The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1771-07-04 00:00:00

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WARSAW, April 4.
WE learn from a Courier lately arrived here that the Fortress called Giurgovo, situated in an Island on the Danube, fell into the Hands of the Russians on the 17th of March. While the Russians were bombarding the Castle a Bomb fell on the Magazine of Powder; and setting it on Fire, the Turks demanded a Truce of twenty four Hours, which was accordingly granted. But at the Expiration of that Time, as the Garrison received not the Reinforcements they expected from the Grand Vizier, they struck their Colours, and surrendered the Place, on Condition that the Turks should be permitted to pass the Danube, but without taking any of their Effects with them. The Russians took sixty two Pieces of Cannon, and two Mortars. The Turks had about four Hundred Men killed, and fifteen Hundred taken Prisoners.
CONSTANTINOPLE, March 29. Military Preparations are carried on with great Vigour, for the ensuing Campaign; and as in the last the Turks lost a considerable Quantity of Artillery, they have worked in the Foundries of this Metropolis with such Assiduity that a great Number of new Cannon is already finished.
LONDON, April 20.
LORD North has been for several Days past a very constant Attendant at St. James's on a great Personage, the Subject of which is, we are assured, to issue an Order for the farther detaining the Lord Mayor and Mr. Alderman Oliver in the Tower.
We are informed that Judge De Grey received, on Thursday last, his Instructions how to behave when two great City Patriots should be brought before him.
A Correspondent says the Commitment of the Lord Mayor and Mr. Oliver to the Tower may be accounted an Event of the greatest Utility to the Nation, as it will be seen whether Law, the only Security of their Freedom, must yield to a Set of Men devoted to the Nod of a Minister (by Places and Pensions) who, under the Sanction of Privilege, may make themselves as despotick as the Grand Seignior.
It is with the highest Pleasure we can assure the Publick that a Company of opulent Traders will be formed in this Metropolis in Order to contract for a stated Quantity of Corn to be imported annually from Poland, in which Grain that Kingdom is said to be remarkably fertile.
Private Letters from Copenhagen advise that the Queen of Denmark is with Child, to the great Joy of the whole Nation, and is happily in perfect Health. These Letters add, that the King of Denmark has granted the Liberty of the Press in his Dominions; and that his Majesty has received a Letter in Consequence from M. de Voltaire, together with a Poem, wherein he files this Liberty the greatest Blessing which his Danish Majesty could have bestowed upon his Subjects for the Improvement of Learning.
All the States of Italy, after the Example of his Sardinian Majesty, are increasing their Forces.
Twelve more Ships of the Line are actually fitting out at the different Sea Ports.
The New Parkham, Captain Brown, belonging to London, and bound to Antigua, with a valuable Cargo and Passengers on Board, by some Accident took Fire at Sea, and burned down to the Water's Edge, when the Hull sunk. The People and Passengers would all have perished, had not, providentially, the Ship Neptune, Captain Forrest, appeared in Sight, who came to their Assistance and took them up, and carried them into Nevis.
It is generally believed that a very formidable Power has resolved to give us all possible Interruption in the Mediterranean; a Circumstance which not a little chagrins a certain great Personage, whose whole Delight is Peace.
The Court of Lisbon, jealous of the great Progress the British Trade is making towards the south of America, has published an Edict excluding all Foreigners from trading with the Portuguese Settlements in that Part of the World.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRAORDINARY.
A political Physician of great Eminence has favoured us with the following List of disordered Persons, with some Account of their Disorders, in Order that those who are in good Health may keep out of the Company of such, from whom it is possible the Infection may be imbibed.
The K— is afflicted with a Dimness of Sight, occasioned by a Film of extraordinary Thickness having grown over both Eyes.—He will not submit to couching.
The Q— is troubled with a white Swelling. This Complaint has been several Times removed, but constantly returns.
The D— of C— is troubled with a Giddiness in the Head.
Lord M— is d—d with the Scurvy.
Lord W—ym—h with the Spleen.
Lord B—rr—n spits Blood.
Lord B—e is sick—with his Banishment.
Lord N—h labours under a Mortification.
Sir F—r N—n has got the Gripes.
Mr. W—dd—ne the Itch.
Mr. C. F—x the Hydrophobia.—He was bit by his Father.—This young Man's Keeper, on a late Occasion, acted very imprudently; for exhibiting him in the Window of a Coffeehouse, his strange Gesticulations alarmed a great Number of Persons, and had he not been suddenly removed it is thought they would have gone into Fits.
G— O—w has a Vertigo in the Head.
Lady S— B— a Vertigo in the Tail.
Lady G—r is troubled with fainting Fits.
Lady H—n with the Falling Sickness.
Numbers of the Ministry have broke out in horrid Blotches; but whether it is the Leprosy or the Plague is doubtful, though the Faculty in general believe it to be the latter.
The Minority have got the Heartburn.
The Lord Mayor and Mr. Alderman Oliver are confined to their Chambers by a Surfeit.
The Recorder is afflicted with the overflowing of the Gall.
Sir R—d G—n with a Lethargy.
Mr. H—y with the yellow Jaundice. And
The People of England are in a high Fever.
REFLECTIONS upon the present Disputes between the House of Commons and the Magistrates of London.
Search all Europe round, and there is no Where to be found so much mean Proficiency in some, and so much generous Credulity in others, as within the Bills of Mortality; Circumstances which enable designing, unquiet, ambitious Spirits, to turn to their own Advantage the Crimes, the Weaknesses, and even the Virtues, of their Fellow Citizens.
Ignorant of the sublime Ideas of constitutional Liberty, they see not that it consists in the Subordination of Freemen to free Laws, but confounding the Principles of Equality with those of Liberty they pave the Way to the very worst of Tyranny, namely, that of the Populace; yet the Interests of that Populace they consider not, they regard not. To their Imaginations alone they pay Attention, and would flatter their Passions though it ended in their Ruin. Having much Reason themselves to fear the Laws, they wish to weaken them; for, after squandering the Funds of the City in Imprudence and Extravagance, they trust, in Clamours against others, to drown those which they expect against themselves, and can hope only, in the Disgrace of the Publick, to make their own be overlooked. They
began, with the Help of their Emissaries, by attempting to light up a civil War between two Sister Nations. They next endeavoured to break the Bonds which tie Parent and Child (England and America) together. They then raised the People against the Parliament, by promoting Addresses to dissolve it; and in the End they held up the Dagger of every Englishman to plunge it in another Englishman's Breast, by asserting that the Parliament was dissolved, and that the People had a Right to disobey the Laws which it made. Every Disorder accompanied and followed such Attempts. One of their Number declared, in full Parliament, that he would not pay the King's Tax; although, willing to draw others into Danger, he afterwards struck from it himself. Another schooled his Sovereign in publick, though his Attendants, like Owls brought into the Light of the Sun, showed Modesty, for once, in the Presence of a King of England. With an affected Decency, when their Remonstrance was presented, they caused a Mob of only a few Hundreds to follow it to the Gates of the Palace; but, with an insolent Display of their Power, they, a few Days after, brought out a Hundred Thousand People to shout at their Feast; a Contrivance intended, by the Contrast, to mark the more strongly to all that the Mob which they could raise they could command. When the great Merchants of this great City went in Procession, with the Splendour of Princes, to pour out their Sentiments of Loyalty and Confidence at the Foot of the Throne, their Coaches were broken, their Persons insulted, and some of their Lives brought into Danger. To distress a Minister, the Men I complain of scrupled not to distress their Country; for they urged her to a naval War, and yet took from her the Means of Defence, by checking the Power of pressing Seamen, betraying thus the Government and the Nation, under the Pretence of befriending the People. They opposed in Parliament an Undertaking calculated for the Convenience and Embellishment of that City they represent, Emporium satius Europae , merely because the Proprietors happened to be Scotchmen. These Men have now finished their Career, refusing Obedience to the Orders of one of the Houses of Parliament, and ordering the Messenger who brought them to be sent to Jail.
GLASGOW, April 25. The Bill for widening the Highways in Scotland is read the first, and ordered to be read a second Time.
The Bill, with several Amendments, for the better Regulation of Carts, Carriages, loaded Horses, Hawkers, Pedlars, Hucksters, Tinkers, and petty Chapmen; and for filling up Coal and other Pits and Sinks, and removing of Obstructions and Nuisances, within Scotland, is ordered to be engrossed.
An Estimate of the Expenses of the new Roads of Communication, and building the Bridges in the Highlands of North Britain, pursuant to the Orders of the Duke of Argyle for the Year 1771, is now under Consideration of a great Assembly.
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman at Bergen, in Norway, to his Friend in Edinburgh.
"This will inform you of the dismal Situation this Town is now reduced to, by a Fire that broke out the 2d Instant, between three and four o'Clock in the Morning, which, in the short Space of eight Hours, laid the most opulent and extensive Quarter of the City in Ashes. The Damage is computed from a Hundred Thousand to a Hundred and fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling; the Number of Houses burnt, besides Warehouses, is reckoned a Hundred and twenty. The Consternation was universal; and had not the Weather providentially continued calm, our Situation would have equalled that of the fatal Fire of 1756, under the Pressure of which we are far from being recovered. This Stroke, so soon after, will, in all Probability, bring on the inevitable Ruin of this once flourishing Town."
Extract of a Letter from Bar, in Carrick, April 20.
"On Thursday last a Band of Smugglers, to the Number of a Hundred and more, marched through this Place, in great Order, and with much Deliberation, being followed by a Hundred and fifty Horses laden with Tea, and about twelve Horses laden with Spirits, which had been landed from three Vessels at Glenluce Bay. After these Wherries had unloaded Part of their Cargoes, they were obliged to run to the west Coast of Ireland, where they landed the Remainder. This Corps was attacked near Glenluce by a Party of the Military, consisting of a Serjeant and sixteen Soldiers, and a Number of Excise Officers; but they were routed, and their Guns broke to Pieces. Luckily no Lives were lost in the Engagement."
