The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1773-04-29 00:00:00

VIRGINIA GAZETTE.
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A PLAN to perpetuate the UNION between GREAT BRITAIN and AMERICA, to the latest Period of Time.
IT is a just Observation, that the most simple Propositions are hard to be rendered more intelligible by any explanation. This Remark is applicable to the present Dispute between Great Britain and America; although the Truth is obvious to common Sense, yet there have been Volumes written on the Subject. A few Words may make the Matter clear to every Mind: The Law of Nature, the Charter, and the British Parliament, all declare that the Colonists are free Men; it is a self-evident Truth that their total Subjection to a Parliament independent of them destroys every Idea of Freedom and Property, and it is equally certain that no Line can be drawn between the supreme Authority of Parliament and the total Subjection of the Colonies. The Consequence is, the Colonies are independent on the British Parliament. This Truth is so clear that it must blaze upon every Mind. The great Question now is, how shall the Union between Great Britain and America be preserved? The Answer is easy: Common Interest is the Band of Union; the People of each Country must treat the other in such a Manner as to make it their Interest to preserve the Connexion. The People of both Countries are united in the King, who is the Head of the Empire; and Interest, the only Cement of political Bodies, must preserve Union between the Members of the Empire, and between them and their Head.
When the King wants the Assistance of his American Subjects, he must apply to their House of Commons for Grants, in the same Way he now does to his Parliament in Britain. The Colonies, finding themselves treated like free Men by their King and Fellow Subjects in Britain, and their Rights established upon a firm Foundation, they will be animated to contribute the utmost in their Power to promote the Honour of the Crown and the Support of the Kingdom; and as the Colonies increase in Wealth and Numbers, so will their Assistance to the Parent State increase, until Britain flows with the Riches of America; and by Union and Harmony between the two Countries, founded on Freedom and common Interest, the British Empire may continue firmly united, and flourish to the latest Ages.
From a late EDINBURGH Paper.
VOX CLAMANTIS IN DESERTO.
HAVING had Occasion to travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh, upon a Sabbath, I took Sermon by the Way, and had the Pleasure of hearing one of the most generous Ministers of the Church of Scotland, nay perhaps of the whole Christian Church, for it is his usual Practice to entertain the whole of his Audience after Sermon. I therefore got a kind Invitation from the Parson to dine with him, but I begged to be excused, as I was in Haste to pursue my Journey. And indeed he is a Preacher extremely favourable to those who have a long Journey before them, for he is none of your long-winded Brethren; he makes quick Despatch; his whole Sermon did not exceed twenty seven Minutes; it is to be observed, we had no Psalms. As for the Sermon, it was certainly a well composed and well delivered Piece, only I thought he made Use of the Word Brethren a little improperly, as there was no other Man in the Audience but myself, all the rest being of the female Sex; and I had no Difficulty in counting them, for their Number was only two, and one of those happened to be a fair Penitent, seated on the Repentance Stool.
HUMPHREY CLINKER.
AS Novelty is allowed to be the Life and Soul of all genteel Amusements, I make not the least Doubt but Flying would come into universal Esteem. Do but consider how many Thousands of Horses would be rendered entirely useless: Instead of a Post Chaise and Four rattling along the Road, covered with Dust or Dirt, conveying (Jehu-like) some Right Honourable a Hundred Miles to a Horse Race, or Cock Match, there would need but a Pair of Wings to convey him, with the Expedition of a Carrier Pigeon, to his beloved Patience.
And as to Lovers! who eagerly with the Arrival of the critical Moment of Elopement, with the Knowledge of but one Constellation, they may, in the silent Night, like cooing constant Turtles, steer their polar Course, and leave not the least Trace of their aerial Escape to the vigilant Guardian, till Hymen has lighted up the nuptial Torch.
The most material Objection, that I can foresee, will arise from an indiscriminate Use of Plumage; unless an Office, similar to the College of Heralds, be instituted to arrange the different Degrees of Rank. His Majesty may assume to himself the King of Birds, the Eagle. His amiable Consort may, with great Propriety, appear (as she really is) a Phoenix. The Court Macaroni, a Peacock; the City ditto, a Perroquet. The whole Body of the Clergy may be fill in Sable, as Ravens watching the Fall of a fat Benefice. The Lawyers (according to their different Degrees) as Vultures, Kites, and Magpies. The Faculty of Physick may fill squint under an Umbrella of Feathers, with all the Gravity of the Bird of Wisdom, the Owl. The Aldermen and Magistracy of all the Corporations in England may assume the Importance of the Turkey Cock. The various Speculators and Dealers in the Alley may be in the aquatic Way, like Ducks. The whole Tribe of Critics, &c. Geese. Every Company of the several Trades may happily affix some Class of Birds as emblematick of their different Occupations, and so ad infinitum.
A Description of COURT.
IN this Place Truth and Falsehood, Vice and Politeness, Good and Evil, equally reign; where they who are displeased smile, they who are pleased dissemble their Passion. Here Flattery is called Complaisance, and Extravagance Taste. Men embrace the Villain they detest, and are embraced by those who detest in Turn. Strangers are welcome to this Place, provided they ask for nothing, and they are at free Liberty to gaze, bow, and return; and, with no other Employment, amuse themselves for Years in an Anti-chamber, a Court Yard, or a Stair Case.
Friendship, Promises, Offers of Service, &c. are here of the Nature of Nightingales; Vox, & praeterea nihil. Modesty is very unfit for this Place, therefore very scarce; Wisdom is fit, yet scarcer. One Man is followed here for the Employments he can give, another courted because he is in Favour with the other; a third because of his Title; yet a fourth, of more Value than them all, is neglected and despised, because he is—Honest.
As the Men look and speak different from what they think, the Women look also different from what they are: A female Face which appears here to be about twenty, should you see it before the Repairs of the Toilet, you would be satisfied it was fifty. The Mothers, by the Help of Rouge and Fancy, jam Maids, and the Maids sometimes are Mothers. What concludes this extraordinary Place is, that it has been the same as it is now some Hundred Years past, and will be so some Hundred Years to come.
DANTZICK, February 16.
HIS Prussian Majesty has, for a small Time, relaxed the Severity of the Taxes which he at first required of this once free City; but, notwithstanding, the Number of Military which he has thrown into it, and the Preparations he is making, plainly evince that he looks upon it in the Light of a conquered Place. By his Orders, the three Ports or the City are to be each of them fortified; namely, Vorstadt, Altstadt, and Rechtstadt. Ships of War are likewise building in the Docks. He has also deprived this City of the Right of coining their own Money, has disbanded the City Garrison, and obliges the Inhabitants to maintain a Prussian one.
LONDON, February 18.
A PLAN has been proposed for the Government of Poland, after the Manner of Great Britain. A Parliament is to be formed, consisting of a House of Lords, in which the King is to preside, and a House of Commons, where the Prince Primate is to preside. The King is to preserve as his own Right the Starosties and other Governments, as well as the Bishopricks and Abbeys. The King is to keep on Foot an Army of 30,000 Men, and all the Militias are to be abolished. His Majesty is to furnish his Troops with Arms, but their Pay is to be taken from the Revenues of the State. Liberty of Conscience is to be granted to Persons of all Religions; the Diets and Diets are to be abolished, &c.
Prince Radzivil is now at Manheim, and will not go to assist at the approaching Senatus Confilium. His Estates and Effects are all confiscated by the Russians; his Revenues amounted to two Millions of Polish Florins, and he could bring 20,000 Men into the Field. The Russians have offered to restore him all, but his Library and Plate, if he would return and acknowledge himself a Vassal; but he answered, "I was born free; my Ancestors were free, and I will die so." Those Ancestors seem to have foreseen the present Troubles. They were possessed of the twelve Apostolies in real Gold, each a Foot and a Half high, which they placed in the Church of Dievich, one of their Lordships, and the Dean of the Chapter was to produce them every Year to the reigning Prince. When the present Prince saw how Affairs were likely to turn out, he had the twelve Apostolies privately removed to Munich; four of them have been melted down, and it is likely the others will soon follow.
Advices are received of a bloody Battle being fought between the Turks and Persians, near Amadan, on the Borders of Syria, and that the latter had obtained a complete Victory.
They write from Petersburg, that Letters have been received from certain Russia Merchants trading to North Tartary, of a late Discovery having been made of an Island, supposed, from various Circumstances, to be the very Place from whence America was first peopled, that Continent being but a little Distance; and the first Migration is thought to have been made by large Bodies of floating Ice, the Inhabitants, who live by Fishing, being sometimes carried off to sea thereon even at this Day.
It is said to be actually under the Consideration of Government to suppress some of the publick Places of Entertainment in this Metropolis, till Trade, Commerce, and publick Credit, have gained Strength. Also to rid the Country of Players, so injurious to many Country Towns.
Several Removals in the Governments of North America and the West Indies are, we hear, now in Agitation.
The Revenue of the Excise for England and Wales amounted last Year to 3,784,613 l. 17 s. 8 d. exclusive of all Charges of collecting and managing the said Revenue.
They write from Dresden that a very grand Body of the King of Prussia's Forces is encamped at Pyran, and that another Encampment is making at Bauxna, on the Banks of the Rhine, immediately opposite Schmettau.
From the same Quarter we learn that the Prince of Anhalt Dessau, in the Service of his Imperial Majesty, is moving at the Head of 40,000 Men to the Capital of Pelnitz, about four Days March from the City of Warfaw.
We are credibly informed that Orders are given for 26 Sail of Men of War to rendezvous at Spithead the Beginning of May, and eleven at Plymouth.
A Dignitary of the Church being asked how he could reconcile it to his Conscience to subscribe the 39 Articles, when he did not believe them to be agreeable to Scripture, answered, "My Subscription meant no more than that I assented to the Use of them in the Church, not that I received them as divine Truths myself. Let the Petitioners do the same, and they will have no Occasion for Relief by Subscription."
