The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1772-10-01 00:00:00

VIRGINIA GAZETTE
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On the POWER of ENGLAND.
IT is an Aggregate of a vast Number of Particulars that forms the Power of a Country. Wealth, Trade, Manufactures, Agriculture, Population, much Engagement in War, Climate, Government, Situation, &c. all have a strong Effect in rendering Kingdoms weak or powerful. Sometimes two or three so strongly combine as to make up the Want of many others. This general Aggregate of fortunate Circumstances is, upon the Whole, greatly in Favour of Britain. She has arose to a State of Prosperity by silent and slow Degrees; her Power is fixed in that Prosperity, and the Nature of it is such as to bid fair to be of much longer Duration than that either of France or Spain. But let it not be thought that I am hinting any Thing at a Probability of universal Empire; her Situation alone, were every other Circumstance in her Favour, would prevent the Execution of such an Idea, and this Incapacity must have the best Effect in securing to her that Degree of Power to which she may naturally attain.
The Union of the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland under one King, and the total Reduction of Ireland, were the two Events that laid the Foundation of the British Power. When Arts and Commerce animated the northern Parts of Europe in general, it was scarcely possible, from the Situation of this Island, but that it must become a great trading Kingdom; this was a natural Event, almost dependent on Situation. The Fall of the Spanish Monarchy laid the Foundations of our naval Power, which has never ceased to rise from the Days of Elizabeth to the present Hour. The maritime Power of England is not the wayward Child of an absolute Monarch, who determines to be potent on every Element; it is the slow natural Growth of more than two Hundred Years, which has stood many fierce Attacks, and weathered many a Storm.
Another Circumstance, which has continued and increased every other Advantage, is the peculiar Felicity of our Constitution: All the great Kingdoms of Europe have lost their Liberty, except England; Liberty has carried her Trade, Agriculture, Manufactures, Wealth, and Navy, to a Pitch to which they would never otherwise have attained.
Another Point of vast Importance is the uncommon Union of Trade and Agriculture: The amazing Commerce of England is equal to that of the most famous States, who have been great by Commerce alone; and this vast Trade has been carried on, not by a Knot of unhappy Men, like the Dutch, who were forced to be Traders or Nothing, but by a great landed Nation, among whom Trade enlivened Agriculture, and Agriculture yielded immense Products from Trade.
Lastly, the Period of these various Circumstances coming in full Play was at the Time when the Rival Nation had passed the Meridian of her Grandeur; so that England was the rising, France the setting, Sun. No other Power arose to dispute the Palm of Equality; she had not then a France succeeding Spain in great Power to draw her off, and waste her Strength with fresh Contests.
All these are Reasons for conjecturing that this Country will, in her Turn, be the first Power in the Christian World; she cannot aim at universal Monarchy, and that Moderation will save her from Efforts beyond her Strength, and from Alliances among the rest of Europe to pull down her Power. It will therefore be more stable, and far more prosperous, than that either of Spain or France.
The Progress of the Power of any Kingdom in Europe must be examined and ascertained by a general View of its principal Transactions among the other Powers, whose History is consulted; not by examining the Opinions and Factions within it, that either exalt it beyond the Truth or depress it far below the real Fact. If these various and transitory Affections are taken as a Guide, we should find Frenchmen pronouncing their Country ruined at the Peace of Nimeguen; and Spaniards proving that Philip II. at the Beginning of his Reign, was less powerful than the Kings of Castile or Arragon. In England, where the Liberty of the Press is so great, these Imperinencies are met with every Day, inasmuch that the Papers published here, to prove the Nation undone from the Revolution to the present Time, that is, in the most prosperous Time of the Kingdom, would alone fill a large Library. The national Debts of this Country are certainly very considerable, but it seems preposterous to predict Ruin to a State because the right Hand owes to the left; and as to the Debt due to Foreigners, it is comparatively inconsiderable. But where are the Politicians that will venture to assure us of the Impossibility of this Kingdom applying the Sponge, and yet presently after borrowing again; much more surprising Turns have happened in the History of human Affairs.
The Power of England is much too great to have any Thing to dread from the united Force of all her Enemies. She is to be considered as a rising Power that is at present acting the superior Part upon the great Theatre of Europe; and those are very shallow Politicians who can prevail with themselves to think that she is in any Danger of falling under the Power of France.
MEDITATIONS in a CHURCHYARD.
I AM just come from indulging a very pleasing Melancholy in a Churchyard, and paying a respectful Visit to the Dead, of which I am one Day to increase the Number. As the Solemnity and Awfulness of the Place instantly affect the Beholder, the Solitude and Silence of it equally dispose him to Attention and Meditation, so that we no where find a more useful and improving Retirement. Every Monument has its Instruction, and every Hillock has its Lesson of Morality.
I have, by this Means, in a short Space of Time, read the History of the whole Village, and could tell the Names of its principal Families for the last thirty or forty Years. I might, perhaps, go a little higher; but here, by the Injury of Time and Weather, the Register begins to be interrupted, and the Letters are generally so defaced, that, if an Inscription can be made out, it is not without much Difficulty and Conjecture.
It is not, however, without great Compassion, I see the kind Endeavour of the Survivor, to preserve the Memory of a departed Friend, so soon frustrated and disappointed. To continue the Remembrance of the Deceased, though by a Mound of Earth, a Turf of Grass, or a Rail of Wood, is an Instance of Affection and Humanity equal to the most costly Monuments of Brass and Marble, in every Thing but Expense and Duration; and yet how perishable are even these! how fruitless is the Expense, and how short the Duration!
The Churchyard I look on as the Rendezvous of the whole Parish, to which People of all Ages and Conditions resort. It is the common Dormitory, where, after the Labours of Life are over, they all lie down and repose themselves together in the Dust. The little Cares and Concerns they had, when living, are here entirely forgotten; nor comes there hither any Uneasiness, or Enmity, to disquiet or interrupt their Rest. The Jealousies and Fears, the Discents and Suspicions, the Animosities and Misunderstandings, which embitter Men one against another, are all determined; here end all Refinements and Contentions.
We have this Satisfaction withal in Death, that it is a State of perfect Equality. The Rich and the Poor, the Young and the Aged, the Wife and the Foolish, all lie down together, and are blended in the Dust. Here it is that no One is greater or less than another; for Rottenness admits of no Distinction, and Corruption has no Superiority. The fairest shall be a Stench, and the most beautiful shall be loathsom. Rejoice thou then that art despised, and be comforted that thou art lightly esteemed; for the Time cometh when the haughtiest shall be made low, and the Mean-
ness of the Great be as thine; the Despitedness of the Proud, and the Loftiness of the Scornful, shall be humbled together, and the Foot of the Beggar shall trample on them.
I will allow that the Pomp of a great Man may adorn his Funeral, and Flattery may attend it with Coronets, Pedigrees, and Banners; whatever is beyond is Nuisance only, and Abhorrence. The Sepulchre too may be painted without, but within is full of Filthiness and Uncleanliness; and the Corpse may be wrapped in Velvet and fine Linen, yet in Velvet and fine Linen it shall rot. The leaden Coffin, and the arched Vault, may separate it from vulgar Dust; but even here shall the Worm find it, nor shall his Hunger be satisfied till he strips it to the Bones. In the mean While, the laboured Epitaph is mocking it with Titles, and belying it with Praises; the Passenger must be stayed, to lament its Loss; and the Reader is called upon to weep, that a Person illustriously descended would be so like his Fellow Creatures—as to die.
The Procession may be long, and set off with all the Finery that Pride can invent, or Money can purchase, inasmuch that Women shall stand amazed, and Children shall hold up their Hands with Astonishment; yet all this Midnight Show, which has raised the Curiosity of Multitudes, and with purposeful Delays has increased it into Impatience, can go no farther with him than to his Grave; here must all his State leave him, and the Honours are his no longer.
Having thus amused myself in contemplating the Vanity of human Greatness, what is it, said I, that can thus make us startle, and shrink at the Thoughts of Death? The Mighty and the Rich of the World may tremble, but what is the Sting of Death to those whose Life has been altogether Misery? Or what Power has the Grave over the Unhappy? Is it not rather a Refuge from Violence and Oppression, and a Retreat from Infotence and Contempt? Is it not a Protection to the Defenceless, and a Security to him who had no Place to fly unto? Surely in Death there is Safety, and in the Grave there is Peace; this wipes off the Sweat of the poor labouring Man, and takes the Load from the bended Back of the weary Traveller; this dries up the Tears of the Disconsolate, and maketh the Heart of the Sorrowful to forget its Throbbing; it is this eases the Agonies of the Diseased, and giveth a Medicine to the hopeless Incurable; this discharges the naked and hungry Insolvent, and releases him from his Confinement, who must not otherwise have come thence till he had paid the uttermost Farthing; it is this that rescues the Slave from his heavy Taskmaster, and frees the Prisoner from the Cruelties of him that cannot pity; this silences the Clamours of the Desamer, and hushes the Virulence of the Whisperer. The Deformities of Age, and the Unwariness of Youth, the Blemishes of the Deformed, the Phrenzies of the Lunatick, and the Weaknesses of the Ideot, are here all buried together; and who shall see them? Let the Men of Gaiety and Laughter be terrified with the Scenes of their Departure, because their Pleasure is no more; but let the Sons of Wretchedness and Affliction smile and be comforted, for their Deliverance draweth nigh, and their Pain ceaseth.
