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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 yet in Arrear to this Revenue cannot expect any farther Indulgence. RICHARD CORBIN, D. R. G.
ALTONA, April 3.
ALL the Letters which we receive here from Warsaw are filled with Accounts of the Animosity of the Poles against the Russians, and of the Precautions taken by the latter to shelter themselves from the disagreeable Consequences which might result from it. According to the above Letters, a general Massacre was apprehended there; and the Russian Ambassador, and General Libikow, notwithstanding they have each a Guard of one Hundred and fifty Men, with a Piece of Cannon before their Houses, have forbidden any Person to go out after eight at Night.
CONSTANTINOPLE, March 3. The Necessity of a Peace becomes every Day so urgent that we love to flatter ourselves that it is not far off. The Ministers from the Courts of Vienna and Berlin use their utmost Endeavours to attain so salutary an End. Not a Day passes but they have very long Conferences with the Ministers of the Porte, in which they always confult on the Means for speedily effecting so important a Work.
COPENHAGEN, April 4. The 30th of last Month Colonel Keith, the English Minister, despatched a Courier to his Court. Next Day the Couriers sent from our Cabinet arrived here from London; and the following Day Colonel Keith received some Despatches from his Court, by an Express, which he this Day sent back again to London.
Mr. Uldahl, Attorney General, who is charged with the Defence of the Queen and of Count Struenfee, and who is for that Purpose discharged from his Oath, that he may be able to perform his Duty the better, spoke the 16th of last Month before the great Commission, in Favour of the Accused. In his Speech, he made Use of these Expressions: "In whatever Light I view the Affair, I find so much Matter for Reflection, concerning the Manner in which the Queen has been treated, that I cannot entirely approve of that Proceeding." He concluded with saying, "Being charged, by the King's Order, with the Defence of this Cause, be persuaded, Gentlemen, that I shall undertake Nothing without a scrupulous Examination. Neither Partiality nor Affection, but the Laws, and my Conscience alone, shall guide my Pen in my Vindication of those Persons whose Defence I take in Hand." Counsellor Beng is to plead in Behalf of the Count de Brandt.
Six Apartments are preparing in the Castle of Munkholm, in Norway, for Prisoners of State.
LEGHORN, March 25. Count Orlow, the Russian General, returned hither on Saturday last from Rome; and after giving Orders, and making certain Dispositions with Respect to the Armament under his Command, he this Day set out for Pisa. Previous to his leaving this Place he set at Liberty a great Number of Turks who had been taken Prisoners by some Russian Vessels, and made them a Present of a Sum sufficient to carry them back to their own Country.
VIENNA, April 3. The Hopes of an approaching Truce between the two belligerent Powers are renewed here stronger than ever.
PRAGUE, March 28. The Situation of this Kingdom is still the same. In several of these Circles the Inhabitants are forced to supply the Want of Bread by eating the Bark of Trees, &c. They devour also all the Horses, Dogs, and Cats, they can catch. This dreadful Famine is concealed as much as possible, but a dismal Mortality has arisen from it. Above a Hundred Thousand Persons are reckoned to have died of it within the Space of a Year; and, according to the Report of the Circles, four Thousand now die in eight Days Time.
LONDON, April 13.
THE following Anecdote of the Earl of Northington, when on his Deathbed, may be depended upon. Lady Northington being by the Bedside, in Conversation on the present State of his Illness, his Lordship told her "he must be damned; he knew it very well; he was sure he should be damned." Her Ladyship begged he would not talk in such a Manner, entreated him not to add to her Distresses, by such an affecting Affection of Despair; it was too much for her to support. The dying Earl, however, kept repeating that "he should be damned, that the Sentence was irrevocable" and to that Effect. The poor afflicted Lady implored him to be more composed, and, with great Earnestness, solicited that Dean F—— (who was one of the noble Lord's jovial Companions, and had been promoted by his Influence) then below Stairs, might be permitted to come up and pray by him. "There now (replied the Earl) that is the very Thing; you have just hit the Mark, my Lady; I shall certainly be damned for making that Fellow a Dean."
Poote being lately in Company with a Scotch Gentleman, where Doctor Cadogan's Treatise on the Gout was the Subject, "Yes, yes (says the Scotchman) Englishmen eat more Solids than any other People upon Earth; why, even so near home as Scotland, they are called Poke Puddings ." "It may be so (replied the Wit) but I think your Countrymen much better entitled to that Epithet than we are, for I'll be hanged if they have not a Finger in every Pie ."
April 18. It is now currently reported that Sir William Young, Baronet, Governor of Dominica, will be created a Peer of Ireland, and get the first vacant Red Riband after his Return to England, which is soon expected; as also that he will be promoted to some considerable Employment in the State, as a Reward for his great and disinterested Services in the West Indies.
We hear that the intrepid Mr. Stephen, by the Recommendation of his Countryman Lord Mansfield, notwithstanding their political Differences, is to go over to Denmark to demand a Restitution of that amiable Queen, together with her Fortune. His Figure, and stern Countenance, may have some Effect on the timid cowardly Danes.
It is said the Plan of setting up Scripture as the only Rule of Faith is favoured only by three Right Reverend Divines; but, notwithstanding their great Inferiority of Numbers on the Bench, the clerical Petitioners have great Hopes that, in the long Run, Scripture will carry it against the thirty nine Articles.
On Tuesday Evening the celebrated and facetious Ned Shuter, attended by several of Lord Mansfield's Servants, arrived in perfect Health at the King's Bench Prison. He appears highly pleased with the different Scenes that present themselves to his View, enters with great Spirit into the Genius of the Inhabitants, and, accompanied by his Bottle and his favourite JACK ASS, is happy himself, and contributes to promote Cheerfulness amongst his drooping Fellow Sufferers.
Last Week the Bellman of Belford, in Northumberland, gave the following Notice, verbatim: "Loft where it was dropt, yesterday Afternoon, 'twixt nine and ten o'Clock at Night, 'twixt Warnford and this
Town, an empty Poke with a Cheese in it. The Poke was marked I. D. but the Letters are wore out. Any Person, or Persons, having found the same, shall be handsomely rewarded for returning them to the Owner. The Man who lost it never mis'd it till it was gone."
Lord Mansfield being asked lately how he relished literary Abuse, and particularly what he thought of Junius's Attacks upon his Character, laughingly replied, "I am glad that the Patriots have got Something to please them; and if they only leave the Government of the Nation to the King's Friends, we shall never dispute with them about the Government of the Newspapers."
The Bill for the farther Relief of his Majesty's Protestant Subjects, dissenting from the Church of England, has had a second Reading in the House of Commons. The only Qualifications required in this Bill from dissenting Ministers, are, that they shall take the customary Oaths of Allegiance, subscribe the Declaration against Popery, and also a Profession that they believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to contain the Mind and Will of God, and that they receive them as the Rules of Faith and Practice. In Order to prevent Persons from fraudulently qualifying themselves as dissenting Ministers, every Person offending shall produce a Testimonial, signed by some Protestant dissenting Ministers, to the Justices of the General Sessions, purporting that he is a Man of a good moral and Christian Character, and that they are willing to receive him as a dissenting Minister. The same Qualifications will entitle a Man to teach or instruct Youth in the Capacity of a publick Tutor, or Schoolmaster. If this Bill should pass, it is hoped that, by removing every Obstacle which may affect tender Consciences, all Contentions and Strife may cease, and Nothing but mutual Forbearance, Toleration, and Christian Goodwill, prevail.
But some Writers in the publick Prints say, that it is discovered this splendid Show of granting farther Liberty to Dissenters, and this specious Indulgence to them, is intended to be followed by the Establishment of a Bishop in America.
We hear that the thirty nine Articles were so sweated in the House of Commons, the 6th Instant, that they will not pass current again, even among their old Friends.
Doctor H——x, of Cambridge, observed, with one of his significant Sneers, to a Gentleman speaking of the petitioning Clergy, "they should first creep then go." The Gentleman only replied by saying, "that so lousy an Answer did not become a Professor." The Doctor went to his Chamber satisfied.
The generality of the People at Copenhagen entertain, at this present Time, so favourable an Opinion of their Queen, that Government is rather timorous about proceeding to Measures that farther impeach her; and some Principals, concerned in the Revolution, begin to think their Situation a little alarming. The King, it is said, is very much perplexed.
The Hints thrown out in the Newspapers relative to the Destination of a British Fleet, as if it was intended to act offensively against Denmark, are only the random Conjectures of superficial Politicians, and such as cannot possibly be credited by any Man of Understanding.
They write from Paris that the Duke of Fitzjames, an Officer in the French Service, acted as Proxy there for the Chevalier Edward Stuart, in his late Marriage with the Princess of Stolberg, and that there were Rejoicings for three whole Days in that Capital on the Account. Does not this augur Something hatching against Great Britain?
We are informed that a great Person, in Imitation of the King of Sweden, intends to order fifty Thousand Pounds to be laid out in buying Corn to be given to poor Families, who are ashamed to let their Straits be known.
We can assure the Publick that Struenfee, being put to the Torture, confessed all; and his Confession being carried to an unfortunate great Personage, she, in the Confusion of Grief, Shame, and Despair, signed it; so that a Divorce is to proceed immediately upon this Event. The British Ambassador has made a Demand of the Person of the Queen, but no Answer is yet given. It is, however, believed that she will be permitted to reside in some obscure Part of Germany.