There lately died at Whittingham, East Lothian, Barbara Wilson, an old Maid, aged 120. She was Henwife in Drummelzier's Family, in which she had lived as a Servant most Part of her Life. She was so remarkable a Genealogist of her feathered Flock as to be able to reckon to the tenth Generation. Her Corpse was carried to the Grave by Females, (of whom there was a great Number, uniformly dressed), and interred with great Decency. No male Person was admitted.
The following has been given us as the genuine Copy of a real Letter of Application from a Shoemaker's Wife to a Customer of her deceased Husband.
"Madam, my Husband is dead, but that is nothing at all; for Thomas Wild, our Journeyman, will keep doing for me the same as he did before, and he can work a great Deal better than he did, poor Man! at the last, as I have Experience of, because of his Age and Ailment; so I hope for your Ladyship's Custom. From your humble Servant, ANN R——S."
An Anecdote relative to the King of Prussia having been misrepresented in the Papers, the following is the real Fact, as communicated to us by a Gentleman who had it from Mr. Mitchell, our Ambassador at that Time at Berlin. The Marquis of Titchfield, now Duke of Portland, being on his Travels at Berlin, was introduced to his Prussian Majesty; their Discourse turned on the Divisions in England, and the Unpopularity of the Court. After discoursing for some Time, and expatiating on the Causes which had occasioned such Discontents among the People. "If (said Frederick) I were to sit on your Throne for three Days, I'd make you know what it was to have a King." "Please your Majesty (replied the young Nobleman) I do not think you would be able to keep your Seat on the English Throne for three Hours."
February 20. We learn from the Rosses, in the County of Donegal, in Ireland, that a Danish Man of War, called the North-Crown, commanded by the Baron d'Ulfeldt, arrived off those Islands, from a Voyage of Discovery towards the Pole. They failed from Bornholme, in Norway, the 11th of June 1769, with Stores for 18 Months, and some able Astronomers, Landscape Painters, and every Apparatus suitable to the Design; and steering by N. E. Half E. for 37 Days, with a fair Wind and open Sea, discovered a large rocky Island, which having doubled, they proceeded W. N. W. till the 17th of September, when they found themselves in a strong Current, between two high Lands, seemingly about ten Leagues distant, which carried them at a prodigious Rate for three Days, when, to their great Joy, they saw the Mainland of America, that lies between the most westerly Part of the Settlements on Hudson's River and California. Here they anchored in a fine Cove, and found Abundance of wild Deer and Buffaloes, with which they victualled; and sailing southward, in three Months got into the Pacifick Ocean, and returned by the Straights of Le Maire, and the West India Islands. They have brought many Curiosities, particularly a prodigious Bird called a Contor, or Cente, above six Feet in Height, of the Eagle Kind, whose Wings expanded measure 22 Feet 4 Inches. Aftering bartering some Skins with the Country People, for Meal, Rum, and other Necessaries, they failed for Bremen, to wait the Thaw, previous to their Return to Copenhagen.
A junction of the Rockingham Party with the Bedford is now talked of very confidently, but one Condition seems to be the Source of much Difficulty. They first insist upon the Marquis being first Lord of the Treasury, in Case of Change, whereas the latter are as strenuous for the Duke of Grafton. How this Affair may terminate, Time only can discover; but of this we may be satisfied, that the People have little or nothing to expect from the Union of such mercenary Enemies.
Last Night Mr. Foote's long expected Puppet Show was performed, for the first Time; it contains a Number of satirical Strokes, and con-
cludes in the following Manner. A Constable enters to take up the Puppets and carry them before Justice Girk, an Oilman in the Strand, who issued his Warrant for their Apprehension as Vagrants, together with Foote. A most witty laughable Examination Scene ensues at the Justice's House, where the Puppets are brought, and the Counsellors Quirk (a Scotch Advocate) and Quibble, appear, one against, the other for the Puppets. It is agreed that the Puppets cannot be committed or punished under the Vagrant Act, as all the Whipping in the World could never make them labour; and the Food prescribed to be given, Bread and Water, nothing could induce them either to chew or swallow. An Argument ensues, what shall be done with Foote. The Scotchman says, he ought to be sent to the House of Correction, as he is surely no Puppet. The other declares, he will not altogether agree to that, for that Foote is certainly a fourth Part of him a Puppet, his left Leg being composed of the same Materials as his Figures; and if he is committed as a Man, the Puppet Part of him has a Right to an Action for Damages. On the other Hand, if he is committed as a Puppet, the Body may sue for false Imprisonment. It is at length decided, by learnedly consenting that the only Way will be by waiting till they can catch his Body without his Leg, or his Leg without his Body.
Lord North, we are now assured, will maintain his Ground firmly against all the Arts of the Bedford Faction; who now, seeing publick Tranquility perfectly re-established, want to restore the first Seat of the Treasury Bench to his Grace the Duke of Grafton.
February 23. A Gentleman who arrived last Sunday from the South of France says that the Poor in those Parts are in a starving Condition, and have no Provision but what is sent them about 100 English Miles, which makes it so dear that they are not able to purchase it, and for Want of wholesome Food are seized with a Disorder that daily carries off many of the poorer Sort; and that the opulent Families have left those Parts on the Account, and are gone to reside in Paris.
We hear from Elgin, in Scotland, that a Woman in the Parish of Cromdale, in Strathfey, named Janet Grant, Relict of William Cumming, died there the 5th Instant, aged 95. She retained her Senses till a few Hours before she died. She saw 113 Children, Grandchildren, and Great Grandchildren, born or descended from her Body.
The celebrated Mr. Voltaire, commiserating the unhappy State of the King of Poland, it is said, has lately taken up his Pen in Defence of that helpless Monarch, which is likely to prove of greater Advantage to him than an Army of Thousands. He has written a most excellent Pamphlet, which invalidates the Claim of the Triumvirate, and creates daily Advocates for the King. Care has been taken to circulate this Work among proper People, and a Revolution is expected in Poland every Moment. The King of France, we hear, is highly pleased with Voltaire for this ingenious Effort, and will no Doubt confider him accordingly.
A Gentleman in the Temple, who has paid his Addresses to a young Lady in the City, having an Engagement with her, at Drury Lane Playhouse, to see the last new Farce of the Wedding Ring acted, the Gentleman, after dressing himself, stepping into a Hackney Coach at Temple Bar, called to his Servant who attended him to the Coach, gave him a Guinea, having no small Change about him, and desired him to step to one of the Shops and buy the Wedding Ring, and to follow him with it to the aforesaid Lady's House. The Servant, who suspected that his Master paid his Addresses to this Lady, imagining that the Affair was brought to a happy Conclusion, and that his Master was to be wedded, dressed himself little inferior to his Master, went and brought the real Ring, and carried it to the Lady's House; but, by his long Delay in dressing, the Company went to the Playhouse, leaving Orders for the Servant to follow them, and inquire for such a Gentleman's Box. The Servant, thinking that by his Delay there might be a Disappointment, went straight to Drury Lane, stepping up to his Master, who openly reprimanded him for staying so long; the Servant replied, that he had been obliged to make some Delay to choose one to his Taste. Damn you, cries the Master, sure there is only one Edition out! In the mean Time the Servant delivered him the Gold Ring, Value one Guinea, with the Jeweller's Receipt, to be presented to his Mistress, instead of a Farce; which Mistake caused no small Entertainment to the rest of the Company in the Box, who excused the Servant for his humorous Mistake, and laughed at the Master for being the Occasion of the Blunder.
Little as the Importation of American Wheat is encouraged in this Country, the Spaniards are well acquainted with its Value; and whilst we are, by the fatherly Care of our Governors, left exposed to all the Miseries of a Famine, even in the Bosom of Peace, they are industriously providing, by well stored Magazines, against the Inconvenience of long Sieges, in Case a War should take Place.
It is talked at the west End of the Town, as a Thing agreed upon, that the British Subjects will have the free Navigation of the Black Sea, which must be very beneficial at this Time, and must place the Minister who effects it in a very advantageous Light, in a trading Nation where some new Channels of Commerce are much wanted.
BRECON, January 29. The following is an Extract of a Letter received from a Person who lives at St. David's, in Pembrokeshire, near the Place where the melancholy Scene happened. "On Monday Night, the 18th of January, a Ship of 200 Tons Burthen, from Philadelphia to Newry, in Ireland, laden with Linseed, &c. was driven by a Storm near the Rock of St. Elvis, within a Mile of Solva Harbour, in St. Bride's Bay, where she let go her Anchor; and as soon as it was Day she was deserted by the People of Solva, when four stout dexterous Seamen went out of Solva Harbour to assist the Ship, or bring the People on Shore. Finding it impossible to save the Ship, they brought some of the People off, and landed them safe at Solva. They returned again to the Ship, and brought another Boat Load off. Among that Number was a young Gentleman lately married, who begged of them to bring his Wife the next Trip. He eagerly waited to receive her, but as they were coming through the eastern Sound a dreadful Sea broke upon them and turned the Boat upside down, and our good humane Neighbours, this young Lady, and a Woman with a Child at her Breast, perished in Sight of Numbers of the distressed Spectators. I must not pretend to picture the Scene of Grief and Lamentation that ensued, but I cannot omit telling you that the unhappy Stranger exclaimed, "Oh! my dearest Fanny, thou didst quit the best of Parents to follow me. Unknown to them, I took thee away. I alone am accessory to thy Death. How shall I inform them of thy Destiny!" In Distraction, he tore a Parcel of Letters he had in his Hand. Soon after this affecting Accident, the Captain of the Ship, and several others, were coming in the Ship's Boat, which shared the same Fate as the other; but the Captain, and three others, got aside the Keel of the Boat, one of whom was taken off with the Captain, one swam ashore, and the third was picked up by another Solva Boat, which, in Spite of all Dangers, put off to their Relief. From what I can learn, there are 21 Lives lost; some were Women and Children.
GLASGOW, February 25. Wednesday last the Town Council of Edinburgh unanimously elected Dr. William Cullen to be Professor of the Practice of Physick in that University, in Place of the late Dr. John Gregory.
A new Tragedy, called Alonzo, by Mr. Hume, Author of Douglas, will be performed at Drury Lane next Monday.
