The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1773-05-27 00:00:00

VIRGINIA
GAZETTE.
With the freest ADVICES,
FOREIGN and DOMESTICK.
IN CIVITATE LIBERA LINGUAM MENTEMQUE
LIBERAS ESSE DEBERE. Suet. in Tib. S. 28.
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LONDON, March 20.
YESTERDAY Sir Watkin Lewes, one of the present Sheriffs, with the City Remembrancer, attended at St. James's to know his Majesty's Pleasure when he would receive the Address, Remonstrance, and Petition, from the City of London; when his Majesty was pleased to appoint this Day se'nnight, at two o'Clock, at St. James's. The following is said to be an exact Copy of the City's Remonstrance, agreed upon in Common Hall, March 11th, 1773, as it was delivered to his Majesty's Secretary of State, that a proper Answer might be prepared against the Day when the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, &c. are to present it in Form to his Majesty.
To the KING's Most Excellent MAJESTY. The humble Address, Petition, and Remonstrance, of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery, of the City of London, in Common Hall assembled.
Most gracious Sovereign, WE your Majesty's dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery of the City of London, beg Leave to approach the Throne, with the Respect becoming a free People, zealously attached to the Laws and Constitution of their Country, and the parliamentary Right of your Majesty to the Crown of these Realms.
We desire, with all Humility, in the Grief and Anguish of our Hearts, to submit to your Majesty, that the many Grievances and Injuries we have suffered from your Ministers still remain unredressed; nor has the publick Justice of the Kingdom received the least Satisfaction for the frequent atrocious Violations of the Laws, which have been committed in your Reign by your Ministers, with a daring Contempt of every Principle, human and divine. Your People have, with the deepest Concern, observed that their former humble Petitions and Remonstrances were received with a Neglect and Disregard very hardly brooked by the high Spirits of a great and powerful Nation; but the Hopes of Redress still encouraging us to persevere, we again supplicate your Majesty to listen to the Voice of your aggrieved Subjects, in Vindication of your own and the Nation's Honour against your despotick and corrupt Ministers, who have perverted the Fountains of publick Justice, and undermined the Foundations of our excellent Constitution. Our Representatives, who were chosen to be the Guardians of our Rights, have invaded our most sacred Privileges. The Right of being represented in Parliament is the inherent unalienable Privilege, as well as the peculiar Glory, of the free born Inhabitants of this Country; and a Person qualified according to Law, a Magistrate of this City, was duly elected a Knight of the Shire for the County of Middlesex, by a great Majority of legal Votes, yet has been excluded from the House of Commons by a Resolution of that House, and a Candidate, who had only a few Votes, declared the Representative of the Electors of the said County, against their Consent. Through the like corrupt Influence of the same Ministers, the chief Magistrate, and one of the Aldermen of this City, were imprisoned for not obeying the illegal Mandates of an arbitrary House of Commons, and violating the solemn Oaths they had taken for the Preservation of the Liberties and Franchises of the Capital of your Majesty's Dominions. We recall to your Majesty's Remembrance, with Horror, that unparallelled Act of Tyranny, the erasing a judicial Record, in Order to stop the Course of Justice, to introduce a System of Power against Right, and to tear up by the Roots Truth and Law from the Earth.
We therefore, your Remonstrants, again supplicate your Majesty to employ the only Remedy now left by the Constitution, the Exercise of that salutary Power with which you are intrusted by Law, the dissolving of the present Parliament, and the Removal of those evil Counsellors who advised the Measures so generally odious to the Nation; and your Majesty, as the true Guardian of our Rights, shall ever reign in the Hearts of a grateful People.
Several of Mr. Alderman Wilkes's Friends waited upon him the 15th Instant, and pressed his going to St. James's with the other Aldermen to present the late Address, Petition, and Remonstrance, to the King. Mr. Wilkes's Answer is said to have been nearly in these Words:
Gentlemen, YOU well know the Support I gave on Thursday to the Motions in Common Hall for the Remonstrance, and the Engagement for shortening the Duration of Parliaments. I now feel a real Pain in declining to comply with the Solicitations of such respectable Friends. As I have long been personally obnoxious to the King, I have not for many Years been to St. James's. It would now be rude and indecent to force myself into the Royal Presence, on an Occasion not the most pleasing, I believe, to his Majesty. I am not used to go into any Gentleman's House who does not wish to see me. The last Year, as Sheriff, it would have been the particular Duty of my Office to have attended the King with any Petitions of Remonstrance, and I should have obeyed the Commands of the City. I am now to be considered only as an Alderman. The Attendance of the whole Body is not necessary. No favourable Effect could possibly arise from my being with you at St. James's; and if the least Disturbance should happen without, it would be construed to be a premeditated Riot, the Guards immediately be ordered to fire among the People, and another Massacre ensue.
"I am not fond of the Air of a Court; it generally blabs sooner or later, and often nips, even in the Bud, our modern Patriotism. I should be particularly unhappy at this Time to see my Sovereign surrounded almost entirely by the Enemies of our Country and his Family, and the Royal Smiles beaming on those very Ministers against whom the City of London now petition and remonstrate with so much Truth and Justice, while my Fellow Citizens were received with Coldness and Disregard. My warmest Wishes, however, Gentlemen, will go with you; and may you meet with that gracious Reception, and Success, which your Cause and your Zeal so nobly merit."
March 22. We are told that the Answer prepared to be given on a certain Occasion is big with Reproof for giving so much Trouble, and is said to be levelled at some particular Leaders in the City, who are to be called Troublers of their Sovereign and his Peoples Repose.
We hear for certain that the King of Prussia is determined very shortly to take Possession of Hanover.
Lord Bellamont is so well recovered as to walk in his Room, has a good Appetite, and will be able, it is thought, to take an Airing in a few Days.
Samples of several mineral Ores have been lately received here from North America, said to be the Produce of some Mines lately discovered, which are expected to prove Acquisitions of infinite Value.
Lord Clive declared, the other Week, in the House of Commons, that if the King, or the Minister, should have the Nomination of all Officers, civil and military, in the East Indies, or even of the major Part of them, it would add such a Weight to the Power of the Crown as would effectually overturn the English Constitution.
Advices from the Hague say: "It is very confidently reported here that the Prussian Monarch has concluded a very private Treaty with the Court of Versailles, which is likely to cause some farther Commotions in the North."
Letters from the North of Ireland say: "Our Linen Manufacturery suffers greatly from Emigrations to North America, where it is said there will soon be Occasion for all that come."
The Congress between the Russians and Turks at Bucharest appears likely to break up unsuccessfully, and it is probable the War will be continued.
Lord Townsend, we are told, proposed making a Visit to France soon after his Arrival here from Ireland; but the unhappy Affair with Lord Bellamont prevented it at that Time. Now he will not go till Lord Bellamont is perfectly out of Danger, since there are ill-natured People enough that would attribute his Departure to some other Motive, in Order to prejudice his Lordship's Character.
A Motion will soon be made, we hear, in a certain Assembly, at the Initiation of a great Personage, for regulating Duels, as follows: That every Duel be fought with Swords only, on the Stage of one of the Theatres, and that any one may be admitted to see them, paying the Price that is now paid at the Oratories at Drury Lane; the Money arising from this Kind of Entertainment to be applied in such charitable Uses as may be agreed upon in the above Assembly; and that Duellists who do not conform to this Legislation shall suffer Death or Banishment, as well as a Confiscation of their Estates.
It is remarkable that the new appointed Governor of Jamaica is not only a very young Officer in the Navy, but that the Government of that Island was applied for by the Admiral on that Station, as well as by a late Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who were both refused. The Government of the Island of Jamaica is said to be worth from ten to twelve Thousand a Year, and is accounted the most desirable Thing in the Gift of the King, except the Viceroyalty of Ireland.
The Aldermen, &c. who are to accompany the Lord Mayor to St. James's with the City Remonstrance, are invited to breakfast at the Mansion House on Friday Morning.
The third Reading of the Bill for the Relief of Protestants dissenting from the Church of England will be on Thursday next.
March 23. The Stadtholder has caught the Flame of Monarchy from the Swede, and he has invited the King of Prussia to enforce such Doctrines in Holland. In Return for this Service, he is actually upon his March towards the Frontiers of Germany.
March 24. The Earl of Chesterfield lies so dangerously ill that his Life is despaired of.
Governor Pownall gave it as his Opinion, in the House of Commons, that the "most likely Method of producing a sufficient Supply of Corn had been neglected, that of encouraging the Importation of it from our American Colonies."
On Monday the Earl of Bellamont took an Airing, for the first Time, in Hyde Park.
One of the Morning Papers informs us the following Article is already entered in the City Accounts, by Order of the Lord Mayor: "Twenty one Pounds paid to the Attorney General, Edward Thurlow, Esquire, for his Opinion that the City Remonstrance was a Libel."
A great House in Dublin is said to have stopped Payment.
A certain great West India House has stopped in the City for 200,000l. Postscript of a Letter from Castletown, Isle of Man, dated February 23, 1773. "A most melancholy Accident happened on Saturday Night. Two Brigs belonging to Whitehaven were cast away, and all Hands perished, save one Man; one on Longres Point, the other on Slack of Scarlet, and dashed all to Pieces. It is feared another shared the same Fate about the Calf. Thus you see the great Want of a Lighthouse, as it was no very great Storm."
WHITEHALL, March 20. The King has been pleased to appoint Sir Basil Keith, Knight, to be Captain General and Governor in Chief of his Majesty's Island of Jamaica.
LIVERPOOL, March 12. Lately was married, at Kilburn, nigh Thirsk, Mr. George Lawton, aged 70, to Mrs. Dorothy Horner, aged 80, of the same Place. This is the third Time of their both entering into that happy State. But what is more remarkable, within these 16 Months past this old Lady hath been seven Times alked in Church with different Persons, but never had the Happiness to say, I Dorothy take thee, &c. till the happy Time above mentioned.