LETTER on the present State of MIDWIFERY.
IN Times when every Winter brings Scenes of Prostitution from the Privacy of Darkness into the publick Light of Day, when our Ladies of Quality, and Women of Fashion, instead of being as remarkable for their Virtue as for their Beauty, openly cast aside every Sense of Shame, and bare-facedly encourage the Addresses of Men who avowedly can have no Intention but to involve them in Guilt, it is the Duty of every honest Man to endeavour to trace the Evil to its Source, in Order that, by pointing out the foul Spring which corrupts the Stream, the Fountain may be cleared, and the Contagion which rages from it lessened, if not entirely removed.
Boarding Schools are, beyond Doubt, Seminaries where the Minds of Girls are early polluted. Let the Mistress of the School be ever so virtuous, prudent, and attentive, the vicious Girls (and some such there always must be, among a Number) will find sufficient Opportunities to taint the tender Minds of unsuspecting Innocence. Nothing can be more destructive than bad Example; and, unfortunately, the human Mind is too ready to copy those which are vicious, and the Vicious are more importunate and solicitous to corrupt than the Virtuous are to gain Proselytes to Goodness.
Though I believe the first Seeds of Vice are imbibed at a Boarding School, yet I by no Means look on that Education as the great Cause of these frequent Adulteries. If Principles of Virtue have been inculcated in Infancy, they may yet, with proper Care, bud out afresh under a good Culture, and flourish under the Influence of good Advice, when those noxious Weeds are choked up which were planted by bad Examples, but which may wither on the Cause being removed.
It is to the almost universal Custom of employing Men-Midwives that I attribute the frequent Adulteries which disgrace our Country.
Ignorance has spread this shameless Custom. Ignorance leads People to suppose Men safer than Women. Ignorance of what the Men-Midwives do lead modest Women at first to submit to employ Men; and it is Ignorance which leads Husbands (who love their Wives) to recommend, nay even sometimes force them on their Wives. They know not what Stripes they are preparing for themselves; they know not that they are removing the Corner Stone on which the Virtue of their Wives is founded; and all this on a mistaken Principle, the Idea that Men are safe.
The Almighty, through Kindness to his Creatures, has so ordered the Labours of Women that even the honest Part of the Man-Midwife Tribe confess that in thirty Years Practice a Person might probably never meet with a single Case where a good Woman might not have done the Business. This Confession was made to me by an eminent Man-Midwife, after a Practice of thirty six Years. How else would the World have been peopled? The Men have but lately come into Fashion. In Paris of Scotland and Ireland it be spoken, the Women of those Countries are still too modest to employ them. What is the Consequence? Adulteries happen very seldom in those Countries, and every Farm House swarms with strong healthy well limbed Children. If Men-Midwives were requisite to bring Children into the World, what would become of the Wilds of America, the Plains of Africa? Even the Hottentot Women are too modest to employ Men; they leave that abandoned Custom to our English Ladies; yet they are so fruitful that they furnish Slaves to the Globe. It is a notorious Fact, that more Children have been lost since Women were so scandalously indecent as to employ Men than for Ages before that Practice became so general. Women have a Tenderness of Feeling for their own Sex, in Labour, which it is impossible Men can ever equal them in. By having felt the Pains and the Anxieties attending Childbirth, they know how to sympathize in a Woman's Sufferings. Their Feelings, therefore, are natural. They lead them to be patient, they prompt them to allow Nature to do her own peculiar Work. They never dream of having Recourse to Force; the barbarous, bloody Crotchet, never stained their Hands with Murder. There never really can be Occasion for a male Operator, but when a Deed must be done which my Soul shudders at the Idea of, and which I shall not mention; but, Thanks to God, such Instances do not occur in a Century! To my Knowledge, a Lady was twice delivered, in different Parts of the Country of England, by common Women-Midwives, and both those Cases were as unnatural and difficult as it is well possible to imagine; she and the Children did well. If she had employed Men, it is more than probable the Children, at least, would have expired under the Crotchet, or been maimed by the Forceps!
And how should this be otherwise! A long unimpassioned Practice, early commenced, and calmly pursued, is absolutely requisite to give Men, by Art, what Women attain by Nature. Doctor Hunter, very wifely, very
justly, has said, that "Labour is Nature's Work." Nature ought to be suffered, nine Hundred and ninety nine Times out of a Thousand, to do her own Work. All the Knowledge young Men can possibly obtain must be from dead Bodies; for it is in common Sense to suppose that a young Lad can explore the secret Receesses of Venus so as to be physically well acquainted with those Parts in living Females? No; Fires must quickly be raised, which unavoidably will consume all his discerning reasoning Faculties, and Art must instantly be left in Nature. Doctor Hunter, indeed, and one or two Men besides, may perhaps, by the Help of cold Constitution, and Dint of very long Practice, do their Business nearly as well as Women, by leaving all to Nature; but if my Life and Fortune here, and Salvation hereafter, depended on the Life of any pregnant Woman, and that of her Infant, I would stake all I held valuable on her being attended by any old Woman-Midwife in England, in Preference to any Men in the World. Whoever reads Nihel's Midwifery will be satisfied of this Truth, that Women are infinitely safer than Men.
Who can wonder at the Profligacy of Times, when it is known that even Women of Character soon become so callous to the Bashfulness which ought to characterize their Sex (from being habituated to the Familiarities of their Men-Midwives) that they will not scruple informing a male Visitor, without even blushing, "I was not very well for some Days in the Country, so I came to Town on Purpose to be satisfied by Doctor — that I was in a good Way; the dear Man has told me that the Child lies right, and I am perfectly easy." Monstrous! that a Lady can pretend to any Degree of Modesty, and yet, not content with having a strange Man at ending her for Hours when in Labour (most of that Time intimately acquainted with every Part) she can, without any Compunction, send for a Man, and admit him, without Reserve, to the most unbounded Liberties, at a Time too when she is as able to walk, and do every other Act of Life, as if she was not pregnant! Pray let me ask her Ladyship, how did the dear Man, sweet Doctor — find out how the Child lay? By Means sufficient to taint the Purity, and fully the Chastity, of any Woman breathing! I will boldly affirm that whoever admits a Man to those licentious Freedoms cannot pretend to answer for what may be the Consequences. If the last Circumstance does not take Place, it must be owing either to an extraordinary Insensibility in the Man, or to the Woman's not suiting his Taste, having such Choice of Beauties to visit. Suppose, for Argument's Sake, that the licentious Goddes of Chastity, Diana herself, was on Earth, and employed me to satisfy her Doubts during the Months of Pregnancy prior to her Labour, and her Mind, of Course, at first free from the smallest Tincture of guilty Ideas, yet, if I choose it, I could so bewilder her Reason that she should lose Sight of every Principle of Virtue, and not be able to refuse me whatever I chose to desire. When a Man is in free Possession of the Citadel, and all the Outworks surrendered at Discretion, it is then too late to attempt guarding the Town from Plunder.
But, supposing these Advantages are not always taken (which I dare say they are not) it cannot be denied, with Truth, but these Visitation from Men-Midwives remove, in a great Measure, the Honour of those Intrusions on the advanced Posts of Virtue which are its greatest Safeguards, and serve to prepare the Way for the Addresses of gay young Men, who make it their Business to seduce married Women into the Paths of Infamy.
If any Lady, desirous of exculpating herself from my Censure, pleads that she never admits a Man-Midwife to Familiarities but when in actual Labour, I answer, that, even in actual Labour, a Woman has many Intervals of Ease, for many Minutes together, quite free from Pain. In those Intervals, her Mind cannot maintain its spotless Whiteness; in those Intervals, she cannot but be conscious that the Doctor is infringing on the HUSBAND.
But I believe there are very few Women who confine the Doctor's Familiarities to the Times of real Labour. Lady —, Mrs. —, acquiesce in whatever he thinks right during all the Months of Pregnancy; and must he not be more than Man, or less than Man, who, viewing luxuriously through all the Liden Charms of Beauty, can help being inflamed by Passion? And, if inflamed by Passion, he may proceed on CERTainties. He has an unerring Tell-tale under his Inspection, which gives him an infallible Cue when he may safely throw aside the Mask, sealless of any Repulse.
Show some Sense of Modesty, ye Dutchesses, Countesses, &c. &c. and those inferior Women, whom ye have debauched by your bad Examples, will again imitate you, in forsaking those scandalous Practices. Blush, ye Women of Fashion, to own that any Man, besides your Husbands, is admitted to Liberties with your Persons. No longer talk of "dear Doctor Hunter, "angelick Doctor, "enchanting Doctor." For my own Part, if I was a married Man, I declare it would be a Matter of the utmost Indifference to me whether my Wife had spent the Night in a Bagnio or an Hour of the Forenoon locked up with a Man-Midwife in her Dressing-Room. Let this shameless Custom be abolished, and then Virtue will fly back again to our Metropolis, with all her Train of genuine self-approving Pleasures; and England be, once more, as much famed for the Chastity as for the Beauty of its Women.
Adieu, Mr. Printer; you have received this Letter from a sincere Admirer of female Modesty. Without it "Beauty ceases being lovely, or Wit being engaging." Whoever possesses it cannot be enough esteemed and regarded; whoever is deficient in it cannot be sufficiently despised and slighted. Ye English Fair, it ought to be your Characteristick! but noble your Fathers, Husbands, and Brothers, are unprincipled corrupted Senators, you think you have a Right to deviate from your Point of Honour, since they show you the Example in theirs.