For the MORNING CHRONICLE.
Mr. Woodfall, I here send you a Quack Doctor's Bill; and if it entertains your Readers but Half as much as the Doctor and his Merry Andrew did the Company at the Masquerade last Friday at Soho, it is worth your While to give it a Place in the Morning Chronicle.
To the Publick in general, and to every Individual in particular.
BE IT known, that there is just arrived, in this Metropolis, MONSIEUR DE LA CANULE, M. D. F. R. S. A. A. S. D. S. M. S. R. Y. Z. S. and Professor of Physick in all the Universities in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. This may be considered as the most fortunate Event that ever happened to the Inhabitants of Europe, as the Doctor has brought with him the following inestimable Secrets, which he proposes giving to the Publick without even the Assistance of Letters Patent.
First. That most surprising Balsam, called Paramandalorg Kattiflamum , brought from Whangwangung , situated thirty Degrees beyond the south Pole; which being only rubbed on the Gums, for five Minutes, will cause an entire Set of new Teeth to sprout up instantly, to the Amazement of the Beholders. The Doctor has invented a Machine by which he can extract the whole old Set in the tenth Part of a Moment, without the Patient feeling him.
Secondly. He performs the most astonishing Operations upon the Eye, by extracting the diseased Eyes, and inserting Eyes of any Colour or Brightness the Patient may require.
N. B. His Patients may have the Choice of the Eyes of different Animals, as best to suit their Faces or Professions. The Soldier may be furnished with the Eyes of a Lion, a Tiger, or Panther; the Lover, with those of the Spaniel or Goat; and those Persons who are obliged to be much out at Night, with Cat's Eyes, which will enable them to see in the Dark as well as by Daylight. He also gives a considerable Price for found human Eyes, which he will extract without the Sufferer suffering the least Pain.
Thirdly. The illustrious Ointment called Syang Yang Ching Quy Tjeienneucee (prepared from the Marrow of Humming Birds, and invented by Li Laokum, who lived five Thousand Years before the Date of the Mosaic Creation, and from whom the Doctor is descended in a right Line) this Ointment, being applied to the Stump of a Leg or Arm which has been cut off, will immediately cause a Regeneration of the Parts which have been destroyed, so that the Patient shall, in five Days, have as perfect a Foot or Hand as he had before the Operation.
Fourthly. He has brought over the Method of bandaging, by which the Chinese Ladies confine their Feet to that beautiful Smallness so as to be scarcely equal to the Size of the great Toe Nail of an Englishwoman. The Doctor is too modest to boast on his own Merit, but doubts not to convince all impartial People that he is the most profound Philosopher and Physician, and the most exact Genius, that ever the World produced, and that his Abilities surpass a human Imagination.
By the Royal Letters Patent, the Doctor has just invented the truly famous and highly esteemed Blacking Ball for Shoes and Boots, which gives such a Tincture that a boot blackened with the above Ball perfectly answers all the Purposes of a Looking Glass, and therefore exceedingly convenient to all Travellers.
A MODERN CHARACTER.
I HAVE lately thrown my Eye into the Country and about the small incorporated Towns, where I find no Animal of so dangerous and so malignant a Nature as an Old Cat. Many People will be astonished at so extraordinary an Appellation, but when the Character is drawn at full Length they will most readily subscribe to the Likeness. The Poets, with much Humour and Satire, have found out a Similitude of Mankind in many Animals. As for Example, they call a dull Fellow an Ass, a snaring a fierce Fellow a Lion, a false Woman an Hyena, an alluring Woman a Crocodile, a jarring Man and Wife a Dog and Cat, a filthy Woman a Sow, an Alderman a Hog, and a flingy eccentric Character a queer Fish. Now to these various Comparisons I am to describe what a Man means when he says, Do you know Bella Buzztale ? Yes, is not she a damned Old Cat?
An Old Cat is a romantic talkative old Maid, that has no other Amusement but Scandal; that sits up late, and gets up early, to collect all the Lies of the Place to retail them round the Town; and when any uncommon Deceit happens in the Circle of Obloquy, her Invention is to supply that Scarcity. She is a perfect Tigress of the human Race, and, without Distinction, falls upon and devours Man, Woman, and Child. Her most harmless Moments are at Quadrille ; where, between the Deals, she can only deal round her Arrows of Detraction to those who immediately present themselves to her View. Most of the People of the Earth are most harmless asleep; but an Old Cat, from Practice and Study, will dream a sufficient Number of Fallacies, in the Course of a Night, to supply her, upon Occasion, for the following Day, with a most vainglorious and elaborate Discourse. The genteel Folks, who detest those Words made Use of by their Inferiors, call these Damsels of forty five Old Tabbies; and, from long Custom, Dread, or other Apprehensions, court their Acquaintance for Fear of their Satire. Bella Buzztale is, without Exception, the first of this maiden and infernal Race. She hates all Mankind, and all Mankind; and her principal Reason is, because she hates herself. And though Bella is as ugly and as old as Sappho, with as much Volubility of Tongue, but without one Grain of that Maiden's Sense; though she is more like a fly-blown Cake of Tallow in July, or a Parchment Indenture upon which a Lawyer has scribbled an unintelligible Hand Writing; yet she has Vanity enough to believe herself handsome, and will, with a screwed up Mouth, assure you, "that she has had most advantageous Offers of being taken into Keeping." She is the first to proclaim a Death, a Burial, a Marriage, a Courtship, or a Christening; and two young People of the opposite Sex, walking twice together in the Streets, or dancing twice together at the Assembly, is sufficient for Bella to confirm it to be a Match, or an Intrigue. If a married Lady is not happy enough to have the politest of Husbands, and she returns a Courtesy or a Smile to some younger or more modish Man, Bella is dying with Venom like a Toad, until she has spit her Spleen into the Minds and Hearts of all the Town against the innocent Lady. An Old Cat never misses Church, and harangues upon good divine Discourses, and censures all who neglect publicly to hear the Word of God, though she never practised thoroughly one holy Tenet, or fulfilled a Commandment of the Lord.
In short, an Old Cat is opposed to every Thing that Nature constituted amiable, generous, good, or true. She is the Pest of Society, a Hypocrite among Men and Women, a Pharisee in the Eye of Heaven, and a rank putrid Abomination to the Deity. But notwithstanding all the World most minutely knows this checkered diabolical Character, and though she deceives the World every Day she rises, yet there is that peculiar Credulity about the female Sex to even believe the bitterest and worst of Woman-kind.
BOSTON, June 3.
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman of Character, dated London, April 6. SINCE my last I received your obliging Present of the Trial of the Soldiers. The Evidence, on my Perusal of it, appears to me very satisfactory, and fully justifies the Verdict given by the Jury. I confess I did not expect to find the Evidence, in all Respects, as favourable as it now turns out.
"Parliament is entirely taken up with Attention to Riots, and other Insults on its Privileges. I fancy the Accounts of them appear more formidable in the Colonies, from our Newspapers, than, in Truth, they are in themselves. Important Consequences are not, I believe, to be feared from them; yet they are, at present, very vexatious and provoking."
"The States of Europe are all armed, and ready for War. If not disposed to it, it is possible at least they may be involved in a War with very little Notice, which makes it therefore necessary we should be provided for it. This Provision takes up much Time of Parliament."
June 6. Tuesday last being the Anniversary of the Birth Day of our most gracious Sovereign, when he entered the thirty fourth Year of his Age, the Honourable his Majesty's Council, and the Honourable House of Representatives, sitting at Cambridge, adjourned to Captain Steelman's publick House, where, with a Number of other Gentlemen, they joined in expressing their Joy by drinking his Majesty's Health, and other loyal and constitutional Toasts. In this Town the Batteries were fired at twelve o'Clock, also the Cannon of the Train of Artillery under Captain Paddock, the Company being mustered on the Occasion, and marched to King Street, where they performed many military Manoeuvres with such Order and Regularity as gave Pleasure to a large Number of Spectators. At one o'Clock the Guns at Castle William, and on Board his Majesty's Ships in the Harbour, were fired. In the Afternoon his Excellency the Governor gave an elegant Entertainment at the British Coffeehouse to the Officers of his Majesty's Navy, Army, and Customs. At drinking the KING, after Dinner, the Ships fired a Vive la Reine . In the Evening the Honourable Commodore Gambier gave a Ball at Concert Hall, where was present a great Number of Gentlemen and Ladies. There was the Appearance of the greatest Demonstrations of Loyalty and Joy, among People of all Denominations, on this Anniversary.
NEW YORK, June 10.
TUESDAY last being his Majesty's Birth Day, the same was observed as usual. At Noon the principal Gentlemen assembled at the Fort, where his Majesty's Health was drank, under the Discharge of twenty one Cannon; and at one the like Number was fired by his Majesty's Ship the Deercastle , Captain Jacobs, and the armed Schooner Sultana , Captain Inglis, and other Vessels in the Harbour.
The twenty sixth Regiment, and the Train of Artillery, appeared under Arms without the City, where they were respectively exercised, with several Discharges of Field Pieces, and three Volleys of small Arms. At Night there were Fireworks, and the City was handsomely illuminated.
Extract of a Letter from Kingston (in Jamaica) April 10, 1771.
"The 18th of March last was tried and convicted, at a Court of Oyer and terminer held here, Captain Zachariah Day, for the Murder of Samuel Long, his Boatman, on the high Seas, near the Island of Cuba, and on the Day following, in the same Court, was convicted Thomas Bell, late chief Mate of a Sloop belonging to Montego Bay, for piratically robbing and plundering a Spanish Schooner, near Cuba, of fourteen Thousand Dollars. This is the Person who was concerned with Captain Yarr, in October last, in the above mentioned Piracy; they were convicted upon the Testimony of some of their Vessel's Crew, whom they had turned adrift at Sea (to the Number of twelve, in the Spanish Schooner, after they had robbed her) without Water or Provisions, but who fortunately arrived here a few Days afterwards. Day is executed the 28th of March, and Bell the 1st of April; the former had taken a Quantity of Laudanum, in Rum, and was very much intoxicated, though he had, with Bell, taken the Sacrament the Day before. The latter died very penitent."

