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PICTURES OF THE TIMES.
GOD.] That there is a God, is evident from our own Existence. The Order and Regularity which is diffused throughout the whole Creation, the Planets still running in one continued Course, and not breaking in upon one another, which would invert the Order of Nature, and bring all Things to Ruin and Confusion, the glorious Luminary that gives us Light, the starry Firmament, in short, every Insect and Thing that breathes, manifests it beyond all Possibility of Doubt; yet, strange to tell! there are those who affect to disbelieve it. Affection or Madness it undoubtedly is, for no Man in his Senses would go to assert what even his own Existence proves to be false. By Chance it is impossible we can exist, the very Idea argues our Absurdity; for if we existed by Chance, we should be Equals only with the Brutes, whereas at present we are endowed with superior Faculties, and capable of discerning Good from Evil. Those Faculties were certainly never intended to be misapplied, or to be laid by as useless; the Supposition is idle. If it was not, that Order which is so visible, and the only Cement of Kingdoms and States, would inevitably fall to the Ground, and the whole World be one general Scene of Misery and Confusion.
DEVIL and HELL.] Those only who pretend to disbelieve a God will doubt a Devil or Hell. As there is an Habitation for the Righteous, there is of Course one for the Wicked; and a Prince of Evil, as well as Good. Let the wicked Man appeal to his own Conscience, and say whether this be false. What farther Hell need we than a guilty Conscience? For, supposing no other, this would be insupportable.
“Which Way shall we fly Infinite Wrath and infinite Despair? Which Way we fly is Hell, ourselves are Hell.”
A bad Conscience is a burning, unbearable, and never-dying Hell; and none but the most obstinate Madman would run himself headlong into Eternity, disbelieving what every Day tells him is true.
“If it so should fall out, as who can tell, But there may be a God, a Heaven, and Hell, Mankind had best consider well, for Fear It should be too late when their Mistakes appear.”
MAN.] Man is that proud haughty Being which stalks along the Earth with Pomp and Splendour, as though he were a God. He imagines he alone ought to be sole Lord of the Creation, and, though his Stay is here only for a Day, treasures up Riches, and throws away his Time in Luxury, Folly, and Dissipation, as if he were to continue here for ever.
“See (says he) all Things for my Use! See Man for mine,” replies a pamper’d Goose; And just as short of Reason he must fall Who thinks all made for one, not one for all.”
RELIGION.] Religion, which ought to be the Link of Happiness and Friendship, and the Chain of Society, and whose Purity, Innocence, and Simplicity, ought to be inviolably preserved, is become a Cause for Contention; and, under its Cloak, the most artful Villanies, and base Purposes, are effected. The Bishops, instead of setting pious and good Examples, set us the very worst; and the enthusiastick Brawl of some Preachers, and the Inactivity, Indolence, and Drowziness of others, rather disgust than give us Pleasure: So that, when our Teachers cease to instruct, it is no Wonder we cease to be religious.
VIRTUE.] The People of the present Age have almost forgot the Meaning of the Word. The Polite will have Nothing to do with it, and the inferior Class only countenance it as being very necessary in Trade. The Ladies knit their Brows at the bare Mention of it; and if, by Accident, it intrudes upon them, they take every possible Means to shake it off.
MODESTY.] Modesty and Virtue were formerly very intimate, and in Bess’s Days great Favourites of the Fair; but the Politesse of the present enlightened Age have happily got rid of both. Even little lisping Mils at the Boarding School can now cock up her Eye and look as impudent as the pleases, without Mamma’s Displeasure. Mamma likes to see her Darling a little in the Ton; and, to be sure, why should not young Ladies look a little sprightly? There can be no Harm in it. As for Modesty, it is only fit for Beggars; and polite Company show their Breeding, by kicking it out of Doors.
HOSPITALITY.] Hospitality (happily for itself) is got out of the Smoke of London, or it would have inevitably been choaked. It lies now in a very infirm State in Herefordshire, but the very bad Year
of Cider will soon oblige it to move; and if it gets into Wales, one severe Winter will surely end it. At any Rate, poor Hospitality will have a hard Struggle to hold out much longer.
CHARITY.] Hospitality and Charity were both brought up under the same Roof, and are determined to live and die together. They some Time ago applied for Assistance to the Clergy, their old Friends; but they unhappily took them for Impostors, and very politely pushed them out of Doors.
FRIENDSHIP.] The Name of Friend still remains, and that is all. The Heaven-born Tree itself is quite rooted up, and lost; and unless where some Advantage is like to follow, Friendship will not intermeddle. Friendship in a fatal Hour contracted an Acquaintance with Flattery, and was ruined. Flattery hath since assumed Friendship’s Habit, and it requires some Study to detect the Impostor.
HONESTY.] Honesty lived with some Merchants in the Metropolis a considerable Time; but, going backwards and forwards to Court with Petitions and Remonstrances, was unluckily lost. It found its Way, however, to some of the principal Towns in the Kingdom, but was very coldly received; and, going several Times after to Court with Petitions, became so sick, and tired of Life, that it suddenly disappeared, and it is supposed to be now in Herefordshire, with Hospitality and Charity.
The Reading of HISTORY pleasing and advantageous.
NOTHING affords a more pleasing Amusement to the human Mind than the taking a retrospective View of preceding Ages, and contemplating the Transactions of former Times. All the Nations of the World pass in Review before us, and we become acquainted with their Rise and Decline, their Grandeur and their Fall. One Page of History presents us with a powerful Empire stretching her Sceptre over various Kingdoms, and sitting as Queen among the Nations; in the next, we behold her stripped of her Power, and humbled in the Dust.
When the Romans had subdued all the adjacent Nations, and most of the Kingdoms of Europe had submitted to their Yoke, their Empire, stretched to such a vast Extent, soon lost its Spring and Force. It contained, within itself, the Seeds of Dissolution; and the violent Irruption of the Goths and Vandals, with other barbarous Nations of the North, hastened its Destruction. These fierce Tribes, who came to take Vengeance on the Empire, either inhabited the various Provinces of Germany which had never been subdued by the Roman Arms, or were scattered over the vast Countries of the North of Europe, and North East of Asia, now inhabited by the Danes, the Swedes, the Russians, and the Tartars. They were drawn from their native Country by that Restlessness which actuates the Minds of Barbarians, and makes them rove from home in Quest either of Plunder or new Settlements. The first Invaders met with a powerful Resistance, from the superior Discipline of the Roman Legions; but this, instead of daunting Men of a strong and impetuous Temper, served only to rouse them to Vengeance. They returned to their Country, acquainted them with the unknown Conveniencies and Luxuries that abounded in Countries better cultivated, or blessed with a milder Climate, than their own. They informed them of the Battles they had fought, the Friends they had lost, and warmed them to Resentment against their Opponents. “Vast Bodies of armed Men (says an elegant Historian, in describing this dreadful Scene of Desolation) with their Wives and their Children, their Slaves and their Flocks, issued forth, like regular Colonies, in Search of new Settlements. New Adventurers followed them. The Lands they deserted were occupied by more remote Tribes of Barbarians. These, in their Turn, pushed forward into more fertile Countries; and, like a Torrent, continually increasing, rolled on, and swept every Thing before them. Wherever the Barbarians marched, their Track was Blood. They ravaged or destroyed all around them. They made no Distinction between what was sacred and what was profane. They respected no Age, no Sex, no Rank. If an Historian was called upon to fix on that Period during which the Condition of the human Race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, doubtless, without Hesitation, fix upon that which elapsed from the Death of Theodosius the
Great, in 395, to the Establishment of the Lombards in Italy, which happened in 571. The contemporary Authors, who beheld that Scene of Desolation, labour, and are at a Loss, for Expressions to describe its Horror. “The Scourge of God, the Destroyer of Nations,” are the dreadful Epithets by which they distinguish the most noted Leaders of these barbarous Nations.
