The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1772-03-12 00:00:00

VIRGINIA
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WARSAW, November 11.
K OSINSKI, in the Course of the Interrogatories which he has undergone, had made some surprising Discoveries, wherein several Persons of Consequence are said to be concerned. Himself, and two other Chiefs of the Confederates, it seems, took an Oath on the Image of the Holy Virgin, to the Sieur Pulawski, that they would kill the King. There is no Reason now to doubt of the Blackness of Soul of this Pulawski, whose Generosity, Valour, and Piety, have been for some Time so highly extolled. We see plainly that the Love for Religion, of which the Confederates have made such a notable Parade, doth not debar them from committing Murder, or any other most atrocious Crimes. The Monster Pulawski, since the Attempt upon the King's Life, has been defeated by the Russians, and is said to have fled to Czencstochau with only about fifty of his Men. Lukafki was taken next Day, three Miles from Warsaw; proclaiming every Where that he had killed the King, by Order of the Generality.
November 12. The Billet which was written by the King, when in the Miller's Cottage, to General Count Cocciej, was conceived in the following Terms: "I am delivered from the Hands of my Assassins, by an immediate Act of Providence; hasten to me with forty Soldiers. I am wounded, but not dangerously. STANISLAUS AUGUSTUS."
The Day of his Majesty's Return he wrote a Letter to the Empress of Russia, giving the Particulars of his Seizure, and happy Escape; and though it is astonishing, yet it is true, some of the Monsters now in Prison for the Attempt to murder his Majesty console themselves with having received a previous formal Absolution for a Crime which is shocking to Nature.
November 16. The Grand Chancellor, Bishop of Warfaw and Posnania, has written and sent a pastoral Letter to every Curate of his Diocese, in which he ordains that they shall expose to their Parishioners the great Heinousness of Regicide, and guard the Youth in all their Schools against some seditious and fanatic Ecclesiastics, who would inspire them with contrary Sentiments. This Precaution is the more necessary, as the Prisoners now in Custody for attempting to kill the King declare they had received Absolution from some Religious before they set out on that horrid Attempt.
PARIS, November 22. There is a Girl now upon our Theatre who is about twenty one Years of Age, seven of which she served in the Regiment of Belfunce. She killed one of her Comrades in a Duel, which Affair she got the better of; but in a Quarrel since she was wounded herself, which occasioned the Discovery of her Sex. She has been presented at Court, and it is said has had a small Place given her in the King's Stables.
November 26. The King is going to resume the Possession of the Estates that have been alienated from the Crown. The Law by which these Estates are to be restored has passed in Council, and will soon be presented to Parliament. The Deputies of the Farmers General and Receivers General of the Finances have been sent for to Court, where the Comptroller demanded of the former one Hundred Thousand Livres each, and of the others a certain Sum by Way of Loan; the whole Amount of which, it is said, will be six Millions from the former, and three Millions from the latter.
November 29. The Duke of Choiseul having obtained Leave to return from his Exile, has been in Town for some Days; and we begin to hope that the Princes of the Blood, and the Peers, will recover the Favour of his Majesty.
December 16. The first of last Month a Barn in the Town of Lifons, in Picardy, took Fire, when the Flames made such rapid Progress that one Hundred and four Houses were burnt down in four Hours, and one Man perished in the Flames.
MADRID, October 28. The Riches discovered at Senora, in New Andalusia, on the Coast of California, in South America, are immense. One Gold Mine has been discovered within twelve Leagues of the Presidency del Altar, where, from fourteen Pits at the Depth of only two Feet, with very little Labour, vast Quantities of Grains of Gold have been found. Two other Mines, equally rich, are discovered in its Neighbourhood.
From the Banks of the DANUBE, November 30. M. Nascowitch, agreeable to Orders from the Court of Vienna, hath taken Possession, with three Thousand Men, of a very fine Island, situated on the Danube, opposite to Belgrade, and hath begun to fell all the Trees which prevent the Prospect of the surrounding Shores. This Operation has met with no Opposition from the Turks; the Situation will be extremely advantageous to the House of Austria in Time of War with the Porte, for by Means of some Batteries raised on this Isle it will be very easy to annoy the Fortress of Belgrade and finally to take it.
PISA, November 5. On the 2d Instant the Grand Duke, Dutchess, and the Duke of Gloucester, went on Board the English Admiral's Ship, lying about two Leagues and a Half from this City. The Gondolas which conveyed them, and their Attendants, on Board, were very elegant. As they passed the English, and other Ships in the Harbour, they were saluted by the Guns of each. The Dukes, &c. returned to the Palace about one o'Clock, and in the Evening there was a masked Ball for their Amusement in the House of Sir John Dick, the British Consul, which was conducted with great Taste and Propriety. The Grand Duke spoke in French, with great Affability, to all those who happened to be near him. The Duke of Gloucester did not dance, nor at all mix with the Company, but remained the whole Evening in a small Apartment, where he played Cards with a few English Gentlemen. This, I suppose, was owing to his not being perfectly recovered of his late Indisposition, the Flux, of which he was so bad for eight Days that all the Italian Physicians despaired of his Recovery. However, one Mr. Meek, a Scotchman, bred at Edinburgh, and Surgeon of an English Frigate, pledged himself for the Duke's Recovery, provided that no more Italian Prescriptions were followed. The Duke agreed, and was restored to Health. The Duke wanted to reward this young Man in the handsomest Manner; but he, with uncommon Disinterestedness, refused all Offers made him. "I am already paid (said he) for serving his Majesty; and it is my Duty to do the utmost, without farther Reward." I believe there are few of his Majesty's Servants who hold Principles of this Sort.
I will now tell you another Story, as dishonourable to human Nature as the other is advantageous. One Mr. R. came into Italy about two Years ago. He was recommended to several People of Fashion in Leghorn, and is the Son of a Gentleman of Family and small Fortune in Ireland. Having remained some Time in Leghorn, and become intimate with the Women of the Town, one of them conceived so violent an Affection for him that she for a long Time supplied him with Money, and afterwards bought him, from her Gains, a Commission in the Duke's Guards. Soon after, she was obliged, on Account of some Family Affairs, to make a Journey to Milan. She left all her Effects to his Care, but she was no sooner gone than he immediately disposed of all that was intrusted to him; and on her Return, to prevent farther Enquiry, put her to Death. He is now in Prison, and has confessed his Guilt. The Dignity of the Corps he belongs to has protracted the Fate of this Officer for several Months.
HAMBURG, November 26. It is said that a Diet will soon be summoned at Warfaw, at which all the Nobility and Grandees shall be obliged to attend, in Order to take proper Measures to terminate at once the Disputes which have so long fatally prevailed in that Kingdom; and it is added, that in Case of a Refusal of any Person his Goods will be confiscated, and himself declared a Rebel, and an Accomplice in the infamous Attempt upon the Life of the King.
LONDON, November 1.
