The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1771-05-09 00:00:00

We are assured that the Danish Ambassador has received Orders from his Court to engage three Thousand of the best English Seamen, with the Approbation of the British Court; and that several Danish Ships are now in the River, and more daily expected, for the Purpose of conveying them to Elsinor.
A private Sentinel in the 34th Regiment of Foot has had the good Fortune lately to succeed to the Possession of near fifteen Hundred Pounds landed Estate in Ireland, and a large Sum of ready Money, by the Death of an Uncle.
March 14. This Day Mr. Wheble sent a Letter to Sir Fletcher Norton, Speaker of the House of Commons, desiring him to inform that Honourable House that he would yield no Obedience but to the Laws of the Land; and informing the Speaker, that he had laid his Case before his Council (Robert Morris, Esquire) whose Opinion he enclosed. Mr. Morris's Opinion concludes with these Words:
Upon the Whole, I do advise Mr. Wheble to pay no Attention or Obedience either to the above mentioned Summons, Warrant of Arrest, or Proclamation. All are equally unjust, and illegal. Mr. Wheble will be protected in his Resistance by Magna Charta, and by numerous Statutes which confirm our invaluable Code of Liberties. The Proclamation, moreover, seems to me to levy a cruel War upon two Individuals, without Colour of Law; and I do give it as my Opinion that Mr. Wheble may well institute an Action upon the Case against the Counsellors, Promoters, Aiders, Abettors, and Publishers thereof.
We are assured that one House in Birmingham has received Bills to the Amount of thirty five Thousand Pounds for fabricating military Utensils for foreign Powers, within these twelve Months.
Extract of a Letter from Dublin, March 14.
The Parliament of Ireland met the 26th of February. Lord Townshend was insulted by the Populace, in his Way to and from the House. The usual Addresses were moved in the Commons, and an Amendment, that contained a Compliment to the Lord Lieutenant, was carried (though all the Allurements of Peerage, Place, and Pension, were held out, and every Engine of ministerial Influence set to Work) by a Majority of only twenty five. In the House of Lords, upon a Motion of a similar Nature, the Victory was obtained for Government by no more than fourteen Voices, though the Bishops were unanimous in its Favour. On the 27th the Committees met to draw up the Addresses; but so exasperated were the People at the Proceedings of the Day before that several Thousands of them assembled, with Arms in their Hands, and surrounded both Houses of Parliament. The Lords were dragged from their Coaches, and many of them insulted and beaten. Three of the Rioters were, however, apprehended, and, with their Hangers and Prayer Books, brought to the Bar of the Upper House, and committed to Newgate; notwithstanding which the Lords were so intimidated, that, after having examined the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, who had by this Time called in the Assistance of the military Power, they immediately adjourned. In the House of Commons those who were not under the Influence of Government warmly remonstrated against the Impropriety of proceeding to Business while an Army was posted at their Door, to obstruct their Debates, and bias their Determinations. The Altercations upon this Subject continued till one in the Morning, when the House adjourned, without deciding any Thing. When the House was up, and the Speaker on the Floor, the Town Major came up to him, and desired to know what he would have done with the Troops. The Speaker replied, with great Propriety, that he knew of no Troops there; and, as Speaker of the House of Commons, could give no Advice in any Point, except when he was in the Chair, with the Mace upon the Table before him. The 28th the Commons debated till Mid-night upon their sole Right to originate Money Bills, by which Means the Addresses are still postponed; and so strong is the Opposition, that, though the Court has a Majority, they cannot carry them through: A Circumstance never known in this Country before, and which shows how obnoxious the present Lord Lieutenant is become. It seems, however, as if the Ministry of England were determined to insult this Country with his Residence, even at the Hazard of an Insurrection. The Mobs still continue, to the great Terror of the Court Party, who are in constant Dread of being torn to Pieces by the enraged Populace. Lord Townshend has not been abroad since his Return from the House of Lords, and his House in the Country is obliged to be protected by Soldiers, to prevent its being levelled with the Ground.
March 16. John Wheble, the Publisher of the Middlesex Journal, was this Day brought before Mr. Alderman Wilkes at Guildhall, by Edward Twine Carpenter, a Printer, being apprehended by him in Consequence of a Proclamation in the London Gazette of Saturday the 9th of March Instant; but the said Edward Twine Carpenter not having any other Reason for apprehending the said Mr. Wheble than what appeared in that Proclamation, the said Mr. Wheble was discharged, and then the said Mr. Wheble charged Carpenter for assaulting and unlawfully imprisoning him, and on his making Oath of the Offence, and entering into a Recognizance to prosecute Carpenter at the next Session in London, Carpenter was ordered to find Sureties to answer for this Offence, which he did, himself in forty Pounds, and his two Sureties in twenty Pound each, and was thereupon discharged. Carpenter requested a Certificate of his having apprehended Wheble, which was given to him.
