded on the near Shoulder and Buttock M, and on the off Shoulder C. Possed, and appraised to five Pounds. WILLIAM CHRISTIAN.
TAKEN up, in Mecklenburg, a bright bay MARE about twelve or thirteen Years old, with some white Hairs in her Forehead, a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, a Film over one of her Eyes, and branded as near as can be made out. SWEPSON JEFFRIES.
TAKEN up, in Amherst, a black MARE COLT about four Feet two Inches high, a natural Pacer, neither dockt nor branded. Possed, and appraised to fifty Shillings. DRURY TUCKER.
TAKEN up, in Orange, seven BARROWS marked with a Swallow-fork and Underkeel in each Ear, two of them of a sandy Colour, with some black Spots, and the others white; they appear to be about a Year and a Half old. Possed, and appraised to three Pounds. JAMES TAYLOR.
TAKEN up, in Amelia, a dark brindled COW that appears to be very old, marked with a Crop and Slit in the left Ear, and a Swallow-fork in the right. Possed, and appraised to thirty Shillings. GEORGE TUCKER, Senior.
BLANDFORD, May 24, 1771. THE Death of my late Partner, Mr. Samuel Gordon, renders it absolutely necessary that the Concern of Gordon and Ray say should be immediately settled. This is therefore to give Notice, to all those concerned, that unless they discharge their Debts before the first of August next, or give Merchants Notes payable at the October Court, that all Bonds and Accounts due to that Company will then be put in Suit, without Respect of Persons. On Wednesday the 26th of June will be sold to the highest Bidder, in the Town of Blandford, four very likely young Virginia born NEGRO FELLOWS; also a LOT in Ravenscroft Town, near Petersburg, the Property of the above Company. Credit will be allowed until the 10th of December next, upon Bond and Security being given to PATRICK RAMSAY. The Subscriber will sell his Houses and Land whereon he now lives, containing thirty three Acres pleasantly situated, and lately annexed to the Town of Blandford, on reasonable Terms, and Credit.
PORTSMOUTH, May 25, 1771. WANTED, a convenient situation on James River for erecting a Grist Mill. INGLIS & LONG.
To be SOLD, on Wednesday the 26th of June, before the RALEIGH TAVERN, MY STORES and LOT at West Point, which I advertised some Time ago, but did not describe them. The Storehouses are new, twenty eight Feet by sixteen each, stand close to the Water Side, and are as well finished as any in the Colony. One of them is intended for wet Goods, Grain, &c. and has an exceeding good dry Cellar; the other is for dry Goods, and has a Lodging Room, with a Brick Chimney, at one End, plastered and whitewashed. There is also a very strong new Stable, twelve Feet by sixteen, with an eight Feet Shed at one End, and a Necessary House eight Feet square, quite new. The Lot is potted and raised in. Fifty Pounds of the Purchase Money to be paid down, and two years Credit will be allowed for the Remainder, on giving Bond and Security. JOHN G. FRAZER.
MIDDLESEX, May 14, 1771. IMPORTED in the Matty, Captain Fox, a small Box of Merchandise, marked MET in a Piece, which was to have been delivered at Urbanna; but through a Mistake, I imagine, has been landed at some other Place. If any Person can give me Intelligence of the same, by Letter, or otherwise, the Favour will be greatly acknowledged, by MARY E. THACKER.
STRAYED from the Subscriber, on the 20th of April last, a bay HORSE about four Feet and a Half high, with a roached Mane and short Switch Tail, a Feather runs up each Side of his Mane, almost to his Ear, paces seven or eight Miles an Hour, and branded on the near Shoulder and Buttock with a Heart. Any Person that will contrive Word to Andrew Lepard, or to the Subscriber, both in Chesterfield County, where the said Horse may be had, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward. CHARLES CAYCE.
YORK Town, May 29, 1771. STRAYED from this Place, about six Weeks ago, a large brown MARE five Years old, with a blaze Face, her hind Feet white, neither dockt nor branded. Whoever delivers the said Mare to me shall have FORTY SHILLINGS REWARD. THOMAS POWELL.
