The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1771-02-14 00:00:00

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The CANADIAN MAN and WIFE; or, the Memoirs of the Chevalier DE BEAUCHENE.
M Y Self Love will undoubtedly suffer by relating here a succinct History of my Life. It matters not, I must tell all as faithfully as I can. I well deserve to be put to some Sort of Shame. On the other Hand, I must not bury in Silence some laudable Actions, which will be but a slight Atonement for those I ought to blush at.
I am indebted for Life to a rich Counsellor of the Parliament of Paris, who, designing me for the Bar, had me educated with that View; but I had such an Aversion for Study, and especially for that of the Law, that I learned Nothing. My Father, perceiving the little Inclination I had to shine in his Profession, changed his Design. I was committed to the Care of an Uncle I had at Court, and was provided with a Post in the King's Household. A Sort of Propensity for libertine Life involved me in excessive Expenses. On Account of being the only Son of an opulent Man I had already found Means to borrow to the Amount of twelve Thousand Crowns, when I was still under twenty. The Place I obtained cost near fifty Thousand Livres, and this was a new Bait for my Creditors, their usury Purses were open to me, and I was glad that they disbursed. Of a great Number of young Gentlemen that found Money as I did, with more Ease than the King, I was the most considered, and the soonest served. It is true that my Creditors made me date and renew my Notes when they pleased; but though they took these Precautions I could observe that they were particularly fond of me, and that they hazarded less with others, from whom they often impolitely required Security.
An Inheritance of near two Hundred Thousand Livres, which my Father, by his Death, in a short Time after, left them and me (for I owed them about Half) increased their Hopes, and the irregularity of my Conduct. My Uncle, but in vain, remonstrated to me that I was seeking my Ruin. Though sensible how much I deserved his Reproaches, I had not Resolution enough to mend. My Folly, or my Stupidity rather, egged me on to Destruction. I loved Wine and good Cheer. Twenty Parasites devoured me. I played deep; and, though I fancied myself to be a dexterous Gambler, I always found myself the Dupe and Prey of Sharps. Apprised of my Dissipations, my Uncle reprimanded me anew, but to no purpose. At Length, tired of admonishing me, and to frustrate my Expectations of being his Heir, he resolved to marry, that he might get an Heir worthy of him.
It was, however, on this Succession, that my Creditors depended most. They considered it as a Supplement to my Fortune; which was likely, in Time, to be of Service to them. They knew better than myself what I was worth, for I consigned over to them the Care of calculating my Debts and my Income. To complete the Picture of my Disorders, I thought those too prudent and regular who kept Mistress as such. This Manner appeared to me too easily allied to the tiresome Uniformity of Marriage. In short, I lived as debauched a Life as One well could, when an Event happened which I am now going to relate.
I had lately hired a Valet de Chambre, who, having been never in Service, piqued himself on his great Fidelity. He informed me that one of my Footmen, in whom I had placed some Confidence, was of a pilfering Disposition, and carried on his Theft in Concert with the Cook. Jasmine, added he, goes out every Night after Supper and takes away with her Something to a Place I have taken Notice of. To be convinced of the Truth of the Fact, I hid me at Night on the Stairs of a House where my Valet de Chambre assured me the stolen Things were brought. The accused Footman came there effectually carrying a Bundle, passed by without seeing me, and went up into a Garret. I quickly followed him, Knave, said I, presenting my naked Sword to him, is it so you rob me? The Wretch immediately threw himself at my Knees. Strike, Sir, said he, but you will destroy three with the same Blow. So saying he pointed to a young Woman, whom Fear had made motionless, and an old Man, almost worn out with Infirmities. Here is Nothing, pursued the Footman, opening the Bundle that he still held in his Hand, but the Scraps and Leavings of your Servants Victuals. So it is I prolong the Life of my Father, who has only this Help to subsist on. Yet, though these Leavings are very bad, I pay dear for them to your Cook, to whom I have given up, for this Year past, my Wages. The Father, on his Side, cried out Mercy; but there was no farther Occasion to have Recourse to Supplication in Order to move me. What I saw was enough to disarm and to inspire me with Compassion. I drew near to the old Man, and asked him why he did not solicit a Place in the General Hospital, rather than remain in so distressed a Situation. I would have done so, answered he, but my Children opposed it; the bare Name of the Place where they should be obliged to come and see me frightened them.
Whilst I spoke in this Manner to the old Man his Son was fled, and his Daughter had hidden herself. Be of good Cheer, said I to the Father; I commend what your Son has done, and, far from discharging him, I will double his Wages. To make this Promise more effectual I accompanied it with two or three Pistoles, along all the Money, Gold and Silver, I found in my Pockets. I intended, as soon as I got Home, to dispel Jasmine's Fears, who, not knowing what I had said to his Father, must have been very uneasy. Unfortunately for him, the Valet de Chambre, seeing him enter, and believing he should give him good Advice, desired him to fly away in Haste, to escape Justice, to which I might deliver him up; and this Speech of his so troubled the Footman's Mind that he disappeared, and was no more heard of.
His Elopement gave his Father great Trouble, who sent several Times his Daughter to my House to inquire if any Intelligence had been had of him. Once, having directly addressed herself to me, though covered with Rags, her Beauty strangely alarmed me. I was so smitten with her, that, forgetting the generous Motive that had hitherto induced me to do her Good, I proposed Conditions to this poor innocent Girl, to rescue her, and the Author of her Birth, from Wretchedness. So it was that I made the Sentiments of Humanity instrumental to aggravate my Guilt.
The virtuous Maid appeared very far from ever entering into my Views. As to her Father, I found the Conquest of him more easy. Whether he was affected by my engaging Ways, or that the Dread of falling into extreme Indigence did not suffer him to be untractable, he yielded to my Solicitations. But both of us found it a very hard Task to seduce the Girl; I say both of us, for he was obliged to have Recourse to specious Pretences to reduce her to Compliance. He assured her that I had given him my Word of Honour that I would publicly marry her as soon as I possibly could bring the Thing to bear, which I dared not then do, for Fear of displeasing an Uncle, whose Heir I expected to be. Whilst he omitted Nothing to obtain a Consent to his Dishonour, I seconded him by the Measures I had taken for bettering their Way of Life. I hired for them, and furnished, an Apartment, where I settled them with a Servant Maid. In Fine, we set so many Engines to Work, the Father and I, that the Girl ceased to resist us.
What determined her more than any other Consideration to yield to my Importunities was, that, judging from my Behaviour to her I was too honest a Man to deceive her, she fancied my Attachment would not end but with my Life. In less than eight Days she consented to surrender, and the Father, well pleased with his Lot, no longer retained any Remembrance of his having been wretched. But his shameful Propriety was of short Duration; he fell ill and died, recommending to me his Daughter.
This amiable Child gave herself up entirely to the Love she had conceived for me, contented with the Esteem and Friendship I could not withhold from the true Merit I observed in her. One might say that her Situation pleased her, though, after the Promises I had made her, she had a Right to hope for a better Condition. Never was Life more retired than her's.
I could not prevail upon her to appear at theatrical Entertainments, or Assemblies of any Kind. She even prayed I should see her only in private; very far from the Humour of other kept Mistress, who cannot have Lovers of Abilities to engage in Expenses on their Account without erecting for themselves a Kind of Trophy of their Infamy.
Out of pure Compliance to me she consented to learn to sing and dance, but she employed the better Part of her Time in reading. Her Demeanor, her excellent Qualities, ought to have withdrawn me from my debauched Life, and fixed me entirely. She never asked any Thing of me. It is true I anticipated her Wants and Desires. I seldom saw her without making her a Present of some Jewel. One Time I gave her a Gold Watch or Snuff Box, another Time a Diamond Ring and Necklace; and when it happened that I won fifty or sixty Pistoles at Play, I obliged her to share them with me. It is Play Money, said I, if you do not take it I shall lose it tomorrow; I had rather you had it than another. But commonly she would accept Nothing unless I promised her to be more reasonable for a certain Number of Days, and not to frequent bad Company, who were my Destruction. I should, in Fine, be happy, if I pursued her Advice, and that of a sincere Friend, whom I sometimes brought to sup with me at her Apartment, and who, on his Side, often exhorted me to reform my Conduct. When I engaged in Parties of Pleasure, and chanced to be two Days without seeing her, I threw her into all imaginable Distress; and if I had the least Indisposition she went bitterly, as if her Life was intimately connected with mine.
I raised in her a Multiplicity of other Alarms. One Day, overheated with Wine, and almost under the King's Eye, I made myself guilty of a Crime which I have not Power to explain. I was under a Necessity to disappear, for Fear of ending my Days on a Scaffold; and, notwithstanding all the Intercession made for me by the Interest of my Uncle and Friends, my Pardon was not obtained but by the Loss of my Post, and a Fine of ten Thousand Livres for the Benefit of the General Hospital. This Affair set my Creditors in Motion. They all knew one another; and, having made an Estimate of my Fortune, their first Resolution was, at their Meeting, to lend me no more Money, in Order not to increase my Debts. Having learned, a Fortnight or three Weeks after, that my Uncle was going to be married, they judged, from this precipitate Marriage, that I was abandoned by him. Their Intentions then became publick, and they joined the Administrators of the General Hospital. These Particulars my Friend wrote me an Account of in the Place of my Retreat. He added, in his Letter, that he had been to see my Uncle, who told him, showing his Marriage Articles, here, Sir, is a Proof that I no longer acknowledge for a Nephew a Profligate whom I would have caused to be arrested immediately if I knew where he is, and would with Pleasure let him die in a Dungeon, to expiate the Ignominy he has brought on our Family.
My Friend, not being able to procure the ten Thousand Livres I wanted, could not hinder my Fortune being seized and sold. Besides the above Sum, I likewise stood in Need of eighty Thousand Livres to satisfy my Creditors. At least, so stripped as I was, I had not much to fear; and I might, perhaps, have gained upon my Pride to seek some Resource in Paris, where I knew so many Persons who called themselves my Friends. But in vain I should have taken so shameful a Step; for my only remaining Friend sent me Word that he had seen them all, and that, far from being disposed to draw me out of the Abyss most of them had dug for me, they scarce any longer remembered me. The only Person, added he, that is concerned for your Misfortune, is the young Lady with whom we have sometimes supped together. She every Day applies to me to learn how your Affairs are. She earnestly solicits me to let her know your Address, which I did not judge advisable to do, lest she might be gained over by your Enemies. All that her Tears, true or false, could obtain from me, was a Promise of a Letter from her coming safe to your Hands.
