The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1771-05-30 00:00:00

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How sweet it is to be VIRTUOUS! A pastoral Rhapsody.
OLD Palamon, seated on the Brow of a Hill, was warming himself by the Rays of the Sun, and contemplating at the same Time the Wonders of Nature. Nature, though always the same, is always pleasing, and seems always to have new Charms. Palamon had often before surveyed and admired the Face of Nature; Palamon saw, and still admired it. How beautiful is Nature! His Son Lycidas, who was with him, and was delighted to see him so contented, at length interrupted his Silence, and put him in Mind of his having promised a Song. Withall my Heart, Son, replied Palamon; I now find myself in better Spirits than usual. Hark! and thus he began to sing:
How sweet it is to be virtuous! The just Man is the happiest Man. For him the Earth adorns herself with a Thousand Colours, and makes the gayest and sweetest scented Flowers to spring up. For him her precious Harvests ripen into their yellowish Hue. For him the Autumn teems with the most delectable Fruits. For him also the Winter comes, as it were, to stupify the Earth in Drowniness; and, by lulling her into a profound Sleep, recruits her Strength by its Rigours, eases her of her Pains by putting a Stop to her Fertility, and renders her more fit, soon after, for displaying all her Treasures. How sweet it is to be virtuous!
The just Man is the happiest Man. For him the Sun illumines the Fields. For him we see him first shed, with so much Pomp, his new born Light. The Earth was, a Moment ago, enveloped by profound Night. The Darkness by which she was encompassed veiled from our Eyes the Sight of all her Riches. But she suddenly issues from her Grave; Nature revives with Day. Already Aurora, clothed with Roses, announces its Return; the Sun then appears, and gilds the Tops of Mountains; all is Light, all bears the Resemblance of Fire. Soon will he visit these Fields. Already the Flocks fly from his Heat, and seek the Freshness of the Shade. Already the weary Swain repairs to the first leafy Tree, to throw himself on a Bed of green Turf within the Arms of sweet Repose; whilst the Sun, darting on all Sides his scorching Beams, ripens our Ears of Corn, bestows Fire and Colour on our Fruits, gives Birth to the most beautiful Flowers, and enriches them with that Juice, that precious Juice, which the industrious Bee carefully collects for elaborating Honey of the most exquisite Flavour. For the just likewise, and for procuring him a more tranquil Sleep, already the Sun puts an End to his brilliant Course. He reascends the Mountains he had descended in the Morning. Already their Shadows extend in Width, and line our Valleys with Mourning. Already a Mist skims Nature over with Obscurity; the Sun has withdrawn his Lustre; he disappears; the Night comes; but the just is not then abandoned. To return in Safety to his Cot, and to guard him on his Way against malevolent Animals, Thousands of Fires are kindled up in the Heavens; and amidst them, presides, in splendid Majesty, the silvered Moon. At first she shows but a Part of her white Light; next, more and more, she unveils her pale Orbit; at length she exposes to our Eyes her entire Lamp, and seems to pride herself in it. How sweet it is to be virtuous!
For the just exits Nature, charming and beautiful Nature. The divine Author of all Beings did form her for him; every Thing is for the just; the just is the Cause and End of all those Miracles. How sweet it is to be virtuous!
The wicked, it is true, shares with the just the Light of the Day. The Night stretches her sable Mantle over the one as well as the other; over the one, as well as the other, Providence showers down its Benefits. But Virtue and Vice admit of great Discriminations. Enjoyment proves the Goodness of a Thing, and makes us happy. The same Presents of Heaven that constitute the Felicity of the just, who knows how to enjoy them, are a Source of Ills for the wicked, that abuses them. That Liquor so sweet, so necessary to the industrious Man, that precious Nectar, which gives him a new Supply of Strength, and makes light to him the heaviest Labours, becomes a Poison, a mortal Juice, a hurtful and bitter Beverage, to those that quasi it to Excess. It divests them of the Strength its Design was to preserve to them; and, far from invigorating them, renders their Limbs weak and tottering.
The just Man is the happiest Man. He apprehends no Mischap. Unacquainted with Fortune, her Caprices are unknown to him. He is constantly happy; God constantly protects him. His Field is always fertile; his grateful Grounds exceed always his Wishes, and multiply whatever he has confided to them. His Trees are always loaded with Fruits; his Hut is always embellished with green Foliage. For him, for his Pleasure, a Thousand Birds, of all Kinds, join to produce the Melody of the sweetest Notes. His Herds and Flocks multiply. Every Night and Morning his Cows come with a slow Pace, and Udders distended with Milk, to bring him this the ordinary Tribute of their Gratitude. At Break of Day his docile Oxen are ready to serve him, and stretch themselves their stout Necks to the Yoke presented to them. His faithful Dog is always by his Side; or, if he leaves him, it is to assemble about him his scattered Flocks, or to rescue from the Enemy the Prey he had surprised. Then, quite joyous, he returns to receive the Careless and Benefactions of his Master; he is seen to turn incessantly about him, to wag his Tail, and to be very solicitous in showing him the most sensible Marks of his Zeal and Attachment. How sweet it is to be virtuous!
The just Man is the happiest Man. His Life, the Life of the just, glides on as peacefully as the undisturbed Waters of a clear Rivulet slowly flow through Meadows enamelled with Flowers. As they do, the just marks his Paces by Benefits, and leaves after him Felicity, Plenty, and Joy; as they also, his thirsted after, desired, cherished, and regretted. Wherever he goes, Hearts seem flying to attend on his Steps. The Father shows him to his Son, and dies content to see himself so well replaced. Like unto the Rays of the Sun, which, after a gloomy Storm, break out to recreate with their Presence, and animate by their Warmth, the languid and lifeless Fields, the just brings every Where along with him Felicity, Happiness, and Comfort.
And, indeed, all-gracious Providence watches over all his Ways. It grants him wife and good Parents to rear him in his Infancy, to be careful of him in his weak State, and to form him to Virtue. More advanced in Years, they form him to Exertions of Strength and hardy Life, and put him in a Condition of being a Help to his Parents already enfeebled, and of repaying them all he had received from them. But Nature soon speaks; her tender and pure Heart feels after an Union, and feels the Want of a Companion. Soon does a worthy Spouse appear to satisfy and content his innocent Desires. Love, the chaste Love, comes to link them in its soft Bonds. At last they consent, and unite for ever; a lovely and numerous Posterity is the Fruit of such sacred Nuptials. Their whole Care is taken up in consulting the Welfare of their Children, that hereafter they may deserve a just Return. Years multiply; this virtuous Couple bend insensibly, and at length fall under their Weight. Regretted by their own, satisfied with them, they die as peacefully as they lived. Such is the Life of the just; such are the Rewards awaiting Virtue.
God loves the just Man. He grants him a thriving Infancy, a healthy Youth, and an amiable old Age. He gives him wife Parents, a chaste Wife, obedient Children, perfect Health, fertile Grounds, a happy Life, and a Death replete with Consolation. How sweet it is to be virtuous!
The just Man is the happiest Man. Sometimes, however, a few Clouds may darken the Sunshine of his Days; sometimes his Happiness may be checkered with some Pains and Difficulties; but this is an ingenious Precaution of Heaven to inform him thoroughly of its Value. Whatever Reverse of Fortune happens to him, he constantly retains (O the precious Good! the delectable Happiness) a tranquil Heart, an upright Mind, a good Soul, that ceases not to comfort, by telling him, "Fear Nothing, thou art just." How sweet it is to be so! The just Man is, indeed, the most happy Man.
Tears flow from thy Eyes, my Son, continued the good old Man, embracing his Son. Ah! how I love thee! Thou art sensible of this Happiness; this Painting affects thee; be therefore always just, and thou wilt be always happy; thy Hairs will whiten as mine on thy Head; the Number of thy Years will equal that of mine; thou wilt bend down as I do, and, as I shall, thou wilt die happy, and reach the Grave in a Path of Flowers. Be therefore always just; do always good to others; it is the greatest Good thou canst do; strew with one Hand, and with the other thou wilt receive much more. Be just; the just is always happy.
After this Song Lycidas helped up his Father, and, supporting his Steps, led him gently to his Cottage. But he never forgot his Song; he had always a lively Sense of it, remembered every Word of it, and often repeated it to his Children.
A Letter of the late Reverend Mr. STERNE.
THE first Time I have dipped my Pen into the Inkhorn, for this Week past, is to write to you, and to thank you most sincerely for your kind Epistle. Will this be a sufficient Apology for my letting it lie ten Days upon my Table without answering it? I trust it will; I am sure my own Feelings tell me so, because I feel it to be impossible for me to do any Thing that is ungracious towards you. It is not every Hour, or Day, or Week, or a Man's Life, that is a fit Season for the Duties of Friendship. Sentiment is not always at Hand. Folly and Pride, and what is called Business, oftentimes keep it at a Distance; and without Sentiment, what is Friendship? A Name! a Shadow! But to prevent a Misapplication of all this (though why should I fear it from so kind and gentle a Spirit as yours) you must know that by the Carelessness of my Curate, or his Wife, or his Maid, or some One within his Gates, the Parsonage House at —— was, about a Fortnight ago, burnt to the Ground, with the Furniture, which belonged to me, and a pretty Collection of Books; the Loss about three Hundred and fifty Pounds. The poor Man, with his Wife, took the Wings of the next Morning, and fled away. This has given me real Vexation; for so much was my Pity and Esteem for him, that, as soon as I heard of the Disaster, I sent to desire he would come and take his Abode with me, until another Habitation was ready to receive him. But he was gone; and, as I have been told, through Fear of my Prosecution. Heavens! how little did he know me, to suppose that I was among the Number of those Wretches who heap Misfortune upon Misfortune, and when the Load is almost insupportable still add to the Weight! God, who reads my Heart, knows it to be true that I wish rather to share than to increase the Burthen of the miserable, to dry up instead of adding a single Drop to the Stream of Sorrow. As for the dirty Trah of this World, I regard it not; the Loss of it does not cost me a Sigh; for, after all, I may say, with the Spanish Captain, that I am as good a Gentleman as the King, only not quite so rich. But to the Point.