The Western and the Eastern Empire having been divided by Constantine the Great, soon after his embracing the Christian Religion, a great Alteration was unfortunately introduced. The Western and Eastern Provinces were separated from each other, and governed by different Sovereigns. The withdrawing the Roman Legions, from the Rhine to the Danube, threw down the Western Barriers of the Empire, and laid it open to these inhuman Invaders.
Weakened by this Division, and deprived of the greater Part of her conquering Legions, Rome became a Prey to the barbarous Nations. Her ancient Glory, vainly deemed immortal, was effaced; and Aodaces, a Barbarian Leader, sat down on the Throne of the Cæsars. These Irruptions into the Empire were gradual and successive. The immense Fabrick of the Roman Empire had been the Work of many Ages, and several Centuries were employed in its Demolition. The military Discipline of the ancient Romans was so efficacious that the Remains of it descended to their Successors, and must have proved sufficient to render all the Attempts of the Enemy abortive, had it not been for the Vices of the Roman Emperors, and the universal Corruption of Mankind that prevailed among the People. Satiated with the Luxuries of the known World, the Emperors was at a Loss for new Provocatives. The most distant Regions were explored, the Ingenuity of Mankind was exercised and the Tribute of Provinces expended on one favourite Dish. The Tyranny and Deprecation of Manners, that prevailed under the Emperors, could only be equalled by the Barbarity of those Enemies who laid all their Honours in the Dust.
Scarce any Vestige of the Roman Policy, Jurisprudence, Arts, or Literature, remained. New Forms of Government, new Laws, new Manners, new Dresses, new Languages, and new Names of Men and Countries, were every Where introduced, and Europe exhibited a most melancholy Picture of Gothick Barbarity. Literature, Science, Taste, were Words scarce heard of for many Centuries. The human Mind, neglected, uncultivated, and depressed, sunk into the most profound Ignorance; the Mantle of mental Darkness was drawn over Europe.
Such were the Causes of that dreadful Revolution in the Roman State. Luxury, that Bane of every generous Effort of the Soul, exerted all its Influence, and prevailed in this alarming Conflict. And surely the large Strides it has lately made in this Kingdom should rouse us from the Lethargy of a careless Inattention, and induce us, before it is too late, to prevent the same Destruction from overwhelming our Country.
An humerus Description of the MANNERS and FASHIONS of LONDON. In a Letter from an Oxonian, to the Reverend Mr. —, of — College, Oxon.
THIS Metropolis is exceeding large; the People, Pleasures, and Customs, almost infinite; yet they have not deterred me from inquiring after what is remarkable and curious. The Manner of my Living is such as it was at College, therefore I rise in the Morning as soon as the Sun appears, but this great Luminary is not seen by the major Part of the Inhabitants of this Place so long as we behold it at Oxford; and though the Climate is the same, for above one Half of the Year it is as it were invisible. Though this, Sir, may seem strange, it may, without a great Depth in Philosophy, be accounted for.
In the last Lecture I heard at your Chambers, you mentioned the almost Impossibility of a perpetual Motion. I am convinced, Sir, of the Practicableness of it by Demonstration, for the Hackney Coaches never cease their Noise and Hurry Day or Night. Seneca, I believe, wrote of the Tranquillity of Life after having his Ears dinned with the Hackney Coaches of his Time. The Reason for this Conjecture is, that I was informed a Poet of our Age, to write a Description of the Spring the better, lodged, during the Time he composed it, in Thames Street.

The hideous Cries of People who walks the Streets to vend Herbs, Milk, Fruit, old Clothes, Sand, Brick Dust, News, Ghosts, and bloody Murders, increase their Noise in such a horrid Manner that they seem so many Furies in the Regions of Pluto.
As for the People in general, they are not unlike those of the City of Oxford in most Respects, for eating and drinking well is what pleases them; and if their Industry can support their Belly, and a few fine Clothes, they think themselves happy. They seem no great Admirers of Antiquity, but are more delighted with Novelty; for they seek chiefly new Books, new Mistress, new Ministers, and new Friends.
The Women are very fine and handsome. They who have Cunning or Beauty have a Command over the Men; Husbands here are treated as their Servants, Gallants as their Slaves. I have observed, by the Number of Nurses, it is not the Fashion for Mothers to suckle their own Children; nor is it the Fashion to keep up a female Virtue, called Housewifery; there are few Penelopes who weave; and Needle Work, with an unanimous Consent, has been voted pernicious to the Eyes.
Marriages, which I always thought were for Life, among the politest People, are, after a certain Time, dissolved. My Lord and My Lady, after the first Month, are never seen together, never eat together, and, I had almost said, never lie together. The Husband lives quietly at one End of the House, the Wife makes merry at the other; and when they have been married a few Years, they endeavour to separate as soon as possible.
Dress seems a favourite Passion here, in both Sexes. Every One is for appearing gay; and, considering the Deference which in this City is paid to Clothes, this Foible is not unpardonable. A laced Coat, Waistcoat, or Trimmings, are so common, that they are indifferently wore by the Master and the Servant; nor is it easy to distinguish the Chambermaid from the Mistress. Here are two particular Classes of People who are not much different in their Principles, though of contrary Sexes, which are worthy of Notice: The Men are called Beaus, the Women are Coquets; they are singular from the rest of the World in their Dress, their Customs, and Manners; their whole Study, Ambition, and Business of Life, is to be admired by all; their Pleasure, to admire none but themselves; they are Idolaters, and all the Devotion they pay is to a Phantom in a Glass, which they omit not to admire and adore every Morning, for some Hours together.
There are several Theatres here, where almost every Evening People of all Ranks assemble; from whence you may judge of the Prosperity and Riches, or of the Decline and Poverty, of this great Metropolis, as your Reason suggests. But if it is true what an Ancient said, "That excessive Expense is a certain Sign of a City being in Decay," One would not think London in a very flourishing State. Whenever Cato, or any noble Greek or Roman, appears on the Stage, the Audience is thin; but a little French Gentleman in a party-coloured Jacket, whom they called Monsieur Harlequin, is a great Favourite, and prodigiously followed.
The Attorneys, the Quacks, the Gamesters, and the Footmen, are very numerous. The Inhabitants complain of them as a common Nuisance, but I think them a very ornamental and instructive Set of People. The first teach us to avoid Wrangling and the Law, lest by our Folly we lose our Estates; the second show us the Way to Chastity and Sobriety, that we may not fall into their Hands and be killed with their Medicines; the Gamesters are an Example to us of the Instability of Fortune; and the Footmen inculcate Humility, and teach us to serve ourselves, that we may not have Enemies in our own Houses. The Lawyers here are surprising Logicians, and Westminster Hall has stranger Paradoxes maintained in it than the Schools at Oxford; for in this they prove right wrong, and wrong right. This Hall is said to be the largest Room in England; and yet it is filled in Term Time with those who defend their own Estate, or endeavour to get another's. I should be glad to see the Floor of this Hall, as Cato would have had the Courts of Law in his Time, stuck full with Tenter Hooks, to tear the Feet of those who first entered to begin a Lawsuit.