He sent me one in Fact, intimating that he believed her sincere, but that my Distress no more required the Breathings of tender Sighs, and that I ought to be sufficiently embarrassed with myself, without the additional Encumbrance of a faithful Adventurer. I was of his Opinion, and began to forget my dear Girl, imagining she would no longer think of me. Yet the oftener I read her Letter the more she seemed worthy to me of Attention. I still remember the Words it contained. "I can live no longer (said she) without seeing you. If you do not permit me to come to you I will seek after you in all the Frontier Towns. It is not so much for my Satisfaction that I ask this Favour as for your own Interest. The Misfortune that keeps us at a Distance from one another may have an End. Could I see you I might administer some Comfort to you. We sometimes receive Help where we expect it least. Figure to yourself my Father expiring, and forget not that you swore to him that you would never abandon me. I have lost all since I was yours. I have Nothing dear to me but you in the World. What signifies it to me in what Situation I may find you? It is yourself, and not your Riches, I have at Heart. Think that I belong to you as certain as if divine and human Laws had imposed on me the Necessity of sharing your Fortune with you as well as your Name. Farewell; I will let out when you please, and repair immediately to whatever Place you direct."
Before I received this Letter the tiresome Life I led in my Exile, and Money I was soon likely to want, had filled me with the Desire of making a secret Tour to Paris. I could not help doing so after reading the Letter, though it promised me Nothing positive. I set out as privately as I could from the Place I was in, and at Night came to my Friend's House, who was surprised to see me. I hazarded much in Reality, but the more unfortunate one is the less Danger is dreaded. My Friend sent immediately to inform my Mistress that he had News to acquaint her with. She flew that Instant to his House, and finding her there, instead of a Letter she expected, the poor Girl was near losing her Senses through Excess of Joy. She did not amuse herself in testifying to me the Pleasure the Sight of me excited in her. She asked only after my Health; and then prayed my Friend and me to follow her to her Lodgings, telling us we might not, perhaps, be sorry to take that Trouble.
On entering the small Chamber where she lived, for she had let out her Apartment to save Something, she showed us a Box, which she opened, in which was a great Number of Gold Pieces, and a good many Jewels. Sir, said she, turning to me, all this is your Property, and I here restore it to you. Intimately affected by this Action, I looked at, quite speechless, not the Treasure, but the generous Girl that offered it to me. Then, throwing herself into my Arms, I should be much richer, cried she, if I had been as ready at receiving as you was in giving. How I now upbraid myself for my Delicacy! Why was not I more covetous? Why had not I in my Hands the Riches that were taken from you? God forbid, answered I, that I should accept what you so cordially offer me. No, my dear Child, you deserve it better than I do, and I would lay down my Life to preserve it to you. And I mine, replied she, to have it in my Power to reinstate you in your late Situation. What do I see and hear, said then my Friend. How happy must one be to meet with a Reverse of Fortune at this Rate? You have lost Nothing, added he, turning to me, being possessed of the Heart of so rare a Person.
After a long Conflict of Tenderness and Generosity between my dear Girl and me, what think you to do at last, 'o my Friend to us. You either must, answered she, endeavour to appease his Creditors with that Sum, or he must take it with him, and retire into some Place of Safety. I shall die if he leaves me, but I will not ask him to take me along with him; that would be embarrassing him too much. How can you think so, said I to her. No, Nothing but Death can separate us; this is the just Claim of your Friendship for having saved the Test of my Misfortunes.
My Friend interrupted us again to tell us he was of Opinion I should secrete myself, whilst he went about to my Creditors and made them Offers. I thought it was most advisable to do so. He saw them all apart, and soon disposed them to an Accommodation. Those who imagine they will
lose all are easily induced to compound. In short, I saw myself at the Eve of being at Liberty, when a new Misfortune cut us short of that last Hope. My Friend's Footman, suspecting that there were Things of Value in the Box, found Means to come at the Key of his Master's Closet in the Night, and carried away the Box with him.
What a Stroke of Thunder was this to my Friend, when he perceived the next Day what had happened! He ran immediately to give Information of the Theft, and the most diligent and strict Search was made after the Villain both in Town and Country. He was taken in a Fortnight's Time, and hanged before his Master's Door, after having confessed his Crime. This was all the Redress, and Consolation we had, for Justice detained the Box and its Contents.
It is no easy Matter to represent our Distress and Vexation, especially that of my Friend. We ourselves were obliged to console him. The poor Girl, who, in the main, was the only One that had sustained the Loss, seemed least affected, and exhorted me to Patience. You see, said I to her, the Result of your Tenderness. Why do you not abandon me to my evil Destiny? You had Something to live upon; why did you not then forget me? It was my Duty to assist you, answered she; but I can no more do so but by my Care. Let us depart with what Money we have remaining. Let us leave a Country where our Liberty is endangered. You say Nothing to me, pursued she, observing me lost in Thought. You are distracted, I see. You have a Mind to go from me, but you will not succeed in the Attempt; I will every Where follow you, and be like a Shadow attending on your Steps. You made me happy as long as you was to yourself; it is now just I should bear a Part with you in your Misfortunes.
Well then, said I, you shall share them with me, if you can; but do you know to what Perils you will expose yourself by following me? My Resolution is taken; I am going to quit France, and even Europe. An old Friend of my Father has had a private Conference with me. He counselled me to pass into America, and gave me letters of Recommendation to get some Employment there. Can you undertake such a Voyage? Will the Climate agree with you? Why should you banish yourself from your Country to encounter with me the Dangers of a long Navigation? I know no other Danger, replied she, than that of losing you. Ready to brave Storms, and all the Rigour of Climates, I repeat it again to you that I will follow you wherever you are willing to conduct me. This shall be then, answered I, melting away in Tears, and quite transported by the Emotions so much Consistency filled me with, this shall be then in Quality of my Wife; that Title only, if you are pleased to accept of it, can determine me to make you the Companion of my Fortune. This faithful Lover, who considered our Marriage as the greatest Happiness that could fall to her Lot, made no Objection to it. We were therefore married, and, under a borrowed Name, set out for America.
Our Passage was prosperous. Arrived in Canada, my Letters of Recommendation obtained for me the Place of Commanding Officer of a Fort situated on the Frontiers. There we gained a Settlement. A French Gentleman, who had formed in the Neighbourhood of the Fort a very charming Habitation, gave it up to us on certain Considerations stipulated between us. The Virtues of my Wife have never in the least abated in her Situation. We have lived there for several Years past, and enjoy a Happiness of which she is as worthy as I have been undeserving.
On the FEAR of DEATH.
I f Men had a Love of Virtue, if they kept strictly up to the Principles of Probity, if they had an Abhorrence of Wickedness, they would no longer be afraid of Death. They would only consider it as the Expiration of that Term which he who brought us into the World is pleased to allow for our Stay in it; they would wait the Destiny which God has reserved for them, and, without being uneasy for what they can neither avoid nor avert, they would esteem every Day as a fresh Present from Heaven. But the criminal Conduct of the Generality of Mankind is the Cause of their Fear of Death: As often as they think of it the Idea torments them; they are sometimes struck with Death, or the Fear of Death, in the Midst of their Revels, and even in the Height of Voluptuousness on Beds strewn with fragrant Flowers. And well may they dread the Moment when they shall be summoned to give an Account of their Actions, and to receive the Punishment which they deserve.
We cannot be truly happy if we are under a constant Apprehension, and we cannot be free from it but by being virtuous; which is another Proof of the Necessity that Men are under of being virtuous and good, in Order to enjoy that Peace of Mind without which there is no true Happiness.
When we have Nothing to reproach ourselves with, when we employ Life as we ought to do, why should we be afraid to quit it? It is no more than returning what was lent to us. A wise Man ought to retire from Life as he would from a Feast to which he has been invited. Would it not be ridiculous for him to expect that his Host should maintain him always? Has not Nature a Right to demand back a Life which is only granted on Condition of Retribution? It is an Order immutably fixed and determined in the Existence of Beings that when old Age is arrived at a certain Term it should be banished out of the Rank of all Things, and that the Universe should be embellished with the Charm of new Productions. Nature is repaired by the mutual Destruction of Beings, as well as by their reciprocal Generation. Those who are gone before us have made Room for us; can we, without Injustice, refuse to do the same in Favour of those who are to come after us? We ought to repine the less at making Way for them, considering that they, in Turn, must do the like to others; and that, after having made their Appearance on the Stage of Life, they must undergo the same Fate as ourselves. Antiquity has been a Prey to Death; Posterity shall not be exempted from the Stroke of it: What Right have we to expect more Favour? We do not hold Life by Virtue of any Treaty; we ought, therefore, to be satisfied with the Use of it, as Tenants at Will.
Were we to live ten Millions of Ages, we should only see the same Things over and over again, and what those few who are gone before us. Nature offers us, in the Time present and past, a Looking Glass wherein we may contemplate Futurity, and see what will happen during the immense Term of Ages to come. It is not the Length of Life that renders it happy, but the Use we make of it. "Let us think every Day (says Horace) the last of our Lives, for then every Moment that the Gods shall please to give us beyond what we expected will be the more agreeable to us." In short, why are we solicitous for another Day? Let us live in the Enjoyment of as much Tranquility as we can; and, whatever be the Number of Days that it shall please Heaven to grant us, let us study to improve the present Moment. That which is just gone is no more ours, and we are not sure of that which is to follow the present.
They who fear when they die that they shall lose their Riches, their Offices, their Children, their Wives, and whatever they hold precious, ought to consider that Crassus, the richest of all the Romans, Julius Cæsar, the Master of the Republic, Pharaoh, the best Father in the World, Peter, the most tender of all Husbands, and Alexander, the most faithful of Lovers, are all dead. Is there any Sum in expecting what could not be obtained by Men who possessed all Things that can endure Life to us, in the highest Degree?
If it was in our Power to prolong Life for many Ages, Death would not appear the less disagreeable when it comes to put an End to it, nor would Eternity be the less with Regard to this World. "The Eternity of Time (says Lucretius) is equal to all Men, and the Person who was burnt to Day will be as long the Victim of irrevocable Age as One that was expunged out of the Rank of Being several Months, nay Years, ago."