We have the Pleasure of acquainting the Publick that Part of the great Canal betwixt the Forth and Clyde is now opened, and Lighters are passing through twenty Locks as far as Kilsyth, which is about twelve Miles from the Sea, and a good Way beyond the greatest Height of the Country; and that in a few Weeks hence the Navigation will be completed the Length of Kirkintilloch, which is nineteen Miles in all, and within six Miles of Glasgow. These Locks, upon repeated Trials, answer extremely well, the Vessels passing a Lock in four Minutes.

L O N D O N, March 1.
EXPRESSES are come from Germany of a very serious Nature. The King of Prussia is in Motion, and has publicly declared his Intentions towards Hanover. It is said that in Order to bring the Empress of Russia to Terms about Poland, Britain will shut her Ports against her Fleet, and leave her to shift for herself. The Galloway, Bishopick, from Maryland for London, is ashore near Boulogne. The Absent Friend, Ferguson, from Maryland for Liverpool, was on the 19th of January driven ashore at Longendall, but will be got off without much Damage. Eight or nine Vessels, driven on Shore at the same Time and Place, are all lost. A large Vessel, with about 500 Hogheads of Tobacco on Board, is lost on Pembrey Sands, near Lanelly, in Carmarthenshire, and all the Crew perished. No Papers are yet found; but a Plank, on which is the Word Pompey, is come on Shore from the Wreck. A Sloop, Lewis Farquhar Master, laden with Tobacco, from Maryland for Liverpool, is ashore near Edinburgh, but expected to be got off without much Damage. From North Carolina, the Ranger, Campbell, for Bristol, was lost the 1st of March on the Fingers; three of the People are brought to Bristol, by Captain White, from Cape Fear. From the same Place, the Anne, Crow, is arrived at Plymouth.
March 4. The Earl of Bellingham was better yesterday than the preceding Day, but is relapsed again, and seems to be in great Danger. On Monday last, being St. David's Day, a great Number of Nobility and Gentry, Natives of Wales, went to St. James's to pay their Duty to the Prince of Wales. They were informed, by the Lord in Waiting, that they could not be admitted to see his Royal Highness; that he had, however, as usual, sent them a Purse of 100 Guineas, for the Use of their Charity School. This Treatment gave very great Offence. The Principality of Wales having lost its Privilege of addressing the eldest Son of the King, as usual, it is thought he will relinquish the Title of Prince of Wales for that of Duke of Edinburgh, and Lord of the Orkneys.
Whoever it was (says a Correspondent) that advised a certain great Personage to forget himself as to slight the annual voluntary Compliments of the Ancient Britons, deserves the harshest Epithet Language can bestow, and the supreme Contempt of every generous, loyal, and free spirited Subject in the three Kingdoms; but it is to be accounted for, since it does not appear that any of the Flintshire Addressers were among the above most respectable Body, either last Year or this. It is said that a Fleet will soon be ordered up the Baltic, under the Command of an eminent Sea Commander, to give due Weight to some Remonstrances. We are assured the Augmentation of the Half-pay Captains, &c. which will shortly take Place, by Authority of Parliament, will be as follows, namely, twenty Captains will be added to the 10th List, thirty to the 3d List, and the other Post Captains, with the Masters and Commanders, at 6s. a Day each. The 4th Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, now quartered in Chatham Barracks, commanded by Colonel Ord, are ordered to hold themselves in Readiness to embark for America, to relieve the 1st Battalion of the said Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant General Belford.
It is remarkable, that while all the Powers in Europe declare their Intentions to be altogether peaceable they are all as vigorously exerting themselves in military Preparations as if they were upon the very Eve of a War. France and Spain are increasing their Forces, both by Land and Sea. The Emperor of Germany, the Empress of Russia, and the King of Prussia have each powerful Armies all ready for Action. The Swedes and Danes are assiduous in augmenting their Forces, and putting them in the best Order for actual Service; so are the States General, the King of Portugal, the Republick of Venice, the Empress of Morocco, &c. It is reported, that the Negotiations at Bucharest for Peace between the Turks and Russians are broken off. Be that as it will, it is certain the Turks are as diligent as they have ever been during the War in raising Forces and putting their Army and Fortifications into the best Condition. So that, from Appearances, we have Reason to apprehend the Renewal of Hostilities, and that they will be as fierce and general as ever were known.
The Ministry carry every Question as they please in the House of Commons. It is said the East India Company cannot prevail to have the Duty on Tea taken off, though it is fallen in London as low as 1s. 10d. a Pound, and is in Danger of being utterly spoiled. We can assure our Readers, from good Authority, that the Bank have come to a Resolution not to refuse taking any Portugal Money, provided it be good; so that the Circulation of that Coin, which has lately been almost entirely stopped, will, without Doubt, speedily become as general as ever.
March 5. Advices from Turin say, there is the greatest Reason to believe that Agents are employed there by the Spanish Court to raise Rebellion and Insurrections in that Kingdom. Since the Death of his late Majesty, no less than three Riots have happened in Piedmont, the first of which was with Difficulty quelled. The Government is, however, taking all Precautions to prevent the like in future. By the last Accounts from Messina, the Plague had made its Appearance at that Place, and that 700 of the Galley Slaves (who were released to aid in the Hospitals) all died in one Week.
March 6. At a Court of Common Council held yesterday, present the Lord Mayor, the Aldermen Wilkes, Bull, Plover, Lewes, Thomas, Oliver, Kirkman, Sawbridge, Hopkins, and Alcock, with a full Court of Commons, when the Business proceeded upon as follows: A Petition from that Court to the House of Commons, setting forth the Scarcity of Bread Corn, and the dangerous Consequences arising from that House neglecting the proper Remedies, was agreed to, and ordered to be presented by Sheriff Lewes on Monday next. A Motion was made by Mr. Hurford, "That the Court doth concur with the Court of Aldermen, that a frequent Appeal to the People, by short Parliaments, is the undoubted Right of the Subject, and the only Means of Redress for the various Grievances under which the Inhabitants of these Kingdoms have so long laboured."
This Motion was agreed to, nom. con. Another Motion to the following Purport, "That it be recommended to the Electors of this Kingdom, that previous to an Election of a Representative in Parliament they enjoin the Candidate that he shall vote for, and use his Interest to procure, an Act of Parliament to shorten the Duration of Parliament." Upon this Motion a Debate ensued. Mr. Alderman H. opposed the Motion in a tedious Speech, which did not reflect much Honour either on his Head or Heart; the Whole of which was, that "short Parliaments would produce much Confusion." Nothing farther could be gathered from the worthy Alderman's Speech, although it was very long. He was answered in a very masterly Manner by Mr. Alderman Wilkes, who entered into the Causes of the Contusions, which the Alderman so much dreaded; and proved, incontestibly, that not only short, but annual Parliaments, were agreeable to the Rights of a free People, and the Spirit of our Constitution. The Aldermen Oliver, Sawbridge, and Lewes, were of the same Opinion, and each of these Gentlemen gave great Satisfaction. When the Question was put by the Recorder, there appeared only three Hands against it.
Then a Motion was made, that a Committee be appointed, consisting of six Aldermen, and twelve Common Councilmen, to prepare a Resolution, and circular Letters to the Corporations and Electors of England, for forwarding the above very important Business, and carried as above. Mr. Alderman Kirkman moved the Court, that a Petition be presented to Parliament against the baneful Practice of State Lotteries in Times of Peace. The Motion was agreed to, and referred to the same Committee as were appointed to further annual Parliaments.
This Day's Business will be a lasting Monument of the Virtue and Disinterestedness of the Citizens of London. The Alarm Bell is now rung by the first Corporation and the wealthiest Body of Men in England, and there is no Doubt but the various independent Corporations of this Kingdom, and the County Electors, will join in Unity with the Citizens of London in retaining their ancient Constitution, and undoubted Right of annually electing their Representatives in Parliament.
It was last Night rumoured about Town that Admiral Montague, and the other Commissioners who went with him on the Expedition to Rhode Island, had been tarred and feathered, and were returned over Land to Boston in a very woeful Condition. Yesterday Bills were stuck up at the Royal Exchange, for Volunteers to enter on Board the following Men of War, under the Command of Admiral Spry; namely, the Ocean, Albion, Somerset, Raisable, Torbay, Dublin, Boyne, and Kent.
Lord Bellingham's Health continues in a fluctuating State. On Thursday the Surgeons discovered where the Ball was lodged in his Body, which they apprehend will soon be extracted, without any dangerous Consequences.
The Pallas, Bailey, from South Carolina, is arrived in the Downs. She has been a missing Ship, and valued at 25,000 l. The Industry, Berwick, from Newcastle to London, was run foul of and deserted in the Swin last Friday Morning; she drove on Shore on
Orford Beach, but is likely to be got off. Three other Brigs came on Shore at the same Place, and all Hands perished, except one Man. Four more foundered, and all Hands lost. There has lately been discovered in the subterraneous Ruins of Pompeia a Room with a Window in it, containing four Panes of Glass, considerably thicker than any used at present, a Proof that the Invention of it is of older Date than has been imagined. Captain Pallison, who arrived a few Days since in the River, spoke with, in Lat. 27, Long. 43: 30, five French Men of War. The largest of them, which mounted 80 Guns, carried an Admiral's Flag at the fore Topmast Head. The assiduous Attention (says a Correspondent) which Lord Rochford has paid to settling the commercial Differences between the Courts of London and Lisbon, deserves the highest Praises, and the warmest Thanks. A Committee is summoned to meet at Guildhall on Monday next, in Order "to draw up the Form of an Engagement for the Electors of Great Britain to enter into for shortening the Duration of Parliaments," which Engagement is to be reported in the Court of Common Council.
PROVIDENCE (Rhode Island) April 3.
At the Superior Court, which sat here last Week, a Cause was tried, wherein Messrs. Clark and Nightingale, Merchants, of this Place, were Plaintiffs, and Charles Dudley, Esquire, Collector of his Majesty's Customs for the Port of Rhode Island, Defendant. The Plaintiffs sued in an Action of the Case, for refusing to admit a Port Entry of sundry West India Goods imported by them in June last, by which Means the said Goods were seized and forfeited. The Jury brought in a special Verdict, which was determined by the Court in Favour of the Plaintiffs; 500 l. 14s. 7d. Sterling Damages, and Costs of Suit. The Collector has appealed home.