The Physicians of this Place kill and cure, as they do all the World over; they ask too the same impertinent Questions: What, Sir, is the Matter with you? What's your Disorder? That which seems the greatest Injustice is, that One pays the same Fee to the Physician who kills him as to him that cures, and no Judge has Power to punish an ignorant Physician.
BOSTON, February 14.
By Captain Corbett, who arrived at Marblehead last Week from the West Indies, we are informed that he spoke a Brig in Distress, which had sprung a Leak, in Latitude 40:10, Longitude 59:35, but could not learn the Master's Name, nor where bound, but understood she came from the Grenades. Captain Corbett stayed by them three Days and Nights, and one Morning they attempted to come on Board in their Yawl, but the sunk along-side; they made a second and fatal Attempt in the Evening in their Longboat, when the first Sea after they had quitted the Brig struck them, filled the Boat, and every Soul perished. It blew so excessively hard that it was impossible to give them any Assistance in their deplorable Situation, though all possible Means were used that could be at such a Time. After the People were lost, the Vessel soon disappeared. The Brig appeared to be about 140 or 150 Tons, had a Figure Head, the upper Works painted with light Colours, the Quarter Board red, with white Streaks round them, and had Irish Colours hoisted in the main Shrouds.
NEWPORT (Rhode Island) February 14.
Last Friday Morning a Countryman stepping out of a Sloop, at Brown's Wharf, with a small Bag of the accursed East India Tea in his Hand, fell into the Dock, and had like to have been drowned; the Tea was entirely ruined. Be cautious how you travel with this baneful Article about you, for the Salt Water seems of late to attract it as a Loadstone attracts Iron.
Verfes addressed by the Ladies of Bedford, at their Meeting to resolve against TEA, to the Gentlemen of that Place.
WHAT you can raise upon your Farms We'll eat and drink with Hearts so free; The coarsest Food we choose to eat, Before we'll lose our Liberty. Don't cast Reflections on our Sex, Because the weaker Sort we be; We'll work our Fingers to the Bone, Before we'll lose our Liberty. Our honest Hearts abound with Zeal, We'll fight it out with Courage free; And bid adieu to India Stuff, Before we'll lose our Liberty.
NEW YORK, February 28.
By Letters from St. Croix, we are informed that they have received a Royal Edict from Copenhagen, dated September 16th, 1773, in which the Duties upon Importation into that Island, from North America, of Salt Beef, Fish, Pork, Pease, Lime, &c. &c. are reduced from 25 per Cent. to no more than 5 per Centum; and that a Stamp Act was to be enforced in the ensuing Spring, which, from its unpalatable Operation upon the Minds of the Inhabitants of that Country, evinces them to possess that Spirit of genuine Liberty which is breathed by all the good People in the British Empire.
Wednesday last the General Assembly of this Province voted his Excellency our Governor the Sum of 5000 L. Currency, to compensate, in some Measure, for the Loss sustained by the late dreadful Fire at Fort George, and to express their great Esteem for his Excellency's Person and Family.
In a Letter from New Brunswick, East Jersey, we are informed that the Ice broke in the Rariton on the 20th Instant in a boisterous Manner, tumbling down chief of the Lumber on the Wharfs, racking some Stores, and moving one bodily, viz. Mr. Schurman's, with a considerable Quantity of Grain and Flower therein. We have not been able to know what Damage is received, the Water continuing high, occasioned by the Ice being stopped a little below the Town.
Extract of a Letter from Halifax, Nova Scotia, dated February 6, 1774. "On the 26th ult. a Fire broke out here, within fifty Yards of the Barracks, which destroyed three Houses before it could be extinguished. The Wind was from the North West, which blew the Fire from the Buildings, otherwise the whole Barracks must have been consumed. All the Wells of the Garrison were drained quite dry, and the People saved the principal Part of their Effects. The Military behaved extraordinary well, but the Inhabitants, a few excepted, most shamefully, for they gave no Assistance at all."
The 17th Instant, as Mr. John Keating was driving down a Hill in a Sleigh at Wapping's Creek, wherein was Mr. Samuel Warren, and another Man, the Horses took fright, ran off a Bridge at the Foot of a Hill, and overset the Sleigh, by which Accident Mr. Warren was so bruised that he died the next Day. Mr. Keating was cut near the Eye, but the third Person received no Hurt.
Captain Wilson, in a Brig belonging to Philadelphia, was seized at Leoganne, in the Island of Hispaniola, the latter End of January last, for having on Board a few Kegs of Hogs Lard.
WILLIAMSBURG, March 17.
We are favoured with the following remarkable Intelligence, which we hope may be the Means of bringing to Light so mysterious an Occurrence, and prove serviceable to those who are concerned in it. Some Time last December a Sloop to about 100 Hogheads Burthen stood in for Machotick Creek, on Potomack, and ran aground on a Mud Bank, a little Way up the Creek. Soon after, a decent well looking Man, dressed in Black, with a Gold laced Hat, came on Shore from the Sloop, and calling at a Gentlewoman's House in the Neighbourhood, told her he was bound for Alexandria, to purchase a Load of Wheat, but that his Hands had left him, and he wanted the Loan of a Horse to carry him to Leeds Town, to engage others. Being disappointed in getting a Horse, he went to a Planter's House a few Miles distant, where he lodged all Night, went off in the Morning, and has never been heard of since. On his Way he stopped at a petty Ordinary, where he left three ruffled Shirts, a neat Fowling Piece, and a great Coat; but carried with him a Pair of Saddle Bags, which the Landlord concluded, from their Weight, contained a considerable Sum of Money. After the Vessel had continued near a Fortnight in the Creek, with her Sails standing, some of the Gentlemen in the Neighbourhood went on Board; and, upon searching her, found neither Provisions, Water, Chests, Papers, or any other Effects, than one Feather Bed, a Gold laced Hat, a Sailor's Jacket, a Pair of Trousers, some Cooking Utensils, and two Sea Companies made in Salem. She is a long sharp built Vessel, with only a Cabin, containing five Births, and Hold. On her Stern is painted, in white Letters, FALMOUTH PACKET; and the same Words, in Letters made of Cloth, are on her Pendant.
Captain Russell, from Fincastle, brings the disagreeable Intelligence that a general Discontent appears among the Indian Nations; that the Cherokees and Shawanese have combined together; and that, in short, the Frontier Inhabitants are under the most dreadful Apprehensions from the ill Temper prevailing amongst those Barbarians.
Mr. James Rivington, of the City of New York, hoping to meet with Encouragement from the Lovers of Literature in America, is now publishing a neat Edition of Dr. Hawkesworth's Account of Captain Cook's Voyage round the World, undertaken by his Majesty's Command, for the Discovery and exploring of Countries in the South Seas. The excessive high Price of this very curious and entertaining Work, published in England, is three Guineas; but Mr. Rivington engages to furnish Subscribers with his Edition at one Dollar and a Half, and requests those who intend favouring him with their Subscriptions in Virginia to send in their Names to the Post Office, Williamsburg.
To my ANSWERER.