IF it be true, 'tis some to you say it is, that our Non Importation Agreements are not observed, but that we clandestinely import and consume as much British Goods as ever, why are you so angry with us, and why do you propose compelling us to trade with you by Force?
If, as others of you say, we do indeed generally forbear importing at present, but must soon, from Necessity, be obliged to break our Agreements, cannot you have a little Patience?
Can you Englishmen think your abusing us in all the British Papers as Rebels, Knaves, Fools, Traitors, &c. &c. will put us into a better Humour, make us more inclined to come to your Shop, buy your Superfluities, and follow your Fashions?
Are you absolutely certain that there are no possible Means whereby we may supply ourselves with Conveniences and Necessaries, without importing them from Great Britain?
If, through the high Price of Labour, Manufactures are, as you assert, impracticable in America, cannot you be quiet, and let us convince ourselves of our own Folly by Experience, since that will make our future commercial Connections with you still stronger, and discourage future Attempts, when perhaps become more practicable? Is it mere Good Will to us, and Fear of our hurting ourselves by such Attempts, that you take such Pains to prove they cannot succeed? Or is it to convince Government that we may be used very ill, without the least Danger of Prejudice to your Trade or Manufactures?
If those Colonies that entered into the Non Importation Agreement have done it, as some of you assert, because they are in bad Circumstances, deep in Debt to your Merchants, and on the Verge of Bankruptcy, can their refusing to take more of your Goods, and get deeper into your Debt, be so heinous a Crime as to provoke your calling down upon them national Vengeance?
If the Colonists are indeed generally such bad Paymasters, if your Factors and Agents among them find such infinite Difficulties in getting in your Debts, if the People of America are such a Set of Hypocrites, Knaves, and Cheats, as you represent them to be, why, in the Name of common Sense, are you so desirous of continuing the Commerce with them? Why in such Rage at their refusing it? Why in such Raptures when you heard that a few in New York had broken through the Agreement?
If the American Trade is of so little Consequence to this Nation, as others of you tell us, that your Merchants and Manufacturers do not miss it, that additional Demands from other Countries more than supply the Loss of it, and that it is not therefore of the smallest Importance whether the Americans are pleased or displeased with any Treatment they may receive from Britain, would you then punish them for doing you no Injury? If the Trade be only advantageous to them, cannot you leave them (like froward Children, that quarrel with their Bread and Butter) to punish themselves, by going without it?
On the other Hand, if our Commerce and Friendship are of some Advantage to you, while you are exasperating this Country against the Colonies by Misrepresentations and Falsehoods; if you are, at the same Time, by your Abuses, so exasperating that Country against this as that they will, from Resentment, exert themselves more earnestly to give Encouragement, and finally should succeed in every Manufacture, as they have already in several, will your Country then think that you have been doing it Service?
Do not you suppose it possible that civil Dissensions may encourage foreign Intruders? Can you conceive the least Use in destroying all mutual Regard and Affection between Britain and America? Can you imagine a more diabolical Employment than that of fomenting Mischief, sowing the Seeds of civil War, provoking a Prince against his Subjects, Fathers against their Children, and promoting deadly Feuds between different Branches of the same Family?
Do you think it impossible that England may ever need Assistance from the Colonies? Do you think it quite out of the Course of human Affairs that Boston should ever have Occasion to seek an Asylum in America? Would it not be more comfortable to you, and your Children, to find there Liberty and Friends than Slavery and Enemies?
PETERSBURG. October 5.
THE 3d Instant, being the Empress's Coronation Day, was celebrated with extraordinary Magnificence. Her Imperial Majesty took this Opportunity to recompense the Services of several of her principal Officers, by granting them distinguishing Marks of her Favour. Count Alexis Orlow was appointed a Knight of St. George of the first Class, with the Pension annexed to that Dignity, besides a Present of a Hundred Thousand Rubles, and the honourable Prerogative of holding, during his whole Life, the Imperial Flag. Count Fedor, his Brother, is promoted to the Rank of Lieutenant General, and the Ensigns of the Order of St. George of the second Class, with the Pension annexed to that Dignity, and a Present of fifty Thousand Rubles. Admiral Spiridow has received the Order of St. Andrew, with an Estate inhabited by two Thousand Seven Hundred Peasants. Admiral Greek, who, as well as the Officers above mentioned, distinguished himself in the Destruction of the Turkish Fleet, received a Present of twenty Thousand Rubles, with the Ensigns and Pension of the Order of St. George of the third Class. Her Imperial Majesty likewise ordered two Hundred Thousand Rubles to be distributed among the other Officers of the Fleet in the Archipelago. Several other Promotions and Gratifications were made that Day.
VENICE, October 7. It is no longer a Doubt that Hadgi Ali Bey has mounted the Throne of the ancient Sultans of Egypt, and has made himself Master of several Provinces in Arabia, as well as Ports on the Red Sea, and has dismissed all the Governors, and the Divan, from their Employments. He has also written Letters to several Princes with whom he thinks it convenient to live in Amity, one particularly to this Republic.
GENOA, October 13. The Vessel which arrived lately from Buenos Ayres, at Cadiz, with Despatches for the Spanish Court, and from which the Commander would not suffer one Person to go on Shore, until they had received Orders from the King, has on Board, as is reported, some Englishmen brought from Falkland's Island.
MARSEILLES, October 26. The Master of a Vessel arrived here from Mahon informs us they had learned that an Algerine Corsair had taken from an English Packet the Money she had on Board for paying the Garrison of Minorca.
LONDON, October 19.
The House of Burgesses of Virginia Having transmitted to Mr. Montagu, their Agent, the following Petition, the same has been presented by him to his Majesty.
To the KING'S Most Excellent MAJESTY: The humble Petition of the House of Burgesses of VIRGINIA.
May it please your Most Excellent Majesty, GRACIOUSLY to permit your ever dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Burgesses of Virginia, now met in General Assembly, to approach your Royal Presence, and with all Humility to renew their most earnest Entreaties that your Majesty, in your great Goodness, would be pleased to extend your fatherly Protection to them and all their Fellow Subjects in America.
Having, Sire, upon former and recent Occasions, humbly submitted to your Royal Wisdom our just Claims to be free and exempt from all Taxes imposed on us without our own Consent, for the Purpose of raising and establishing a Revenue in America, we should not now presume to recall your Majesty's gracious Attention to the same Subject, had we not the most convincing Testimony that the Sentiments and Dispositions of your Majesty's Ministry, confirmed by the Voice of Parliament, still continue extremely unfavourable and alarming to your Majesty's American Subjects; a Reflection to us at this Time the more irksome and grievous, as we had, from the late agreeable Prospect, flattered ourselves that a broad and permanent Foundation would soon have been laid for restoring and perpetuating that pleasing Harmony which once so happily united the Interest and Affections of all your Majesty's Subjects, both British and American.
Words, most gracious Sovereign, cannot sufficiently express the exceeding great Concern and deep Affliction with which our Minds have been agitated and tortured upon finding almost a fixed and determined Resolution in the Parliament of Great Britain to continue the several Acts imposing Duties for the sole Purpose of raising a Revenue in America, exposing the Persons and Estates of your Majesty's affectionate Subjects to the arbitrary Decisions of distant Courts of Admiralty, and thereby depriving them of the inestimable Right and Privilege of being tried by their Peers alone, according to the long established and well known Laws of the Land. From these hateful Sources have already been derived much Disquietude and Unhappiness, which are not likely to abate under the Continuance of Measures apparently tending to deprive the Colonists of every Thing dear and valuable to them.
A partial Suspension of Duties, and these such only as were imposed on British Manufactures, cannot, great Sire, remove the too well grounded Fears and Apprehensions of your Majesty's loyal Subjects, whilst Impositions are continued on the same Articles of foreign Fabrick, and entirely retained upon Tea, for the avowed Purpose of establishing a Precedent against us.
We therefore, judging it at all Times an indispensable Duty we owe to your Majesty, to our Country, ourselves, and Posterity, humbly to lay our
Grievances before the common Father of all his People, do now, impressed with the highest Sense of Duty and Affection, prostrate ourselves at the Foot of your Throne, most humbly beseeching and imploring your Majesty graciously to interpose your Royal Influence and Authority to procure a total Repeal of those disagreeable Acts of Parliament, and to secure to us the free and uninterrupted Enjoyment of all those Rights and Privileges which, from the Laws of Nature, of Community in general, and in a most especial Manner from the Principles of the British Constitution, particularly recognized and confirmed to the Colony by repeated and express Stipulation, we presume not to claim but in common with all the rest of your Majesty's Subjects, under the same or like Circumstances.
That your Majesty, and your Royal Descendants, may long and gloriously reign in the Hearts of a free and happy People, is the constant and fervent Prayer of
Your Majesty's truly devoted, most dutiful, loyal, and affectionate Subjects, The Burgesses and Representatives of the People of Virginia. PEYTON RANDOLPH, Speaker.
November 1. From Experiments made by Dr. Heberden, F. R. S. from July 16 to July 1767, it appears that in every Month less Rain Water, in Proportion as 121 to 226, was received in an open Vessel, placed on the Top of Westminster Abbey, than in a like Vessel placed on the Top of a House not so high as the Abbey; and the Cause of this extraordinary Difference has not yet been discovered, though it is more than four Years since. A few Days ago a Gentleman mentioning this curious Experiment to Mr. Dunn, and that some great Discoveries might depend on it, if its Cause should be assigned, Mr. Dunn gave this Answer: "This Experiment, which I was not before acquainted with, proves that Drops of Rain Water, in descending from the Clouds, do grow larger as they come nearer the Earth, and that they accumulate those humid Particles amongst others they pass, which are plentifully diffused through the Atmosphere at that Time; and that this is by a Force of Attraction, whereby the Drops attract the Particles, proportional to the Quantity of Matter in one, compared with that of the other; and that, in a Descent of fifty Yards, a Drop of Rain may, in our Climate, double itself in Magnitude. And farther, it affords a strong Argument that the intermediate Spaces between the Sun and Planets may abound with Particles exceedingly rarified, which, in gravitating towards the Sun, do accumulate (like Drops of Rain) and form those huge Diffs, or Bodies, which appear to us Spots on the Face of the Sun. Those Bodies may have been lately observed to gyrate, or move, round one another, and have afforded Disquisitions for Persons acquainted with the Telescope; and there is no Doubt but more such will appear."