GUILDHALL, March 15. "This is to certify that John Wheble, the Publisher of the Middlesex Journal, was this Day apprehended and brought before me, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the City of London, by Edward Twine Carpenter, of Hosier Lane, London, Printer."
Immediately after this Mr. Wilkes wrote the following. To the Right Honourable the Earl of Halifax, one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State.
GUILDHALL OF LONDON, March 15, 1771.
My Lord, "I had the Honour of officiating this Day as the sitting Justice at Guildhall. John Wheble, the Publisher of the Middlesex Journal, a Freeman of London, was apprehended and brought before me by Edward Twine Carpenter, who appears to be neither a Constable nor Peace Officer of this City. I demanded of what Crime Wheble was accused, and if Oath had been made of his having committed any Felony, or Breach of the Peace, or if he lay under a Suspicion strong enough to justify his Arrest or Detention. Carpenter answered that he did not accuse Wheble of any Crime, but had apprehended him merely in Consequence of his Majesty's Proclamation, for which he claimed the Reward of fifty Pounds. As I found there was no legal Cause of Complaint against Wheble, I thought it clearly my Duty to adjudge that he had been apprehended in the City illegally, in direct Violation of the Rights of an Englishman, and of the chartered Privileges of a Citizen of this Metropolis, and to discharge him. He then made a formal Complaint of the Assault upon him by Carpenter. I therefore bound him over to prosecute in a Recognizance of forty Pounds, and Carpenter to appear and answer the Complaint at the next Quarter Session of the Peace for this City in a Recognizance of forty Pounds himself, with two Sureties, in Recognizances of twenty Pounds each. I am, my Lord, your Lordship's most obedient humble Servant, JOHN WILKES."
Yesterday, in the Afternoon, Mr. Miller, Printer of the London Evening Post, was taken into Custody, by a Messenger from the Honourable House of Commons; and on his refusing to go with him, the Messenger took him by the Arm. Upon which a Constable was sent for, and Mr. Miller gave him Charge of the Messenger, for assaulting him in his own House; whereupon he was carried to the Mansion House, and at Half past six o'Clock came on a Hearing before his Lordship, and Alderman Wilkes and Oliver. In the mean Time the Sergeant at Arms, being informed of this Transaction, came to demand the Bodies of the Messenger and of Mr. Miller; upon which the Lord Mayor asked the Messenger if he had applied to a Magistrate to back the Warrant, or to any Peace Officer of the City to assist him; he replied in the negative. His Lordship then said, that so long as he was in that high Office he looked upon himself as a Guardian of the Liberties of his Fellow Citizens; that no Power had a Right to seize a Citizen of London without an Authority from him, or some other Magistrate; and that he was of Opinion the seizing of Miller, and the Warrant, were both illegal. He therefore declared Miller to be at Liberty, and proceeded to examine Witnesses to prove the Assault on him by the Messenger; which being done, his Lordship asked the latter whether he would give Bail; if not, he should be committed to Prison. He at first refused, but the Commitment being made out, and signed by the above three Magistrates, the Sergeant at Arms said that he had Bail ready for him; and two Sureties were bound in twenty Pounds each, and the Messenger in forty Pounds for his Appearance at the next Session at Guildhall. The Lord Mayor told the Sergeant at Arms that he was surprised he should trifle with him, and not give Bail at first; he replied, that he had done no more than his Duty.
Last Night, about seven o'Clock, R. Thompson, Printer of the Gazetteer, was apprehended at his own Door, in Newgate Street, and carried before Mr. Alderman Oliver, at the Mansion House, as being the Person described in his Majesty's Proclamation; but not being accused of having committed any Crime, he was discharged and set at Liberty. The Man who had apprehended him then desired a Certificate of his having acted in Pursuance of the Proclamation, in Order to obtain the Reward of fifty Pounds, which was immediately granted him.
Last Night the two young Princes were at Drury Lane Theatre, and sat on a Stool erected on an Eminence between their Majesties. They were full dressed, and appeared in their different Orders of Knighthood, and seemed well pleased with the Performance.
A Frenchman, who is just arrived here from Paris, says that it is inconceivable the different Change a few Days has produced amongst all Ranks of People in that Capital. Numbers of the Nobility, and others, who held Offices under the Crown, have resigned, and returned to their Country Seats, to enjoy private Life, and those that kept fourteen or fifteen Servants now keep but three or four; and it is supposed there are now in Paris two or three Thousand of that Fraternity out of Place, which, with the Tradesmen continually breaking, and Murders and Robberies every Night in the Streets, renders that lately gay Place a Chaos of Misery and Despair. But hear the other Side, in the following
Extract of a Letter from Paris, March 7. "The People begin to resume their Spirits. The Wisdom and Equity diffused through the Edict for the Establishment of the foreign Courts, the Suppression of the Judges Fees, and the concise and expeditious Manner of deciding litigious Affairs without altering the established Laws, do Honour to his Majesty's Reign; and the new Code of Laws of M. Maupeou confer not less Honour on the Author."