MY humble Petition for Instruction, concerning the Rule established in the Schools, that Similes should run on All-Fours, has, I find, brought me into a Scrape, which I must get out of well as I can. Hard it is that a Man, thrown into Doubts and Perplexities, cannot ask a civil Question for Information's Sake, but he must be presented with a Catalogue of his Faults, nay must be told of more than he has committed, and must have imputed to him for Absurdities the wilful and perverse Misconceptions of a fiery Answerer. But this, I suppose, is a Tax that must be paid by those who seek for Wisdom and Improvement, especially if they apply to their learned Neighbours for Assistance in the Pursuit. So much for the Proem. I shall now consider more closely what you, my obliging Answerer, have advanced by Way of Reply to my former Request.
You are pleased to say of me, and yourself, "As he not only discovers a Desire of acquiring Information, but also a Disposition to receive it, I shall humbly attempt to communicate it to him." I rejoiced greatly at these Words, in which is contained so noble a Resolution of yours to enlighten the Ignorant. I thought they would certainly be followed by a History of the important Rule established in the Schools, as well as a full Explanation of the Terms in which it is laid down; setting forth, at large, their Force, Beauty, and Elegance. Instead of what I expected, you tell me, that no two Objects can be compared together any farther than as they resemble each other. This Dogma of yours is, I think, a Mistake; for I am of Opinion that two Objects may be compared together in Points wherein they disagree, as well as in those wherein they agree, Contrast being one Branch of Comparison as well as Similitude. But I will suppose you to have said what I think you meant, namely, that in Respect to a Simile it is enough if two Objects be compared together so far as they agree. The Consequence from this will be, that if two Objects agree but in one single Point, a just and proper Simile may be formed upon their Agreement in this one single Point; which, so far from explaining or confirming the Rule that Similes should run on All-Fours, seems, to me, altogether to annihilate this Rule, by leaving it no Kind of Meaning or Signification whatever. You afterwards say, that the sudden Cure of the Wound, and the sudden Coagulation of the Milk, were not compared together, but the Suddenness of the one to the Suddenness of the other; that the Morning and the Lobster were not compared together, but a Change from Black to Red was compared to a Change from Black to Red. These may be deep and wonderful Observations, but neither do they contribute any Thing towards lessening my Embarrassment; they throw no Light upon the Rule that Similes should run upon All Fours. I am therefore con-
vinced, that, notwithstanding your fair Promises, you did not intend to give me Instruction on the Subject of my Inquiry; but, under a Pretence of communicating Instruction on this Head, you meant to banter me, which is not the most handsome and liberal Way of defending an Argument, that a Writer undertakes, but feels himself unable to support.
After trifling with me in their Manner on the sole Object of my Inquiry, you work yourself up into a Passion, and resolve to punish me for the Pain which your Refraining gave you by bringing every ill-natured Charge against me, whether true or false, that your Imagination can suggest.
You accuse me of construing Creek no better than Pope, and attribute my Blunder to his Inaccuracy. Bona verba quaeso. Be it known unto you, that I made no Attempt to construe any Greek. I mentioned incidentally two Similes, as they arose in my Memory, without consulting the Authors wherein I had formerly read them. Accuracy of Construction or Quotation was no Way material to the Business in which I was employed; nor whether the Curds were Cows Milk coagulated, or Goats Milk concentrated, or Asses Milk inspiated by the wild Fig, does it, in my Apprehension, signify a Fig, except that a literal Translation composed of such fine Words may serve to show the stupendous Learning of a Professor's Advocate.
You accuse me of hinting a Design to consider whether in a heroic or mock-heroic Poem Things may not resemble one another in such Circumstances as are totally dissimilar. I had no Intention to hint any such Design, no such Stuff having been in my Thoughts. If I have hinted such a Design unawares, and contrary to my Intention, it must be owing to my Ignorance of the Meaning of the Rule that Similes should run upon All-Fours; and therefore, before you can fix this Charge upon me, you must explain the Rule and render it intelligible. This is the Point which I all along labour to have cleared up, and Pity it is that my Labour should be in vain. When so small a Favour, so easy to be conferred by the Scientifick Admirers of the Rule, would give Content and Satisfaction, and set my Heart at Rest, hard it is that I should not be gratified.
You are not satisfied with insinuating that my House has too many Windows in it, but you affirm, that, agreeable to an old Saw, my House is altogether made of Glass; as if you thought you could, by the Help of an old Saw, convert my Feather-edged Plank into Glass, that you may the more easily heat my Tenement about my Ears.
You accuse me of having used the Word Phenomena for a Word of the singular Number. Now I, who best know my own Intentions, do aver that I intended the plural Number. Moreover, I profess myself to be of Opinion that the plural Number was proper to express what I had in my Head at the Time of my using the Word. According to my Conceptions, which were formed from Memory, without consulting Butler, the Change of the Morn from Black to Red contained more than one Phenomenon. It included a Concatenation of Phenomena: For, first, there was the Phenomenon of Black when the Change began; secondly, the Phenomenon, or Phenomena, of some intermediate Colour, or Colours, during the Process of the Change; and lastly, the Phenomenon of Red when the Change was accomplished. Why would you give me the Trouble of this Enumeration? If your Face do not totally abhor a Change from its ordinary Complexion to Red, surely, when you read this Passage, it will imitate Butler's Morn, and resemble a boiled Lobster.
Nota bene , fond as I am of Butler's Simile, I should have liked it better on this Occasion if his Lobster had been roasted.
However you may despise me for the Poorness of my Taste, for my Dulness and Stupidity, I am not so void of Sagacity but I can discern your subtle Drift in making so many Attempts to have me thought guilty of gross Ignorance and egregious Folly. You have a-mind to push me upon the impudent Employment of commending myself, and telling the World how learned, ingenious, and Praise-worthy a Person I am. Alas! What a Snare was this! But I have escaped it. No, no; the Merit and Abilities of Pedanticks shall never be trumpeted to the World until it can be done with the strictest Modesty; that is, until I can meet with some Person who, either out of Love or Fear, will serve me in the Station of a Puffer. Then, indeed, my Business shall be done effectually; then my Character will fall little short of Perfection; then I shall be another Bentley, the Hurd of the New World, the Expectation of the Literati of both Worlds, the sole Possessor of critical Genius and Penetration, the Man of purest Morals and most immaculate Integrity, in short, whatever I please, or whatever will conduce towards causing the World to stare at a luminous Phenomenon, a Prodigy of Goodness and Ingenuity.
