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WARSAW, January 26.
THE Accounts received from Czestochau are still very extraordinary. According to some, the Russians assaulted that Place; but their scaling Ladders being too short, they were obliged to retire without Success. Other Advices assert that on the 11th the Confederates made a Sally, during which, their Communications with the City being cut off by the Russians, the latter entered with the Fugitives, and on this Occa-
sion the Confederates had three Thousand Men killed and wounded. Brigadier Urga commands at present the Russian Garrison in the Place. From the frontiers of POLAND, January 19. The 13th Instant the Confederates entered Cracovia, when the Russian Garrison, being too weak to resist them, retired to the Castle, where they cannot hope to be succoured by Colonel Dreywitz, who was near Czestochau the 12th Instant. Forty six Towns, and five Hundred and eighty Villages, have been depopulated by the Plague. We fear the Approach of the Summer, when it is thought this Disorder, which has only abated this cold Season, will again begin to rage.
The route from Chelmec, seven Miles from Cracow, that the Russian Troops have entered the former, and taken Possession of the Magazines and the Treasury there. It is said that the same Thing happened in several other Places; but this News is not to be depended on, any more than the Letters from the Banks of the Vistula, which advise that the Town of Thorn is occupied by foreign Troops.
The Confederates, in Number about one Thousand Men, who attempted to make themselves Masters of Cracovia, and who only were able to possess themselves of the Town called Wazimer, were driven from thence by a Russian Lieutenant, who commanded the Place, and, having received a Reinforcement from Oldschelwitz attacked the Confederates, who retired, after having three Hundred Men killed, and leaving one Hundred Horses and seven Pieces of Cannon for the Conquerors, whose Lieutenant was killed in the Action.
A Letter from Warfaw, dated January 25th, says Prince Gallitzin, who commands the Troops five Miles from the City, is returned from his Expedition, after having attacked and routed five Bodies of Confederates, one of whom he killed, and took many Prisoners, among them Marshal Carzewski and a Captain of the Cavalry.
LEGHORN, January 19. We learn from Genoa that the British Consul who resides there received a Courier the 13th Instant, from Turin, with Despatches from the Senate, by which the King of England desires to know whether, in Case he should be engaged in a War with Spain, the English Ships might be permitted to come into the Ports of the Republic. The Senate made Answer that they could not consent to it, on Account of its Connections with Spain and France. Accordingly the Genoese have ordered their Coasts to be put in a good State of Defence.
HAGUE, February 5. The last Letters from Vienna confirm the Accounts we have received from Constantinople, that there is no longer any Signs of accomplishing a Peace between the Turks and Russians; the Grand Seigneur having rejected, as unacceptable, the Conditions proposed by the Court of Petersburg, the Substance of which is assured to be as follows.
 1. The Liberty of a free Navigation in the Black Sea.  2. The Cession of all Crimea, for ever.  3. The Independence of the Tartars, who are no longer to be subject to the Ottoman Porte, in any Degree.  4. The Cession of Moldavia, Walachia, and Bessarabia; which Provinces, however, the Russians did not intend to take Possession of in their own Right, but will transfer them to two foreign Princes who are not named.  5. The Payment of twenty Millions of Rubles, to reimburse the Russians the Expense they have been at on Account of the present War. 
The Demands on the Part of Russia so exasperated the Grand Seigneur that he rejected them with Disdain, and determined to risk another Campaign, and to command in Person.
These Letters added, that three Camps were to be formed next Spring, one near Luxembourg, another near Neustadt, and the third between Paden and Pest in Hungary, the last of which, it is said, is to consist of between forty and fifty Thousand Men, with a proportionable Train of Artillery; from all which it is apparent that the Empress Queen has some important Stroke in View, though at present it is not known.
KONINGSBERG, January 28. We have just received Advices from Constantinople, which intimate that the Grand Seigneur has haughtily rejected all the Propositions for an Accommodation which have been made on the Part of Russia; and that in Consequence thereof his Highness was preparing to take the Field, with a powerful Army.
SYMRNA, December 25. The Russians are neither blocking up the Dardanelles, nor is their Fleet in the Isle of Lemnos, or in any Part of our Neighbourhood.
COPENHAGEN, January 28. The King of Denmark has it now under Consideration for granting to all his Subjects a free Trade to the East and West Indies.