SINCE our last the Honourable Samuel Cornell, Esquire, returned home from our Troops in Orange County, and brings a certain Account of the Regulators being entirely broken and dispersed; and that near thirteen or fourteen Hundred of them have laid down their Arms, taken the Oaths of Allegiance to his Majesty, and returned to their Habitations in Peace.
His Excellency the Governor, after the Battle, marched into the Plantations of Husbands, Hunters, and several others of the outlawed Chiefs of the Regulators, and laid them waste; they having most of them escaped from the Battle, and are since fled. A Reward of one Thousand Acres of Land, and one Hundred Dollars, is offered by his Excellency for Husbands, Hunter, Butler, and Rednap Howell; and several of the Regulators have been permitted to go in Quest of them, on leaving their Children Hostages.
The Lands of the outlawed Regulators are to be sold by the Sheriff of the County where they lie, agreeable to Act of Assembly; and many of them are of great Value, being perhaps the best Lands on this Continent, particularly Hermon Husbands's, who had growing on his Plantation about fifty Acres of as fine Wheat as perhaps ever grew, with Clover Meadows equal to any in the northern Colonies; but (infatuated, unhappy Man) about four Hundred Head of Horses, which were turned in upon it by our Troops, in a few Days left it without a Spear of Corn, Grass, or Herbage growing, and without a House or Fence standing. A melancholy Consideration, but made necessary by the Laws of War.
Thus has his Excellency the Governor, at the Head of a Handful of Troops, compared to the Number of the Regulators, through the immediate Hand of divine Providence, broke this dangerous and daring Conspiracy, that every Day increased, and threatened to overwhelm this once flourishing Province in one Scene of horrid Confusion and lawless Fury. For who but the Almighty Ruler of Heaven and Earth could guide the Balls from the Rifles of the Regulators to fly over the Heads of our Troops in the Day of Battle, as they did by ten Thousands; which otherwise, as they were at least five Times the Number of our Troops, must have cut them off by Hundreds, and left the Field of Battle a dismal Scene of Blood and Carnage.
From the SCOTS MAGAZINE.
The following entertaining and true Story, whilst it moves the Passions, must give the highest Pleasure to every sentimental Reader.
AMONG all the Vices that disgrace human Nature, none is more odious than Ingratitude. The ancient Sages reckoned it the Quintessence of all Wickedness. The Man who was unthankful for Favours received they stigmatized as a Monster. The reasoning Brute that could forget his Benefactor they deemed an Object of Contempt and Derision. But however detestable Ingratitude is, no Vice prevails more universally; and the Man of yesterday's Observation will see that those on whom he lavishes his most benign Favours generally return Evil for Good, Disimulation for Sincerity, and Hatred for Kindness.
I have always considered Gratitude as the Soul of Virtue; and the Man, whether in high or low Life, whose Heart is warmed with its genial Rays, as an Honour to human Nature, and an Heir of a happy Immortality.
In Appian, and other Authors, I have read of the Gratitude of Lions and savage Animals to their Benefactors; and every Recital of such Actions filled my Breast with the Love and Veneration of this fairest of Eternal Wisdom's Children. But the Recollection of the following Acts of Gratitude, in humble rational Life, ever fills my Soul with Rapture and Admiration.
During the Tory Administration of Queen Anne, no Courtier was more caressed, adored, and raised to higher Places of Trust, Honours, and Preferment, than the noble Butler, Duke of Ormond. Her Majesty had appointed him Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; and his Grace, in sailing from Chester to Dublin, through a dangerous Channel, was overtaken by a violent Storm, which drove them on the Rocks of Anglesea, where they were wrecked; his Grace, and only a few of his Retinue, having, with Difficulty, saved their Lives by swimming to Land. That Part of the Island on which they were cast was cold, barren, and uncultivated. Having travelled some Miles through a Desert, the first House they espied was the humble Cottage of a poor Curate. It consisted of a Kitchen and Bedchamber, both meanly furnished. The Clergyman, on seeing them Weather-beaten Guests, knew them to be Persons of Rank, and gave them a most welcome Reception. Having kindled a swinging Fire, he dried their wet Garments, and set before them the best Entertainment of the House. His frugal, though decent Hospitality, charmed the Duke. He was transported to see so much solid Contentment, and unalloyed Felicity, possessed by his generous Landlord. He asked the Curate what his yearly Living was. Five Pounds, replies Joseph, for that was his Name; but I have a notable Wife, and, as we have two Cows, we sell their Milk and Butter, which almost supports us, and we reserve the five Pounds to buy Clothes, and for our Childrens Education. Ormond, on his Departure, promised to remember his Host; and his Secretary gave Joseph Directions where he might find his Guests, if ever he came to Dublin.
The Curate waited long to hear of Something being done in his Favour, but in vain. At last, roused by his Wife, he resolves to push his Fortune; and, being properly equipped, he sets out for the Irish Metropolis. On his Arrival, being a Scholar, and a Man of considerable Abilities, he was readily admitted by the Dean to preach next Sunday Forenoon before the Lord Lieutenant and both Houses of Parliament. Having mounted the Pulpit, he chose that remarkable text, But the chief Butler (his Grace's Name was Butler) remembered not Joseph, but forgot him. Here he painted the Vice of Ingratitude in the most striking Colours, and showed the unhappy Influence that high Life has on the Great, in making them forget the beneficent and humane Actions done them by those who dwell in the humble Valley of Obscurity and Indigence; and, having described this criminal Negligence towards their generous Benefactors, he observed, "that this might arise, not so much from an innate Depravity of Heart, as from the Multiplicity of State Offices, in which they may be nobly employed, or from having their Minds poisoned by the bewitching Flatteries of mercenary Sycophants, who cease not to draw their Attention from the amiable Pursuits of Humanity, Justice, and Compassion, into those of Riot, Intemperance, and Debauchery." Having come to his Application, he thus concluded: "And now, my honourable Audience, let each of us turn our Thoughts inward, and ask ourselves, did I ever receive a grateful kind Office from any One in a Station of Life far inferior to mine, from One to whom all-bountiful Heaven had not dealt out her common Gifts with so liberal a Hand as to me; but on whom she had conferred more valuable Blessings, an open, a generous Heart? And have I forgotten such Generosity? Have I neglected to reward it tenfold? Was I ever in my Life exposed to the Rage of the merciless Elements, when all Nature seemed to conspire for my Destruction? Did I ever see my Companions swallowed up in the devouring Deep, and myself brought safe to Land with a surviving few? And did any poor, but contented Man, receive me and my shipwrecked Associates into his House, whilst his active Wife was employed in making a Fire, and, with unaffected decent Simplicity, prepared a Repast of plain wholesome Food, to cheer our fainting Spirits, and invigorate our cold drenched Limbs, now safe from the Dangers of the stormy Main; who would not permit his Guests to stir from his charitable Dome until clear serene Skies, and genial Sunshine, invited us to proceed on our Journey? And have I, ungrateful Man! suffered such generous and disinterested Benevolence of Soul to pass unnoticed and unrequited? Have I suffered my Benefactors to languish under the corroding Scourge of friendless Poverty, or to solicit Charity's cold Hand in vain?"
Ormond was all Attention to this Discourse; and, on Examination, found himself guilty of some Pieces of criminal Negligence perfectly similar to those now described. But Conviction was brought home to his Mind in a more forcible Manner, when, on recollecting the Features and Countenance of the Preacher, he found him to be his kind and generous Landlord of Anglesea, whom he had inhumanly forgot. Turning about to his Secretary, "Is not this (says he) our honest Friend Joseph?" To which he replied, "Please your Excellency, I believe it is." "Invite him to Dinner with me." Joseph being come into the Duke's Presence, told him, with those ingenious Blushes natural to an honest Mind, that he was the poor Curate of Anglesea, whose welcome Guest the Duke once was; that he seemed to have this single Chance in his whole Life to make his Fortune; and that he came to remind his Excellency of his Promise to provide for him. "You are a very deserving worthy honest Man," replies his Grace; and immediately orders the Vacancies of the Church to be searched. Only one Living of three Hundred Pounds was found vacant. "There is none so meritorious as our generous Host;" and instantly promoted him from five Pounds a Year to three Hundred Pounds.
But, alas, how short lived is all human Bliss! How quick the Transitions of Fortune! How small Confidence can be placed on Princes, or the Sons of Men! At the Accession of George I. Ormond was divested of all his Places, fled to escape a Trial for his Life, and his whole Fortune was seized by the Crown. For some Time the Liberality of his Friends supported him, but this was soon withdrawn; and the once all-great and all-mighty Generalissimo of England became a forlorn Fugitive, environed with all the dreary Horrors of Want, Oppression, Poverty, and Contempt.
But how was his Heart rejoiced to find a generous and ample Supply from an unexpected Quarter, even from his old Landlord Joseph. This grateful Man, hearing of the Duke's great Misfortunes, thought it the least Part of his Duty to relieve, out of his Benifice, the Necessities of his great and good Patron, to whom he owed all his Living. "My dearest (says he to his Wife) do you hear of the great Wants, and deep Distresses, of our noble Benefactor, who raised us to our present affluent State? You know we can live as well on a Hundred Pounds a Year as on a Thousand Pounds. What if we should settle two Hundred Pounds a Year on our generous Patron for Life? For I hear his Friends have forgot him, and he is in Danger of perishing for Hunger and Want." Joseph's Wife heartily consented to the Proposal, and a Year's Salary was remitted to the Duke. Astonished at this second Act of Kindness, his Grace wrote a particular Detail of it to a Nobleman at Court, who, though a zealous Partisan of another Faction, had ever maintained a strict and inviolate Friendship with him. By his Interest Joseph was preferred to a second Living, worth five Hundred Pounds a Year; but before his Promotion took Place the brave Duke of Ormond died in Exile, so that Joseph could no longer relieve the Wants, nor alleviate the Misfortunes, of his noble Patron, for he was gone down to that Land of Silence and Rest where the Oppressor and the Oppressed meet together, and his Soul had winged its Way to those pure Regions where Wealth and Riches are accounted contemptible Trifles, where Titles and Dignities are trampled on with Scorn, and where Virtue alone is exalted and ennobled with distinguishing and eternal Bays.