SUNDERLAND, February 24. We had a most dismal Fire here last Night. The whole Town was alarmed about one o'Clock. It broke out in a House lately built by Mr. William Watson, Fitter, adjoining the Customhouse, in which were his Keelmen and their Families, who escaped with Difficulty without Clothes, or saving any Thing. No Lives are lost. Had the Wind been to the eastward, the Customhouse would have shared the same Fate; also great Part of the Neighbourhood, and probably the Shipping too. A Meeting has been held to raise a Subscription for the Relief of our Keelmen, who have lost their All. Our Engine got wrong, and was rendered useless.
WINCHESTER, March 20. This Day Robert Arlett, for robbing and threatening to murder Mr. D. Chase, near Basingstoke, was executed here pursuant to his Sentence. He confessed the Fact. His Father and Grandfather were both hanged here for Offences of the like Nature, his Mother was transported, his Brother is now here under Sentence of Transportation, and he himself was tried at Reading, on four Indictments, two Years ago.
DUBLIN, March 13. Thursday a Sloop from Liverpool was drove on the North Bull, and every Person on Board perished, amounting to 14 in Number.
March 15. Thursday Night last the Richard of Corke, Dennis Twohigg Master, from the West Indies, with Merchandise, coming into this Harbour, was, by the Drukfulness of the Pilot, run on a Bank, where the funk, and every Soul perished, except one Sailor, who escaped by getting up the Shrouds. This Wretch entered on Board at Corke, and engaged to conduct the Vessel safe to her Moorings in the Bay of Dublin, with which he pretended to be well acquainted; so that this fatal Accident is entirely owing to the Avarice of a drunken and unskilful Undertaker, who, had he survived, would have merited the severest Punishment, as no Wind was stirring that could produce the least Damage to the Ship or Cargo.
A CHARACTER.
UNGRATEFUL to his Benefactors, — A Betrayer of his Friends. — A Debacher of Innocence. — A profligate Spendthrift. — A Burlesquer of Religion. — An impious Hypocrite. — An unprincipled Impostor. — A Plunderer of Orphans. — A Burner of Notes. — A Deirauder of a Jeweller. — A Fomenter of Sedition. — A Rebel to his King. — A Blasphemer of his God. — And an Alderman of London (Glory be to the O London!)
Such is the true Character of the Man who, in Opposition to the unanimous Sense of the whole Court of Common Council (his Friend John Reynolds, Esq; only excepted) presumed to censure the Conduct of our worthy chief Magistrate for squandering the City Money in his Endeavours to suppress Gambling. Rijum teneatis amici?
* For which, and for the Honour of the City, he was rewarded with a Cup, which may, with Propriety, be called, "The Cup of Faction."
BOSTON, May 3.
BY Letters from London we learn that the Pamphlet containing the Votes and Proceedings of the Town of Boston, in November last, had been reprinted there with a judicious Preface by the British Editor, and was well received by all the Lovers of Liberty, though it is said Lord Dartmouth has expressed it as his Opinion, "that the Resolves of the Towns of Roxbury, Marblehead, and Plymouth (in Consequence of the Proceedings of this Town) contain very extraordinary Doctrines, but hopes there will be but few Followers of their Example, and that the Honourable House of Representatives would discountenance them; in which, however, upon Receipt of farther Accounts from hence, his Lordship will be very much disappointed."
The British Editor's Preface is as follows:
ALL Accounts of the Discontent in our Colonies have of late Years been industriously smothered, and concealed here; it seeming to suit the Views of the American Minister to have it understood, that by his great Abilities all Faction was subdued, all Opposition suppressed, and the whole Country quieted. That the true State of Affairs there may be known, and the true Causes of that Discontent well understood, the following Piece (not the Production of a private Writer, but the unanimous Act of a large American City) lately printed in New England, is republished here. This Nation, and the other Nations of Europe, may thereby learn, with more Certainty, the Grounds of a Discontent that possibly may, sooner or later, have Consequences interesting to them all.
The Colonies had, from their first Settlement, been governed with more Ease than perhaps can be equalled by any Instance in History, of Dominions so distant. Their Affection and Respect for this Country, while they were treated with Kindness, produced an almost implicit Obedience to the Instructions of the Prince, and even to Acts of the British Parliament, though the Right of binding them by a Legislature in which they were unrepresented was never clearly understood. That Respect and Affection produced a Partiality in Favour of every Thing that was English: Whence their Preference of English Modes and Manufactures; their Submission to Restraints on the Importation of foreign Goods, which they had but little Desire to use; and the Monopoly we so long enjoyed of their Commerce, to the great enriching of our Merchants and Artificers. The mistaken Policy of the Stamp Act first disturbed this happy Situation; but the Flame thereby raised was soon extinguished by its Repeal, and the old Harmony restored, with all its concomitant Advantages to our Commerce. The subsequent Act of another Administration, which, not content with an established Exclusion of foreign Manufactures, began to make our own Merchandise dearer to the Consumers there by heavy Duties, revived it again; and Combinations were entered into, throughout the Continent, to stop trading with Britain until those Duties should be repealed. All were accordingly repealed but one, the Duty on Tea; this was reserved professedly as a standing Claim and Exercise of the Right assumed by Parliament of laying such Duties. The Colonies, on this Repeal, retracted their Agreement, so far as related to all other Goods except that on which the Duty was retained. This was trumpeted here, by the Minister for the Colonies, as a Triumph; there it was considered only as a decent and equitable Measure, showing a Willingness to meet the Mother Country in every Advance towards a Reconciliation. And the Disposition to a good Understanding was so prevalent, that possibly they might soon have relaxed in the Article of Tea also. But the System of Commissioners of Customs, Officers without End, with Fleets and Armies for collecting and enforcing those Duties, being continued, their acting with much Indiscretion and Rashness, giving great and unnecessary Trouble and Obstruction to Business, commencing unjust and vexatious Suits, and harassing Commerce in all its Branches, while that Minister kept the People in a constant State of Irritation, by Instructions which appeared to have no other End than the gratifying his private Resentments, occasioned a persevering Adherence to their Resolution in that Particular. And the Event should be a Lesson to Ministers not to risk, through Pique, the obstructing any one Branch of Trade, since the Course and Connections of general Business may be thereby disturbed to a Degree impossible to be foreseen or imagined; for it appears that the Colonies, finding their humble Petitions to have this Duty repealed were rejected and treated with undeserved Contempt, and that the Produce of the Duty was applied to the rewarding, with undeserved Salaries and Pensions, every one of their Enemies, the Duty itself became more odious, and their Resolution to starve it more vigorous and obstinate. The Dutch, Danes, and French, took the Advantage thus offered them by our Imprudence, and began to smuggle their Teas into the Plantations. At first, this was somewhat difficult; but at length, as all Business improves by Practice, it became easy. A Coast, 1500 Miles in Length, could not in all Parts be guarded, even by the whole Navy of England, especially where the restraining Authority was by all the Inhabitants deemed unconstitutional, and Smuggling of Course considered as Patriotism. The needy Wretches too, who, with small Salaries, were trusted to watch the Ports, Day and Night, in all Weathers, found it easier, and more profitable, not only to wink but to sleep in their Beds; the Merchants Pay being more generous than the Kings. Other India Goods also, which by themselves would not have made a Smuggling Voyage sufficiently profitable, accompanied Tea to Advantage; and it is feared the cheap French Silks, formerly rejected as not to the Taste of the Colonists, may have found their Way with the Wares of India, and now established themselves in the popular Use and Opinion. It is supposed, that, at least, a Million of Americans drink Tea twice a Day; which, at the first Cost here, can scarce be reckoned at less than Half a Guinea a Head per Annum. This Market, that in the five Years which have run on since the Act passed would have paid 2,500,000 Guineas, for Tea alone, into the Coffers of the Company, we have lost to Foreigners. Meanwhile, it is said the Duties have so diminished that the whole Remittance of the last Year amounted to no more than the pitiful Sum of 85l. for the Expense of some Hundred Thousands in armed Ships and Soldiers to support the Officers. Hence the Tea, and other India Goods, that might have been sold in America, remain rotting in the Company's Warehouses, while those of foreign Ports are known to be cleared by the American Demand. Hence, in some Degree, the Company's Inability to pay their Bills; the sinking of their Stock, by which Millions of Property have been annihilated; the lowering of their Dividend, whereby so many must be distressed; the Loss to Government of the stipulated 400,000l. a Year, which must make a proportionable Reduction in our Savings towards the Discharge of our enormous Debt; and hence, in Part, the severe Blow suffered by Credit in general, to the Ruin of many Families; the Stagnation of Business in Spitalfields and Manchester, through Want of Vent for their Goods; with other future Evils, which, as they cannot, from the numerous and secret Connections in general Commerce, easily be foreseen, can hardly be avoided.
We hear that THOMAS OLIVER, Esq; of Cambridge, is appointed Judge of the Provincial Courts of Vice Admiralty for this Province and New Hampshire.
We hear also that His Majesty has been pleased to grant a Salary to Daniel Horsmanden, Esq; Chief Justice of the Province of New York, the Sum of 500l. Sterling annually.
Captain Colson, from Bristol, took up at Sea Part of the Crew of a French Ship which had foundered, and brought them in here with him.
We are informed that Ebenezer Richardson, the Murderer, who has lived since he was let out of Jail at or near Stoneham, has been sent for to Boston by his Friends the Board of Commissioners, with Intelligence that they had received a Commission for him, in one of the late Ships from London, appointing him to some Command at the Southward.
PHILADELPHIA, May 5.
Extract of a Letter from London, March 18.