NEW YORK, April 19.
Extract of a Letter from Albany, April 3. I SAW John Wall executed yesterday, for being in Connexion with those who counterfeited the Paper Currency of this Province; two others were hanged with him for that Fact. Wall was a hardened Villain, and I believe a great Rogue; as he hung on the Gallows, I had the Curiosity to take up his Cap, and saw, as I before heard, that he was cropped. Such Work as he and his Fellow Prisoners made the Day before they were executed was never known here before; they got off their Boils in the Night, and made their Escape out of Jail, but were soon apprehended, and their Irons renewed; the next Morning (when they were to be executed) they had them off again, barred the Room they were confined in, bid Defiance to the Sheriff and his Party, and were determined to kill any Person that should attempt to take them out; the Militia, and the whole City, were obliged to be got under Arms. Wall and his two Fellows kept them off, and none dared to go in. As they were to die at any Rate, Wall set Fire to the Jail, and expected to die so; but the Inhabitants soon brought the Engines, and extinguished it. His next Contrivance was thus: He got about two Pounds of Gunpowder from some malicious Fellow, put it in a Bottle, and had a Match to put to it when the Sheriff or any other Person dared to venture in. They thus kept the City in an Uproar for some Time; at last a Party suddenly broke in upon them, and, according to his Scheme, he fixed his Match to the Bottle, which he held in his Hand, but through the Mercy of Providence the Powder did not take Fire. After which they were carried to the Gallows, and executed according to their Desert. Wall seemed to die a Penitent, and sung Psalms at the Place of Execution."
PHILADELPHIA, April 21.
By Captain Simpson, from Cape Fear, we learn that on the 20th ult. two Dwelling-Houses were burnt to the Ground, and a Sloop, Captain Angel, belonging to Rhode Island, which was taking in Tar, was burnt to the Water's Edge, so that they did not save any Thing. The Fire was occasioned by burning the Woods to clear the Land; the Wind at that Time blowing very hard, communicated the Flames to the Houses. A Letter from Glasgow, dated January 21st, says: "Yesterday Morning we had a hard Gale of Wind, when the Peggy, Crawford, from Virginia, was obliged to cut away her Main and Mizzen Masts to save her from going ashore. We just hear that the Blandford, Troop, from Virginia, is put ashore between Irwin and Ayr."
On Sunday Night, the 17th of January, in a violent Storm, at W. N. W. the Brig Industry, Captain Savage, from this Port for Drogheda, laden with 600 Hogheads of Flaxseed, Lumber, Apples, &c. was forced up Dingy Bay, and wrecked on the Banks and Shoals at the Bottom of the Bay, near the Peninsula of Inch, already infamous for many Shipwrecks. The Captain and Cook were drowned, and the Remainder of the Crew escaped with the utmost Difficulty.
Captain Shewell, from Hispaniola, informs that the French are very strict at the Cape, searching every Vessel that arrives from America. Just before he failed they took a Sloop belonging to New York, laden with Flower, and a Sloop belonging to Rhode Island; the Captains and Crews are confined in Jail, as well as many others. He farther informs us, that a Gentleman from Rhode Island was in Jail there, and had been tried and sentenced to forfeit his Vessel and Cargo, and to stand in the Pillory for three Hours, with a Label at his Breast; and that the French are determined to suppress the American Trade, as they are now supplied with Provisions from Old France.
By Captain Biddle, from Port au Prince, we learn that a great many counterfeit Pistoles had been brought into the Island, and circulated there by some Traders from America; that one of the Offenders, belonging to Rhode Island, had been convicted at Cape François, and set in the Pillory for it; and that the French Inhabitants in general were so exasperated, on Account of this base Traffick, that an Englishman could scarce walk the Streets without being insulted.
WILLIAMSBURG, April 29.
The Elizabeth, Rankin, Brunswick, M'Larty, and Grizzie, Sym, from Glasgow, the Molly, Youngusband, from Liverpool, the Ocean, Ewing, and Randolph, M'Nabb, from London, are arrived in James River.
The Hope, Clark, from London, is arrived at York Town. Captain Clark says, that the two Estens were to sail a Day or two after him. By these Vessels we have the melancholy Account of the Loss of the Brigantine Pompey, Captain Yeoman, the latter End of February, in a violent Gale of Wind, on the Welsh Coast, and every Soul on Board perished; she failed in January last, from James River, bound to London, with Tobacco.
By the Nelly Frigate, Captain Greig, arrived in thirty one Days from London in Potomack, there is Advice that the great Suit between the late Lord Baltimore's Siders and his natural Son, about the Proprietaryship of Maryland, has been determined in Favour of the latter; and that Major Mollison, who came in the said Vessel, had brought over a Commission for continuing Governor Eden in his Government. We farther learn that there had been no late Failures among the Tobacco Merchants.
Captain New, who failed in November last from Potomack for London, was obliged to throw Part of his Cargo overboard, and put into Antigua to refit. By the last Ships, we learn that the Parliament was not expected to break up till the Middle of May; and that Lord North had determined to use his Interest in Parliament for empowering the East India Company to send annually two Ships directly from China to America, laden with Teas, Duty free.
Doctor GRAHAM, OCULIST and AURIST, from Philadelphia, is just arrived in this City. We hear that his Stay in the Colony will not exceed six Weeks; those, therefore, who are afflicted with any Disorder in their Eyes or Ears, should apply immediately. We learn farther, that the Doctor intends confining his Practice solely to the Diseases of those delicately curious and most important Organs; and that next Week publick Lectures will be delivered on their Structure, Diseases, &c.
Advertisements.
For SALE, either for Wheat, Corn, or Cash, and may be entered on at any Time as may suit the Purchaser;
A TRACT of LAND, containing upwards of six Hundred and fifty Acres, in James City County, on Chickahominy River, just above Barret's Ferry, and about ten or twelve Miles from Williamsburg. It is good for Grain or Tobacco, a fine Place for Stock, Fishing, and Fowling. The Terms may be known of the Subscriber, in Norfolk. GOODRICH BOUSH.
Just IMPORTED, and to be SOLD by the Subscriber, in WILLIAMSBURG,
A NEW Assortment of MILLINERY of the most fashionable Kinds, namely, Caps, Hats, Bonnets, and Cloaks, Suits of Blond, Stomachers, Gloves, Ribands, Fans, Minionet and Brussels Lace and Edgings, Blond and black Ditto, joining Ditto, rich white Satin, plain and figured Lustings, Ladies Riding Hats, Boys black and blue Hats and Caps, Ladies and Gentlemen's Groggam and Didbury Shoes, Cotton, Silk, and Thread Stockings, fine Jackett Muffin, Yard and Yard and a Half wide fine Book Ditto of both Kinds, striped Border Muffin Handkerchiefs, Gauze Handkerchiefs and Aprons, flowered and plain Gauzes, flowered Muffin, striped Ditto, fine Suits of Dresden, fine Childbed Linen, Ditto Baskets, Pincushions, and Lines, Diaper for Clouting, fine India Dimity, Paile, Tortoiseshell, and Horn Combs, Pale Top and Drop Earrings, Lockets and Cresses, Silver Corals, Toothpick Cases Ditto, a Variety of Rings, green Silk Purse, Smelling Bottles, French Wax Necklaces and Earrings, Garnet, Coral, and Agate Necklaces, Hair Rolls, fine Italian Breast Flowers, small Ditto, Japan Teaboards, fine and coarse Chip Hats, Stuff Quilts, black, white, and blue Persians, black Mede, white Sorceret, black Satin for Cloaks, Lace Satin for Ditto, Cradle Quilts, Comb Brushes, Shienne of all Colours, Powder Boxes and Puffs, scented and plain Powder, Pocket Books, Toys of all Sorts, Cotton Thread, French Ditto, Umbrellas, and dressed and undressed Bales, &c. All Sorts of Millinery made by MARGARET HUNTER.
CHOICE MADEIRA WINE, A FEW CASES OF CLARET, BARBADOS RUM, BRANDY, RAISINS, and MOHOGANY, TO BE SOLD BY PREESON BOWDOIN, NORFOLK.
RICHMOND Town, April 27, 1773.
I INTEND to leave this Colony immediately. JOHN MILLAR.
GLOUCESTER County, April 1, 1773.
WE, the Subscribers, finding the Wreck of a Vessel upon York Spit, which was broke all to Pieces, being but the Stem, Stern, and Floor, which we supposed to be the Boat belonging to Mr. Stephen Goff, in which the white Servants were drowned; and by sounding the Bottom with our Boat Hook, we found the Forefall, fore Hauland and Blocks, Jib, Anchor, Cable, Rudder, and two short Pieces of Cable. THOMAS POWELL. FIELDING HOGG. RICHARD HOGG. JOHN AUSTINE. ROBERT FREEMAN.
NORFOLK, April 13, 1773.
FIFTEEN BALES OF WOOLLENS, marked as below, and shipped by Messrs. Wakefield, Pratt, and Miers, of London, on Board the William, Musco Livingston Master, consigned to Order, will be delivered to any Person who produces Captain Livingston's Bill of Lading, and pays the necessary Charges. GR, - - - No. ABCDEFG, 7 Bales. R in a Diamond, No. ABCDEFG, 7 - - - H, - - - R in a Diamond, - 1 - - - JAMES ARCHDEACON.
** Who has for Sale a few Hogheads of old JAMAICA SPIRIT, WEST INDIA RUM, COFFEE, MUSCOVADO SUGAR, PIMENTA, GINGER, &c.
PETERSBURG, April 27, 1773.
BY Virtue of a Deed of Trust from Terrance Lambghidesell to Messrs. William Caringlane and Company, of Glasgow, will be sold to the highest Bidder, on Monday the 17th of May, at Dinwiddie Courthouse, being Court Day, a Tract of LAND in the said County, containing one Hundred Acres, adjoining the Lands of Abraham Smith, William Ford, and Drury Oliver; also two likely African born SLAVES. The Time of Payment to be agreed on at the Sale. THOMAS GORDON.