Shall I expect you here this Summer? I much wish you may make it convenient to gratify me in a Visit for a few Weeks. I will give you a roast Fowl for your Dinner, and a clean Tablecloth every Day, and tell you a Story by Way of Dessert. In the Heat of the Day we will sit in the Shade, and in the Evening the fairest of all the Milkmaids who pass by my Gate shall weave a Garland for you.
If I should be so unfortunate as not to see you here, do contrive to meet me in London the Beginning of October. I shall stay there about a Fortnight, and then seek a kinder Climate. This plaguy Cough of mine seems to gain Ground, and will bring me at last to my Grave, in Spite of all I can do; but while I have Strength enough to run away from it, I will. I have been wrestling with it for these twenty Years past, and what with Laughter and good Spirits have prevented its giving me a Fall. But my Antagonist presses closer than ever upon me; and I have Nothing left, on my Side, but another Journey abroad. A propos, are you for a Scheme of that Sort? If not, perhaps you will be so good as to accompany me as far as Dover, that we may laugh together upon the Beach, to put Neptune in good Humour before I embark. God bless you. Adieu.
L. STERNE.
From the London Weekly Journal, March 2, 1771.
WAR! War! No Peace, no Convention, no Ratification! My Blood boils, and it must have Vent. War, War, War! Don't tell me of Reason, Taxes, and Slaughter; we must, and will have War! Is not all the World at War? What! shall the Russians
Pluck bright Honour from the pale fac'd Moon, and the Turks prepare
To pluck up drowned Honour by the Locks?
And shall not we Britons, brave, bold, free Britons, pluck one Hair from the proud Whiskers of Mexico and Peru? Don't tell me of Administration! I will petition, protest, and remonstrate, all in one:
May it please your Majesty!
I Mad Tom of Bedlam, in Conjunction with the most wise, sober, cool, and ever most loyal Subjects, the patrick Common Council of the City of London, do address, remonstrate, and protest against the late Convention, and petition your Majesty, for ten Thousand good Reasons (which are too many to give at present) that you will draw the too long unheated Sword of War; and that you will oil, brighten, and restore it to its former Splendour, in the Family-compacted Blood of the Bourbons! Turn not your royal Far to the north, but march to the east, west, and south.
Come the three Corners of the World in Arms; And we shall flock them
Let the Troops of France and Spain turn out into the Field of Battle; let them appear all gallant, gay, well dressed, plumed, and caparisoned; let every Cavaliere appear an Army in himself; let the Sight be as rich, noble, and magnificent, as that of a City Feast (where every well dressed, favoury, substantial Dish, appears itself a Feast) and let your Majesty's gallant intrepid Soldiers come at the one, and these your most brave and petitioning City Subjects at the other; and what would be the Consequence?
Arm'd for the Fight, each Warrior takes his Post, And hews his Way through bak'd, and boil'd, and roast; Attacks Fist, Fist, and Fowl, both great and small, Joints, Haunches, Turkeys, Turbots, Bones and all! In vain for Quarter, Custards, Tarts, implore him; The lighter Troops of Pastry sink before him.
Thus it will fare with the Puffs of France and Spain. Britain wants to be let Blood; it is dying of a Plethora, and without Phlebotomy will burst with Rage, Bile, and Choler. Is not all the Land at War within itself? Have not Whigs warred with Tories, Courtiers with Patriots, Patriots with the Parliament, the Parliament with the People, the People with our Windows, and the Bill of Rights with one another? Horse against Wilkes, Maclean against Wilkes, and Wilkes against both? Madam Cornelys against the Law, Justice against the Harmonick Meeting, Harmonick Meetings against Operas, Operas against common Sense, the Nobility against Acts of Parliament, the City against Embankment, and all the World against the Coterie? Therefore, if your Majesty will graciously please, like a wise and skilful Physician, to drive out, by a hot and powerful Regiment, the Disorders from the Vitals into the Extremities, thence to be conveyed by Contact to the Spanish Shores, it will hinder us from knocking our Heads one against another. Let War be immediately proclaimed against France, Spain, or whomsoever you please; and let not your royal Feelings be touched, much less wounded, about raising Millions, spilling Rivers of Blood, or overwhelming your People in a Sea of Troubles; but sound the Trumpet of Battle, throw down the Gauntlet of Defiance, and to it pell-mell! So says the imaginative William Earl of Chatham, and so says, and petitions, the no less magnanimous
MAD TOM of Bedlam.
LONDON, March 8.
THE celebrated Lady who was so dexterous, a few Years since, at a Jeweller's in Bond Street, in conveying away a Pair of valuable Diamond Earrings, and leaving a Paste Pair in their Stead, met with a very who sat next her, retreating for a few Minutes, left her Gold Snuff-Box on the Table. Upon her Return it had vanished; she inquired if no Lady had, by Mistake, put it into her Pocket. Every One denied it; when a few you put it in your Pocket." She coloured as much as her Complexion would allow her, and produced the Box, saying, "I am very absent." "And I beg, my Lady (replied the Proprietor of the Box) you may remain so, for I never desire to see your Face here again."
One of the Morning Papers says that on Saturday Evening a certain Merchant's Lady, not far from Hatton Garden, paid a Visit to a great Personage's Brother at the west End of the Town; and prudently did herself the Honour of returning home in one of his Coaches, attended by several of his Servants, as contentedly as if it had been her Husband's.
Extract of a Letter from Modbury, February 26. "A Reverend Divine in this Neighbourhood was last Week sent to the County Jail, for committing a Rape upon the Body of a Girl about seventeen Years of Age. This Ornament of the Church has a Living worth at least five Hundred Pounds a Year. He regularly takes the Tithe of Leeks, Parsley, and Greens, in Kind, from the Poor; but his plucking this Virgin Flower will cost him dear, it is thought. He's about sixty Years of Age. If the Ladies are not provided with a Chaplain for their Coterie, I would humbly recommend him."
INTELLIGENCE EXTRAORDINARY.
On Tuesday Morning last (the Wind full north) the Oliver, a fine new Ship, laden with Integrity and Honesty, was violently driven ashore at the Tower; but, being built with Heart of Oak, it is thought she will be got off without much Difficulty.
ANECDOTES.
It is said that Mr. John Wheble delivered himself over to the Devil for the patriotic Number of Pounds out of fifty ordered by the King's Proclamation, so that the sorry Imp is only to have five for his Labour.
A certain great Personage, who has rendered himself famous by a late Exploit at St. Alban's, asking the Haymarket Aristophanes, the other Day, "what the Supporters were to do with their next Collections;" was answered, "only to take for your Brother a Place in the Dover Stage, and one for your Mother in the Basket."
A witty Gentleman, after seeing Mr. Twine Carpenter, in the Lamplight of his Profession, dunning the Clerks, told Mr. George Onslow on the Treasury Stairs, "Make haste! there is the Devil to pay within," which much alarmed that worthy Gentleman.
We hear, that a certain Pimp (Chevalier D'Eon) to put an End to the shameful Gambling upon his Sex, is resolved to produce the Proofs of his Manhood at Jonathan's on Wednesday next. Several City Matrons, of great Experience, will attend. It is much to be feared that some disappointed Hebrews, who are on the Female Side of the Question, may be, in their Rage, induced to perform a certain Judicial Operation on the Chevalier. To prevent this Misfortune, Humphrey Cotes, armed with an oaken Towel, will be present.
There is no Truth in the Report that a Policy was opened last Monday upon the Virility of G. S——n, Esquire, the fair Members of the Coterie having sufficiently cleared up that Point, by dismissing him from the Office of Secretary.
The King of Sardinia is on the Point of taking Orders, to qualify himself for the Papal Chair in Case of a Vacancy. This Intelligence, though extraordinary, is true.
Humorous Account of the late MASQUERADE.
LORD North, in a Spanish Habit; a most awkward, dismal, and ridiculous Figure.
Lords Sandwich, Halifax, and Weymouth, appeared as drunken Bacchanals; they sung the favourite Catch, "Which is the properest Day to drink," with great Applause.
Lord Hillsborough waddled in under the Form of a Loggerhead Turtle. Some Americans got round him, and gave him a good Dressing. His Secretary John Pownall followed, carrying a Parcel of Forms and Precedents ready cut and dry; limping, imitating, fidgeting, and telling Truth. O rare!
The Lord Chancellor, in the Character of an old Woman.
Lord Chief Justice De Grey personated, to the Life, a gouty, covetous, old Miser.
Solicitor Wedderburne particularly excited Attention, in a Dress so ingeniously contrived as to present the Front of a Figure every Way; so that while you imagined him coming towards you, he was, in Reality, making the best of his Way from you. He was hung round with Labels, whereon were inscribed, "Gratitude, Friendship, Sincerity, Patriotism, Sense of Honour, &c." but it was observed he wanted Sense of Shame to complete his Character.
Lord Chatham walked into the Room on a Pair of huge stilts, brushing the very Ceiling with his aquiline Nose. This withered, battered, crazy, old Figure, was also hung round with Labels as large as Paper Kites, inscribed with monstrous Lies and Prophecies of Disasters, and Ruin to his Country.
Lord Camden followed him, in the Character of a poor shuffling Attorney, very melancholy for having outwitted himself.
Lord Rockingham, as a Farmer, with a Ploughshare in his Hand, both short and feeble, inscribed with Veteris Vestigia Flamme .
Edmund Burke, in the Habit which he wore when he recanted the Errors of the Romish Religion in St. Martin's Church. "Good, though late, if sincere; but seldom sincere when so late."
Mr. Dowdeswell, with a Coat out at the Elbows, which the poor tedious Patriot endeavoured to patch up with a String of Motions.
Lord Shelburne, with a Garment threadbare, having a Label on his Breast with the following Words: "Wanted, some Honesty, and a Great Deal of Money. N. B. A House in Berkeley Square to let or sell."
Isaac Barré made a very natural Appearance, in the Form of an Irish Wolf Dog. It was remarked that the poor Cur was very voracious at Supper, owing to the Dearth of Provisions at Catiline Hall.
Duke of Grafton, having lost his own Character on the 30th of January 1769, came in under that of Democritus; but his Rhetoric was remarked to be mere hollow Sound, idle Wind, signifying Nothing.