AS to publick News, I know little about it. A War in Germany is expected, and some Regulations in India Matters, that will affect America, are talked of. One Measure under Consideration is to establish India Warehouses in America, where India Goods will be sold in the same Manner they are here; but whether this will take Place, or not, seems uncertain. The Affairs of the Company are at present under the Consideration of the House of Commons; and as the Quantity of Tea on Hand is immense, it is expected some Regulations will take Place that will admit of its being sent to America.

Remarkable Will and Testament of the Earl of PEMBROKE.
I PHILIP, late Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, now Knight for the County of Berks, being, as I am told, very weak in Body, but of perfect Memory (for I remember this Time five Years I gave the casting Voice to despatch old Canterbury, and this Time two Years I voted no Address to be made for my Master, and this Time twelve Months saw him brought to the Block) yet, because Death doth threaten, and stare upon me, who still have obeyed all those that threatened me, I now make my last Will and Testament.
Imprimis. For my Soul, I confess I have heard very much of Souls; but what they are, or whom they are for, God knows, I know not. They tell me of another World, where I never was, nor do I know one Foot of the Way thither. While the King stood, I was of his Religion, made my Son wear a Caddock, and thought to make him a Bishop. Then came the Scots, and made me a Presbyterian; and, since Cromwell entered, I have been an Independent. These, I believe, are the Kingdom's three Estates; and if any of these can save a Soul, I may claim one: Therefore, if my Executors do find I have a Soul, I give it to him that gave it me.
Item. I give my Body, for I cannot keep it, you see the Chirurgeon is tearing off my Flesh, therefore bury me (I have Church Lands enough) but do not lay me in the Church Porch; for I was a Lord, and would not be buried where Colonel Pride was born.
Item. My Will is, that I have no Monument; for then I must have Epitaphs and Verses, and all my Life long I had too much of them.
Item. I give my Dogs (the best Curs that ever Man laid Leg o'er) to be divided among the Council of State. Many a fair Day have I followed my Dogs, and followed the State, both Night and Day, went whither they sent me, sat where they bid me, sometimes with Lords, sometimes with Commons, and now I can neither go nor sit; yet, whatever becomes of me, let my poor Dogs not want their Allowance, nor come within the Ordinance of one Meal a Week.
Item. I give two of my best Saddle Horses to the Earl of Denbigh, for I fear, ere long, his own Legs will fail him; but the tallest and strongest in all my Stables I give to the Academy, for a Vaulting Horse for all Lovers of Virtue. All my other Horses I give to the Lord Fairfax; that, when Cromwell and the States take away his Commission, his Lordship may have some Horse to command.
Item. I give my Hawks to the Earl of Carnarvon; his Father was Master of the Hawks to the King; and he has Wit so like his Father that I begged his Wardship left him in Time should do so by me.
Item. I give all my Deer to the Earl of Salisbury, who, I know, will prefer them, because he denied the King a Buck out of one of his Parks.
Item. I give my Chaplains to the Earl of Stamford, in Regard he never used to have any but his Son the Lord Grey, who, being thus both spiritual and carnal, may beget more Monstrosities.
Item. I give nothing to the Lord Say, which Legacy I give him because I know he will bestow it on the Poor.
Item. To the Countesses (my Sister and my Wife) I now give Leave to enjoy their Estates; but my own Estate I give to my eldest Son, charging him, on my Blessing, to follow the Advice of Michael Oldsworth; for though I have had 30,000l. per Annum, yet I die not in Debt above 80,000l.
Item. Because I threatened Sir Henry Mildmay, but did not beat him, I give fifty Pounds to the Footman that cudgelled him.
Item. My Will is, that the said Sir Harry shall not meddle with my Jewels. I knew him when he served the Duke of Buckingham, and since how he handled the Crown Jewels; for both which Reasons, I do now name him The Knave of Diamonds.
Item. To Tom May (whose Pate I broke heretofore at a Masque) I give five Shillings. Ibs. I intended him more, but all that have seen his History of the Parliament think five Shillings too much.
Item. To the Author of the Libel against Ladies (called News from the Change) I give three pence for inventing a more obscene Way of Scribbling than the World yet knew; but, since he throws what's rotten and false on divers Names of unblemished Honour, I leave his Payment to the Footman that paid Sir Harry Mildmay's Arrears, to teach him the Difference betwixt Wit and Dirt, and to know Ladies that are noble and chaste from downright Roundheads.
Item. I give back to the Assembly of Divines their Classical, Provincial, Congregational, National, which Words I have kept at my own Charge about seven Years, but plainly find they will never come to Good.
Item. As I restore other Mens Words, so I give Lieutenant General Cromwell one Word of mine, because hitherto he never kept his own.
Item. To all rich Citizens of London, to all Presbyterians, as well as Cavaliers, I give Advice to look on their Throats; for, by Order of the States, the Garrison at Whitehall have all got Poniards, and for new Lights have bought dark Lanthorns.
Item. I give all my printed Speeches to these Persons following: That Speech which I made in my own Defence, when the seven Lords were accused of high Treason, I give to Serjeant Wild, that hereafter he may know what is Treason and what is not; and the Speech I made extempore to the Oxford Scholars, I give to the Earl of Manchester, Speaker pro tempore to the House of Peers, before its Reformation; but my Speech at my Election (which is my Speech without an Oath) I give to those that take the Engagement, because no Oath had been able to hold them. All my other Speeches (of what Colour soever) I give to the Academy, to help Sir Balthazar's Art of well-speaking.
Item. I give up the Ghost. Concordat cum Originali. NATHANIEL BRENT.
NEWPORT (Rhode Island) May 10.
L AST Friday the Lower House of Assembly of this Colony unanimously came into the Measures proposed by the patriotic House of Burgess of Virginia, and appointed the Speaker, the Honourable Steven Hopkins, Esquire, Mr. Moses Brown, John Cole, William Bradford, Henry Marchant, and Henry Ward, Esquires, a Committee to obtain the most early and authentick Intelligence of all such Acts and Resolutions of the British Parliament, and Measures of the Ministry, as may relate to or affect the British Colonies in America; and to maintain a Correspondence and Communication with the other Colonies respecting those important Considerations. They are also directed to request of his Honour the Governor a Copy of the Commission to the Judges of the Court of Inquity said to be held in this Colony, and of all such other Papers as were laid before the said Court as he can consistently give, and to lay an Account of their Proceedings from Time to Time before the House.
The Speaker is requested to transmit an Account of these Proceedings to the Speaker of the House of Burgess in Virginia, and to the Speakers of all the other Houses of Representatives in North America.
NEW YORK, May 20.
B Y the Accounts of a Gentleman from Hispaniola we find that the Avarice of some Adventurers has lately brought the Factors of American Vessels in general into great Dispute. These unprincipled Traders, not content with reducing the Value of the Coins they carried to purchase the Commodities of the Island, to little more than Half the original Weight, began the fraudulent Practice of palming base Metal gilt for real Gold. Some of them have been detected, and two sentenced to the Pillory. He was told, that Orders would be issued to the Officers of the Revenue and Marine to make Captures of all Vessels whose People had been guilty of these Offences; and it was also feared a Prohibition would be laid against any farther Trade between the Island and the Continent. If such rigorous Steps are taken in Consequence of these Impostitions, it would fall very hard upon the Traders of those Ports whose Factors have ever dealt fairly and ingeniously. It is to be hoped that the Authority of the Island will make a proper Distinction between the Innocent and the Guilty.
By Letters from Annapolis we are informed that Legislation is now restored in Maryland. A Cessation thereof had taken Place from Lord Baltimore's Death; but the Honourable Mr. Eden, having acquired in his Brother in Law's Will, and been appointed Governor of the Province, has issued Writs for electing a new Representation, but it is expected the Members of the Upper House will meet in such ill Humour that they will break up immediately without doing any Business.
On Tuesday the 27th Ultimo, between six and seven o'Clock in the Morning, the Barn of Jonathan Hutchinson, Senior, of Windsor Township, about six Miles from Princetown, was struck by Lightning, and consumed, together with a Wheat Mill, and a large Quantity of Hay. Of six Horses in the Stable, two were got out unhurt, but four of the best were most terribly burned.
Tuesday, May 18th, being the Day appointed for the annual Commencement of the Graduates of King's College, in this City; a very numerous and splendid Audience assembled at Trinity Church. After Prayers, and a Latin Speech by the President, an elegant salutatory Oration was delivered, with great Propriety of Pronunciation and Graceful-
ness of Action, by Mr. Frederick Phillips. The Audience was then entertained with a Discourse on the Happiness of a nuptial Life, by Mr. Beverley Robinson, whose just Observations on the Subject did him much Honour. The Kind and Measure of Diversions, which may be with Innocence enjoyed, were stated in a very accurate and agreeable Manner by Mr. Shreve, in an elegant Oration, which he delivered with much Propriety. An entertaining Discourse, on the Pleasures of refined Conversation, was then pronounced by Mr. Bogart. Mr. Nathaniel Phillips next delivered an accurate and animated Latin Oration, on the fatal Effects of Licentiousness. Mr. Luth then entertained the Audience with an elegant Discourse on Taste, which was received with much Applause. The Pleasures of Retirement, and a contemplative Life, were then described in a very agreeable Manner by Mr. Harris. Mr. Pell then delivered, with much Propriety, an entertaining Oration on Humanity.
The Business of the Day was concluded with an elegant and animated Oration on Ambition, delivered by Mr. Creighton, with great Propriety, and with that Earnestness and Warmth which never fail to interest the Passions of the Hearer. The Attention and Approbation shown by the Audience were highly honourable to him.
In short, it could not but have been delightful to every Lover of his Country to see the fair Signs of future Excellence which were given by the young Gentlemen in general on this Occasion.
Last Wednesday the Snow Britannia, Captain Ayre, arrived here from Dublin, in six Weeks, with 70 Highlanders from Ross-shire; they are going to Skeensborough, and perhaps may settle on Major Skene's Estate there.