We hear that Orders were last Night sent to Portsmouth to prepare thirteen Sail of the Line, five Frigates, and Bombketches. The Destination of the Fleet is no Secret, it being intended to lay the Capital of Denmark in Ashes.
We can assure the Publick that his Majesty did not speak, for the two last Levees, to the Danish Minister; and his Excellency is making the necessary Preparations for his Departure, as he expects, every Day, to receive Orders of Recall from his Court.
We are this Moment informed that an Order is despatched to Sir Robert Murray Keith to leave the Court of Denmark without taking Leave.
The Haughtiness of the Turkish Emperor has got the better of the Necessities of his Affairs. Having repented of the Powers with which he invested his Minister to the Russian General, an Express arrived at Jassy before the Preliminaries were actually signed, so that another Campaign is inevitable. The greatest Preparations possible are making on both Sides.
Extract of a Letter from Warsaw.
"The Miseries of this unhappy Country daily increase, by the Contributions levied by his Prussian Majesty. He last Year extorted, by military Execution, near two Millions Sterling from the Province of Dantzick only, and now insists on introducing there a new Coin, fifty six per Cent. in Value below the common Standard. On the Dantzickers demurring, his Troops surrounded the City, and seized and confiscated all the Corn bringing to the Town. You may easily imagine what a Consternation the whole Province is thrown into by these Proceedings, and which, by Opposition or Remonstrance, will become more severe."
The Reports of the Affair which the Duke of Gloucester received at Rome are said to have arisen from the following Circumstance. The Pretender meeting the Duke one Day in publick, bowed to him, which the Duke returned with great Coolness, as he did not immediately recognize the Chevalier's Person. However, meeting him a second Time in publick, the Duke complaisantly apologized, and interested himself so much in the Chevalier's Favour as to hint that a Pension was in great Forwardness for him in this Kingdom; but just as Matters were in a right Train, the Pretender knowing the Duke was to pay a Visit on a particular Day, took Care to stop him in his Carriage, and the Duke's Servants being ordered to make Way for the King of England, immediately obeyed. The Pope, hearing of the Matter, commanded the Pretender to keep his House during the Duke's Stay in Rome; and the Chevalier, besides that Mortification, will go without an Income, which would have been very useful in his Circumstances.
Card playing is made so much the Business of Life, amongst all Orders of Men, that a Clergyman, within twelve Miles of Town, boasts that he annually pays his Curate with the Money got by playing at Quadrille in private Families.
By Letters from the Continent, it is affirmed that, notwithstanding the present Show of Peace, the Grand Seigneur is preparing to open the ensuing Campaign with an additional Number of Troops.
They write from Leghorn that the Republick of Venice has lately entered into a Treaty of Alliance with the Russian Court.
The French Ambassador was yesterday at St. James's. It is reported that he has lately received Advices which contain fresh and strong Affurances, from the King his Master, of the pacific Inclination of that Monarch, and his steady Resolution to adopt no Measures against his Britannick Majesty which may tend to interrupt the mutual Peace of the two Kingdoms.
A Letter from Exeter, dated April 12th, mentions that Provisions of all Kinds are become excessive dear, occasioned by the poor People af-
fembling in large Bodies and preventing it being brought to that City; that they have seized on several Waggons loaded with Flower, &c. which they have sold at a low Price.
In the County of Suffolk, as well as Essex, the Poor have committed many Outrages in Regard to the high Price of the Necessaries of Life. The Magistrates in Ipswich have had all the Locks taken off the Muskets belonging to the Militia, as the Mob, it is said, intended to have seized upon them, in Case they had been attacked by a military Force; but as the Legislature have taken Measures to reduce the Price of Provisions, it is hoped these riotous Proceedings will soon be at an End.
Thursday an Express was sent to the War Office from Chelmsford, for a military Aid to protect the Provision Carts travelling to the Markets and the Mills in that Country from the Outrages of the Populace, who have committed great Excesses.
A Letter from Chelmsford mentions that several of the Rioters were taken up at Witham, and six of them committed to that Jail.
A Letter from Norwich mentions that a Subscription has been entered into by the Corporation and Merchants of that City for reducing the Price of Meat, and that it is now sold to the Poor for a Penny Halfpeny the Pound less than they gave for it a few Days ago.
Orders are issued from the Admiralty for twelve Ships of the Line to rendezvous in the Downs, and it is reported the Command will be given to Lord Howe.
On the 16th Instant died at Streatham Elizabeth Russel, aged one Hundred and eight. Upon stripping the Body of the Deceased, to the great Surprise of the Beholders the Characteristicks of Manhood were found in goodly Proportion. The Manner of the Deceased's Life furnishes strong Hints for what Purpice the feminine Appearance was assumed. Fortune-telling was the chief Business of this hic vel hac Homo .
Letters from Holland inform that an illustrious German Prince is just engaged in the French Service.
Bamber Gascoyne, Esquire, declared, in a certain House, that no Man paid a greater Regard to the landed Interest, and to the Farmers and Graziers in general, than himself; that any oppressive Measures would give him the greatest Anxiety; but the Cries of the Poor made it absolutely necessary that Something be immediately done, in Order to lower the Price of Provisions; and that the only speedy Way to do it would be to fix a Price upon those Commodities, and compel the Persons who withhold them to bring them to Market. Monopolizing Farms, he said, was a very great Evil, and should be seriously considered; to which Lord North answered, that he would support such Motions with all his Interest; and that he was surprised to find, especially in a Christian Country, Men so unmerciful as to withhold the Necessaries of Life from the Poor.
April 20. On Friday some Despatches were received at St. James's from the Electorate of Hanover, said to contain some important Intelligence relative to the Operations of the Prussian and Imperial Monarchs.
The following are the Powers who, in all Probability, will be involved in a War should our Court take so rash a Step as to lend a Fleet to the Baltic: France, and of Course Spain and Naples, Prussia, Sweden, if not the Emperor and Empire, besides the Principals.
It is affirmed that the Prussian Minister has, within these few Days, acquainted our Ministry that in Case an English Squadron should appear in the Baltic a Prussian Army will march into Hanover. The Cause of the above Declaration is, that his Prussian Majesty, who has serious Designs on Dantzick, apprehends that, under Colour of a Quarrel with Denmark, a British Fleet may appear in the Port of Dantzick, for the Protection of that unfortunate City. Applications have certainly been made by the Dantzickers to our Ministry, which Applications have been strongly supported by the Russian Ambassador.
April 21. The latest Advices from Constantinople and the Levant Seas say that the Russian Fleet was lying off the Island of Cos, and was making every necessary Preparation to force the Passage of the Dardanelles early in the Summer; and that the Porte, apprised of this, as well as of the Armaments fitting out on the Black Sea, had ordered additional Defences to be raised to strengthen the former, and had caused a Chain of Forts to be built in Order to prevent the Approaches of the Enemy by the Way of the latter.
Extract of a Letter from Copenhagen, April 7.
"Yesterday Afternoon the grand Commission met, and sat till eleven o'Clock at Night, and it is generally believed that the State Prisoners Affairs are entirely decided. Each Person gave his Vote in Writing. The Counsel on both Sides read their Accusation and Defence. Last Thursday Count Struenfee and Brandt received Orders to appear before the Commission on the 9th Instant, on which Count Struenfee seemed much affected. On Sunday the Counsellors Uldahl and Beng were with the Prisoners to receive Instructions for their Defence. Colonel Pentz, who is appointed Marshal to the Queen Caroline Matilda, has a stipulated Salary of twelve Hundred Rixdollars, and the Revenue of his Regiment; Captain Lieutenant de Carstenhoold is appointed Master of the Horse to the Queen, and the Sea Captain Winterfeldt Gentleman of the Chamber. The three Court Ladies De Schmettau, De Sperling, and De Moelling, have double Salaries allowed them. The whole Expense of the Queen's Household is stipulated at nine Thousand Rixdollars. Counsellor Uldahl has laid the Detention of the State Prisoners in Writing before the Commissioners, in a copious Manner. Things begin now to appear in quite a different Light than they did before."
A Letter from Vienna remarks, that it is the prevailing Opinion in all the Hungarian Dominions that the Emperor has come to the Resolution of taking the Advantage of the present Troubles in Turkey, and will soon pour in a numerous Army into the Turkish Territories, and thus avail himself of such Part of the Ottoman Empire in Europe as he will be able to acquire by Conquest; while the Empress of Russia conquers other Parts of this Empire, in Europe, and Ali Bey makes himself Master of such other Parts of it as lie in Egypt, and all Syria. Thus it is, the Fate of the Ottoman Empire is determined on; and as so many Fires have lately happened in Constantinople, which have been discovered to have originated from the very Subjects of the Grand Seigneur, and as the Troops of the Porte cannot be brought to learn the modern military Discipline, it is imagined that this mighty Empire will fall to Pieces in Course of this succeeding Year.
A Letter from Hamburg says that a British Minister having mentioned to a Monarch famous for Wit as well as Courage, that Sir Robert Murray Keith had represented, in a most spirited Manner, to the Danish Court, that the King his Ma-ter's Honour was lodged in his Royal Sister, and that whatever they did to her would be resented by Great Britain, the northern Hero answered, "I should not thank any of my Ministers that should lodge my Honour in so slippery a Place."