To conclude, true Modesty is incompatible with the Idea of employing A MAN-MIDWIFE.
A N E C D O T E S.
IN the grand Compartment of the Stadthouse at Leyden is a famous Picture of the Day of Judgment, by Luke of Leyden. You see our Saviour enthroned on the Centre of a Rainbow, the Extremities of which lose themselves imperceptibly in the Clouds; the twelve Elders are seated on each Side; below there is a Groupe of Mortals, who have not received Judgment, which you may easily discern by the Suspense and Anxiety so strongly impressed on their Countenances. On one Side of this Groupe you see those who have received the Reward of their Virtue, escorted by the good Angels, who are flying into the Heavens with the Just. On the other Side are some of the oddest looking Devils that the most luxuriant Imagination can conceive, especially one, with the Head of a Cow, and with two long meagre Dugs hanging down to the Middle; it is impossible to behold this Fiend without Horror. These are employed in dragging away the Condemned, by the Hair of the Head, and pushing them forward with Pitchforks. I am concerned for the Ladies, but I could not help observing among those who were howling and gnashing their Teeth a vast Majority of female Figures, with golden Treasures flowing down their Backs, some of whom had not so far forgotten their Humanity but that they attempted to impose even on the Devils, by eluding their Grasp, and running back towards the Mansions of the Blessed.
In the next Apartment is a Crucifixion, by the same Hand. Here you see our Saviour on the Cross, the two Thieves on each Side, and a Thou- sand distinct Figures in which the Passions are finely varied. Prostrate at the Foot of the Cross were vast Numbers of the fair Sex, in all the Pa- geantry of Wo, with their Hair dishevelled, and their Eyes streaming with Tears; but I doubt that they were Crocodile's Tears, or I should not have seen such Numbers guarded by Devils in the other Picture.

Of ADMIRAL KEPPELL.
WHILE this Gentleman commanded the Squadron up the Mediterranean, frequent Complaints were made to the Ministry by the Merchants trading to the Levant, &c. of the Piracies of the Algerines. These Complaints were passed over, till two Ships, richly laden, were taken and carried into Algiers. This was so flagrant an Infringement of Treaties that the Ministry could no longer be silent. Accordingly Orders were sent to the Admiral to sail into the Harbour of Algiers, and demand a Restitution of the Dey; and, in Case of a Refusal, had an unlimited Power to make Reprisals.
The Admiral's Squadron cast Anchor in the Offing of the Bay of Algiers, facing the Dey's Palace. He went ashore, attended only by his Captain and Barge's Crew. Proceeding to the Palace, he demanded an immediate Audience; and being conducted into the Dey's Presence, he laid open his Embassy, and in his Master's Name desired Satisfaction for the Injuries done to the Subjects of his Britannick Majesty. Surprised and enraged at the Boldness of the Admiral's Remonstrances, the Dey exclaimed, "that he wondered at the English King's Insolence in sending him a foolish beardless Boy." The Admiral replied, "that if his Master had supposed that Wisdom had been measured by the Length of the Beard he would have sent his Deyship a He Goat."
Unused to such Language from the Sycophants of his own Court, this Reply put him beside himself; and forgetting the Laws of all Nations in Respect to Ambassadors, he ordered his Mutes to attend with the Bow-string, at the same Time telling the Admiral he should pay for his Audacity with his Life. Unmoved with this Menace, the Admiral took him to a Window facing the Bay; and showing him the English Fleet riding at Anchor, told him, that if it was his Pleasure to put him to Death there were Englishmen enough in that Fleet to make him a glorious Funeral Pile. The Dey was wise enough to take the Hint; the Admiral came off in Safety, and ample Restitution was made.
L O N D O N, July 10.
YESTERDAY Expresses were sent from the Admiralty to the Commissioners of the several Dockyards of Portsmouth, Plymouth, Chatham, and Sheerness.
The Danish Ambassador was at Court yesterday, for the first Time for a considerable While past, to no small Surprise of several profound Politicians.
A weekly Meeting of all the foreign Ministers is held every Tuesday Night at the Imperial Ambassador's, in Portman Square.
The violent Flux which attended the Duke of Gloucester, when in Italy, it is thought, by his Physicians, has in a great Measure carried off the Virulence of his Royal Highness's Disorder, which was imagined before he left England to be immoveable; and he is now in a much better State of Health than he has been for many Years. Doctor Jebb, who attended his Royal Highness, had eight Hundred Pounds a Month for his Care.
Mr. Fordyce, it was yesterday rumoured upon Change, is now at Rotterdam, where he proposes spending the rest of his Days with a Mind unburthened by the weighty Affairs of Business. This he may propose to himself; but can we imagine that a human Being, not totally devoid of Understanding, that has caused Ruin to spread itself through so many Families, as he has done, can presume to think of enjoying Society? If he does, it is heightening his Fault, to the highest Degree of Criminality.
Lord Bute, we hear, was some Days ago applied to in Order to assist in supporting the dropping Credit of his Countrymen. In some Measure he complied with this Request, but would not consent that his Name, among other Noblemen, &c. should appear on a certain List, for Fear of incurring Imputations which the Violence of Party would, in all Probability, have been ready enough to have thrown upon his Character.
The Adelphi Buildings were, we hear, mortgaged for a Loan of twenty Thousand Pounds, previous to the late unhappy Failures of the Banks, and it is said that the Messrs. Adams had laid out as much more upon them; so that, in the Course of five Years, these Gentlemen expended one Hundred and forty Thousand Pounds to raise Palaces upon an offensive Head of Mud, and circulated an immense Sum to make a palpable Nuisance a principal Ornament of the Metropolis.
Of all the Promises made by the popular Sheriffs who have been elected since the Commencement of our political Squabbles, Mr. Lewes's, with Respect to the Revision of our penal Laws, is by much the most generous, rational, and humane; as the Inadequacy of our Crimes and Punishments is a Point on which all sensible Men are universally agreed, and in which all good Men must also unite for the Benefit of their Country.
Reports have been mentioned in the Newspapers relative to an Intention of reigning in Lord Hillsborough, which we believe have some Foundation in Reality. This Nobleman, as Secretary of State for America, has long made the British Dominions beyond the Atlantick his particular Study, and laid it down as a fixed Principle that every Step which has a Tendency to promote new Colonization has a Tendency to weaken the Supremacy of the Mother Country. On this Account, he has lately opposed all Applications for fresh Governments very strenuously; and as the Ohio Petition has been just carried against his Opinion, we hear he is determined to have no farther Concern in the Ministry. Should Lord Hillsborough really retire, we are told that Lord Clare, who has already presided at the Board of Trade, will be appointed his Successor, being a Nobleman of distinguished Abilities, and perfectly conversant with Business. Lord Clare is now possessed of an Irish Vice-Treasurership, which is deemed a Sinecure of four Thousand Pounds a Year; and therefore for the American Secretaryship of State should be valuable indeed, to compensate for the immense Fatigue with which it is notoriously attended.
Whether it be a just Complaint that the Scots treat the English at present with the utmost Pride and Contempt, whenever it is in their Power, we shall not determine; but, from good Authority, we know that the Behaviour of their Ancestors to the People of this Country was intolerable, when James I. succeeded our glorious Elizabeth. The King himself was so partial to his Countrymen that he merited no better a Title, according to Osborne (a Writer of undoubted Credit) than a King in Law, having no natural Affections to the People of this Country. When we see many of the same People who were in open Rebellion in 1745, and their Abettors, surrounding the King at St. James's, we cannot forbear calling to mind Osborne's Observation on King James's Court, which he called a Den of Scotchmen, where every Thing which was forfeited by Law, either in Church or Commonwealth, was given to them, and which they exacted to the utmost Farthing. The same Author says, that Nothing was unasked of the Scots, and Nothing denied to them; that for Want of honest Traffick they did extract Gold out of the Faults of the English, whose Pardons they begged, and sold at intolerable Rates, Murder itself not being excepted. When Queen Elizabeth died, it was the Opinion of Rawleigh, Cobham, Fortesque, and many other wise Men, that King James, who succeeded her, being a Scotchman, ought to have such Limitations of his Power as would be sufficient to guard the English against the Pride, Insolence, and Rapacity, of the Scots. The King never forgave Raleigh, but sacrificed the best Statesman, Soldier, and Scholar, in his Kingdom, to the Spaniards. Cobham was deprived of his Estate, and suffered to perish for Want in an obscure Corner. Fortesque had the good Fortune to get the better of James's Resentment, and some Years afterwards was foolish enough to invite the King to dine at his Family Seat, in Hopes to oblige his Majesty. The King eat and drank heartily; but to show his Contempt of his Host, he let a fart as he went out of the Porch.
The present most obsequious Set of Ministers and Placemen cannot but know how odious they are become to their Country. If they pretend that the Prejudice conceived against them is ill grounded, and unjust, why will they not demonstrate to us by some Act that it is so? The unhappy Circumstances of their Country afford them ample Occasions of recommending themselves to its Favour. Let them do their Endeavours to restore us triennial Parliaments; let them take the Lead, and be the first Movers, for this salutary Measure; and if the Patriots oppose it, the Odium will undoubtedly fall upon them.
Yesterday Morning Mr. Allen, a twopenny Brewer, was attacked in St. George's Fields by three Footpads, who bravely defended himself until the Patrol came up, which was the Means of his preserving one Hundred and seventy Pounds which he had taken the preceding Evening.