VIRGINIA, sc. At a GENERAL COURT held at the Capitol, May 7, 1771. Thomas Blackmore, Dorsey Penticoft, Thomas Speake, James Lindsey, Nathaniel Barrett, and Thomas Waddington, Plaintiffs, against James Fowler, of the Province of Pennsylvania, Edward Snickers, Thomas Colston, George Fump, Joseph Eldridge, William Bilbow, Stephen Johnson, David Apbley, and Thomas Shepherd, Defendants. The Defendant James Fowler being beyond Sea, and not having entered his Appearance according to the Rule of this Court, on the Motion of the Plaintiffs, by their Counsel, it is ordered that the other Defendants, who have Effects of the said Fowler in their Hands, as is suggested, do no pay, convey away, or secrete such Effects, until the farther Order or Decree of this Court concerning the same; but that they deliver up such Effects, or so much thereof as will be of Value sufficient to satisfy the Demand of the Plaintiffs, unto the said Plaintiffs, upon their giving Security to the Clerk of this Court for the Return of such Effects, in such Manner, and to such Persons as the Court shall hereafter adjudge. And it is farther ordered that the said Defendant (Fowler) do appear here on the first Day of the next Court, to answer the Plaintiffs Bill; and that a Copy of this Order be, within fifteen Days, inserted in the Virginia Gazette , for two Months successively, and published on some Lord's Day, immediately after divine Service, in the Church of the Parish of Frederick, in the County of Frederick; and be Fredericks; and be also posted up at the front Door of the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburg.
BEN: WALLER. For SALE, And may be entered on in NOVEMBER next, THE LAND whereon I now live, containing two Hundred and seventy four Acres. It is exceeding good for Grain, Tobacco, &c. and lies so level that nine Tenths may be plowed with the greatest Ease. The Improvements on the same consist of a Plantation, in good Order, sufficient for working seven or eight Hands, the Whole lying to the Plow; an Ordinary House fifty four Feet long, finished off in a complete Manner, has three Rooms with Fireplaces below Stairs, besides lodging Rooms, and three Rooms above Stairs, one of which has a Fireplace; a House twenty Feet in Length, and sixteen in Width, with two Rooms below, and one above Stairs, wherein lives the Clerk of the County, and keeps the Office; two Kitchens, one of which is very valuable; a Dairy, Meathouse, Barn, fine strong Stables, Corn Houses, two fine Gardens, of the best faved Framing and Pales; and, in short, every Convenience that is necessary for the Ordinary and Plantation Uses. There are also, on the same Plantation, two large standing Stores kept, of very considerable Trade; the Storehouses are large and commodious, the cheapest of which did not cost less than a Hundred and fifty Pounds; to each Storehouse belongs a House for the Residence of the Merchants, one of which cost upwards of a Hundred Pounds, the other upwards of seventy five; there also belongs to the Stores fine strong Stables, &c. There are two Tailors Shops, with Kitchens, and other Conveniences, belonging thereto; as also three Blacksmiths Shops, &c. The Rents of which, in the Whole, amount pretty considerably. Besides these two Stores on my Plantation, a third, of considerable Trade, is settled (for the Convenience of their Diets, &c. in the Ordinary) within, or about, three Hundred Yards from my Ordinary Door, on Land that does not belong to me. This Place is more commodiously situated, and better calculated for Trade, than perhaps any of the back Parts in this Colony at least, if not on the Continent. To every Dwellinghouse, Store, &c. &c. (Tailors and Blacksmiths Shops excepted) are good Brick Chimnies, the Houses underpinned with Bricks, and good Cellars, and all in good Repair. The Whole of the Buildings are placed uniform, in Lines and Squares, so as to resemble a Town. None of the Buildings have been built over eight Years, and almost all the valuable Buildings within five Years. The Situation is high, and remarkably healthy, commanding a delightful Prospect of the Mountains and Country round. It lies about eight Miles from Amherst Courthouse, on the main Carolina Road, which is greatly used by Travellers, and, together with the great Resort of Gentlemen to this Place, consumes as much Liquors as cost me annually three Hundred Pounds, besides Provisions for Men and Beasts. As Persons at a Distance inclining to purchase may better judge whether it would be worth their While to come and see the Place, I think it not amiss to inform them that I will take eight Hundred Pounds for the Place, and give a reasonable Time for Payment, which is many Hundred Pounds below the intrinsic Value of it. I will also sell to the Purchaser (if required) most of the Furniture belonging to the Ordinary, at least ten good Feather Beds, with Furniture to the same; Walnut and Mahogany Tables, Chairs, &c. &c. GABRIEL PENN. N. B. All the Merchants, Storekeepers, Clerk of the County, their Servants, &c. are boarded in the Ordinary, the Profits of which are pretty considerable to me.