WILLIAMSBURG, May 27.
Extract of a Letter from Mr. John Ballendine, to his Friend in Virginia, dated London, March 23, 1773.
A S I landed first in Glasgow, I had the Opportunity to take a full View of the grand Canal from the Forth to the Clyde. I have examined also many Canals and Locks in England, have Plans and Models of all the necessary Machines thereto belonging, and have engaged several ingenious Mechanics to go out with me to Virginia. You may assure all your Friends, that, if I live to get back, there is no Doubt of removing the Obstruction in James River, and rendering an easy Communication up the same, to the great Advantage of all concerned.
"I can inform you, for certain, that the new Province on the Ohio is confirmed to the Proprietors, by the Name of PITTSYLVANIA, in Honour of Lord Chatham. Mr. Wharton, from Philadelphia, will be appointed Governor in a few Days; all other Appointments to be made by the King. The Seat of Government is to be fixed at the Fork of the Great Kanawha and Ohio Rivers, as expected, from the Situation of that Country; by which you may judge of the great Advantages that must arise to the Trade at Richmond, as soon as a Communication can be made so near that fine Province. The new Proprietors will contribute largely towards opening both James and Potowmack Rivers; and as soon as the Principal and Interest are repaid to the Subscribers, the Navigation of the Rivers then to be free; only a small Tax for Repairs, &c."
On Tuesday and Wednesday the great Cock Match between the Upland and Lowland Gentlemen was fought in this City, when it was determined in Favour of the Uplanders, by one Battle only.
[Deaths] Mr. DARNEY CARR, Attorney at Law, and one of the Representatives for Louisa.
Be pleased to make a little Room, in one of your Papers of this Month, for the following Lines, and you will very much oblige my Friend Walter Mac Rili, and likewise, Gentlemen, your humble Servant,
ANAGRAMMATIST.
A WAKE, my Muse! salute the Spring
The Breeze ethereal moves to string,
The rural Scene we rove;
O'er Hills, Dale, Lawn, with Verdure crown'd,
With Lambs and speckled Fawns we bound,
And trace the Myrtle Grove.
The Mocking and the Red Bird's Voice
Alternately the Woods rejoice;
See! Flora trips the Green;
'Tis Santio in her native Ray!
To her the Warblers tune their Lay,
Of May they hail her Queen.
Thou God of Verse in Splendour shine,
While I the plumed Concert join;
Thy animating Beam
Dart on my Muse, and me inspire,
In Santio's Praise to tune the Lyre,
And worthy of my Theme.
The Muse, and sylvan Choir now sing,
O'er Roanoke the Echoes ring,
The Hills resound with Mirth;
Jove smil'd, I sing, and Man to charm
In one he bid the Graces form,
And Santio came to Birth.
The Rose came blooming in her Cheek,
The Lillies twining round her Neck;
A Set of pearly Teeth
Her smooth Vermilion Lips display,
Her Eyes enliven up the Day,
And Violet-sweet's her Breath.
The graceful Majesty and Mien
Of Juno in her Air are seen,
Minerva guides her Tongue;
When Santio tunes her Voice divine,
The Mocking Bird withholds his Strain,
To hear her sweeter Song.
With Hebe, fresh as early Morn,
While Smiles her peerless Charms adorn,
The Virtues grace her Train;
Decorum's ever at her Side,
Diana shields the lovely Maid,
And Envy strikes in vain.
But see! the rural Nymphs and Swains,
Now leave their Flocks, and quit the Plains,
Their Homage for to pay;
In Cadence to the Muses Sound,
On Leslie Green they dance around
The blooming Queen of May.
WALTER MAC RILI. Halifax, North Carolina.
A R E B U S.
W HAT Gamblers draw to throw the Main,
And makes fleet Couriers spurn the Plain;
Two Fifths an Instrument must yield
That crops the Grass which deck'd the Field;
A southern River (alias Run)
Call'd after Jacob's warlike Son;
A Letter small, of great Command,
Which can alone five Hundred stand,
And what oftentimes (so willett Fate)
Two fertile Vallies separate:
A Virgin's Name these will declare,
If rightly found, supremely fair;
The nicest Piece e'er Nature wrought,
Most truly form'd without a Fault.
Her Mind inform'd (their native Place)
With every Virtue, every Grace,
That Mortal can possess, and more
Than e'er Mortal had before.
Sould Pill, by Maggot wak'd again,
Pour forth the dull insipid Strain,
Should self-conceited Pill but dare
To wound a Line that pleas'd my Fair,
He soon shall feel, with dread Surprise,
The Lightning from her radiant Eyes;
Which blasts such Mulhroms in their Birth,
And makes the Reptiles glad to earth.
To Mess. PURDIE & DIXON.
G ENTLEMEN, HALIFAX, May 1, 1773.
IN your Paper of the 8th of April I have seen a Piece in which I am
treated with a Degree of Scurrility and Falsehood peculiar to the sup-
posed Author. To attack a private Character under a Signature com-
mon to Thousands, is too cowardly to deserve answering; but if your
Correspondent will appear without the Mask, he may hear from me,
though not through the Channel of a Newspaper, provided he is not too
infamous or contemptible.
ANDREW MILLER.
Mr. HENLEY's Reply to the Treasurer will appear next Week.
WILLIAMSBURG, May 20, 1773.
For the Benefit of those whom it may concern, as well as in grateful Acknowledgment of the kind Care and Attention of Doctor GRAHAM to my Child, I think it my Duty to publish her Case. She was, some Time in January last, taken with a Scurvitis in her right Eye, which ended in a Gutta Serena; that Eye was totally blind, the other so much affected that she could not see any small Object. I applied to Doctor GRAHAM on the 11th of this Month, and be restored her Sight perfectly in seven Days; she can see now to read the smallest Print, and is perfectly free from any Complaint, or Dimness of any Kind, in either Eye. ELIZABETH HAY.
Advertisement.
WILLIAMSBURG, May 28, 1773.
BARTHOLOMEW LE PETIT begs Leave to acquaint the Publick that next Monday Week, being the 7th of June, he proposes opening School for the Education of young Gentlemen, and has for that purpose taken the Brick House belonging to Mr. Robert Jackson, in the Market Square, where he will teach the ENGLISH, LATIN, and FRENCH Tongues, and WRITING and ARITHMETICK in their different Branches. As it is his Intention to do Justice to every Youth who may be intrusted to his Care, he has confined himself to the Number of twenty five. His Terms may be known by applying to him at Mr. Maupin's. (3||) N. B. The LADIES will be waited upon at their own Houses.
ESSEX, May 10, 1773.
IMPORTED, last Fall, in the Empereur, Thomas Cockeill Master, two Parcels of GOODS marked M. G., No 1, a Trunk, and No 2, a Case, which have not yet come to my Hands. I shall therefore be much obliged to any one who will inform me where I may get them; or if the Person in whose Care they may be will be kind enough to send them by a safe Craft to my Store, at Layton's Warehouse, on Rappahannock River, I shall esteem it a particular Favour, and thankfully pay Charges. (2||) MUSCOE GARNETT.
NORTH CAROLINA, May 3, 1773.
BY Virtue of a Power from Sir Nathaniel Dalkinsfield, Baronet, now in Great Britain, will be sold, all his LANDS, known by the Name of DALKINSFIELD, finely situated upon the Bay, opposite to Edenton, in Bertie County. The Lands are so well known, for their remarkable Fertility and fine Situation, that it is needless to give any farther Description of them. They will be laid off in Lots of about five Hundred Acres; and any Gentleman inclined to purchase may apply to the Subscriber, who resides on the Premises. JOHN PEARSON.
For SALE, at Mr. JOHN PRENTIS's Store, in WILLIAMSBURG, AN EXCEEDING ELEGANT
S P I N N E T, in a genteel Mahogany Case, with a Musick Desk, spare Wires, Quills, &c. This Instrument is entirely new, and just imported in the Virginia, Captain Esten. The lowest Price is twenty two Pounds Currency.
I SHALL attend at ALEXANDRIA on the Court Day in June next, to dispose of two Tracts of LAND in Fairfax County, for ready Money or Bills of Exchange. One contains upwards of eleven Hundred Acres, and lies on Four Mile Run, adjoining Colonel Carlyle's Mill, about four Miles from Alexandria; as the Soil is equal to any in that Neighbourhood, it needs no farther Recommendation, and I am told will admit of as constant a Water Mill as any on this Side of the Ridge. The other Tract contains eleven Hundred and fifty nine Acres, lies on the Waters of Pohick, about five Miles from Alexandria, and the same from Pohick Warehouse. I am informed it is common Forest Land, but for Pine and Oak Timber it is said to equal any in the County. A good Title will be made at the Sale. The foregoing makes it necessary for me to say, that I am not one of the happy few who are not in great Want of Cash. I must therefore earnestly request all those indebted to me, either on my own or Father's Estate Account, to make Payment in Time, to prevent farther Sales of my Estate, or Expense to themselves. (4) JAMES MERCER.
THE Subscriber begs Leave to inform the Publick that the Reason of his not sending out the Models of his Wheat Machines, according to his former Advertisement, is occasioned by an Alteration he has made in it, which he thinks will be an Advantage to the Publick; and as it cannot be proved till Harvest comes in, he hopes this short Delay will be excused, but as soon as that happens he intends to set out with Models, in Order to instruct as many People in each County as may be necessary to put them in Practice. JOHN HOBDAY.
WANTS EMPLOYMENT,
A YOUNG Man who has been brought up in a Store, understands Book-keeping, is capable of taking Charge of a Store, &c. and can be well recommended. Apply to the Printers. (tf)
I INTEND for Great Britain in September next, and hope those indebted to me will make immediate Payment, to prevent Suits being commenced against them, as they may depend no Indulgence will be allowed after the 28th of July next. Those to whom I am indebted are desired to bring in their Accounts, that they may be properly settled. SERAFINO FORMICOLA.