"At present, by the new Regulation, every Thing is rendered plain. God grant that it may last, and be executed according to its Intention."
March 19. The House of Commons met at Half past two o'Clock yesterday, and, after going through the Militia and several Road Bills, Lord North moved to take the Opinion of the House whether the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of London should be ordered to attend to-morrow (this Day) in his Place, or be indulged a few Days on Account of his Illness. Lord North spoke near an Hour. He was answered in a very spirited Manner by Mr. Burke, who said that the House had made many unwarrantable Strides over the Liberties of the People, and was happy to see the noble and proper Spirit of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London against the supposed Power of the Speaker's Warrants in that City, a tame Submission to which assumed Power had been the Ruin of many Families. Mr. Serjeant Glynn spoke in Commendation of the Citizens of London, and told the House if the Keeper of Newgate knew his Duty he would refuse every Prisoner sent him. Lord North replied, and Colonel Barré and Constantine Phipps answered him. Henry L. Luttrell moved that Mr. Alderman Oliver do attend this House, in his Place, at the same Time as the Lord Mayor. He was answered by Mr. Oliver, who said he should constantly attend his Duty in Parliament, and be ready at all Times to answer any Charge which can be exhibited against him; but he should not answer as a Culpit.
The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor went to the House of Commons this Day at two o'Clock, with Mr. Alderman Oliver, in his Coach.
For near an Hour and a Half a vast Concourse of People waited about the Mansion House, to see his Lordship come out; and when their paternal Magistrate appeared their Applauses were testified by the loudest Acclamations from the Gate, through all the Streets.
His Lordship was so little recovered from his severe Fit of the Gout that he was supported to his Coach by three Persons.
All Business in a certain Assembly stands postponed, by Order, till the Matter now under their immediate Consideration is disposed of.
The Guards received Orders last Night to be attending in Arms all this Day upon the Parade.
We hear a Common Hall will be immediately summoned to take the Sense of the Livery concerning the Conduct of the Lord Mayor upon the late Commitment of the Messenger, when it is not doubted it will be approved without one dissenting Voice.
The Duke of Grafton lately, on reading the Newspaper, said to a very great Personage, "Why this Frolick of Onslow's has occasioned much Diverision to the People." "Yes" (answered a great and amiable Lady) but who is to pay the Piper?"
It is said that Orders have been despatched for the Troops now in Scotland to hold themselves ready to march at the shortest Notice, but their Route is to be a Secret.
March 20. A distinguished Personage being lately asked his Opinion of the Debates of the House of Commons respecting the Printers, and whether he thought Sir Joseph Mawbey's Speech was by any Means fit to be printed, as, he said, it wanted the Graces of Oratory, in which those of his Opponents abounded, why, really, answered the great Personage, I consider his Opponents Speeches as Pieces of cut Velvet, which are merely pleasing to the Eye; but Sir Joseph's Speech is, like a Piece of English Broadcloth, lasting, and the Staple Commodity of our Country.
Extract of a Letter from Portsmouth, March 17.
"An Order is come to the Agent Victualler to buy an Assortment of live Cattle, such as Cows, Hogs, Sheep, &c. to be put on Board the Juno Frigate, which are to be landed at Falkland's Island, in Order, if possible, to obtain a Breed of those Species at that Place."
Soon after the Lord Mayor entered the House of Commons yesterday he desired that the Business on which he was summoned might be brought on, as he was very ill, and wished to retire. The Speaker then offered him the Use of his Use of his Room. His Lordship asked if there was a Bed in it; and being answered in the negative, said it would then be of little Service to him, as he was too ill to sit up. The Business at the Mansion House on Friday being then taken into Consideration, his Lordship, in his Place, avowed the Part he had taken; asserted that what he had done was agreeable to his Oath, and the Charters of the City of London; and that he would act in the same Manner, in any future similar Occasion. Mr. Alderman Oliver also spoke in Defence of the Rights and Privileges of the Citizens of London. A Motion was then made to adjourn the farther Consideration of this Affair until that Day se'nnight, which was carried in the affirmative.
A Motion was then made by Sir Joseph Mawbey, for Mr. Wilkes to attend the House, which was agreed to.