An authentick Account of General PAOLI's Tour to SCOTLAND. THE illustrious Corsican Chief was all along resolved, since he arrived in Great Britain, to make a Tour to Scotland, and visit James Boswell, Esquire, who was the first Gentleman of this Country that visited Corsica, and whose Writings made the brave Islanders, and their General, be properly known, and esteemed, over Europe. Engagements of a serious and important Nature prevented the General from putting his Scheme in Execution till Monday August 26th, 1771; when he set out from London, accompanied by Count Burzynski, the Polish Ambassador. They passed some Time with Lord Lyttelton at Hagley Park, and viewed with Pleasure that fine Place, where, as Thomson says, the Muses have reared a Lodge for their Votary. They arrived incognito at Edinburgh on Tuesday September 30, at Peter Ramsay's Inn; and went that Afternoon and viewed the Castle, the Abbey of Holyrood House, and the other Buildings of that City. On Wednesday, September 4th, they went in the Forenoon and saw Duddingston, the Seat of Lord Abercrom; where his Lordship has displayed his Magnificence and Taste, both in Building and laying out Ground. From Duddingston they had a fine Prospect of the Country around; the Frith of Forth; the grand Mountain of Arthur's Seat, the ancient Castle of Craigmillar, where the beautiful Mary Queen of Scots passed some of her Days; Prestonfield, the Seat of Sir Alexander Dick, Baronet; and Duddingston Loch, belonging to that Gentleman. They dined at Edinburgh with Mr. Boswell, and supped with Doctor Gregory, to whom they brought a Letter from the ingenious Mrs. Montague. On Thursday, September 5th, the General and Ambassador, accompanied by Mr. Boswell, set out early in the Morning for the West. They stopped to breakfast at Linlithgow, and viewed there the Ruins of an ancient Palace of the Kings of Scotland. They then proceeded on the Falkirk Road, and viewed the great Canal of Communication between the eastern and western Seas; which is, without Question, one of the greatest Works in modern Times. They then viewed the Iron Works at Carron, which are carried on at so prodigious an Expence, and have diffused so much Opulence, and such a Spirit of Improvement, in that Part of the Country. General Paoli had a peculiar Pleasure in viewing the Forge where were formed the Cannon, and warlike Stores, which a Society of Gentlemen in Scotland sent to the Aid of the brave Corsicans. They were elegantly entertained at Dinner by Charles Galtcoigne, Esquire, of the Carron Company; and while they sat at Table all the Vessels at Carron Shore, which were just in their View, had their Flags displayed; a Circumstance which led the General to speak, with his usual Esteem, of the British Hearts of Oak. They went that Evening to Glasgow. On Friday, September 6th, they walked about and viewed the beautiful and flourishing City of Glasgow without being known; but by the Time they got to the University the Report went that General Paoli was in Town, and then every Body was in Motion, crowding to see him. Their Excellencies viewed the elegant Printing, and Academy of Painting, Sculpture, &c. of the Scottish Stephani, the Messieurs Foulis, who were transported with Enthusiasm to see such Velters. The University was not sitting; but there luckily happened to be there the Professors Moor, Muirhead, Anderson, Trail, Wilson, Reid, and Stevenson, who showed the University to great Advantage, and entertained their Excellencies, and a Number of other Gentlemen of Distinction, with Wine and Sweetmeats, in the Library. The Magistrates of Glasgow behaved with that Dignity and Propriety which might be expected from Gentlemen of extensive Commerce, and consequently enlarged Minds; Gentlemen of great Fortunes, and consequently independent Spirits. They considered it as an Honour to their City to show every Mark of Respect to so distinguished and truly estimable a Person as General Paoli, and to the Representative of a crowned Head. They therefore met their Excellencies at the Cross, as they understood they were setting out for Auchinleck, and most politely asked the Honour of their Company to Dinner on Tuesday. The Streets and Windows of Glasgow were quite full of Spectators, and every Body was happy at having an Opportunity of seeing General Paoli. It may be remarked, to the Honour of human Nature, that although the Polish Ambassador was certainly, according to political Ideas, the greatest Man of the two at the Time, yet People seemed to forget him; so much was their Attention fixed on one whom they knew to be a real great Man, though he was now under Misfortunes. The Polish Ambassador, who is a young Man of great Rank, and at the same Time of Abilities and Spirit, and a sincere Admirer of the Corsican Chief, was pleased himself to see such an honest Tribute of Applause paid to exalted Merit. Mr. Boswell conducted their Excellencies that Evening to Auchinleck, the Seat of his Father, who was extremely happy to receive such Guests. They staid there Friday Night and all Saturday, walked a great Deal, and saw the Place as much as they could do for the Time. On Sunday, September 7th, they set out early in the Morning, and breakfasted with James Campbell, Esquire, of Trecabark. They dined at Stewarton, where they were met by Mr. McDowall, Sheriff Depute of Renfrewshire, and Mr. Logan, Sheriff Substitute of Ayrshire, and several other Gentlemen of that County; who, with a Detachment of the Tenants of Auchinleck, conveyed their Excellencies to the March of the Shire. That Night they returned to Glasgow. On Monday, September 9th, they set out to view Loch Lomond. They went up as far as Firk Point, ascended a good Way the Mountains above it, and had an extensive Prospect of the Lake both to the east and west, with Ben Lomond and other Hills. At Night they came to Lodsce, the Seat of Sir James Colquhoun of Lufs, Baronet, where they were most hospitably entertained. Sir James's Barge was ready on General Paoli's Arrival, and carried him round one of the beautiful Islands in Loch Lomond belonging to Sir James. In the Course of this little Sail his Excellency saw the Lake to great Advantage, and was much delighted with it. On Tuesday, September 10th, they breakfasted at Dumbarton. They had stopped there the Day before, and the Magistrates had preferred them with the Freedom of that Town. This Day the General viewed the Castle of Dumbarton, with the Situation of which he was much pleased; and from thence he had a Prospect of the Mouth of Clyde, and the Sea-port Towns of Greenock and Port Glasgow. Their Excellencies dined at Glasgow, at the Saracen's Head, with the Right Honourable Colin Dunlop, Esquire, Lord Provost, and the other Magistrates, Lord Frederick Campbell, Member for the City, and a Number of other Gentlemen of Distinction, in all fifty two at Table; and after Dinner their Excellencies were presented with the Freedom of the City, which they accepted in the politest Manner. That Evening they went to Wliaburn. On Wednesday, September 11th, they got back to Edinburgh about Noon, and honoured Mr. Boswell with their Company all that Day. The Ambassador lodged at Doctor Gregory's; the General slept under the Roof of his ever grateful Friend. On Thursday, September 12th, they set out on their Return to England. During General Paoli and the Ambassador's short Stay at Edinburgh they enjoyed the Company of most People of Distinction, Learning, and Genius, who were in Town; and, without any Flourish or Parade of Words, it may be truly said that this Visit to Scotland will be remembered in the most pleasing and honourable Manner.
Private Letters from Holland, by the last Mail, says that the French and Spanish Ambassadors seem very solicitous to know of the States General what Part they intend to take in Case a War should break out between England and either of those Powers; but that they have refused to declare their Intentions at present, excepting that it is their hearty Desire to remain only a Spectator. Since the above, Ambassadors have been so urgent upon that Head that the States have given fresh Orders to augment their Forces both by Sea and Land. The Letters also say, that
the Prussian Ambassador has sent an Express, with Despatches, to acquaint the King his Master with the above Particulars; and that he has obtained a private Conference with the Honourable Mr. Yorke, the English Ambassador.
Orders are said to be given for Shipping to be immediately taken up on Government Contract, to serve as Transports to the West Indies.
Extract of a Letter from Portsmouth, October 29.
"Orders came down here last Night to get six more Ships of the Line ready for Sea, as soon as possible, which, we hear, are to be joined by several more from Plymouth and Chatham, and then to be stationed off Brest, as a Fleet of Observation, to watch the Motions of the French, who have a Fleet lying there ready for Sea, and only wait, as we are credibly informed, to be joined by some Spanish Men of War, and then to sail on some secret Expedition."
It is whispered that Government has an Intention of claiming the Province of Maryland as an Escheat to the Crown, on Account of Issue failing in the Line of the late Proprietary.
An old Correspondent congratulates us upon the present agreeable Aspect of national Affairs, and upon the probable Permanency of the publick Tranquillity abroad and at home. The Reasons he assigns for his Opinion are these: That France, our most potent Enemy, are themselves in a State of Distraction, the People there groaning under a Compilation of real Grievances, their publick Revenues anticipated, their Credit at the lowest Ebb. These, with other Circumstances not so fit to be made publick, render them utterly incapable to undertake a fresh War, and which therefore her present Ministers will take Care most industriously to avoid. That the rest of European Powers (Spain excepted, and who can do Nothing without France) we have Nothing to do with, or to fear from, our Ministry being determined for the future to avoid a continental War, or to interfere in the Quarrels of the German Princes. That the Disputes with our Colonies have of themselves gradually subsided, the Causes of Complaint on their Part being in a great Measure removed, and his Majesty's Subjects on both Sides of the Atlantic become duly sensible that their mutual Prosperity and Security depend upon their firm and cordial Union. That at home the Spirit of Faction is visibly abated, the sinister Designs of our pretended Patriots fully detected, the flourishing State of our Trade affords full Employment for all our Manufacturers, and the People, of late irritated, by designing Men, with the Apprehension of imaginary Grievances, duly sensible of their unexampl'd Happinefs. That as his Majesty is known to have no Interest separate from, and is anxiously solicitous for, the Glory and Prosperity of his Subjects, so his present Ministry do all in their Power to second his Royal Intentions, and of Course possess his full Confidence. That the noble Lord in particular now at the Head of the Treasury, as he did not accept the high Station he now so worthily fills from Motives of Interest or Ambition, but from a sincere Desire to serve his Royal Master, so we have every Reason to believe he will not be induced to quit it while his remaining there can, in his Majesty's Opinion, answer that laudable Intention. He has already given undoubted Proofs that he possesses a sound and manly Judgment, Courage without Temerity, Steadiness without Obstinacy, Patience without Timidity, assiduously discharging the Duties of his Office without Ostentation, and whole Integrity is without a Stain. From the above Reasons, our said Correspondent concludes that we are now, whatever our other Correspondents may allege to the contrary, the happiest Nation under the Sun.
November 4. A Letter is said to be received from Carrickfergus, in Ireland, that a French East Indiaman, supposed to be homeward bound, was lately driven on Shore within five Leagues of that Place, in a violent Storm, and that both Ship and Cargo were totally lost. Part of the Crew took to the Longboat; but the Wind shifting, were driven out to Sea, and have not since been heard of. The rest of the Crew made Signals of Distress, but the Wind blew so hard that no Vessels could put off to their Assistance, and they were all drowned.
The Mary, Richardson, from Maryland to London, is ashore near Margate, and full of Water.
Extract of a Letter from Warfaw, October 16.
"The last Letters from Count Romanzow to Mr. Saldern, the Russian Ambassador to this Court, advise that Major Belitz, on the 26th of August, made himself Master of a little Ottoman Fleet, consisting of four Gallies, three Saiques, and three small Barks, going from Iassia to Maczynow. The Turks had a Hundred and fifty Men drowned in this Affair, and lost ten Pieces of Cannon, and a great Quantity of Ammunition, Sails, Anchors, &c. Captain Hadzi Azul, and two other Turks, were taken Prisoners."