It is said the Duke of Grafton has a certain Utensil in his Bedchamber, which he constantly uses, at the Bottom of which is the Figure of Mr. Wilkes. On the other Hand, Mr. Wilkes, from whom some say he borrowed the Thought, it is certain, has a whole Set, for the Use of his Family, with the Figure of a great Lady in Pall Mall.
November 5. The Romish Religion has been long thought on the Decline. The Senate of Venice suppressing thirty six Convents, without Consent of the See of Rome, confirms this.
On Friday last a Duel was fought at the Burrow Castle, at Portsmouth, a Place some little Way up the Harbour, between the Captain of the Favourite, from Falkland's Island, and the Lieutenant who belonged to her when she went from England, but left her soon after her Arrival at that Place, on Account of some Disagreement between them. The Captain, we hear, was slightly wounded.
November 6. Some farther Particulars relative to the taking of Bender, which arrived by Letters yesterday, are as follows. The Town, upon a Signal given, was attacked in three different Places; the Garrison defended themselves valiantly, and disputed every Inch of Ground, with great Perseverance. When they were beaten from the Intrenchments they fought from Street to Street in the town, and withheld the Russians for five Hours after they took the Citadel. The Garrison consisted, at the Beginning of the Siege, of near thirty Thousand, but at the Time of the Assault was reduced to near Half that Number. Four Hundred Cannon were found in the Town, besides an immense Booty. Baron Stein, who resided in London about five Years since, and Colonel Maller, were both killed in the Attack.
November 27. The following animated Sentiments were delivered by a great and Noble Orator, in a large Company, on Thursday last.
His Lordship began with telling his Hearers, "That he thought the present Situation of his Country was so truly critical and alarming that he would not sit still, but would drag the Ministers from their Concealments, and expose them to the Resentment of an injured, insulted, and, he was afraid, an undone Country."
"A Noble Lord (Lord Weymouth) continued he, has told us that it is necessary to cultivate Peace, and has enlarged much upon the Inhumanity of War, and the Desire he has to prevent the Effusion of human Blood. I have as little Desire to plunge this Nation into an unnecessary War as the Noble Lord can have, but Hostilities have been commenced against a Kingdom not used to suffer any Insults to pass unrevenged. I wish the Noble Lord had always entertained these Sentiments of Humanity; the People would then have had no Reason to lament the spilling of innocent Blood in St. George's Fields, by the Violence of his Lordship's Politicks."
"It has been insinuated that the publick Credit of the Nation may be affected if this Motion should be complied with. Let us consider who are the People that suffer most by the Fluctuation of your Funds: Your little dirty Money Jobbers, Bloodsuckers, Muckworms, Comminaries, and Contractors, these are the Men that have thrown down all Distinctions of Men in this Country. I equally despise them all, from the Jobber in the Alley to Asiatick Plunderers in Leadenhall Street."
"I am concerned that in these Times, when Unanimity is so much wanted, that any Doubts should have been thrown out respecting the Legality of impressing; a Measure which has the Sanction of the common Law. I consider the three Aldermen who discharged the impressed Men as Parricides of their Country, and would be the first to move for an Inquiry into their Conduct."
"A Noble Lord has cautioned us against starting any Difficulties that may impede the Negotiation with a Court so jealous of its Honour as the Court of Madrid. However highly that Lord may think of the lofty Idioms of Spanish Pride, I ever found them, in all my Negotiations, a crafty, shifting, disingenuous, and designing People, possessing not Half the Integrity and good Faith of the English Nation."
"The Noble Lord talks of negotiating when we should be striking a Blow. Hostilities have already been commenced. I wish the Officer of the Tamar was at this Bar; I wish Captain Farmer, who came Passengers, were here; they would give us an Account of the Conduct of the Governor of Buenos Ayres. They would tell you that the Island was demanded in the Name of the King of Spain; those, therefore, who advised his Majesty to call the Act of the Governor of Buenos Ayres advised him to an Impostion on this Company. If it was the Act of that Governor, why does the King of Spain (to use every intelligible English Phrase) still keep Possession of the stolen Goods? In the Reign of James I. that great Man Sir Walter Raleigh, for an Infringement on the Spanish Territories, fell a Sacrifice to the cruel, insolent, and vindictive Spirit of the haughty Spaniards."
"I am for defending the Honour of the Crown and the Rights of the People, but I must confess that I think the Situation of this Kingdom is truly deplorable whilst the Reins of Government are in the Hands of Men not one of whom ever knew Half an Hour's Business in their Lives."
"I call upon the Gentlemen in Administration to tell us what Steps they have taken to defend this Country. Have they sent a Squadron to the Western Ocean? Which I will pronounce to be essentially necessary. In the last War, that great Officer Lord Anson, to whose Knowledge and Experience in naval Affairs the Successes of that War are in a great Degree to be attributed, advised this Measure to be adopted. It was adopted, and we all know the good Effects that followed. Have you a Fleet in North America? Have you another in the East Indies? Have you one in the Mediterranean? No; sorry am I to say that wherever I turn my Eyes I see the Marks of Inattention and Inexperience. You cannot at this Time fit out twelve Ships of the Line, in such Condition for an Officer to take his Reputation on. You have now only ten Thousand Seamen to defend this great Empire, and in my Administration I found full Employment for eighty five Thousand."
"But remember, Gentlemen, that if Gibraltar, Mahon, or Jamaica, should fall, that you shall answer it at the Tribunal of the Publick. Upon the Whole, I am of Opinion that we must either have a War or an ignominious Compromise. I beseech the Gentlemen in Administration to prepare for the former, and not submit to the latter. I desire them to restore to the People their violated Rights, that they may save their own Heads, and walk the publick Streets free from Insult."
Besides the Motion made by the Duke of Richmond, on Thursday, in the Upper Room of the Society, as given in this Paper on Saturday, and the true Numbers on which were, for twenty six, against eighty one, there were two other Motions, both of which were carried in the Negative. The first of these was, in Substance, to know what Claims have been set up by the Spaniards to Falkland Island. The second was, to have Copies and Extracts of all Letters or Papers respecting the Spanish Land and Sea Forces in the West Indies, on or since June 1769; as also respecting the Departure of any naval Armaments or Land Forces from Old Spain, during the same Period.
Lord Chatham, the other Day, disclaimed what has been generally attributed to him, the involving this Nation in the late German War; and declared that when he was at that Time appointed Minister he came into Office with that Measure strapped about his Neck.
Yesterday Sir William Draper arrived at his House in Pall Mall, from North America.
November 29. This Day his Majesty went to the House of Peers, and gave the Royal Assent to the Bill for prohibiting, for a farther limited Time, the Exportation of Corn, grain, Meal Flower, Bread, Biscuit, and Starch; and to such other Bills as were ready.
Additions to Part of a great and Noble Orator's Speech on Thursday last, in a large Company. After censuring the three doubting Aldermen who discharged the impressed Men, his Lordship took Occasion to pass the following Encomiums on the late Lord Mayor: "I ought not to omit doing Justice to a Character which has suffered, upon this Occasion, the united Attacks of the insolent, the envious, and the malicious. I have always considered the late Lord Mayor as an able and upright Magistrate, an amiable Gentleman, an honest Man, and an Honour to the City."
After having thrown out several Animadversions on the Conduct of the present Ministry, he added, "It has been insinuated that Men, and not Measures, have ever, lately, been the Objects of my Resentment. I do assure the Gentlemen in Administration that I do not envy them their Places, that I have no Wishes of my own to dispose of them, nor do I know that any of my Friends aspire to such dangerous Honours. I leave them in the full Enjoyment of their Places, satisfied that the loud Voice of publick Justice cannot always sue in vain."
On the Subject of the late German War, he expressed himself to the following Effect: "I found the last German War, for which I have so often been made the Object of Abuse in the publick Prints, and which has been repeatedly, in and out of this House, called my German War, I say when I came into Office I found your German war, and your Connections with Prussia, strapped round my Neck by Treaties and Resolutions of Parliament; and though I disapproved of that War, yet, being always of Opinion that every Consideration should yield to the publick Faith of the Nation, I thought it absolutely necessary, at that Time, to abide by, and support, those Treaties which plunged us into that War. But I will now tell your Master it is my Opinion that this Kingdom do not, on any Occasion, waste her Blood and Treasure in defending Hanover."
In Answer to the Sentiments of this great Patriot, another Orator, well known under the Title of a remarkable impeaching Character in the Beggar's Opera, remarked, "That though he never remembered to have heard the Noble Earl's Sentiments coincide so nearly with him, in some Points, as they did on the present Occasion, yet he could not help confiding his Assertions, in general, to be mere ipse dixit , or Matters of Opinion; for (continued he) we have been told this Day that the present Administration is a very unpopular One; that the People are quite dissatisfied; that we are not in a Situation to defend ourselves from foreign Attacks, nay that we have not even twelve Ships of the Line ready for Service. Now, as I have not the Honour to be of the Administration, I cannot speak precisely as to the Truth of these Declarations; but I have a Right to give my Opinion as well as the Noble Earl, and my Opinion is that we are in a Situation to defend ourselves against all our Enemies, that the present Administration is not an unpopular One, and that the People are not dissatisfied. I think the present Opposition are ten Thousand Times more unpopular. I see it every Day, I see it in the last Westminster Remonstrance, I see it in the Common Council, I see it in every Part of the Kingdom; in short, it is Nothing but Remonstrance, Instructions, and Impeachment, or, in other Words, it is all Wilkes and Eddridge, Noise, Nonsense, Confusion. It has been mentioned that the present Ministers are favoured with the Smiles of the Court. Upon my Word I think that the Smiles of a Court are desirable Things; there are many Advantages to be found in them. But I remember an Administration in this Country (meaning the Rockingham) and, in my Opinion, the worst this Country ever had, that was never even once smiled upon by the Court, during the whole Time they were in Office."
In Reply, the Marquis of Rockingham asked whether the Administration that preceded his (meaning Lord Sandwich's) went out of Office with the Smiles of the Court. To this no Answer was given.
The Duke of Richmond asserted, in a certain Assembly, that upwards of two Thousand of the best English Sailors are at this Time rotting in the Jails of Spain, having been seized on frivolous Pretences, many of them on no other Charge than that of having a single Dollar in their Pockets.