WILLIAMSBURG, June 27.
Mr. PURDIE,
PRAY Sir, through the Channel of your useful Paper, let me advise the Reverend Gentlemen engaged in the present Dispute about the Expediency of an American Bishop to confine themselves for the future, in what they may have to offer to the Publick upon that Subject, to the Rules of Decency. You cannot imagine the real Injury it does to Religion and Morality to see some of the most learned and pious Clergy of Virginia treating one another, by Name and Surname, in the publick Gazettes, more like the Fishwomen in Balingsgate Market, than the Ministers of a reformed Christian Church. Why cannot our Clergy, Mr. Purdie, like other Societies of Gentlemen, offer their Affent or Dissent to the Point in Debate consistent with the Rules of common good Breeding, and without flying into indecent Invective upon every Occasion? But it is really lamentable to think that the Clergy, in all Ages, have treated one another, in their Disputes, with less Decorum and Decency than they ever have been treated by any other Sect or Society of Men in the World besides. I am, &c.
MARTIN LUTHER.
The COUNTRY GENTLEMAN's Answer to the REAL LAYMAN.
SIR,
UNDER the Character which, you say, I have assumed, I hope to say Nothing that shall derogate from the Character of a Country Gentleman, who professes himself to be a Member of the Church of England, and therefore a Friend to the Government of the Clergy by a Bishop. But, as it is of no Concern to the Publick whether I be a real Country Gentleman , or you a real Layman , which, I am sorry to say it, may be questioned, I will add no more on this Head.
You have attacked the Favourers of an American Episcopate on the only Plan on which they can be attacked with any Shadow of Argument; namely, the Plan of imputing to them Designs which they disavow . You must know very well that there is more Art than Reason in this Method of proceeding; for it must surely be an unreasonable Way of proceeding to argue against what any Set of Men propose by Objections which will only lie against what they do not propose. But yet it may serve to bring them into a very difficult Situation, because it is easier to convince the Understanding when mailed than to convince or quiet the Fears and Apprehensions raised by Phantoms taken for Realities; which, while the imposition lasts, suspends the reasoning Faculty. On one Occasion you say that you pretend not to dive into the Thoughts of the Clergy who favour an American Episcopate . This should mean, that you will be so far as to estimate their Designs from their own Account of them. Had you adhered to this Rule, on all Occasions, you might have spared all that you have said against their favouring an American Episcopate. If you will now adhere to this Rule, you will find that you may spare all you can have to say against their favouring an American Episcopate.
I do not pretend to vie with you in the Knowledge of the Law. I will at present take for granted what you say in that Respect; I will consider the Condition of our Dissenters, and the Condition of our Clergy, according to your Account of these Matters; and I will examine what Conclusions may be justly drawn from this Account of yours. The Act of Toleration, you tell us, does not extend here. It is true the Dissenters enjoy the same Privileges here as their Brethren do in England, but they owe them to the Inaugurations of the General Court. Our Clergy, as Clergymen, or ecclesiastical Persons, are under no Government, because there are no ecclesiastical Courts here, and consequently no Bishop exercises Jurisdiction here; and because the General Court has not yet begun to exercise Authority over the Clergy, as ecclesiastical Persons. This is a sad State of Affairs. We are all in Uncertainty and Confusion here in Relation to these two Points, of very great Importance in any Government. Is it not Time then to apply some Remedy to such Disorders? Let us consider what Remedy you would apply, and what Remedy the Clergy, who are Favourers of an American Episcopate, would apply. For, whether I am a real Layman or not I will venture, from my Acquaintance with them, to speak what I know to be the Sentiments of the above mentioned Clergy on this Occasion. You would have the Dissenters to remain on this uncertain Footing, to depend for their Privileges not on Law but on Men, on the Opinions of the Members of the General Court. You would have the Clergy, instead of being directed in their Duty, exhortated and punished by a Bishop, to be content with no other Government than that of being suspended or deprived, when Occasion requires, by the General Court. It must be acknowledged you are a staunch Friend to the General Court; and so, I hope, am I. I have all possible Respect for the present Members of the General Court. I know of no Power with which the present Members of that Court might not be safely trusted. But what then? The present Members will not live for ever. They, as well as other Men, must have their Successors. Their Successors must be nominated by the King. And what Security has the Church that Dissenters may not hereafter have Interest to get into these Appointments? Therefore put the present Members of the General Court out of the Question. You, I know, make light of accumulating Powers in the same Hands. But, Sir, it was Nothing but the Junction of civil and ecclesiastical Power in the same Hands which occasioned all that Tyranny which you justly condemn in ancient Bishops. Bishops were Men, and so are Lay Persons. And can any Body be so prejudiced as to suppose that the Accumulation of Power may not have the same Effect, in Proofs of Time, in Lay Hands, as it has had in clerical? You allow that the Clergy are unwilling to be censured, suspended, and deprived, by a Court of Laymen. You know that they must be unwilling, from Principle, to put their Necks under this Yoke. And would you impose Governors upon them which they never have been used to receive? Would you deprive them of the common Right of British Subjects, that of being tried by their Peers? You know that when this new Exercise of ecclesiastical Power takes Place the Clergy will think that they are no longer under the episcopal, but rather under the Presbyterian Form of Church Government. You know they will think that the Church of England no longer exists in this Dominion. Now let us see what Remedies the Clergy wish to see obtained for the above Disorders. They wish to see a better Security for the Privileges of Dissenters than you say there is at present. They wish that the Act of Toleration might be made to extend hither, or that some Way or other the Privileges of Dissenters may not depend on the variable Opinions of Men, but be founded in Law, and be defined by Law. I will be candid enough to confess to you that the Clergy wish this for their own Sakes, as much as for the Sake of the Dissenters, lest the Privileges of Dissenters should be restrained within too narrow Bounds on the one Hand, or carried too far beyond just Limits on the other. Should the Dissenters desire an Act here, or should it be thought fit to desire one elsewhere, for these Purposes, the Clergy, if required, would join them in that Request. But though thus reasonable towards the Dissenters, they cannot carry their Compliance so far as to be desirous of gratifying them with the Destruction of the Church of England. They would have the Dissenters, so far as they are religious Societies, to be governed by their own Modes of Church Government. They desire the same Thing, and no more, for themselves. As Clergymen of the Church of England, they desire to be governed by a Bishop who shall have no Power but over his own Clergy. That you may frame your Notion of the Mind of the Clergy in this Point, if you please, by their own Account of it, I am allowed to give you the following Passage from the proposed Address to the King. "We make it our humble Request that the Bishop appointed may come over with no Authority, no Expectation of acquiring any in Respect to the Laity; that he may be empowered to interfere with no Privileges, civil or religious, at present enjoyed by any
"Society professing Christianity, but dissenting from the national Church; that he may not be suffered to think of taking out of the Hands of your Majesty's Courts, already fixed by Law, any of the Business which they have been used to transact, and which, it must be acknowledged, they have hitherto transacted with universal Acquiescence and Approbation; that he may be confined, within the Limits of his pastoral Charge, to Offices purely episcopal; and that he may owe a Maintenance suiting his Station and Dignity (as our Colonial does at present) to the Bounty and Benefaction of your Majesty, or to any other Mode of Support not burthensome or disagreeable to your American Subjects." I perceive, from what you have written, that in the Article above, which respects the Dissenters, you will object to the Expression at present enjoyed as a gilded but bitter Pill . What you say about the Act of Toleration did not occur to the Composers of the Address. They mean by the Words at present enjoyed simply, plainly, and without any Subterfuge, whatever Privileges the Dissenters at present enjoy in Fact; whether from Law or from the Indulgence of the General Court. They will, I am sure, have no Objection to add such an Explanation; or, if that be not thought strong enough, any other Words, that shall be dictated by Suspicion and Jealousy.
All your Reasoning is founded in this, that either we must have no Bishop among us, or we must have a Bishop with Archdeacons, Deans, Prebends, at a monstrous Expense to this Colony, with Powers inimical to the Powers already in Being, and with Powers to which the People in general have the utmost Aversion. On the other Hand, the Clergy and Favourers of an American Episcopate think that there is a Medium between these two Extremes; that this Medium alone is desirable; that this Medium alone the Circumstances of the Church in this Country require; that a primitive Kind of Bishop, who shall bring no Expense on the Colony, who shall have no Power but what respects the Government of the Clergy, not only may be obtained, but is the only Kind of Bishop that can or ought to be obtained; and that it would be equal Folly and Wickedness to attempt the obtaining any other. If the King and his Council should be of your Mind in this Point, and not of the Clergy's, then the proposed Address could have no other Effect, could serve no other End, than to convince the King and his Council of the Absurdity of aiming to send any Bishop to America. If the Clergy in general be, as you suppose, from their not attending the Convention, against the Scheme for an American Episcopate, then the proposed Address can go no farther.