The Lord Mayor, when he went to the House of Commons yesterday, was accompanied by a vast Concourse of People. The Number increased considerably the nearer he approached to Westminster. About Exeter Exchange, in the Strand, they began their Acclamations, which did not cease until he had got into the House of Commons, for in the very Lobby, as he came through, and even when the Door of the House of Commons was set open for him, there was not a Voice or Hand among some Hundreds of Persons, of genteel Appearance, that was not employed to demonstrate their Approbation of his Conduct; in Consequence of which immediate Orders were given to clear the Lobby, and every Person was turned out.
When the Lord Mayor left the House, the Populace, to show their Regard to that patriotic Magistrate, took his Lordship's Horses from his Coach, and drew him themselves in Triumph to the Mansion House, amidst the loud and incessant Acclamations of his applauding Fellow Citizens.
March 21. At eight o'Clock yesterday Morning Mr. Wilkes received a Summons to attend the House of Commons yesterday; but considering that it would be absurd in him to submit to an Authority which he had so often denied in the Case of others, he has sent to the Speaker a Letter signifying his determined Resolution to resist, even unto Death , any Power not founded on the Laws of his Country.
Last Night the Printer of a Morning Paper was discharged from his Confinement in Newgate, by Order of an august Assembly.
Women and Politicians should be always taken by Contraries. The King of Prussia's pacific Intentions, which he so boasts of, may be guessed at by the following Proofs. He has now near fifty Thousand Men in Arms, more than he had even in the Height of last War. He has remounted most of his Cavalry with English Horses. He has several new Methods of Discipline now in Practice, but not made publick. Add to which, he has Boxes of Manifestoes printed, which Nobody but himself has a Copy of, nor can even give a Guefs at, as he floods over the Press while they were printing.
March 22. Mr. Wilkes, on Tuesday, having been served with an Order to attend the House of Commons on Wednesday, wrote the following Letter to Sir Fletcher Norton.
"SIR, "I this morning received an Order commanding my Attendance this Day in the House of Commons. I observe that no Notice was taken of me in your Order as a Member of the House, and that I am not required to attend in my Place. Both these Circumstances, according to the settled Form, ought to have been mentioned in my Case, and I hold them absolutely indispensable. In the Name of the Freeholders of Middlesex, I again demand my Seat in Parliament; having the Honour to be freely chosen, by a very great Majority, one of the Representatives of the said County. I am ready to take the Oaths prescribed by Law, and to give in my Qualification as Knight of the Shire. When I have been admitted to my Seat I will immediately give the House the most exact Detail, which will necessarily comprehend a full Justification of my Conduct relative to the late illegal Proclamation, equally injurious to the Honour of the Crown and the Rights of the Subject, and likewise the whole Business of the Printers. I have acted entirely from a Sense of Duty to this great City, whose Franchises I am sworn to maintain; and to my Country, whose noble Constitution I reverence; and whose Liberties, at the Price of my Blood, to the last Moment of my Life, I will defend and support."
I am, Sir, Your most humble Servant, JOHN WILKES."
On Tuesday a Motion was made in the House of Commons, that the Lord Mayor should be allowed to be heard by Counsel, on which Account great Debates arose; but the Question being called for, we hear the Division was, two Hundred and two against it, and seventy ninety for it.
A French Gentleman who was present at the Examination of Miller and Wilkes what was the Reason of their being heard in his Lordship's Bed-chamber, the Alderman, with his usual Wit and Pleasantry, replied, "His Lordship, Sir, only follows the French Fashion; he is holding a Bed of Justice, in order to annul the Authority of Parliament."
It is with Pleasure that we can inform our Readers that Lord Mansfield does not approve of the ministerial Proceedings on the Affair of the Printers; and we are assured that his Lordship has declared his Opinion of the Conduct of the three celebrated City Magistrates, in a Manner that reflects Honour on their Firmness. He is, nevertheless, we hear, of Opinion that Administration must contrive to stir themselves in one Way, so that the Authority assumed by the House of Commons may not be given up in Appearance, whatever it may be in Reality.
The President of the Robinhood Society absolutely denies that he called the House of Commons the highest Court of Judicature; he termed it, he says, the highest Court of Legislature; and his Reason was because the very Strength of Government, the jus qua non , must originate there, and without it every Act of State would be ineffectual. It is a Fact also that this is the President's Assertion; but it is a Fact also that he, nevertheless, said the very Words laid to his Charge.
The Cry of the Court Party was, for two Days, very warm in Favour of Expulsions; but those Gentry are now grown a little cooler in their Notions.
It is beyond a Doubt that the Obstinacy of the Printers (as the Ministry term the noble Stand made by the Printers in Defence of the Liberty of the Subject, and the Law of the Land) has gravelled the Government beyond any Incident since the Commencement of the glorious Reign of George III.