Lord Chatham, in a certain Assembly, lately said, "This Month, perhaps, we may be no longer a Nation; for if the French make themselves Masters of the Channel we cannot oppose them. We ought at this Time to have forty Ships of the Line, yet have not twelve completely manned. I have now a complete Detail of the above Particulars in my Pocket, and I defy any One to contradict me."
Lord Chatham, in a certain Place, having asserted that the monied Interest of the City of London were Bloodsuckers, the Muckworms of the Constitution; that all their Aim was to get Loans and Comminary Ships; but that at the same Time he regarded the middling Citizens, who preferred Laws and Liberty to Loans and Contracts; the Duke of Richmond observed on what Lord Chatham had said, that he joined his Hand and Heart on the violated Right of Election, and all other great constitutional Points; that his Conscience obliged him to it, knowing the Recourse of Lord Chatham's Intentions; but that his Conscience would not suffer him to be silent at the indiscriminate Censure which the Noble Lord, in the Warmth of Debate, had thrown out on some of the worth Men in this Kingdom. If by the monied Interest, says he, the Noble Lord means those adulating Wretches, those miserable Aldermen, who opposed Petitions and Remonstrances merely to gain Loans and Contracts for themselves, who bartered their Laws and Liberties for Gold, I do most heartily concur with him; but I must, at the same Time, assert that there is a Majority of the monied Interest of very different Principles. One Instance will be sufficient: The late Lord Mayor, who is one of the first Merchants, and one of the honestest Men in the Kingdom; a Man who opposed Government in their Invasion of our Laws, and who supported Government by backing Press Warrants, when he perceived his Country was in Danger. I concur with my Noble Friend in his merited Commendation on those who prefer Liberty to Gold. The Common Councilmen of London I respect for their Firmness, and for their Honour and Integrity I shall ever revere and honour them.
The Motion made in the Upper Assembly by the Earl of Chatham, Yesterday, was that Captain Hunt, late Captain of the Tamar Sloop, be ordered to attend this House on Monday next. The previous Question was then put, and carried, fifty five for, twenty one against.
We can, from undoubted Authority, assure the Publick that at a Council held Yesterday WAR was determined on.
A few Days since Lord Weymouth told the Spanish Ambassador that if he did not give in a satisfactory Answer before the End of this Week he would be asked no more Questions, but that immediate Recourse would be had to the ultima ratio regum .
Yesterday forty Thousand Seamen were voted for the Service of the Year 1771, thirty Thousand of which to be registered. The Expense for one Year will be two Millions.
It having been represented, by a great Body of Officers, how easily they can join their Regiments on any Emergency, the late Order for their immediate repairing to their several Quarters in England is, for the present, suspended.
This Day the Entrance of Merchant Ships outward bound to the West Indies was advanced, at Lloyd's, from four to ten per Cent.
Extract of a Letter from Dartmouth.
"Captain Pitts, who left Spain the 15th Instant (November) gives an Account that our Ships are stopped there."
It is said a great Personage coincides in Opinion with a Noble Earl that the Spaniards are certainly preparing to strike a capital Blow in the West Indies and the French in the East Indies.
We hear that when the House of Commons have gone through some Matters relative to Massachusetts Bay, which are likely to be finished in a few Days, both Houses will adjourn next Week for the Holidays.
War is now ardently desired by all real Lovers of their Country, of every Rank, as it will inevitably have one good Effect, which Nothing else is so likely to produce, viz. the Downfall of the present flouthful and dastardly Administration.
December 1. The Account of our Ships being stopped in Spain is confirmed by a Letter sent from Cadiz to a Merchant in Lime Street, which brings Advice that all the English Ships in that Port have been stopped; and that Captain Chesman, of the True Briton, arrived at Port from Cadiz, confirms the same; and adds, that the Spaniards are pulling down all the Houses near the Front of the Mole, where they are very assiduous in erecting Batteries, and fortifying the Place.
A Resolution has passed that four Pounds a Month, per Man, shall be allowed for maintaining forty Thousand Seamen, including eight Thousand and seventy three Marines, and also including the Ordnance for the Sea Service for the Year 1771.
Thursday a Motion was made by Mr. Dowdeswell, in the Lower Room of the Robinhood, to lay before the House Copies of all Intelligence received of the State of the Spanish Land and Sea Forces in the Spanish West Indies, since the first of June 1769, to September last inclusive; which passed in the negative, ninety four against forty three.
Wednesday a Motion was made in the same Place for examining, at the Ear, the Captain who first brought the Intelligence relating to the Capture

of Falkland's Island; which passed in the negative, fifty one against twenty six.
Colonel Barré, in an interesting Debate on Thursday, said that he recollected to have formerly read an Anecdote, in which a Patriot Nobleman told the Spanish Monarch that they had but two Enemies. Who are they? said the King. "The World is one (replied the honest Informer) and your Majesty's Minister the other." And I cannot help thinking, continued the Colonel, that our good King (God bless him) is somewhat in the same Situation. This humorous Remark caused an universal Uproar of Applause, and the Colonel was some Time before he could proceed in his Argument.
The new Ambassador from France, we hear, has brought with him, as Part of his Credentials, a Letter from his Court, which he has in Charge to deliver only into the Hands of a great Personage, who, we are told, has refused to receive it; signifying that it must come in Form, through the Channel of the Secretary of State.
Last Wednesday Lord Weymouth declared, in a great Assembly, that at present there would be no War with Spain, as every Thing would be settled in an amicable Manner, and to the Satisfaction of all Parties; on which Lord Chatham replied, that he could give no Credit to his Assertion, for that he was well assured the Spaniards had no Intention at present of accommodating Matters with the British Court upon honourable Terms.
The Herald at Arms, and Trumpeters of the Household, have received Orders to be in Readiness at an Hour's Notice; which makes it reasonable to conclude War is intended to be immediately declared.
Orders are issued to augment the Land Forces; each Regiment of Dragoons to complete their several Troops to the full Complement of sixty Men each Troop; an additional Troop, consisting of sixty private Men (besides Officers) are to be added to each Regiment; the Officers to be taken from the Half Pay List. The same Measures are observed in Regard to the Foot; the Companies are to be augmented to sixty Men each, and an additional Company to each Regiment.
All Conferences with the Spanish Ambassador are now at an End since Monday last, in Consequence of some Despatches which he received from his Court the Night before, when he gave Lord Weymouth a categorical Answer; so that a War entirely depends upon what Construction the Ministry may put upon it.
The following may be depended on. A few Days after the Arrival of the Messenger from Madrid the Spanish Ambassador acquainted our Ministry that he had full Power to treat with them on the Subject of our Demands on the Court of Spain, and appointed a Time and Place for a private Conference with the Premier for that Purpose; but when the Hour arrived he gave Lord North to understand that it was as much as his Life and Character was worth to give him a satisfactory Answer in less than a Month, until he had received farther Despatches from his Court.
We are well informed that Lord Weymouth was for raising fifty Thousand Seamen for the ensuing Year, but the Premier assured him that forty Thousand would sufficiently answer the Purpose.
Several Days this Week Policies have been opened at Old and New Lloyd's, and several Coffeehouses about Change, to give nine Guineas to receive one Hundred if War is declared in seven Days, and forty Guineas to receive one Hundred if declared before the 31st of December.
Extract of a Letter from the Hague, November 23. "The Envoy Extraordinary from the States General at the Court of Madrid, among other Things, in his last Despatches, sends Advice that fifteen Battalions of Spanish Troops were marching to the Sea Coasts, in Order to embark for America, to reinforce the Garrisons there that are most exposed, and that these Troops were to be followed by a much greater Number."
Upwards of fifty Merchant Ships are now waiting in the River, outward bound, to receive Letters of Mark, in Case of War being declared, having on Board Guns and Men sufficient both for Offence and Defence. Orders are sent to Ireland to take an immediate and close Survey of the Fortifications in that Kingdom.
The East India Company have raised the Seamen's Wages from twenty five Shillings to forty five Shillings per Month, Hands being very scarce at present, on Account of such Numbers being impressed.
On Thursday a Gentleman at Batson's Coffeehouse gave a Merchant in Cornhill one Hundred Guineas to receive a Guinea a Day until War is declared, the Payments to expire if War is not declared in a Year and a Half.
Extract of a Letter from Brussels, November 25. "Authentic Letters received here advise that the Court of Spain consents to the Evacuation and the Neutrality of Falkland Islands, but the refuses to make Restitution of them. This Affair will not make an Object of Negotiation until after the English have previously disarmed. Spain by no Means combines this Affair with that of the Manila Ransom." It is said that a certain Ambassador has assured the Ministry that no Attack has been made by the King his Master's Sea or Land Forces either upon Gibraltar or Jamaica.
Some Letters from Minorca inform that the People there impatiently expect the Arrival of Men of War and Troops from England, as a Rumour prevails that some hostile Designs are meditating against the Island.
It is said on the Arrival of Potter the Messenger his Despatches were found to contain Nothing more than a Reference to the Spanish Ambassador, who was instructed, by his Orders, how to negotiate with us; and it was given out that these Instructions breathed only the Spirit of Peace, and Stocks rose considerably on the News. But alas! when these peaceable Instructions were made known, they contained no positive Answer to any of our Demands, and only mentioned the giving up Falkland's Island (debaring us of the Liberty of erecting Forts there) and that our Ships, on entering the Spanish Ports, should be subject to be visited by the Spanish Officers.
Last Night the Press was so strong, both on the River and afloat, that Sailors were taken from all Protections, and hurried on Board the Tenders and Guardships.
It is said Lord Chatham's Speech in Favour of Press Warrants will be likely to introduce him into Power.
As the Manner in which the late Emperor of RUSSIA lost his Life is unknown to the Publick, the following Particulars, the Authenticity of which may be depended on, will not be unentertaining.