All the Servants of the late Princess Dowager of Wales have twenty Pounds a Year settled on them for Life, with free Liberty to engage themselves in other Services. This is a laudable Resolution; but is not its Prudence somewhat damped by the Debts of the late Prince of Wales remaining unpaid?
Richard Johnson, Esquire, of Guildford, in Ireland, lately created a Baronet of that Kingdom, for his spirited Opposition to the Hearts of Steel, defended himself in his House for a Number of Hours against those Insurgents, by firing out of the Windows, and when his Ammunition was out was obliged to swim across a large River. These imminent Hazards of his Life, however, did not repress his Spirit, for it was principally owing to his persevering Pursuit of them that the Designs of those deluded People were at last suppressed.
Yesterday a Porter, carrying too heavy a Load, dropped down dead under the fame in Scotland Yard.
It is computed that three Thousand Guineas a Week are paid to the Dutch Fishermen at Billingsgate during the whole Turbot Season.
Extract of a Letter from Ponty-Pool, July 6.
"This Day the Reverend Mr. Hanbury Davies, a rich Vicar, and Richards Edwards, a poor Curate, paid into the Hands of the proper Officer fifteen Pounds; the first ten Pounds, the latter five, having incurred the Penalties by neglecting to read in Church the Act against profane Cursing and Swearing. The Vicar, it seems, had, without assigning any Reasons, dismissed the Curate from his Church, and the Sons of the latter informed against the former, without knowing that their Father lay under the same Predicament."
Tuesday Night a Fire broke out on Board a Ship lately arrived from Jamaica, lying near the Hope. As it was discovered in good Time, the Damage was not great.
On Tuesday last the Servant Maid of a Hoser, in Charles Street, Westminster, took a Quantity of Arsenick; and notwithstanding all possible Assistance was given her, she died in great Agonies next Morning. Before she expired, she declared she did it on Account of her Sister coming on the Town.
BASSETTERRE (St. Christophers) July 29.
By a Vessel which arrived yesterday from St. Vincent we are credibly informed that the Indians were intrenching themselves on the Boundaries of that Part of the Island which they claim, and are resolved obstinately to oppose the Entrance of our Troops into their Country, so that it is imagined there will be many Lives lost. The Troops from Antigua were expected the Day after this Vessel left the Island, and it is supposed those ordered from the Continent are there by this Time.
PHILADELPHIA, September 12.
FROM North Carolina we learn that Mr. Solomon Elliott, who is well known in this City as a Carolina Trader, was most inhumanly murdered for the Sake of his Money, by one Kelly and his Wife, at whose House he lodged; he being on his Return from the back Parts of that Province, with about five or six Hundred Pounds. Those Wretches cut his Head with an Ax, and from thence were proceeding to burn his Body, when they were seized by their Neighbours, who were alarmed by a young Woman that accidentally lay in the House that Night, and made her Escape while they were perpetrating the bloody Deed.
WILLIAMSBURG, October 1.
THE Elizabeth, Rankin, and Peter, Lang, from Glasgow, are arrived in James River. A few Leagues off the Capes, about Daybreak, a Sloop from St. Christopher's, bound to Philadelphia, ran foul of Captain Lang, carrying away her own Boltsprit, and did him considerable Damage; but the People in the Sloop were so alarmed that they jumped on Board Captain Lang, leaving behind only two small Negro Boys, who were asleep below. As there was a great Sea, and it blew hard, Captain Lang did not think it safe to put about for the Sloop, which had all her Sails standing the last Time they saw her. The Crew were landed at Norfolk, and the Master hired Vessels to go in Quest of the one he had deserted; in which, besides West India Produce, there were eight Hundred Half Joes.—He informed Captain Lang that on the last of August there was a dreadful Hurricane at St. Christopher's, and all the other Leeward Islands, which had done incredible Damage. All the Shipping at St. Christopher's, he said, but himself, were either drove ashore or foundered at their Anchors; Houses and Mills were thrown down, and the Canes ruined. At St. John's, in Antigua, all the King's Ships were drove ashore, excepting the Commodore; and the other Shipping, it may be supposed, shared the same Fate. At St. Eustatia, a Hill, upon which Part of the Town on that Island is built, gave way, and all the Houses tumbled down. The Hurricane likewise extended to Martinico, and many other of the Islands.
A Vessel arrived last Tuesday from Antigua, the Master of which says that three of the King's Frigates (one of them the Active) on the Jamaica Station, were lost in the above Hurricane, which, he says, was likewise attended with an Earthquake.
We have a Report likewise that there has been an Engagement between the British and French Fleets in the Bay of Biscay, occasioned by the latter refusing to pay the Honours of the Flag to Admiral Pye, who immediately fired a Gun into the French Admiral; upon which a general Engagement ensued, when (as usual) the French got a complete Dressing. The Ship Fanny, James Barron Commander, is lately arrived at London.
Captain White, in the Ship Neptune, spoke the Walter, Captain Hunter, from Glasgow, bound to France, on the 30th of July, about forty Leagues to the westward of Ushant, all well.
Advertisements.
JAMES CRAIG, AT THE GOLDEN BALL, WILLIAMSBURG,
BEGS Leave to inform the Publick that he has just got an eminent Hand, in the WATCH and CLOCK MAKING BUSINESS, who served a regular Apprenticeship to the fame in Great Britain, and will be much obliged to those who favour him with their Commands. He makes, and repairs, REPEATING, HORIZONTAL, and STOP WATCHES, in the neatest and best Manner.
JEWELLERY, GOLD, and SILVER WORK, as usual, made in the neatest Manner, and on reasonable Terms, at the above Shop.
THE MECHANICKS in the lower
Parts of Virginia, present their Compliments to the Author, or Authors, of the Richmond Advertisement, in the last Week's Gazette, for Tradesmen, and are of Opinion that they themselves are not simply in the Qualifications of Extortion, Insolence, and Laziness, but rather Adepts therein; and, perhaps, may have the Addition of three other excellent Ones, Pride, Envy, and Malice. Let the Author, or Authors, of that Advertisement, give us their real Name, or Names; and although we live at a Distance, it is more than probable we shall be able to trace their Origin, to discover their Profession in Life, their Vices and Corruptions, and (to use their own elegant Language) their several Qualifications, as also have an Opportunity of celebrating their Virtues, if it should appear they have any, which is much queried. (||)
To be LET ON CHARTER, to any Part of Europe,
THE Ship NEPTUNE, Archibald White Master, Burthen about four Hundred Hogsheds. For Terms apply to NORFOLK, (tf) JOHN LAWRENCE. September 24. JOHN GREENWOOD.
To be SOLD at publick Vendue, pursuant to the Will of Matthew Rothery, deceased, of Norfolk, at the Courthouse Door of the said Borough, on Tuesday the 20th of October,
A WATER GRISTMILL, now in Repair, and almost new, which rents for sixty Pounds a Year; there is a convenient Place to erect a Sawmill, with two Acres of Land adjoining, on which is a convenient House with a Store at one End. It is a fine Place for Trade, in the Lumber Way; and a good Landing, as large Vessels can come within a few Yards of the Mill. It is situated on New Mill Creek, in Norfolk County, about ten or twelve Miles distant by Water from the said Borough. Also about TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED Acres of LAND lying contiguous to the Mill, Part of which is high Land, that has a great Quantity of choice Timber on it, and Part thereof Juniper Swamp; and will be sold in such Parcels, or Lots, as may best suit the Purchasers. One Third of the Purchase Money to be paid at the executing of the Deeds, and Bond and Security to be given for Payment of the Residue in twelve Months.
MARY ROTHERY, Executrix.
N. B. As the Subscriber intends home in the Spring, she would esteem it as a Favour of all Persons indebted to the Estate to pay of their respective Balances by November next, as no farther Indulgence can be granted; and those who have any Demands against the said Estate are desired to apply for Payment, with their Accounts properly attested.—FIFTEEN VALUABLE SLAVES to be disposed of, at private Sale.
To be SOLD on reasonable Terms, or LEASED for a Number of Years,
A VALUABLE TRACT of LAND on Narrow River, near Burch's Bridge, in Brunswick County, containing between seven and eight Hundred Acres, one Half of which is low Grounds. The Terms may be known of the Subscriber, on the Premises. JOHN COLEMAN.
On the first Thursday in November will be SOLD to the highest Bidder, on the Premises, for ready Money, or Negroes, if fair, otherwise next fair Day,
A TRACT of LAND in the County of Prince George, on the south Side of Warwick Swamp, containing three Hundred and fifty two Acres, more or less. There are two Dwelling-Houses, with all convenient Outhouses, and extraordinary good Apple and Peach Orchards; it is very well timbered, especially with white Oak, and lies within ten Miles of Blandford. A great Deal of Money may be made by the Slave Trade, as there is always a Demand for them. Any Person inclined to Purchase may see the Land by applying to the Subscriber, on the Premises. (2||) WILLIAM TEMPLE.