November 5. Last Wednesday Mr. Alderman Townsend returned from Norfolk to Bruce Castle, Tottenham. The next Day certain Officers, by Virtue of Warrants from the Commissioner of the Land and Window Taxes, levied on Mr. Townsend's Chattle for their respective Affessments to the Amount of two Hundred Pounds. Mr. Townsend protested, that, on Account of the improper Representation of the County of Middlesex, he would not pay the Taxes; and, adhering uniformly to this Motive, he has suffered this Act to be executed, having absolutely refused Payment on every Demand. The Consequence of this Measure will produce a Trial in the Court of King's Bench, wherein this grand national Point will be contested, on either Side, in the most strenuous Manner, by the ablest Advocates. Whatever may be the Determination there, an Appeal to the House of Lords will undoubtedly be brought; and the whole Proceedings afford an interesting a Case as any contained in the Volumes of the State Trials.
The last Letters from the Continent advise that his Prussian Majesty has actually marched an Army of thirty Thousand Men into Polish Prussia, which is to penetrate as far as the Borders of Silesia. The Command is given to General Thoningston, Knight of the Black Eagle.
Some few Weeks past an Acquaintance of Mr. Burke's went early to his Room, whom, instead of finding in Bed, he discovered asleep at his Table, with several Papers about him, Enke having been up all Night. Curiosity led the Person to look upon the Papers, and he soon perceived one to be an unfinished Junius; which, when Burke awoke, he very carefully concealed.
Before the War with Spain in the Year 1739, the Spaniards (as they have lately done) treated the Subjects of these Kingdoms with utmost Insolence and Contempt. Many brave English Seamen seized by their Guarda Costas, and thrown into Dungeons in the ng at Indies, where they miserably perished, under the old Pretence of acts of Freebooters, and cutting Logwood; and the Captain of one oply to Vessels had the Audacity to board an English Ship which refused to go, on his firing at her, and in cool Blood, with great Barbarity, cut one of the Ears of Mr. Jenkins, the Master of the Ship, for this Offence. The News of this atrocious Act, and the Appearance of Jenkins for after in London, so irritated the Populace, that they surrounded the Parliament House, stopped several of the Members, and called repeatedly for War! War! and on the late King's Return to St. James's addressed him in the same Terms, which they constantly echoed, whenever he appeared in publick, till the Declaration of Hostilities was made.
Would the British Court but show a proper Refinement, says a Correspondent, for the Seizure of the Hawke Sloop at Carthagena, they would immediately order an Embargo on all Spanish Ships in the Thames, and in all our Ports. Such a Proceeding has been, and has wrought the desired Effect.
Lord Sandwich, when he heard that the Hawke was taken, cried out, "Well done, Spain; but if we don't make you pay for the Insolence there is not a Spark of Courage remaining in England."

We are assured that a very spirited Remonstrance is preparing, and with which Mr. Harris will set out for that Court in a few Days. He is commanded to deliver a categorical Answer respecting the Designs of the Spaniards in South America and the West Indies, and to know whether the Court of Madrid countenances the Proceedings of Guada Coftas in that Part of the World. Prince Masserano sent off an extraordinary Courier on Thursday Night to Madrid, after having had a long Conference with Lord Suffolk, relative, it is thought, to the present critical Posture of Affairs in South America.
A Squadron of ten Sail of the Line is preparing to be sent to guard our Settlements in the West Indies, and two Regiments are to be embarked for Jamaica.
November 15. Yesterday a Cow, not bigger than a large Dog, and a Calf, brought from the Indies by one of the Ships just arrived, were carried to St. James's, as a Present for the Prince of Wales.
November 20. Yesterday came on before the Barons of the Exchequer, at Westminster Hall, the great Cause between Sir James Lowther, Baronet, Plaintiff, and the Duke of Portland, Defendant, in Consequence of a Grant made to Sir James Lowther of the Forest of Inglewood, in the Year 1767, of Lands being upwards of seventy Years in Possession of the Family of the Duke of Portland. Their Lordships came into Court about nine o'Clock, and after waiting near an Hour for Baron Adams, the Chief Baron received a Letter from his Lordship, informing him of the Impossibility of his attending the Court that Day, on Account of the Death of Lady Adams. The Court then entered into the Business of the Day, and recited all the Records and Prerogatives of the Crown from Edward I. to the Lease made to Sir James Lowther; when, after a full, candid, and most impartial Examination of the said Lease, it was found invalid, agreeable to the Statute made in the first Year of Queen Anne, which recites, "that upon every Grant, Lease, or Assurance, there be reserved a reasonable Rent, not being under the third Part of the clear yearly Value of such of the said Lands, Measages, Lands, &c. &c. as shall be contained in such Lease or Grant." Sir James Lowther's Grant from the Crown being only a Quitrent of thirteen Shillings and four pence for the whole Forest of Inglewood, was immediately judged by the Court an inadequate third Proportion, and he was non suited accordingly.
November 21. Advice is received that a French Man of War has taken, on the Banks of Newfoundland, an American Vessel laden with Fish, under Pretence that the Fish were caught in the Bounds allowed to the French in the last Treaty of Peace, by which they had forfeited both Ship and Cargo. The same Advices say that the French have engrossed the greatest Part of the Fishery, and have insulted many of our Vessels; Complaints of which have been sent home, but that no Steps have yet been taken to call them to Account for it.
November 23. A Vessel from Genoa brings an Account that a daring Conspiracy has lately been discovered there, composed of the Natives, and other Inhabitants, to murder the whole Council, with the Burgesses. Two or three Hundred were found actually under Arms, and fired as a Signal of Revolt. This is the third Conspiracy within these two Years.
The great Cause between Sir James Lowther and the Duke of Portland is certainly finally determined by the Trial on Wednesday last. The Title of the Duke to Inglewood Forest is now established by the Nullum Tempus Act passed last Session, which declares an undisturbed Possession of sixty Years a sufficient Title, and now precludes Government for granting a fresh Lease. The Estate has been in the Portland Family near sixty four Years.
November 25. We have Authority to assure the Publick that the Mogul has left Iliabad, his Residence, in a most private Manner, and actually joined the Mahattoes, who are encamped, with a powerful Army, in the Environs of Delhi. Suja Dowla pretends to disapprove of this Measure, but it is supposed that he is in the Secret. The French, who have twelve Thousand Regulars, besides disciplined Natives, at the Mauritius, are at the Bottom of this Conspiracy. They were expected daily to land with a great Force on the Malabar Coast, and to take their Route, with the Permission of the Mahattoes, to Delhi, from whence, in the Emperor's Name, they will most certainly invade Bengal.
We hear, by the most undoubted Intelligence, that all Hopes of a Peace in the East of Europe are vanished; the Ignorance and Haughtiness of the Ottomans prevent it. They know not their own Situation, and they will not acquiesce in equitable Terms. The Intrigues of France carry every Thing in the Divan, and Austria is the Dupe of the weak Politics of Louis XV.
The Publick may be assured, notwithstanding every Report to the contrary, that General Paoli, the late illustrious Corsican Chief, is possessed of a large Property in our Funds, though we cannot pretend to ascertain the exact Sum. The General lives as happy in England as the Recollection of the disastrous Fate of his Country can permit him, being greatly esteemed and caressed by a numerous and valuable Set of Acquaintance, among whom we can with Pleasure enumerate those Characters of a Lyttelton, a Pembroke, and a Harcourt, which will for ever shine distinguished in the Annals of Fame. The General is particularly fond of the polite Arts of Painting and Musick, which, we are happy to say, are cultivated to an astonishing Degree, as well by the Ingenuity of private Persons, as the elaborate Skill of the publick Professors in this Country. We are likewise informed that Paoli has signified to his Friends his Intention of residing for the Remainder of his Days in England. This probably will induce him to turn his Thoughts towards Matrimony; as, in the Account which Mr. Boswell gives of Corsica, he relates a Conversation which passed between the General and himself on that Subject. We have only to wish, therefore, on this Occasion, that the Lady whom he honours with his Choice may possess every Accomplishment that can adorn the female Character, and prove herself deserving of so truly great and noble a Man.
Before the last War we imported from our Colonies about seventy Thousand Hogheads of Sugar annually, which, from our Acquisitions upon the Peace, is increased to one Hundred and thirty Thousand, notwithstanding Sugar is dear, owing to the Luxury of the Age, and the vile Spirit of engrossing. Mr. Nash, it is said, in this Article alone, turns near a Million and a Quarter every Year, and can raise the Price of that Commodity at his Pleasure.
The Interest of the established Church seems to be upon the Decline, most of the Directors of the Banks, and other great Companies, with a Third of the Court of Aldermen, being Dissenters.
It is said that three Fifths of the Seamen in the Merchants Service are Scotchmen.
November 30. On Thursday Evening died, at his Seat in Hampshire, the most noble and puissant Prince Henry Bridges, Duke of Chandos, Marquis and Earl of Carnarvon, Viscount Wilton, and Baron Chandos of Sudley, Knight of the Bath. His Grace is succeeded in his Honours and Estates by his only Son, James, Marquis of Carnarvon.
Advice is said to be received that the St. Anne, Captain Delamore, from Newfoundland to Dunkirk was lost the 10th Instant, at the Entrance of Dunkirk Harbour, and that every Soul on Board perished.