Now my erratic, deviating, epistolical Answerer, if you can conquer all Temptations to introduce foreign Topics, and will fairly sit down to give me the History of the Rule which I am so solicitous to derive some Knowledge from, and tell me what is the grammatical and pragmatical Sense of the Terms in which the Rule is expressed, you will do me a real Kindness. I will make my grateful Acknowledgements in the most ornate Language that I can collect. Our Bickerings will cease, we will live in Peace together to the End of Time, and henceforward eris mihi magnus Apollo . But as to your Stories of a Cock and a Bull, and a Glass House, your Collection of old Saws and antiquated Pieces of Wit, which lie by you waiting for Preferment to new Situations, and eager to seize it as fast as it can be procured, and all other Matters equally pertinent, I view them in the same respectable Light in which I behold the Tricks of a Juggler, without any Passion to encore them, or Desire to see them repeated. Indeed, such Shifts and Evasions are too often used by controversial Dexterity as are a Disgrace to the Conduct of a Gentleman, an Inquirer after Truth, or a candid Antagonist; and, I am sorry to say it, would suit better with the Manners of a crafty Vagabond, Gambler, or Pickpocket. Pray, my too irritable Answerer, do not put yourself into any Heat, if you can help it; neither trouble yourself to tell the World, that in the Words grammatical and pragmatical , which have dropped from me, I aimed at a Pun. Alas! the World, without your Aid, will be ready enough to discern that it is no Pun, but something of an inferior Nature, even one of those poor Jingles which, it may be easily perceived, I have the Infirmary to be sometimes pleased with; though, like old Polonius (or Polonies, I do not remember which) in the Play of Hamlet, I set no great Value upon so paltry a Pleasure, nor can make any Apology for indulging myself in it, but that I hope it is innocent. Farewell, it and you.
C. C. P. P.
To the Genius who has kept the Literati of Europe in high Expectations for a Number of Years past, without ever having had Occasion to blush.
DEAR GENIUS, ESPITE the Advice of your Friends and Flatterers. Take that of One who will give you better. You seem to think it a mighty Matter that you are able to return some Kind of Answer, in the snip-snap Way of writing, to every Antagonist. Trust me, it requires no more Talents, in a peevish Writer, barely to keep his Pen running, than it does in a Scold to keep her Tongue in Motion. It is a Business that may at any Time be performed, by impenetrable and persevering Dulness. I have observed, in many of your Compositions, a few shining Particles thinly scattered through a large Mass of barren and unprofitable Ore. Give over the Thoughts of working your Mine until you can afford better Proof of your having discovered in it some rich and flowing Vein, either of Argumentation or of Wit, or of Humour, the three precious Metals of the Understanding. You had better be employed in taming mad Bulls, in walking to and fro after the Rate of ten or twelve Miles an Hour, in mustering the elementary Ideas of Poetry, and setting them in Lecture Array, in contemplating the near Relationship between a certain Person and the Prince de Bern, with the vast Consequences thence ready to burst into Being, or in any other innocent Amusement, than in publishing Provocatives to every candid and intelligent Reader's Disgust. I am moved to interest myself in your Affairs, neither by the Partiality of your Friends, nor the Servility of your Zany, nor the Infatuation of your Puffer, but by the manly and sacred Tie of your Neighbour and Fellow Citizen. Nihil humani a me alienum puto. HOMO SUM.
Advertisements.
TREASURY OFFICE, March 16, 1774. THE several Inspectors and all other Persons whatever, who are in Arrear to the Treasury, are desired to discharge their respective Balances in the Course of the approaching General Court without Fail, as no Indulgences can be given. RO. C. NICHOLAS, Treasurer.
WILLIAMSBURG, March 10, 1774.
JUST IMPORTED from London, and to be sold at Mr. Bruce's Store on the south Side of the Capitol, Garden PEASE, BEANS, and CABBAGE SEED of different Sorts, and the earliest and best Kinds.

BALTIMORE (MARYLAND) March 2, 1774.
To the Inhabitants of VIRGINIA.
KNOWING that the Legislature of your Colony have prohibited INOCULATING for the SMALLPOX, I therefore offer myself to those who may choose to come abroad to take that Disorder; but as I am almost an utter Stranger in Virginia, it would be extreme Folly to expect much Confidence without something more than a simple Information to the Publick. The subjoined Testimony, I imagine, will be the best Recommendation I can give of my Ability in that Branch of my Profession. I have understood that a Prejudice prevails against Mercury in the Preparation, and perhaps with Justice, if used indiscriminately; but as that Change of Constitution for receiving the Smallpox favourably can be made without it, though not with the same Expedition, I have always been sparing of it. As I deal in no Secrets nor nostrums, the Change I apprehend to be made is this: The inflammatory Disposition of the Blood is corrected, and the Elasticity of the Solids enfeebled; or, to speak still in a more simple Style, the System in general is weakened to a certain Degree. This Mercury effects, I think, quicker than any Thing else yet discovered. Upon the Whole, whoever comes under my Care may be assured of every Attention being paid in my Power.
ALEXANDER STENHOUSE.
THE above Alexander Stenhouse has inoculated for the Smallpox these several Years in this County, and in our Families, when required, with as much Success as any we have heard of in the Profession.
CLEM. BROOK. THOMAS HARRISON. WILLIAM LUX. JAMES CHRISTIE, Jun. JAMES FRANKLIN. ROBERT CHRISTIE, Jun. SAMUEL PURVIANCE. ANTHONY STEWART, WILLIAM M'GACHEN. of ANNAPOLIS.
PRINCE GEORGE, March 10, 1774.
MERRY TOM, in great Prefection, stands at my Plantation to cover Mares at 15s. the Leap, and 40s. for the Season, Pasturage gratis. His Colts are strong, beautiful, and active. I will not be accountable for such Mares as may be stolen or get away, though the utmost Care shall be taken of them, and none have ever been lost hitherto. JOHN BAIRD.
YOUNG BAJAZET stands at Mr. Joseph Harwood's in King & Queen, to cover Mares at a Guinea the Leap, or two Pounds six Shillings the Season. He is a beautiful Mahogany Bay, upwards of fifteen Hands high, and was got by Bajazet out of a Yanus Mare bred by Berington Moore, Esq; of North Carolina. Good Pasturage will be provided for the Mares, with proper Attendance, by JOSEPH FAULKES. Who, on Easter Monday, performs his Exploits in Horsemanship at Gloucester Courthouse.
GODOLPHIN, a full blooded Horse, by Fearnought, out of an imported Mare, will stand this Season at Mr. Richard Taylor's, near Petersburg, to cover Mares, at a Guinea the Leap, or five Pounds the Season, payable in October. Those Gentlemen who are inclined to send Mares may be assured that the greatest Care will be taken of them, but I will not be answerable for any that shall get away. (7) GEORGE BAYLOR.
IMPORTED in the Richmond, Captain Patterton, a small BOX, directed to the Subscriber at Cabin Point. I will be much obliged to any Person who will inform me where it is, or send it to me by the first Opportunity. JOHN WRIGHT.
IN the Night of the 15th of this Instant (March) was broke open, my Shop in Williamsburg, and stolen therefrom nineteen or twenty Pair of MENS SHOES. Whoever will give me Intelligence, so that I may get them again, shall have a Reward of 40s. GEORGE WILSON.
HANOVER County, March 10, 1774.
ALL Persons who have any Demands against the Estate of Colonel William Macon, deceased, of New Kent, are desired to apply for Payment; and those indebted thereto are requested to discharge their Balances immediately, to (2) WILLIAM MACON, Executor.
BY Virtue of a Decree of the Worshipful Court of James City County, will be sold on Wednesday the 23d Instant, for ready Money, before the Raleigh Door, about four o'Clock, the HOUSE and LOT in Woodpecker Street, belonging to the Estate of Richard Hunt Singleton, deceased, to satisfy a Mortgage to Mr. William Lewis. (11) JOHN BROWN, D. Sheriff.