To be SOLD at publick Auction, on the Premises, on Monday the 26th of October,
A TRACT of LAND containing five Hundred and sixty nine Acres, more or less, belonging to the Estate of John Williamson, deceased. It lies on the south Branch of Pamunkey, in Louisa County, and is about eight Miles above Colonel Boswell's. The Land is very good for Grain or Tobacco, and there is a Plantation on it sufficient to work seven or eight Hands, with an Apple Orchard. Twelve Months Credit will be allowed for one Half the Money, and twelve Months for the Remainder, the Purchaser paying Interest from the Time the first Payment becomes due. At the same Time will be sold a fine STOCK of CATTLE, belonging to the said Plantation, on twelve Months Credit.—And on Tuesday the 22nd of December, at the same Place, will be sold eight very valuable Virginia born SLAVES (three of them extraordinary good Coopers, a Lad about thirteen Years old, and a very likely Wench and three Children) about a HUNDRED BARRELS of CORN, TWO THOUSAND WEIGHT of PORK, the PLANTATION TOOLS, &c. for which Credit will be allowed until the 26th of October 1773, the Purchasers giving Bond and Security to JOHN HAWKINS, WILLIAM WHITE, WILLIAM TERRELL, } Trustees.
For SALE by the Subscribers, at their Store in Portsmouth,
LOAF, LUMP, and MUSCOVADO SUGAR, JAMAICA SPIRITS, WEST INDIA and BOSTON RUM, COFFEE, CHOCOLATE, PIMENTA, sweet and dry CACAVALLA WINE four Years old, TENERIF and SWEET MALAGA WINES, TRAIN OIL, WHEAT FANS, DOUBLE OIL FLINTS, MARBLE SLABS, CORDOVANS, and three IRON CHESTS. (4) INGLIS & LONG. N. B. We want a Quantity of FLAX SEED and BEES WAX.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder (or at private Sale) at the Subscriber's Plantation in Sussex County, on the 20th of October next,
A VALUABLE TRACT of LAND, containing about nine Hundred Acres, lying in Prince George County. Two Hundred and fifty Pounds of the Purchase Money to be paid on the Day of Sale, the Remainder in twelve Months, on giving Bond and Security. Also on the same Day, will be sold several valuable SLAVES, for ready Money. (||) JOHN THOMPSON.
To be SOLD at Warwick, on Thursday the 22nd of October,
THE Estate of the deceased Daniel Macpherson, consisting of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, a NEGRO FELLOW, WENCH, and CHILDREN, a well built SCHOONER, Burthen from two Thousand five Hundred to three Thousand Bushels, with all her Appurtenances, one Year old, and in very good Repair, well calculated for the River or West India Trade; also one Half of a thirty five Hoghead FLAT. Those who have Demands against the Estate are desired to make them known by that Day, and those indebted to make Payment to us the Administrators. JAMES FAIRLIE. SIMON FRASER.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidders, on Thursday the 29th of October, if fair, otherwise next fair Day,
A VERY valuable TRACT of LAND, containing five Hundred and thirty seven Acres, whereon are two Plantations, with good Apple and Peach Orchards, lying on the north Side of Blackwater, near Cook's Bridge, nine Miles from Cabin Point, and twenty from Blandford. The Land is very well timbered, with white Oak and Pine. At the same Time will be sold a Stock of CATTLE, SHEEP, and HOGS, also some HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. The Terms of Payment will be agreed on at the Sale, and any Person inclined to purchase the Land may see it on applying to (||) THOMAS GRIFFIS.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, on Friday the 30th of October, on the Premises,
THE noted ORDINARY in Dinwiddie County, about nine Miles from Petersburg, known by the Name of Burges's; which was advertised for Sale the first of last Month, but deferred, as it was found inconvenient to sell it at that Time. As its several Advantages were then fully described, it is sufficient to mention that between four and five Hundred Acres of Land belong to it, is well timbered, and has fundry Improvements. The Purchaser is to pay for it in three yearly Payments, to commence from the 25th of December next, at which Time Possession will be given. Bond, with approved Security, will be required by ROBERT JONES, Junior. HAMILTON JONES. THOMAS ESKRIDGE. (2)
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Brunswick,
a likely Mulatto Fellow named BARNABY, who is about twenty five Years of Age, low and well made, and stutters a little. He had on a white Russia Drab Coat and Jacket, black Lasting Breeches, with Shoes and Stockings; he also carried with him a Pair of Leather Boots, and a Velvet Cap. He formerly belonged to Mr. Augustine Smith of Middlesex, and I imagine is gone that Way. A young Mulatto Wench, named BELINDA, went off at the same Time, who is short and very fat. I purchased her of Mr. George Blair of Smithfield, where she possibly may go, but more likely with the Fellow, who is her Husband. I will give FIVE POUNDS to any Person who brings them to me, and Half that Sum for either. THOMAS CRAUFURD.
FREDERICKSBURG, September 12, 1772.
RUN away from the Subscriber, the 11th
Instant, JOHN OSBORN, a Convict imported in the Brickdale, Captain Wood. He is about five Feet seven Inches high, of a pale Complexion, strong made, had on a dirty Flannel Jacket and Drawers, a Check Shirt, a Pair of Shoes tied with Strings, and a round Hat bound with Osnabrugs. He passes for a Runaway Sailor, is artful, and of few Words. All Masters of Vessels are desired not to employ him, or to harbour him; and whoever delivers him to me shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, if taken within forty Miles, and if at a greater Distance THREE POUNDS. JOHN GLASSELL.
COMMITTED to the Jail of Cheesefield,
a middle sized black Fellow who says he is a free Man, and that his name is JOHN SCOTT. He had a Pass, with several Peoples Names to it, though all appeared to be one Hand Writing. He says that he came from North Carolina, on Cape Fear River, some Time in April. His Clothing is a white Shirt, a Virginia Cloth double breasted Coat, and a Pair of Osnaburg Trousers. The Owner is desired to prove his Property, pay Charges, and fetch him away. JAMES BALL, Jailer.

DINWIDDIE, September 24, 1772.
STOLEN from the Subscriber, the Beginning of this Month, a likely strong bay HORSE about nine Years old, fourteen Hands high, with a black Mane and Tail, has a few Saddle Spots, his off hind Foot white, his Neck galled with the Collar, as he has been much worked in a Waggon, paces, trots, and gallops, and branded on the near Shoulder and Buttock AK in a Piece. Whoever brings the said Horse to me, to Mr. Thomas Crawford in Dinwiddie, or to Mr. William Parke in Bute County, North Carolina, or give such Intelligence of him as he may be got again, shall have THREE POUNDS Reward, or TEN POUNDS on Conviction of the Thief. ROBERT TURNBULL.
TAKEN up , in Dinwiddie, a small black MARE seven or eight Years old, four Feet three Inches high, with a Star in her Forehead, a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, trots and paces, but has no Brand perceivable. Also a brindled STEER about three Years old, marked with a Crop in each Ear, and a Half Crop under the right. (||) WILLIAM DAVIS.
TAKEN up , in Chesterfield, two brindled HEIFERS, marked with a Swallow Fork in the right Ear, and in the left with a Flower de Luce. Posted, and appraised to five Pounds. (||) JOSEPH TRAYLOR.
TAKEN up , in Brunswick, a small brindled STEER, marked with a Swallow Fork in the right Ear, the other Ear long. Posted, and appraised to thirty five Shillings. JOHN COLEMAN.
JUST arrived from Africa, the Ship Prince of Wales , James Bivins Commander, with about four Hundred fine healthy SLAVES; the Sale of which will begin at Bermuda Hundred, on Thursday the 8th of October, and continue until all are sold. JOHN WAYLES. RICHARD RANDOLPH.
COLONEL BYRD begs the Favour of the Gentlemen who purchased Negroes of him last December, at the Rocky Ridge, to pay their Money to Mr. David Patterson, who will deliver up their Bonds on receiving it.
To be SOLD at Williamsburg, on Tuesday the 10th of November next, before the Rawleigh Tavern,
ALL that exceeding fine PLANTATION and TRACT OF LAND belonging to the Subscriber lying at the FALLS of JAMES RIVER, in Chesterfield County, containing upwards of two Thousand Acres, which, on Account of its Richness and Situation, is deservedly esteemed the most valuable Plantation in this Colony, and equal to any in America. It is in good Order for Cropping; about two Hundred and fifty Acres of it will be sowed in Wheat this Fall, from which may be expected to be reaped at least four Thousand Bushels. There is a very good Dwelling-House on it, and a Stream of Water runs through the Land sufficient for a Mill; and though it has been thought that the low Grounds were much injured by the great Fresh, yet the present Crop, which was planted where the Fresh was supposed to do most Damage, is as flourishing as could be wished for. Any Person inclined to purchase may satisfy himself, by viewing and examining it before the Sale.
The TOBACCO WAREHOUSES at the Rocky Ridge, the PROFITABLE FERRIES on each side of the River, and the very valuable FISHERY known by the Name of Sandy Hook, with several of the ONE HUNDRED ACRE LOTS in Henrico County drawn in the Subscriber's Lottery, will then also be offered for Sale. Reasonable Credit will be allowed, and the Payments divided, to suit the Purchasers, so that the Whole be paid by them in two Years; to be settled, and agreed on, at the Day of Sale.
On Tuesday the 8th of December will be sold, at the Rocky Ridge, upwards of ONE HUNDRED FINE SLAVES, many valuable Tradesmen among them; also such of the above Lands as may remain unsold at Williamsburg, and the Stocks of CATTLE, HORSES, &c. belonging to the Falls Plantation. Six Months Credit will be allowed the Purchasers of Slaves and Stocks for one Half the Purchase Money, and twelve Months for the Remainder. Bond and good Security to be given by all the Purchasers of the Lands, Slaves, and Stocks; and the Bonds to carry Interest from the Date, if not discharged when due. W. BYRD.