The Earl of Chatham intends to make a Motion in a few Days, of greater Importance, his Lordship says, than any that has been made this Winter.
The Duke of Richmond, it is said, has another in Peto, of the very first Import.
On Monday Night Lord Hertford gave a grand (political) Rout at his Lordship's House in Grosvenor Street.
The same Night the Duchess of Argyle gave an elegant Ball to a great Number of the Nobility and foreign Ministers.
A Treaty of Marriage is on Foot, we hear, between the Earl of Eglington and Miss Montgomery, an Irish Beauty, lately come over, and the present reigning Toast in the great World.
The Chaplain to a worthy Bishop, whose Living in this City is near three Hundred Pounds a Year, most generously gives to a poor Clergyman seventy-five Pounds a Time to read the early Prayers at his Church.
It is thought that within twenty Years this Kingdom will be blessed with as honourable and indolent, also a poor and illiterate Clergy, as the Great are now training up their Children for all the valuable Livings and Dignities in the Church, and the Rewards of Merit, and Encouragements to Learning, will not extend beyond a beggarly Curacy of forty or fifty Pounds a Year.
March 26. The House of Commons had divided twice, and remained sitting when this Paper went to Press. According to their late Custom, no Strangers were admitted into the Galleries; and to keep their Debates still more secret, the Lobby Doors were shut to all but Members. The Numbers, on their second Division, were, for Adjournment, two Hundred and fourteen Noes, ninety seven Ayes. By what could be learnt from such Members as came out, it appeared to be the intended Resolution of the House to commit both the Lord Mayor and Mr. Alderman Oliver to the Tower; but as those honourable Friends who favour this Paper with parliamentary Intelligence did not divide with the Majority, or come at all out of the House, we must defer a farther and more full Account of this important Matter till to-morrow's Paper. At one o'Clock the House was dividing, for the third Time. The Lord Mayor desired to withdraw at Half after ten, on Account of his Illness.
Two o'Clock. The Printer has just received Intelligence that Alderman Oliver is committed to the Tower; that the farther Consideration of the Lord Mayor's Affair, which the House terms a high Misdemeanor, is to be debated to-morrow, and that the House still continues sitting.
Yesterday there was a Levee at St. James's, after which there was a Council, at which the great Officers of State assisted.
Wagers of five to one are laid that Lord Townshend will be the last Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Yesterday Lord Hillsborough gave an Entertainment to several of the Ministers of State; the Lord Chancellor and Lord Mansfield dined with his Lordship.
The House of Piers broke up yesterday about Half past four o'Clock.
It is thought that both Houses of Parliament will adjourn on Thursday next until Tuesday the 8th of April.
Yesterday Afternoon, between four and five o'Clock, a Motion was made in the Lower Assembly whether the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, in his late Conduct to one of the Messengers of their House, had not been guilty of a Breach of Privilege. Sir George Savile immediately moved for the previous Question, and declared that if the first Motion was carried, he, and he hoped every independent Gentleman, would immediately quit the House; upon which a long Debate ensued.
Just as Sir George had made the Motion Serjeant Glynn arrived at the House, by Express, from attending the Circuit.
Yesterday a five Hundred Pound Bank Bill was offered to one that the Conduct of the Lord Mayor would not be voted a Breach of Privilege.
Yesterday the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, and Mr. Alderman Oliver, went through the City to the House of Commons, in Consequence of an Order of the House to attend this Day in their Places. The Lord Mayor was attended in his Coach by his Chaplain (Mr. Evans) and Mr. George Bellas. They were accompanied by the Aldermen Stephenson, Turner, Kirkman, and the several Common Council that were ordered of the Committee, and were met at the House by Alderman Sir Charles Asgill. When they arrived there, the Lord Mayor, his Chaplain, the Aldermen, and Common Council, were ordered into the House. They were accompanied thither by a prodigious Concourse of People, among whom was a great Number of Gentlemen, Merchants, and reputable Tradesmen, many of whom went in their Carriages.
Last Night, at eleven o'Clock, the Lord Mayor returned to the Mansion House. Some of the Sons of Liberty, and Well-wishers to every Affair of the publick Rights and Franchises, who attended his Lordship to and from the House of Commons, took his Horses from his Coach and drew him through the City, amidst the unanimous Applause of reechoing Multitudes.
On Sunday Evening, at the Macarony Club, three Hundred Pounds to two Hundred Pounds were betted that a certain City Culpit will be either sent to the Tower, Newgate, or publickly reprimanded on his Knees in the House of Commons! The Odds were five Hundred Pounds to two Hundred Pounds that neither of the two Delinquents will be expelled. The House of Commons naught the Idea of that Punishment, G— Sel— says, they having had a Surfeit of it.