It was publickly known that the Empress kept, and was doatingly fond of, Elizabeth Woronzoff. This Lady had a female Confidant, on whom she entirely relied, and to whom she frequently mentioned the great Influence she had over the Empress. This Confidant one Day observing Lady Woronzoff in uncommon Spirits, asked the Reason. Oh! my Friend, answered her Ladyship, I shall in a few Days be your Empress. The Confidant was astonished at the News, and (but whether from Motives of Humanity or Envy is unknown) instantly acquainted the Empress with it. The Princess was, with Reason, alarmed; and sending for some of the principal Lords, whom she knew to be her Friends, laid the Matter before them. They concluded that her Life, and that of the Prince, her Son, was in Danger; and therefore, after mature Consideration, proposed that a Remonstrance should be carried to the Empress. Pray, says one of them, which of you all, who have been Witness to the many Acts of Tyranny and Folly he has been guilty of, will venture to carry this Remonstrance? Do you not expect to be banished to Siberia? I value Nothing, replied one of the Gentlemen; I will carry it. He accordingly went, and demanded a private Audience of the Empress, which could not be denied to a Person of his Rank. The Door was no sooner shut than he seized that unfortunate Prince, and plunged a Dagger in his Throat. Then going to the Door, seemingly unconcerned, ordered an Attendant to call the Empress immediately. She came; the Wound was sewed up by a Surgeon in whom they could confide, and the Office was neatly covered with a piece of Gold Beaten Skin. The Empress retired privately, and the Revolution took Place in a few Hours. It was given out that the Empress was sick, and when they chose to own his Death the Body was permitted to be viewed; but, by the Deception before mentioned, the real Cause of his Death was known but to few.
BOSTON, January 7.
Last Sunday died at Biddeford, aged one Hundred and twelve Years, Mrs. Poak, of this Town. She was a Native of Ireland, and has been in this Country about eighty Years. Though her Memory, for the last ten Years of her Life, was callous to all Impressions, yet she could converse on Transactions before that Time with tolerable Propriety. In September 1769 she walked a Mile and a Half from Home, and returned the same Day. Three or four Days before her Death she went out to see one of her Neighbours. In the Year 1764 she was lost in the Woods between Sawco and Arundel; and in the Night, without Path or Guide, travelled through to Arundel, about four Miles, on a straight Line. Her Nails were grown like Eagles Claws, the Flesh growing and extending to the end of them. She has for many Years expressed a great Desire to die, not only as being wearied with Life, but having (as is supposed) a well grounded Hope of a better; so, being worn out with the Burthen of Age, gladly lay down to Rest.
NEW YORK, January 31.
We hear that when Captain Favel left Falmouth four Packetboats were lying there ready to sail, supposed to be detained, that the Declaration of War might be sent out by them. One of these was the Packet for New York, which was expected to sail in three or four Days. A Vessel was arrived there from Cadiz, in seventeen Days, the Master of
which reports that he came away by Stealth, the English Vessels in that Harbour being detained, and that a Declaration of War there was every Day expected. Private Letters by Captain Favel, of the 5th of December, mention War as inevitable. From the publick Papers the Probability seems rather to preponderate for War than Peace, and yet there are so many contradictory Circumstances that no certain Conclusion can be drawn. Notwithstanding the Bustle of Preparation, the Ministry and their Party seem neither well prepared nor heartily disposed for War; and they carry every Question as they please, in both Houses, by Majority of Votes. The Speeches of Lord Chatham, Colonel Barré, Mr. Burke, Mr. Dowdeswell, &c. were extremely severe against the Ministry, who, in their Turn, retorted with Spirit and Keenness, but made no tolerable Figure in Point of Argument. On the 21st of November the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, of the City of London, presented and read to his Majesty another Address, Remonstrance, and Petition, of the same Purport as those before presented, and in much the same Style, complaining of Grievances, praying the Removal of evil Ministers, and the Dissolution of Parliament, &c. The following is said to be his Majesty's Answer. "As I have seen no Reason to alter the Opinion expressed in my Answer to your last Address upon this Subject, I cannot comply with the Prayer of your Petition."
WILLIAMSBURG, February 14.
We hear that eleven Sail of Vessels went afloat last Saturday Night, in the violent Gale we had then, a little below Hampton; and that several more in York River had gone afloat likewise. We do not learn that any of them received much Damage.
On Saturday last died at Mr. Roger Gregory's, in King William, Captain CHARLES SEATON, of Bristol, for many Years Commander of a Ship in the Virginia Trade.
Advertisements.
GENERAL POST OFFICE, New York, January 22, 1771.
HIS Majesty's Postmaster General having (for the better facilitating of Correspondence between Great Britain and America) been pleased to add a fifth Packet Boat to the Station between Falmouth and New York, Notice is hereby given that the Mail, for the future, will be closed, at the Post Office in New York, at twelve of the Clock at Night, on the first Tuesday in every Month, and despatched by a Packet, the next Day, for Falmouth. By Command of the Deputy Postmaster General. ALEXANDER GOLDEN, Secretary.
YORK Town, February 11, 1771.
THOSE indebted to the Store kept by Smith and Jamieson are desired to take Notice that the Partnership expires the first Day of April next, and that no Indulgence can be given after that Time. LAWRENCE SMITH.
THE Subscriber, living in Brunswick, near Hicks's Ford, having Half a Dozen Pair of SAWERS, would be glad to undertake, from the Stump, or otherwise, any considerable Job of sawing, within sixty or seventy Miles of Home, upon reasonable Terms. Any Person in Want may have a Pair, or the whole of them, by applying to BENJAMIN CHAPMAN.
AS I intend to decline Trade entirely, I will sell my Stores, &c. at West Point, or rent them for a Term of Years. They are as well situated for the West India Trade as any Place in the Colony, and there are all other convenient Outhouses upon the Lots. The Terms may be known, by applying to the Subscriber, in King William. JOHN G. FRAZER. N. B. The Storehouse, Granary, and Stable, are entirely new.
WEST POINT, February 10, 1771. ANY Gentlemen that want to go to Patten- gers to London may have a good Opportunity of going in the Ship Middleton, at West Point, a very fine large commodious Vessel, and will be ready to sail in March. Any Gentleman, or Lady, this may suit, is desired to agree for their Passage by the last of this Month. HENRY CLARK, Commander.
ESSEX, February 10, 1771.
ALL Persons who have any Demands against the Estate of Robert Sp. Coleman, deceased, are desired to make them known to me immediately, that I may know what of his Debts remain unpaid. ANDREW CRAWFORD, Executor.
To be SOLD at publick Sale, on Thursday the 28th Instant, The Ship NEPTUNE, as the now lies at Norfolk, with her Tackle and Appurtenances; an Inventory of which may be seen from the Subscriber. She is about four Hundred Hogheads Burthen; well found, and most of her Sails new. One Half of the Purchase Money to be paid on or before the 10th of June next, and the other Half on or before the 25th of October next, the Purchaser giving Bond, with Security, if required. ARCHIBALD WHITE.
To be SOLD, The Plantation well known by the Name of Pond Marsh, in New Kent County, four Miles below the Brickhouse Ferry, beautifully situated upon York River, commanding a large and extensive Prospect of the River and adjacent Country. The Land is good for Corn, Wheat, and Tobacco, is well timbered, and has a fine firm Marsh enclosed with a good Fence, containing three Hundred Acres, which will maintain two Hundred Head of Cattle, without feeding, in Winter. There are good Buildings on the Premises, a very good Garden, Apple and Peach Orchards, a good Tide Mill on a Creek near the House; every Thing in good Order for Cropping, and a great Plenty of Fish, Oysters, and Wild-fowl. Whoever inclines to purchase the above will be shown the same, and may know the Terms by applying to the Subscriber, on the Premises. JOHN TOWNES.
To be SOLD at Norfolk, on Thursday the 21st of March, being Court Day,
A VERY good neat CHARIOT, with HARNESS for four Horses, all good and complete. Whoever has a Mind to purchase the same may see it any Time before the Day of Sale by applying to Isaac Luke, in Portsmouth.
GEORGE III. by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. to the Sheriff of Albemarle County, greeting: We command you that you summon Anne Manley to appear before our Justices of our General Court, in Chancery, at the Capitol, in Williamsburg, on the first Day of the next Court, to answer a Bill in Chancery exhibited against her by Samuel Gay; and this she shall in no Wise omit, under the Penalty of one Hundred Pounds; and have there then this Writ. Witness William Nelson, Esquire, President of our Council, at Williamsburg, the fifth Day of November, in the eleventh Year of our Reign. BEN: WALLER.
NORFOLK, January 31, 1771.
STOLEN from the Ship Morris, William Long Master, lying at Portsmouth, on the Night of the 29th Instant, a Philadelphia built YAUL, and three Oars. She has a red Streak, and a blue Streak, on each Side, with yellow Mouldings, and has lost her lower Rudder Iron. Whoever will bring the said Yawl to the Subscriber shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward, and on Conviction of the Thief a farther Reward of THIRTY SHILLINGS. IM INGLIS & LONG.
STRAYED, or STOLEN, from the Raleigh Tavern Door, on the Evening of the 18th of December last, a bright bay HORSE, somewhat above fourteen Hands high, of a slender Make, with a thin hanging Mane, his Tail cut, but not trimmed, and is thin also; he has a few scattered white Hairs in his Forehead and down his Nose, and a remarkable Wart on the hindmost Part of his near Buttock, but has no Brand. He trots hard, paces slow, and canters and gallops well. He had on a Hogskin Saddle, and a double-reined Bridle. Whoever brings the said Horse to Messrs. Purdie and Dixon shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, if strayed; if stolen, FIVE POUNDS on Conviction of the Thief.
TAKEN up, in Cuckfield, a small bay MARE about four Feet six Inches high, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, and branded on the near Buttock. Potted, and appraised to three Pounds. WILLIAM PRICE.
Pursuant to the last Will and Testament of Mr. Anthony Hay, deceased, will be SOLD, on TUESDAY the 7th of MAY, before the Raleigh Door, in Williamsburg,
NINETEEN NEGROES belonging to his Estate, among them a very good Cabinet Maker, a good Coachman and Carver, for a fine Waiting Boys, good Cooks, Washers, &c. Six Months Credit will be allowed for all Sums above five Pounds, the Purchasers giving Bond and Security to WILLIAM TREBELL, ROBERT NICOLSON, Executors.
N. B. All Persons who have Demands against Mr. Hay's Estate are requested to make them specially known, that Provision may be made for discharging them; and those indebted thereto are desired to make immediate Payment. It is hoped none of the Creditors will put the Estate to any unnecessary Charge, by Suits, when we assure them the best Means will be used to pay the Debts with all Speed, and when it is considered that Mr. Hay has left a large Family, whose tender Years entitle them to some Indulgence.
IT is hoped, and expected, that all those who still continue in Arrear to the late Governor's Estate will settle their Accounts with the Treasurer some Time in the succeeding April General Court at farthest, that the Gentlemen appointed to manage his Lordship's Affairs in this Country may be enabled to close their Accounts, and remit whatever Balance remains to his Lordship's Executor.