NOT being able to stop the Progress of the Smallpox in my Family, I have determined to inoculate immediately, and am under a Necessity of making Use of the Houses at the Landing at Berkley for that Purpose. I thought it necessary to give this publick Notice, to prevent People who have not had the Smallpox from coming on Shore at that Place, which will, for some Time, be extremely dangerous.
I shall remain at the Mill, and will take all possible Care to keep it free from Infection; so that all Persons may very safely do Business there, as usual. (2) BENJAMIN HARRISON.
SUFFOLK, September 1, 1772.
WHEREAS I have kept Mess. Balfour and Barrand's Store in this Place, as their Clerk, ever since October 1766, and now having declined the Business, all Persons indebted to the said Store are hereby desired to take Notice that they are to pay their respective Balances to those Gentlemen, who only can give proper Discharges. GARDNER FLEMING.
NORFOLK, September 10, 1772.
ALL Persons indebted to our Store at Suffolk , lately kept by Mr. Gardner Fleming, are to take Notice that no Payment can be admitted made to any Person but to us, or to Mr. Thomas Langston, whom we have appointed to succeed Mr. Fleming. BALFOUR & BARRAUD.
WILLIAMSBURG, August 27, 1772.
THE Subscriber begs leave to inform the Publick that he has lately arrived from Liverpool, and just opened Shop next Door below the Post Office; where he intends carrying on the WATCH and CLOCK BUSINESS in all its Branches; and as he served a regular Apprenticeship to one of the most eminent Watchmakers in the City of Dublin, he hopes it will be some Inducement for the Publick to favour him with their Commands, which shall ever be his particular Study to discharge with the greatest Punctuality, and on the most reasonable Terms. Those who please to favour him with their Commands may depend on their being gratefully acknowledged by their most humble Servant. (6) ROBERT EGAN.
N. B. All Sorts of REPEATING, HORIZONTAL, and STOP WATCHES, repaired in the best Manner.
KING GEORGE, September 20, 1772.
AS I intend for Britain next Spring , I would be glad to dispose of the Plantation whereon I now live, containing about four Hundred Acres of LAND, whereon are several valuable Peach and Apple Orchards. The House is large and commodious, with all necessary Outhouses, and commands a most agreeable Prospect of both Potomack and Rappahannock Rivers. For Terms apply to the Subscriber, on the Premises, within two Miles of Leeds. THOMAS OSWALD.
ANY discreet Tradesman (especially a CARPENTER) content if he can make a genteel Provision for himself and Family, by an honest Industry, and not ambitious to rank as a Gentleman, simply on these Qualifications, Extortion, Insolence, and Laziness, may expect Encouragement by settling at Richmond Town. (2)
ON Monday the 12th of October next , being Loudoun Court Day, will be exposed to publick Sale six Hundred and twelve Acres of valuable LAND lying in the said County, within two Miles of Leesburg, and Half a Mile of a Bolting Mill. The Subscriber will be on the Land by the 9th of October, in Order to show it to any Person inclining to purchase. VINCENT BURT.
HALIFAX (North Carolina) September 3, 1772.
WHEREAS the Copartnership between Mess. John Alston and Company of Glasgow, and us, dissolved the 1st of this Instant, we therefore expect every Person indebted to us, at any of our Stores in North Carolina, to pay off, or give Bonds immediately for the Balances due to us at that Time. For the future, the Trade will be carried on at our Stores by a new Company, under the Firm of Alston, Young, and Company, and under the Management of the former Agents in North Carolina, by whom our Customers may expect to be well used, and furnished with Goods on the best Terms, as formerly. YOUNG, MILLER, and Company.
WANTS a Place, as a BOOK-KEEPER. a Person that can be well recommended. Inquire of the Printer.
WILLIAMSBURG, September 24, 1772.
STOLEN or STRAYED from my Pasture on the 6th of this Instant, a BROWN HORSE about fourteen Hands three Inches High, branded on the left Side R W. He was poor, and had a fore Back. Whoever will bring him to me shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS. PEYTON RANDOLPH.
To be SOLD at publick Vendue, for ready Money, on Tuesday the 6th of October, at Norfolk,
SEVERAL Hogheads of MUSCOVADO SUGAR, to defray the Expense of refitting the Ship Ruby, Keylock Rudden Commander, lately put into this River in Distress from the Island of Jamaica, bound for London. (2||) WILLIAM and JOHN BROWN.
HALIFAX County, NORTH CAROLINA, September 10, 1772.
IMPORTED last Year from London, by Captain Thomas Lilly, into York River, a Bale of BROWN ROLLS, No. 5, I C Z, which has never came to the Subscriber's Hands. I will be much obliged to any One who has it in Possession to send it to Mr. John Hamilton, in Nansemond, or write to him where to apply for it. JACOB CHRISTOPHER ZOLLICOFFER.
WILLIAMSBURG, September 24, 1772.
COMMITTED to the Publick Jail, from James City Prison, a Runaway Woman named MOLLY, who says she belongs to Charles Budd, of Charles City County. She is five Feet two Inches high, and appears to be about forty Years old, has a prominent Nose, and by her Complexion would pass for one of the Indian Race. Her Owner is desired to apply for her, prove his Property, and pay Charges. PETER PELHAM.
RUN away from the Subscriber, the 7th of August last, a Negro Man Slave named QUASH, about five Feet ten Inches high, about twenty five Years of Age, is lully, very black, has a down Look, and large Eyes; had on when he went away an old blue Cloth Jacket and Breeches, Osnapbrugs Frock, and an English made Hat, but may have changed his Clothes for others. He is much cut on the Backside, by whipping, or the Marks of his Country. He is a new Negro, could speak no English, but may have learned to speak some since he went away; he could speak middling good French, and is an artful Fellow. Whoever takes him up, and delivers him to me in Norfolk Borough, shall have THREE POUNDS Reward, if taken in this Colony, and FOUR POUNDS if taken out thereof. All Persons are forewarned from entertaining or harbouring him. (||) PAUL HEERRITTER.
FIVE POUNDS REWARD,
FOR apprehending JOHN HUTCHINSON, who ran away last Night from the Subscriber; he is a likely stout Man, about five Feet ten Inches high, a Blacksmith by Trade, and was born in Yorkhire in England; his Clothing is a Duroy Coat of a brown Colour lined with white Durants, the Coat quite new, a white Shirt, and brown Linen Trousers. He carried with him a brindled Water Dog, which I expect is still with him, as it was a great Favourite. I imagine he will procure himself other Clothes, as he has carried some Cash with him, and also change his Name. The above Reward will be paid on securing him in any Jail in this Colony, or delivering him to me, in Lancaster County. (4) THOMAS POLLARD.
STOLEN from the Subscriber, in Peterf- burg, a CHESTNUT SORREL MARE six Years old, four Feet nine or ten Inches high, has a Star in her Forehead, both hind Feet white, a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, a Blemish in her right Eye, paces, trots, and gallops, and branded on the near Buttock R A. Whoever brings the said Mare to me shall have THREE POUNDS Reward, and on Conviction of the Thief TEN POUNDS. (||) DANIEL DODSON.
STRAYED or STOLEN from the Sub- scriber at Osborne's, about the 13th of June last, a BAY HORSE about four Feet six or seven Inches high, eight or nine Years old, has a short hanging Mane and Switch Tail, some white Hairs at the Root of his Tail, one of his hind Feet white, some Saddle Spots, paces slow, but has no Brand perceivable. Whoever delivers the said Horse to me shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, or THREE POUNDS on Conviction of the Offender. (||) THOMAS W. IRWIN.
TAKEN up, in Bedford, a DARK BAY MARE four Feet seven or eight Inches high, has some Saddle Spots, had on an old Pair of Shoes, paces naturally, and branded on the off Shoulder and Buttock R, that on the Buttock very dull. Posted, and appraised to four Pounds. WHITEHEAD RYAN.
TAKEN up, in Isle of Wight, a BLACK STEER with some white Spots under his Belly and upon each Side, and one upon his Rump, has a Star on his Forehead, and is marked with a Square under his right Ear and a Slope under the left. Posted, and appraised to fifty five Shillings. (||) DAVID CHALMER.
An Act to prevent Mischief from DOGS.
WHEREAS the Inhabitants of this City, and Persons resorting thither, are frequently in Danger of being wounded, and are daily annoyed by fierce Dogs, and others, in too great Numbers running at large within the Limits thereof: For Remedy and Prevention of those Mischiefs, Be it ordained by the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, and Common Council of the said City, in Common Hall assembled, and it is hereby ordained by the Authority of the same, that no Person residing in the said City shall keep within the Limits thereof any Bitch, and none but a Housekeeper any Dog; and that no such Housekeeper shall keep any Bull Dog or Mastiff, or any Dog partaking of either of those Species of Animals, otherwise than confined by a Chain within his own enclosed Ground; nor any Dog of another Kind without a Collar worn about his Neck, whereon the initial Letters of the Owner's Christian Name and Surname shall be marked; nor more than two Dogs, with such Collars. And that every Person offending in either of those Cases shall forfeit and pay the Sum of forty Shillings, to be sued for and recovered before the Court of Hustings of the said City, by Petition, to be prosecuted within one Month after the Offence, in the Name of the Chamberlain thereof for the Time being, for the Use of this Corporation.