To be SOLD, by Virtue of a Deed of Trust to Lucas and Dixon, and John Dixon, on Monday the 18th of April, if fair, otherwise next fair Day, A VERY valuable TRACT of LAND on Milford Haven, in King's Creek Parish, being on the Main opposite to Gwyn's Island, in Gloucester County, containing about 500 Acres. This fine Plantation is remarkable for many Advantages and Conveniences; for, besides the Land being very good, there is a Brick Dwelling-House with three Rooms on a Floor and a large Passage, a Kitchen, Barn, and all other necessary Houses, in the best Repair; there is likewise a Brick Windmill open to the Bay, which gets upwards of 100 Barrels of Corn a Year, besides an excellent Orchard. And for great Plenty and a Variety of Sea and River Fish, and the finest Oysters, it yields to no Place in Virginia. (5)
To be SOLD, pursuant to the last Will and Testament of Mr. Charles Tinsley, deceased, late of Hanover County, at his late Dwelling-House in New Castle, on Saturday the 19th of this Instant (March)
A LARGE Stock of CATTLE, HORSES, HOGS, and SHEEP, a Variety of valuable HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, PLANTATION UTENSILS, some new GOODS, several white SERVANTS, PAINTS and OIL of different Kinds, and sundry other Things. Credit will be allowed until the 1st of October, for all Sums above 25s. on giving Bond with approved Security to the Administrator, with the Will annexed, to carry Interest from the Date, if not paid in one Month after they become due.—All Persons having Demands against the deceased Mr. Tinsley, on his Account, or Securityship, or as Guardian, Executor, or Administrator, to any Person, are desired to make them known as soon as possible, that the same may be noticed accordingly; and those indebted to be speedy in making Payments. It is hoped and requested that no Person will put this Estate to any unnecessary Expense by Suits at Law, without first making Application, as the Creditors may be assured all possible Means will be taken to do them Justice as speedy as possible. I have empowered Mr. Bartlett Anderson, of Hanover, to transact the Business for me; and any Payments made to, or from him, will be good. WILLIAM TINSLEY, Administrator.
To be SOLD on Monday the 28th of this Instant (March) at the late Dwelling-House of Philip Cowper, deceased, in Elizabeth City County, A TRACT of LAND on Harris's Creek, containing about 160 Acres, whereon is a Dwelling-House and other Outhouses, with Apple and Peach Orchards. Six Months Credit will be allowed for one Third of the Purchase Money, twelve Months for another Third, and eighteen Months for the Remainder, on giving Bond with good Security. At the same Time and Place will be sold three likely NEGROES, some HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, and the Stock of CATTLE, SHEEP, HOGS, and HORSES, belonging to the said Estate, on twelve Months Credit, Bond and Security being given. All Bonds to carry Interest from the Date, if not punctually discharged on the Day of Payment. All Persons who have any Claims against the Estate of the said Philip Cowper, deceased, are desired to make them known; and those indebted thereto are requested to make speedy Payment. (211) EDWARD COWPER, } Executors. ROE COWPER, }
To be SOLD on very reasonable Terms, and long Credit, if required, or LEASED for a Term of Years,
THE valuable and well known Plantation joining the City of Williamsburg, and leading to the College Landing, which is one of the best Tracts of Land for a Farm in Virginia, and to which adjoins a large Quantity of Marsh and Low Grounds proper for Meadow. There are likewise several valuable SLAVES and STOCK, which may be had, if it is agreeable, with the said Land. Undoubted Security will be required. In the Mean-while, there is an enclosed Pasture to be rented, and several small Dwelling Houses, for Terms of which apply to JOHN GREENHOW.
For SALE, and may be entered on at Christmas, A VALUABLE TRACT of LAND adjoining Sward's Bridge, on Nottoway River, containing 582 Acres, more or less, on which is a Dwelling-House with two Brick Chimneys and underpinned with Brick, and several Outhouses, all new, with a young Orchard of Apple and Peach Trees. For farther Particulars inquire of the Subscriber, on the Premises. BRUNSWICK, JORDIN RICHARDSON, March 8, 1774.
CAME to my Plantation on Queen's Creek, in York County, about three Months ago, a WHITE HORSE between seven and eight Years old, with a gray hanging Mane and long Bob Tail, a Snip on his Nose, a dark Spot on the Top of his Withers, his off hind Hoof all white, also Part of both near Hoofs, paces, trots, and gallops, is shod before, branded on the near Buttock Z N, and there appears to be some Brand on the near Shoulder, which cannot be made out. Posted, and appraised to 9 l. JAMES CARTER.
TAKEN up, in Brunswick, a BLACK HORSE about four Feet four Inches, twelve Years old, a Star in his Forehead, one of his hind Feet white, but has no Brand perceivable. WILLIAM SIMS.
TAKEN up, in Brunswick, a large BAY HORSE about four Feet nine Inches high, appears to be old, shod before, a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, but no Brand perceivable. JOHN HOLMAN.
TAKEN up, in Chesterfield, a GRAY HORSE about five Years old, four Feet two Inches high, a hanging Mane and Sprig Tail, his off hind Foot whiter than the others, and branded on the near Buttock with a Figure of 8. (11) THOMAS BURTON.
TAKEN up, in Brunswick, a BAY HORSE about four Feet four Inches high, a roached Mane and Bob Tail, paces naturally, and has no White about him except on the Nose. Posted, and appraised to 7 l. 10s. (11) JOHN SIMS.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1766.
ORDERED, that the Clerks of the several County Courts in this Colony do transmit to the Clerk of this House, in the first Part of every Meeting of the General Assembly, a List of the Titables in their Counties, containing the Names of such Titables; and that they transmit also, at the same Time, a List of the publick Charges of their respective Counties. ORDERED, that the Clerk of this House do cause the same to be published in the Virginia Gazette. By the House of Burgesses, G. WYTHE, C. H. B.
WILLIAMSBURG, March 8, 1774. THE several SHERIFFS in Arrear for his Majesty's Quitrents are requested to make full Payment at the ensuing April Court; and as it is my Duty to enforce a speedy Collection of this Revenue, it is hoped that those against whom Judgments have been already obtained will attend to this Notice. RICHARD CORBIN, D. R. G.
WHEREAS I am informed that I gave a Bond to Mr. Thomas Tabb, on the 20th of January last, for the Sum of 80 l. at which Time I was incapable of Bargaining, this is to forewarn any Person from taking an Assignment of the said Bond, as I am determined not to pay it. JOHN PRICE.
FOR SALE, A FINE Assortment of JEWELLER and WATCHMAKER's Tools and Materials; the Particulars of which, and the Terms, may be known of the Printer.
To be SOLD at publick Auction, on Monday the 28th of this Instant (March) at Alexandria, pursuant to the Condition of a Bottomry Bond, given to the Subscriber, by Mr. Daniel Jenifer Adams,
THE Brigantine Anne and Elizabeth, a strong well built Vessel, about four Years old, newly repaired, having good Anchors; and entire new Cables. This Brigantine will carry about 5000 Bushels of Grain, or 800 Barrels of Flour. The Terms will be made known on the Day of Sale, by (2) GEORGE WASHINGTON.
DINWIDDIE, March 1, 1774. THE repeated Losses I have sustained, for some Months past, make it necessary that I should grant no longer Indulgence to those indebted to me; and as I intend to leave the Colony so soon as I can get my Affairs settled, I am determined to put every Bond and Account due to me, that is not discharged in a few Weeks, into a Lawyer's Hands.