The last Paris Gazette mentions that by a Vessel from the Coast of Guinea Accounts have been received that the Pholies, a People descended from the Arabs, have lately appeared in great Numbers on the Banks of the River Gambia, and have committed several Hostilities against the English, whom they threaten to dispossess of the Gold Coast, which they assert was Part of the Territories of their Forefathers. The above People, says the French Account, are exceedingly powerful, rigid Mahometans, well acquainted with the Cultivation of Cotton, Corn, and Tobacco, and the breeding of Cattle, and no Strangers to the Profits made by the Gold, Ivory, and Slave Trade, from which, and their intrepid Bravery, it is thought they will become very troublesome Neighbours to the Subjects of Great Britain.
It is generally thought that the Court of Copenhagen, to avoid the Disgrace of being compelled into a Surrender of the Queen, will deliver her up before our Fleet sails from the Downs, and give a real Act of Necessity the Appearance of Inclination.

The Danish Ambassador has, we hear, made a formal Demand with Respect to the Destination of the Fleet now fitting out; and from a late Intimacy which his Excellency has contracted with Prince Maserano, it is conjectured that if we proceed to Hostilities against that Nation, the Spaniards, who only want a tolerable Pretence for War, will not be indifferent Spectators of the Transaction.
It is thought extremely singular, by many sensible People, that Preparations should be made for War without his Majesty's once condescending to come to the least Explanation with his Parliament. It is hard, Numbers think, that the domeckless Disunion of his Relations should plunge the Nation into Blood, and harder still that an immense Load of publick Debt should be contracted without any Communication of the Purposes to the People.
Thursday. The Report made of the Select Committee. Sir George Saville (who was one) informed the House that he wished to decline being of that Committee; that it was a Sort of Rule that a Member being against the Whole of a Bill ought not to be on the Committee on such Bill; that he, therefore, being against the whole System of India Affairs, ought not to be on that Committee. He looked on their Trade as destructive, either from bringing in too great an Increase of Money, which would overturn the Liberty of this Country, or from many of the Importations, Tea especially, being destructive of the Health of the People of England. He also protested against the territorial Acquisitions as publick Robberies, in the Name of the Kingdom; that in abetting, in any Sort, this Kind of Transaction, he should look on himself as an Accomplice; he therefore hoped the House would not think he meant any Disrespect in not attending the Committee.
April 20. The Guards are ordered to patrol the Streets of Copenhagen all Night, to prevent an Insurrection among the People.
All the Marines, both Officers and Men, in and about London, were ordered last Week immediately to join their respective Divisions.
Large Sums are doing, at the various Coffeehouses round the Change, on the Destination of the Fleet lately ordered into the Downs, but since said to be countermanded.
Notwithstanding what has been said in the Papers, the Friends of the Court acknowledge that they have no Manner of Doubt of the Guilt of a certain great Personage; but they assert, by Way of Palliation, that she became criminal only in Revenge for the very great Injuries sustained on her Part; that the Monarch, her Husband, had provoked her to those Transgressions by the most unjustifiable Liberties.
The Queen of Denmark, it is said, has been afflicted for some Time past with a Somo-nolency, that is likely to put an End to the Malice of all her Enemies.
We can assure the Publick that Sir Charles Hardy is to command the Squadron fitting out for the Baltic. Sir Charles is to demand the Queen in Form, and in Case of a Refusal is to bombard Copenhagen. There is no Doubt but the Fleet may come near enough to bombard the Town; in the Year 1718 Sir John Norris brought a Squadron of Ships of the Line close to the very Walls.
We can assure the Publick that the Squadron fitting out for Copenhagen, after finishing the Object of its Destination before that City, is to proceed to Dantzick, to protect it against the Designs of the King of Prussia.
On Monday the Princess Amelia's Agent paid five Hundred Pounds to the Trustees, as a Subscription from her Royal Highness to the unhappy Sufferers by the Fire at Grenada.
April 23. Last Week died Mr. Philip Mason, at the George Inn, at Uxbridge, in Monmouthshire, a Man of remarkable large Size. He measured round the Wrist eleven Inches; at his Arm, near the Shoulder, twenty one Inches; round the Breast, five Feet; Body, six Feet one Inch; Thigh, three Feet one Inch; Calf of the Leg, two Feet one Inch; and Small of ditto, one Foot seven Inches; and, notwithstanding his Bulk, was extremely active.
Extract of a Letter from Copenhagen, March 26. "You have frequently desired me to write you some Particulars of the very interesting Proceedings at present carrying on in this Country. The Reports propagated on this Occasion are so many, and various, that it was impossible hitherto to send you any Thing in the least to be relied on. The Proceedings of the Commission, however, being now finished, herewith you will receive the Contents of the Speech made by the Attorney General Uldahl (the Norton of this Country) in Defence of the Queen, on the 16th of the present Month, the Day the said Commission sat."
"In an Advertisement prefixed to this Speech Mention is made of the late Revolution in Denmark on January 17th, of a Commission being appointed by his Danish Majesty to try the Persons charged with having projected a Revolution to the Detriment of the King, &c. also that Sessions and Trials have been held almost every Day since on the Parties accused; that several Members of the Commission have been to Kronenbourg, to hear the Defence of the Queen on certain imputed Articles; that as there are Personages concerned in it that cannot absolutely be ranked with the Subjects of Majesty, there arises a Problem whether a Subject of the Kingdom can be appointed their Judge. The Names of the Gentlemen of the Commission are next mentioned, being in Number thirty nine; and the Advertisement concludes with informing the Publick that during the Sitting of the Commission his Majesty discharged Mr. Uldahl of his Oath, in Order to enable him to perform, with the greater Spirit and Impartiality, his Duty to his Clients; and Mr. Attorney General acquitted himself well. For this Purpose he had frequently been at Kronenbourg, to confer with his great Client on this Affair; he afterwards made a Speech in that Assembly, with which he entered on the Defence."
"The Speech, to which the foregoing is an Introduction, does not contain any Particulars of the Queen's Examination or Defence, but rather some Observations on the Nature of the Business then before the great Commission, and a Recommendation to them of a strict Adherence to Impartiality, preparatory to the Attorney General Uldahl's Defence of the Queen. The most material Passages are as follows."
"The King himself now submits his own Conduct to your Judgment; his most gracious Condescension allows you, in certain Respects, not to consider the Monarch; you are allowed an unlimited Liberty to examine, approve, or censure, all Actions; and the same Condescension allows me also to speak all my Thoughts, and to undertake the Vindication of the Defendants."
"In whatever Light I consider this Affair, I find so much Matter for Reflection, in the Proceedings against the Person of the Queen, that I cannot absolutely approve the Whole. Equity bids us now to consider the King's and his Consort's Persons in a twofold Point of View, in the same Instant in which the Order for her Imprisonment was given and executed; we must consider them either as Majesties, or as a married Pair, and the former View I think now to be the chief Object under our Consideration."
"One of the most important Questions necessarily and immediately arising from the very Name of Majesty is this: "How far a Crime of State can be imputed to the Majesty of a Queen, without degrading her to, and treating her like, the Class of the Subjects of the Kingdom and the King?" And how is it possible to admit such a Degradation? The Connection in which she stands as a Royal Consort cannot give the least Right to such a Step. To mention but one of the slightest Arguments: After the King's Demise, and during the Minority of his Successor, how allows a Queen Dowager's Majesty to be entrusted with the Power of the State, this very same Right also tacitly implies for, and adresses to a Queen, a total Exemption from Subjection, even during the Life of her Royal Spouse, though a Queen is very far from being entitled to share the Helm of the State during the Life of her Consort. And does not her high Birth, as a Princess of a foreign State, also directly and absolutely exempt her from that Subjection? I think it does. Can then a Personage lawfully be proceeded against like a Subject of the State? or even to mention here that it is to a Queen's Person in the whole State owes the Preservation of the Royal Line, does she not give us lawful Heirs to the Throne? She therefore cannot possibly be treated in the same Manner as One who is a Native of the State, or an acquired Subject of the Crown, and whose Subjection only depends on the Monarch's Majesty."
"But we must not content ourselves with having here considered the Side of Majesty; we will direct our Attention to another Point of View; we will consider her only as a married Consort; we will pass over all these Rights, of which an absolute Monarch may avail himself rigorously to proceed against his Subjects, and to adjust his Sentence on them to his own Wisdom. Yet even here also I am far from finding that a Husband has an unlimited Power over his Wife's Person, Marriage being only a Covenant whose End consists in mutual Help and Propagation of their Race. Are then not ecclesiastical Courts instituted for the Welfare of a State, on Purpose only to protect these Rights, to maintain their Order, and to see Justice done to the Party who brings her Complaints against the other before those Courts? And can then any Sentence be determined upon before both Parties have been heard, and that equitable Maxim, audiatur et altera pars , been observed?"
"Consider well, Gentlemen, whether in hoc statu , and in this Instance, the Reverie has not already happened. That Violence with which Queen Charlotte has been treated notoriously shows her Degradation from her Rank, her Earth, and her Rights as a Royal Consort; nay, in general, from that Tie by which she is connected with the Monarchy; and the
only Way of restoring her, in some Measure, to the Splendour of her Condition, and her Prerogatives, is to restore her to Liberty; and how far matrimonial Obligations can be abridged may most safely be judged by the ecclesiastical Laws of our State."