And be it farther ordained, that it shall and may be lawful for any Person to kill any such Bull, Mastiff, or Mongrel Dog, not confined as aforesaid, and any Dog running at large in the Streets without a Collar in the Day Time, or with a Collar in the Night Time, or belonging to a Resident who is not a Housekeeper; and that the Sergeant, Constable, and Watchmen of the said City, shall severally take an Oath before the Mayor to kill such unqualified Dogs, and give Information to the Chamberlain of all Offenders against this Act.
And be it farther ordained, that one Act made at a Court of Common Council held the 19th Day of March 1759, entitled An Act to restrain the keeping of Dogs in great Numbers, be repealed; and that this Act shall be published in the Virginia Gazette, and shall commence and be in Force immediately after the 21st Day of September, in this Year 1772.
Passed in the Common Hall September 7, 1772. (A Copy.) Test, M. DAVENPORT, Town Clerk.
H A M M O N D'S
Specifick Pill and Antimonial Essence.
To the P U B L I C K.
The following recent, and very remarkable CURES, fully evince their great Efficacy:
GOUT and SCURVY CASE.
To Doctor HAMMOND.
SIR,
August 24, 1771.
THE good Effects I have found from your Medicines oblige me to make this open Declaration, for the Good of Mankind. That others afflicted may know where to apply for such inestimable Medicines, desire this to be published. Mr. John Cooper, Excise Officer, was long troubled with a Complication of Disorders, occasion'd by Heats and Colds, so that he could not stir Hand or Foot without a Crutch; and after he had consulted the Faculty in Bath above three Months, without any Benefit, he applied to Doctor Hammond, on Kingdown, Bristol, and by taking a few Boxes of his Specifick Pills and Bottles of Antimonial Essence, is now restored to perfect Health; which any One may be satisfied of by applying to the said John Cooper, at the Excise Office on the Key, Bristol, or Pill in Somerset.
A most extraordinary Cure of the LEPROSY, by the Use of Hammond's SPECIFICK PILL.
To Doctor HAMMOND.
SIR,
As it is our Duty not only to commend, but also to recommend, Medicines we ourselves have found Benefit by, it is our cheerful Request that this most miserable Case may be universally known, for the Relief of the Distressed, and in Justice to the Author's incomparable Specifick Pill. Mrs. Tillidge, Wife of Mr. Tillidge, was grievously tormented above six Years with the Leprosy on her Arms and Hands, quite to her Finger Ends, covered with Blisters, most of which turned to Sores, especially her Fingers were obliged to be plastered constantly, to prevent their growing together, the Violence of the Humour was so great, daily increasing faster; and having had the best Advice, and took great Quantities of the most famed Medicines without the least Benefit, in the greatest Despair, and as the last Resort, happily applied to Doctor Hammond for his Specifick Pill, which alone, by God's Blessing, hath made her Skin quite clear, and restored her to perfect Health above three Months; the Truth of which the candid Inquirer shall be satisfied of, with the greatest Pleasure, by your humble Servants,
PETER STREET, BRISTOL, } JOHN & ANNE TILLIDGE. September 25, 1771.
These, with many remarkable Cures, effected by the mild Specifick Pill at home, were all continually inserted in the Newspapers. Sixty Pills in each Box, Price seven Shillings and Sixpence Sterling.
In Cachexy, Inappetency, Indigestion, Flatulency, and Costiveness, it is of excellent Virtue, and should be used in every Family at the Spring and Fall of the Year, to purify the Blood, and prevent bad Disorders.
The STRONG SPECIFICK PILL is an infallible Cure for the Yaws in every Stage, even the most inveterate; also for the Remains of the VENEREAL DISEASE, by bad Cure, or frequently contracted, both these Disorders will be entirely eradicated, even where Salivation fails, by the Use of this Medicine. Likewise it will speedily remove a recent Contraction of the last mentioned Complaint. Sixty Pills in each Box, Price twelve Shillings and Sixpence Sterling; a great Quantity thereof hath been sold in the West Indies seven Years and it has absolutely cured the Yaws, &c. which the Surgeons themselves declare.
Also his new invented ANTIMONIAL ESSENCE, a certain, safe, and pleasant Remedy for the Gout, Rheumatism, Dropsy, Pleurisy, Asthma, Stitches in the Side, inflammatory and nervous Fevers, Lowness of Spirits, Headach, &c. also the Disorders incident to the female Sex. It cures the most violent inflammatory Fever in a few Hours, though attended with Convulsions, light-headedness, and the worst Symptoms; but taken in the Beginning of a Fever, every dangerous Symptom is presently removed, generally without Confinement or Hindrance of Business.
Those dubious of its Excellency, by applying at the Place of Sale, may be referred to an original Copy of a Letter from a Gentleman to the Author, setting forth the amazing Success in a most extraordinary Case, and which particularly declares he looks upon the Antimonial Essence to be a very noble Medicine, and strongly recommends it in his Neighbourhood. Another Gentleman testifies that three Bottles of it brought a Woman out of Bed where she was confined a long Time with the Rheumatism, and could not stir either Hand or Foot. Another Person was cured of a slow nervous Fever, which had wasted him almost to Death, only by taking one Bottle of this Essence, when the best Advice in other Medicines had failed. And farther, a Lad about eleven Years of Age, who was afflicted ever since he was born with Falling Fits, is most happily restored to Health by Half a Bottle of this Medicine, several Months, and has not had one Fit since. Another calls the Specifick Pill a blessed Medicine, and says it saved her Husband's Life in curing him of a Disorder of eighteen Years standing, when every Thing else had failed.
A Treatise containing many most remarkable Cures delivered gratis.
N. B. Each Medicine is folded with printed Bills and Directions, signed by the Author, THO'S HAMMOND, M. M. Bristol. They will never lose their Virtue, nor suffer by Damps or Moisture.
The Antimonial Essence is in square Bottles, each containing sixty Doses, Price six Shillings and Sixpence Sterling.
** The above Medicines are to be sold by Captain William Wood, of the Brickdale, at Hobb's Hole, and by him only.
BY the Death of the late Mr. Starke several of his Clients, who have Suits depending in the Courts of York and Hastings, are without any Person to attend their Causes. Lest some of them should go undefended, and others have their Suits dismissed for Want of Prosecution, they are desired, without Loss of Time, to employ some Person to attend their Business. The Attorneys of those Courts will readily lend their Assistance to finish his Causes.
FREDERICKSBURG, September 8, 1772.
HUNTERS and TALIAFERRO beg Leave to acquaint the Publick that they have opened Store in this Place, at Hunter's Ferry Landing, and in Falmouth, at Number 72, on the main Street, where the greatest Assortment of European Goods will be sold, on much more reasonable Terms, than any hitherto imported. (4)
NORFOLK, September 8, 1772.
THE Subscriber informs his Customers, and others, that he has a Quantity of IVORY on Hand, and will turn BILLIARD BALLS of all Sizes, at ten Shillings a Pair, and smooths old Ones at five Shillings. They may depend upon being served with Care and Despatch, by the Subscriber, in Church Street. HADRESS WALLER.
NORFOLK, September 17, 1772.
IFOREWARN every Person from taking John Lewthwaite out of the Colony, or harbouring him, at their Peril. ELDRED FISHER.
GLOUCESTER, September 16, 1772.
I INTEND for ENGLAND immediately. (||) JOSEPH DAVENPORT.
To be SOLD at Charles City Courthouse, on Wednesday the 7th of October, being Court Day, pursuant to the last Will and Testament of Littlebury Hardyman, deceased,
SUNDRY Tracts of LAND, purchased by the said Decedent of the Estate of Mr. William Kennen, to wit: A Watermill, with four Acres of Land adjoining; one Tract of a Hundred and thirty six Acres; one Ditto of two Hundred and ninety eight Acres, called Fontaine's; one of three Hundred and thirty four Acres, called Rick's; one of a Hundred and forty eight Acres, White Oak Swamp; one of four Hundred and thirty four Acres, Meadow Plantation; one of four Hundred Acres, adjoining Ballard's; and one of two Hundred and ninety six Acres, adjoining Brooks's. For ready Money, or short Credit, as shall be agreed on at the Day of Sale.
WILLIAM GREEN MUNFORD, Executor.

POETS CORNER.
The ART to PLEASE.
BELINDA, Theme of every Song, In Age a Saint, an Angel young, Whose easy flowing Talk ne'er lost One Conquest that your Eyes could boast;
GENERAL POST OFFICE, New York, November 1, 1772. NOTICE is hereby given, that on Account of the new Regulation of the Post from Canada, which is to arrive every Tuesday Evening at this Office, and the weekly Post from the Eastward and Southward arriving every Wednesday, the Mail going from hence by the Packets will, for the future, be closed at twelve o'Clock at Night, on the first Wednesday in every Month (being the same Time it closes at the General Post Office in London for America) and a Packet despatched therewith the next Day for Falmouth.
To be LET on Charter, to any Part of Europe, THE Brig MOLLY, Mackey Reed Master, Burthen two Hundred and fifty Hogheads of Tobacco, or seven Thousand Bushels of Grain, and only fifteen Months old. For Terms apply to the Subscriber, in Norfolk.