The Clergy who espoused the Plan of an American Episcopate at the Convention thought all the Power which they desire the Bishop to have is already provided for by the Laws. They therefore did not think of applying to the Legislature for any new Law to give the Bishop Power. They expect the Bishop to be maintained by private Donations already bequeathed in England, by such as may be given, and by Addition from the Royal Bounty. They therefore did not think of applying to the Legislature for the Bishop's Support. They thought the Meeting of the Assembly at a great Distance, and that the Circumstances of the Clergy at this Crisis admitted of no Delay in this Affair. They are not sorry, but glad, that, contrary to the general Expectation, the Assembly will meet soon. The Legislature will have an Opportunity, if they think proper, to take this Matter under their Consideration. The Clergy and Favourers of an Episcopate hope that there is Nothing in their Conduct hitherto that can draw upon them Opposition or Censure from the Legislature. The Legislature may disapprove of the proposed Address, and then I suppose there will be a short End of it. But the Clergy and Favourers of an American Episcopate hope that they shall not have so much Occasion given them by the Legislature to lament the Downfall of the Church of England in this Dominion. We hope that the Attempts of you, and other Writers, will not so far prevail as to render us the Objects of the Legislature's Dislike. We desire no more of you, and other Opponents, than to remember that our Plan for an American Episcopate is fully expressed in the following Words: A Bishop who shall create no Expense to any Person in America; a Bishop to ordain Ministers of the Church of England, to confirm such as desire it, and to govern the Clergy; a Bishop for these Purposes alone, and for no other Purposes whatsoever . If you, or other Opponents, have any Thing to say against this Plan, it deserves to be considered; but whatever you may say against any other Plan, the Product of your own Imaginations, it concerns not the Favourers of an American Episcopate. It is manifestly no more than the Amusement of firing away at a Mark set up by yourselves for your own Diversion.
Having thus considered the general Tenor of your Composition, I am at Liberty to encounter some particular Passages; which, perhaps, may serve to throw more Light upon the Subject. You say, "within these few Years many Dissenters have sprung up among us, and are daily increasing." We desire not to hinder the various Dissenters that have sprung up among us from increasing, or from spreading their Tenets by any hard or unfair Means, inconsistent with religious Liberty; but by fit and proper Means, not inconsistent with religious Liberty, we do desire to obviate their Attempts to spread their various Tenets: And such fit and proper Means we think to find in an American Episcopate. The greatest Advantage which the various Dissenters have to spread their Tenets is in Parishes that either lie long vacant, without any Incumbent in them, or are ill supplied by the Incumbent. If we had a Bishop, he would be of great Service in these two Points; by ordaining our young Men, soon after they had passed their one and twentieth Year, Deacons of the Church of England. These Deacons must remain in this State three Years before they could be ordained Priests, and consequently before they could be qualified to serve Parishes of their own. All this Time they would employ in assisting the sick, the lame, or the old and superannuated Ministers of Parishes, or in officiating in vacant Parishes, in such a Manner as to take away from them the Temptation of attending on dissenting Teachers, under the Want of any Teacher of their own Church which they can conveniently attend. And by the same Means too, the Vestries, when they come to elect a Minister into a vacant Parish, would have more Choice of Candidates, would be applied to by more Candidates with whose Conduct they have been previously acquainted, would have a better Chance and Opportunity of getting a Minister to their Liking, and would never have Occasion to invite Candidates by an Advertisement in the publick Papers.
You speak of "Dissenters, and every other moderate Man who is a Friend to religious Liberty," as Persons who must "think that Mankind have a Right to pursue that Road to Heaven which appears to them the best and most direct." Upon this Principle, I allow that the Spirit of the Act of Toleration very properly prevails here. Upon this Principle, three or four Congregations of Presbyterians may have a Presbytery to ordain and govern their Clergy, and to help them in their Road to Heaven, without applying to the Legislature for their Concurrence. Now suppose three or four Parishes of the Church of England should desire to have a Bishop, who shall be no Expense to the Community among them, to ordain and govern their Ministers, to confirm among them, and by these Means to help them in their Road to Heaven, will you say that these three or four Parishes shall not have such a Bishop to help them in their Road to Heaven, without applying to the Legislature for a new Law on the Occasion? If you do, you must say that the Church of Scotland is already tolerated, but the Church of England wants yet to be tolerated here; and cannot expect to have so necessary an Officer, as it deems a Bishop to be, even by the Indulgence of the General Court, but must apply, before it can have that Officer, to the Legislature. If this be so, where is your religious Liberty? Or, how is every Man here left to enjoy the Right, which you affirm belongs to Mankind, of pursuing that Road to Heaven which appears to them to be the best and most direct? The Church of Scotland, if established here, would not refuse to Episcopalians the Liberty of having a Bishop among them. It is well known that the Roman Catholics in Canada have their Bishops; nor is the Settlement of Moravians in America denied the Liberty of having their Bishops among them.
You represent the Jurisdiction of a Bishop as a new Thing here. Some of the patriotic Professors, whom you celebrate, plead their Oath of canonical Obedience to the Bishop of London against the proposed Episcopate, and applaud the present Government of our excellent Diocesan for being mild, just, and equitable. How will your admired Professors, and you, settle this Point between yourselves? But that is no Affair of mine. You talk of an established Church here. Consult two or three of the first Pages of the Virginia Laws; you will find that this established Church is no other than the Church of England. Can, Sir, the Church of England be established here without establishing the Jurisdiction of a Bishop? I think it agreeable to the Spirit and Style of our first Legislators, and of their Laws, still in Force, to say that the Reason why we had not an Episcopate here at first was because we could not have one until God shall please to turn his Majesty's pious Thoughts towards us, and provide (a Bishop for us, as well as) a better Supply of Ministers among us. For farther Satisfaction on this Head, relating to the Jurisdiction of a Bishop, I refer you to the Secretary's Office, where you will find the King's Commission to Bishop Gibson, to exercise episcopal Jurisdiction over the Clergy here, recorded. Hence you may clearly discern that this Plan of a Bishop's exercising Authority over the Clergy here, without exercising any whatever over Persons of other Denominations, is no new, but an old Affair in this Colony; nay, I believe it is an old Affair also in other Colonies. I am well informed that Commissary Gardner long ago held an ecclesiastical Court in South Carolina, to deprive a Clergyman. And I make no Doubt but other Commissaries, in other Provinces, have long ago held the like Courts for the like Purposes. What you say of an ecclesiastical Court, that was held here under the Bishop of London's Authority, I will now transcribe. "It is true I

remember some Years ago a Farce was acted in a Corner, by a Com- missary and two Reverend Assesors, as the Gentleman dignifies them, "about a Clergyman; but when the Catastrophe was expected, their "Reverences discovered they had acted without Authority, and sneaked "from their Corner, to the great Diversion of the Auditor." This, it must be allowed, is a very humorous Account of an ecclesiastical Court. But what does the humorous Account amount to, more than this, that an ecclesiastical Court has been held here, of which you were a Witness; that this Court consisted of Clergymen; that these Clergymen met without any of that Pomp and Apparatus which you seem so much to dread from an ecclesiastical Court in other Parts of your Letter; that they were a Subject of Ridicule to the Lay Part of the Auditor; and that they pro- ceeded with so harmless a Lenity as to occasion you from hence to dispute the Existence of the Court? With Respect to the Court's breaking up with- out proceeding to Sentence, it was caused, I am told, by the Compromise of the Parties, and not by the Court's Conscientiousness of acting without Authority. Such Courts as these, though of a little more Resolution, perhaps, with Regard to Offenders among the Clergy, we desire to see again; Courts consisting of Clergymen to censure, suspend, and deprive Clergymen; Courts that meet without any exceptional Pomp; Courts that may fairly be laughed at and ridiculed by any Persons, except the Clergy, whenever these Persons are disposed to throw aside the Restraint of Decency; and Courts that shall have no Existence respecting any besides the Clergy.
As to what you say on the Topic of Dedication, or Consecration of Churches, I am, perhaps, not so hard to please on this Head as you may imagine. Observe, this was not a Reason for an American Episcopate brought by me, but by my Opponent, that he might divert himself with shooting down a Mark of his own setting up. This Reason is not dignified with any Mention in our Plan of an American Episcopate. You allow that Persons, in certain Circumstances, may be indulged with the Confe- cration of a Church. This is all that I want you to allow; except it be this, that since the King cannot be expected to be brought over hither, on such an Errand, the Business may be done by Zadok, as the next proper Officer; or, if he will not come, by some Officer inferior to him. If you will be so kind as to allow this, I will allow you, on the other Hand, that the consecrating Person, whoever he be, ought to manage this Affair after a quite different Manner from that in which Laud proceeded on the like Occasion, or else he had better let the Business alone altogether.
I do not find that there is much Difference between you and me con- cerning the Dispute that subsists about the General Court. It seems I have said that this Dispute is whether the General Court had not better take upon them the Exercise of ecclesiastical Authority than leave it altogether unexercised. You say the Dispute is whether the Law establishing the General Court gives that Court Jurisdiction in ecclesiastical as well as civil Causes or not. Certainly this latter Dispute, if I do not greatly mistake, includes the former. This, I think, must appear, to every One, to be the Case, who considers that the sole End of the Dispute is whether the General Court are now to begin, or not, to punish a Clergyman, as an ecclesiastical Person, by Censure, Suspension, and Deprivation.
Before I conclude, permit me to take Notice that I harbour no ill Will against you; and that I have no mean Opinion either of your Knowledge of the Law, or of your Talents for writing. But I can admire your Abilities through the Mist of your Prejudices; yet, without Rapture, and without suffering myself to be involved in the Mist of your Prejudices. You conclude with a Prayer no less just than warm, though I think not general enough. Indulge me with the Liberty of amending it, after the following Manner. Good Lord, of thy infinite Mercy, we beseech thee to save and protect the American Colonies from all Tyranny, civil as well as ecclesiastical, temporal as well as spiritual, and also from the direful Effects of Confusion and Anarchy. To this Prayer, thus amended, let all the People pronounce, as I most heartily do, AMEN.
Advertisements.
NORFOLK, July 1, 1771.
AT our RUM DISTILLERY here may be had a constant Supply of that Article, and MOLOSSES, which we will sell on the lowest Terms. Those who favour us with their Orders may depend upon being well used; and they will please to address them to Mr. William Calderhead, who conducts the Business of the Distil- lery, or to JAMIESON, CAMPBELL, CALVERT, & Company.
A HUNDRED very likely SLAVES will be sold at Richmond, on Friday the 12th Instant, upon reasonable Credit. Great Bargains for ready Money, Tobacco, or Merchants Notes payable in October next. An undoubted Title will be made by DAVID ROSS.