VIENNA, January 30. According to the last Advices from Poland, the Imperial Troops still remain near Cracow, and those of Prussia in the Environs of Warfaw, where they command a Part of the Vistula. The latter has sent a considerable Detachment to reinforce the Line of the Imperial Troops, in Order to prevent the Confederates from continuing to trouble the frontiers of Hungary.
CADIZ, January 15. M. Bucarelli, Governor of Buenos Ayres, is just arrived at Court, and is most graciously received by the King.
LONDON, February 10.
THE Rage and Violence of the Populace in Paris have been so great as to occasion an Order, or Edict, commanding all Persons to disperse; and that not two or three should gather together, under Pain of military Execution.
Extra of a Letter from the Hague. "Your Ambassador has often, of late, begged to be recalled, but has as often been begged to remain. Near twenty Years Residence among us had made him so knowing in the Connections of this heterogeneous Country that scarce any Thing could happen but he had the first and best Intelligence of it; but since the Prince Stadholder is become allied to the King of Prussia our Politicks are in few Hands, and those of the Berlin Appointment. In short, we are little better than a Province to Brandenburg, and I shall not be surprised to see Prince Henry of Prussia Field Marshal of our Army; as his Uncle, Prince Lewis of Wolfenbuttle, is too inferior to continue in that Post."
A Letter from the Hague, February 8th, says: The Council of State has presented a Petition to the States General, strongly recommending a considerable Augmentation in the Troops of the Republic this Year, a Measure absolutely necessary in the present Situation of Affairs in Europe, which is almost generally threatened with new Troubles.
There is great Reason to believe that by this Day six Months the Ministry, whoever they may be, will have an Account to settle with a much abler Arithmetician than the King of Spain, for which Reason it will well become the wise Men of this Nation to get the best Advice in qualifying them for such an Event.
Private Letters from Madrid advise that his Catholic Majesty has just opened a Loan for Life Annuities, at eight per Cent.
The Vigour with which the warlike Preparations were carrying on at the Dockyards is not yet, in the least Degree, relaxed.
This Morning the Publishers of the Middlesex Journal and Gazetteer were ordered to attend the Lower Club Room, on Monday next, for publishing the Debates of that House. The Motion for the above Order was carried by a Majority of ninety to fifty five.
The Petition ordered at the last Court to be prepared by a Committee, for the free Importation of Wheat from America and elsewhere, was read, approved, and ordered to be signed by the Town Clerk, and presented by a Committee to the Honourable the House of Commons, the present Sheriffs being Members of Parliament.
The last Accounts from Prussia advise that not a Day passes without Swarms of Polish Recruits enlisting in the Prussian Regiments.
An Edict is published in Portugal, prohibiting the Importation of English Hats, after the 10th of March; and a Prohibition of Stockings, both Silk and Worsted, is soon expected.
A Scheme has been laid before the Lords of the Treasury for raising the Sum of one Million, by Annuities on Lives, which is now under Consideration.
According to letters from Paris, some secret Transactions between the French and Spanish Ministers had lately been laid open to the Most Christian King, which it is thought would go near to ruin inevitably a certain Exile.
We hear a Remonstrance, of a singular Nature, has lately been made to an Ambassador at the Hague, concerning some intended British Settlements in the oriental Islands, which the Dutch East India Company are very jealous of.
We are informed that, notwithstanding the Acceptance of a late Declaration, Pres. Warrants will not yet be recalled; and that this has been determined, without a Division.
The enormous Sum of eighty Thousand Pounds, issued from the Treasury in exact Sums of five Hundred Pounds each, looks as if we were really in a State of Decay; for it borders on Corruption.
February 12. They write from Amsterdam that all the Frontier Towns of the Republic are soon to receive additional Garrisons, and be put in a thorough State of Defence.
We are told some very extraordinary News is expected every Day from the Continent of Germany, but what that may be puzzles our ablest Politicians, so secret and inscrutable is the King of Prussia in all his grand Designs.
It is said our present warlike Preparations are not to be relaxed, as the King of Spain may not ratify the Convention. Our Ministry are certainly right; for as the Catholic King has thought proper to disavow the Attack upon Falkland's Island, which was made by Order of his Minister, he may, with as good Reason, disavow the present Convention, which has been signed here by his Ambassador.