How wretched must have been the Conduct of the Ministry in Regard to the Affair of the Printers, when it is universally condemned by Friends and Enemies! Nay, their loudest Abettors in the House, it is well known, condemn them out of it.
Yesterday a fool-hardy Gentleman, passing through the Mob at the Parliament House, cried out aloud, "Gentlemen, let me pass; I hope that none of the Lord Mayor's Friends will pick my Pocket." Notwithstanding the Grossness of the Insult, he was suffered to pass unmolested.
The Deputy Serjeant at Arms, when before the Lord Mayor, and the Aldermen Wilkes and Oliver, opposed the Messenger's entering into Recognizance for his Appearance at the City Sessions, till the Messenger's Mittimus was actually made out and signed. He opposed it, we are told, to see what Length the brave Citizens would go in Conformity to Law . When Morgan, the Lord Mayor's Clerk, was ordered before the House of Commons with the Minute Book, he was suffered to comply, to see how far they would go in Opposition to Law .
Mr. Wedderburne, though he said he could not see any reasonable Objection against the Publication of the parliamentary Speeches, as they were infinitely superior to the Speeches delivered in the House, exerts himself strenuously against the Lord Mayor. Since he disapproved of the Ground Work of the ministerial Proceedings, how can he approve of the Superstructure!
Saturday, at Noon, the Chevalier D'Eon went to New Lloyd's Coffee-house, in Pope's Head Alley, and inquired for the Broker who had made the scandalous Ensnarement on him; who being introduced to him, he insisted on his giving up his Principal, or Employer. The Broker promised that he would give him a Meeting, when he would deliver up his Principal; on which he went away, seemingly satisfied.
An extraordinary Event has happened in high Life, that is very surprising, and alarming, to the Women of Gallantry. A young Lady of high Rank, of a very warm and amorous Disposition, being detected in an Amour (with an amiable young Officer) by her injured Husband, she was, in Consequence, close confined, and guarded by a trusty Duenna, at a distant Country Seat, above a Year; political Reasons, at that Period, preventing legal Redress to the unfortunate and much to be pitied

POETS CORNER.
The judicious BACCHANAL.
WHILE the Bottle to Humour, and social Delight, The smallest Assistance can lend; While it happily keeps up the Laugh of the Night, Or enlivens the Mind of a Friend;
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.
ALL Persons having any Demands against the Estate of William Yarborough, deceased, are desired to make them known to James Smith Yarborough, in Prince Edward County, or to me in Blandford, before the 10th of September next, that Provision may be made to satisfy the same; and those indebted to him are desired to make Payment soon. RICHARD YARBROUGH.
ALL Persons who have any Demands against the Estate of Robert Sp. Coleman, deceased, are desired, for the last Time, to make them known to me immediately, that I may know what of his Debts remain unpaid, and act accordingly. ANDREW CRAWFORD, Executor.
PARTNER WILL stand this Season at Colonel Thomas M. Randolph's, in Goochland, and cover Mares at twenty Shillings the Leap, three Pounds the Season, and five Pounds Ensurance. Good Pasturage, and the Money is expected when the Mares are taken away. ARMISTEAD LIGHTFOOT.
To be SOLD, in Pursuance to the last Will and Testament of Drury Stith, deceased, on Monday the 3d of June, at Charlotte Courthouse, being Court Day,
ALL the LAND on Jones's Creek, in the said County, remaining unsold, and being Part of a Tract of four Thousand two Hundred Acres granted to the said Drury Stith by Patent; the Quantity may be known at the Day of Sale. And on Monday the 10th of the same Month, at Mecklenburg Courthouse, being Court Day, seven Hundred and eighty Acres of Land on the Branches of Bluegrass, in the said County. Credit will be allowed until the 22d of March next, on giving Bond, with approved Security, to THOMAS STITH, Administrator.
Just IMPORTED, and to be SOLD by the Subscribers in NORFOLK. A QUANTITY of GRENADA COFFEE, GRENADA and ANTIGUA RUM, MUSCOVADO SUGAR, &c. &c. GREENWOOD, MARSH, & Co.
To be SOLD, on Monday the 17th of JUNE, at ESSEX Courthouse, being Court Day,
TWO LOTS in the Town of Tappahannock, belonging to William Harbaway. These Lots have convenient Houses on them, and are well paled in; and are to be sold, by a Decree of Essex Court, on twelve Months Credit. Bond and Security will be required of the Purchasers. N. B. Should the 17th of June not be a fair Day, the Sale will be put off until the next Court.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, by Virtue of a Decree of Surry Court, before Mr Francis Moreland's Tavern, at Cabin Point, on Saturday the 18th Instant,
TWO Hundred and thirty five Acres of very valuable LAND, lying on Chipox Creek, in Surry County, about a Mile below Cabin Point. There is on the Premises a Dwellinghouse, and some Outbuildings; it is well wooded and watered, and has the best Fishery on the Creek. It is a convenient and beautiful Situation for a Merchant, or private Family, and belongs to the Estate of Robert Watkins, deceased. Those who incline to purchase may be shown the Premises by applying to Mr. Philip Birt, who lives on the same. Three Months Credit will be allowed, the Purchaser giving Bond, with approved Security, to THOMAS BAILEY.