I will dispose of the Tract of LAND whereon I live, containing about 820 Acres, six Miles from Petersburg, mostly very level, good Wheat and Corn Land, as may appear from the present Crop of fifty Acres sown in Wheat; it is well timbered with Pine, White and Red Oak, has on it a new Dwelling-House 32 Feet by 18, neatly finished, good Cellars, a new Kitchen and Laundry 36 Feet by 18, an old Dwelling-House with two Brick Chimneys, four Rooms below and two above Stairs, which with repairing and finishing, at a small Expense, might be made a commodious Dwelling-House, a fine young Apple and Peach Orchard; ten or twelve SLAVES, most of whom are very valuable, forty Head of CATTLE, twenty of which are exceeding good Work Steers, with new Carriages, Chains and Screws, that one able Fellow can raise a Stock of 5 or 6000 Weight, a Variety of HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, PLANTATION UTENSILS, HORSES, HOGS, and SHEEP.—A Plantation of 464 Acres, about a Mile and a Half from that whereon I live; there is a Dwelling House and Dairy on it, a fine young Apple and Peach Orchard, very well timbered with Oak and Pine, lies pretty level, good for both Corn and Wheat, and has about fifty Acres cleared.—A Plantation of about 200 Acres in Prince George County, twelve Miles from Petersburg, on Jones's Hole Run, adjoining Thomas Banner's Land, well timbered, and tolerable good Land, 20,000 Cornhills cleared, and there is on it a Dwelling-House and Apple Orchard.—400 Acres of Land in Surry County, on Cypress Swamp, six or seven Miles below Cavin Point, and as far distant from James River.—150 Acres of Land in Dinwiddie County, on Cox's Road, twenty Miles from Petersburg, with a Dwelling and other Outhouses, being the Plantation whereon Mr. Robert Hutchings formerly lived.—200 Acres of Land on Aaron's Creek, in Mecklenburg County, very good Corn, Wheat, or Tobacco Land.—The Purchasers will be allowed a reasonable Time of Payment, and the Terms may be known of (5) DUNCAN ROSE.
WILLIAMSBURG, March 8, 1774.
ALL Persons indebted to the late Partnership of Messrs. Griffiths and Thomas, and Thomas, Griffiths, and Thomas, Merchants of Bristol, are desired to pay their respective Balances immediately to the Subscribers, Attorneys for Thomas Griffiths, surviving Partner of both the aforesaid Houses. EDWARD FOY. SAMUEL PEARSON.
ALEXANDRIA, February 22, 1774.
THE Subscriber proposes leaving the Colony immediately after the April General Court; all Persons therefore who are indebted for Dealings with him on Account of himself and Co. or on his own private Account, are earnestly requested to discharge their respective Balances between this and the first of May, as longer Indulgence cannot possibly be given. BENNITT BROWNE.
WANTED immediately, A GOOD HOUSE JOINER who understands his Business, and can come well recommended. Such a One will meet with good Encouragement for twelve Months, by applying to the Subscriber in Brunswick. (211) LAURENCE HOWSE.
FOR SALE, A TRACT of LAND in Amelia County, containing 500 Acres, about four Miles below the Courthouse, it is remarkable fine Land for Grain, and will bring good Tobacco. The Plantation is in good Order for Cropping, sufficient to work six or eight Hands, with all necessary Houses. Any Person inclined to purchase may depend on having a Bargain, and know the Terms by applying to (11) WILLIAM MARSHALL.
The noted Horse FEARNOUGHT STANDS the ensuing Season at the Subscriber's, at Hick's Ford, in Brunswick County, and will cover at 40s. a Leap, the Money to be paid down, and 6 l. the Season. Good Pasturage gratis, and great Care will be taken of Mares, but I will not be answerable for any that may be lost or stolen. WILLIAM EDWARDS.
NORFOLK, March 2, 1774.
THE Subscriber has for Sale a neat Assortment of EUROPEAN GOODS, very suitable for the Season, Value between 3 and 400 l. Sterling, which he will sell at a low Advance; Part of the Goods just arrived in the Susannah, Captain Dobbie, from London. Credit will be given, and the Time of Payment made agreeable to the Purchaser. GEORGE RAE.
PETERSBURG, March 6, 1774.
A PARCEL of GERMAN OSNABRUGS, well assorted, just imported from London, in the Elizabeth, Captain Leitch, to be sold, on reasonable Terms, by RICHARD HANSON.
JUST arrived, the Justitia, Captain Gray, with upwards of 150 healthy SERVANTS, Men, Women, and Boys, among them are Smiths, Cabinet Makers, Carpenters and Joiners, Shoemakers, Tailors, Bricklayers, Peruke Makers and Hair Dressers, Bakers, Weavers, Schoolmasters, Mantua Makers and Sempstresses, a Printer, a Copperplate Printer, a Gardener and Surveyor, a Dyer, a Tanner, and many other Tradesmen; there are also many Farmers and Country Labourers. The Sale will commence at Leeds Town, on Wednesday the 16th of this Instant (March) and continue till all are sold. A reasonable Credit will be allowed, on giving Bond with approved Security to (2) THOMAS HODGE.
YORK County, March 10, 1774.
I INTEND to leave the Colony immediately. (11) JAMES STEPHENS.
SUFFOLK, February 15, 1774.
PURSUANT to the Articles of the Copartnership of Gibson, Crankney, and Co. will be sold on the Premises, to the highest Bidder, all their LOTS in Bidd Town, on which are several good and convenient Warehouses, a Tarhouse, Store and Dwelling-House, with all necessary Outhouses. Twelve Months Credit will be allowed, the Purchaser giving Bond and Security.
ANY Person that understands the Business of a DRAWER (if well recommended) will meet with good Encouragement by applying to me, in Richmond Town. JAMES GUNN.
To be let on CHARTER to any Part of Europe, A SHIP of 560 Hhds. Burthen, also a Ship of 400 Hhds. Burthen, now lying at Norfolk. For Terms apply to NEIL JAMESON, & Co.
Who have for Sale, West India RUM and MOLOSSES, LOAF SUGAR, Clayed and Muscovado SUGAR, COFFEE, Madeira and Red Port WINE in Casks, Cunningham's BEER, and PORTER, &c. &c.
FOR WHITEHAVEN, THE Ship Olive, Captain William Barras, lying at Broadway, on Appomattox, which will sail early in April (having three Fourths of her Cargo engaged) can take in about 100 Hhds. of Tobacco on Liberty of Consignment. For Terms apply to Mr. Bolling Starke in Petersburg, or us in Norfolk. (11) GREENWOOD, RITSON, & MARSH.
To be SOLD on the Premises, on Monday the 18th of April, if fair, otherwise next fair Day,
THE Subscriber's HOUSES and LOTS in the Town of Tappahannock, which are so well known for their Convenience and agreeable Situation, on the River Bank, that a farther Description would be needless; several NEGROES, among which are some exceeding good Cooks, Laundry and House Servants, and a valuable Negro Skipper, that is well acquainted with the Bay and Rivers, and has had the Charge of Vessels for a Number of Years; likewise all the HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, a Number of HORSES, among them a Pair of large young bright bay Northward Carriage Horses, &c. &c. Two Years Credit, or more, will be allowed for the Houses and Lots, on paying the Interest yearly, and giving Bond with approved Security; and twelve Months Credit on the other Articles, the Purchasers giving Bond and approved Security; and if not discharged when they become due, to bear Interest from the Date. All that do not purchase above 25s. to pay ready Money.—As the Subscriber will leave the Colony before long, all Persons who have any Demands against him are desired to bring them in, that they may be settled; and those who are indebted are requested to make immediate Payment, and it being now near four Years since he left off Store-keeping on his private Account, they can expect no farther Indulgence. ARCHIBALD M'CALL.