"Your own Wisdom, Gentlemen, your Love for Justice, and your Impartiality, make me hope that the Arguments which I am now laying before you, and such as I shall farther allege, will meet with your unbiased and mature Consideration. It would be needless here to recapitulate all what that great Personage has alleged in her own Defence. All these Papers are in your Hands. Read and judge yourselves, and then your own Sentiments cannot but coincide with my Thoughts, and approve of my Arguments, of which I will lay before you a Deduction more ample, and, I hope, much more solid, than what the few Minutes I am allowed to speak before you can admit."
"The King has appointed you Judges, and on your Determinations alone the Protection of the Rights of Majesty, the Preservation of monarchical Power, and the Support of the Kingdom's Liberty, will depend. In Consequence of your Sentence only, Offences will be viewed in a stronger or milder Light; and you are entrusted with the Power of degrading a Personage from her high Birth, her Prerogatives, and her Rights of Majesty, nay entirely to divest her of them. You only are now to get as definitive Judges between a Royal Husband and his Consort, whose Rights and Obligations in this Respect have always been equal. We can only defend ourselves, and our Defence can be derived from no other Arguments than those of Justice and of Equity."
It is said that a great Personage has signified, that if, upon Examination, his Sister should appear to be innocent, he is determined to have ample Satisfaction for the cruel Treatment she has already suffered.
Extract of a Letter from Chatham, April 23.
"Orders were received at this Dockyard to fit out, with the greatest Expedition, his Majesty's Ships Resolution and Triumph, of seventy four Guns each, now at this Port. At the same Time Orders were sent to Sheerness to fit out, with all possible Despatch, his Majesty's Ship Marlborough of seventy four Guns, two Fire-ships, and a Bomb, at that Port, all which are to proceed to the Downs, till farther Orders, and it was imagined were meant for Copenhagen; but this Day Orders were received by the Officers of this Dockyard to stop all Proceedings in fitting out the above Ships, and the same Orders have likewise been received at Sheerness."
Orders are sent to the Manufactory at Carron, in Scotland, for a Number of Cannon and Bombs, of different Sizes, to be got ready with all Expedition.
Extract of a Letter from Chelmsford, April 13.
"On Sunday Night, about eleven o'Clock, a Mob assembled in this Place, armed with Bludgeons, to the Amount of about fifty, and were very riotous all Night. By four o'Clock in the Morning they increased to the Number of three Hundred or more, when they set off for Mr. Bullen's, Mr. Marriage's and Mr. Harrington's Mills, from whence they took large Quantities of Flower, Meal, &c. and brought it in Waggons, under a strong Guard, to the Market Place in Chelmsford, to sell at a Price they approved of. Mr. Harrington expostulated some Time with their Captain, or Chief, on the unjust and illegal Methods they had taken, but to no Effect; for they grew exceedingly riotous, and obliged Mr. Harrington to deliver them ten Sacks of Flower and Meal, and also to promise them ten Sacks more the next Day. They then took his Wagon and Horses, loaded it, and proceeded in Triumph to Chelmsford. They have since been at Mr. Johnson's at Baddow, &c. regaling themselves at every House till they were quite riotous. They now intend paying a Visit to the Farmers, and have this Evening begun with Mr. John Ward, of Bishop's Hall, from which Place they have taken two Loads of Wheat. The Market Place is now filled up with great Quantities of Wheat and Flower, which they have plundered. We have sent to the War Office for Troops to assist us, but none are as yet arrived. The Inhabitants are in great Consternation, for this Moment a very considerable Body is marching into Town, with Colours flying, and armed with Bludgeons, &c. &c. God only knows where this will end. Accounts are just received from Sudbury, Colchester, Witham, &c. that there is great Robbing there, and that the Parties intend to join."
Extract of a Letter from St. Edmundsbury, April 16.
"Yesterday Sir Charles Davis, and some other Gentlemen, marched in here at the Head of above eight Hundred Horsemen, gathered together in a very few Hours. They consisted of Farmers and their Servants, who came to assist, if necessary, and have received Orders to be ready on the first Notice of a Disturbance."
"We have now in our Jail sixteen Rioters from Sudbury, and it is an alarming Circumstance that the whole Country seems in Motion."
"It were much to be wished that our Ministry would seriously take into Consideration the real Grievances of the Poor. Every considerate Person thinks it is their Landlords and their Stewards; the great Farmers and Monopolizers, that are the real Cause of the present Dearness of Provisions, and not the Want of Crops. Our Laws empower a Magistrate to fix the Price of Bread; why might they not have proper Inspectors appointed to examine the Crops and Stocks in Hand? But this I fear is more to be wished than expected."
GLASGOW, March 12. On the 13th of February last died at Kingborough, in the Isle of Skye, in the eighty third Year of his Age, Alexander McDonald of Kingborough, Esquire. This Gentleman's Goodness of Heart was remarkably conspicuous on an ever memorable Occasion. After the Battle of Culloden, when the Chevalier was reduced to such Extremities of Distress that he knew not where to lay his Head, Mr. McDonald had the Humanity and Resolution (notwithstanding numerous Detachments from the British Army hunted him like a Partridge on the Mountains) to afford him an Asylum for a Day and a Night, at the Risk of his Life, and the Ruin of his Family. What rendered this Instance of Hospitality more illustrious, and disinterested, was refusing the immense Premium of thirty Thousand Pounds offered by Government for apprehending the Person of Charles, by which he might at once have acquired a ministerial Fortune. Independent of every political Principle, such an Example of Fortitude of Mind deserves to be recorded.
DUBLIN, April 25. We hear from Derry that several Bills of Indictment have been found, by the Grand Jury of that City and County, against the Insurgents and Rioters called the Hearts of Steel, who are daily flying from Justice.
From the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
IF I had just this, said I (as I was reading an Account, in a Newspaper, of a Gentleman who had married an agreeable young Lady with a Fortune of ten Thousand Pounds) if I had just this, I would journey cheerily through Life, a Complaint should not be uttered from my Mouth, and I would endeavour even to prevent those of other People: The Hungry should not go unsatisfied from my Door, nor should the Naked come me while he sat shivering over a few dying Embers, and the rude Storm rattling on his ragged Roof; I would, said I, be a Father to the Fatherless, a Husband to the Widow, and I would—but here a sympathetic Tear stopped farther Utterance; it had no Power over the Flowings of my Heart; I thought I would make all around me happy.
The Wish was a Kind of prophetick One. Providence intended to put my Virtue to the Trial. I had just finished the Paragraph, and thence wiped my Eyes with a white Cambrick Handkerchief. It was from thee, Almira, I received it, wet with the Crystal Drops which had fallen for the Death of an indulgent Father; they have never yet been washed from it, nor shall they ever mix with the Stream while I possess it, but I will add a few more to them, as often as all-powerful Nature shall call them from my Eyes.
I had just finished the Paragraph when the Postman brought me a Letter informing me that my Brother Jacob, who had emigrated to the East Indies, had died and left me ten Thousand Pounds.
When I had finished the Letter I lifted up my white Cambrick Handkerchief, which I had laid on the Table; I lifted it, and put it in my Pocket.
When I had read an Account of the Death of a Brother, when I had taken up my white Cambrick Handkerchief, had I not informed the Reader what I did with it he would naturally have concluded that I used it either to wipe a tributary, or at least a fashionable Tear from my Cheek. I did neither.
There is Nothing more difficult than to give a Reason for every Thing that happens. I think, however, that I can give two for this.
For there are two Circumstances which render the Mind less susceptible of the natural Feelings upon the Death of any Relation. The first is, when we hardly know, and never were intimate with, the Deceased; and the second is, when he leaves any Thing behind him valuable enough to occupy the Mind so much as to divert the melancholy Feelings which would otherwise arise on the Occasion.
Now both these Circumstances concurred in the present Case. Jacob had begun his Peregrinations in the 17th Year of his Age, while I was yet a Child. Our Acquaintance had hardly ever begun, nor was it carried on by partaking of mutual Diversions, sharing of mutual Hopes and Fears. Thus he was unto me as an Alien, and not as a Brother; and, moreover, he had left me as much as would have made many rejoice at the Death of a Brother who had been brought up with him as such.
I had asked two or three of my Neighbours to sup with me; but I now wished I had not done it, on Account of the Expense. Tell me, Nature,
what it is (for I could never yet discover it) tell me what it is that contracts the Heart on the Acquisition of Wealth.
I am a Gentleman, said I, and I will live as a Gentleman; so I leaned my Head backwards on the Chair, and began to plan out a Scheme for my future Conduct in Life. After I had turned it this Way, and that Way, and in short every Way that I could think of—it would not do.
I will go to Bed, said I; a comfortable Nap will refresh my Mind, and will make it do in the Morning. So I laid me down, and turned me to this Side, and to that Side, and put myself into this Position, and the other Position; but I could not get the Nap I wanted, nor would the Scheme go out of my Head.