TO BE SOLD,
A VALUABLE Tract of LAND in Bedford County, about four Miles below the Courthouse, containing seven Hundred Acres, three Hundred of which are surveyed; the Land lies well, is in good Order for Cropping, and may be entered upon in the Fall; it is well timbered with Walnut Trees, and has on it a tolerable Dwellinghouse, other convenient Outhouses, and a good Barn. Any Person inclined to purchase may know the Terms, and be shown the Land, by applying to the Subscriber, who lives on the said Plantation. WILLIAM WILEY.
FOR SALE,
A LOT in the Town of Newcastle, whereon is a convenient dry Store, with a Counting Room, a large Granary shedded down each Side, a Stable, and a Chair House; all of which are in good Order, and built on the main Street. Also an Assortment of EUROPEAN and EAST INDIA GOODS, to the Amount of five Hundred Pounds Sterling. For Terms inquire of the Subscriber, who intends for Great Britain some Time before the Fall. SAMUEL PEARSON.
For SALE, and to be entered on immediately, THE HOUSE in which the late Captain William Prentis lived, next Door to Mr. Spurr's, below the Capitol, in Williamsburg. Inquire of JOHN PRENTIS.
To be SOLD in York Town, on Wednesday the 5th of May, at publick Vendue,
A STOREHOUSE at the Water Side underpinned with Stone, and a good Kitchen thereto. The Purchaser to give Bond and Security to Mr. Matthew Phripp, payable in October next. ARTHUR MILLER.
THE Sale of Mr. John Smith's LOTS in Norfolk, advertised to be sold on the 5th of May, is put off to Thursday the 13th of that Month.
PHILADELPHIA, March 26, 1773.
Eight Dollars Reward.
RUN away, yesterday Morning, an indentured English Servant Man named JONATHAN PINKARD, by Trade a Watchmaker, is about twenty three Years of Age, five Feet seven or eight Inches high, of a fresh Complexion, a little Pock-marked, wears his own very short light brown Hair, with sometimes a round Curl, is a talkative Fellow, ill limbed, knock-kneed, his left Leg particularly bending inward. He had on a light brown Coat and jacket, with Metal Buttons, almost new, a Pair of Leather Breeches, ribbed Worsted Stockings, and wore a dirty white Flannel Moth-eaten Surtout with a short Cape; he also took with him a Silver Watch, the Maker's Name Thomas Hill, London, No. 11151, with a Steel Chain, three or four Pounds in Cash, a small Bundle containing two fine ruffled and one coarse plain Shirt, &c. Whoever secures the said Servant in any of his Majesty's Jails, or so that his Master may have him again, shall receive the above Reward, and all reasonable Charges paid by SAMUEL JEFFERYS, in Second Street. N. B. Watchmakers are desired to take Notice in particular, as he will probably offer himself for Work, having no Tools with him.

To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, on Thursday the 20th of May, being Norfolk County Court Day,
AN exceeding pleasant and commodious LOT OF LAND just above the Town Point Wharf, on the main River, in the Borough of Norfolk, capable of great Improvement, on which is a new two Story Brick Dwellinghouse, with two good Warehouses, and other necessary and convenient Outbuildings, extremely convenient for a Merchant who carries on the West India Business, and with little Expense a Wharf may be made for a Ship to lie along-side. The above Lot and Improvements will be sold on paying one Half ready Money, and six Months Credit will be allowed for the other Half, giving Bond and Security to
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Prince George , on the 10th Instant (April) a lusty, strong, boney Negro Fellow named BOB, of a brownish Complexion, upwards of six Feet high, about fifty Years old, bow-kneed, and had on a Cotton Waistcoat and Breeches, and an Osnaburg Shirt; he carried away with himundry other Things, namely, a blue Coat and gray German Serge Waistcoat and other Things, a long Village, a Roman Nose, and one of his upper fore Teeth is out. He has a Wife at Mr. John Nelson's in Louisa, and I imagine he is gone up there, and may be harboured by some of his Negroes. The said Fellow is outlawed, and I will give TEN POUNDS Reward for his Head severed from his Body, or FORTY SHILLINGS if brought alive. He has been burnt in the Hand, and I suppose some evil disposed Person has given him a Pass, that he may pass for a Freeman.
RUN away, last Night, from the Subscriber , two Slaves, namely: A Negro Fellow named FORTUNE, about six Feet high, slim made, has a thin Nose for one so black as he is, and appears to be about forty Years of Age; he took with him sundry Wearing Apparel, particularly a Pair of Buckskin Breeches almost new, a Thicket Coat, a brown Sailor's Jacket, a red great Coat, a fine Hat, pretty much worn, with a large Bum, and commonly has it cocked up; wears a red Worsted Cap in common, and sometimes a Silk one. Also a Wench named AMINTA, appears to be about thirty Years of Age, short and well made, has much the Look of an Indian, and is so, her Mother having been brought from the Spanish Main to Rhode Island, has long black Hair, which she wears in her Neck, and took with her a black Quilt, a red Flannel Petticoat, a dark Ground Calico Gown, a blue and white one, and an old light coloured Stuff ditto, a red Cardina, a black Bonnet, and several other Things. I lately had them of Captain John Atkinson, and as they were brought from Rhode Island, it is probable they will endeavour to get there again, as they pretend to Freedom. I request it as a Favour of all Masters of Vessels not to harbour or entertain them, as it will probably be attended with bad Consequences. I will give a Reward of THREE POUNDS if they are taken fifty Miles from home and secured so that I may get them again, and THIRTY SHILLINGS if within that Distance.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in King George , on Wednesday the 30th of December, a Virginia born Negro Fellow named WILL, about forty Years of Age, very tall and slender, has a long Village, is very talkative, and by Trade a Carpenter; he had on an Osnaburg Shirt, Negro Cotton Coat and Breeches of a green Colour, a spotted Jacket of the same, and a Pair of white Virginia knit Stockings. I will give TEN POUNDS to any Person who will deliver him to me, or FIVE POUNDS to secure him in any Jail, and give me Notice thereof. I do strictly forewarn all Masters of Vessels from carrying him out of the Colony.
COMMITTED to Northumberland Jail , a NEGRO WOMAN about twenty five Years of Age, about five Feet high, very likely, and well made, says her Name is HANNAH, that she belongs to Mr. Charles Pinkard of Fauquier, and that she has been from her Master ever since July last. The Owner may have her on proving his Property, and paying Charges to
TAKEN up, in Charlotte , a white MARE about four Feet four Inches high, with a hanging Mane and Sprig Tail, the near hind Hoof white, and branded on the near Shoulder S. Potted, and appraised to fifty Shillings.
TAKEN up, in Louisa , a white HORSE about four Feet seven Inches high, about eight Years old, branded on the near Buttock as well as can be made out L or IL in a Piece, and shod all round. Potted, and appraised to twelve Pounds.
TAKEN up, in Louisa , a dark bay HORSE about thirteen Years of Age, with a Star in his Forehead, a Snip on his Nose, a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, paces slow, trots well, and branded on the near Buttock. Potted, and appraised to four Pounds.
TAKEN up, in Albemarle , a bright bay MARE about four Feet six Inches high, with some Saddle Spots, a hanging Mane and Sprig Tail, paces naturally, and branded on the off Buttock. Potted, and appraised to ten Pounds.
TAKEN up, in Goochland , a red and white HEIFER about three Years old, marked with a Crop and Slit in each Ear. Potted, and appraised to twenty five Shillings.
TAKEN up, in Goochland , a black HORSE about four Feet eight or nine Inches high, with some Saddle Spots, a hanging Mane and bushy Tail, a Star in his Forehead, a Snip on his Nose, a small white Spot on his off Flank, and branded on the off Shoulder. Potted, and appraised to ten Pounds.
TAKEN up, in Mecklenburg , a black and white COW, marked with a Crop, Slit, and Overkeel, in the left Ear, and two Nicks in the right. Potted, and appraised to fifty Shillings.
TAKEN up, in Henrico , a bright bay MARE four Feet five Inches high, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, a Star in her Forehead, her off hind Foot white, and branded on the off Buttock S. Potted, and appraised to eight Pounds.
TAKEN up, in Bedford , a bright bay MARE about four Feet one or two Inches high, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, a Blaze Face, branded on the near Shoulder, but the Brand not perceivable, trots naturally, and has a small Bell on, with a large Buckle; also a dark bay YEARLING FILLY with a large Star in her Forehead. Potted, and appraised to three Pounds.
TAKEN up, in Henrico , a pied COW with a Crop and Underkeel in each Ear. Potted, and appraised to forty Shillings.
TAKEN up, in Cumberland , a small bay MARE; two or three Years old this Spring, dockt, and branded on the Buttock L. Potted, and appraised to three Pounds.
TAKEN up, in Cumberland , a dark bay MARE about four Feet five Inches high, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, and branded on the off Buttock A. Potted, and appraised to seven Pounds.
TAKEN up, in Dinwiddie , a white MARE about four Feet eight Inches high, with a hanging Mane and long Tail, Part of her two near Hoofs white, but no Brand perceivable.
TAKEN up, in Cumberland , a white HORSE about eight Years old, four Feet eight Inches high, with a little White in his Face, shod all round, appears to be a Waggon Horse, is much rubbed with the Har ness, trots altogether, has a small Bell on, a hanging Mane and very short Dock, but no Brand perceivable. Potted, and appraised to ten Pounds.
TAKEN up, in Cumberland , a brinded OX with a Crop and a Hole in the right Ear, and an Underkeel in the left. Potted, and appraised to four Pounds.
AS I find it very inconvenient to attend the Courts at Williamsburg , I must therefore desire all those indebted to James and John Taylor to discharge their Accounts immediately; those that remain unsettled will be put into the Hands of an Attorney, without farther Notice.