Thomas Bradshaw, trying to perform the Character of a Gentleman. Jerry Dyson, in the Character of Joseph Snip in Buckram, with a Mea-fure, Bodkin, and Goose. He had a Pair of large Shears, which he snipped in every One's Face, to the great Terror of the Ladies, and the Ridicule of the Gentlemen.
Lord George Germaine came stalking in a Pair of Jack Boots, attempting the Character of Pistol, to the Astonishment of all present.
Adjutant General Hervey appeared as Congreve's Soldier, with his Brains in his Belly, and his Heart where his Head should be.
Lord Barrington, without either one or the other. It was remarked that a certain Lady, in the Character of Messalina, showed great Contempt for this Masque, owing, as is supposed, to the Duclun of an Abettor .
Richard Rigby, in the Character of the lame Man in Scripture, carrying his Bed on his Shoulder. He seemed in great Terror that some other Fellow should be thrust in between the Sheets with him.
Lord Carlisle was dressed in her Ladyship's Jewels, her Ladyship being left at home in the Dumps.

The Duke of Richmond was truly in his own Character, having come in with a Sack of Coals on his Shoulder, and a Pot of Porter in his Hand. The Duke of Northumberland came in on the Box of a crazy Hackney Coach, without Springs; and in keeping up the Memory of his Grandfather, occasioned a great Deal of Confusion. He was stopped at the Door by the Ticket Receiver, who said that though Asses were admitted there was a standing Rule for the Exclusion of Horses. The Chariot, however, drove in with that unembarrassed Dexterity with which his Ancestors used to turn, to a Hair, the Corners of the narrow Lanes in the Strand.
George Selwyn, in the old Woman's Dress in which he rode behind his Groom the other Day to see an Execution at Tyburn. The facetious Hag was making a great Bully, and saying good Things.
Mr. Fitzherbert, in the Character of Benevolence, and silently doing them.
Stephen Fox, in the Character of Somnus, which sat as easy upon him as any Part he ever acted.
Charles Fox appeared in buff, having lately lost all his Linen and Clothes.
AN E C D O T E.
From a Manuscript of Sir JAMES WARE.
QUEEN Mary having dealt severely with the Protestants in England, about the latter End of her Reign, signed a Commission for to take the same Course with them in Ireland; and to execute the same with greater Force, she nominates Doctor Cole one of the Commissioners. This Doctor coming with the Commission to Chester, on his Journey, the Mayor of that City, hearing that her Majesty was sending a Messenger into Ireland, and he being a Churchman, waited on the Doctor, who, in Disguise with the Mayor, taketh out of a Cloakbag a leather Box, saying unto him, "Here is a Commission that shall lash the Hereticks in Ireland," calling the Protestants by that Name. The good Woman of the House, being well affected to the Protestant Religion, and also having a Brother, named John Edmonds, of the same, then a Citizen in Dublin, was much troubled at the Doctor's Words; but watching her convenient Time, while the Mayor took his Leave, and the Doctor complimented him down the Stairs, she opened the Box, takes the Commission out, and places in Lieu thereof a Sheet of Paper, with a Pack of Cards wrapped up therein, the Knave of Clubs being placed uppermost. The Doctor coming up to his Chamber, suspecting Nothing of what had been done, put up the Box as formerly. The next Day going to the Water Side, Wind and Weather serving him, he sails towards Ireland, and landed on the 7th of October 1558, at Dublin. Then coming to the Castle, the Lord Fitzwalter, being Lord Deputy, sent for him to come before him and the Privy Council, who coming in, after he had made a Speech, relating upon what Account he came over, he presents the Box unto the Lord Deputy, who causing it to be opened, that the Secretary might read the Commission, there was Nothing save a Pack of Cards, with the Knave of Clubs uppermost, which not only startled the Lord Deputy and Council, but the Doctor, who assured him he had a Commission, but knew not how it was gone. Then the Lord Deputy made Answer, "Let us have another Commission, and we will shuffle the Cards in the mean While." The Doctor, being troubled in his Mind, went away, and returned into England, and coming to the Court obtained another Commission; but staying for a Wind on the Water Side, News came to him that the Queen was dead. And thus God preserved the Protestants of Ireland.
Queen Elizabeth was so delighted with this Story, which was related to her by Lord Fitzwalter on his Return to England, that she sent for Elizabeth Edmonds, whose Husband's Name was Matterhead, and gave her a Pension of forty Pounds during her Life.
WILLIAMSBURG, May 30.
A LETTER from Richmond, dated on Monday last, says: "There is now the greatest Fresh in James River ever known, it being at least twenty Feet higher than that in May 1766. The Warehouses at Westham are entirely gone, with three Hundred Hogheads of Tobacco. At Byrd's Warehouses, the Water is now Half Way up the lower Tier of Hogheads; the other Warehouses at Shocko are almost under Water, and the Tobacco drifting away by thirty and forty Hogheads at a Time. It is imagined there might have been about three Thousand Hogheads in the different Warehouses at Shocko. Almost every Lumber House is gone, and destroyed, on each Side of the River, many of them full of Goods; with many Dwellinghouses, both here and at Rocky Ridge."
Some People who left Richmond the same Day, in the Afternoon, say that the River was then rising at the Rate of two Inches an Hour; but we since learn, that it began to abate about Sunset.
All the low Grounds have been overflowed, by which inconceivable Damage has been done. Every Thing was carried off Farrar's Island, belonging to Colonel Thomas Mann Randolph; and at Elk Island, John Wayles, Esquire, is said to have suffered to the Amount of four Thousand Pounds, Nothing being saved but the People and five Horses.
The Ships in the River were in the most imminent Danger, from the vast Number of huge Trees driving down by the Rapidity of the Current, and many of them have sustained great Damage. The ships at Shirley Hundred were driven from their Moorings over to City Point, and those at City Point down as low as Jordan's. Captain Stevenfon went ashore at the Point, and is not yet got off; Captain Conkie lost three of his Anchors, and was in very great Danger. Six of Captain Clark's Men, in the Yawl, clearing away the drifting Trees, &c. were overset, and five of them drowned. Captain Sampson, of Bristol, lost one of his Men; and his Ship was driven so far on Shore that it is feared she will not be got off again.
Some Waggons who are arrived at Richmond, from Augusta, say that it rained almost ever since they left home, which was about ten or twelve Days; and we since learn that there has been the greatest Devastation in that County and Albermarle, by the overflowing of low Grounds, Lots of Stocks, Houses, &c.
By Letters from Orange County, in North Carolina, we learn that Governor Tryon and the Regulators met on the 16th of this Month. The Regulators were assembled to the Number of twelve or fifteen Hundred Men; and their two Chiefs, Husbands and Hunter, had a Conference with the Governor, who allowed them two Hours to lay down their Arms and repair to their respective Homes, otherwise he should treat them as Rebels. The Time being very near expired, and Nothing done on the Part of the Regulators, and the Governor finding, by their Motions, that they were determined to give him Battle, in which Case he should have to cope with almost three to one, his Party not consisting of more than five Hundred Men, a few Minutes before the Expiration of the Time his Excellency gave Directions for his little Army to open to the right and left and uncover the Artillery, which they did in the utmost good Order, and immediately poured in upon the Regulators a most dreadful Fire from their Cannon and Musketry, which did great Execution, there not being above fifty Yards Distance between the two Parties; and killed, it is said, to the Amount of a Hundred and sixty Men. Although the Regulators were thrown into the greatest Confusion, they returned the Governor's Fire, killing seven of his Men, and wounding about forty. Near a Hundred of the Regulators are taken Prisoners.
We have not been able to learn what has happened since the Battle; but it is said the two Chiefs of the Regulators had sent a Challenge to the Governor to fight him and his Party that Day fortnight.
To the COUNTRY CLERGYMAN.
SIR, YOU have favoured us with a Publication, which to me wants a great Deal of explaining. You have been pleased to compare it to a Sermon, and to give it, I suppose, as a Specimen of the Manner in which Sermons ought to be composed; but I think it might, with more Propriety, be compared to the Text than the Sermon, to the Subject of Enlargement than the Enlargement itself.
You set off with informing us that you have seen an Advertisement signed by the Commissary, in which the Clergy are desired to meet in Order to consider of an Application for an American Episcopate; that you mean not to enter into a Dispute with the Commissary; he acted officially; you have no Quarrel with the Man. The Fact which seems to give you Disturbance here and elsewhere, as I am told, stands thus: A few of the Clergy have received Letters concerning the Plan of an American Episcopate, laid before the Publick some Time since by Doctor Chandler. Knowing that the Commissary had Letters of the same Import, not knowing that there was any Necessity for them to apply to the Commissary on this Subject, or whether such an Application would do good or harm, they remained silent; they left the Affair to take its own Course with the Commissary. He, without consulting with any of the Clergy, or his own mere Motion, in Consequence of Letters that he himself had received, thought proper to call a Convention. So that, if this Account be true, your Dispute or Quarrel, call it which you please, is hitherto with the Commissary alone; unless you be offended at some others of the Clergy for having received Letters, which they could not help receiving, from some of their distant Brethren of the same Church. What Occasion you may have for quarrelling with more of your Brethren besides the Commissary, after they have met together, I cannot tell; but a little Time will discover. Observe, I do not blame the Commissary; I commend him for taking the Odiium of calling the Clergy together to consider, &c. (if any can arise from it) upon
himself, without cunningly endeavouring to transfer that Load on the Shoulders of others, not so well able to bear such a Burthen. You seem to represent it as an Indignity offered to the Clergy of this Colony to let them take up with the Plan of an Episcopate, framed by the Church of England Clergymen eight Hundred miles off. Now, in my Opinion, it is of no Consequence whether good Advice, if it be good Advice, comes from the Distance of one Mile or of eight Hundred. The Clergy of this Colony cannot be the original Framers of the Plan recommended to them. If they can fall upon a better Plan, well and good. But, if they cannot, they have no Choice but either to join with the Opposers or Promoters of this Plan. Whether it be most for their Honour to join with their Brethren in promoting, or with the Dissenters, in opposing it, I leave to their own Consideration and Judgment. Of this I am sure, that, if some of their Brethren have been before-hand with them in applying for an American Episcopate, it can be no reasonable Obstacle, but rather an Encouragement to them to act in the like Manner.