It was a Maxim among the Stoick Philosophers, and adopted by many People as a dernier Resource, to bear courageously up against the Tide of Misfortunes. While my Blood and Spirits rushed warmer into my Veins than at this present Moment, when they can hardly crawl along, I was fond of this Method; but I generally found it was spending my Strength in Vain. I have therefore long since adopted a quite different One, which is to lay myself supinely on the Surface of the Stream and swim spontaneously with the Tide. When a Rock or Precipice seems to fall in my Way, I paddle myself to one Side of it with a Leg or an Arm, and always give myself as little Trouble on the Occasion as possible.
I took this Method in the present Case, and, since the Scheme would not go out of my Head, resolved to let it continue there as long as it pleased; so I prosecuted it all Night, and about nine o'Clock in the Morning had fixed on a Plan. I had no sooner fixed upon it than I got out of Bed, wrote it down upon a Piece of Paper, with my annual Income upon one Column, and my Expense upon the other, when, to my great Mortification, I found that the Expense, as I had planned it, would be exactly seven Pounds thirteen Shillings and Sixpence Halfpenny above my Income.
I then ran over all the other Plans which I had thought of during the Night. There were none of them that would answer, and this could not be executed upon one farthing less than I had estimated it at.
Had I just this seven Pounds thirteen Shillings and Sixpence, said I, it would make me completely happy.
So I began to revolve in my Mind, with the utmost Eagerness, how I should obtain it. I will conceal, said I, my having got the Money for a Year; it will then amount to ten Thousand five Hundred, which will easily bring Matters to bear. On farther Reflection I saw I could not do it. I had told the Story the Night before, and it was lying about among all the Neighbours.
While I was in this Dilemma, the Maid came to tell me that old Peter was at the Door. Now Peter was a worthy Pensioner, on whom I had long been accustomed to bestow a Penny every Saturday Morning. The Girl had told him of my good Fortune, and he, no Doubt, had reckoned Something upon it. Bird him as about his Business, said I, in an angry Tone; but my Heart Injunct me as I told it, and I remembered the Promises I had been making when I received the Letter. "Full Hensons!" is it thus, said I, that we sport with the Vows we make in your Hearing. I will go this Moment and give him Sixpence at least.
So I put my Hand in my Pocket, and walked hastily to the Room Door. Stop, said Avarice, while I was going out of it, and had got the Sixpence ready; you are at this present Moment short of your necessary seven Pounds thirteen Shillings and Sixpence Halfpenny, and yet you are going, like a Fool, to give away your Money.
At this very Instant old Peter bowed to me with a most pious Countenance. The look, methought, seemed to cry aloud. This was a Test I did not expect. I stood at the Door, agitated between two violent Passions: Charity bade me reach out my Hand and give it; Avarice contracted it; so I would give it, and I would not give it. Peter saw my Distress, and modestly walked out, and shut the Street Door behind him.
He was no sooner gone than I cursed him for departing, was convinced that I would have given it him if he had stayed, and laid all the Blame upon his precipitate Retreat, which ought naturally to have fallen on the Badness of my own Heart.
I put up the Sixpence, walked into the Room again, and sat down to Breakfast. There were two Things that embarrassed me so much that I could not eat: The first was, the Want of the seven Pounds thirteen Shillings and Sixpence Halfpenny; and the second was, the Figure of old Peter, which presented itself to my Imagination sitting shivering in his Hovel, through every Cranny of which the bleak Winds were whistling and playing in his hoary Locks, while he was every now and then casting a melancholy Look around him, in Quest of Something to rekindle the poor Remains of a Fire just expiring, and with a despairing Eye exploring every Corner for a scanty Crumb, or any Thing to allay his raging Appetite.
Methought, when he had in this Manner rummaged the whole Hovel, and could find Nothing either to mitigate his Cold or Hunger, that he sat down upon his Chair, leaned his Head upon his Hand, turned up his Eyes to Heaven, and gave a Sigh. The Sigh, I thought, was accompanied with a Curse upon me, for having denied his usual Boon. What will become of him! said I, he must expire before Monday; so I took out the Sixpence, and looking at it, may no Person ever suffer so much from the Want of you as he just now does, nor any ever feel so sharp a Pang for possessing you as I do, said I.
Perhaps all that has now passed before me may be an Allusion, said I, and he may at this Instant be begging at the Corner of a Street, from Somebody as hard hearted as myself; so I will go immediately and find him out, and if I do not find him I will find Plenty of others to bestow Something upon, who may be in as much Want: So I put eleven Shillings and ninepence into my Pocket, and went out, resolved to bestow every Farthing of it in Charity before I should return.
I had got but a little Way from my own Door when I saw a poor Man at a Distance, standing in a suppliant Posture. My niggard Heart revolted against all the Resolutions I had made; it is he, said I, and I must give away my Money, although I have already seven Pounds thirteen Shillings and Sixpence Halfpenny a Year too little. When I approached the Man, and found it was not him, my Heart rejoiced within me as I passed by.
In going through several Parts of the Town, I met a Variety of Objects of Charity; but I industriously kept from looking at any of them, lest Pity should overcome Avarice, and force a Passage into my Heart. While I shunned every other Beggar, I would have persuaded myself that I wanted to meet Peter; but it was only a Pretence, for I got home with every Farthing of the Money in my Pocket which I had carried out.
A Semblance of Virtue will often stifle the Monitor within us. I had done my Duty, I thought, with Regard to Peter; and if I had not given him the Money at first, nor found him out now, it was not my Fault: So I sat down to Dinner, and began to consider how I should get the seven Pounds thirteen Shillings and Sixpence Halfpenny a Year that I wanted.
On Sunday, at Church, my Head was full of it. It was full of it all the Week, till the Friday Evening, when I came home and found another Letter upon my Table, informing me that my Brother's Effects had turned to much better Account than was expected, and that instead of ten I should at least get twenty Thousand Pounds. I will double the Plan I had formed before, said I, and then I shall appear Somebody; but, in order to do this, I shall want fifteen Pounds seven Shillings. If I had just this, I should undoubtedly be happy.
There are no Limits to Avarice. I new spent an uneasy Night, contriving how to acquire this fifteen Pounds seven Shillings, as I had done before on Account of the Half of it. I arose about eight o'Clock in the Morning, and taking Hold of the right Knee of my Breeches, in Order to put them on, all the Money in the Pocket of them fell upon the Floor. On gathering it up, and counting it, I found exactly the eleven Shillings and ninepence. I never carried Money so long before, said I, without parting with some of it.
O Conscience! Conscience! however we may endeavour to stifle thee, thou art a faithful Monitor, and will be perpetually endeavouring to rouse us from an Indulgence of our Crimes. When I saw the Money untouched, thou told me that I had done amiss, and I listened to what thou told me.
When I had but little to spare, said I, I always gave a Part of that little, and never till I became possessed of much did I carry a Sum so long undiminished in my Pocket; but I will now atone for my Fault. While I said this, I felt Benevolence rushing warm into my Heart. There is Nothing better than to hit a lucky Moment: Now Peter, at this very Moment, hit the Door with the Knockers; and as it was about the usual Time of his coming, the Sound of the Knockers hit my Heart.
You, said I, looking at the eleven and ninepence in my Hand, you shall pay the Forfeit of my Crimes. Long have you shut out every social Feeling from my Heart, but you shall never have it in your Power to do so again; so I sent the old Man away rejoicing.
BOSTON, June 15.
WE have Advice from Rhode Island that on Tuesday last, as his Majesty's armed Schooner Gaspée, commanded by Lieutenant Duddington, with about sixteen or seventeen Men, was going up Providence River, she ran ashore at high Water on a Point about seven Miles below that Town; and that about two o'Clock the next Morning a Number of Men (some of the Depositions of the Schooner's People say only about fifty, others, perhaps more frightened than the rest, make them

one Hundred and fifty came alongside of her in five or six Boats; upon the first Notice whereof the Commander instantly got out of Bed and came upon Deck with a Pistol and a Sword, and fired the Pistol at the Boats, which was returned by the Discharge of another from them, when the Ball went through his Wrist, as his Hand was hanging down by his Side, and lodged in his Groin. The People in the Boats immediately took Possession of the Vessel, without any farther Damage (except a slight Wound which one of the Sailors received by a Stick) and bound the Crew, and after dressing the Captain's Wounds, as well as they could, put them all on Shore. They then set Fire to the Schooner, which, with all her Stores, &c. were entirely consumed. We are told that the Captain of the Schooner, after he was wounded and secured, desired that his Money and Papers might be delivered him. The former was complied with, but the latter, with every Thing else he had on Board, were destroyed. It is said he is in a far Way of Recovery.
The Governor of Rhode Island has issued a Proclamation, offering a Reward of one Hundred Pounds Sterling, for the Discovery of the Persons concerned in this Affair.
Last Friday Afternoon the Bonetta Sloop of War, Captain Squires, failed from hence with Despatches for England.
WILLIAMSBURG, July 9.
FROM Barbados we learn that about the 6th ult. the Ship Barbados Packet, Richard Twine Commander, then lying in Carlisle Bay, clear to sail for Bristol, with three Hundred and sixty Hogheads of Sugar, and forty Pipes of Wine, by some Accident took Fire, and being towed ashore by the Men of War's Boats there, was totally consumed, with her Cargo.
We hear from the Northward that Lieutenant Duddingston, who commanded his Majesty's Schooner Gaspée, is dead of the Wound he received at the Time of her being burnt.