Just IMPORTED from London, and to be SOLD by the Subscriber, in Williamsburg ,
A NEW Assortment of MILLINERY of the most fashionable Kind, namely: Caps, Stomachers, Suits of Blond, Fans, Ribands, Gloves, and Minionet and Brussels Lace and Edgings, Blond and black Do. Joining Do. A Variety of genteel white Lustrings figured and plain, white flowered Satin, coloured, plain, and striped Lustrung, black Mantua, Satin Petticoats, black and white Riding Hats, Ladies and Gentlemen's Groom and Didbury Shoes, Childrens Shoes, Silk and Cotton Stockings, Childrens Do. Boys black and blue Caps, Ladies Cloaks, Bonnets, and Hats, Yard wide fine Book Muslins, Yard and a Half wide Do. fine Jacket Do. of both Kinds, striped Border Muslin Handkerchiefs, Gauze Aprons and Handkerchiefs, plain and flowered Gauzes and Cagut, Paste Bows, Necklaces, and Earrings, Shoe, Knee, and Stock Paste Buckles, Paste and Maracatite Sprigs, Paste Combs, plain Do. plain Gold and set Lockets, French Bead Necklaces and Earrings, Gold Bands, Buttons, and Loops, Silver Stomachers and Sleeve Knots, Silver Blond Lace, India Perfans, Net Hoods, Cambricks, Lawns, and Long Lawns, fine Childbed Linen, Baskets and Chimney Lanes, Diaper and Corded Dimity, Purl, Cotton Thread, French Do. Hair Rolls and Curls, &c. &c. All Kinds of MILLINERY made in the NEWEST FASHION.
At a COURT held for CHESTERFIELD County, November 6, 1772.
Thomas Osborne, Plaintiff, against Joseph Tucker and Daniel McCallum, Defendants, In Chancery. THE Defendant Joseph being beyond Sea, and the Defendant Daniel having Effects of the said Joseph's in his Hands, on the Motion of the Plaintiff, order d. that said Daniel do not pay, convey away, or secrete the said Effects, till the farther Order of this Court.
B O L T O N
STANDS at Sandy Point this Season, and will cover Mares at fifteen Shillings the Leap, and forty five Shillings the Season. He is an imported Horse, upwards of fifteen Hands high, and a beautiful Bay. Also
S P O R T S M A N,
a large black Horse, got by BOLTON, on a Gray Mare, will cover at seven Shillings and Sixpence a Leap, and twenty Shillings the Season. Good Pasturage gratis, and the greatest Care taken of the Mares, but I will not be answerable for any that may get away.
A S I BER , well behaved Man, capable of teaching Children to read and write, and at the same Time properly qualified as an Accountant, may meet with Employment in a Gentleman's Family by Application to the Printer hereof.
JUST imported from London, in the William ,
Captain Livington, a large Assortment of MEDICINES of the freshest and best Qualities, which I propose selling, by Wholesale or Retail, at the lowest Rates, for Cash, and to keep a medicinal Store opposite Frederickburg lower Warehouses, well stocked twice a Year with fresh imported Drugs. I have PATENT MEDICINES, from the genuine Wholesale Warehouses, such as Bateman's, Walker's, and Norris's Drops, Jackson's and Greenough's Tincture, Squire's, Daffey's, and Stoughton's Elixirs, Anderson's, Hooper's, and Lockyer's Pills, Godfrey's Cordial, British Oil, James's Powders, Tarlington's Balm, Beau de Vie, Balm of Honey, Hungary and Lavender Waters, &c. &c. Also MEDICINE CHESTS, with full Directions, extremely useful to Families living distant from the Assistance of Physicians.
THE Subscriber has for Sale, on very reasonable Terms , twenty Thousand Acres of LAND, in different Tracts, lying on Dan and Smith Rivers, and the Branches thereof. For Terms apply to me, in Petersburg.
T H E G R E A T C O C K M A T C H, BETWEEN THE UPLAND AND LOWLAND GENTLEMEN,
WILL BE FOUGHT IN WILLIAMSBURG ON TUESDAY THE 25th of MAY.
Wanted immediately , A PERSON well recommended as to Morals, and capable of teaching LATIN, GREEK, WRITING, and ARITHMETICK. To such a one I will give the Sum of forty Pounds a Year, and he shall also have the sole Profit arising from whatever Scholars he teaches above eight, not exceeding twelve. If Application is not made, either personally or by Letter to me, in Cumberland, in about a Month's Time, I shall not expect it at all from this Advertisement.
The PLANTER, THOMAS LILLY MASTER,
WILL be ready to take in Tobacco, on Liberty of Consignment, by the 15th of May, at eight Pounds Sterling a Tun. Notes or Orders will be received by the Advertiser, in York, or on Board the said Ship, at the Honourable Colonel Corbin's.
FOR SALE,
SEVENTEEN Hundred Acres of LAND in Isle of Wight County, well timbered with Pine, Oak, and Cypress, about fourteen Miles from Smithfield, and the same Distance from Warwicks Bay. For Terms apply to
COMMITTED to the Jail of Pittsylvania , a yellow Negro or Mulatto Man Slave named HARRY, who says he belongs to the Estate of Colonel William Lightfoot of Sandy Point, deceased; he is about fifty Years old, has a gray Beard, and wears a Pair of old Osnaburg Trousers, and a Negro Cotton Jacket.
TAKEN up, in Goochland , a MARE and YEARLING COLT. The Mare has a bay Rump and Back, her Belly and the under and upper Part of her Neck are mostly white, has a Glands Eye, a Blaze in her Face, which breaks down the right Side to her Nose, one hind Foot and Part of both her fore Feet white, paces very well, and branded on the near Buttock FIF; the Colt is a Bay, with a Blaze in her Face, which breaks down the left Side to her Nose, both hind Feet white, and paces and trots. Potted, and appraised to six Pounds.
TAKEN up, in Cumberland , two Yearlings, one a dark brinded BULL, marked with a Crop and Slit in each Ear; the other a red brinded STEER, marked with a Swa Nowfork in each Ear and an Underkeel in the left. Potted, and appraised, the Bull to twelve Shillings and Sixpence, and the Steer to twenty five Shillings.
TAKEN up, in Halifax , a bright bay Horse, about four Feet seven Inches high; he trots and gallops slow, has a Star in his Forehead, a small Bell upon him, and is branded on the near Shoulder and near Buttock II, and on the off Shoulder and Buttock T, but very dull. Potted, and appraised to seven Pounds four Shillings.
TAKEN up, in Lunenburg , a brown pied Cow, marked with a Swallowfork and Underkeel in each Ear. Also a brown Cow Calf marked with a smooth Crop in each Ear, and an Underkeel in the left Ear. Potted, and appraised to fifty Shillings.
TAKEN up, in Dinwiddie , a small black YEARLING FILLY, with a small Bell on, trots, and is branded on the near Shoulder R. Potted, and appraised to four Pounds ten Shillings.
TAKEN up, in Dinwiddie , a bay HORSE about fourteen Hands high supposed to be eleven Years old, a natural Trotter, has been lately trimmed behind the Ears, is shod before, dockt short, but has no perceivable Brand. Potted, and appraised to seven Pounds ten Shillings.
TAKEN up, in Prince Edward , two COWS, one of them without Horns, one is a red Cow with a short Crop in the right Ear, and a Hole in the left, the other is a brinded one, has a short Tail and white Face, with a short Crop in the right Ear, and a Hole in the left. Potted, and appraised to five Pounds ten Shillings.
TAKEN up, in Pittsylvania , a dark bay MARE about four Feet six Inches high, four Years old, with a white Spot on her off Side, several notable Flesh Marks, some Saddle Spots, a small plain Star in her Face, a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, her Mane pretty much mixed with white Hairs over her Withers, paces naturally, shod all round, and branded on the near Shoulder H. Potted, and appraised to five Pounds.
The Brig LIGHTFOOT, JACOB COOPER MASTER,
WILL be ready to take in Tobacco, at Bermuda Hundred, on Account of Mess. Norton and Son, by the Beginning of May. Notes or Orders may be lodged with J. H. Norton, Esquire, Williamsburg, Thomas Lilly of York Town, or the Captain on Board.
W A N T E D,
A MIDDLE aged Man capable to take the Charge of a Store, and who will give constant Attendance. Such a Person, coming well recommended, may hear of good Encouragement by applying to the Printer.
I HAVE for SALE two Pair of French BURR STONES , four Feet Diameter, equal in Quality to any in the Colony.
AN Advertisement some Time ago published
by Mr. Richard Hanlon, Attorney for Sir Lyonel Lyde, informing the Publick that several Negroes by me advertised for Sale, as the Estate of Mr. John Monroe, deceased, had been mortgaged by Colonel Andrew Monroe to the said Lyonel Lyde, to secure the Payment of a very considerable Sum of Money, gave me the first Information of that Transaction; since which I thought it incumbent upon me, as well to justify my own Conduct as to prevent any Unseasiness in the Purchasers of those Slaves, to make an Inquiry into the Matter, and I can now, with the greatest Certainty, assure them that Colonel Andrew Monroe, previous to the Mortgage before mentioned, had not only given the Slaves aforesaid to his Son, the said John Monroe, by a Marriage Contract recorded in the County Court of Westmoreland, but had also given him up the Possession of them at least twelve Months before the Execution of the said Mortgage. Colonel Monroe may have imposed upon Mr. Lyde, but could not thereby effect the Title of his Son in an Estate given to him in the Manner aforesaid; and therefore I hope the Purchasers will immediately discharge their Bonds, which I presume some of them have prevented from doing by Mr. Hanlon's Publication.
DINWIDDIE, March 30, 1773.