You tell us that Religion has subsisted among us for above a Hundred Years, and thence argue that to attempt any Thing farther for its Benefit is Rashness and Zeal untempered with Knowledge. Do you really think, on cool Reflection, that there is any Solidity in this Argument? Are we to be concerned only for the bare Subsistence of Religion? Will not our Duty, in every Respect, make us wish to see it subsist in the most perfect Manner? Religion of some Sort or other subsists, I believe, in every civilized Society under Heaven. Is it then Rashness or Zeal untempered with Knowledge to aim at any Thing farther for its Service or Benefit in any of these Societies?
"You challenge the most sanguine Advocates for Episcopacy to show that in the Case of Ordination the Introduction of it would be attended with any Advantages at present." Here give me Leave to ask, are not you, a Country Clergyman of this Colony, among the sanguine Advocates for Episcopacy? Or do you prefer some other Form of Church Government? Or had you rather have no Form of Church Government of any Kind? But to wave this, can you be serious in the above bold Defiance? Do you not mean, for a most bitter Taunt, all your Rodon-tade (pardon me) about the Knowledge of Books and of Mankind to be acquired by a Candidate for Orders in his Trip to England for Ordination and back again; in his spending three or four Months at Sea, and about Half as much Time without Friends or Acquaintance in London? For an Answer to this Flourish, I refer you to the Dissenters. Ask them whether they do not think themselves here much happier than the established Church in this Respect, that their young Men are not obliged, for the Sake of obtaining Orders, to undergo the Fatigue, Danger, and Expense, of two very long and troublesome Voyages. Ask the Dissenters whether they apprehend themselves to be in any Danger of being benighted in a thick Fog of the Ignorance of Books and of Men from their Want of being compelled to sail three Thousand Miles backwards and forwards for Orders. The People in general here are, I believe, satisfied that it would be much for the Advantage of this Country if more of its Natives were in Orders; and that this Advantage is much obstructed by the Distance of the Bishop from whom Orders must be received. And if our Clergy should use their Endeavours to bring over a Bishop, that should have no Authority or Power whatever over the Laity, nor encroach upon any of the Privileges which they at present enjoy; if, I say, they should use such Endeavours for this sole Reason that more of the Natives might be ordained; I cannot but think that it would be a great Proof of the Candour of our Clergy, who are most of them not Natives.
Confirmation, you say, is not essential to the Profession of Christianity. What then if it be necessary or useful for promoting the Practice of Christianity, and the Glory of God. You would go well to give us a List of your Essentials, and after you have done that to inform us why we must be confined to these Essentials of yours, why we may not take one Step beyond them for the Benefit and Support of these very Essentials. Let the Dissenters enjoy what they deem useful for their religious Societies, but let them not grudge to the established Church what it deems useful to the Edification of its own Members. How would they take it to be denied the Liberty of such or such a Usage among them, because it was not essential to the Profession of Christianity? What could you design by marshalling Seekers, Burriers, Benfons, Maddox, as Friends and Allies in what you have to say against Confirmation? If they were alive, they would hardly thank you for the Compliment. It was a mutual Honour to the Church and to them that these great Men got the better of an early Education, and came over to the Church. Seekers, the first of them, was a known and eminent Favourite of such an American Episcopate as might be of great Service to the Church and Religion, and yet give no Cause of Offence to the Lay Inhabitants of America. And as I happen to have it in my Power, I will here give you part of what he says in the Behalf of Confirmation from one of his Charges. "After due Instruction follows Confirmation; an Appointment derived down from apostolical Practice, and of such acknowledged Usefulness, that in the Times of Constantine, a Hundred Years ago, when Bishops were rejected, some of their Adversaries took upon them to perform this Part of their Function. And within these few Years the Church of Geneva hath restored it in the best Manner; their Form of Church Government will admit, and added an Office for it to their Liturgy. In our own Church, that ancient Esteem of this Institution is, generally speaking, so well preserved, that I hope the Desire of being confirmed may not a little strengthen that of being instructed, as the only Way to it. And yet I must observe that the Numbers from some Parishes have been, in Proportion, very small. This may not have arisen from any Neglect in the Minister; but as it ought to incline me to make the Opportunities of Confirmation as convenient as I am able, so it ought to incline you, agreeably to the Nature of your Function, and the express Direction of the best Canon, to use your best Endeavours that your Parishioners may gladly take those Opportunities." Hence you may see that other Churches, as well as the Church of England, have a high Opinion of the Usefulness of Confirmation for advancing religious Principle and moral Practice. And what possible Danger or Inconvenience can be apprehended from so innocent and friendly an Institution as that of giving Opportunities, to such Parents as choose to make Use of them, for having their Children duly prepared to give an Account, in a solemn Manner, of their Principles of Religion to the Bishop, to take publicly before him the Profession of their Religion upon themselves, and to receive thereupon his Prayers, Blessing, Assistance, and Encouragement for their Proficiency in Godliness? I will conclude this Head with taking the Liberty to request you, as you are a Country Clergyman, to recollect that you have subscribed to be conformable to the Liturgy and Rubrick of the Church of England; in which you are enjoined, after you have baptized a Child, to require the Sureties "to take Care that this Child be brought to the Bishop to be confirmed by him so soon as he can say the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the ten Commandments in the vulgar Tongue, and be further instructed in the Church Catechism set forth for that Purpose."
What you say of the Dedication of Churches is not, I think, altogether dispassionate or justifiable in a Country Clergyman. It would not surely be decent in you to call the Dedication of the Temple at Jerusalem a Popery. Though some Poperies may have accompanied some Dedications formerly, yet the Practice of dedicating Churches may be separated from all Poperies; especially as the Bishop, you tell us, is not confined to any prescribed Form. If such a Practice would contribute towards making some Men, even the weakest of your Brethren, enter a Place solemnly set apart to the Worship and Service of God with a deep Sense of the divine Presence, though you and others should slight such a Practice ever so much, where would be the Harm of it to any one Individual?
You have omitted one Reason at least, which you, as a Country Clergyman, should not have omitted, for desiring an Episcopate at this Time in this Colony. How far other Provinces may be concerned in it, I do not pretend to say. Since you have thought proper to overlook this Reason, I hope he will have the Pardon of you and your Brethren if it be laid before the Publick by a Layman. The Bishop's Court, which consists here of the Commissary and some of the Clergy whom he chose for Assessors, for what Reasons I know not, has been long laid aside. Some Person, it is plain, of competent Authority, is wanting to assist the Clergy in their Functions, to advise, to direct, to reprove, and (excuse me, Gentlemen, if I say) to punish if Need be, to suspend, and deprive. This Want is so severely felt by the Colony that at present a Dispute subsists whether the General Court had not better take upon them the Exercise of this Authority than leave it altogether unexercised. I have the highest Esteem for the Members of the General Court. They are most respectable Persons, of unblemished Characters. It is exceedingly to their Honour that they discharge so many and such important Offices to the general Satisfaction. But notwithstanding all this, I hold it for no true Policy, respecting our Posterity, to place the Administration of ecclesiastical as well as civil Powers in the same Hands, whether they be Lay Hands or clerical. Now, Sir, if you will consider the matter in this Light, you, who are a Country Clergyman, will, I think, be of Opinion, with me, that as a Master in some Degree over the Clergy, but a Master in no Degree whatever over the Laity, is wanting, the Petition for a Virginia Episcopate originates with great Propriety in the Clergy. If it be possible for the proposed Plan of an Episcopate to be so disgusting to the Laity of this Dominion, as you would have your Readers to believe, the Petition for it, made publicly, cannot be expected, in these Times, to meet with such rapid Success but that the Laity will have Time enough to overset it. If it meet with any Success, the Government in England will be too wise to permit, the Bishop that shall come over will be too prudent to
aim at, any the smallest Encroachment upon the Privileges of the Laity. But if they should be absurd enough to let others do, never let us, who are the Laity will soon make them repent of their Mistakes.
Heyday! what is here! I heartily with our Country Clergymen may not be in a Fever, arising from some untowardly Events at the Commissions. For he seems to me, towards the Conclusion of his Sermon, to be brought on the Community; desperate Project, given upon the Heads of the Clergy; the Indignation of the Laity; the Tribulations of this Province, doomed to be the perpetual Scene of Contention and Disorder; the Dispute about the Toleration Laws; turbulent Spirits exerting themselves again; our ancient Wounds, that were beginning to be closed, now likely to bleed afresh; a few designing Men; their Importance daily declining; their Sophistry seen through, and defied; and their factious Zeal treated with the Indignation it deserves. I have heard of the Lord Mayor, and some Aldermen of the City of London, being sent to the Tower; but it seems some greater Turmoil, to occasion all this Outcry, has happened nearer home, of which I have heard nothing, Strange! that we should be full of Events at a great Distance, while we quite overlook such as arise at our own Doors, and under our own Noses! My good Country Clergyman, my warm and zealous Declaration against Warmth and Zeal, if you have been overheated in any late Altercation in the publick Paper, and if your Head too be affected by the Weather, as I strongly suspect, it will be natural, nay unavoidable, for you to transfer that Disturbance which you feel in your own Breast, from the Repairs or Adversaries which have been made you, to the Breasts of those around you, and to fancy every Thing in a ferment without you, as well as within. If this Distemperature should not go off immediately, do not despair. Bleeding and purging may be of Service. I have known many recovered out of a worse Condition by such Means. When you regain a better State of Health, and grow more capable of cool Reflection, I will agree with you that Sophistry and raising Disturbances are Things of a very bad Tendency, and ought to be avoided on all Sides. But as it is no new or uncommon Piece of Art for a User of Sophistry to exclaim against the Use of it, or of a Raiser of Disturbances to make pathetic Harangues against raising Disturbances, I will venture to desire you to instruct by Example as well as Precept, to guard your own Writings against the Use of Sophistry, and to beware of raising a Crop of Disturbances by sowing groundless Fears and Jealousies among the Laity.