The great Dispute between the Duke of Portland and Sir James Lowther is said to have cost one of the Parties one Hundred and twenty five Thousand Pounds.
Since the Arrival of Sir Gilbert Elliot, the Buckingham House Juncto (of which he is Chairman) have begun to act. The first Object of their Consideration was the Marriage of the Duke of Cumberland. Full of Resentment at his having presumed to marry an ENGLISH WOMAN, this Scotch and German Board have determined to pursue him with the utmost Rancour and Persecution; but reflecting a little upon some past Transactions, they, upon mature Deliberation, have resolved that the Crown shall not carry on his Persecution, lest it should make the Duke popular, and open the Eyes of the People as to the Cause of it, but that the Parliament, or, as it has not been improperly called, the present Negro Parliament , shall do the dirty Work. This may be depended upon as the FACT, and the Publick are desired to keep their Eyes upon it at the Meeting of Parliament.
This Day's Mail brings the following farther Particulars relative to the Attempt on the Life of the King of Poland. Kofinski, Chief of the Assassins, and who tore from the King the Order of Prussia, ordered Kofinski to give the King the Coup de Grace . Kofinski led the King into the Wood of Marimont, to make an End of him there; but hearing the of Horsemen, who indeed were People in Quest of his Majesty, he arrived at the Place he was in, and here it is that Providence was remarkably. The Villain, perplexed and agitated with a Sense of Crime, was staggered, and delayed the Execution of it. The King served his Resolution altered, and availed himself of it. Kofinski said to him, "I know that to kill the King is a great Sin, but I have taken an Oath to kill you." His Majesty answered him, "I see thou art not yet grown gray in thy Iniquity; if thou knowest that it is a great Sin to kill the King, how dost thou dare to take an Oath to commit a Sin?" Kofinski replied, "But I have, however, taken that Oath; and at last, if I do not kill you, I shall lose my own Head." Upon which the King answered, "If thou believest me to be a King, thou oughtest to believe that I have Power to spare thy Life." At last, Kofinski, giving Way to Remorse of Conscience, confessed that he sinned against the Thoughts of killing his Sovereign, and knew not what to do. His Majesty proposed to him to go to Warsaw with him, but Kofinski still strongly expressed his Fears; for, said he, "it is common to promise many Things in a Case of Necessity, which cannot afterwards be granted." The King then proposed to him, that if he would not trust to his Word he might
leave him alone, and make his Escape. Kofinski, convinced then of his Majesty's Sincerity, declared that he would go with the King to Warsaw, although he did deserve to lose his Head, but that he was unacquainted with the Road. In Consequence, he confessed that the King should conduct him.
December 2. A Letter on making Marmalade of Carrots, for the Use of Seamen in long Voyages, as a Preservative from the Scurvy, was lately communicated to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. from a foreign Correspondent; and a Copy of the Letter having been sent to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, we are credibly informed their Lordships, ever attentive to the Preservation of the Health and Lives of Seamen, have directed a considerable Quantity of the Marmalade to be prepared, in Order that proper and effectual Trial of its Utility may be made.
In the Beginning of the Reign of King Edward I. two Hundred and eighty Jews were found guilty of clipping and adulterating the current Coin of the Kingdom, whom that great and wise Monarch ordered for immediate Execution.
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is reduced to such a contemptible Opinion in the Eyes of the Publick that even the meanest of his Bottle Companions have deserted him, and he is now only supported by those who would support any Thing for Interest. On his first Arrival in Ireland, one of the Means of increasing his Popularity was by drinking hard, a Foible the Irish are naturally much addicted to; yet when they saw it made Use of as a Deception in the Hands of an Enemy, they treated him with proper Contempt.
Wagers of five to one are laid, at the west End of the Town, that a certain Speech, which will be spoken on the 21st of January next before an August Assembly, will contain a perfect Satisfaction, being obtained by his good Brother and Ally of Spain.
A Letter from Scotland, to a Gentleman in Town, says: "Your Newspapers will have informed you of the vast Inundation in all Parts of the North, and the extraordinary Movement of Solway Moss. I had the Curiosity to ride and see the Devastation it had made. Many Hundred Acres of the most beautiful Enclosures are covered with it, and now appear as wide as any Part of Penitentiary Fell. Ten Villages are destroyed by it, but no Lives lost. The People, Goods, and Cattle, were taken out at the Roofs of the Houses, and walked into the Moss. Before we came to the Part in Motion the Ground was broke into vast Chasms, as with an Earthquake. We stood and saw many Acres of Ground in Motion; by my Watch it moved about two Yards in a Minute."
The Senatorial Commanders are already engaged in mustering their rhetorical Troops for the Review on the 21st of January, in Palace Yard. Sir Gilbert Elliot has prepared a Speech upon the Speech , which he is to speechify at all Events, and then remain speechless , let who will answer it, and destroy every one of his Affections.
The King of Prussia has greatly recovered from his late declining State of Health. That active Monarch revives, on the Verge of Life, at the Prospect of Hostilities.
It is now agreed, by all Parties, that the Alteration of the Courts of Justice in France is salutary, and will soon become popular. The Parliaments tyrannized over the People when they usurped some of the Prerogatives of the Crown.
It is said that the Consumption of Malt made in England and Wales, by a late moderate Computation, by Brewers, Distillers, Innholders, and Publicans (exclusive of private Families) amounts to upwards of three Millions one Hundred and twenty five Thousand Quarters annually.
The Publick have been long at a Loss to know why Junius forbears to attack Lord North, who is just now wallowing in the Plenitude of Profit and Power. The following is the Fact. Mr. Charles Fox is the common Friend of North and Edmund. He begged the Forbearance of the Honourable Friend for the Right Honourable One . A Favour must, however, be added to Entreaty. Edmund's Brother, who proposes an Office, so lucrative that the whole Family comfortably ride him, wanted Leave of Absence from the West Indies to prosecute to Effect his Purchase of St. Vincent's. North took Advantage of the Circumstance. The Brother must ask the Favour. He did it, and it was granted, with his usual Grace , by his Lordship; and Junius melted, like Mr. Thomas Bradshaw's April Shower. Such Condescension drew Iron Tears from Pluto's Check.
It is feared that the Duke of Portland East Indian will bring Accounts of a Maratto Invasion of Bengal. The King has joined them at Delhi.
The late Moderation of Mr. Wilkes has done him essential Service, in the Opinion of a great Personage. A foreign Government will be soon offered to him, which he will probably think it prudent to accept, deserted as he is by the pretended Friends of Freedom.
Since Wilkes has for some Time past become gradually less and less considerable in the publick Esteem, and quarrelled with his Friends, many People are at a Loss to guess how he supports the Expenses which at present must essentially attend him; but these People forget that the brightest Faculty of human Existence, Wit , being purely intellectual, is not a visible Means of Life: They are ignorant of the splendid vivere ingenio .
Mr. Forbes, to whom her Majesty has made a Present of her Zebra, has refused two Hundred Guineas for the same.
December 3. By the Death of the Duke of Chandos, his Place as Master of the Hanover Office devolves to the Earl of Northington; and in Reversion to his Son, the Honourable Lord Henley, a Place of three Thousand Pounds a Year.
Advice is said to be received that a great Lady at a northern Court has been guilty of Infidelity to her Royal Consort, with one of her Household Physicians.
The Contents of the Budget for the ensuing Year are expected to give universal Satisfaction. Lord North was assisted in scheming for the next Supplies, we hear, by a Gentleman of Ireland; who was recommended by a great Personage in that Kingdom, for his great Skill and Knowledge of Finances.
We learn, from good Authority, that the Difference between the Courts of London and Madrid will be adjusted in an amicable Manner; and that the Terms of Agreement are approved of by both Powers, and ready for signing by their respective Ministers.
It is supposed there will be several Lawsuits commenced on the Subject of Lord Baltimore's Will, which is said to be intricate in several Parts.
It is now resolved that Britain, a Prisoner in Reading Jail, shall be brought up to Town, and the most lenitive Means used to induce him to make what Discoveries he can relative to the Portsmouth Fire, which are to be laid before the Parliament at their Meeting.
The Attention of the Politicians on the Continent was lately engaged by a Dispute among the United Provinces, which threatened to dissolve the Union. Zealand refused to pay its Quota, and that Province was suspected of a Desire to be connected with a neighbouring Power. The Prince of Orange did, by his own Authority, what one of the most determined of his Predecessors could not accomplish till he executed Barnaveldt and imprisoned Grotius. He gave the Refractory a few Days to deliberate, whether it would choose to be treated as an Ally or as a conquered Country. It preferred the former; and the other Provinces have lent it Money to pay off its Debts, and to pay the Contingents.
December 5. Yesterday the Plate, and Part of the Household Furniture, of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, were moved from his House in Pall Mall to Windsor Lodge.
We hear that his Majesty has ordered one Thousand Guineas to be distributed among poor Housekeepers in Westminster.
A Spar Mine has been lately discovered in Ireland, for which some Birmingham Manufacturers have contracted, as it is greatly superior to the Marquissette, both in Brilliancy and Hardness. Buckles, Combs, and other Ornaments, are already made of it, and the Gem is likely to become very fashionable in this Kingdom.