RICHMOND, May 18, 1773.
I INTEND to leave this Colony in a short Time. DAVID KIPPEN.
AMELIA, May 18, 1773.
WHEREAS, on the 28th of JANUARY last, we purchased a Negro Fellow of Miles Robertson of this County, for the Sum of eighty Pounds, and gave our Bond to one Nathaniel Friend of Oxfordfield for the same, payable the 22d of July next; and whereas we are much imposed on in the Sale of the said Negro, this is to forewarn all Persons from taking an Assignment of the Bond, as the Money will not be paid when due. RULER RICHARDSON. JAMES BAGLEY.
To be LEASED for a TERM of YEARS, or for LIFE,
THREE Thousand Acres of valuable LAND in Hanover County, about eight Miles from the Courthouse. It will be laid off in Lots of one, two, and three Hundred Acres. For Terms apply to GARLAND ANDERSON. PAUL THILMAN.
A SMALL CARGO OF CHOICE
Gold Coast SLAVES, well assorted and healthy, also a fine Fellow who understands the Sailing Business, will be sold at Alexandria, on Potowmack River, on Wednesday the 9th of June, for Cash, or good Bills. (2) BALDWIN MATTHEWS BUCKNER.

COMMITTED to SUSSEX Jail, on the 13th Instant (May) a Virginia born Negro Man, taken up as a Runaway, who will not tell his Master's Name, but says he is a Free-man, and that he served his Time with Mr. John Fletcher of Fairfax. He is about five Feet seven or eight Inches high, has on a brown Linen Shirt, a Cotton Waistcoat, blue Plains Breeches, Yarn Hose, and a white Hat; he has three Pair of Osnabrug Breeches, two Osnabrug Shirts, and a Coat made out of a Duffel Blanket. The Owner is desired to pay Charges, and take him away.
(11) JOHN BERRYMAN, Jailer.
TAKEN up, in Dinwiddie, a dark brown COW, marked with a Crop, Hole, and Halfmoon under the left Ear; there appears to have been a Hole in the upper Side of the right Ear, which was torn out, and makes it like a Halfmoon. Potted, and appraised to thirty Shillings.
(11) JAMES BAUGH, Senior.
TAKEN up, in Amelia, a red and white HEIFER, marked with a Swallowfork in the right Ear, and a Crop and Hole in the left, the Hole torn out. Potted, and appraised to thirty Shillings.
(11) WILLIAM HATCHITT.
To be SOLD at the PRINTING OFFICE, A few Copies of AN EXPERIMENTAL TREATISE on the HUMAN BILE. By J. M'CLURG, M. D.
TO BE SOLD, A TRACT of LAND in Goobland , containing five Hundred and ten Acres, on the Waters of Beaverdam and Genet ; the Soil is excellent for Wheat, with about seventy Acres cleared, and in good Order for Cropping. For Terms apply to the Subscriber, at Four Mile Creek .
(4) JOHN PLEASANTS.
ON serious Consideration of the present State of our Practice in the General Court, we find it can no longer be continued on the same Terms. The Fees allowed by Law, if regularly paid, would barely compensate our incessant Labours, reimburse our Expenses, and the Losses incurred by Neglect of our private Affairs; yet even these Rewards, confessedly moderate, are withheld from us, in a great Proportion, by the unworthy Part of our Clients. Some Regulation, therefore, is become absolutely requisite to establish Terms more equal between the Client and his Counsel. To effect this, we have come to the following Resolution, for the inviolable Observance of which we mutually plight our Honour to each other: "That after the 10th Day of October next we will not give an Opinion on any Case stated to us but on Payment of the whole Fee, nor prosecute or defend any Suit or Motion unless the Tax, and one Half the Fee, be previously advanced, excepting those Cases only where we choose to act gratis;" and we hope no Person whatever will think of applying to us in any other Way. To prevent Disappointment, however, in Case this should be done, we think it proper to give this farther Warning, that no such Application, either verbal or by Way of Letter, will be answered or attended to in the smallest Degree. We should feel much Concern if a Thought could be entertained that the worthy Part of our Clients could disapprove this Measure. Their Conduct has been such as calls for our Acknowledgments, and might merit Exemption from this Strictness, were such Exemption practicable; but they will readily perceive this would defeat the Purpose, and that no Distinction of Persons can by any Means be attempted. We hope, therefore, from their Friendship, a cheerful Concurrence in this our Plan, since the Requisition is such only as their Punctuality would of itself prevent.
JOHN RANDOLPH. EDMUND PENDLETON. JAMES MERCER. THOMAS JEFFERSON. PATRICK HENRY, Junior. GUSTAVUS SCOTT.
The Subscriber by no Means disapproves of the above Resolution; but as he has long determined to quit his Practice as an Attorney, and practise only as a Counsel in such Causes as are ready for Trial, he has declined signing the above, as he shall not ensue in any Cause for the future but such in which he shall previously receive an adequate Satisfaction for his Trouble, which they may be assured will not be less than the legal Fees.
THOMPSON MASON.
TAKEN from a certain JOHN ELLIOT (supposed to be stolen) a middle sized SILVER WATCH, with a China Dial Plate, an old Wire Chain, and a Brass Key. The said Elliot was then in my Custody as a Prisoner for Felony, and was committed to the County Jail of Nansemond , from whence he made his Escape. The Owner may have the said Watch by applying to the Subscriber, in the lower Parish of Nansemond , on proving his Property, and paying the Charge of this Advertisement.
(211) JOHN, WAMMER, Constable.
WILLIAMSBURG, May 20, 1773. WHEREAS it is publickly reported that I accused the Reverend Mr. HENLEY of Delin. and a Disbeliever of the Thirty Nine Articles of our Church , I do hereby, out of Justice to Mr. Henley's Character, declare that I never had Reason to believe that such were his Principles.
JOSEPH KIDD.
YORK, sc. AUGUSTINE MOORE, Gentleman, a Justice of the Peace, and one of the Judges of the Court of the said County, to all Sheriffs, Mayors, Constables, and Headboroughs, within this his Majesty's Colony and Dominion of Virginia ; greeting: Whereas Arthur Miller , late of this County, was lately a Prisoner in Custody of the Jailer of the said County of York , charged in Execution of the Suits of James Gordon for the Sum of one Hundred and twenty five Pounds two Shillings and seven Pence Halfpenny for Debt and Costs, and Interest from the 10th Day of August 1772, a Judith Banks , Administratrix of George Banks , deceased, Action on the Case, Damage fifty Pounds, which the said James Gordon and Judith Banks lately in the Court of this County recovered against the said Arthur Miller , whereof he is convicted, as appears to me of Record; and for as much as it has been duly proved that the said Arthur Miller has escaped, and is going at large, therefore, in his Majesty's Name, I command you, and every of you, in your respective Counties, Cities, Towns, and Precincts, to seize and retake the said Arthur Miller , and him to convey to the Prison where Debtors are usually kept in the County where he shall be retaken, and delivered to the Keeper thereof, together with this Warrant. And I charge and command you, the Sheriff or Keeper of the said Prison, to receive into your Jail and Custody the Body of the said Arthur Miller , and him there safely to keep, until he shall have made full Satisfaction to the said James Gordon and Judith Banks for their Debts and Costs aforesaid, until he shall be discharged by due Course of Law, pursuant to an Act of Assembly in that Case made and provided. Given under my Hand and Seal, this 30th Day of April , 1773.
AUGUSTINE MOORE.
IF Richard Rogers, who went from England to America about the Year 1750, be living, he is desired to give an Account of himself; or if any Gentleman of his Acquaintance can give Information of him, so that a Certificate may be obtained of his being living or dead, by Letter directed to Mr. Henry Adams , Attorney at Law in Mark Lane, London , or to Mr. Thomas Coales of the Bank of England , the Favour will very much oblige the said Rogers's Friends, and will be gratefully returned the first Opportunity. All reasonable Expenses, &c. will be paid by Messrs. Perkins, Buchanan, and Brown , Merchants. The said Richard Rogers hath not been heard of since the Year 1754, at which Time he kept a School in Lunenburg County, Virginia , and ordered, in his Letter dated September 20th, in the said Year 1754, to direct to him, "in Lunenburg County, Virginia , to the Care of Mr. Clement Read , Clerk of Lunenburg Court " (adding, that "that Gentleman is much esteemed, and generally known by most of the Gentlemen in Virginia ") or to direct to him "at Mr. John Speed's in Lunenburg , to be left to the Care of Mr. Theophilus Field , Merchant at Bolling's Point , on Appomattox River, Virginia ."
(6)
NEWPORT MILL, May 20, 1773. I INTEND to leave this Colony soon. EDWARD PELL.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, on six Months Credit,
THE HOUSE, and two LOTS of Ground, with the Appurtenances, where Mrs. Campbell keeps Tavern, below the Capitol, in Williamsburg . The Sale will be before the Raleigh Porch, on Tuesday the 29th of July next, at 5 o'Clock in the Afternoon. Bond and Security for the Purchase Money to be given to Benjamin Waller , Attorney for the Devisees of Nathaniel Waller , Esquire, deceased.
COMMITTED to Surry County Jail, a very likely Negro Man about twenty Years of Age, who says his Name is HARRY , and that he belongs to Sarah Sumner of Nansemond . His Owner is desired to take him away, and pay Charges to
MICAIAH COGGAN, Jailer.
TAKEN up, in Orange, a small light coloured gray MARE, with dark Legs, a hanging Mane and Sprig Tail, several black Spots on her Withers and Rump, and paces naturally. Potted, and appraised to eight Pounds.
(11) PRETTYMAN MERRY.