I thought I had done with you. But I cannot take my Leave without acquainting you that I take all your Hands your Attempt to split the Church of England into as many distinct Churches, independent of each other, as there are Provinces in America. I have hitherto thought the Minister of our Parish a Minister of the Church of England, and that we had no Right to elect any other to be our Minister. I have known a Vestry object, rightly as far as I am able to judge, to a Candidate for their Parish, because he had not brought with him the Bishop of London's Licence. I think myself, and all my Neighbours think themselves, Members of the Church of England; and we have a Pride and Satisfaction in thinking ourselves so, of which we hope you will not be able to divest us. You esteem it a very high Privilege that when a Clergyman enters upon a Parish he is not obliged, by our Laws, to repeat his Subscription. If you will be consistent with yourself, you must esteem it a still higher Privilege to be exempt from Subscription in the first Instance. And would you, by taking away Subscription, open the Doors of our Pulpits in the Church to every Species of Seditaries. These are desperate Projects of yours, big with Commotions. If you are so alarmed by the Fears of Disturbances from a few designing Clergymen, turn your Eyes on the Disturbances raised, and raging, by the many Dissenters, who preach in unlicensed Places, by what Right I know not; and consider what would be the Case if they had free Access to the Pulpits in our Churches. Have some Pity on this Colony, which by your Account is rent and torn enough with Divisions already, whose Condition in this very Respect you affect to lament with such Tragedy Airs and rhetorical Finery. You, who are so violent and turbulent an Enemy to Disturbances as to magnify a little Disputation in Support of different Opinions (on a Subject that might be disputed without any tremendous Consequences) into a great Disturbance, do not aim to throw into the utmost Confusion that Country for which you pretend so hot and passionate a Regard.
I am (with how much Respect you will judge) Your humble Servant A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN.
Advertisements.
BLANDFORD, May 24, 1771.
THE Death of my late Partner, Mr. Samuel
Gordon, renders it absolutely necessary that the Concern of Gordon and Ramsay should be immediately settled. This is therefore to give Notice, to all those concerned, that unless they discharge their Debts before the first of August next, or give Merchants Notes payable at the October Court, that all Bonds and Accounts due to that Company will then be put in Suit, without Respect of Persons.
On Wednesday the 26th of June will be sold to the highest Bidder, in the Town of Blandford, four very likely young Virginia born NEGRO FELLOWS; also a LOT in Ravenscroft Town, near Peterburg, the Property of the above Company. Credit will be allowed until the 10th of December next, upon Bond and Security being given to
PATRICK RAMSAY.
The Subscriber will sell his Houses and Land whereon he now lives, containing twenty three Acres pleasantly situated, and lately annexed to the Town of Blandford; on reasonable Terms, and Credit.
BY Decree of the Honourable the Court of
Vice Admiralty, to be sold for ready Money, on Friday the 7th of June, at Bermuda Hundred, the deferred French SCHOONER Henry late Master, about sixty five Tons Burthen, a new and well built Vessel.
JOHN TYLER, Marshal.
PORTSMOUTH, May 25, 1771.
WANTED, a convenient Situation on James River for erecting a Grist Mill.
INGLIS & LONG.
To be SOLD, on Tuesday the 18th of JUNE, before the RALEIGH TAVERN,
MY STORES and LOT at West Point, which I advertised some Time ago, but did not describe them. The Storehouses are new, twenty eight Feet by sixteen each, stand close to the Water Side, and are as well finished as any in the Colony. One of them is intended for wet Goods, Grain, &c. and has an exceeding good dry Cellar; the other is for dry Goods, and has a Lodging Room, with a Brick Chimney, at one End, plastered and whitewashed. There is also a very strong new Stable, twelve Feet by sixteen, with an eight Feet Shed at one End, and a Necessary House eight Feet square, quite new. The Lot is poked and railed in. Fifty Pounds of the Purchase Money to be paid down, and two years Credit will be allowed for the Remainder, on giving Bond and Security.
JOHN G. FRAZER.
MIDDLESEX, May 14, 1771.
IMPORTED in the Matty, Captain Fox,
a small Box of Merchandise, marked MET in a Piece, which was to have been delivered at Urbana; but through a Mistake, I imagine, has been landed at some other Place. If any Person can give me Intelligence of the same, by Letter, or otherwise, the Favour will be greatly acknowledged by
MARY E. THACKER.
CHARLOTTE County, May 20, 1771.
JOURNEYMEN TAILORS, who under-
stand their Business well, may depend on good Encouragement by applying to the Subscriber, at Mr. Robert Burton's Store.
JOHN BRIDGES.
WITH the Help of GOD, I WILLIAM
ROWAN, now at Mr. John Price's, Inspector at SHOCKO, can completely cure the following Disorders, though of ever so long Standing, and deemed incurable by others; having never once failed of Success since my Arrival in Virginia, which is now twenty five Months. The Scurvy, Leprosy, Ulcers, Cancers, Blotches, Evil, Piles, Fistula, Ringworms, Headach, Rheumatism, Gout, Cholick, Agues, Fevers, old Sores, Fluxes, the Venereal in all its dreadful Stages, also the general Maladies entailed upon the Females, Gravel, Deafness, all Disorders in the Head and Eyes, with many others, too tedious to mention.

STRAYED from the Subscriber, on the 20th of April last, a bay HORSE about four Feet and a Half high, with a roaned Mane and short Switch Tail, a Feather runs up each Side of the Mane, almost to his Ear, paces seven or eight Miles an Hour, and branded on the near Shoulder and Buttock with a Heart. Any Person that will contrive Word to Andrew Loper , or to the Subscriber, both in Charlotte County , where the said Horse may be had, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward. CHARLES CAYCE.
YORK Town, May 29, 1771.
STRAYED from this Place, about six Weeks ago, a large brown MARE five Years old, with a blaze Face, her hind Feet white, neither docked nor branded. Whoever delivers the said Mare to me shall have FORTY SHILLINGS REWARD. THOMAS POWELL.
NEWCASTLE, May 16, 1771.
THE Subscribers have about seven or eight Hundred Pounds Sterling worth of portable GOODS, which they are willing to dispose of at a low Advance, payable in twelve Months. SAMUEL PEARSON. DAVID COCHRAN.
WANTED,
A BILLIARD TABLE CLOTH of the best Quality. Whoever has such a One to dispose of, by sending the Price and Place to Messrs. Purdie & Dixon's Office, may hear of a ready Money Purchaser, especially if the Cloth can be conveyed to the Post Office in a Month after an Answer to the Notice.
William Attwood
B EGS Leave to inform the Gentlemen of Williamsburg that he teaches the French HORN , HAUTBOY , and German FLUTE ; and has, for that Purpose, rented a Room near the College. Gentlemen who are desirous to learn any of those Instruments (should they think it inconvenient to attend) will be waited upon at such Times as they shall please to appoint.
To the PUBLICK.
IT having been industriously propagated, by some ill disposed Persons, that our Settlement with Don Manuel de Estrada (relative to our Transactions with him) respecting his unfortunate Seizure and Condemnation, has not been conducted by us upon the Principles of Honour and Generosity; and as such insinuations may prevail to the Prejudice of our Reputations, we judge it incumbent on us to lay a State of the Matter before the impartial Publick, as settled by John Randolph , Esquire, a Friend to the Parties concerned, which State was first fully explained to Don Manuel by his own Interpreter, in Mr. Randolph's Presence, and is as follows:
MEMORANDUM.  Don Manuel de Estrada , James Campbell and Company , and John and Thomas Gilchrist , have agreed to a Composition, on the following Terms, namely:
  The Amount of the Loss and Charges to be estimated as follows.   The Cargo, valued at one Thousand and fifty Pounds 1050 0-0   Cost of the Vessel, two Hundred and fifty Pounds. 250 0-0   Lawyers Fees, and Expenses, three Hundred Pounds. 300 0-0   One Month's Demurrage, one Hundred and eighty Dollars. 51 15-0   £. 1651 15-0   Don Manuel de Estrada his Half, eight Hundred and twenty five Pounds seventeen Shillings and Sixpence. 825 17-6   James Campbell and Company, and John and Thomas Gilchrist, the other Half. 825 17-6   £. 1651 15-0 
Don Manuel to be charged his Half the Loss in Account current; and after deducting that, and the Company's private Account against him, independent of the above Matter, the Balance due him to be paid, and mutual Releases to be executed, written in English.
TEST. Signed John Randolph, as to Don Manuel and John and Thomas Gilchrist, } YNORO MANUEL DE ESTRADA. James Archdeacon, as to the Whole of the Parties signing. } JAMES CAMPBELL & Co. THOMAS BURKE. JOHN & THOMAS GILCHRIST.
Conformable to the above Agreement, Don Manuel's Account current was made out, and every Charge explained to him. He had no Objection to any Article in it, and the Balance of his Money was paid to him. A common Receipt was, with Difficulty, obtained; but he refused giving a Release, according to the Tenour of the Agreement. Upon this Refusal, and learning that he had avowed his Intention of reimbursing himself for all the Losses he sustained in this Country whenever he should find any of our Vessels in a Spanish Port ; dreading likewise Spanish Litigation, and being advised his Receipt could not sufficiently protect us from it, we resolved to compel him to perform his Part of the Agreement, which we are informed will render us more secure of Justice in Spain , or give us a better Right, if refused us, to interest the British Court in our Protection. We paid eight Hundred and twenty five Pounds, seventeen Shillings and Sixpence, for no Consideration but the Hope we had of alleviating his Misfortunes, and of finally concluding a troublesome Affair. Have we not therefore a Right to expect that the Conditions on which we agreed to pay it should be performed? Mr. Attorney General, before a respectable publick Company, declared, at the Time of his concluding the Agreement for the Spaniard , he thought it just and equitable; that he was persuaded he was befriending him in concluding it; and that every Word was explained, every End and Consequence represented; and that he cheerfully consented to it; also that he thought it finally conclusive; and that it ought to be so, not only because consented to, but because equitable. Many Opinions have been conceived, and without Testimony. We have therefore given this publick State, and refer to any Man of Sense and Candour the Censure or Approbation of our Conduct. Whether he can be obliged or not to perform his Contract must be left to the Laws.
For LONDON,
THE Ship SAVANNAH LE MAR , which has excellent Accommodations for Passengers, and will sail in ten or twelve Days. Those who intend taking their Passage in the said Vessel may be treated with by applying to the Subscriber, in Petersburg . RICHARD HANSON.
JACOB DODD intends for ENGLAND soon.