The Magdalen Schooner, Captain Collins, is ordered to Boston. [DEATHS.] LUNSFORD LOMAX, Esquire; a Gentleman who was warm in the Interest of his Country, steady in Friendship, an affectionate Father, and indulgent Master.
RICHMOND, June 22. On the 14th ult. the following melancholy Accident happened at this Place. GEORGE DONALD, a promising Youth in his eleventh Year, and an only Child, bathing in the River with some other Boys, was unfortunately drowned; and though taken up in a short Time afterwards, and every possible Method used to restore him, could not be brought to Life. The Reverend Mr. Ogilvie preached his Funeral Sermon on the 19th, to a numerous Audience, from these Words (1 Samuel, iii. 18.) It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth to him good ; a Discourse very well adapted to the melancholy Occasion, and much approved of by the Hearers.
Advertisements.
WILLIAMSBURG July 9, 1772.
NOW selling off, at little more than prime Cost, for ready Money only, by Mr. John Ferguson, at my House, a choice and well assorted Cargo of MILLINERY and other GOODS, lately imported from London. A. PURDIE.
WANTS EMPLOYMENT,
A YOUNG Man, lately from England, who is perfectly acquainted with Book-keeping and Merchants Accounts. He was upwards of five Years employed as Clerk and Rider to a capital House in London, and is well recommended for his Honesty and Sobriety. Any Gentleman wanting an Assistant, either in a wet or dry Goods Store, by sending a Line to J. S. to be left with Mr. Lawrence, Merchant in Norfolk, or to the Printers of this Paper, will be duly waited on. 2||
FREDERICKSBURG, July 1, 1772.
THE Subscribers have entered into Partnership in the Practice of PHYSICK and SURGERY, and keep their Shop next Door to Mrs. Julian's Tavern. They have on Hand a large Assortment of MEDICINES, lately imported, and intend to import, twice a Year, Drugs of the best Quality, to be sold at reasonable Rates. HUGH MERCER. JOHN JULIAN.
CAROLINE, July 1, 1772.
WHEREAS my Wife ELIZABETH has, without the least Provocation, absconded from me, and declared she will not return to her Duty, these are to forewarn all Persons from giving her Credit on my Account, as I am determined to pay no Debt she may contract after this Date. || JEREMIAH PEARCE.
WILLIAMSBURG, July 6, 1772.
SOME Persons having misunderstood my Advertisement, as if I intended to make myself liable for all my Brother's Debts, which is not my Design, any farther than the Law charges me, I explain my Meaning to be only to express my Confidence, that, if the Debtors are speedy in their Payments, and the Creditors indulgent, there would be sufficient to satisfy all Demands without ruining my Brother's numerous Family; and of this I am still confident, and earnestly desire both Debtors and Creditors to comply with my Request. JOHN DIXON.
GENERAL POST OFFICE, New York, November 1, 1772.
NOTICE is hereby given, that on Account of the new Regulation of the Post from Canada, which is to arrive every Tuesday Evening at this Office, and the weekly Post from the Eastward and Southward arriving every Wednesday, the Mail going from hence by the Packets will, for the future, be closed at twelve o'Clock at Night, on the first Wednesday in every Month (being the same Time it closes at the General Post Office in London for America) and a Packet despatched therewith the next Day for Falmouth. By Command of the Deputy Postmaster General. ALEXANDER COLDEN, Secretary. (Ts.)
Just IMPORTED from London, and to be SOLD by the Subscriber, in Williamsburg,
A COMPLETE Assortment of MILLINERY, &c. Paste Necklaces and Earrings; Marcassite Ditto; Wax Ditto set round with Marcassite; French Wax, Coral, Garnet, and Agate Ditto; Paste Buckles, Combs, Lockets, and Crosses; Silver Corals; Garnet Earrings set in Gold; Tortoiseshell, Ivory, Box, and Horn Combs; fashionable Paper Snuff Boxes; japanned Silver Thimbles; Childrens Clasps and Lockets; Tea Boards and Waiters; rich white Satin; flowered and plain Lustings; figured, black, blue, and white Satin for Cloaks; Bats, Bruffs, and Minionet Lace and Edgings; Blond and black Lace for Cloaks; joining Ditto for Hoods and Handkerchiefs; Silk, Cotton, Thread, and Worsted Stockings; Silk, Kid, and Lamb Gloves and Mts for Ladies; a Variety of neat Gloves and Didbury's Shoes for Gentlemen; Calimanco, Silk, Satin, and embroidered Shoes for Ladies; Suits of Childbed Linen, Cradle Quilts and Robes; white Satin and Dimity Baskets; Lines and Pincushions; Chip Hats; white Bonnets; Satin Quilts; striped, plain, and flowered Muffin; Book Ditto for Aprons; Long Lawn; Cambrick; flowered, spotted, and plain Gauze; bordered Gauze Handkerchiefs and Aprons; Patent Net Hoods; Pieces of Ditto for Handkerchiefs and Ruffles; white Sarcenet; black, white, and blue Persian; Silver Blond for Stomachers and Sleeve Knots; Italian Ditto; Riband Ditto; Silver and Italian Breast Flowers; black, white, coloured, and India Fans; Dimity for Robes; Lace and Fringe for trimming Ditto; Fringe for Suits; Hair Rolls and Ear Curls; Silk Purses; Pocket Books; Smelling Bottles; and a Variety of Toys for Children; Silk Bags for Gentlemens Hair; fine Hyson Tea; Rappee and Scotch Snuff; with a great Number of other Articles. MARGARET HUNTER.
* Bonnets and Hats made in the newest Fashion; also Fans neatly mounted.
TWO Bales of German OSNABRUGS, containing about sixteen Hundred Ells, damaged on Board the Thomas & Mary, James Dunlop Commander, from London, will be sold, on Friday the 31st Instant (July) for ready Money, at the Subscriber's Store in King and Queen, for the Benefit of the Insurers. EDWARD HILL.
MIDDLESEX, June 29, 1772.
THE Subscriber intends to leave the Colony. JOHN BAGOT.
JUST arrived, the Thornton, Captain John Kidd, with about one Hundred and fifty healthy SERVANTS, Men, Women, and Boys, among whom are many Tradesmen, namely, House Carpenters, Joiners, Bricklayers, Stone Masons, Smiths, Tailors, Coopers, Shoemakers, Weavers, Schoolmasters, a Tanner, a Ship Carpenter, a Printer, a Coach Wheelwright, a Brazier and Copper-smith, a Biscuit Baker, and many others. A reasonable Credit will be allowed, giving Bond, with approved Security, to THOMAS HODGE.
JUST arrived from Africa, the Snow Nancy, James E. Colly Commander, with about two Hundred and fifty fine healthy WINDWARD and GOLD COAST SLAVES, the Sale of which will begin at Osborne's, on James River, on Wednesday the 29th Instant (July) and continue until all are sold. Merchants Notes, payable at the General Courts in Williamsburg, will be received in Payment. || JOHN LAWRENCE, WILLIAM CALL, & Co.
To be SOLD for ready Money, on Thursday the 11th of August, at Prince George Courthouse,
ONE Third Part of the SNOW Prince George, now lying in Appomattox River, Burthen two Hundred Hogheads of Tobacco, well found, and fitted either for the West India or Eastern Trade, five Years old, and a prime Sailer. JERMAN BAKER, For the Administrator of Samuel Gordon.
To be SOLD by the Subscriber, in Halifax Town, NORTH CAROLINA,
TWO Lots in the said Town, adjoining the Courthouse and Jail, well situated for Tavern keeping. There is one House forty four Feet long and twenty Feet wide, with three large Lodging Rooms up Stairs, and four Closets to the House, a Piazza the Length of the House, ten Feet wide, with a large Bar Room at one End, and a Cellar underneath; also a Dwellinghouse adjoining, thirty two Feet long and sixteen Feet wide, with three Rooms below and two above, and a Piazza on the Front Side, with good Glass Windows above and below, well finished off; also a Billiard House twenty eight Feet long and eighteen Feet wide, with two good Lodging Rooms above, and a good Billiard Table; likewise a Kitchen sixteen Feet square, and a good Smokehouse, Stable, Horie Lots, &c. a large Garden in good Order, wherein are many Fruits and Herbs, all well paled in. Any Person inclined to purchase may know the Terms by applying to the Subscriber, now on the Premises. CHRISTOPHER DUDLEY.
N. B. All the Houses have good Brick Chimnies, and are well plastered and whitewashed.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, on the second Day of next August Augusta Court, at the Courthouse,
FIVE Hundred and fifty five Acres of very good level LAND, well timbered, and very good for Grain or Tobacco, lying on Briery Branch, about eighteen Miles below Staunton, and formerly belonged to Mr. James Diver. Any Person inclined to purchase may know the Terms before the Day of Sale by applying to the Subscriber, in the lower End of Orange, or to Mr. James Robb in Frederickburg. Half the Money to be paid down, and twelve Months Credit allowed for the other Half, on giving Bond and Security to REUBEN DANIEL, Or JAMES ROBB.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, on the Premises, on Thursday the 6th of August, pursuant to the last Will and Testament of Captain JAMES JONES, deceased, in Sussex,
THE noted ORDINARY known by the Name of Burges's, situated about eight Miles from Petersburg, in the County of Dinwiddie, with between four and five Hundred Acres of tolerable good Grain Land; it lies well, and is well timbered with Pine and Oak; there is on it a good Dwellinghouse with Brick Chimnies, two Rooms above and two below, a Kitchen, and sundry other Improvements. The Place is now in Possession of a Tenant, and will be given up to the Purchaser on the 25th of December next. The Purchase Money is to be paid at three yearly Payments, to commence on the Day of Possession. Bond, with approved Security, to be given to ROBERT JONES, HAMBELTON JONES, } Executors.