COMMITTED to Surry Jail, on the 24th of April, a Negro Fellow about six Feet high, has lost one of his upper fore Teeth, is about thirty Years old, and says he belongs to Samuel Young of Mecklenburg County. The Owner is desired to send for him, and pay Charges. DRURY WARREN.
P. S. He had with him, when taken up, a dark black Mare about fourteen Hands high, Part of one of her hind Feet is white, has a small Star in her Forehead, and branded on the near Shoulder, but not known.
RICHMOND Town, April 30, 1771. RUN away from the Subscriber, on the 18th Instant, an outlandish Negro named MINGO. He had on a blue under Jacket, and a light brown One over it, has a fore Finger on his left Hand, and speaks but indifferent English. Whoever delivers the said Negro to me at Richmond, or to Mr. James Marsden at Norfolk, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward, besides what the Law allows. JOHN BROOKE.
TAKEN up, in Chesterfield, a small bay HORSE, about four Feet high, docked, but has no Brand perceivable, some Saddle Spots, a Spot on the off Side of his Neck, and had a small Bell on. Potted, and appraised to forty Shillings. JOHN ELLIES.
WILLIAMSBURG, May 2, 1771.
STRAYED, or STOLEN, about three Weeks ago, from this Town, a dark bay HORSE with a roached Mane and Bob Tail, thirteen Hands and a Half high, about ten Years old, paces and canters very easy; I believe he is not branded. Whoever brings the said Horse to me shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward; and if stolen, on Discovery of the Thief, FORTY SHILLINGS. WILLIAM MASSENBURG.
TAKEN up, in Prince George, a dark gray HORSE, about four Feet and an Inch high, five or six Years old, with a roached Mane and Switch Tail. Potted, and appraised to forty Shillings. JAMES HALL.
TAKEN up, in Brunswick, a large bay HORSE, about four Feet ten Inches high, twenty one Years old, branded on the near Buttock R.H. Potted, and appraised to thirty Shillings. JAMES HICKS, Senior.
TAKEN up, in Louisa, a small MARE, three Years old next Spring, about four Feet seven or eight Inches high, with a Blaze in her Face, her hind Feet white, branded on the near Buttock, but too dull to be made out. Potted, and appraised to twelve Pounds. BENJAMIN HAWKINS.
WHEREAS some Years past, when Major Peachey was stationed in Augusta County, the Subscriber being in Captain Thomas Fleming's Company, and at Stanton, in the said County, did borrow Money of two Soldiers in the said Company, one named Farlow, and the other Harber (or Thatcher) now if either of the above Persons will please to apply to Thomas Stockton, Senior, on Mitcham's River, Albemarle County, they may receive their different Debts due to them. CHARLES BROOKE.
ALL Persons indebted to the Estate of the deceased Gerrard Ellison, of Chesterfield County, are desired to make immediate Payment to the Executors. Those who have Demands against the said Estate are desired to make them known, that the same may be discharged by ABRAHAM SAILE. THOMAS BRANCH. DANIEL WEISIGER.
IF WILLIAM ROUGHSEDGE, late of Prescot, in the County of Lancaster (who was imported as a Transport in the Swale, Captain John Metcalfe, in the Year 1763, and bound to Mr. Barch, of Wicwico, near Pile's Warehouse, in Charles County, Maryland) be living, he may hear of Something to his Advantage by applying to me in Williamsburg, Virginia; or whoever can give any Intelligence of him, so that a Certificate may be had of his being alive, or dead, shall be rewarded, by applying to JACOB ALLAN.
WANTED, A PERSON well acquainted with the Office Business of an Attorney; if he is also well versed in the Practice of the Courts in England, it will be more agreeable. A handsome Salary will be given to a Person properly qualified, with a Preference to a single Man. Inquire of Messrs. Purdie and Dixon, any Time this Month.