I HAVE not yet sold the Land on Meberrin River , which was formerly advertised; and as I am still inclined to dispose of it, and in my former Advertisement gave a very short Description of the Land, with its Conveniencies, I think it necessary now to mention some other Circumstances relative to it, which may perhaps be an Inducement to a Purchaser. The low Ground, containing two Hundred Acres, is superior to most, and inferior to none, on that Part of the River; Part of the high Land, without the Assistance of Manure, will produce large Tobacco, but the greatest Part is more suitable for Grain, being a light, lively, and fertile Soil, which may be worked with Ease and Advantage; the back Land is still lighter, but affords extraordinary Range for Cattle and Hogs. On the Tract there is a high, pleasant, and beautiful Situation for a Dwellinghouse and Plantation, very convenient to an excellent Spring. This Land is almost equally convenient to all the Warehouses established between Petersburg and Milner's, as likewise to several Mills; and, in a Word, was it in the Possession of a Proprietor who lived upon or near the Premises, I am not acquainted with a considerable Inconvenience that would attend it. But as it is entirely out of the Circle of my Business, and I confess that I am but a Novice in Husbandry, I would willingly turn it into something that may be more convenient to me. My Price is allowed, by several who are well acquainted with the Land, to be very moderate, and the Purchaser may fix the Time of Credit, confining himself within the Compass of three Years.
AS soon as the Subscriber can dispose of his Effects and settle his Affairs , he proposes to leave this Colony. A valuable Collection of BOOKS in English, Latin, Greek, Mathematicks, Philosophy, and other Subjects, with BOOK CASE, DESK, TABLES, and other Furniture, are for Sale.
SO little Attention was paid to Mr. James
McDowall's Advertisement of April last that many of the Accounts remain unsettled on the Books kept by him for Mess. Alexander Speirs, John Bowman, and Company, at this Place. As they are now in my Possession, I desire those whose Accounts are unsettled to come and ascertain their Balances by Bond, without Loss of Time, otherwise their Accounts will be put into an Attorney's Hands. Immediate Payment is expected from those whose Debts have been long due. Those who have Demands against Mr. McDowall, on the said Company's Account, are desired to apply to me for Payment.
Wanted, on Charter for GLASGOW, A VESSEL from three to four Hundred and fifty Hogheads of Tobacco Burthen. For Terms apply to Mess. John Lawrence and Company, Merchants in Norfolk, or the Subscriber, in Warwick.

POETS CORNER.
THE INDEPENDENT FARMER.
SEE where the Farmer, with a Master's Eye, Surveys his little Kingdom, and exults In sovereign Independence. At a Word, His feathery Subjects in Obedience flock Around his feeding Hand; who, in Return, Yield a delicious Tribute to his Board, And o'er his Couch their downy Plumage spread. The Peacock here expands his eye-plum'd Fan, A glittering Pageant to the Mid-day Sun, In the stiff Awkwardness of foolish Pride. The swelling Turkey peps his flatly Step, And calls the bristling Feathers round his Head. There the loud Herald of the Morning struts Before his cackling Dames, the passive Slaves Of his promiscuous Pleasure. O'er the Pond, See the gray Gander, with his female Train, Bending their lofty Necks; and gabbling Ducks, Rejoicing on the Surface, clap their Wings; Whilst, wheeling round in airy wanton Flights, The glossy Pigeons chase their sportive Loves, Or in soft Cooings tell their amorous Tale. Here Stacks of Hay, there Pyramids of Corn, Promise the future Market large Supplies; While, with an Eye of Triumph, he surveys His Piles of Wood, and laughs at Winter's Frown. In silent Rumination, see the Kine, Beneath the Walnut's Shade, patiently wait, To pour into his Pails their milky Stores; While, pent from Mischief, far from Sight remov'd, The bristly Herd, within their fattenings Sty, Remind him to prepare, in many a Row, The gaily-blooming Pea, the fragrant Bean, And broad-leav'd Cabbage, for the Ploughman's Feast. These his Amusements, his Employments these; Which, still arising in successive Change, Give to each vary'd Hour a new Delight. Peace and Contentment, with their Guardian Wings, Enclose his nightly Slumbers. Rofy Health, When the gay Lark's sweet Marin wakes the Morn, Treads in his dewy Footsteps round the Field; And Cheerfulness attends his closing Day. No racking Jealousy, nor fullen Hate, Nor Fear nor Envy, discomfort his Breast. His only Enemies the prowling Fox, Whose nightly Murders thin the bleating Fold; The hardy Badger; the rapacious Kite, With Eye malignant on the little Brood, Sailing around portentous; the rank Stork Thirsting, ah, savage Thirst! for harmless Blood; The Corn-devouring Partridge; timorous Hare; Th' amphibious Otter bold; the Weazel fly, Pilfering the Yolk from its enclosing Shell; And Moles, a dirty, undermining Race. These all his Foes, and these, alas! compar'd With Man to Man, an inoffensive Train. 'Gainst these, assisted by th' entangling Net, Th' explosive Thunder of the level'd Tube, Or Tails unwearied of his social Friend, Th' faithful Dog, he wages rural War; And, Health and Pleasure in the sportive Field Obtaining, he forgives their venial Crimes. O happy he! happiest of mortal Men! Who, far remov'd from Slavery as from Pride, Fears no Man's Frown, nor cringing waits to catch The gracious Nothing of a great Man's Nod: Where the lac'd Beggar busies for a Bribe, The Purchase of his Honour; where Deceit, And Fraud, and Circumpection, dress'd in Smiles, Hold shameful Commerce, and beneath the Mask Of Friendship and Sincerity betray Him; nor the stately Mansion's gilded Pride, Rich with what-e'er the imitative Arts, Painting or Sculpture, yield to charm the Eye; Nor shining Heaps of massy Plate, enwrought With curious, costly Workmanship, allure. Tempted nor with the Pride nor Pomp of Power, Nor Pageants of Ambition, nor the Mines Of grasping Avarice, nor the poison'd Sweets Of pamper'd Luxury, he plants his Foot With Firmness on his old paternal Fields, And stands unshaken. There sweet Prospects rise, Of Meadows smiling in their flowery Pride, Green Hills and Dales, and Cottages embower'd, The Scenes of Innocence and calm Delight. There the wild Melody of warbling Birds, And cool refreshing Groves, and murmuring Springs, Invite to sacred Thought, and lift the Mind From low Pursuits to meditate the God!
ANY Person having one, two, or more likely NEGRO MEN to hire out may, by applying to the Printer, hear of one who will give good Wages for them the Remainder of this Year, or for twelve Months.
PURSUANT to the last Will and Testament of Mr. John Smith of Hanover County, deceased, will be sold, on the Premises, some Time next Fall, and to be entered on at Christmas, a valuable Tract of LAND in Hanover County, on the Brook Swamp, between four and five Miles from Richmond, and two Miles from the Meadow Bridges, known by the Name of Pickenack, containing about two Hundred Acres, whereon is an extraordinary Piece of Dam Work, nearly finished, which will effectually keep off the Overflowings of the Brook from upwards of a Hundred Acres of exceeding rich well timbered low Grounds. Likewise a Tract of about two Thousand Acres of very rich and well timbered LAND in Goochland County, on James River, near the Mouth of the Great Bird, and opposite to Elk Island, having on it a Plantation in Order for working sixteen Hands; and the Soil is very suitable for Tobacco, Wheat, and Corn. This Land will be sold altogether, or in Parcels, as may best suit the Purchasers. Also the Reversion of a Tract of about five Hundred Acres of very good Tobacco and Grain LAND, in Goochland County, on the Branches of the Little Bird, contiguous to the Lands of Mr. Samuel Giff, at whose Death the Purchaser will have Possession. The Lands in Goochland will be sold by Mr. John Ware, near the Premises, and the Days of Sale and Time of Payment will be made known in a future Advertisement.
All Persons indebted to the Estate of Mr. John Smith, deceased, are desired to make immediate Payment, and those who have any Demands against the same are requested to make them known to WILLIAM ANDERSON, Executor.
N. B. For the Convenience of those who may have Accounts to settle with me for Transactions had with Mr. Smith, I shall attend at every Hanover Court, and the two succeeding Days in Hanover Town.
FREDERICKSBURG, MARCH 24, 1773.
THE immediate Settlement of my Affairs being at this Time absolutely necessary, all Persons, therefore, indebted to me, are requested to be speedy in their Payments; and those who have open Accounts are required to come and settle them, and give Bonds or other Specialties, as all Accounts that remain unsettled the 1st of May next will then be put in Suit.
The HOUSES and LOTS whereon I now live are for Sale; they consist of a large Dwelling-house, Storehouse, and every other necessary Building for a Merchant and a Family. The Terms may be known by applying to JAMES ROBB. E
I INTEND to leave the Colony for a few Months, and to return again. THOMAS HARVEY.
RICHMOND, APRIL 22, 1773.
WHEREAS John Woody, of the County of Hanover, did some Time ago purchase a Negro Girl from Samuel Allen, of Henrico County, for which we gave our Bond for a Balance of thirty seven Pounds, payable to the said Allen this Month, and at the same Time we gave our Promise to pay fifteen Pounds, in Part of the said Bond, to Mr. Patrick Coutts, and have paid ten Pounds in Part of the said Promise, since which the said Woody has been informed that the said Allen had no Right to the said Negro Girl, this is therefore to forewarn any Person from taking an Assignment of the said Bond, as we will not pay any more of it until the said Woody has a good Right to the Negro. HOGG and ROWLAND.
HANOVER TOWN, APRIL 7, 1773.
THE Debts contracted with Mr. John Smith, late of this County, on Account of Mr. Samuel Giff of London, by proper Authority are now in my Possession to be collected. The Indulgencies already granted ought to be a sufficient Inducement for all those in Arrears to make immediate Payment; those who fail may depend that their Accounts will be put into the Hands of Attorneys, without Respect to Persons, or farther Application. The Books are in my Possession, at Hanover Town, where those concerned may apply. I shall regularly attend the adjacent Courts, for the above Purpose. THOMAS SMITH.
N. B. I shall be much obliged to those Gentlemen Attorneys that have business of Mr. John Smith's, relative to the above, to transmit me a State of it, that I may be enabled to know in what Manner to proceed.
TO BE SOLD,
THE House whereon I now live, in the City of Williamsburg, with four Lots of Land, and all convenient Outhouses thereon. For Particulars inquire of HALDENBY DIXON.
RICHMOND, April 6, 1773.