VIRGINIA, sc. At a GENERAL COURT held at the Capitol, May 7, 1771.
Thomas Blackmore, Dorsey Pentecost, Thomas Speake, James Lindsey, Nathaniel Barrett, and Thomas Waddington, Plaintiffs, against James Fowler , of the Province of Pennsylvania , Edward Shickers, Thomas Colston, George Jump, Joseph Eldridge, William Bilbow, Stephen Johnson, David Apsey, and Thomas Shepherd , Defendants, In Chancery.
THE Defendant James Fowler being beyond Sea, and not having entered his Appearance according to the Rule of this Court, on the Motion of the Plaintiffs, by their Counsel, it is ordered that the other Defendants, who have Effects of the said Fowler in their Hands, as is suggested, do no pay, convey away, or secrete such Effects, until the farther Order or Decree of this Court concerning the same; but that they deliver up such Effects, or so much thereof as will be of Value sufficient to satisfy the Demand of the Plaintiffs, unto the said Plaintiffs, upon their giving Security to the Clerk of this Court for the Return of such Effects, in such Manner, and to such Persons as the Court shall hereafter adjudge. And it is farther ordered that the said Defendant ( Fowler ) do appear here on the first Day of the next Court, to answer the Plaintiffs Bill; and that a Copy of this Order be, within fifteen Days, inserted in the Virginia Gazette , for two Months successively, and published on some Lord's Day, immediately after divine Service, in the Church of the Parish of Frederick , in the County of Frederick ; and be also posted up at the front Door of the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburg . BEN: WALLER.
Just IMPORTED from London , Glasgow , and Bristol , and to be SOLD by the Subscribers, in Norfolk , on the most reasonable Terms, either by Wholesale or Retail, A LARGE Assortment of EUROPEAN GOODS , suitable to the Season. We have also on Hand a considerable Quantity of the last Year's Crop of West India RUM, NEW do. MUSCOVADO SUGAR, MADERA and TENERIF WINES; which we will sell cheap, for Cash, or short Credit. LOGAN, GILMOUR, and Company. WILLIAMSBURG, May 16, 1771.
ON TUESDAY the 18th of JUNE , at four o'Clock in the Afternoon, will be sold at the Raleigh Tavern , the behind the said Tavern, where Nathaniel Walker , Esquire, deceased, lately lived; and the COFFEEHOUSE in the main Street, next the Capitol, where Mrs. Canbell lives. Six Months Credit will be allowed, the Purchasers giving Bond, with approved Security, to BENJAMIN WALLER , Executor. N. B. The Sale of the Wearing Apparel is stopped.
GEORGE III. by the Grace of GOD , of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. to the Sheriff of Norfolk County, greeting: We command you that you summon William Bradley, Thomas Newton, Neil Jamieson, Matthew Prapp, Godfrey Bruff, and John Wilson , Trustees of the said William Bradley , to appear before our Justices of our General Court, in Chancery, at the Capitol in Williamsburg , on the first Day of the next Court, to answer a Bill in Chancery exhibited against them by John Preston and Company ; and this they shall in no Wise omit, under the Penalty of one Hundred Pounds each; and have then there this Writ. Witness William Nelson , Esquire, President of our Council, at Williamsburg , the 6th Day of May, in the eleventh Year of our Reign. BEN: WALLER.
Just IMPORTED, by the Subscriber in Williamsburg, for Sale,
A GOOD Assortment of TOOLS and MATERIALS for GOLD-SMITHS, JEWELLERS, and WATCHMAKERS . Orders from the Country will be as strictly complied with as if the Person was present. JAMES GEDDY.
TAKEN up, in Amelia , a dark bay MARE about four Feet six Inches high, with a dull Star in her Forehead, some Saddle Spots on her Back, lighter about her Nose and Hams than any other Part, has a Sprig Tail, and branded on the near Buttock, as well as can be made out, R. Posted, and appraised to six Pounds. JOHN BUTLER.
TAKEN up, in Brunswick , a red and white HEIFER, with a smooth Crop in the right Ear, and two Nicks in the left. Posted, and appraised to twenty five Shillings. WILLIAM MASSEY.
TAKEN up, in the Fork of Nottoway , a red and white COW, with a large Star in her Forehead, a Swallowfork in each Ear, an Underkeel in the left, and has a Calf with her. Posted, and appraised to forty Shillings. JAMES BURFORD.
TAKEN up, in Hanover , a dark gray HORSE COLT, about three Years old, docked, no perceivable Brand, about four Feet five Inches high, Half his Hoof is white striped with black. Posted, and appraised to seven Pounds. NATHANIEL THOMPSON.
TAKEN up, in Bedford , a gray HORSE, about four Feet three Inches high, branded on the off Buttock —, and has a Scar on his off Side about the Size of the Brand. Posted, and appraised to four Pounds ten Shillings. SAMUEL COLEMAN.
TAKEN up, in Mecklenburg , a black MARE, about four Feet six Inches high, with a Switch Tail, but not branded, and has on a small Bell. A black MARE COLT, two Years old this Spring, neither docked nor branded. A dun MARE, four Feet five Inches high, about three Years old, docked, and branded on the Shoulder I. Posted, and appraised, the first to five Pounds, the second to forty Shillings, and the third to six Pounds. JOHN FRALLS.
TAKEN up, in Bute County , a MARE about twelve Hands and a Half high, about six Years old, paces and trots, docked, branded on the near Buttock IM, and had on a Bell. Posted, and appraised to two pounds fifteen Shillings. JAMES SHARKEY.
TAKEN up, in Brunswick , a small bay HORSE, about four Feet four Inches high, branded on the near Buttock O I, with a Stroke through the O, one hind Foot white, and is about twelve Years old, Posted, and appraised to four Pounds. PATRICK HALL.
TAKEN up, in Caroline , an Iron gray MARE, about four Feet four Inches high, and branded on the near Buttock RB. Posted and appraised to four Pounds ten Shillings. JOHN SCANDLAND.
TAKEN up, in Charlotte , a fleabitten gray MARE, about four Feet four Inches high, with a hanging Mane and Sprig Tail, had on a Bell, is branded on each Shoulder S, and on the near Buttock ML in a Piece. Posted, and appraised to three Pounds. SILVANUS STOKES.
TAKEN up, in Halifax , a bright bay HORSE, about four Feet five or six Inches high, has a Star and small Stroke down his Face, one hind Foot white, branded on the near Buttock D, a roached Mane and Bob Tail, and is about seven or eight Years old. Posted, and appraised to six Pounds. NIMROD FERGUSON.
TAKEN up, in Caroline , a small forrel Horse, about five Years old, four Feet high, with a large Blaze in his Face, flaxen Mane and Tail, roached and bobbed, has some Saddle Spots, all his Feet white, but no perceivable Brand. MARTHA SULLINGER.
TAKEN up, in Mecklenburg , a gray HORSE about seven or eight Years old, four Feet three Inches high, branded on the near Buttock JW, with a roached Mane and Switch Tail. Posted, and appraised to three Pounds ten Shillings. JOHN BILBO.
TAKEN up, in Cumberland , a brindled STEER with a white Face about six Years old, marked with a Crop in the right Ear, and a Swallowfork, Underkeel, and Overkeel in the left; also a red HEIFER with a white Face, about four Years old, marked with a Swallowfork in the right Ear, and a Crop and Half Crop in the left. Posted and appraised, the Steer to fifty Shillings, and the Heifer to forty Shillings. ARTHUR MOSELEY.
TAKEN up, in Chesterfield , five CATTLE, namely, a black COW, and red HEIFER with a white Face, marked with a Slit in the right Ear, and a Crop and two Slits in the left; also a black COW with a white Face, marked with a Crop and Slit in the right Ear (the said COW had a Calf last Spring, which is now with her) likewise a red and white HEIFER, two Years old, with a white Face, marked with a Crop in each Ear. Posted, and appraised to five Pounds fifteen Shillings. ARCHIBALD JOHNSTONE.
TAKEN up, in Cumberland , a dark brindled STEER, about three Years old, marked with a Swallowfork and Underkeel in the right Ear, and a Crop and Underkeel in the left. Posted, and appraised to thirty Shillings. JAMES BRYANT, Junior.
TAKEN up, in Mecklenburg , a middle sized COW, somewhat brindled, with a white Spot in her Forehead, her Belly white, all her Legs white, marked with a Swallowfork in the right Ear, and a Nick under it, and has a Hole in the left. Posted, and appraised to thirty five Shillings. WILLIAM LAWRENCE.
TAKEN up, in Charlotte , a black MARE about four feet high, with a roached Mane, branded on the near Buttock with a Flesh Fork, and has some Saddle Spots on her Back. Posted, and appraised to three Pounds ten Shillings. RICHARD HANEY.
PUBLICK Notice is hereby given to those who may have Business to transact at the April and October General Courts , that one Hundred and sixty eight principal Merchants have subscribed an Agreement to meet punctually, for the future, on the 22th of the above Months, and that they expect all those who have any Business with them will meet regularly on these Days. The Agreement is lodged, and may be seen, at the Post Office.
A SERMON , preached at Williamsburg , May 5th, 1771, for the Benefit of a Fund to support poor Widows of Clergymen in Virginia , by S. H. NILEY , Professor of Moral Philosophy in William & Mary College , printed by Mr. W. Rind , and sold by him and Messrs. Purdie & Dixon , for the Charity. Price two Shillings and Sixpence.
THE American COMPANY of COMEDIANS will open the THEATRE in Fredericksburg the latter End of this Month, and perform every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, during their Residence there.
ANY Person who has the Half Acre Lot. No. 358, in the Honourable William Byrd's Lottery, and will dispose of it, may hear of a Purchaser on applying to the Printer.
IMPORTED in the Ship Watters , from London , last October, sixteen Half Barrels of GUNPOWDER , which were shipped without a Bill of Lading. The Owner is desired to apply to us in Norfolk . JOHN & JONATHAN EILBECK.
ALL those indebted to the Estate of Mr. Henry Tucker , late of Halifax County , are desired to make immediate Payment, and those who have any Demands against the said Estate will be pleased to let them be known to NEIL JAMIESON , Administrator.
THE Possessor of Lot Number 173, in the Town of Manchester , will hear of a Purchaser by applying to Messrs. Purdie and Dixon .