CAROLINE, June 30, 1772.
STOLEN from the Subscriber, in the Night of the 13th Instant, a sorrel HORSE about four Feet ten Inches high, with a small Blaze, light Mane and Tail, roached and bobbed, his near hind Foot above the Footlock much scarred, and branded on the near Buttock G. B. Whoever brings the said Horse to me shall have FIVE POUNDS Reward, TEN POUNDS if he is found out of the Colony, and TWENTY POUNDS upon Conviction of the Thief. JOHN ARMISTEAD.
STRAYED, or STOLEN, on the 9th of June last, a bay HORSE about four Feet seven or eight Inches high, with a small Blaze in his Face, one hind Foot white, his Mane hangs on the wrong Side, and has a short bushy Tail. Whoever conveys him to me, in Chesterfield, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS if he is taken in this County, and FORTY SHILLINGS if out thereof. RICHARD WALTHALL.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in King and Queen, about a Fortnight ago, a NEGRO WOMAN about twenty one Years of Age; she is tall and black, very lusty, and supposed to be pretty far gone with Child; her Dress cannot be well described, having several Changes of Apparel, and generally wears a blue Cloth Cloak. At the same Time went away an indentured Servant Man named JAMES BRUCE, a Seaman, from Scotland, about five Feet seven or eight Inches high, twenty five Years of Age, and wears his own dark coloured Hair. Whoever brings the Negro Woman to me shall have FORTY SHILLINGS, and be allowed all Expenses; and, as it is supposed the Servant Man carried her away, whoever apprehends him with the Woman shall have TEN POUNDS on his Conviction. All Masters of Vessels are hereby forbid carrying either of them out of the Colony. WILLIAM BLACK.
RUN away, in the Night of the 15th of last Month, from on Board the Snow Anne, at Port Royal, two Convicts, namely, JOHN USHER and WILLIAM ELLIOT. Usher is a tall stout Fellow, rather pale, wears his own brown Hair tied behind, had on, and took with him, a coarse gray Cloth Coat, a brown Cloth Waistcoat, a Pair of long Trousers, and a white Shirt; he is a Weaver by Trade. William Elliot is middle sized, marked with the Smallpox, has some red in his Cheeks, and wears his own short black Hair; he had on, and took with him, a black Waistcoat, an Osnabrug Shirt, one white Ditto, a Pair of Leather Breeches, and a Pair of striped Linen Trousers; he is a Farmer. They are both North of England Men, and speak bad English. Whoever delivers them to Captain Edward Dixon at Port Royal, to Mr. Daniel Payne at Falmouth, or to me on Board the said Snow, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS for each. JAMES THOMPSON.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Dinwiddie, a Negro Fellow named ANTHONY, about twenty five Years old, five Feet nine Inches high, with remarkable white Hairs on the fore Part of his Head, slim made, speaks good English, and had on a Sailor's Jacket. He formerly belonged to Captain Lofley. I expect he will go to Mr. Driver's, in Nansemond, where he has a Wife. Whoever conveys him to me shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, besides what the Law allows. WILLIAM PEGRAM.
TAKEN up, in Chesterfield, a small bay HORSE about eight or nine Years old, branded on the near Buttock C, as near as can be discerned, with a small Star in his Forehead, a roached Mane and Switch Tail, paces very well, and has on a very good Bell. Posted, and appraised to thirty Shillings. JOSEPH HARRIS.
PHILADELPHIA, June 22, 1772.
JOHN BAKER, SURGEON DENTIST, begs Leave to inform the Publick, and his Friends in particular, that (if no unforeseen Accident happens) he will be in Williamsburg about the 12th or next Month, where he will perform all Operations upon the Teeth, Gums, and Sockets, as usual; likewise will have a Quantity of his ANTI-SCOR BUTICK DENTIFRICE, for preserving the Teeth and Gums.
ALL Persons having Demands against the Estate of Roger Dixon, late of Frederickburg, deceased, are desired to make them known, and they who are indebted to the said Estate are desired to make speedy Payment, either to Mr. Oliver Tovey, Attorney at Law in Spotsylvania (whom I have empowered to act in these Affairs) or to JOHN DIXON, Administrator, with the Will annexed.
It hath been reported (and I fear the Report will prove detrimental to my Brother's distressed Family) that his Debts exceed the Value of his personal Estate, and that, dying intestate, his Lands would be liable for none but English Debts; but I hereby assure those whom it may concern, that there was a Will found, and proved, wherein he directs the Sale of all his Lands (except his Wife's Dower, the Houses and Lots where he dwelt, and his new Mill near Frederickburg) the Produce of which will be applied, together with the Debts, as fast as they can be collected, to the Payment of his just Debts, which I must acknowledge amount to a large Sum of Money; but, after the nicest Inquiry we were able to make, his Credits will exceed them by many Hundred Pounds. Delay in the Debts, and too hasty Demands from the Creditors (which I earnestly desire both will avoid) are the only Things that are likely to hurt his Family, in whose Names I address the benevolent Creditor in the Words of the Supplicant Debtor: Have Patience with me and I will pay thee all.
IF Mr. DAVID DOIG, late Deputy Provost Marshal of West Florida, will let his Friends in Scotland know where he is to be found, they can inform him of Something very much to his Advantage. For farther Particulars apply to Mr. Hugh McMikin, in Portsmouth. 2||
A GENERAL MEETING of the GRANVILLE COMPANY is appointed to be held at Hanover Courthouse, on the first Wednesday in August next, of which the several Members of the said Company are desired to take due Notice, and to give their Attendance accordingly. By Order of the Committee.
NORFOLK, June 29, 1772.
WILLIAM PASTEUR, my Apprentice, having absented himself, I hereby forewarn all Persons from harbouring or entertaining him. ALEXANDER GORDON.
To be SOLD, or LEASED for a Number of Years, altogether, or in Parcels,
THE very valuable Tract of LAND, and beautiful Situation on James River, in the lower End of Amberst County, near Doctor William Cabell's, where I formerly lived, containing about a Thousand Acres, with a tolerable Dwellinghouse, and various other Houses, and Land cleared sufficient to work ten or twelve Hands, chiefly on low Grounds. A considerable Time of Payment will be allowed for Part of the Purchase Money, if desired; but the more ready down, or in a short Time, the better. Some of my Negroes will be sold at the same Time, or hired with the Land, if requested. I shall attend, on the Premises, on Wednesday the 26th of August, when those that are inclined to purchase, &c. may meet me, and make their Proposals. JOHN HOWARD.
To be SOLD, on Wednesday the 15th Instant (July) at the late Dwellinghouse of THOMAS HARRIS, deceased, in Jamestown,
ALL the Estate of William Davis, deceased, consisting of HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, such as Beds, Chairs, Tables, &c. Also a Country SLOOP, with her Rigging, Sails, &c. one large and one small BOAT, a NEGRO WOMAN, and sixteen SHOATS. Credit will be allowed till the 15th of January next for all Sums above twenty five Shillings, the Purchasers giving Bond, with approved Security, to WILLIAM PERKINSON, Administrator.
Just IMPORTED in the VIRGINIA, Captain Robertson, and to be SOLD reasonably by the Subscriber, in Williamsburg,
A LARGE Assortment of DRUGS and MEDICINES; also white and brown Sugar Candy; Barley Sugar; Almonds; Capers; Spanish Licorice; Imeglas; Pearl Barley; Sago; Salop; Hartshorn Shavings; Saltpetre; Borax; Sallad Oil; Barbary Oil; Hungary Honey, Lavender, and Orange Flower Waters; Cinnamon; Cloves; Mace; Nutmegs; Ginger; Pepper; Allspice; Ladies Sticking Plaster; Eau de Luce; Doctor Hill's Elixir Bardana, Essence of Water Dock, Pectoral Balsam of Honey, Tincture of Golden Rod, and Tincture of Valerian; Walker's Jesuit's Drops; Doctor Norris's Drops; Bateman's Drops; Ward's white Drops; Blackie's Lixivium for the Stone and Gravel; Fit Drops for Convulsions in Children; Lancets; Anderson's, and Lachy's Pills; Doctor James's Fever Powders; Anodyne Necklaces; Daffey's, Scammon's, and Squire's Elixirs; Fraunhofer's Female Strengthening Elixir; Tarlington's Balm of Life; Fryar's Balsam; Freeman's and Godfrey's Cordials; British Rock Oil; Verdigris; white and red Lead; Prussian Blue; Vermilion; Gold and Silver Leaf; Dutch Metal; Breast Pipes; Nipple Glasses; Oil, and Spirits of Turpentine; Alum; Brimstone; Blue Stone; Copperas; Logwood; Rotten Stone; Potash; Greenough's Tincture for the Gums and Teeth; Urinals; Clyster Pipes, &c. JAMES CARTER.
NORFOLK, June 30, 1772.