As many Persons, possessed of Property in the publick Funds, may be fearful that the recent Hostilities of Spain may produce a War, and consequently may be tempted to sell out at a Disadvantage, it may not be improper to consider, from the present Circumstances of Things in this Kingdom, whether a War with Spain be, or be not, at this Juncture, probable. By the Parliament's being prorogued to the 21st of January next, there is the greatest Reason to believe that the Ministry have no Intention of resuming, in a proper Manner, the high Insults recently offered to the British Crown, or of vindicating in the least the Honour of it; for, let the Parliament be ever so contemptible in the Eyes of the Nation, it is the only Support, Defence, and Security, which the Ministry have; and, therefore, they will certainly never enter into a War without first having had the Colour of its being approved of by Parliament. Foreign Powers generally look upon the Approbation of Parliament as the Sense of the whole Kingdom, though we at home too well know it is often contrary to it; wherefore we have the strongest Reasons for concluding that our excellent Ministry are resolved to keep the Peace, and their Places, as long as they can. However, they will doubtless wear a double Face, and put the Nation to an immense Expense in fitting out a considerable Fleet, as if they intended War; and at the same Time enter into another happy Negotiation with Spain, which, through the good Offices of France, may very probably bring forth another shameful Convention, but not before the Parliament have granted sufficient Supplies for supporting a War. To answer these desirable
Ends, we shall probably be told, at the Opening of Parliament, that the Rights of the Nation, and the Honours of the Crown, shall be vindicated and maintained, at all Events; and that if a proper Satisfaction for the late Injuries and Insults offered to both should not be immediately obtained, we must not be prepared for a different Situation, lest it should be found necessary for those important Purposes. And thus the Hostilities of Spain will perfectly answer the Minister's Ends, as they will serve as a good Handle for procuring Money from the People.
December 7. It is said that a certain great Personage is so struck with, and affected by, the late desperate Conspiracy and Assassination of the King of Poland, that his Guard will be doubled for the future, whenever he goes out.
December 10. The Earl of Chatham was rather indisposed on Sunday Morning last, but was in good Spirits. The Friends of Liberty wish to see his Lordship in Office again, bearing in Remembrance perhaps the Sentiment of Pyrrhus, when he owned that Cineas had acquired greater Conquest by his Tongue than he (Pyrrhus) had done by his Arms.
According to a private Letter from an English Gentleman at Naxia, an Island in the Archipelago, there has been a warm Dispute between the Greek and Latin Christians, respecting some religious Ceremonies, and that the Archbishops had been seen of interposing.
A Correspondent of Veracity, well acquainted with the Nature of our Trade and Commerce with Spain, assures us that in Time of Peace the same produces a Balance of near a Million Sterling in Favour of Great Britain; which shows how cautious the latter ought to be not to wage War with the former, upon any slight or trivial Occasion, especially if it be considered that this Advantage is gained without hazarding our Lives or Properties, whereas both must be risked in Case of a War, the Issue of which is every Way uncertain.
We are every Day amused with very confident Decisions concerning the Event of our present Disputes with Spain, but at present they seem all equally groundless. The Ministry are themselves in a State of the greatest Uncertainty. They cannot bring themselves to the Resolution either of carrying another Convention into Parliament, or of coming to an absolute Rupture with Spain, so soon after the late Agreement. This Dilemma is the true Cause why the Session has been put off till the 21st of next Month. They know perfectly well the Language their Opponents will hold, but have not yet been able to settle their own. In the mean Time Altercations run very high with the Spanish Ambassador, who only replies, in the Style of his Predecessor, Gondamar, Smugglers! Smugglers! Smugglers! That we have been, in this Respect, the Aggressors, seems to be acknowledged; but how far such an Infringement of an Article of Commerce ought to oblige us to acquiesce under a national Indignity is a Point that remains still undecided, even in Buckingham Hou.
It is thought that Lord Chatham would be immediately in some Department of the State could he obtain it on honourable Terms, but there is too strong an Opposition against him. In fact, Men who have selfish Views will maintain their Ground, and effectuate their Purposes, far better than others, let the Abilities of the latter be what they will.
A certain foreign Minister took Notice, the other Evening, in the diplomatic Club, at the St. Alban's Tavern, that no Man had ever been so great a Friend to the Lawyers as Mr. Wilkes; that from the original Source of the North Briton, Number forty five, down to the present Litigation between the Duke of Portland and Sir James Lowther, which may be traced from the Spirit of Party generated from that Spring, the Lawyers have not, by Party Contests, gained less than a Hundred Thousand Pounds; and, that if the Gentlemen of the Long Robe were animated with a just Sense of Gratitude, they should make a Subscription of at least a Thousand a Year for their common Benefactor.
There is no Truth in the scandalous Report relative to a great Lady in the North; but it is certain that one of the Northern Potentates is in a State little removed from Imbecility, and that his Consort manages every Thing.
Extract of a Letter from the Hague, November 20. "Private Advices from Berlin, of good Authority, intimate that some Proposals have been made to the King of Prussia, by the Court of Spain, to induce him to quit his Alliance with Russia, and accede to one that is going to be formed between the House of Austria, France, and Spain, and offering him very advantageous Terms if he will become a Party in it. His Prussian Majesty, it is said, rejected the Proposal, and declared that he would abide by his Engagements with the Court of Petersburg."
"The last Letters from Hamburg advise, that a Convention is in Agitation between the Courts of Petersburg, Stockholm, and Berlin; in Consequence of which the first mentioned Court is to give up her Part of Finland to the second, and this Power is to surrender its Share of Pomerania to the third, in Consideration of four Millions of Rubies to be paid by the King of Prussia to the Empress of Russia. If there is any Foundation for this News, we shall soon know more of it."
Junius, says a Correspondent, is on his Way to the Gulf of Oblivion, as well as Wilkes, Croby, and Bull. If he had been ambitious, or capable, of preferring the Character of an able Writer, he would have started some fresh Game, and not confine himself to the low common Talk of telling us the Duke of Grafton has not a fair Character.
The Duke of Cumberland is still in Favour with the Princess Amelia. This is the only Friend he has remaining of the whole Family.
Lieutenant Fourneau is appointed to command the Raleigh, one of the Ships intended for the Voyage round the World.
The Explorers intend, in their Expedition to the South Seas, to penetrate to sixty Degrees south, to see what Land can be discovered towards the south Pole.
December 6. The Russian Ambassador has appointed Agents, by Leave of our Court, and by Orders from Petersburg, to take up six Vessels as Victuallers for the Russian Fleet in the Levant. The Crews thereof being in a deplorable State, for Want of Provisions, they are to sail as soon as possible.
When the King of Poland was in this Kingdom, as a private Nobleman, he was heard to declare he would rather be an independent English Gentleman than the greatest Monarch upon Earth; yet, so little do we know the true Limits of our own Ambition, he could not refuse the precarious Crown of Poland, and heading the most turbulent People in Europe, in Consequence of which his Reign has been one Series of Uneasiness, accompanied with a narrow Escape from Assassination.
This Morning a Mail Cart invented by Mr. Moore, upon a new Construction, was brought to the General Post Office. The Body is made of Iron, and so strong, that it is thought it will be impossible to break it open; the Wheels are about seven Feet high. It is thought to be the best contrived for the Purpose of any that has yet been made, and it is to be drawn by two Horses.
They write from Leghorn that the Senate of Venice had published some new Degrees concerning the Romish Clergy, which has given great Umbrage to the Holy See, and that the Nuncio at Venice had been recalled on that Account.
Some Letters from the Hague advise that the Prussian Manner of Exercise is going to be introduced among the Dutch Troops, for which Purpose several Prussian Officers are daily expected in Holland.
December 21. They write from the Hague that a Treaty is on Foot for lending, at a high Price, ten Dutch Men of War to serve the Russians, the ensuing Campaign, against the Turks in the Levant.
By Advices from Corsica, we hear that the Commander of the French Troops has used his utmost Endeavours to persuade the Mountaineers to submit, having for that Purpose made several advantageous Proposals, and offered them a general Amnesty; but as a preliminary Article, insisting on their delivering up their Arms, the Corsicans have declared they never will accept any such Condition.
The following odd Adventure happened on Tuesday on the New Road. A Woman who had eloped with her Paramour was met by the Husband, who resolutely stripped her, amidst the gaping Crowd, to her Shift and under Petticoat; then told her it was out of Decency to the Publick, not Charity to such a Beast, he left her to the rough Satire of the Populace.
Last Week two Sailors, who had got a Prize in the Lottery of one Hundred Pounds between them, spent the Whole in three Days, by the Help of a Couple of Ladies of the Town.
A Treaty of Marriage is on Foot between Lord Ligonier and Miss Graeme, which will be celebrated, we hear, very speedily.
A Letter from a Gentleman at Exeter says: "We have, on this Coast, had a Miniature Scene of your Distresses, occasioned by a remarkable high Tide. On Friday, the 6th of this Month, the Banks of the Marshes near this Place were almost totally carried away, and most of the Stock which was grazing thereon drowned. The Loss, in one Parish, is computed at ten Thousand Pounds. The Depredation was entirely the Effect of the Leeward Tide, for the River was at that Time very low. The Weather has been uncommonly fine for many Weeks, and the Husbandmen here have used the greatest Diligence with Regard to tilling the Wheat; the first sown has a very promising Appearance for Plenty of Increase."