CHARLOTTE County, May 20, 1771. JOURNEYMEN TAILORS, who under-hand their Business well, may depend on good Encouragement by applying to the Subscriber, at Mr. Robert Burton's Store. JOHN BRIDGES.
MIDDLESEX, May 7, 1771. RUN away, a dark Mulatto Man named BARNABY, about five Feet two Inches high. He is artful in his Answers, and has an Impediment in his Speech. Had on a Suit of dark coloured Russia Drab. Whoever will apprehend him, and have him committed to Jail, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward. AUGUSTINE SMITH.
As twelve Months are nearly expired since the Store kept at Todd's, on Account of Messrs. McCall and Elliot, of Glasgow, by the Subscriber, has been discontinued, it is expected that such Persons as are indebted there will be ready, upon Application, to discharge their respective Balances; and it may be depended upon that such as do not will be sued, as the Indulgence already given the Customers has been such that no farther can be allowed, or reasonably expected. I have about fourteen Hundred Pounds Sterling worth of GOODS, which I would sell cheap. ROBINSON DAINGERFIELD.
To be SOLD, on reasonable Terms, HIS Majesty's PATENT, or Grant, for twenty Thousand Acres of LAND in West Florida. Any Person, or Persons, inclined to purchase may be informed of the Particulars by inquiring of Joseph Ogden, at the Sign of the Cross Keys, the Corner of Chesnut and Third Streets, Philadelphia.
To be SOLD at Fredericksburg, on Thursday the 20th of June, being Spotsylvania Court Day, THE DWELLINGHOUSE now possessed by me, with the Timber Yard adjoining, whereon are erected a Kitchen, Smokehouse, and every Convenience necessary for a Family; it is situated on the main Street in Fredericksburg, and may be easily converted into a Store. Credit will be given until October General Court for one Half the Money, and until April General Court for the other Half. THOMAS MILLER.
WANTED In NORBORNE Parish, Frederick County, A SCHOOLMASTER well qualified to teach Writing and Arithmetic; if Latin also, the more agreeable, and the Salary enlarged. It will not be expected that he should teach more than fifteen or twenty Scholars. For farther Particulars inquire of the Printer of this Paper; or of J. Nourse at Piedmont, in the said County. None need apply but such as can have an undoubted Character for Diligence and Sobriety. N. B. It is thought a Dancing Master likewise would meet with Encouragement in the above County.
To be SOLD, on long Credit, the three following Tracts of LAND, viz. ONE Tract containing four Hundred Acres, lying in Spotsylvania County, on the Head of Bluff Run, about eighteen Miles from Fredericksburg. One other Tract lying in Amherst County, on Owen's Creek, containing four Hundred Acres; it is well timbered, and a good Soil for Tobacco and Indian Corn. One Tract lying in Pittsylvania County, on Sycamore Creek, near Captain Benjamin Clement's, containing two Hundred Acres; this is likewise good Tobacco Land. Any Person inclined to purchase either of the above Tracts of Land may know the Terms by applying to Mr. Charles Irving, Merchant in Albemarle County, or to the Subscriber in Richmond Town. The above Lands are the Property of John Loving, Senior, of Amherst County, but made over by a Deed of Trust to the Subscriber. Two Years Credit, or longer if required, will be given, on Bond and approved Security. WILLIAM MITCHELL.