TAKEN up, in Amelia, a brindled STEER about two Years old last Spring, with a Film over his left Eye, marked with a Swallowfork in the right Ear, and a Crop and Hole in the left. Potted, and appraised to twenty seven Shillings and Sixpence.
RICHARD BORUM.
TAKEN up, in Amelia, a dark bay MARE about four Feet seven Inches high, with a Star in her Forehead, a Snip to the End of her Nostril, a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, all her Feet are white, she is Crest-fallen, the Tip of her right Ear is cut off, but she is not branded. Potted, and appraised to ten Pounds.
(11) JOHN PHILIPS.
TAKEN up, in Brunswick, a likely bright bay FILLY about four Feet five or six Inches high, appears to be about two Years old, her left fore Foot is white, but she is neither docked nor branded. Potted, and appraised to sixteen Pounds.
BARTHOLOMEW INGRAM.
TAKEN up, in Bedford, a sorrel MARE about four Years old, four Feet four Inches high, with some White in her Face turning like a Hook, some Saddle Spots, her Mane cut off, paces and trots out of Hand, branded on the near Shoulder (1), and had on a middle sized Bell, put on with a Strap like a Stirrup Leather. Potted, and appraised to six Pounds.
(11) RICHARD PHILLIPS.
TAKEN up, in King George, a dark brindled HEIFER about four Years old, marked with a Crop in the left Year. Potted, and appraised to thirty Shillings.
(11) WILLIAM GRANT.
TAKEN up, in Amelia, a black and white STEER, marked with a Crop and Hole in the left Ear. Potted, and appraised to forty Shillings.
(11) JOHN WINN.
TAKEN up, in Cumberland, a middle sized bay MARE, with several Saddle Spots, docked, no visible Brand, and came with a Bell on. Potted, and appraised to eight Pounds.
ABRAHAM SALLE.
TAKEN up, in Loudoun, a small Iron gray MARE about three Years old, thirteen Hands high, more White down her Face than any other Part, has a Sprig Tail, and branded on the near Buttock, as near as can be discovered, M.
(11) JOHN BERKLEY.
TAKEN up, in King William, a brindled STEER about four Years old, marked with a Crop and Underkeel in the left Ear, and an Underkeel in the right. Potted, and appraised to fifty Shillings.
(11) JOHN QUARLES.
TAKEN up, in Louisa, an Iron gray HORSE about four Years old, four Feet eight Inches high, both hind Feet white, and paces naturally. Potted, and appraised to ten Pounds.
(11) WILLIAM GANETT, Junior.
TAKEN up, in Brunswick, a brindled STEER marked with a Crop, Slit, and Nick, in the under Part of the right Ear, and a Slope and Nick in the under Part of the left. Potted, and appraised to forty five Shillings.
(11) WILLIAM DARBY ORGAIN.
NORFOLK, May 13, 1773. CONSIDERABLE Sums of Money being due to the Concern here under my Conduct, and as I intend for Britain next Year, it is expected that all who are in Arrears will be speedy in settling their Accounts, and such as cannot make immediate Payment to give Bond, that no Disputes may arise after my Departure. Those who have Demands against the Company, or myself, may apply for Payment. THE LOTS, with the HOUSES and STORES, where I now live, and 120 Acres of LAND at the Watering Place (within a short Mile by Water, and not above two Miles and a Half by Land, of the Borough) will be sold at one, two, or three Years Credit, as a Purchaser may incline. The Business of the Concern will be carried on, under its present Firm, by Mr. James Glassford . *** A SHIP of 520 Hogheads Burthen to be let on Charter to any Part of Britain . NEIL JAMIESON.
ARCHIBALD DIDDEP, TAILOR, WILLIAMSBURG,
TAKES this Method of informing the Publick that he has removed from his former Habitation to a House contiguous to Doctor Patten's , where he carries on his Business in all its different Branches. He returns his most grateful Acknowledgments to all those who have hitherto been pleased to favour him with their Custom, and hopes for a Continuance of it, as they may rely upon their Work being executed with the greatest Care and Punctuality, and on the most reasonable Terms. *** He also makes Ladies RIDING HABITS in the neatest and most genteel Manner.
WILLIAMSBURG, May 13, 1773.
I THINK it necessary to give this publick Notice, to all Persons who are in Arrears to me, that if they do not, without Fail, discharge their Accounts by the July Meeting of the Merchants, they will most assuredly be put into a Lawyer's Hands. N. B. In the mean While, from the many Disappointments I have met with in collecting my Debts, I am obliged to stop Trade, till I can receive the Money due to me to carry it on.
ROBERT GILBERT.
RUN away from on Board the Matty, lying in Pagan Creek , on the 21st of April , a Negro Man named JACK , alias Phil , about twenty one Years of Age, five Feet nine Inches high, of a yellow Complexion, proportionably made, and has lost two Joints of two of his Fingers on his right Hand; he had on a new green Coat, a blue Jacket, a Pair of gray Breeches, a white Shirt, and a Pair of black Stockings. This Fellow is the Property of Mr. Thomas Gordon of Petersburg , who has already advertised him in this Gazette. I will give a Reward of TWENTY SHILLINGS, besides what is allowed by Law, to any Person who delivers him to his said Master in Petersburg , Mr. Hugh McMeikin in Portsmouth , or to Mr. Andrew Mackie near Smithfield .
(11) JAMES PRUDDEN.
For SALE, an reasonable Terms, A VALUABLE Tract of LAND in Mecklenburg, containing a Thousand and sixty eight Acres. Apply to me in Williamsburg . BEVERLEY DICKSON.
Doctor GRAHAM, OCULIST & AURIST,
TAKES this Method of apologizing to several of the respectable Inhabitants of this City, who, having applied to him for Assistance in Disorders of the Eyes and Ears, have not as yet been attended to. The great Number of pitiable Objects, blind, deaf, &c. who crowd daily for Relief from all Parts of the Colony, has hitherto prevented him from complying with what he hath ever considered, not as his Interest only, but as a Duty, in the Exercise of which he frequently experiences the most exalted Pleasure that the human Mind is perhaps capable of enjoying.
Qui visum vitam dat — Cic. THE infinitely wise Author of Nature has assigned to the Eyes and Ears the most useful and important Offices of Life. The Structure of those delicately tender Organs is so exquisitely minute, the Mechanism and Properties of their various Parts so admirably curious, that they may be filed, with Propriety, the Miracles of Nature. The great Variety of Dangers and Difficulties, manifest and occult, to which those precious Senses are exposed, the little Attention that hitherto has been paid to the Improvement of this noble Science, and few, properly qualified, have engaged in its Practice, that to study them, in any Degree suitable to their Importance, is full Business for Life. The inestimable Blessing, and great Advantages, which attend a perfect Enjoyment of the Sight and Hearing, are obvious to all; but the deplorable and truly pitiable Condition of the Blind and Deaf is attended with such solitary Discomfort, such gloomy Ideas, and constant Uneasiness of Mind, as no one can be truly sensible of who has not in some Measure experienced it himself. How noble therefore, how deserving of the nicest Cultivation, must that Art be that can restore Sight to the Blind, Hearing to the Deaf, Speech to the Dumb, and keep in Order the Springs of those Master-pieces of creative Wisdom! That Art must needs be divine; because, thus assisted, our Minds are inspired with the grandest Apprehensions of Almighty GOD!
To the INHABITANTS of VIRGINIA. DOCTOR GRAHAM, OCULIST AND AURIST,
MOST respectfully offers his best Services, and acquaints them that he may be consulted at his Apartments at Mr. Hylans's , in this City, in all Disorders of the Eye and its Appendages; and in every Species of Deafness, Hardness of Hearing, Ulcerations, Noise in the Ears, &c. Those Persons likewise who have had the unspeakable Misfortune of being born deaf and dumb, and those who labour under any Impediment in their Speech, by applying personally, will probably be assisted. Those Persons whose Eyes are utterly perished, or sunk in their Heads, may have the Deformity removed by artificial Eyes, so curiously fixed, and adapted to the Orbits, as to have, in Appearance, the Beauties, Motion, &c. of a natural Eye in its healthy State.
MEDICINE and SURGERY have always been his favourite Study; but the Structure and Diseases of those tender, sympathetical, and nearly connected Organs, just mentioned, have for many Years particularly engaged his Attention and Practice; whence, regardless of vague conjectural Hypotheses, he hath deduced, on rational Principles, Methods of Cure, improved and confirmed by the most accurate Observations, in a Course of Practice the most extensive, and perhaps the most successful of any of his Contemporaries in Europe , or on this vast Continent.
Notwithstanding it has ever been a Custom with the professed Oculists and Aurists of Europe to conceal their Method of Practice, and to refuse to communicate to any one the Knowledge they possessed, yet as his Concerns in England will not permit him to remain long in America , and in Order that his Method may be rendered of as diffusive Utility as possible, he proposes to instruct and appoint, after a Series of actual Practice, one Person in every Province through which he may pass to succeed him in treating, after the most improved Method, the Diseases of the Eyes and Ears, and to communicate to them from Time to Time such Discoveries and Improvements as may result from future Practice. A Premium will be expected, and none need apply but those who have been regularly bred to the Profession of Physick or Surgery.