A Bounty, we hear, will shortly be granted, for a limited Time, on the Importation of foreign raw Silk, with a View to the greater Encouragement of the Silk Manufactory in Great Britain.
The most perfect Harmony subsists at present between our Court and all the Powers of the Continent, so that we may be certain any Reports propagated with Respect to the Probability of a speedy War are interested Fabrications of the Alley, to make a Market of publick Credulity.

A Correspondent says, the French have begun their old Practices at Newfoundland of running down such English Vessels in the Night as are too weak to resist their Violence; some Sloops belonging to Marblehead and Boston were served in this Manner.
A Letter from Captain Roux, written at Mutelin, in the Island of Lesbos, gives the following Advice. "I received all my Cargo on Board the 4th of November, but could not sail before the 15th; three Days before which the Russians made their Appearance, with seven Ships of War and twenty five Transports. They debarked opposite this City, to which they set Fire, as well as to the Magazines of Oil, after having cut in Pieces, or dispersed, the Turks who opposed them. The Pacha has retired into the Castle, where he has beheaded the Greek Bishop and Primates, whom he took with him as Hostages. The Russian have burnt two Ships which were on the Stocks, and all the Timber collected for Ship building; and were about launching a third Ship, which was ready for that Purpose. I saw from Port Olivier, where I was at Anchor, the Conflagration of the City, which continued burning one whole Day and a Night."
It was last Night reported that the Spanish Fleet from Ferrol was failed for the Mediterranean, reinforced by an additional Force of fifty Men of War.
Ten Ships of War, victualled for three Months, are ready to sail from Cadiz; the Ferrol Squadron is completely equipped.
We have received Intelligence that the Demand of Prisoners which was made by our Court from Spain was treated with Contempt.
A Number of additional Hands is employed by the Commissioners of the Victualling Office in preparing Provisions for the Ships fitting out for Sea.
After the Levee broke up yesterday a Council was held, at which the Lords Rochford, Suffolk, Hillsborough, and Mr. Stuart Mackenzie, attended.
A Treaty is said to be in Agitation between the Courts of Great Britain and Petersburg, according to which those Powers are jointly to afford each other Assistance in Case either should be engaged in a War before the Expiration of a certain Number of Years.
A few Days ago a Grant of a Pardon passed the Great Seal to Sir James Stewart, Baronet, against whom a Bill of Indictment was found by the Grand Jury, in the Court of Justiciary in Scotland, in October 1748.
Monday the 9th Instant a large Snow, her Name unknown, sunk about a League to the northward of Jubby Point, Isle of Man, and all Hands perished; her main Topmast is now to be seen above Water.
Saturday the 30th of last Month the Nancy of Whitehaven, one Elliot Master, homeward bound, from Virginia, struck upon a Rock nigh Holyhead, and split up the Middle the whole Length of the Beam, and the People on the weather Side were lost; the Master, the Mate, and two Boys, remained six Hours on the Side which was struck upon the Rock, and were afterwards got safe ashore.
Friday the 13th Part of a Vessel belonging to Workington was put ashore nigh Ellen Foot; the People, except one Boy, were saved. The same Night two Sloops belonging to Whitehaven were lost on the Scotch Coast, near Kircudbright.
Sunday Evening last the Leviathan of Whitehaven, John Steel Master, from Dublin, was put ashore nigh the Ross of Kircudbright; the Master and the Mate were lost, the rest of the Hands took the Boat, and were saved.
EDINBURGH, December 6.
Copy of a Letter to a Gentleman in this City, November 29. "A most astonishing Event has lately happened here. Upon Saturday Night the 16th, the great Solway or Solon Moss (which is upon a high Ground between the Sark and the Esk, and is near fifteen Hundred Acres, burnt on the east Side, and in two Days covered about four Hundred Acres of the finest Holms upon Esk, from five or six to twenty Feet deep. I went to see it upon the Wednesday after, and again upon Tuesday last, and found it still running out, like very wet Mortar. It moves but slowly, but is a horrid Stream. There is little more Land covered than when I first saw it, but the Depth is much greater, and I have no Doubt but it must soon extend itself greatly. It has already ruined eleven or twelve Townships, and about forty Families, and many are removing all round it. I said before the Moss lies high, and as there is a Descent from it every Way, no Water could run into it; I have therefore no Doubt but this terrible Event has been occasioned by some subterraneous Convulsion. I went upon the Flow, and found near the Middle of it above four Hundred Acres from five to twenty Feet lower than the rest, in two different Courses, to the Gap where it burnt out. Many People reckon six or seven Hundred Acres of the Holms covered, but I cannot think it exceeds four Hundred. Mr. Graham of Netherby has shown great Humanity, in giving the poor Sufferers, who are all his Tenants, every Aid in his Power. Most of the Surface remains, and what is come away is chiefly from the Bottom of the Moss."
CHARLESTOWN, February 12.
A LETTER received yesterday from St. Eustatia, dated January 17th, informs us that about three Weeks before the Spaniards took a Schooner as she lay at Crab Island, loading with Puffs. Crab Island is mentioned, in the Governor of Tortola's Commission, as one of the Virgin Islands under his Command. Admiral Man sent down a Frigate to demand the Schooner and her Crew, but the Frigate returned, January 16th, without either. The Spanish Governor told the Captain of the Frigate that he had Orders for what he did, and that he would continue to do as he had done till his Orders were countermanded. The British Officers who went ashore were treated like Criminals, being put under a double Guard of Spaniards as soon as they landed.
NEW YORK, February 10.
THE Honourable Judge Livingston, on Wednesday last, offered himself to the Assembly to be admitted as a Member for the Manor of Livingston, when, we hear, he was excluded; the House adhering to their former Resolution, that no Judge of the Supreme Court should be allowed a Seat in that House.
Captain Prince, from Cayenne, on his Passage, touched at the Windward Islands, where he was informed that on the 27th of December last a most terrible Fire broke out in the Island of Grenada, which burnt down no less than six Hundred Houses, and that not more than forty were left standing in the whole Town of Grenada.
Captain Prince acquaints us that several Vessels which were beat off the Coast in the Winter had got into the Islands, where Flower was felling for twenty three Shillings a Hundred.
It may not be amiss to inform the Publick that we are told the Buoy lately fixed on the south west Spit of the East Bank, near Sandy Hook, is carried away by the Ice.
PHILADELPHIA, January 20.
Extract of a Letter from London, November 9. DOCTOR Franklin hath been for some Time on a Tour to Ireland, where I hear he was five Days entertained by Lord Hillsborough, at his Lordship's House at Hillsborough, with great Hospitality. He is now at Edinburgh, at the House of Mr. Hume the Historian, where he proposes to stay a Week or two, and then return to London.
Extract of a Letter from St. Christopher's, January 20. "We have certain Advice of the Town of St. George, at Grenada, being entirely consumed by Fire, on the 27th of last Month; and that little or no dry Goods, Household Utensils, or Provisions, have been preserved; but three Houses upon the Hill, namely, the Courthouse, Customs, and one other, have escaped; the whole Bay Town entirely consumed. Such is the Distress of the Inhabitants that many of them are lodged on Board the Shipping, and others are forced to take Shelter with the Humane in the Country."
Another Letter from the same Place mentions the Town of St. George being destroyed, and that the Loss was computed at three Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling.
WILLIAMSBURG, March 12.
THE Thomas, Robertson, (via Liverpool) Jenny, Kerr (via Cork and Barbados) and Brunswick, M'Larty, all from Glasgow, are arrived in James River.
A Correspondent has furnished us with the Following Facts: A Ewe lay fifteen Days under the late deep Snow, without any Sufenance; she yeaned in the mean Time, and the Lamb died, though she came out hearty and well, and ran so fast that the Overseer could not catch her. And in the same Neighbourhood some Geese lay under Snow for sixteen Days, and came out well.
Mr. RICHARD ADAMS, and Mr. SAMUEL DU VAL, are elected Burgesses for Henrico.
Many of our Readers, for some Time, have complained of their being tired with the Dispute about an AMERICAN EPISCOPATE; and we must acknowledge that we begin to be sick of it likewise, seeing that there is no Prospect of its Termination (we having by us, at this Time, no less than three Pieces, which if inserted together would fill the Paper completely) and the Want of the Rom, which is always necessary to ensure a Place in this, and every other Newspaper, for Works that are not amusing, instructive, or of publick Utility.
We bear that a new Comedy, called The Brothers, written by Mr. Cumberland, Author of the much approved West Indian, is now in Rehearsal, and will soon make its Appearance on our Theatre; also that False Delicacy, and A Word to the Wife, the Productions of the ingenious Mr. Hugh Kelly, whose spirited Letter to the Lord Mayor (Beckford) has been read by most People, are in great Forwardness.
Advertisements.
WILLIAMSBURG, March 12, 1772.