WILLIAMSBURG, July 4, 1771.
ANTHONY SINGLETON, Jeweller and Goldsmith, begs Leave to acquaint the Publick that he has just opened Shop opposite to the RALIGH Tavern, where such as please to favour him with their Custom may depend upon being furnished with all Sorts of Work in those Branches on reasonable Terms, executed in the neatest, most fashionable, and Workman-like Manner. ** Mourning Rings made on the shortest Notice.
WILLIAMSBURG, July 4, 1771.
ANY Person well acquainted with Plantation Business, that comes properly recommended, may have very good Encouragement by applying to WILLIAM FINNIE.
HANOVER Town, July 1, 1771.
IMPORTED in the Liberty, Captain James Walker, in March last, a Box marked AP with a Crow's Foot, No A, containing FINE HATS, which has not yet come to Hand. Any Person who gives Intelligence of the same will much oblige ADAMS & PARKE.
FREDERICKSBURG, June 25, 1771.
THOMAS HOLMES, Saddler and Harnes Maker, hereby informs the Publick that he has opened Shop opposite to the Long Ordinary, where he intends carrying on his Business in all its Branches; and as he has just imported a large Assort- ment of Materials in his Way, those Gentlemen who please to favour him with their Custom may depend upon having their Work done in the neatest and best Manner, and on very reasonable Terms.
KING and QUEEN, July 1, 1771.
BEING determined to remove, as soon as I can make it convenient, into the Frontiers, this is to acquaint the Publick that I have a Tract of Land on Mattaponi River, known by the Name of FLEET'S FERRY, containing a Thousand Acres of high Land and Marsh, which I would sell. There are good Buildings, great Plenty of different Sorts of Fruits, and it is a pleasant Situation. The Ferry is worth about fifty Pounds a Year, it is one of the best Fisheries on the River, and there is a good Gristmill near the House. I have also another Tract for Sale, about four Miles distant, and near King and Queen Courthouse, containing three Hundred and sixty six Acres, whereupon are all necessary Buildings for a Quarter, with great Plenty of fine Fruits. They will be sold together, or separate, as Purchasers may incline; and Credit will be allowed for Part of the Money. For Terms apply to me, living at the Ferry. WILLIAM FLEET.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, on Friday the 20th of September, if fair, otherwise next fair Day, on the Premises,
A VALUABLE Tract of LAND containing upwards of eight Hundred Acres of high and low Grounds, lying on Buckskin Creek, in the County of Dinwiddie, within twenty Miles of Petersburg, being the Land whereon the Subscriber now lives, with very good Improvements thereon, and to be entered on at Christmas next. It is very convenient to Church, Mill, and Courthouse. One Third of the Purchase Money to be paid down, or Merchants Notes payable in the October General Court; the Residue to be paid at two annual Payments. The Situation is re- markably pleasant, and very healthy; it is well calculated for farming, being extremely good for Stocks of all Kinds, and with a small Quantity of Manure produces good Tobacco. The Purchasers are to give Bond and Security. JOHN JONES.
WARWICK, July 1, 1771.
WHEREAS I bought a Negro Man, named CHARLES, of Spencer Thomas, who promised to get me a Right to him from Colonel Caskin of Northumberland, in whom he said it lay, by the last Oyer Court, when the Money was due; and whereas the said Thomas has since applied for the Money, without producing a proper Rig- to the said Slave, this is to inform whoever it may concern that whenever I get a good Title made to me the Money shall be paid. JOHN FOULER.
For SALE,
THE Plantation whereon William Stubbs formerly lived, in Gloucester County, containing between three and four Hundred Acres, upon which is a good Dwellinghouse, and some Outhouses. Any One incli- nable to purchase may know the Terms by applying to Mr. Lewis Baker, in Gloucester. I will likewise sell the Land where I now live, in Am- lith, with the Crop of Corn, Fodder, and Stock, on eighteen Months Credit. NELSON JONES.
To be RENTED for one Year, or a term of Years, and may be entered on in three Months,
THE LOT and HOUSES, near Cabin Point Warehouses, which are now occupied by the Subscriber. There are six Acres and a Half of Land, a good Dwellinghouse with all necessary Outhouses, Storehouse with a Counting Room, a Lumber House forty by twenty, and an ex- ceeding good Garden. The Whole will be put in the best Repair and Order, and any Alterations or Additions that may be judged needful will be made to the Storehouse. Any Person inclined to rent the same may know the Terms by applying to JOHN JOHN AUSTIN FINNIE.
N. B. If the above Lot and Houses should not be rented, I would dispose of them. The Terms of Payment, in that Case, would be made very easy to the Purchaser.
CABIN POINT, June 26, 1771.
RUN away from the Subscriber's Plantation in Bute County, North Carolina, some Time in July last, a Negro Fellow named WILL. He is about thirty eight Years of Age, thick set, and well made, much scarred with Whipping, and one of his great Toes off, I believe, at the second Joint. He formerly belonged to Colonel John Tabb, deceased, of Elizabeth City, and is supposed to be lurking in that Neighbourhood, or that of Mrs. Lydia Jones of the said County, who owns a Brother to the said Negro. FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, besides what the Law allows, will be given for apprehending and securing him in any of his Majesty's Jails, or FIVE POUNDS if he be taken out of the Colony.
Also run away from my Plantation in Prince George, about the Beginning of this Month, a Negro Lad named BACCHUS. He is thick set, and well made, about seventeen or eighteen Years of Age, and speaks broken English. I understand he has been taken up at Sewell's Point, but made his Escape, and will probably do it again, if taken up, without the utmost Precaution. I am apprehensive he is endeavouring to make out of the Country, having made an Attempt of that Kind once before. Whoever apprehends him, and will commit him to Jail, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, and if taken up out of the Colony FIVE POUNDS. JOHN AUSTIN FINNIE.
RUN away from the Subscriber in Culpeper, near Thornton's Pass, on the 30th of May last, a Convict Servant named PETER BACHELOR, an Englishman, about three and twenty Years of Age, five Feet eight or nine Inches high, a sturdily Fellow, of a clear and ruddy Complexion, has black Hair, and blue Eyes. He had on a new Felt Hat, an Osnaburg Shirt, old Leather Breeches patched in the Seat with Virginia Cloth, and a Pair of turned Pumps made of Dogskin, with the Hair outward. It is supposed that he has taken with him a Negro Man belonging to Captain John Strother, named AVERY, a lusty well set Fellow, five Feet six or seven Inches high, who took with him an old red great Coat, an old red Cloth Waistcoat, and a Felt Hat. They have with them sundry other Clothes. Whoever delivers the said Servant to me shall have FIVE POUNDS Reward, besides what the Law allows, and THIRTY SHILLINGS for the Negro. JOSEPH STROTHER.
NANSEMOND, June 25, 1770.
AS the Partnership of the Subscribers will expire next August, it is earnestly requested that all those who are indebted to them, either in this Colony or in North Carolina, may come and settle their Balances immediately, by Payment or Specialty. Those who have any Demands against them are desired to make them known, and they shall be adjusted. All who settle their Accounts as above shall meet with the greatest Indulgence, but such as fail may depend upon their Accounts being put into an Attorney's Hands, without Delay; which Proceeding will be very disagreeable to Their obliged humble Servants, WILLIAM HAMILTON & Company.
The Business will be carried on, both in this Colony and in North Carolina, and the same good Usage and Indulgence may be expected, as formerly, under the Firm of JOHN HAMILTON & Company.
FREDERICKSBURG, June 24, 1771.
I INTEND for ENGLAND next Month, and shall leave all my Business with Mr. WILLIAM TEMPLEMAN. CHARLES YATES.
DINWIDDIE County, June 20, 1771.
THIS is to forewarn all Persons from tak- ing an Assignment of my Bond to William Irby for fifty Pounds, due on the 17th of this Instant, as I will not pay it before his Wife gives up her Dower in a Piece of Land which I purchased from the said Irby. JESSE LEE.
WILLIAMSBURG, June 27, 1771.
ON Thursday the 18th of next Month will be sold to the highest Bidder, upon Credit till the 30th of October 1772, the HOUSE and LOT whereon Mr. THOMAS CRAIG now lives. Bond and good Security, bearing Interest from the 20th of August next, will be required, at which Time the Premises will be delivered up. And on Monday the 12th of August will be sold, upon six Months Credit for all Sums above twenty Shillings, all his HOUSEHOLD and KIT- CHEN FURNITURE, and five LOTS of GROUND in Bell-Craig Street. Bond and Security will be required. HENRY DIXON, Trustee for the Creditors.
JUNE 18, 1771.
IT would greatly oblige me if the different Gentlemen who are my Creditors would meet, or appoint some One for them who should, at Westmoreland Court in August next, that Some- thing may be done for their general Satisfaction. I am willing to do whatever my present Circumstances will admit of for that Purpose, and it is a Hardship that One so inclined should still be distressed by them. GILBERT CAMPBELL.
WHEREAS James Blount, Esquire, one of the Representatives for Chowan County, in North Carolina, hath lately reported that Mr. HENRY DONE, Baptist Minister near Edenton, in the County and Province aforesaid, some Time ago, in his Travels to the southward of Carolina, appointed a Meeting, and borrowed the Sum of ten Pounds Proclamation Money, and not only disappointed the Meeting, but came off in a clandestine Manner with the said Money, and some other Reports of the like Nature, which Reports the said Henry Done challengeth the said James Blount to prove, or else to remain upon Record not only the Reporter of the said Falseity, but the Author of it.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidders, on Saturday the 13th of July next, at the House of DANIEL BAXTER in Williamsburg,
ABOUT two Hundred Yards of white and brown Linen, sixty Yards of very good six-Quarter Cloth, Mens and Womens Shoes, three Barrels of Starch, two Barrels of New York Beer, twelve Firkins of Butter, eight Boxes of Candles, about a Hundred Weight of Chocolate, two very good Italian Chairs, an excellent Chair Horse, &c. &c. Credit until the 25th of October next will be allowed for all Sums above twenty five Shillings, upon Bond and Security.