Just IMPORTED, in the Anne & Mary, Captain Power, from LONDON.
A NEAT and genteel Assortment of GOODS suitable for the Season. Those Gentlemen and Ladies who have been so kind as to give her their Custom, she hopes, will still favour her with a Continuance of it; and as she is obliged to sell for ready Money, they may depend upon being supplied on the most reasonable Terms. SARAH PITT.
WHEREAS the Subscriber, some Years ago, became Security for his Brother, Mathias Nattall , of Glasgow County , for the Payment of fifty two Pounds eighteen Shillings, with Interest, and, in Order to indemnify me, he made over two Negroes ( Clarke and Pompey ) since which he has removed the said Negroes out of the Colony, and has entered into an Agreement with one Bennet Wood , of Bute County, North Carolina , who has the said Negroes now in his Possession, I do hereby forewarn the said Wood , and all Persons whatever, from purchasing either of the said Negroes until I have received full Satisfaction for the above Debt, with Interest, which Sum I have been obliged to pay. THOMAS NATTALL.
For SALE FOUR Hundred and fifty Acres of very good LAND, on Contee Creek , in Edgecumbe County , whereon is a good Dwellinghouse, some Outhouses, a good Apple Orchard, and cleared Land enough to work six or eight Hands; also two Hundred Acres, lying on Dunco Marsh , near Contee Creek , in Dobbs County ; three Hundred Acres in Northampton County , on Bear Swamp , within seven Miles of Roanoke River ; each of the said Tracts of Land is very good Range for Stock. Likewise to be leased, for a Term of Years, nine Hundred and sixty Acres of exceeding good LAND, lying on Adkin River , at Fort Dobbs , in Ryan County , about thirty Miles above Salisbury Town , which Land is not inferior to the best on Roanoke . Six Months Credit will be allowed the Purchasers, on giving Bond and Security. SAMUEL GRANBURY.
To be SOLD (pursuant to the last Will and Testament of Mr. Thomas Williams, deceased) to the highest Bidder, on Monday the 17th of June, at Dinwiddie Courthouse, being Court Day, if fair, otherwise at the July Court following.
THE LAND and PLANTATION , near Petersburg , whereon the said Williams lived, containing four Hundred and ten Acres, with sundry Improvements thereon; also two other Tracts adjoining the same, one containing four Hundred and forty four, and the other three Hundred and ninety three Acres; on each of them there is a great Quantity of fine Timber, of Pine more especially. Twelve Months Credit will be allowed for one Half the Purchase Money, and two Years for the other Half, on giving Bond and approved Security. At the same Time will also be sold another Tract of four Hundred Acres, in the said County of Dinwiddie , lying on or near Hatcher's Run , in the Neighbourhood of Mr. John Robert's , Charles Raper , &c. FRANCIS EPPES, THOMAS WILLIAMS, Executors.
To be SOLD by the Subscriber, in Cumberland County, at private Sale,
THE LAND whereon he now lives, containing eight Hundred Acres, known by the Name of the Long Ordina ; the Situation is very pleasant and healthy, and is very valuable; the Improvements are all new, and done in the best Manner; the Ordinary is thirty six by twenty eight Feet, has four Rooms below and two above, with a Fireplace to each, and now rents for forty Pounds a Year. There is a good new Storehouse, and a convenient Room for a Merchant to live in. My own House is thirty two Feet square, with two Rooms below, a twelve Foot Passage, and four Rooms above, all other convenient Houses, valuable young Orchards, good Gardens, &c. and the Plantation in good Order to work ten Hands. The Purchaser may have Possession at Christmas . A great Bargain for ready Money, or short Credit. JOSEPH CALLAND.
On Saturday the 8th of June, at Shin Quarter, in Chesterfield County, will be SOLD
ABOUT forty valuable SLAVES , belonging to the Estate of the Honourable Peter Randolph , Esquire, deceased. Six Months Credit will be given by the Executors. ARCHIBALD CARY, RICHARD RANDOLPH, JOHN WAYLES.
On Saturday the first of JUNE, will be SOLD at FREDERICKSBURG,
ABOUT two Thousand Acres of LAND, lying in Spotsylvania County , recovered by the Executors of the Honourable Peter Randolph of Colonel Benjamin Grymes . ARCHIBALD CARY, RICHARD RANDOLPH, JOHN WAYLES.
I TAKE this Method to acquaint the Publick, and my Customers in particular, that Messrs. James Carrigill and Company have resigned the SHOE FACTORY in Favour of me, by which Means I carry on double the Trade I did formerly. Gentlemen who may please to favour me with their Orders for Negro Shoes, or others, are desired to send them soon, that I may be capable of supplying them better than it was in my Power last Fall, on Account of the Scarcity of Leather. Ladies and Gentlemen may depend on being supplied with as neat Shoes, either Leather or Calimanco , as any from London ; as I have on Hand London, Philadelphia, and New York Calf Skins, red, green, and blue Morocco Leather, Calimancos of all Colours, and of the best Kinds. Those who choose to favour him with their Custom shall be served on reasonable Terms, by applying to him at the Sign of the Boot and Shoe , in Norfolk . JOHN WILSON.

POETS CORNER.
The CHURCHYARD. OFT by the Glimmering of a feeble Moon, Or stars, I've stray'd deeply contemplative Through the dread Regions of the dead; and, ah! Full oft have fetch'd the Heart-felt Sigh or Groan, When Thought has prompted how for many an Age Have been here laid the shadowy Candidates For Joys immortal, or immortal Pain.
HIS Majesty's Postmaster General having (for the better facilitating of Correspondence between Great Britain and America) been pleased to add a fifth Packet Boat to the Station between Falmouth and New York, Notice is hereby given that the Mail, for the future, will be closed, at the Post Office in New York, at twelve of the Clock at Night, on the first Tuesday in every Month, and despatched by a Packet, the next Day, for Falmouth.
To be SOLD, A VERY good Tract of LAND on Warrawque Bay, James River, in Isle of Wight County, about ten Miles below Hog Island, containing above three Thousand five Hundred Acres, whereon are three Plantations cleared, and in good Order for Cropping, sufficient to work thirty five Hands. On the Manor Plantation is a handsome Brick House, sixty by twenty six, two Stories high, well finished and wainscotted, with two Brick Outhouses forty Feet by twenty, Barns, Stables, and every other necessary House, a handsome Garden, completely laid off, a Hundred and five Yards by seventy five. On the three Plantations there are at least seventeen Hundred Apple Trees, and a great Variety of other Fruits.
I intend to leave the Colony soon. JOHN WADMAN.
COMMITTED to the Jail of Charles City County, on Wednesday the 8th Instant (May) a Negro Man who calls himself CHARLES, about nineteen or twenty Years of Age, has a remarkable Scar in his Forehead, and is about five Feet eight Inches high. He says he belongs to Mr. James Pride, of York County. The Owner is desired to take him away, and pay Charges. ALEXANDER GORDON, Jailer.
By Decree of the Court of Vice Admiralty, will be SOLD at Dumfries, on Thursday the 6th of June, THE Brigantine BRITANNIA, Burthen about a Hundred and fifty Tons, with all her RIGGING, TACKLE, APAREL, and FURNITURE. JOHN TYLER, Marshal.
To be LET, and entered on immediately. THE LOT whereon the Subscriber now lives, in Hanover Town, being very convenient, and pleasantly situated on the main Street, with a large Store, Granary, Stable, &c. in good Repair. The Terms may be known on Application to JOHN SMITH.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in May last, a likely Negro Fellow named TOM, about six or seven and twenty Years of Age, five Feet six or seven Inches high, very well made, talks much, has a long Visage, and a down Look. He was formerly the Property of one Tompkins of Gloucester, and has, for twelve Months past, been often seen in and about the Plantations of Mr. James Hubbard, near Poplar Spring Church, in the said County. Whoever will apprehend and secure him in the above County Jail shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward; and, as he has been regularly outlawed, TEN POUNDS for his Head. JAMES HENDERSON.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Bedford County, on Great Falling River, an Irish Servant Man named MICHAEL KELLY, about five Feet five Inches high, with short black Hair, wears a cut brown Wig, a blue Broadcloth Coat, spotted Flannel Jacket, and a Pair of old patched Breeches. Also an Irish Servant Woman named MARGARET KELLY, Wife to the said Michael. She wears a blue Calimanco Gown and Petticoat. They both speak Irish, but neither of them are known to speak English. I will give FIVE POUNDS Reward on their being delivered to me, and FIFTY SHILLINGS if they are secured in any Jail in this Colony, upon Information of the same given to WILLIAM HAYTH.
RUN away from Hobb's Hole, on the 24th of March last, a white Servant Boy named WILLIAM COX, born in London, about seventeen Years of Age, five Feet five or six Inches high, stoops much, of a pale Complexion, and most villainous Countenance, was clothed in a Drab coloured Cloth upper Jacket with Metal Buttons, and lined with white Plaid, an under Jacket of blue Broadcloth much worn, with yellow Metal Buttons, a Pair of Thickset Breeches, Stockings and Shoes. He was seen, soon after he went off, at or near Mr. William Meredith's Plantation in King and Queen County, and very probably may be thereabouts yet. Whoever takes him up, and conveys him to me, at my Plantation near Hobb's Hole, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward, besides what the Law allows. ANDREW CRAWFORD.