MR. BAKER, SURGEON DENTIST, begs
Leave to express his Gratitude for the Favours he has received while in this City, and hopes that those who doubted of the Safety of his Art, from its Novelty in this Country, are now convinced both of its Safety and Usefulness. He will leave this Place in a short Time, and, if no unforeseen Accident happens, intends returning next October; when, should he unfortunately have failed of Success with any who have obliged him by their Employ, he will gladly renew his Operations gratis. He is rather inclined to mention this, as he is sensible the best Endeavours may often prove ineffectual, from Inattention or Neglect; and that from thence the Man, and his Profession too, are frequently brought into Disrepute. Until he leaves this City he continues at Mr. Maupin's, and will wait on Ladies and Gentlemen on receiving their Commands. He performs all Operations upon the Teeth, Gums, and Sockets; likewise transplants natural Teeth, and makes and fixes artificial Teeth, from one single Tooth to a complete Set, so as to escape Discernment, without Pain, or the least Inconvenience; and Persons may eat, drink, and sleep with them, as with natural Ones.
His ANTISCORBUICK DENTIFRICE is quite free from any corrosive Preparation, and is a certain Cure for all Disorders of the Teeth, Gums, and foul Breath. Its superior Efficacy over any Thing yet offered to the Publick will be evinced in once using: It concocts the vitiated Juices, and renders a juvenile Fragrance to the Breath beyond Description; which no nausous Tinctures, or cloying Odours of perfumed Essence, can give. It also makes the Teeth white and beautiful, causes the Gums to grow firm to the Teeth, makes the Saliva pure and balsamick, is perfectly innocent, will eradicate the Scurvy, and restore the Gums to their pristine State if the Teeth and Gums have been thoroughly cleaned by some skilful Dentist. The Dentifrice, which is infallible, may be had, with proper Directions, at his Lodgings. Each Pot is sealed up with his Coat of Arms, as in the Margin of the Directions, to prevent Fraud. Vincit Veritas.
WHEREAS I some Time ago sold to one
Daniel Lovel a Tract of Land, in the County of Pittsylvania , and gave him my Bond for making him a Title thereto, on his paying me a certain Sum of Money, at a certain Place, on a certain Day, and at that Time was likewise to make me secure for the Balance of the Purchase Money, which he hath altogether failed in, this is therefore to give him, and all others concerned, Notice, that I shall not comply with my Bond to him, unless he performs his Part of the Agreement on or before the 16th of April. 2|| JOHN HIX.
THE Subscriber, who keeps the Ferry, in
King and Queen, known by the Name of DUDLEY's, hopes he shall be favoured with the Custom of Travellers, as he has furnished himself with as good Boats and Hands as any in the Colony, and is determined to exert his utmost Endeavours to gain the Favour of the Publick, and to re-establish the Custom of the Ferry, which has been lost by its having been very badly kept for several Years past. 2|| WILLIAM DUDLEY.
YORK County, March 10, 1772.
THERE are two old Negroes lurking about
my Plantation, one a Man, named CUFFY, the other a Woman, named GRACE; they are outlandish Negroes, and speak very bad, although they have been in the Country a Number of Years; they are clothed in Negro Cotton; the Man is bald, and has a remarkable large Navel. The Owner is desired to come and take them away. 1|| FRANCIS PETERS.
CABIN POINT, February 26, 1772.
THE Subscriber has two NEGRO SHIP
CARPENTERS which he would gladly hire out by the Year, or any considerable Part of the Year; they are stout able young Fellows, and understand their Business. JOHN HEATH.
THE BUILDING of a CHURCH,
fifty two Feet by twenty eight, to be let to the lowest Undertaker, at Mr. Thomas Bracy's, near Pennington's Ford, Brunswick , on Thursday the 26th of this Instant (March) a Plan of which will be shown at the Time and Place above mentioned. ALLAN LOVE. CHARLES COLLIER. SILVANUS STOKES.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, on Thursday the 6th of April,
A VALUABLE Tract of LAND, containing a Hundred and seventy six Acres, lying on Potomack Run, in the County of Stafford , about twelve or thirteen Miles west of the Courthouse; thirty or forty Acres of it are Meadow Ground, the greatest Part of which is sown with Timothy; there are also, on the said Land, two Dwellinghouses, a Barn, Stables, and other Outhouses, a very good geared Merchant Mill and Saw Mill, which goes as fast as any Mill in Virginia ; and as there is a great Plenty of Oak and Poplar on the Land, the Saw Mill might be made very profitable, as well as the other, being within ten Miles of Agia or Falmouth , is in the Heart of a thick settled Country, which is very healthy, and so convenient (as is evident) to Trade, that it must be profitable to any Person who is able to make the most of its great natural Advantages. Half the Money is to be paid on the Day of Sale, and the other Half in twelve Months. The Sale will begin at twelve o'Clock, at the House where the Subscriber now lives. 2|| THOMAS WOOD.
To be SOLD, on Wednesday the 25th of this Instant (March) at Mr. Digges's Plantation, near Snead's Ordinary, in Caroline County,
THIRTY five choice SLAVES, consisting of Men, Women, Boys, and Girls, of all Sizes. Credit will be given till the 25th of July, on giving Bond, with Security, to bear Interest from the Day of Sale if the Money is not paid when due. The Publick may depend that the above Number of Negroes will be exposed that Day, if fair, otherwise the next fair Day. 2|| LE ROY HIPKINS.
To be SOLD, on Monday the 6th of APRIL, on the Plantation of Mr. John Wily, in Caroline,
SUNDRY SLAVES, STOCKS, HOUSEHOLD GOODS, and a Moiety of a SAW MILL and FULLING MILL, with some LANDS adjoining to them, for Part ready Money, and Part Credit, to be then made known. 2|| EDMUND PENDLETON.
To be SOLD, on Wednesday the 1st of APRIL, at the Manor Plantation of Armistead Lightfoot, deceased, in Goochland County,
ALL the personal Estate of the said Deceased, consisting of CORN, TOBACCO, HOGS, SHEEP, CATTLE, and HORSES, among them the noted Horse PARTNER. Credit will be allowed until the 26th of August, the Purchasers giving Bond and Security to WILLIAM MITCHELL, Deputy Sheriff of York County.
To be SOLD, at the late Dwellinghouse of GEORGE VAUGHAN, deceased, in Amelia, near Henderson's Store, on the 2d of April,
TWELVE very likely Virginia born NEGROES, Stocks of HORSES, CATTLE, and SHEEP, HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, and PLANTATION UTENSILS. Merchants Notes, payable the 25th of October, will be taken for all Sums above forty Shillings. 2|| SAMUEL VAUGHAN, Executor.
YORK Town, March 10, 1772.
HALF PINT INJECTING SYRINGES,
Apparatus complete, quite new, to be sold for first Cost. Inquire of the Printer.
RUN away, some Time last Summer, two
Slaves belonging to Colonel William Lightfoot's Estate; one of them is named SAMPSON, a tall black Fellow, with a down Look, who is supposed to have made for Gloucester , as I have been informed he was purchased from the Estate of one Blackhall of that County; the other is named HARRY, a Mulatto Fellow, rather tall, has remarkable large Eyes, and generally wears a long Beard; he is a noted Runaway, and is now imagined to be gone to Brunswick , as he has a Wife at a Quarter belonging to Colonel Lightfoot's Estate, in that County, known by the Name of Brandy Quarter . FORTY SHILLINGS Reward will be given for each of them, if they are delivered to me at Sandy Point , in Charles City County . JOHN PIERCE. All Masters of Vessels are forewarned carrying them out of the Colony.
SIXTY POUNDS REWARD.
RUN away from the Subscriber, on Little Pipe Creek , in Frederick County, Maryland , the five following SERVANT MEN, namely, EDWARD RYLOT, about twenty seven Years of Age, five Feet six or seven Inches high, with a pale yellow Countenance, straight brown Hair, black Eyes, very bad sore Shins, and had one of his Ankles put out of Place; JOHN POLLARD, a well set Fellow, about twenty five Years of Age, five Feet six or seven Inches high, with a middling clear Skin, down Look, gray Eyes, straight brown Hair, and a large Scar on his Breast, occasioned by a Scald; JOHN BISSEY, about twenty Years of Age, five Feet six or seven Inches high, has a bold saucy Look, gray Eyes, straight black Hair, and is much pitted with the Smallpox; WILLIAM NORRIS, about five Feet four or five Inches high, a well set Fellow, with a fresh Countenance, Pot Belly, flat Nose, and straight brown Hair; HENRY WITMORE, about five Feet four or five Inches high, a slim Fellow, with brown Skin, fresh Colour, black Eyes, and cured black Hair.
All the above Servants had on under Jackets of white Linsey, Breeches of white Kersey, white Yarn Stockings, coarse Country made Shirts, Country made Shoes, the Bottoms of which are well nailed, and old Felt Hats; three of them had on old blue Fearnought Jackets, and two had on white Kersey Jackets; they carried with them a new Felt Hat, a Country Cloth great Coat, a new gray Bearskin close-bodied Coat, an old white Cotton Ditto, and an old Linen Jacket. They took away four WAGGON HORSES, and a black RIDING HORSE about fifteen Hands high, three Years old, with a Scar on his near Side, and some white Hairs; the Waggon Horses are shod all round; one of them is a black Stallion about fifteen Hands high, eleven Years old, has some Saddle Spots, and paces; another is a large bright bay, about fifteen Hands and a Half high, ten Years old, and paces also; a dark bay about fourteen Hands high, nine Years old, branded on the near Buttock N O; and a bright bay about thirteen Hands and a Half high, seven Years old; they both trot.