WHEREAS Mr. William Hamlin, lately deceased, by his certain Indenture, bearing Date the fourth Day of April last, did convey unto Colonel Theobald Bland, and myself, one undivided Moiety of eight hundred Acres of Land, with a large and Water Gristmill thereon, being the capital Prize drawn in Colonel Bernard Moore's Lottery, in Trust, for the Payment of certain particular Debts therein mentioned, and also for the Payment and Discharge of all his other just, just, and fair Debts, provided his Creditors, within three Months from the 11th of the said Month of April, would, by Writing under their Hands, accede to and desire to come within the said Trust; and whereas also Mr. Hamlin thought proper to appoint me Executor of his last Will and Testament, which several Trusts I would willingly execute with strict Justice to his Creditors, and to his Estate, I do, therefore, give this publick Information of the Trust aforesaid, that all those to whom he is indebted may have an Opportunity of claiming the Advantage intended them, re- questing as well such Creditors as desire to be comprehended within the said Trust, as those who do not, that they will immediately signify their Resolutions respecting the same to me, and at the same Time acquaint me with the Sum and Nature of their several Demands, that I may endeavour to make proper Provision for the Payment of all his Debts, in due Order. And as it appears from his Books that his outstanding Debts are conside- rable, I do most earnestly entreat his Debtors to be speedy in an honest Settlement and Discharge of their respective Balances. This Justice to his Estate I think I have a Right to expect from his honest and grateful Debtors, in Return for the Lenity and Indulgence they experienced in his Lifetime. By this Method I must also inform Mr. Hamlin's Clients, that, being possessed of all his Papers, I do propose (with their Approbation) to finish his Causes in the several Courts of Charles City, Chesterfield, Prince George, Dinwiddie, and Sussex, except such as I was employed in against him, which I shall deliver up to the Care of some other Attorneys. And as it will be impossible for them, or myself, to conduct intricate Causes properly without Instructions, I request that the Parties will lose no Time in fur- nishing me with full Information about their Suits, that I may endeavour or have, during Mr. Hamlin's tedious Indisposition, or since his Death, employed other Attorneys, will please to direct how I shall dispose of their Papers.
I find that through Mr. Hamlin's Kindness, and for Want of a fixed Abode, many of his Books, and other Things, are lent out, and other- wise dispersed amongst his Acquaintances, which will render the Collection of them very difficult, if not impracticable, without their Information and Assistance, I therefore hope that all those who are in Possession of any of his Books, or other Things, will speedily contrive me Notice thereof, and the most convenient Opportunities of procuring them.
JOHN RUFFIN, Junior.
N. B. For the Advantage of the Creditors, I will extend the Time limited for their Accession to the Trust until the tenth Day of October next.
For SALE or CHARTER,
A NEW BRIG, lying at Portsmouth, lately launched, double decked, forty seven Feet Keel, twenty Feet Beam, seven Feet ten Inches clear in the Hold, and three Feet one Inch and a Half clear between Decks, has a long Quarter Deck, takes in her Mainmast, Outside Joiners Work finished, with her Spars, has Quarter Badges, and a Head fixed. For Terms apply to Mr. John Greenwood, at Norfolk, or to the Subscriber. DAVID PORTER.
For SALE, and may be entered upon in October next, FOUR Hundred and fifty Acres of Land within three Miles of Cabin Point, well watered and timbered. Upon it is a tolerable good Dwel- ling house, two very fine Barns, all other necessary Outhouses, with Apple and Peach Orchards. It is convenient to Church, and constant Mills. The Plantation is in Order for Cropping with three or four Hands, and would suit a Tradesman. Long Credit will be allowed for greatest Part of the Money; and the Land may be seen, at any Time, by applying to the Subscriber on the Premises. SAMPSON COLLIER.
To be SOLD at King William Courthouse, on Monday the 12th of August next, being Court Day, at publick Auction, or at any Time before by private Sale, under a Deed of Trust from Mr. William Hamlin, lately deceased, ONE undivided Moiety, or Half Part, of eighteen Hundred Acres of LAND, with a FORGE and WATER GRISTMILL thereon, situate, lying, and being in the County of King and Queen; which said Land, Forge, and Mill, were drawn as a Prize in Colonel Bernard Moore's Lottery, by the said Hamlin, and Philip Parr Edmondson, Gentleman. The Terms to be made known at the Time of Sale. THOMAS BLAND. JOHN RUFFIN, Junior.
COMMITTED to the Jail of AUGUSTA, an outlandish Negro Fellow, about twenty five Years of Age, five Feet ten or eleven Inches high, is likely, well made, but cannot speak English well enough to tell his Master's Name. He had on an old blue Frock, very short, old blue Breeches, Osnaburg Shirt, and a white Woolen Cap. Also committed to the said Jail, on Suspicion of being a Runaway Servant, an Irishman who calls himself JAMES TOBIN, and answers the Descrip- tion of a Person of his Name advertised some Time ago by the Jailer of Amberst, who had confessed himself to be a Runaway Servant belonging to Captain Somerville. The Apparel he now hath on is a blue Cloth Coat with yellow carved Buttons, an old striped Cotton Waistcoat, old Leather Breeches, coarse Shirt, and a Half-worn Castor Hat. The Owners are desired to pay Charges, and take them away. GEORGE MATTHEWS, Sheriff.
BUCKINGHAM, June 10, 1771.
RUN away from the Subscriber's Plantation in Bedford, on the 7th of May last, a squat made black African Fellow, named WILL, marked in the Cheeks according to the Custom of his Country, speaks English, French, and I believe Spanish, and has been bred a Sailor. When he went off he had on, or carried with him, a Coat of Plains, a Sailor's blue Jacket, and a Felt Hat. It is thought he will make for Norfolk, as he came from that Place. Masters of Vessels are desired to beware of harbouring him. I will give FIVE POUNDS Reward if he is delivered to me in Buckingham, or FIFTY SHILLINGS if secured in any Prison, so as I may get him, or delivered to Mr. James Lyle, Merchant at Rocky Ridge. THOMAS ROBERTS.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Lancaster, on the 24th of December last, a Negro Man named WILL, about five Feet eight or nine Inches high, between thirty and forty Years of Age, but looks older than what he really is. He has been at work in Norfolk for some Time past, and went by the Name of William Moss, as a Free- man. He is a very good Hostler and Gardener; and what may detect him sooner, he is very fond of Liquor, and when drunk very quarrelsome and foxy. Whoever will secure him in any Jail, and give me Intelligence so that I may get him again, shall have FIVE POUNDS, and if brought to me TEN POUNDS, paid on the Delivery of the Negro. JOHN WORMELEY.
STRAYED away from the Subscriber, last March, a red bay three Year old FILLY with a Star in her Forehead, one or both hind Feet white, about four Feet five or six Inches high, neither docked nor branded. She carried with her a Year old dark bay COLT with a blaze Face, one or both hind Feet white. The Filly was raised at my Plantation on Meherrin River, Brunswick County, where I imagine they would have gone, as they were seen together making that Way, if they had not been stopped by some ill disposed Person. FORTY SHILLINGS Reward will be given for each to the Person that will bring them to me, in Prince George County. NATHANIEL HARRISON.
TAKEN up by the Subscriber, in the Fresh, a SHIP'S BOAT, about fifteen Feet Keel, painted red the Inside, and yellow without; had four Oars, and a Piece of two Inch Pine Plank in her. The Owner may have her by applying to me, in Surry County. WILLIAM BROWNE.
TAKEN up, in Southampton, a middle sized bay HORSE, very poor, with a roached Mane and Bob Tail, and appears to have been lately worked in a Wagon, being much cut with Harness. Petted, and ap- praised to fifty five Shillings. WILLIAM POPE.

POETS CORNER.
AMYNTOR and FLORELLA.