On Thursday the 15th of October will be SOLD, on the Premises, for ready Money, by the Sheriff of Frederick, pursuant to a Decree of the County Court of Frederick, at the Suit of Richard and Peter Footman, and others, against Jacob Hite, THAT valuable Tract of LAND in Berkeley (late Frederick) where the said Jacob Hite lives, containing one Thousand nine Hundred and fifty two Acres;
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, at Mr. Thomas Craufurd's Store, in Brunswick, on Thursday the 22nd of October, by Virtue of a Deed of Trust from Lemuel Lanier, late of the said County, to the Subscriber, THE LAND whereon the said Lemuel formerly lived, lying on Hick's Creek, near Pennington's Ford, adjoining the Lands of Ravencroft's Estate and James Hicks, Junior, and containing about a Hundred and sixty Acres, greatest Part of which is good Tobacco Land;
To be SOLD by publick Auction, on Monday the 5th of October, at TODD's Warehouse, in KING and QUEEN, THE Remains of the Store formerly kept at that Place by Mr. Robinson in Dinwiddie, amounting to about four Hundred and fifty Pounds Sterling, together with several Pieces of Household Furniture.
TAKEN up by the Subscriber, at one of Mr. David Ross's Quarters, on Staunton River, in the County of Pittsylvania, a gray MARE about eight or nine Years old, four Feet four Inches high, paces slow, and branded on the near Shoulder WP in a Piece.
TAKEN up by the Subscriber, at one of Mr. David Ross's Quarters, in the County of Pittsylvania, a dark bay MARE about eight or nine Years old, four Feet seven or eight Inches high, trots, and branded on the near Shoulder R.
TAKEN up, in Westmoreland, a likely blooded bay MARE with a dark Mane and Tail, about fourteen Hands high, and judged to be seven Years old; she is neither docked nor branded, has a Scar on each Hip Bone, the one on the off Side the largest, a Scar on each Thigh, and some Saddle Spots.
TAKEN up, in King William, a dark bay HORSE about four Feet seven Inches high, has a long roached Mane and Bob Tail, and branded on the off Buttock A.
TAKEN up, in Chesterfield, a sorrel MARE about six Years old, four Feet six or seven Inches high, with a Switch Tail and hanging Mane, a Star in her Forehead, and branded on the near Buttock A.
TAKEN up, in Berkeley, a small bay MARE about four Years old, twelve Hands high, trots, and is branded on the near Buttock O.
TAKEN up, in Henrico, a yellow bay HORSE about seven Years old, four Feet seven Inches high, with a Star in his Forehead, a Bob Tail and bushy Mane, branded on the near Shoulder G.L. and on the off Buttock G.
TAKEN up, in Amelia, the following Cattle, namely: A brindled STEER, marked with a Crop and Overkeel in the left Ear, and a Hole in the right; a brindled COW, marked with a Crop in the left Ear, and a Hole in the right; a Cow CALF not marked; and a red COW marked with a Crop and two Sits in each Ear, as well as can be discerned.
TAKEN up, in Berkeley, a roan HORSE about fourteen Hands and a Half high, between eight and nine Years old, and branded on the near Buttock with a large Blotch.
TAKEN up, at Colonel Burwell's Plantation on Buffalo Creek, a black MARE about four Feet three or four Inches high, with a white Spot in her Forehead, and one on her fore Leg, and branded on the near Buttock S.
TAKEN up, at Colonel Burwell's Plantation on Buffalo Creek, a sorrel MARE about four Feet five Inches high, branded on the near Shoulder O, and on the near Buttock with a small Stirrup Iron.
MESSIEURS Robert and Robert Bogle and Scott, of London, Merchants and Partners, on the 20th of June last executed a Deed of Assignment of all the said Company's Debts and Effects in Virginia to Edward Payne, Esquire, Governor of the Bank of England, and Rene Payne of London, Merchant, in Trust, that an equitable Division may be made of the said Debts and Effects amongst all the Creditors of the said Company;
HAVING a very large Assortment of European and other GOODS on Hand, many of which were imported from London, &c. this Summer, I would willingly lump off the Whole, or in Parcels, at a very low Advance, for Cash, Tobacco, Bills of Exchange, or at a short Credit, with Security.
ENFIELD, in Halifax County, North Carolina, containing about a Thousand Acres of Land, on which are good Peach and Apple Orchards, a large commodious Brick Dwellinghouse with four Rooms on a Floor, and other good Houses.
TEN POUNDS REWARD. RUN away, on the 18th of August, from the Subscriber, in Essex, near Hobb's Hole, a Negro Man named LUKE, alias JACK, about twenty five Years old, five Feet six or eight Inches high, had on, when he went away, a Pair of old blue Cloth Breeches, Osnaburg Shirt, and a short Cotton Vest, and carried with him a green Cloth Vest, a Pair of Russia Drill and a Pair of Nankin Breeches, a white Linen Shirt, and two Pair of Yarn Hose.
THREE POUNDS REWARD. RUN away, on the 8th of July last, from the Subscriber's Plantation near Frederick Zimmerman's Ordinary, in Culpeper, an English Convict Servant Man named JOHN BOOKER, about thirty three Years old, five Feet six Inches high, with a narrow Visage, ruddy Countenance, a little pitted with the Smallpox, dark Hair untyed, was born in Yorkshir, speaks broad, is fond of Liquor, and talkative;
To be SOLD, EIGHT Hundred Acres of LAND in Albemarle, lying on the north Side of the Rivanna River, on both Sides of Long Island Creek; also eight Hundred Acres of LAND in Dinwiddie, lying on the north Side of Hatcher's Run, a Hundred Acres on the south Side of the said Run, and a LOT in the Town of Blandford.
To be SOLD at Caroline Courthouse, on Tuesday the 13th of October, if fair, otherwise next fair Day, FIFTY choice blooded HORSES, being the whole Stud of the late Colonel John Baylor.
VIRGINIA, ss. At a GENERAL COURT held at the CAPITOL, MAY 7, 1772. John Bowdoin, and Isaac Smith, Merchants, surviving Partners of Littleton Eyre, deceased, Plaintiffs, Against John Smith, Edward Smith, and Matthew Smith, Infants, Augustine Smith, Martha Jaquelin, Jaquelin Ambler, Sarah Smith, Thomas Smith, Wilson Miles Cary, James Buchanan and Company, of London, Merchants, Edmund Pendleton, and Peter Lyons, surviving Administrators, &c. of John Robinson, Esquire, deceased, Peter Presley Thornton, and Sarah his Wife, and Mary Ambler, Jaquelin Ambler, Robert Carter Nicholas, Wilson Miles Cary, and John Blair, Executors, &c. of Edward Ambler, deceased, Defendants.
THE Defendant John Smith is appointed Guardian to the Defendants Edward and Matthew Smith, who are Infants, to defend them in this Suit; and, by Consent of Parties, this Cause was this Day heard upon the Bill, Answers, and sundry Exhibits. On Consideration whereof it is decreed, and ordered, that George Purdie, John Bowdoin, John Lee, and John Smith, Gentlemen, or any two or more of them, after giving convenient Notice in the Virginia Gazette, sell, at publick Auction, the Lands in the Counties of Gloucester and Northumberland known by the Names of Dragon Quarter and Fleet's Bay, comprised in the Indentures of Mortgage in the Bill mentioned, at twelve Months Credit, to be entered upon the first Day of January next, and also the Slaves, with their Increase, and other Things in the said Mortgages mentioned, at three Months Credit, taking Bonds, with sufficient Security, from the Purchasers, and return an Account thereof to the Court;
All Persons having any Claims against the Estate of John Smith, deceased, are desired to lay them before the Gentlemen appointed by the Decree of the Honourable General Court, between this and the 20th of October next, as the Plaintiffs in the above Suit intend to move for a final Decree at that Time.
For SALE, THE following Tracts of LAND, in Pittsylvania, namely, four Hundred Acres on Banister River, seven Hundred and seventy on Beaver Creek, three Hundred and forty five on Burch's Creek, three Hundred and eighty on Leakwood, and four Hundred on Snow Creek.
To be SOLD, FOURTEEN Hundred Acres of exceeding good TOBACCO LAND in Stafford County, on the Branches of Aquia and Potomack Runs, extremely well timbered and watered, twelve Miles from Falmouth, and ten from Aquia.
To be SOLD on the Premises, on Friday the 4th of December next, TWO Hundred and sixty three Acres of LAND in Amherst County, adjoining to the Tobacco Run Mountains, whereon is a Plantation, with all convenient Houses on the same, in good Order for Cropping, sufficient for working seven or eight Hands; the Land is exceeding rich for Tobacco, Corn, Wheat, or Hemp.
THE Subscriber having provided convenient Warehouses for the Reception of Goods, purposes selling on Commission, either by private Sale or publick Vendue, and begs Leave to assure the Publick that his best Endeavours shall be used to dispose of any Goods given him for Sale to the most Advantage, and that they may expect the greatest Punctuality in the Payment of the Proceeds, being determined to continue the Business no longer than he finds he can do so;
STOLEN from the Subscriber, on Friday Night the 12th Instant, a bay HORSE about four Feet seven Inches high, with a short Switch Tail and hanging Mane, paces, trots, and gallops very well, has remarkable good Spirit, was shod before, but his Brand, if any, is not remembered.
To be LET on LEASE, A VERY large and commodious HOUSE in the Town of Petersburg, built for a Tavern, and well fitted for that Business; it is two Stories high, has a Number of very convenient Lodging Rooms, and large and small Rooms for the Entertainment of Guests.