WANTED immediately, a sober Lad of fifteen or sixteen Years of Age, properly educated, to serve as an Apprentice in the Business of Surgery, Pharmacy, &c. If he is provided with Bed, Board, and Washing, a Fee will be expected. RAMSAY & TAYLOR.
WANTED immediately, to hire by the Month or Year, ten Pair of good SAWERS. Inquire of the Subscriber, at Mr. Charles Minnis's, at the Half-way House between York and Hampton. SAMUEL LONG.
NANSEMOND, June 21, 1772.
WANTED immediately, on Charter for Port Glasgow, a VESSEL from three to five Hundred Hogheads. For Terms apply to JOHN HAMILTON, & Co.
TAKEN away, on the 28th of May last, from Northumberland Courthouse, by one Robert Poythress, from the County of Amelia, a Negro Slave named DICK, belonging to the Subscriber; he is a black Fellow, about twenty Years of Age, five Feet seven Inches high, very likely and sensible, has been brought up in the House as a Waiter, is very skillful in the Care of Horses, and a good Rider. He is well known by many Gentlemen, and in all the Towns in Virginia, as he always waited on me whenever I went from home, and is also known by some in Carolina, but is much grown since he was there. The said Robert Poythress pretends that he bought him; but his not having either a Bill of Sale, or a Receipt for the Money, sufficiently proves it to be false. This is to forewarn all Persons from purchasing or entertaining him, as they may expect to have the Law put in Execution to the utmost Extent. I do likewise offer a Reward of TEN POUNDS to any Person that brings the said Slave to me, in Lancaster, if taken in this Colony, and TWENTY POUNDS if out thereof. JOHN WORMELEY.
WANTED,
A MILLER that understands the Management of a Merchant Mill; also one or two Journeymen SHIP CARPENTERS that can carry up the Side of a Ship. Apply to me, in Charles City. BENJAMIN HARRISON.

POETS CORNER.
SONG translated from AMADIS de GAULE.
SOON as the golden Age was o'er, And Saturn banish'd from the Skies, His Sons the bleeding Empire tore, And grappled for the mighty Prize.
DINWIDDIE, June 13, 1772. STOLEN from the Subscriber, on Friday Night the 12th Instant, a bay HORSE about four Feet seven Inches high...
PETERSBURG, June 24, 1772. STRAYED from the Subscriber, in the Night of the 14th Instant, a very likely bright bay HORSE about four Feet nine Inches high...
SURRY, June 29, 1772. RUN away from the Subscriber, last May twelvemonth, a Negro Man named EMMANUEL, a spare made Fellow, upwards of twenty Years of Age...
TAKEN up, in Orange, a red and white BULL about four or five Years old, marked with a Crop and Underkeel in the right Ear...
TAKEN up, in Louisa, a pale red STEER marked with a Crop and Underkeel in the left Ear, and a Crop and Overkeel in the right.
TAKEN up, in Orange, a bay HORSE about four Feet nine Inches high, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, some white Hairs on his Nose and Back...
WILLIAMSBURG, June 25, 1772. BY Order of his Excellency, in Council, the several COUNTY COURT CLERKS are requested to send to the AUDITOR'S OFFICE...
HANOVER Town, July 1, 1772. I WILL leave this Colony before, or soon after, the October General Court next, and beg those concerned in my Stay will accept of this Notice.
PURSUANT to a Decree of the County Court of Surry, will be sold at Cabin Point, to the highest Bidders, on Monday the 20th of July...
To be SOLD, on Thursday the 16th of July, at the House of Mr. Christopher Robinson, deceased, in Middlesex.
A LARGE Variety of HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, such as Beds, Chairs, Tables, China, Glass, Pewter, Linnen, &c. Six Months Credit will be allowed for every Thing above twenty Shillings.
KEYSER'S CELEBRATED ANTI-VENEREAL PILLS.
THE vast Success of this Medicine, certified by the first Practitioners in England and France, having engaged the Attention of several Gentlemen of the Faculty in New York...
The CASE of THOMAS FLACKFIELD, private Soldier in his Majesty's twenty sixth Regiment, aged twenty one Years.
ABOUT two Years and a Quarter ago he contracted, in the City of New York, an inveterate Lues. He applied to me about a Month afterwards, and then had a very violent Running, with several large spreading ill conditioned Chancres.
H. BEAUMONT, Surgeon to his Majesty's twenty sixth, or Cameronian Regiment. New York, May 10, 1772.
These famous PILLS, which have performed great Cures in the Rheumatism, Asthma, Apoplexy, Palsy, Giddiness of the Head, Dropsy, the Sciatica, or Hip Gout, the Diseases of the Eyes, the Fluor Albus, and afforded vast Relief in the Gout, are to be had, with full Directions for their Use in all Cases, at JOHN M. GALT's, near the CAPITOL in WILLIAMSBURG.
FALMOUTH, June 12, 1772.
THE Subscriber gives Notice that he is obliged to make a final Settlement of the Copartnership of William Love and Company (now under his Management) by the 10th of November next...
WILLIAM LOVE.
THREE POUNDS REWARD. RUN away from the Subscriber, on Tuesday the 9th Instant (June) a Convict Servant Man named WILLIAM JENKINS, by Trade a Cabinet Maker...
COMMITTED to Isle of Wight Jail, a Negro Man who says his Name is PHIL, and that he belongs to Messrs. Young and Company, of Edenton. He is a black Fellow, about six Feet high...
TAKEN up by the Subscriber, a Negro Woman named MOLLY, formerly the Property of Mr. James Hubbard of this City, and says she now belongs to Mr. David Rofs of Goodland.
TAKEN up, in Lunenburg, a red COW with a white Face, and white under her Belly, her fore Legs are partly white, marked with a Swallowfork and Underkeel in the left Ear, and a Swallowfork in the right.
FOR SALE.
TWO Thousand five Hundred and twenty Acres of LAND on Newney River, in the Counties of Dinwiddie and Brunswick, about thirty Miles from the Towns of Petersburg and Blandford...
To be SOLD by the Executors of Colonel RICHARD COCKE, on the Premises, to the highest Bidder, the 25th of November next, and to be entered on at Christmas.
TRACT of good TOBACCO LAND lying on Bear's Element Creek, in Lunenburg, containing about a Thousand Acres, together with all the Corn, Fodder, Stocks of Cattle, Hogs, Plantation Utensils, &c.
To be SOLD on the Premises, the last Thursday in July, pursuant to the Will of John Price, deceased.
TRACT of LAND containing about three Hundred Acres, with good Improvements, and lies convenient to Churches, Grist Mills, and Layton's Inspection of Tobacco on Rappahannock River.
FOR SALE.
THE following Tracts of LAND, in Pittsylvania, namely, four Hundred Acres on Banister River, seven Hundred and seventy on Beaver Creek, three Hundred and forty five on Barb's Creek, three Hundred and eighty on Leatherwood, and four Hundred on Snow Creek.
THE Subscriber, at PITTENWEEM, just below the NEW DISTILLERY, near NORFOLK, has for Sale WEST INDIA RUM by the Hoghead, and a considerable Quantity of HONDURAS HIGHLAND MOHOGANY.
To be SOLD, pursuant to a Decree of the Honourable the General Court, at publick Auction, on the Premises, on Tuesday the 14th of July, and entered on the 1st of January.
TRACT of LAND, in the County of Northumberland, belonging to the Estate of the late Mr. John Smith, deceased, known by the Name of Flet's Bay, containing sixteen Hundred and eleven Acres...
FOR SALE.
SEVERAL Thousand Acres of LAND in the Counties of Mecklenburg, Halifax, and Pittsylvania, from five to twenty Shillings an Acre, according to Quality and Distance.
To be SOLD by the Subscribers, Mortgagees of Mr. Peter Copland of Pittsylvania, and the said Mortgagee, in Parcels, for the Benefit of the Subscribers, and others.
SIX Thousand Acres of valuable LAND, lying on Smith's River, Beaver and Reedy Creeks. It is laid off in small Lots; and we do guarantee and confirm the former Sales of the Lands made to sundry Persons by the said Mortgagee...
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, Still, Brewing Coppers, Sugar Boilers, Fullers and Hatters Coppers, Capuchin Plate Warmers, Tea Kitchens, all Sorts of Ship, Fish, and Wash Kettles, Stew Pans, Dutch Ovens, Tea Kettles, Saucepans, Coffee and Chocolate Pots, Brats Mill Work, Furniture for Coach and Chair Harness, Fenders, Andirons, Candlesticks, Cocks, &c.
All Orders from the Country will be punctually attended to. N. B. He deals for Cash, or Country Produce. Those who have old Brats, Copper, Pewter, or Lead, to dispose of, are desired to apply to Mr. Joseph Kidd, in Williamsburg, or to Mr. McCaa, in Hampton...
To be LET on LEASE.
A VERY large and commodious HOUSE in the Town of Petersburg, built for a Tavern, and well fitted for that Business; it is two Stories high, has a Number of very convenient Lodging Rooms, and large and small Rooms for the Entertainment of Guests.
ALL Persons may be supplied with this PAPER at 12s. 6d. a Year, and have ADVERTISEMENTS (of a moderate Length) inserted in it for 3s. the first Week, and 2s. each Week after. All Sorts of PRINTING WORK done at this Office in the neatest Manner, with Care and Expedition.