PETERSBURG, January 29, 1771.
AS I intend for Great Britain soon, I earnestly request all Persons indebted to me to come immediately and settle their Accounts, by paying them off, or giving Bond. Such Accounts as are not settled before I go will be proved, and left in the Hands of Mr. Richard Taylor (whom I have appointed my Attorney) with Directions to bring Suits on the same, without Distinction. I have a complete Assortment of MEDICINES, UTENSILS for an Apothecary's Shop, and a Set of CHIRURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, which I will sell on very reasonable Terms. JAMES FEILD.
RICHMOND, February 6, 1771.
I INTEND to leave this Place by the first of April next, and to settle in Williamsburg, where I shall open a Shop on the main Street, near the Capitol, to clean and repair CLOCKS and WATCHES, and to make and sell all Sorts of GOLD and SILVER WORK, at the most reasonable Rates. Those who please to employ me may depend on their Work being done well, and expeditiously. JAMES GALT.
WILLIAMSBURG, February 6, 1771. FOUND a few Days ago, at Colonel Burwell's Ferry, on James River, a GOLD WATCH with a Shagreen Case, which seems to have lain there a considerable Time, as the Shagreen is quite rotten. The Owner describing the Watch, and proving his Property, may have it again by giving a Reward to the Finder, and paying the Charge of this Advertisement. Inquire at the Post Office, or of ROBERT NICOLSON.
PRINCE GEORGE, February 2, 1771.
FOUND by the Subscriber, on the 28th of last Month, in a Fodder Stack, in this County, belonging to Major John Minge of Charles City, ten Casks of TOBACCO, each containing, to the best of his Judgment, between one Hundred and one Hundred and twenty five Pounds; also a Parcel, or loose Bulk, containing about five Hundred Pounds. The Owner, on proving his Property, and paying the Penalty the Law directs, may have it by applying to THOMAS CLIFTON.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidders, on Saturday the 2d of March, on the Premises, in Brunswick County, on the south Side of Meherrin River,
ELEVEN Hundred and ten Acres of LAND, altogether, or in Parcels, as may suit the Purchasers, on which are three Plantations, with sundry convenient Houses and Orchards; one of them has all necessary Houses for an Ordinary, situated in a very convenient Place for that Purpose, and is well known by the Name of Rendle's Ordinary. One Half of the Purchase Money to be paid on the Day of Sale, and the other Half on the 10th of January 1772, the Purchaser, or Purchasers, giving Bond, with approved Security, to JOSIAS RANDLE.
For SALE, A LOT of LAND, in Suffolk Town, opposite the Courthouse, with a good Dwellinghouse, Storehouse, and all convenient Outhouses proper for a Merchant, in good Repair, and at present occupied by Mr. Gardner Fleming. Also a Lot of LAND near the River, with about three Acres of Marsh, through which a Creek is cut to the River, and a Causeway on the Side of the Creek, with a good Wharf to the best Water; a Pitch Kettle on the said Lot, set very conveniently, and a Tar House that will contain two Thousand Barrels of naval Stores. For Terms inquire of NATHANIEL FLEMYNG. N. B. I intend to leave the Colony in the Spring.
CHESTERFIELD, January 3, 1771.
RUN away from the Subscriber, on the 22d of December, a Mulatto Man Slave named WILLY, about five Feet eight Inches high, six and twenty Years of Age, an active strong well made Fellow. He has broke open my Store, and stolen many Things, viz. Shag, Broadcloth, Linen, Hats, and Checks. I expect he will endeavour to pass for a Freeman, in Order to make his Escape by Water. Whoever brings the said Slave to me, if taken fifty Miles from Home, shall receive TEN POUNDS Reward; if farther, or nearer, in Proportion to the Distance; and, as he is outlawed, I will give TEN POUNDS Reward for his Head, if separated from his Body. He has been much whipped for the Crime he committed, and expects to be hanged if taken; therefore he must be well secured. HENRY BATTE.
RUN away from the Subscriber, on Saturday the 26th of January, an indentured Servant Man named WILLIAM READ. He is a well set Fellow, about five Feet ten Inches high, and speaks the West Country Dialect pretty broad; had on, and took with him, a dark coloured Duffel short Frock Coat, a Pair of blue Plain Breeches with a spotted Cotton Waistband, a Pair of Yarn Stockings, Check Shirt, and Virginia made Shoes. He is a Farmer, and understands Something of making and laying Bricks. Whoever delivers the said Servant to me at West Point, in King William County, or secures him so that I may get him again, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward. JOHN WEST.
Twenty five Pounds Reward.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Cumberland County, Virginia, the first of June last, a Virginia born Negro Man Slave named WILL, near six Feet high, thirty five Years old, and well made; his Face is often full of Bumps. He was seen with a forged Pass, signed by Charles Clark, at John Bilbo's, on Roanoke River, near Jefferson's Ferry, and passed for a Freeman, by the Name of Austin Caufin. He endeavoured to get another Pass, to go into Carolina; which if he did it is probable he may have changed his Name, as he is an artful Fellow. Whoever apprehends the said Slave, and brings him to me, shall have the above Reward; or if secured in any Jail, and advertised in the VIRGINIA GAZETTE, TEN POUNDS Reward. As he is outlawed, I will give TEN POUNDS for his Head, or for a proper Certificate to entitle me to be allowed for him by the Country. ANTHONY MARTIN.
FEBRUARY 1, 1771. N. B. GEORGE KELLY, an Irishman, about six Feet high, stout made, who talks big and loud, and is of a mean Character, had some Dealings with the above Slave before he ran away, and I have Reason to think harboured him some Time after. The said Kelly, with his Wife and one Child, ran away in August, and crossed Roanoke River, at Jefferson's Ferry. It is probable the Slave had some Place appointed to meet him in Carolina; and if they are together, I have no Doubt will endeavour to make him pass for a Freeman.

POETS CORNER. ODE TO GRATITUDE.
CAN Man in Plenty thankful live, And take what Heaven vouchsafes to give? With Uncertainty can he behold Yon Solar Orb of dazzling Gold, And fee, unmov'd, each dying Plant and Flower Confess the Fiat of its vegetative Power? The Lapses of the checker'd Year Can he review, and not revere? And while with raptur'd Eye he views Things form'd, and vary'd to his Use, Can he in lordly Riot waste his Days, Nor from his Heart ejaculate one Note of Praise? He can—whilst he unlicens'd roves Through Sin's gay Walks and tempting Groves; Whilst yet he quaffs from Pleasure's Bowl Spontaneous Poison to his Soul, From Vice to Vice whilst yet he dares to roam, And recollective Thought is absent from her Home. The Spring returns, with blooming Face, The panting Summer runs its Race, Next Autumn, richest of the Year, And Winter, lagging in the Rear; Yet though these Heralds Time's swift Ebb proclaim, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, find him fill the fame. Come, Gratitude, my Soul refine, And make thy Poet Half divine; Teach me to sing, in deathless Lays, My glorious Benefactor's Praise. Come, smiling Cherub, from thy blest Abode, Uplift me on thy Plumes, and bear me to my God.
CABIN POINT, February 1, 1771.
I INTEND for Great Britain soon. ROBERT CAMPBELL.
THE Officers, and others, who may be principally interested in the Grant of two Hundred Thousand Acres of Land under Governor Dinwiddie's Proclamation in 1754, and confirmed to them by an Order of Council of the 15th of December 1756, are earnestly requested to meet at Winchester on Monday the 4th of March next. GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Pursuant to a Decree of Augusta Court, SUNDAY very fine SLAVES will be sold at Fort Lewis, in Botetourt County, on Saturday the 2d of March next, for ready Money; being part of the Estate of Alexander Boyd, deceased. DAVID ROSS. NORFOLK, January 25, 1771.
A SMALL CARGO OF LISBON SALT TO BE SOLD BY INGLIS & LONG. ALBEMARLE, January 1, 1771.
WHEREAS the Subscriber has lost Bonds, &c. to the Amount of two Hundred and twenty five Pounds, viz. Thomas Tolson, Minor, with John Boswell Security, for one Hundred Pounds; Rowland Jones do. for a Hundred Pounds; Henry Rowland do. for eleven Pounds ten Shillings; Thomas Tadlock do. for three Pounds; and Isaac Peck do. for nineteen Shillings; likewise an Order on Orlando Jones for nine Pounds, with interest until paid: I hereby forewarn all Persons from taking an Assignment of any of the above Bonds, and will be much obliged to any One who delivers them to CHARLES HUDSON. NORFOLK, January 23, 1771.
WHEREAS Captain James Mudie, of Gloucester County, has taken into his Possession (by a sham Bill of Sale) from Mary Cunningham, of the same County, a Negro Wench named PHILLIS, and a Child called NANCY, since which Time the Wench has had several Children; and as I have Reason to believe the said Mudie intends to sell or convey them away in a private Manner, I hereby forewarn all Persons from purchasing any of the said Negroes, as I shall take proper Steps to recover them, and will seize upon them wherever I can find them. ABRAHAM COWPER.
Wanted on CHARTER, to load Tar and Turpentine in NORTH CAROLINA.
A VESSEL of about fifteen Hundred Barrels Burthen. For Terms apply to James Marsden in Norfolk, or the Subscribers at Richmond; who have for Sale a Quantity of good SEINE TWINE. STORRS & ELLIS.
ABOUT the 20th of December last a Chestnut bay MARE, belonging to Mr. Henry Brown, was taken out of my Pasture and rode away by a Negro Fellow of Colonel Washington's, and carried to the upper Quarter in New Kent, where she has since been seen. She is about thirteen Hands high, between three and four Years old, has a small Star in her Forehead, a Snip on her Nose, a hanging Mane and bob Tail, is a natural Pacer, but not branded. Whoever brings her to me, in James City County, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward. THOMAS DONCASTLE.