It is rumoured, with Confidence, that a very melancholy Account of the King of Denmark's State of Health has been received, from which Consequences are to be dreaded, worse than the Death of that Monarch.
The last Overtures for an Accommodation between the Empress of Russia and the Grand Seigneur were received by the latter Sovereign with high Contempt and Indignation, which makes the political World imagine that some new Powers on the Continent have already declared in his Favour, or at least that some Diversion will be made by some of the German Powers to draw the Russian Forces out of the Turkish Empire.
Monday night the Mary Greenlandman took Fire near Deptford, and was burnt to her Keel.
It is reported that Lord North will soon resign the Place of first Lord of the Treasury.
It is also said that Lord Gower will succeed Lord North, and that Lord Camden will be offered to succeed Lord Gower as President of the Council. Their Majesties have ordered one Thousand Pounds to be distributed to the Poor of London, on Account of the present severe Season.
The Empress of Hungary has given Orders for raising, in the Spring, eight Thousand additional Troops, to join those already on the Frontiers of Poland.
Extra of a Letter from Portsmouth, February 7. "Advice is just received at this Port for the following Ships to be got ready for the West Indies, under the Command of Admiral Rodney, viz. Princess Amelia, of eighty Guns, Captain Marshall; Arrogant seventy four, Captain Moore; Cornwall seventy four, Captain Lloyd; Worcester sixty four, Captain Hughes; Achilles sixty, Captain Wheelock; Firm, sixty four, Rushworth; and the Buckingham, of sixty four Guns."
The Friends of Lord North positively assert, in Opposition to the Reports of his Enemies, that he is at this Time solely employed in bringing about that great and necessary Work of paying off our Debts, and reducing our Taxes (without which it is ridiculous to call ourselves a free or happy People) and that he resolves to accomplish this desirable End by a frugal Management of the publick Treasures, and a Retrenchment of all publick Expenses.
On Friday last the Complaint of Mrs. S—— was opened against her Husband, in a great ecclesiastical Court. The principal Charge against him was, that he was incapable of performing matrimonial Rites according to the Law of Nature. The Depositions furnished great Entertainment to the Gentlemen of the Long Robe. It seems the Lady was a Widow with a Jointure of nine Thousand Pounds a Year, was in Possession of a Town and Country House, elegantly furnished, with an Equipage, &c. Mr. S—— was a young Man of small Fortune, and plied the Widow closely to give her Hand in Marriage. On the Wedding Day they went, with a Number of Friends, to Salt Hill, in Order to celebrate their Nuptials; and on the Lady retiring after Supper, the Bridegroom followed her, and, after great Uneasiness, explained the Coldness of his Disposition. On which the Lady declared, that as long as he behaved with Politeness and good Humour to her, she would never reveal the Secret he had trusted her with. About two Years elapsed, during which Time they, to all Appearance, lived very happily; when Mr. S—— (as it is said) began to use his Wife with great Neglect, and sometimes beat her. On which she discovered her Situation to a Relation, who advised her to apply for a Divorce. Mr. S—— denies her Charge, and will submit to a Scrutiny of the Faculty.
We are informed that one Proctor in the Commons is engaged in no less than thirteen Divorces, by mutual Consent. They talk, says a Gentleman of the Coterie, that the King of France intends to dissolve his Monasteries, and that then he will get Money enough and Soldiers too. I don't know, says a Lady, as to the Money; but if he lets loose the Nuns, he will very shortly levy Soldiers enough. A noble Lord lately compared the Ministry to the Irish Major in the Play of the West Indian, who have been settling the Differences first and disputing about them afterwards; with this Difference, indeed, the Irishman might be deemed a Man of Honour, but how far our present Agreement with Spain was honourable is left for others to judge.
February 14. Yesterday the House of Commons met on the Spanish Papers, and his Majesty's Message relative to the Convention with Spain. They met about Noon, and sat till this Morning between three and four o'Clock. After having taken into Consideration the Spanish Declaration, &c. a Motion was made to address his Majesty, to return him Thanks for communicating to the House the Spanish Declaration and Acceptance, and to express the Satisfaction of the H. U. at his Majesty's Firmness and Conduct on that Occasion, which will secure to him and his People an honourable Peace. An amendment was proposed by D—— II, and seconded by Mr. P——, for returning Thanks only for the Communication of the Papers, but not from an Approbation of the Declaration, &c. but it was carried to stand as first moved for, two Hundred and seventy five against one Hundred and fifty seven.