RUN away from the Subscriber, about ten Days ago, a Mulatto Servant Man of a middle Stature, about twenty five years of Age, named BEN. Had on, and took with him when he went away, a blue Plains Waistcoat and Breeches, an Osnaburg Shirt, and Clothes that are commonly given to Field Negroes. He stutters in his Speech, and has a remarkable thick Beard. It is supposed he is gone towards King and Queen or King William Counties, or perhaps to Williamsburg, where he may probably petition the General Court for his Freedom, as he dropped some Expressions to that Purpose some Time before he went away. And as it is suspected that he may attempt to escape out of the Colony, I therefore caution all Masters of Vessels from being imposed upon by his passing for a free Person, which he may easily do from his Colour and Artfulness. I likewise forward all Persons from harbouring or entertaining the said Servant, as I am determined to prosecute any Offender with the utmost Rigour of the Law. Whoever will deliver the said Servant to me, or secures him in any Jail, so that I get him again, shall be gently rewarded, besides what the Law allows. THOMAS TUNSTALL. N. B. It is imagined he took with him a young bay Mare about four feet seven Inches high, paces naturally, and very easy, and is branded on the near Buttock with a Dot. Whoever will deliver the said Mare to me shall have a Reward of TWENTY SHILLINGS.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Mecklenburg County, a Negro Fellow named CUFFY. He is about six Feet two Inches high, and had on, when he went away, a Cotton Jacket and Breeches, Osnaburg Shirt, and a Pair of Leather Gambadoes. It is supposed he is in the Neighbourhood of York or Norfolk. Whoever apprehends the said Slave, and will commit him to the Jail of the County in which he is taken, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward, besides what the Law allows; if delivered to Captain Theodore Munford, near Petersburg, FIFTY SHILLINGS; if to the Subscriber, FIVE POUNDS. The Fellow is outlawed. ROBERT MUNFORD.
RUN away, a dark Mulatto Man named BARNABY, about five Feet two Inches high. He is artful in his Answers, and has an Impediment in his Speech. Had on a suit of dark coloured Russet Drab. Whoever will apprehend him, and have him committed to Jail, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward. AUGUSTINE SMITH.
RUN away from the Subscriber, some Time in February last, a likely Negro Woman about thirty Years of Age, with a Lump on her Back, occasioned by some Accident when young, is about four Feet nine or ten Inches high, and of a yellow Complexion. I will give FORTY SHILLINGS Reward to any Person that will deliver her to me, near the Long Bridge. WALTER BRADLEY. N. B. The said Wench is supposed to be about Shirley.
RUN away from the Subscriber, on the 18th Instant, an outlandish Negro named MINGO. He had on a blue under Jacket, and a light brown One over it, has a fore Finger on his left Hand, and speaks but indifferent English. Whoever delivers the said Negro to me at Richmond, or to Mr. James Marsden at Norfolk, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward, besides what the Law allows. JOHN BROOKE.
THE TALLOW CHANDLER'S Business is carried on by the Subscriber, at the NORTH AMERICAN Coffee-house, in Church Street, where he makes and sells the best moulded CANDLES at ten Pence Halfpenny a Pound by the Box, and dipped Ones at ten Pence a Pound by the Box. All Masters of Vessels, and others who please to favour him with their Custom, may depend on his utmost Endeavours to give Satisfaction. Gentel LODGINGS, with good Stabling for Horses, on the most reasonable Terms. R. PEARSE.
AS twelve Months are nearly expired since the Store kept at Todd's, on Account of Messrs. McCall and Elliot, of Glasgow, by the Subscriber, has been discontinued, it is expected that, such Persons as are indebted there will be ready, upon Application, to discharge their respective Balances; and it may be depended upon that such as do not will be sued, as the Indulgence already given the Customers has been such that no farther can be allowed, or reasonably expected. I have about fourteen Hundred Pounds Sterling worth of GOODS, which I would sell cheap. ROBINSON DAINGERFIELD.
ROBERT BELL, BOOKSELLER, At the late UNION LIBRARY, in Third Street, PHILADELPHIA.
BEING encouraged by several Gentlemen of Eminence, in the different Provinces, to undertake the Replication of the following literary Works, in America, doth, by this Conveyance, give Notice that he hath now ready to be delivered, gratis, to all Gentlemen who choose to send for them, printed Proposals, with Specimens annexed, for reprinting, by Subscription. HUME's elegant HISTORY of ENGLAND, in eight Volumes octavo. BLACKSTONE's splendid COMMENTARIES on the LAWS of ENGLAND, in four Volumes Royal octavo, Page for Page with the London Edition. Also FERGUSON's celebrated ESSAY on the HISTORY of CIVIL SOCIETY, in one Volume octavo. N. B. Gentlemen who with Prosperity to the Means for the Enlargement of the human Understanding in America will greatly contribute towards this beneficent Purpose by sending their Names and Residence, as intentional Purchasers of any of the fore-mentioned literary Works, to any of the Booksellers and Printers on this Continent. The sooner this Favour is granted the more expeditiously will the Works be forwarded, and the Obligation shall be gratefully remembered by the Publisher. ROBERT BELL. Specimens of the above Works may be seen at the Post Office, Williamsburg.
To be SOLD, on reasonable Terms, HIS Majesty's PATENT, or Grant, for twenty Thousand Acres of LAND in West Florida. Any Person, or Persons, inclineable to purchase may be informed of the Particulars by inquiring of Joseph Ogden, at the Sign of the Cross Keys, the Corner of Chestnut and Third Streets, Philadelphia.
To be SOLD at Fredericksburg, on Thursday the 20th of June, being Spotsylvania Court Day, THE DWELLINGHOUSE now possessed by me, with the Timber Yard adjoining, whereon are erected a Kitchen, Smokehouse, and every Convenience necessary for a Family; it is situated on the main Street in Fredericksburg, and may be easily converted into a Store. Credit will be given until October General Court for one Half the Money, and until April General Court for the other Half. THOMAS MILLER.
WANTED in NORBORNE Parish, Frederick County, A SCHOOLMASTER well qualified to teach Writing and Arithmetic; if Latin also, the more agreeable, and the Salary enlarged. It will not be expected that he should teach more than fifteen or twenty Scholars. For farther Particulars inquire of the Printer of this Paper; or of J. Nourse at Piedmont, in the said County. None need apply but such as can have an undoubted Character for Diligence and Sobriety. N. B. It is thought a Dancing Master likewise would meet with Encouragement in the above County.
To be SOLD, on long Credit, the three following Tracts of LAND, viz. ONE Tract containing four Hundred Acres, lying in Spotsylvania County, on the Head of Bluff Run, about eighteen Miles from Fredericksburg. One other Tract lying in Amherst County, on Owen's Creek, containing four Hundred Acres; it is well timbered, and a good Soil for Tobacco and Indian Corn. One Tract lying in Pittsylvania County, on Sycamore Creek, near Captain Benjamin Clement's, containing two Hundred Acres; this is likewise good Tobacco Land. Any Person inclineable to purchase either of the above Tracts of Land may know the Terms by applying to Mr. Charles Irving, Merchant in Albemarle County, or to the Subscriber in Richmond Town. The above Lands are the Property of John Lovinz, Senior, of Amherst County, but made over by a Deed of Trust to the Subscriber. Two Years Credit, or longer if required, will be given, on Bond and approved Security. WILLIAM MITCHELL.
For SALE, And may be entered on in NOVEMBER next, THE LAND whereon I now live, containing two Hundred and seventy four Acres. It is exceeding good for Grain, Tobacco, &c. and lies so level that nine Tenths may be plowed with the greatest Ease. The Improvements on the same consist of a Plantation, in good Order, sufficient for working seven or eight Hands, the Whole lying to the Plow; an Ordinary House fifty four Feet long, finished off in a complete Manner, has three Rooms with Fireplaces below Stairs, besides lodging Rooms, and three Rooms above Stairs, one of which has a Fireplace; a House twenty Feet in Length, and sixteen in Width, with two Rooms below, and one above Stairs, wherein lives the Clerk of the County, and keeps the Office; two Kitchens, one of which is very valuable; a Dairy, Meathouse, Barn, fine strong Stables, Corn Houses, two fine Gardens, of the best sawed Framing and Pales; and, in short, every Convenience that is necessary for the Ordinary and Plantation Uses. There are also, on the same Plantation, two large standing Stores kept, of very considerable Trade; the Storehouses are large and commodious, the cheapest of which did not cost less than a Hundred and fifty Pounds; to each Storehouse belongs a House for the Residence of the Merchants, one of which cost upwards of a Hundred Pounds, the other upwards of seventy five; there also belongs to the Stores fine strong Stables, &c. There are two Tailors Shops, with Kitchens, and other Conveniencies, belonging thereto; as also three Blacksmiths Shops, &c. The Rents of which, in the Whole, amount pretty considerably. Besides these two Stores on my Plantation, a third, of considerable Trade, is settled (for the Convenience of their Diets, &c. in the Ordinary) within, or about, three Hundred Yards from my Ordinary Door, on Land that does not belong to me. This Place is more commodiously situated, and better calculated for Trade, than perhaps any of the back Parts in this Colony at least, if not on the Continent. To every Dwellinghouse, Store, &c. &c. (Tailors and Blacksmiths Shops excepted) are good Brick Chimneys, the Houses underpinned with Bricks, and good Cellars, all in good Repair. The Whole of the Buildings are placed uniform, in Lines and Squares, so as to resemble a Town. None of the Buildings have been built over eight Years, and almost all the valuable Buildings within five Years. The Situation is high, and remarkably healthy, commanding a delightful Prospect of the Mountains and Country round. It lies about eight Miles from Amherst Courthouse, on the main Carolina Road, which is greatly used by Travellers, and, together with the great Resort of Gentlemen to this Place, consumes as much Liquors as cost me annually three Hundred Pounds, besides Provisions for Men and Beasts. As Persons at a Distance inclining to purchase may better judge whether it would be worth their While to come and see the Place, I think it not amiss to inform them that I will take eight Hundred Pounds for the Place, and give a reasonable Time for Payment, which is many Hundred Pounds below the intrinsic Value of it. I will also sell to the Purchaser (if required) most of the Furniture belonging to the Ordinary, at least ten good Feather Beds, with Furniture to the same; Walnut and Mahogany Tables, Chairs, &c. &c. GABRIEL PENN. N. B. All the Merchants, Storekeepers, Clerk of the County, their Servants, &c. are boarded in the Ordinary, the Profits of which are pretty considerable to me.
RUN away from the Subscriber, at the Falls of James River, the Middle of last Month, a Negro Man named DAVY, belonging to the Hon. William Byrd, Esquire, about thirty Years old, five Feet eight Inches high, and very well made; he is of a yellow Complexion, has a down Look, and a Defect in some of his fore Teeth. He is supposed to be lurking about Hanover Town, Petersburg, or gone towards Carolina. Whoever will apprehend the said Fellow, and bring him to me, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward; and if taken out of the Colony, FIVE POUNDS. DAVID PATTESON.