To be SOLD, on Monday the 18th of February, at the Subscriber's Plantation, near BURK's Bridge, in Caroline County,
ABOUT four Hundred Acres of very good LAND, being Part of the Tract he lives on. It is all first and second low Grounds, very level, and will produce any Thing usually cultivated in this Colony. It is subject to a Mortgage to Mr. James Miller, Merchant in Port Royal. Also several choice Virginia born SLAVES, amongst which are some Traders, subject to a Mortgage to Mr. Edmund Pendleton. The Mortgagees will attend the Sale, allow a reasonable Credit to be given, and release their Interest, upon Bond and Security being given to them. JOHN WILY.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidders, on Thursday the 28th of February, on the Premises,
THE Plantation whereon the Subscriber now lives, containing one Hundred and seventy five Acres, with good Improvements upon it; the Terms for which will be agreed on at the Day of Sale. At the same Time will be sold ten Virginia born SLAVES, for ready Money. Also will be sold, or leased, nine Hundred Acres of LOW GROUND on Mobjack River.—I desire that all my Creditors will meet me, the Day before the Sale, at my House. SIMON TURNER.
COMMITTED to the Jail of Suffolk, a Negro Wench with her Child, who says she belongs to George Jordan of North Carolina; also a Negro Fellow, who says he belongs to Benjamin Ruffin of Southampton County. The Owners are desired to send for them, and pay Charges to WILLIAM GRANBERRY, jailer.
To be SOLD at publick Auction, on Tuesday the 19th of next Month, pursuant to a Deed of Trust from Robey Coke to the Subscriber,
ALL the HOUSES, and five LOTS of LAND, whereon the late John Coke, deceased, lived, in the City of Williamsburg, at present occupied by Mr. Richard Hunt Singleton. The Terms will be agreed on at the Sale, which will be on the Premises.
NORFOLK, January 26, 1771. RICHARD BROWN. WILLIAMSBURG, January 24, 1771.
RUN AWAY from the PRINTING OFFICE, last SATURDAY Night, JAMES CAREY,
a Lad about seventeen Years of Age, whom (out of Compassion, and through his Importunity) we paid thirteen Pounds for, to release him from being sent to Maryland and sold as a Servant. Although he might have been held as a Servant here, we rather chose to get him bound as an Apprentice, to put him on a Footing with the other Lads in our Office. He has been well used, and gently clothed, which any One will easily discover from the Goodness and Quantity of the Clothes he has taken with him. He has ten Shirts, four of them quite new; a new Suit of Clothes, of a dark coloured German Serge, with yellow gilt Buttons; a new fine Hat, several Pair of good Worsted and other Stockings, new Shoes, and wears a black Silk Cravat. He has, besides, a good Suit of Fustian, a light coloured Cloth Coat and red Flannel Jacket, and sundry other Wearing Apparel. He is fresh coloured, wears his own Hair, generally tied behind, which is dark coloured, walks short and quick, is stout made, speaks thick, and much on the Brogue, he being a Native of Ireland. Whoever secures the said Apprentice, so as we get him again, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, besides what the Law allows. He is supposed to be gone to the Southward.
PURDIE & DIXON.
On the 4th of March next, at Prince William Courthouse, will be SOLD,
A TRACT of LAND containing about eight Hundred Acres, within three Miles of Dumfries, on which is a neat DWELLINGHOUSE, pleasantly situated, and other convenient Houses for cropping. And on the 2d Day of April next, at Winchester, will be sold a Tract of LAND in Frederick County, containing two Hundred Acres, known by the Name of David Wood's Creek. The said Lands were directed by Captain William Bennett, deceased, to be sold by his Executors, to satisfy his Creditors. Long Credit will be given for great Part of the Purchase Money. WILLIAM CARR.
To be SOLD at the Plantation where Mr. Robert Alcock lives, in the County of Culpeper, on the last Day of February,
TWELVE Thousand Acres of Land, lying in the Fork of Rappidan and Robinson's River, in the said County. Credit will be given until the 23th of October following, the Purchasers giving Bond and Security to the Executors of the Honourable Philip Grymes, Esquire, and a Discount allowed, at the Rate of five per Cent. per Annum, for prompt Payment. The Land will be sold in Parcels, and Mr. Alcock has Directions to show it to any Person who is desirous of seeing it before the Day of Sale. CHARLES GRYMES. BENJAMIN GRYMES, Junior.
To be LET on CHARTER, for any Port in Britain, or to any Port to the Eastward,
THE new Ship MCGRANT BAY, James Craig Master, which will be ready to take in her Load by the first of February next. Any Person inclining to charter may know the Terms by applying to said Master, or of the Subscribers. She has excellent Accommodations for Passengers. LOGAN, GILMOUR, & Co. NORFOLK, December 25, 1770.
RUN away from the Subscriber, at the Falls of James River, the Middle of last Month, a Negro Man named DAVY, belonging to the Hon. William Byrd, Esquire, about thirty Years old, five Feet eight Inches high, and very stout made; he is of a yellow Complexion, has a down Look, and a Defect in some of his fore Teeth. He is supposed to be lurking about Hanover Town, Petersburg, or gone towards Carolina. Whoever will apprehend the said Fellow, and bring him to me, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward; and if taken out of the Colony, FIVE POUNDS. DAVID PATTESON.
A CATALOGUE of Books, &c. to be SOLD at the POST OFFICE in Williamsburg.
ANSON's Voyages. Afric on Venereal Diseases. Armstrong on the Diseases of Children. Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Alleine's Alarm to Unconverted Sinners. Atkinson's Epitome. British Zoology. Butler's Remains. Birch's Life of Henry Prince of Wales. Baxter's Saints Everlasting Rest. Bennet's Christian Oratory. Buchanan's Dictionary. Brown's Sunday Thoughts. Beveridge's Thoughts. Brooke's Introduction to the Practice of Physick. British Plutarch. Baron Biefeld's Letters. Bartlet's Farriery. Barclay's Apology. Biographical Dictionary. Boston's Fourfold State. Baxter's Call to the Unconverted. Bailey's Dictionary. Bunyan's Holy War. Complete Letter Writer. Chandler's Life of King David. Campbell's Present State of Europe. Crevier's Roman History. Chefelden's Anatomy. Culpeper's Midwifery. The Connoisseur. The Complete Gamester. Chambers's Geography. Commentaries of Marcus Antoninus. Calistus, or the Man of Fashion. Castle of Otranto. Cambridge on Charity. Crosby's Navigation. The Cottage, by Miss Minifie. Cocker's Arithmetick. Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Drelincourt on Death. Dryden's Fables. Dutrenoy's Chronological Tables. Du Freval on Charity. Duke of Wharton's True Briton. Dimdale's Isocrates. Dittion on the Resurrection. Derham's Astro-Theology. Don Quixote. Doddridge's Pleasing Instructor. Doddridge on Religion. Dilworth's Arithmetick. Emerson's Mechanicks. Erlkine's Sermons. Edinburgh Dispensary. England's Gazetteer. Edinburgh Medical Essays. Epistolary Correspondence, being the third Volume of Letters on Theron and Aspasio. Farmer's Guide. Fox on the New Testament. Fordyce's Art of Preaching. Fenning's Arithmetick. Book of Knowledge. Female Spectator. Fielding's Works. Ferguson's Astronomy. Lectures. Tables and Tracts. Family Companion for Health. Farrier's Dictionary. Grand Tour. Goldsmith's Roman History. Guthrie's Epistles to Atticus. Gerard on Taste. Gordon's Geographical Grammar. Gentleman's Dictionary. German Spy. Gay's Fables. Gould on Ants. History of Cape Breton. of California. of Greenland. of Lewis XI. of the Germans. of Kuli Khan. of Classick Authors. of Miss Pittborough. of Persia. of the Civil Wars in Ireland. of the Spanish Settlements in America. Hume's History of England. Harris's Life of Cromwell.
SCHOOL BOOKS. Ainsworth's Dictionary. Grades ad Parnassum. Castalio's Latin Bible. Dialogues. Mair's Tyro's Dictionary. Lilly's Grammar. Ward's Grammar. Christie's Grammar. Ruddiman's Grammar. Rudiments. Clarke's Introduction. Grammar. Cordery. Æsop. Eutropius. Florus. Erasmus. Ovid's Metamorphoses. Duncan's Cæsar. Cicero's Orations. Davidson's Virgil. Horace. Hutchinson's Xenophon. Profocia Construed. Sterling's Ovid. Terence. Florus. Phædrus. Maittaire's Homer. Virgil. Horace. Ovid. Salust. Juvenal. Cicero's Orations. Juvenal, and Florus. Pearce's Longinus. Trapp's Prælectiones. Martial's Epigrams. Latin Common Prayer Book. Greek Testament. Sententiae. London Vocabulary. A great Variety of History and other Pretty Books for Children. Spelling Books of all Kinds. Church Bibles. Prayer Books. Family do. Pocket do. School Bibles. Testaments. Psalters. Morris's Pocket Books, of all Sizes. Pounce and Boxes. The Beggars Opera set to Musick. A great Variety of Musick, by the best Masters. Blank Musick Books. Musick Ruling Pens. Cremona and Steiner's Violins, with best Screw Bows. Silver Basses and best Roman Strings. German and Common Flutes, of different Sizes. Surveyors Instruments. Best Temple Spectacles, green and plain. Common Spectacles. Instruction for the Flute. Reading Glasses, for different Ages. Best Penknives. Pewter Ink Chests and Stands. Edinburgh Inkpots. Message Cards, plain, gilt, and mourning. Broad and narrow red Tape. Ivory Memorandum Books. Ivory Folders. Best Wafers. Dutch Sealing Wax. Slates and Pencils. Sand Boxes. Black and Red Lead Pencils. Ink Powder. Gold Leaf. Best Dutch Quills and Pens. Hudson Bay Quills. Playing Cards. Blank Books, and Alphabets, of all Sorts and Sizes. Paper, of all Sorts and Sizes. Parchment, and every other Kind of STATIONARY.
Also the following MEDICINES, from Dr. Bateman's original wholesale warehouse in London.
Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops. Dr. Hoper's Female Pills. Dr. Fraunces's Female Strengthening Elixir. Swainson's Electary for the Stone and Gravel. Benton's True and Genuine British Oil. Dr. Stoughton's Great Stomachick Elixir. The true Daffy's Elixir. Dr. Radcliffe's Famous Purging Elixir. Squire's Grand Elixir. Pike's Patent Ointment for the Itch and all Cutaneous Eruptions. Madden's Sovereign Oil for Bruises and Strains. Turlington's Original Balsam of Life.
*** We have a few of the late REVIVAL of the LAWS, neatly bound, more than what were printed for the Use of the Country, to dispose of. Also MERCHANTS, COUNTY COURT, and a Variety of other useful BLANKS.