The House of Lords had before them this Day a Motion to the same Purpose, on which the House are still sitting.
A Motion was made in the House of Commons for rejecting Part of an Act for the general Quiet of the Subject against all Pretences of Concealment, which passed in the affirmative one Hundred and fifty two against one Hundred and twenty three.
Five Thousand six Hundred and seventy six Pounds are granted to his Majesty for the civil Establishment of Nova Scotia.
The House of Commons was very full, no fewer than four Hundred and thirty two Members being present. On account of their long Sederunt, they have adjourned to Monday.
The Motion made on the 8th to bring in a Bill for securing the Rights of Electors, in Respect to Persons to serve in Parliament, passed in the negative, one Hundred and seven against one Hundred and three.
Yesterday the Upper Assembly took into Consideration the Spanish Papers relative to Falkland's Island, when it is said the Duke of Newcastle made the following Motion:
"That an humble Address be presented to his Majesty, to return his Majesty our Thanks for his gracious Communication to this House of the Declaration signed by the Ambassador of his Catholic Majesty, which his Majesty has been pleased to accept."
"To offer to his Majesty our most sincere Acknowledgments for having supported the Honour of the Crown of Great Britain, by his firm and unvaried Adherence to his just Demand of Satisfaction for the Injury received by the violent Enterprise against Falkland Island; by which steady and uniform Conduct his Majesty has obtained from the King of Spain an explicit Disavowal of that Expedition, together with an Engagement to restore Things to the precise Situation in which they were before the late unjust Attempt."
"To express our Satisfaction on the Prospect of the Blessing of Peace being secured to us, as we have no Reason to doubt of the good Faith of his Catholic Majesty in the Performance of his Engagements; and to declare our grateful Sense of his Majesty's paternal Care of his People, in not too hastily engaging them in the Hazards and Burthens of War."
"To assure his Majesty of our Zeal and Readiness, on all Occasions, to exert our utmost Efforts to enable his Majesty to carry into Execution such Measures as shall be necessary for the Support of the Honour and Dignity of his Crown."
A Letter from Petersburg gives the following Account of the Grand Russian Army for the Campaign in 1771. Total Cavalry, eight Thousand three Hundred and forty; Infantry, seventy nine Thousand; Artillery, one Thousand five Hundred; Calmucks, fourteen Thousand; Cossacks, fifteen Thousand; Tartars, fifteen Thousand; Total, one Hundred thirty two Thousand eight Hundred and forty. The Militia of Coulak and Ritski, forming a Body of twenty five Thousand Men, with two Regiments of Dragoons of one Thousand six Hundred Men each, supported with five Regiments of Infantry, of one Thousand one Hundred and fifty Men each, are ordered to take Possession of the Crimea. Otszakow, and Kimbron; six Thousand Cossacks, from the Banks of the Dnieper, are ordered upon this Expedition. At Kinkerman there is now a Fleet of fourteen Ships of twenty Guns, with twenty six Tranports, nine Bomb Vessels, and three Fireships; a naval Force that commands the Sovereignty of the Black Sea. The Imperial Court is determined to admit of no Preliminaries for a Pacification between the two Empires, unless the fin qua non of the Treaty is the actual and immediate Possession, for ever, to the Russian Empire, of the Crimea, of Taman, of Allof, of Kimbron, of Otszakow, Belgorod, Kittianowa, Smil, Ren, and Onizhia, with a Port upon the Black Sea to her Ally of Persia, and likewise three Isles in the Archipelago. Besides the above, thirty Thousand Cossacks are marching from the Ukraine to form the advanced Parties of the Grand Russian Army.
The Address to his Majesty from the Lower Assembly is, we hear, to be presented by the Privy Council, which is a very extraordinary Circumstance.
It is currently reported that authentick Letters have been just received from the Continent, declaring that an amiable northern Monarch has lately shown Tokens of Insanity, and is obliged to be watched with the utmost Circumspection.