The candid and intelligent Inhabitants of these Parts of the British Colonies can readily distinguish true Merit from pretended Knowledge. To conciliate, therefore, their Favour, Doctor Graham begs Leave to assure them, that, with Tenderness and Moderation, even to the poorest Individual, his best Abilities shall at all Times be exerted to serve them; and as the Success which daily attends his Practice is a better Testimony of his Skill than any Thing he might advance in his own Behalf, let it suffice only to mention, that, after several Years Study at the justly celebrated University of Edinburgh , he has travelled in Pursuit of Knowledge, in his favourite Branches, attending the Infirmaries and Hospitals, as well as the Lectures of the most eminent Professors, in Europe . In the Course of his Practice at Philadelphia , several Hundred Patients have been cured or relieved of the following Disorders, many of which had been of long Standing, and deemed incurable by other Practitioners, even by Gentlemen who otherwise do Honour to the Profession; the Success attending their Practice sufficiently evincing that they are worthy and capable of the great, the important Charge, with which they are intrusted. The chief Disorders are as follows: Total, partial, and periodical Blindness; Weakness and Dimness of Sight; Squinting; Pain, Swelling, and Inflammation of the Eyes; Spots, Specks, Pearls, or Films occasioned by the Smallpox, Blows, or extraneous Substances; weak, watery, red, spongy, and ulcerated Eyelids; spasmodick Twitching of the Muscles; involuntary Weeping of the Tears; Tumours, and Exerescencies; Tinnitus Lachrymales ; total and periodical Deafness; Thickness of Hearing; Pain, and Inflammations; painful Sensations in Consequence of loud Sounds; Cracking, Itching, continual and remitting Noises in the Ears; offensive Runnings occasioned by Colds, Swelling, Swimming, Picking, and improper Applications, or by long and severe Sicknesses; Insects and extraneous Bodies getting into the Ears; Ulcerations, with Caries of the Bones, Polypi , &c. and several Persons born deaf and dumb, Impediments in their Speech, &c.
N. B. Business in Philadelphia will not permit the Doctor to remain in this City longer than the 15th of June . Those, therefore, who have Occasion for his Assistance, will be pleased to apply immediately. The Poor, who apply properly recommended, will be assisted gratis with Advice, Medicines, or manual Operations, as their respective Cases may require; and for that Purpose he will appropriate every Morning, Sundays excepted, between the Hours of five and seven.
*** The Doctor, next Fall, on his Progress from Philadelphia to Charlottesville, South Carolina , will stop a few Days at each of the Places hereafter mentioned, where those Persons whose Circumstances or Situation have hitherto precluded them from the Benefit of applying for Assistance in their respective Complaints may have an Opportunity of consulting him, namely: Alexandria, Fredericksburg, New-Castle, Hobbs's Hole, Urbanna, Petersburg, Richmond, Norfolk, Suffolk , &c.
Aque pauperibus prodest, locupletibus aqua, Aque neglectum pueris scribique nocet. HOR. WILLIAMSBURG, May 12, 1773.
WILLIAMSBURG, May 13, 1773. PURSUANT to a Decree of James City County Court, the Subscriber intends to sell, to the highest Bidder, at the Courthouse of the said County, on the second Monday in next Month, a very valuable Negro Man named NERO , late the Property of Josiah Chowning , deceased; and the next Day he intends also to sell, to the highest Bidder, in Conformity to the same Decree, the LAND whereon the said Josiah lived, but subject to Mrs. Chowning's Dower, unless before the Day of Sale she should agree to join in the Conveyance for the Purpose of relinquishing the same, of which, should it happen, Notice will be given at the Sale, which will be on the Premises. A Year's Credit will be allowed to each Purchaser, on giving Bond, with good Security, to
JOHN BLAIR.
F O R S A L E, A TRACT of LAND on the River Rappidan, in Culpeper, containing three Thousand Acres, a Sufficiency of which is cleared to employ the Labour of twenty Slaves. As those Persons who may intend to become Purchasers will probably be better satisfied with Respect to the Quality of Land by viewing it than by a Description, they are requested to apply to Mr. John Allison , who lives on the same. There is on the said Land a small Dwellinghouse, with all Outbuildings necessary for Plantation and domestick Purposes. Credit will be allowed till the 10th of July 1774, on giving Bond, with approved Security, bearing Interest from the Date if not punctually discharged when due. BENJAMIN GRYMES, Junior.

POETS CORNER.
To a LADY who desired to be informed where she might find true HAPPINESS.
WHAT is true Happiness, Amanda cries? Say in what Region this best Blessing lies? Can she in Courts among the Great abide? Or does she in the rural Cot reside?
WILLIAMSBURG, May 13, 1773.
THE Subscriber hereby informs his Customers that he intends to leave this Colony early in the Fall, and hopes all those indebted to him will make immediate Payment, to prevent Suits being commenced against them.
BRUNSWICK, May 7, 1773.
THE Subscriber intends for Britain immediately. The Business will be carried on, in his Absence, by Messrs. John Woddrop and Hugh Love.
For LONDON,
THE Ship PLANTER, THOMAS LILLY Master, Burthen about seven Hundred Hogheads, and will take in Tobacco on Liberty of Consignment for two Hundred and fifty Hogheads, the Quantity of four Hundred and fifty Hogheads being for the House of Messrs. Dunlop and Wilson of London.
TO BE SOLD,
ABOUT fourteen Thousand Acres of exceeding good LAND in the County of Pennsylvania. For Terms apply to Mr. Hugh Rose of Amherst, who will treat with any Person inclinable to purchase, and be empowered to make a legal Title.
To be SOLD at Richmond Town, on Wednesday the 9th of June, if fair, otherwise next fair Day, pursuant to the last Will and Testament of Robert Du Val, deceased,
ALL his HOUSES and LOTS in the said Town, a white SERVANT who understands the Carpenter's and Joiner's Business, and has upwards of three Years to serve, sixteen valuable SLAVES, among whom are four Sawers, a Carpenter, and a Bricklayer; also all his STOCKS of HORSES, CATTLE, &c. with a strong WAGGON and GEAR, all his HOUSE and KITCHEN FURNITURE, a great Variety of JOINERS and CARPENTERS TOOLS, and many other Things too tedious to mention.
TURNER SOUTHALL, ZACHARIAH ROWLAND, WILLIAM DU VAL, Executors.
FALMOUTH, April 23, 1773.
THE Subscribers having met with many Disappointments, and much Trouble, in collecting the Inspection Money for Tobacco shipped from Falmouth and Dixon's Warehouses, hereby give Notice that they are determined in future not to ship any Tobacco unless the Money is sent with the Notes.
WILLIAM NEWTON, THOMAS HOARD, JOHN POLLARD, THOMAS SHARPE, Falmouth, Dixon's.
NORTHAMPTON, May 8, 1773.
RUN away from the Subscriber's Plantation in Brunswick, last December, two Negro Men, DAVID and SAM, about twenty five Years of Age, of the middle Stature, and had on Cotton Clothes, new Felt Hats, Osnaburg Shirts, &c. David is likely, strong, and full faced; Sam is thin visaged, with a wide Mouth, and a higher Nose than common.
RUN away from the Subscriber, about the first of April last, a Negro Man named ISAAC, the Property of Mrs. Catharine Justice. He has been used to go by Water, and probably may endeavour to pass for a Freeman. He is of a yellow Complexion, about twenty five Years old, well made, of the middle Stature, and his Hair is intermixed with Wool.
THE Subscriber has opened the TAVERN in this Town lately occupied by Mrs. Margaret Bull, it being the first House on the left Hand of the main Street leading from Williamsburg towards Colonel Syme's Gate, where he will endeavour to keep as good Entertainment as any in the Colony, and shall be much obliged to all Ladies and Gentlemen who will favour him with their Custom.
THOMAS KENT.
HANOVER, May 6, 1773.
THE Debtors of Mr. John Bland of London, Merchant, will be pleased to take Notice, that by their having delayed to discharge their Balances, and long withheld many Thousands from that Gentleman, he was lately reduced to the sad Necessity of conveying all his Estate, Debts, and Effects, to Trustees for the Benefit of his Creditors, and that I am fully empowered by the Trustees to act for them, and collect the Debts and settle the Affairs of Mr. Bland in this Colony.
PETER LYONS.
N. B. I shall be obliged to the Persons who have Demands against Mr. John Bland of London to let me know the Nature and Amount of their Claims before they put his Estate to the Expense of Attachments or Suits in Chancery, as I shall be willing to pay out of his Effects any Debt that I can be justified in discharging.
To be SOLD, at publick Vendue, on the 10th of June next,
ALL the real Estate belonging to the BUSH RIVER IRON WORKS COMPANY, at the Head of Bush River, Baltimore County, Maryland, now laid out in the following LOTS for Convenience of Sale.