Whoever takes up the said Servants, and Horses, shall be entitled to the above Reward, under the following Conditions, namely, for each and every Horse FORTY SHILLINGS, and for each and every Man FOUR POUNDS, if taken within a Mile from home; if taken within a Hundred Miles, FORTY POUNDS; and if within two Hundred, SIXTY POUNDS, as in Proportion for each Man and Horse. The above will be paid if they are brought home to me, but if secured in any Jail, so that I may get them again, shall be paid the Reward as above proportioned. 2|| EDWARD STEVENSON.
COMMITTED to the County Jail of
Hanover , on the 20th of December last, a young Negro Man who says his Name is BILLY, and that he belongs to Robert Stanford , of Cumberland County ; he is about five Feet five Inches high, well made, has on an Osnaburg Shirt, a Waistcoat and Breeches of Plains, and Shoes and Stockings. He was purchased of Mr. Benjamin Grymes , of Fredericksburg , and says he ran away from his Master before he got him home. The Owner is desired to take him away, and pay Charges. PAUL THILMAN.
TAKEN up, in Prince George, a small bay
HORSE, with a Blaze Face, a Switch Tail and hanging Mane, but no perceivable Brand. Posted, and appraised to six Pounds. BENJAMIN WILKINS.
TAKEN up, in Brunswick, a sorrel HORSE about four Feet eight or nine Inches high, with a large Star in his Forehead, but is not branded.
HENRY CHAMBLIS, Junior.
TAKEN up, in Louisa, a red and white STEER about three Years old, with a Crop and two Slits in the left Ear, and a Swallowfork in the right.
VINCEN LEWIS.
BEING strictly enjoined by my late Instructions to enforce the punctual Payment of his Majesty's Quitrents, it is expected, for the future, that every Sheriff should settle with the Auditor, and pay the Money into the Receiver's Office, on or before the Day appointed by Law; and all Sheriffs who are in Arrear to this Revenue, and fail to settle with the Auditor and pay the Money into the Receiver's Office by the 25th of next April, cannot expect any farther Indulgence.
RICHARD CORBIN.
SURRY, February 26, 1772.
THE Commanding Officers of the southern District are requested to appoint the GENERAL MUSTERS upon the following Days, when they will be waited upon by Their most obedient Servant,
   COLIN CAMPBELL, Adjutant.     SURRY, - - - - - MONDAY - 16th   PRINCE GEORGE, - - - WEDNESDAY - 18th   CHESTERFIELD, - - - FRIDAY - 20th March.   CUMBERLAND, - - - - WEDNESDAY - 25th   PRINCE EDWARD, - - - FRIDAY - 27th   AMELIA, - - - - - MONDAY - 30th   BRUNSWICK, - - - - WEDNESDAY - 1st   DINWIDDIE, - - - - FRIDAY - 3d   SUSSEX, - - - - - MONDAY - 13th   SOUTHAMPTON, - - - WEDNESDAY - 15th   ISLE OF WIGHT, - - - FRIDAY - 17th April.   NANSEMOND, - - - - MONDAY - 20th   NORFOLK County, - - - WEDNESDAY - 22d   Borough, - - - - - FRIDAY - 24th   PRINCESS ANNE, - - - MONDAY - 27th  
WHEREAS I purchased a Tract of Land,
lying in Fauquier County , of George Boffwell , for which I gave him my Bond for one Hundred and fifty Pounds, to be paid the 6th of May next, this is to forewarn all Persons from taking an Assignment of the same, as I will not pay it until the said George Boffwell makes me Satisfaction for the Injury I have sustained by him. 2|| CHURCHILL JONES.
To be LET on CHARTER to any Port in Britain:
THE Brig ELIZABETH, Thomas Archdeacon Master, now lying at Bermuda Hundred, Burthen about three Hundred Hogheads of Tobacco, and a strong, well built, new Vessel. For Terms apply to Hector McAlister and Company at Norfolk , or to me at Warwick . SIMON FRASER.
For SALE,
THE following Tracts of LAND, in Pittsylvania , namely, four Hundred Acres on Banister River , six on Hundred and seventy on Beaver Creek , three Hundred and forty five on Burck's Creek , three Hundred and eighty on Leatherwood , and four Hundred on Snow Creek . These Lands were formerly the Property of Mr. Samuel Gordon , deceased. The Price, and Time of Payment, may be known by applying to me in Petersburg . 2|| JERMAN BAKER.
To be SOLD for ready Money, before the RALEIGH Door, in Williamsburg, on the 30th of April,
A SECOND-HAND CHARIOT, with HARNESS for four Horses. Any Person inclined to purchase before the Day of Sale may apply to WILLIAM COSBY.

POETS CORNER.
Receipt for the LADIES to retain the Affections of their HUSBANDS.
TAKE of Beauty and Wit what you happen to have, Each as pure and as simple as Nature first gave;
On Friday the 20th Instant (March) at the late Dwellinghouse of Colonel John Fleming, in Cumberland County, will be SOLD,
A PARCEL of very valuable HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, an exceeding good CHARIOT, a SINGLE CHAIR,
STRAYED, or STOLEN, about the latter End of December last, a yellow bay MARE, with a SADDLE and BRIDLE;
STOLEN from my Plantation, near Colonel Bland's Ordinary, in Prince George, in the Night of the 1st Ultimo,
FORTY SHILLINGS REWARD. RUN away from the Subscriber, in Dinwiddie, on Sunday the 16th of February,
RUN away from the Subscriber's Plantation, Joseph's Swamp, Sussex, on Thursday the 27th of February, two Negro Men, namely, DICK and JOE;
RUN away from the Subscriber, on James River, Buckingham County, in August, a Negro named TOM,
RUN away from the Subscriber, two white indenteds SHOEMAKERS, upon Sunday the 23rd Instant, namely, James Bruce,
TAKEN up, in Pittsylvania, nine HOGS, some of them grizzled, and some spotted, marked with a Crop,
WILLIAMSBURG, February 27, 1772. ABOUT three Months ago we advertised, as run away, a likely Negro Woman, about twenty six Years of Age,
WESTMORELAND, February 1, 1772. THE Subscribers being determined to act no longer as Trustees for Gilbert Campbell, Esquire,
RICHMOND, February 18, 1772. AS I intend for England by the 1st of May next, and to return in the Fall,
RICHMOND County, February 2, 1772. AS my Ferry for Boats, and proper Attendance, is inferior to none in the Colony,
KINGSTON Parish (Gloucester County) February 14, 1772. ANY Person that will be in Want of any PINE PLANK for House Building, or any Thing else,
THE Badness of the Weather having prevented my attending the Sale of Stith's Land, on Herring Creek,
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Chesterfield, a likely Virginia born Mulatto Lad named PRIMUS,
Six Thousand three Hundred Acres of LAND to be sold at Frederick Town, on Thursday the 28th of May next.
BY Virtue of an Act of Assembly of the Province of Maryland, empowering the Executors of Colonel Thomas Calvert to grant Deeds to Mr. John Semple,
This Land is very suitable for Planting or Farming, being well watered and timbered,
Its Situation on Potomack River must be of considerable Advantage to it,
It will be sold in separate Lots, or altogether, for Sterling or current Money,
STRAYED, or STOLEN, from the Subscriber, some Time in December last, a bright bay HORSE about four Feet seven or eight Inches high,
TAKEN up, in Albemarle, a small bay Mare with a bushy Mane and Tail,
TAKEN up, in Albemarle, a black Mare about four Feet six or seven Inches high,
To be SOLD, or RENTED for a Term of Years, and entered upon the 1st of March,
ACOMMODIOUS well built STORE in the Town of Petersburg, adjoining the Tobacco Warehouses,
COOCHLAND, January 13, 1772. RUN away from the Subscriber, some Time ago, a likely Negro Man named SUBA,
WARRASQUEAK Bay, November 18, 1771. RUN away from the Subscriber, in Isle of Wight, a Negro named JACK,
JAMES HALDANE, COPPER SMITH and BRASS FOUNDER from Philadelphia, in Church Street, near the Church, Norfolk,
MAKES and sells all Sorts of COPPER and BRASS WORK, namely, Stills, Brewing Coppers, Sugar Boilers,
WILLIAMSBURG, December 19, 1771. WHEREAS the Revenues of the College, unless more Care and Exactness be used in the Collection of them,
If any Person who owes Money to the College on Bond does not either pay off all the Interest, that is or shall be due,
A salutary Order of the Visitors and Governors, directing every Boarder, on his Admission into the College,
All Surveyors who have not yet settled with the Burfar of the College, for all their publick and private Surveys since the General Court in April last,
That this Advertisement may not be treated with that Contempt which several Notices of the like Kind have met with,
To be LET on LEASE, A VERY large and commodious HOUSE in the Town of Petersburg, built for a Tavern,
To be SOLD, altogether, or in Lots, ABOUT two Thousand seven Hundred Acres of good LOW GROUNDS
For SALE, THE LAND whereon I live, in Middlesex, containing about two Thousand two Hundred Acres,