KING WILLIAM, February 25, 1774.
RUN away, in July last, MATT, a tall slim Negro Man, by trade a Carpenter, and about forty Years old; he walks badly, having been Froit-bit in Prison some Years ago, by which he lost one of his great Toes, and the Print of the Irons he then had on may be seen plainly on his Legs. Whoever delivers him to me shall receive 3 l. if taken within twenty Miles of my House, and 5 l. if at a greater Distance. (6) NATHANIEL BURWELL.

VERSES to a YOUNG LADY, with the NEW EDITION of SHAKESPEARE, by Dr. Johnson and Mr. Steevens.
ACCEPT, sweet Maid, each Scene that Shakespeare drew, Scenes whose great Lessons may improve even you! Behold your Image in his TEMPEST shown, For sure MIRANDA's spotless Mind's your own! ... (List of plays with volume indicators I-X)
AS OBER well disposed MAN, capable of teaching Children to read and write, may meet with Employment by Application to Charles Carter of Corotoman, Lancaster County. (4)
RUN away, on Monday the 18th of October last, a likely Mulatto Girl named FANNY, about fourteen or fifteen Years of Age; the formerly belonged to Mr. Augustine Smith, of Middlesex, with whom I am informed her Mother, named Jean, now lives as Cook. ... JOHN LEWIS.
To be SOLD, to the highest Bidder, on Tuesday the 15th of March, on the Premises, and may be entered on immediately,
A VALUABLE Tract of LAND on Dan River, Halifax County, containing 1758 Acres, Part of which is rich low Grounds, and there are all convenient Houses on it. ... WILLIAM WADE.
To be SOLD for ready Money, or Credit not exceeding five Years, or RENTED upon good Terms,
THE beautiful and pleasant Seat known by the Name of OXFORD, together with the Land adjacent, containing 1000 Acres, whereon Granville Courthouse and Jail now stands. ... JESSE BENTON.
NEWMARKET (Caroline) December 1, 1773.
RUN away from the Subscriber, the latter End of October 1772, a likely Mulatto Man named RANDOLPH, about thirty Years of Age, and five Feet eight or nine Inches high; ... ROBERT BAYLOR.
For SALE, the LOT and HOUSES near Cabin Point Warehouses, at present possessed by the Subscriber.
THE Lot consists of four Acres well enclosed, a good Dwellinghouse with all necessary Outhouses, a Storehouse, Counting Room, and two Lumber Houses, all at present in very good Repair. ... JAMES BUCHANAN.
For SALE,
ABOUT twelve Thousand Acres of exceeding rich TOBACCO LAND, in Amherst County, whereon are several Plantations and Improvements sufficient to work forty or fifty Hands. ... CARTER BRAXTON.
To be SOLD, SEPARATELY or TOGETHER TWO TRACTS of LAND. One lies in Albemarle County, on the Rivanna River, about five Miles from the great River, containing 370 Acres, ...
The other Tract lies in Goochland County, on Lickinghole Creek, near the Three Notched Road, and contains 700 Acres. The high Land is equal to any in these Parts, fine for Tobacco and Wheat, or any Kind of Grain or Meadow. ... WILLIAM PRYOR.
YORK Town, June 9, 1773.
THE Subscribers being very solicitous to comply with the Will of their Testator, the late Honourable William Nelson, desire that all Persons who were indebted to him will endeavour to make as speedy Payments as possible. ... THOMAS NELSON, Junior. HUGH NELSON. RO. C. NICHOLAS.
FEBRUARY 22, 1774. ALL Persons that purchased NEGROES of Colonel Banister and myself in 1772, and 1773, are to take Notice their Bonds (on Demand) are in the Hands of Mr. Gressit Davis, of Peterburg, to collect, who will give no Indulgence. JOHN RANDOLPH.
TAPPAHANNOCK, March 1, 1774. THERE was left at Armistead's Mill, about two Miles from Hampton, upon the York Road, the 10th of December last, a likely BRIGHT BAY HORSE upwards of fourteen Hands high, with a Blaze Face, hanging Mane and Switch Tail, some Part of the Hair in his Tail rubbed off by Carting, for which, and running in a Chair, he was very valuable; he is about six Years old, but has no Brand that I know of. ... ARCHIBALD RITCHIE.
BERKELEY, February 24, 1774. TEN very likely young VIRGINIA born SLAVES will be sold at Chesterfield Courthouse, on Friday the 1st of April, upon Credit till the 10th of January next, the Purchasers giving Bond with good Security to BENJAMIN HARRISON.
Y O R I C K, WHOSE Pedigree and Performances are sufficiently known to Sportsmen, will cover this Season at his usual Price of THREE POUNDS, and FIVE SHILLINGS to the Groom; the Money is expected to be paid when the Mares are taken away. ... JOHN WHELDON.
FOR SALE, A VALUABLE FARM of 1500 Acres, within sixteen Miles of Peterburg. The Terms may be known on Application to the Subscriber. HENRY SKIPWITH.
NEWPOST, February 10, 1774. APOLLO will begin to cover the 1st of April, at 5l. the Season, the Money to be paid when the Mares are taken away. Should that not be convenient, a Note of Hand, payable in October at the Fredericksburg Races, will be accepted. ... ALEXANDER SPOTSWOOD.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Gentlemen, Officers, and Soldiers, who claim Land under his Majesty's Proclamation of the 7th of October, 1763, having obtained Warrants from His Excellency the Right Honourable the Earl of Dunmore, directed to the Surveyor of Fincastle County, and intending to locate their Lands on or near the Ohio, below the Great Kanawha, that several Assistant Surveyors will attend at the Mouth of the New River, or Great Kanawha, on Thursday the 14th of April, to survey for such only as have or may obtain his Lordship's Warrants for so doing. ... WILLIAM PRESTON, Surveyor of Fincastle.
To be SOLD at Tappahannock, on Monday the 18th of April, by Virtue of a Decree of the Honourable General Court, bearing Date the 10th of April, 1773, TWO LOTS numbered 47 and 50, and Half of a Lot Number 49, in the Town of Tappahannock, on which there is a good Dwelling-house and sundry other Houses, lately possessed by William Ramsay, deceased, and by him mortgaged to James Ritchie and Co. ... W. WOODROP, Attorney for James Ritchie, and Co.
NORFOLK, February 1, 1774. WE have just imported a Parcel of choice MADEIRA WINE, of the London, New York, and Virginia Qualities, which we will sell on the most reasonable Terms. JOHN LAWRENCE, & Co.
COMMITTED to the publick Jail, a Runaway Negro Man, named BEN, middle sized, very black, has lost his right Eye, stoops a little when he walks, and appears to be above forty Years old; being an African, he speaks bad English, but gives me to understand that he belongs to the Estate of William Smith, deceased, whose Widow used him ill, which induced him to run away, but he cannot, or will not, inform where she lives. His Owner is desired to take him away, and pay Charges. PETER PELHAM.