No. 1. The principal Seat, containing about fifty Acres, on which is an Iron Furnace not in Use, a Merchant Mill and Sawmill on a very fine Stream of Water, with the Mill Race and Dam. About twenty Acres of the Land is very fine improved Meadow, and most of the fifty Acres may be watered from the Race, and is very rich. There are divers small Houses, Outhouses, &c. on this Lot, which is pleasantly situated at Bush Town. The Stream is capable of manufacturing thirty Thousand Bushels of Wheat per Annum, in an extraordinary fine Wheat Country, and about forty five Miles distant from York Town, in Pennsylvania, to which is a very good Road. The Mills and Furnace are at the Head of navigable Water, and the Flower Barrels may be rolled out of the Mill into the Craft, and transported from thence, by Water, to Baltimore Town, on the Head of Elk, about thirty Miles equal Distance, at nine Pence a Barrel. No. 2. A Tract of Land called Coombs's Adventure, on Patapsco River, about two Miles distant from Baltimore Town, containing, by Estimation, one Hundred and seventy five Acres. On this Land is one of the best Banks of Iron Ore in the Province, and is rendered very valuable from its Situation, and many other Conveniences; it lies high, a Vessel of two Hundred Tons Burthen may come close to the Shore, and it is a fine Place for a Gentleman's Seat. No. 3 and 5. Contain about seven Acres of Land, adjoining Bush Town, between the Furnace Race and Bynum's Run, pleasantly situated on the main Road, and very convenient for building on. No. 6. Is a Lot of one Acre of the same Sort of Land, and adjoining. No. 7. Is a Lot of seven Acres, adjoining Bush Town, between the old Race and the Dam, valuable Meadow Ground. No. 8. Contains about twenty five Acres, near Bush Town, on the west Side of Bynum's Run, below the Dam, some of it fine Meadow Ground. No. 9. Contains about thirty one Acres, above the Dam, adjoining the Land of James Mathers, Part of it fine Meadow Ground. No. 10. Contains about five Acres, between the Race and Run. No. 16. Contains about two Hundred and thirty Acres, at the north End of a Tract of Land called Nova Scotia, very good Land, and well timbered. No. 17. Contains about two Hundred and seventy Acres, Part of the same Tract, very fine Land, about twelve Acres valuable Meadow Ground, add well timbered. No. 18. About a Hundred and thirty Acres, Part of the same Tract, very good Land, with a sufficient Quantity of Meadow Ground. No. 19. About a Hundred and twenty one Acres, about thirty Acres of which is some of the finest Meadow Ground in the Province, which, together with the Upland, is exceedingly well timbered, such as large white Oak, Poplar, and Ash, and is Part of a Tract of Land called Abbot's Forest. No. 20 and 21. About a Hundred and ten Acres, Part of the aforesaid Tract called Nova Scotia, on the west Side of James's Run, near Bush Town, and Part of it good Meadow Ground. No. 22. About a Hundred and twenty Acres, Part of two Tracts near Bush Town, and some of it rich Bottom. No. 23. About eighty Acres, Part of a Tract of Land called Friendship, pleasantly situated between the main Road and James Webster's Plantation, and about a Mile from Bush Town. No. 24. Is a Grist Mill and Stone Mill House, with twenty Acres of condemned Land, on a good Stream of Water, adjoining Bush Town, a Quarter of a Mile from Tide Water, and near the main Road. No. 25. Is a Wharf on Bush River, for the Convenience of Vessels loading and unloading, near the Town. No. 26. About twenty eight Acres, Part of the aforesaid Tract called Nova Scotia, near Bush River. No. 27. About nine Acres, called Broken Islands, on Bush River. No. 28. About sixty one Acres, Part of a Tract called Friendship, south east of Lands of Hannah Richardson. No. 29. About a Hundred and eighty Acres, Part of the same Land, on the main Road, near Bush Town. No. 31. About a Hundred and thirty four Acres, four Miles from Bush Town, pleasantly situated on the main Road, and some of it cultivated. No. 32. About three Hundred Acres, Part of two Tracts, on which is a good Plantation, an Orchard of good Fruit, and a great Prospect of Iron Ore. All the above Lands (except the Lot No. 2, called Coombs's Adventure) are situated at and near Bush Town, and none of them more than four or five Miles distant from navigable Water. The Sale to be held at Joseph Stiles's, at Bush Town. Reasonable Credit will be allowed the Purchaser, on giving Bond and approved Security. The Premises may be viewed any Time before the Day of Sale, and the several Lots above described will be shown by applying to Isaac Webster near Bush Town, William Cox for Jacob Giles, or Thomas Bond, Son of John. As the BUSH COMPANY have but lately purchased the Iron Bank on Lot No. 2, called Coombs's Adventure, and the Iron Ore on Lot No. 32 (two Miles distant from the Furnace) has been but very lately discovered, should any one Person, or two or three in Company, incline to purchase the Whole, and carry on the Works, the Furnace has all the Advantages from Situation and Convenience that can be found at any one Place in the Province, and could not fail of making Money fast, provided the Partners were unanimously engaged to conduct the same agreeable thereto. The Furnace Stack is allowed to be staunch and good.
AS it is now three Years since I discontinued Store-keeping on my own private Account at this Place, I request all those indebted to me to come and pay off immediately, otherwise their Accounts, &c. will be put into an Attorney's Hands, without Respect of Persons or farther Notice. Those who have any Claims against me are desired to bring them in. (6) ARCHIBALD MC'CALL.
I have LOTS, and a genteel and pleasant situated two Story HOUSE, &c. in this Place, which I will sell on reasonable Terms.
A SOBER, well behaved Man, capable of teaching Children to read and write, and at the same Time properly qualified as an Accountant, may meet with Employment in a Gentleman's Family by Application to the Printer hereof. (6)
RUN away from the Subscriber, on White-oak Swamp, in Henrico, about the last of January, a likely Negro Wench named SALL, about twenty Years old, very black, short, and well proportioned; her Dress was of the common Kind worn by Plantation Negroes, but has a Variety of fine Clothes. She has been about Richmond and Warwick, on James River. All Masters of Vessels are cautioned against harbouring or carrying her out of the Colony. Whoever delivers her to me shall have FORTY SHILLINGS if she is taken in the Colony, and FIVE POUNDS if out thereof, besides the Allowance by Law. (4) WILLIAM FERRIS, Junior.
PURSUANT to the last Will and Testament
of Mr. John Smith of Hanover County, deceased, will be sold, on the Premises, some Time next Fall, and to be entered on at Christmas, a valuable Tract of LAND in Henrico County, on the Brook Swamp, between four and five Miles from Richmond, and two Miles from the Meadow Bridges, known by the Name of Pickenocky, containing about two Hundred Acres, whereon is an extraordinary Piece of Dam Work, nearly finished, which will effectually keep off the Overflowings of the Brook from upwards of a Hundred Acres of exceeding rich well timbered low Grounds. Likewise a Tract of about two Thousand Acres of very rich and well timbered LAND in Goochland County, on James River, near the Mouth of the Great Bird, and opposite to Elk Island, having on it a Plantation in Order for working sixteen Hands; and the Soil is very suitable for Tobacco, Wheat, and Corn. This Land will be sold altogether, or in Parcels, as may best suit the Purchasers. Also the Reversion of a Tract of about five Hundred Acres of very good Tobacco and Grain LAND, in Goochland County, on the Branches of the Little Bird, contiguous to the Lands of Mr. Samuel Gist, at whose Death the Purchaser will have Possession. The Lands in Goochland will be shown by Mr. John Ware, near the Premises, and the Days of Sale and Time of Payment will be made known in a future Advertisement.
All Persons indebted to the Estate of Mr. John Smith, deceased, are desired to make immediate Payment, and those who have any Demands against the same are requested to make them known to (ti) WILLIAM ANDERSON, Executor.
N. B. For the Convenience of those who may have Accounts to settle with me for Transactions had with Mr. Smith, I shall attend at every Hanover Court, and the two succeeding Days in Hanover Town.
FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
RUN away from the Subscriber, near Baltimore Town, Maryland, on the 10th of February last, an Irish indented Servant Lad named PATRICK MALONE, about twenty Years of Age, five Feet five or six Inches high, well set, with short brown Hair, speaks quick, and a good Deal on the Brogue; he had on, when he went away, a Felt Hat, a Fearnought Jacket, Cotton Breeches, coarse Yarn Stockings, and Country Shoes; it is supposed he stole, and carried with him, a blue Coat trimmed with flat Metal Buttons, a blue Jacket and Country Cloth Breeches, a white Linen Shirt, and a Pair of white Yarn or Thread Stockings. Whoever secures him so that I may get him again shall have FIFTY SHILLINGS if he is taken in the County, and the above Reward if out of the Province, besides all reasonable Charges for bringing him home. (10) JAMES FRANKLIN.
FREDERICKSBURG, February 24, 1773.
WHEREAS some of those indebted on the
Books here have not paid due Regard to my Advertisement of the 1st of December last, I give them this last Notice, that all and every Account not paid off, or a good Part of it, before the 20th of April, or our May Fair at the farthest, or settled by Bond or other Specialty before that Time, will most certainly be put into the Hands of a Lawyer, without Respect of Persons. Unavoidable Reasons will oblige me to this, which I shall probably in Time acquaint them with. Those who may be put to Trouble and Expense cannot now blame me for Want of Notice. I have sold Part of the Goods now on Hand, but so as not to distort the Store, and have still a large Assortment on Hand, which I will sell by Wholesale or Retail, on the Terms formerly advertised. Any Person who will purchase the Whole shall have them on Terms which they themselves will say are very low and reasonable. (ti) GEORGE MITCHELL.
FOR SALE,
THE PLANTATION whereon the Subscriber lives, in King and Queen County, about a Mile and a Half from Todd's Warehouse, containing six Hundred and fifty seven Acres, in good Order for Cropping, having a large Peach and Apple Orchard thereon beginning to bear, a Quantity of low Grounds which may be made good Meadow with little Expense; the Dwellinghouse, Kitchen, and other Outhouses, have been built between four and five Years. Any Person inclinable to purchase may know the Terms by applying to (ti) R. DAINGERFIELD.
TO BE SOLD,
A VALUABLE Tract of LAND, containing about sixteen Hundred Acres, more or less, lying on the River Shenando, in Berkley County (formerly Frederick) which is one of the most flourishing Counties in Virginia. The Land is exceeding good, well timbered, and adapted to the raising of all Kinds of Grain, as well as Tobacco, and has the Advantage of a very fine Stream of Water, on which is a Blomery with two Fires, a good Stone Merchant Mill with two Pair of Stones, a Saw Mill, a Distillery conveniently situated, a Smith's Shop, a Cooper's Shop, and many other Outhouses. There are about a Hundred and fifty Acres of Land cleared, and about fifty Acres of Meadow may be made with a very small Expense, one Half of which may be watered any Day in the Year. A Stock of Cattle, Horses, and Hogs, some Household Furniture, and all Kinds of Utensils proper for carrying on the above different Branches of Business, will be sold with or without the Land. For farther Particulars inquire of Mr. William Little, on the Premises. Credit will be allowed for Part of the Purchase Money, the Purchaser giving Bond, with Security if required. For Terms apply to the Honourable George William Fairfax, Esquire, Carlyle and Dalton in Alexandria, or Preson Bowdoin in Norfolk. (Ti)