IMMEDIATELY after the ensuing General
Court I shall leave this Colony. As there are many Debts still due to me which were contracted when I was formerly in the Country, I flatter myself that the several Debtors will now think it Time they were discharged. This I request of them as a particular Favour. Those who fail complying may be assured that their Bonds will, without farther Notice, be put into the Hands of a Lawyer. If there are any Demands against me, I beg they may be made known, and they will be instantly paid. ALEXANDER DONALD.
FREDERICKSBURG, April 2, 1773.
AS I intend for Britain in June, I propose selling, on Monday the 24th of May next, being Frederickburg Fair Day, or privately, as may be agreed upon before, four Hundred Acres of LAND upon the Fall Hill, three Miles from Town, with TWENTY SLAVES, and STOCKS of CATTLE, &c. Ten and one Third Acres of MEADOW LAND, adjoining the Town. The FERRY and FERRY LOTS, together with the Store and Warehouses thereon. For ready Money, Bills, or Tobacco, as may suit the Purchasers. JAMES HUNTER, Junior.
YORK TOWN, APRIL 10, 1773.
NONPAREIL
STANDS in my Lots at this Place, to cover Mares at 20s. the Leap, and 3l. the Season. He is a fine Dark Bay, full fifteen Hands and an Inch high, is as full blooded as any Horse in America, and in the Year 1769 beat Mr. Galloway's famous Horse Selim. THOMAS LILLY.
THOMAS LILLY.
To be SOLD, on Tuesday the 27th of this Instant (April) before Mr. Robert Anderson's Tavern, in Williamsburg,
A TRACT of LAND in York County, late the Property of John Goodwin, deceased, containing 196 Acres. It is to be sold for ready Money, and Security will be given to the Purchaser that a good Right shall be made to him.
RICHARD ANDERSON.
RICHMOND, April 12, 1773.
RUN away, from on Board the Ship Donald, lying at Four Mile Creek, on Friday Night last, the following Convicts: DANIEL SUTHERLAND, a stout young Man, his Dress unknown; LAUCHLANE WILL, WILLIAM M'WILLIAM, WILLIAM ELDER, DONALD ELDER, and ALEXANDER McDONALD, all Highlanders, and three of them habited in their own Country Garb. They may easily be discovered, as Sutherland is the only one among them who can speak English distinctly. It is imagined they will endeavour to get on Board a Ship. All Masters of Vessels are forewarned from harbouring or carrying them out of the Colony, at their Peril. Whoever takes her up, and conveys her to me in Williamsburg, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward. JANE VOBE.
STRAYED, or STOLEN, from the Sub-
scriber, on Wednesday the last of March, a small dark bay or black MARE with a Star in her Forehead, one hind Foot white a little higher than her Hock, a Switch Tail and full roached Mane, several Saddle Spots on her Back, her two fore Feet shod, and branded on the Shoulder and Buttock, but the Brand is not known, nor on which Side. Whoever takes her up, and conveys her to me in Williamsburg, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward. JANE VOBE.
TO BE SOLD,
A VALUABLE Plantation known by the Name of the Beaverdam, containing twelve Hundred and forty Acres, chiefly good low Grounds, with a very extensive and fine Range for Cattle and Hogs. Also a Plantation well known by the Name of Boyd's Place, containing upwards of a Thousand Acres, with great Part fine low Grounds, and the rest good Corn Land; the Situation is the best for publick Business of any in this Part of the Country, and it commands an extensive Range on every Side. Likewise a Thousand and fifty Acres on Little River and Mountain Creek, in the lower End of Orange County, most of it as good Tobacco Land as any in this Province. For Particulars apply to William Johnson, Esquire, at Hillsborough, or Benjamin M'culloch, Esquire, of Halifax County. The Time of Payment will be allowed as may suit the Purchasers. GRANVILLE County, NORTH CAROLINA, March 26, 1773.
FOR CHARTER,
THE new BRIG Mentor, John Curwen Master, Burthen about a Hundred and eighty to two Hundred Hogheads of Tobacco, sheathed on the Stocks, and well calculated to take the Ground in a dry Harbour. For Terms apply to the Subscriber, in Norfolk. JOHN GREENWOOD.
Who has for Sale LISBON WINE in Quarter Casks, BARBADOS RUM and SPIRITS, GRENADA RUM, MUSCOVADO SUGAR, GINGER, PIMENTA, and a few Crates and Hogheads of ARTHEN WARE, well assorted.
ANY Person who drew the HALF ACRE LOTS in the Town of Manchester, No. 285 and 288, may hear of a Purchaser by applying to the Printer.
FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
RUN away from the Subscriber, near Baltimore Town, Maryland, on the 10th of February last, an Irish indented Servant Lad named PATRICK MALONE, about twenty Years of Age, five Feet five or six Inches high, well set, with short brown Hair, speaks quick, and a good Deal on the Brogue; he had on, when he went away, a Felt Hat, a Fearnought Jacket, Cotton Breeches, coarse Yarn Stockings, and Country Shoes; it is supposed he stole, and carried with him, a blue Coat trimmed with flat Metal Buttons, a blue Jacket and Country Cloth Breeches, a white Linen Shirt, and a Pair of white Yarn or Thread Stockings. Whoever secures him so that I may get him again shall have FIFTY SHILLINGS if he is taken in the County, and the above Reward if out of the Province, besides all reasonable Charges for bringing him home. JAMES FRANKLIN.
Wanted immediately, on CHARTER for PORT GLASGOW,
A VESSEL of about four Hundred Hogheads Burthen. For Terms apply to the Subscribers, at Milner's Warehouse. CUMING, WARWICK, & Co.
To be SOLD, on Wednesday the 5th of May next,
ABOUT ten LOTS of LAND, situated in the Borough of Norfolk, and on the main River, on one of which is erected a Brick GRIST WINDMILL in good Repair. One Half the Purchase Money to be paid on the 23d of July 1774, and the Remainder on the 23d of July 1775, upon Bond, with good Security, carrying Interest. The Lands, &c. will be shown at any Time before the Day of Sale by applying to Mr. John Smith. THOMAS TALBOT. JOSEPH HUTCHINGS.
WHEREAS I intend shortly to remove
from the Place where I now live to Fincastle County, on the Western Waters, it is expected that all those Gentlemen who have Business to do with me will attend at the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, where I shall be from the 15th of April next to the 25th of the said Month, in Order to have all those Accounts which are now unsettled properly adjusted. ISRAEL CHRISTIAN.
FREDERICKSBURG, February 24, 1773.
WHEREAS some of those indebted on the
Books here have not paid due Regard to my Advertisement of the 1st of December last, I give them this last Notice, that all and every Account not paid off, or a good Part of it, before the 20th of April, or our May Fair at the farthest, or settled by Bond or other Specialty before that Time, will most certainly be put into the Hands of a Lawyer, without Respect of Persons. Unavoidable Reasons will oblige me to this, which I shall probably in Time acquaint them with. Those who may be put to Trouble and Expense cannot now blame me for Want of Notice.
I have sold Part of the Goods now on Hand, but so as not to disturb the Store, and have still a large Affortment on Hand, which I will sell by Wholesale or Retail, on the Terms formerly advertised. Any Person who will purchase the Whole shall have them on Terms which they themselves will say are very low and reasonable. GEORGE MITCHELL.
FOR SALE,
THE PLANTATION whereon the Subscriber lives, in King and Queen County, about a Mile and a Half from Todd's Warehouse, containing six Hundred and fifty seven Acres, in good Order for Cropping, having a large Peach and Apple Orchard thereon beginning to bear, a Quantity of low Grounds which may be made good Meadow with little Expense; the Dwellinghouse, Kitchen, and other Outhouses, have been built between four and five Years. Any Person inclined to purchase may know the Terms by applying to R. DANGERFIELD.
TO BE SOLD,
A VALUABLE Tract of LAND, containing about sixteen Hundred Acres, more or less, lying on the River Shenando, in Berkley County (formerly Frederick) which is one of the most flourishing Counties in Virginia. The Land is exceeding good, well timbered, and adapted to the raising of all Kinds of Grain, as well as Tobacco, and has the Advantage of a very fine Stream of Water, on which is a Blomery with two Fires, a good Stone Merchant Mill with two Pair of Stones, a Saw Mill, a Distillery conveniently situated, a Smith's Shop, a Cooper's Shop, and many other Outhouses. There are about a Hundred and fifty Acres of Land cleared, and about fifty Acres of Meadow may be made with a very small Expense, one Half of which may be watered any Day in the Year. A Stock of Cattle, Horses, and Hogs, some Household Furniture, and all Kinds of Utensils proper for carrying on the above different Branches of Business, will be sold with or without the Land. For farther Particulars inquire of Mr. William Little, on the Premises. Credit will be allowed for Part of the Purchase Money, the Purchaser giving Bond, with Security if required. For Terms apply to the Honourable George William Fairfax, Esquire, Carlyle and Dalton in Alexandria, or Preston Bowdin in Norfolk. (Tf)
THE Subscriber will sell, on reasonable
Terms, his LAND and HOUSES whereon he now lives, known by the Name of HOOD'S, in Prince George, on James River. As to its Situation, it is hardly worth While to say any Thing about it, though it is looked upon to be the most pleasant Place, and has the finest View, of any Seat on James River. I have just now finished a House upon it, in the best Manner, thirty three Feet by thirty, with two large Rooms and a large Passage below, and three Rooms above; there is also a Garden lately paled in with good Cypress Palings, with all necessary Outhouses, a very good Storehouse, sundry Lumber Houses, and a Set of very good Tobacco Warehouses. I think, with very little Trouble, there might be an Inspection erected there again, as it is the general Cry of the People for it; and as the Place is very well situated for carrying on both the Inland and West India Trade, any Person, with a pretty good Capital, may carry them on to a very great Extent. Whoever is inclined to purchase may know the Terms by applying to Mr. William M'Whann, Merchant in Blandford, or to the Subscriber, on the Premises. DAVID SCOTT.
For SALE, in the Town of NEWCASTLE,
A LARGE two Story DWELLINGHOUSE, with three commodious Rooms on a Floor, each with a Fireplace. It is exceedingly well calculated for a Tavern, and is pleasantly situated near the River. The Terms may be known of the Subscriber, near the Premises. W. JOHNSON.