FOR SALE, ONE Moiety, or the Whole, of my GRIST and SAW MILLS near Cabin Point, in Surry County, with three Pair of Millstones and two Saws, which are well accustomed, and very profitable, and with an additional Expense of a Hundred Pounds might be made much more so. These Mills are well situated on Chipox Creek, on the fourth Side of James River, about Midway of the River, in a growing Neighbourhood, on a good Navigation, has a never failing Stream of Water, where a Merchant Mill may be erected to the greatest Advantage, and with less Expense than usually attends the building such Mills; it may be so built that there would be ten or twelve Feet Water near the Mill House, at common Tides. Also about four Hundred Acres, and some Half Acre Lots, of LAND, adjoining the Mills and Settlements, commonly called the Town, with many Improvements and Conveniences thereon, to be sold in small Quantities, or Lots. For Terms inquire of the Subscriber. Also two Hundred and forty five Acres of Land on the Otter Dam Swamp, about six Miles from Cabin Point, has both high and low Grounds, some Buildings thereon, a valuable young Orchard, about fifty Acres of cleared Land, enclosed with a good Fence. Likewise two Hundred and thirty Acres of well timbered LAND about eight Miles from Cabin Point, no Buildings thereon. Long Credit will be given for the two last mentioned Tracts. JOHN COCKE.
To be SOLD, on Thursday the 16th of MAY, at the late Dwellinghouse of David Smith, deceased, in Dinwiddie (under a Deed of Trust from the said Smith to me) for ready Money, or Merchants Notes payable at the ensuing General Court,
NINE likely Virginia born SLAVES, among whom are two very valuable Fellows. At the same Time will be exposed to Sale (under the same Deed) a great Part of his personal Estate, consisting of a fine Still, many valuable Beds, and a great Deal of Household Furniture, excellent in its Kind. Those becoming Purchasers to the Value of forty Shillings, or more, will be allowed three Months Credit, on giving Bond and Security; if under that Sum, to pay ready Money. GRAY BRIGGS.
ON Friday the 17th of May (if fair, otherwise next fair Day) will be sold at the Dwellinghouse of Mr. David Galloway, in Northumberland County, all the said Galloway's Lands, for the Benefit of his Creditors. The Terms of Credit will be agreed on at the Day of Sale, by the Trustees.
GEORGE III. by the Grace of GOD of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. to the Sheriff of the County of Frederick, greeting: We command you to summon Daniel Busb, late of the County of Frederick, to appear before our Justices of our County Court of Augusta, on the first Tuesday in next Month, to answer a Bill in Chancery exhibited against him by Lewis Neill; and this he shall in no Wise omit, under the Penalty of a Hundred Pounds; and have then there this Writ. Witness James Keith, Clerk of our said Court, at the Courthouse, this sixth Day of September, in the tenth Year of our Reign. JAMES KEITH.
COMMITTED to York County Jail, on the 14th of March, an outlandish Negro Woman who cannot, or will not, tell her Owner's Name. She is with Child, has a thin Visage, and is about four Feet nine Inches high. The Owner may have her on proving his Property, and paying Charges, of WILLIAM MITCHELL.
STRAYED from Mr. Field Trent, in Henrico County, a middle sized bay Horse, not branded, has a remarkable white Mark on his Neck, occasioned by a Rope. Whoever will bring him to me in Chesterfield County, near Osborne's Warehouse, shall have THIRTY SHILLINGS Reward. EDWARD WILKINSON.
TAKEN up, in Cumberland, a black STEER, marked with a Crop in the right Ear, and a Crop and Slit in the left; a black and white COW, of the same Mark, that has one of her fore Feet hurt by a Clog; and a white hipshoten MARE, which has no Brand perceivable. Potted, and appraised, the Steer to thirty five Shillings, the Cow to thirty Shillings, and the Mare to forty Shillings. RICHARD EGGLESTON.
TAKEN up, in Albemarle, a small black MARE about eight Years old, four Feet three or four Inches high, has a small Star in her Forehead, some Saddle Spots, a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, no Brand that can be seen, trots altogether, and appears to be very forward with Foal. Potted, and appraised to four Pounds. THOMAS BARLOW.
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 Chestnut and Third Streets, Philadelphia. 12
AS twelve Months are nearly expired since the Store kept at Todd's, on Account of Messrs. M. Call 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 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. 12
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 Occoquan 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 Living, 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.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, on the Premises, pursuant to an Act of Assembly, on Wednesday the 15th of May, TWO Thousand eight Hundred Acres of LAND, being the upper Part of a Tract belonging to Armistead Lightfoot, Esquire, in Brunswick County. It will be laid off into Lots, to make it convenient to the Purchasers; and any Person inclined to buy may be shown it by applying to Thomas Gholson, who lives on it. Credit will be allowed until the first of November next, upon giving Bond and Security to LEWIS BURWELL, JAMES BURWELL, THOMAS MANN RANDOLPH, JOHN WOODSON, } Trustees.
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 exceedingly 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 sawed Framing and Palings; 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; they also belong 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 Chimneys, 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. 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.