AMYNTOR lov'd a Maiden fair, Florella was her Name; The Youth was blithe and debonnaire, The Damsel was the same. Of equal Worth their Parents were, For Actions good and great; To practice Virtue all their Care, Despising Pomp and State. Fell Discord's Form was never seen Within their Gates to rove, Or Ennui to step between And check their friendly Love. O what a Heaven on Earth is this! Where Neighbours thus unite; Where Friendship spreads her balmy Bliss, And gives the Soul Delight. Each view'd their Child with tenderest Love, The Daughter and the Son; To join, by Marriage Bands, they strove, Two Families in one. No Nymph was like Florella seen; Who saw her, surely lov'd: And such Amyntor's graceful Mien, He was by all approv'd. From Childhood they each other knew, At first by Friendship mov'd; As Years increas'd they fonder grew, And found at last they lov'd. But soon, by Envy, Tales were spread, To give this Couple Pain; How he care's'd some other Maid, And the some other Swain. Some Fiend this Artifice devis'd They quickly jealous grew; They fear'd, they doubted, they furmis'd, And Fancy stamp'd it true. "What, is he false (Florella said) "Whom I believ'd so true? "Does he forsake his faithful Maid, "Some other to pursue? "Where are the plighted Vows he made, "Ten Thousand Times and more? "When oft beneath the Woodbine Shade, "To Constancy he swore? "Adieu, thou Phantom, Happiness! "I give thee to the Wind; "No more shall Love my Heart distress, "Or Man enslave my Mind. "Some Cottage shall conceal my Shame, "From Envy far remov'd, "Where I'll repeat Amyntor's Name, "Whom once I dearly lov'd. "Though false, may he be happy yet, "And live from Anguish free; "I may forgive, but can't forget, "His Cruelty to me." Then straight she left her Father's Home, And sought a lonely Way; Resolv'd through secret Paths to roam, Obscur'd from open Day: Where haply she might find Relief, From agonizing Wo; Or wait till Death should end her Grief, In silent Shades below. Her sudden Flight was soon made known In Tears, Amyntor said, "Where is the dear Florella, flown, "And wherefore is she fled? "Alas! she leaves me thus forlorn, "To bless some Rival's Arms, "And treats my faithful Love with Scorn; "The Thought my soul alarms! "Is all her Kindness come to this? "And thus my Love repaid? "Adieu, fond Hope, of endless Bliss, "Adieu, thou fickle Maid! "And though forsaken thus by thee, "I yet confess thy Power; "May he thou seek'st adore like me, "And love till Life's last Hour. "But should the Swain thou mean'st to bless, "Like thee, inconstant prove, "Thou then will know what deep Distress "Awaits on slighted Love. "May no such Torments rend thy Breast, "But happy may'st thou live, "And all those Blessings with thee rest "That Love and Life can give." This said, he sought, at Dead of Night, Those Banks where Isis flows; Resolving, ere Return of Light, To finish all his Woes. There, leaning o'er a Poplar Bough, Oppress'd with Grief he stood; And said, while Tears began to flow, Which mingled with the Flood, "Hear, hear, ye Gods, my last, last Prayer! "The only Boon I crave; "Forgive Florella, perjur'd Fair, "Though cruel to her Slave. "Should she relent when 'tis too late, "And with me to return, "Conceal from her my hapless Fate, "Nor ever let her mourn." Then bending o'er the River's Side, With lifted Hands to Heaven, Before he join'd the rapid Tide, He begg'd to be forgiven. "Forbear, rash Man (a Voice now cry'd) "You know not what you do; "Some Fiend Florella has believ'd, "For false, alas! is true. "And know, Amyntor, lovely Youth, "Florella now is here; "To crown thy Constancy and Truth, "And banish every Fear. "O! well (he said) I know that Voice! "O Ecstasy divine! "And is Amyntor still thy Choice, "And wilt thou then be mine? "And art thou true, thou dear lost Maid! "What Falsehood I believ'd! "No more, no more (Florella said) "We both have been deceiv'd. "No more, my Love, my Life, she cry'd, "Shall Jealousy's Alarms "This blest'st Reunion ere divide." Then clasped her in his Arms. "And now (he said) in Joy and Love, "We'll pass each fleeting Hour; "And every Heart-felt Rapture prove, "Till Life shall be no more."
HIS Majesty's Postmaster General having (for the better facilitating of Correspondence between Great Britain and America) been pleased to add a fifth Packet Boat to the Station between Falmouth and New York, Notice is hereby given that the Mail, for the future, will be closed, at the Post Office in New York, at twelve of the Clock at Night, on the first Tuesday in every Month, and despatched by a Packet, the next Day, for Falmouth. By Command of the Deputy Postmaster General. ALEXANDER COLDEN, Secretary.
For CHARTER, A VESSEL from three Hundred and sixty to four Hundred Hogheads of Tobacco Burthen. For Terms apply to John and Jonathan Fulbeck, in Norfolk.
MARGARET HUNTER, MILLINER, WILLIAMSBURG, HEREBY informs her Friends and Customers that she is removed to the Corner Store in Doctor Carter's Brick House, where she carries on the Millinery Business in all its Branches; also makes Ladies Hats, Bonnets, Cloaks, and Cardinals, and mounts Fans in the neatest Manner. She has for Sale a great Variety of MILLINERY, TOYS, Strasbourg, Rappée, Wigons, and Scotch SNUFF, &c. &c. Orders from the Country will be faithfully and punctually executed, on the most reasonable Terms.
WILLIAMSBURG, June 20, 1771. IF JAMES FESKIN, a Weaver by Trade, who failed from Port Glasgow the latter End of last Year, or the Beginning of this, for Virginia, will apply to the Subscriber, at Mr. Robert Nicolson's, he will hear of Something to his Satisfaction. PETER FESKIN.
Just IMPORTED, and to be SOLD by the Subscriber at RICHMOND, ALL Sorts of DRUGS and MEDICINES, and most Things wanted in that Way, Anderson's and Lockyer's Pills, Hill's Balm of Honey, Turlington's Balm of Life, Douglas's Tincture for cleaning and preserving the Teeth and Gums, Salop, Zink, Argol, and a great Variety of other Articles. As the Medicines from this Shop have in general given Satisfaction, and as it will be fully supplied twice in the Year, it is hoped Customers will be pleased still to continue, and every Care possible shall be taken to deserve it. A. B. STRACHAN.
FREDERICKSBURG, June 3, 1771. IF any of the Descendents of John Hellier, who came to Virginia many Years ago, from Bristol, in Great Britain, and settled on the Freshes of Rappahannock River, will apply to me in Fredericksburg, they be informed of a particular Inquiry made after them, perhaps much to their Advantage. I have received Information of a Family of the Name of Hilliard, who came from Bristol, and formerly settled in the Neighbourhood of the late Colonel Turner, on Rappahannock. If any of that Family are alive, perhaps they may be able to reconcile the Difference of the Name from convincing Circumstances, as there is so great a Similitude in the Sound. ROGER DIXON.
For SALE, And may be entered on immediately, THE LOT and HOUSES, near Cabin Point Warehouses, at present occupied by Mr. Walter Peter. There are four Acres of Land well enclosed, a good Dwellinghouse, with all necessary Outhouses, also a Storehouse, Counting Room, and two Lumber Houses. Any Person inclining to purchase may know the Terms by applying to JAMES BUCHANAN. N. B. If the above Lot and Houses are not sold they will be rented for a Term of Years, not exceeding three.
To be SOLD, on the 8th of July, by J. KIDD, Upholsterer, Appraiser, and Auctioneer, at his House known by the Name of Custis's, in Williamsburg, SUNDRY HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, the Property of a Gentleman who has left off Housekeeping. Credit will be allowed until December for all Sums above twenty Shillings, the Purchasers giving Bond, with approved Security. At the same Place Gentlemen may be accommodated with good LODGINGS, exactly suitable to those who make Choice of Retirement after the Fatigues of Business. I have an excellent CLOVER PASTURE adjoining my House, well secured. Gentlemen may depend on being charged at the most reasonable Rates.
RICHMOND, June 11, 1771. RUN away from Mr. Gabriel Penn's, about the 25th of April last, an outlandish Negro Fellow, about five Feet ten or eleven Inches high, who cannot speak English. He had on, when he went away, a blue woollen Shirt over an Osnaburg One, and a Pair of Trousers. Whoever can secure him, or give me Information where I may get him again, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward, besides what the Law allows. I will give a Reward of FORTY SHILLINGS on his being delivered to Mr. Thomas Lumpkin, at the said Gabriel Penn's, or to me in Richmond. JOHN BROOKE.
STOLEN from Petersburg, on the 23d of May last, a black Mare seven Years old, about fourteen Hands and a Half high, a natural Pacer, with a hanging Mane and Sprig Tail, a Star in her Forehead, and one of her hind Feet white, but not branded. Whoever brings the said Mare to Edward Stabler in Petersburg, or to the Subscriber on Hatcher's Run, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, and FIVE POUNDS on Conviction of the Thief. WILLIAM BUTLER.
TAKEN up, in Prince William, seventeen HOGS, eleven of which are marked with a Crop and Underkeel in the right Ear, and a Crop in the left; the other six unmarked. Posted, and appraised to four Pounds ten Shillings. JOSEPH PETTY, Senior.
DUMFRIES, June 6, 1771. WHEREAS the Subscriber carried on a Trade in Charles County, in the Province of Maryland, in Company with John Semple, now of Prince William County, of Prince William County, in the Colony of Virginia, from the Year 1757 to the Year 1763, when the Partnership was dissolved; and in the Year 1760 the said Semple purchased of Messrs. John Carlyle and John Dalton, for the Behoof of that Concern, a Lot of Land in the Town of Alexandria, for which the Subscriber paid the Purchase Money, by Semple's Bill of Exchange drawn on him on Account of the Company, on which Lot the Company made several valuable Improvements; and afterwards, in the Year 1764, the said Semple took a Deed in his own Name for the said Lot and Improvements; and whereas, by the Articles of Copartnership, the said Semple bound himself not to draw any Money or Effects from that Concern, until the whole Debts due by it were fully satisfied, and totally paid off: This, therefore, is to forewarn any Person or Persons whatsoever from taking any Assignment of the said Lot, without the Consent of the Subscriber, who solely manages and transacts the Business of the said Partnership (Mr. Semple not having had any Management therein these six Years past) otherwise his or their Right will be of no Validity, as I shall dispute the Title John Semple may presume to assign him or them, it being diametrically repugnant to the Spirit, Meaning, and express Words of the said Articles of Copartnership, recorded in Charles County aforesaid. JAMES LAWSON.
STRAYED or STOLEN from the Subscriber in York County, about a Mile below Williamsburg, on the first of May last, a dark bay HORSE about thirteen Hands and a Half high, about ten Years old, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, a little White under his right hind Footlock, branded on the off Buttock W G, and is a natural Pacer. Whoever conveys the said Horse to me, or gives me Intelligence where I may get him, shall have THIRTY SHILLINGS Reward. JAMES COSBY.
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 Wadlington, Plaintiffs, against James Fowler, of the Province of Pennsylvania, Edward Snickers, Thomas Colston, George Jump, Joseph Eldridge, William Bilbow, Stephen Johnson, David Afley, 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 not pay, convey away, or secrete such Effects, until the further 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 further 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.
MIDDLESEX, May 7, 1771. 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 Russia Drab. Whoever will apprehend him, and have him committed to Jail, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward. AUGUSTINE SMITH.
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.
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 inclined 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 Loving, 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 Palings; 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 Conveniences, 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, and 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 stout made; he is of a yellow Complexion, has a down Look, and a Defect in some of his fore Teeth. He is supposed to be lurking about Hanover Town, Petersburg, or gone towards Carolina. Whoever will apprehend the said Fellow, and bring him to me, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward; and if taken out of the Colony, FIVE POUNDS. DAVID PATTESON.