For SALE, And may be entered on in NOVEMBER next, THE LAND whereon I now live, containing two Hundred and seventy four Acres. It is exceeding good for Grain, Tobacco, &c. and lies so level that nine Tenths may be plowed with the greatest Ease. The Improvements on the same consist of a Plantation, in good Order, sufficient for working seven or eight Hands, the Whole lying to the Plow; an Ordinary House fifty four Feet long, finished off in a complete Manner, has three Rooms with Fireplaces below Stairs, besides lodging Rooms, and three Rooms above Stairs, one of which has a Fireplace; a House twenty Feet in Length, and sixteen in Width, with two Rooms below, and one above Stairs, wherein lives the Clerk of the County, and keeps the Office; two Kitchens, one of which is very valuable; a Dairy, Meathouse, Barn, fine strong Stables, Corn Houses, two fine Gardens, of the best faved Framing and Pales; and, in short, every Convenience that is necessary for the Ordinary and Plantation Uses. There are also, on the same Plantation, two large standing Stores kept, of very considerable Trade; the Storehouses are large and commodious, the cheapest of which did not cost less than a Hundred and fifty Pounds; to each Storehouse belongs a House for the Residence of the Merchants, one of which cost upwards of a Hundred Pounds, the other upwards of seventy five; there also belongs to the Stores fine strong Stables, &c. There are two Tailors Shops, with Kitchens, and other Conveniences, belonging thereto; as also three Blacksmiths Shops, &c. The Rents of which, in the Whole, amount pretty considerably. Besides these two Stores on my Plantation, a third, of considerable Trade, is settled (for the Convenience of their Diets, &c. in the Ordinary) within, or about, three Hundred Yards from my Ordinary Door, on Land that does not belong to me. This Place is more commodiously situated, and better calculated for Trade, than perhaps any of the back Parts in this Colony at least, if not on the Continent. To every Dwellinghouse, Store, &c. &c. (Tailors and Blacksmiths Shops excepted) are good Brick Chimnies, the Houses underpinned with Bricks, and good Cellars, and all in good Repair. The Whole of the Buildings are placed uniform, in Lines and Squares, so as to resemble a Town. None of the Buildings have been built over eight Years, and almost all the valuable Buildings within five Years. The Situation is high, and remarkably healthy, commanding a delightful Prospect of the Mountains and Country round. It lies about eight Miles from Amherst Courthouse, on the main Carolina Road, which is greatly used by Travellers, and, together with the great Resort of Gentlemen to this Place, consumes as much Liquors as cost me annually three Hundred Pounds, besides Provisions for Men and Beasts. As Persons at a Distance inclining to purchase may better judge whether it would be worth their While to come and see the Place, I think it not amiss to inform them that I will take eight Hundred Pounds for the Place, and give a reasonable Time for Payment, which is many Hundred Pounds below the intrinsic Value of it. I will also sell to the Purchaser (if required) most of the Furniture belonging to the Ordinary, at least ten good Feather Beds, with Furniture to the same; Walnut and Mahogany Tables, Chairs, &c. &c. GABRIEL PENN. N. B. All the Merchants, Storekeepers, Clerk of the County, their Servants, &c. are boarded in the Ordinary, the Profits of which are pretty considerable to me.
RUN away from the Subscriber, at the Falls of James River, the Middle of last Month, a Negro Man named DAVY, belonging to the Hon. William Byrd, Esquire, about thirty Years old, five Feet eight Inches high, and very stout made; he is of a yellow Complexion, has a down Look, and a Defect in some of his fore Teeth. He is supposed to be lurking about Hanover Town, Petersburg, or gone towards Carolina. Whoever will apprehend the said Fellow, and bring him to me, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward; and if taken out of the Colony, FIVE POUNDS. DAVID PATTESON.
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.