By Letters from the Hague, within these few Days a remarkable Report has prevailed here, but the Authenticity of which we cannot perfectly warrant. It is that the Emperor on one Side, and the King of Prussia on the other, are going into Poland with a very great Army. Some People pretend that the Motive for their taking this Step is to procure the Peace of that Country, which for a long Time past has been torn to Pieces, even by those who styled themselves its Friends and Protectors. Others are of Opinion that these Princes have in View to seize some Provinces which lie convenient for them, and to which they pretend to have a Claim.
February 17. Yesterday the Address voted the Wednesday before, in a certain Assembly, was carried to St. James's by the President, attended by such other Members of the Club as were of the Privy Council, and presented to his Majesty.
Yesterday the Lord Chamberlain acquainted the Upper Assembly that the Address moved for on Thursday last had been presented to his Majesty, and that it had been graciously received.
We hear that a Protest was entered yesterday against the Proceedings of the Upper Assembly on Thursday.
The grand Debates on the Spanish Convention are finally closed, and every future Attempt to bring it under Consideration, in Order for Condemnation, is precluded by the approbatory Address voted to his Majesty; on which, it is said, the Ministry do not plume themselves more as to the Measure itself than on Account of the high Hand with which they carried it.
It is said that an unusual Spirit of Oratory was diffused in the Lower Club Room on Wednesday last, especially on that Side of the House which is generally occupied by the Members in Opposition. Whether it was owing to the Subject in Debate, or to some other Influence, cannot be absolutely determined; but it is universally allowed that the Time cannot be influenced when so much good Sense, and solid Argument, were displayed in the same Place.
Letters from Constantinople advise that when the Turkish Forces are completed, according to the Mandates of the Grand Seigneur, as issued to the Governors of Asiatick, European, and African Provinces, they will form an Army of three Hundred Thousand Men, for opening the ensuing Campaign against the Russians.
Some Letters from Petersburg mention that a certain northern Monarch has some Views, with Regard to Poland, highly disgusting to her Imperial Majesty.
The Jamaica Fleet, we hear, is to be victualled only for three Months. Three additional Ships of War are ordered to join those already in the Channel Service, with the utmost Expedition.
A Letter from a Person of Consequence, in France, says: "The King's Throne shakes under him and his Crown totters on his Head."
Private Letters from Spain mention that the Marquis Grimaldi, their Prime Minister, is, from some unknown Cause, losing much of his Influence at Court; and that the deep Sighted in that Country imagine his ministerial Power is nearly at an End. If this should be fact, and the consequent Speculation should be realized, the present Gleam of Peace would soon give Way to Appearances of a worse Nature.
The hasty Motion for ordering the Printers to the Robinhood is at Length condemned, we hear, by the Members on both Sides of the Room. The patriotic Side are confessedly desirous that the Publick should be in Possession of the Debates, whilst the other apprehend that any Measure adopted just at this Juncture to suppress their Publication cannot fail of being construed into an Intention to screen some latent Iniquity, of which they hold themselves perfectly innocent. In short, the Fever of the Times is not to be cured by inflammatory Physick. The Question, however, it is thought, will be brought in next Meeting.
A modern Patriot (says a Correspondent) is like a forward Child, who disturbs the Family with its Cries and Noise until gratified. Give it a Sugar Plum, its Mouth is stopped, its Noise ceaseth, and the House is quiet. They are continually misreading the Judgment of the People, and setting up false Lights to deceive them; and take every Occasion to foment and cherish Discontent. Neither Peace or War, nor any Situation (while they are unprovided for, and discontented) can be right.

CAPTAIN Campbell, in thirty one Days from Curacoa, informs us that a large Dutch Ship that had been at Laguira, with nine Hundred Spanish Soldiers, had touched at Curacoa on her Way home, she having some Invalids, &c. to carry to Spain. She was chartered at three Thousand Dollars a Month.
Sunday Night last, about eight o'Clock, came to Town, from Long Island, a Seaman belonging to a Brig from Placentia, in Newfoundland, and for Philadelphia. John Douglas Master, who acquaints us that on Sunday the 14th Instant the said Brig was cast away on Quag Beech, on Long Island; the Vessel entirely lost, and most of the Cargo, and five Seamen drowned. The Captain, and the rest of the Crew, went to Rhode Island.
Extract of a Letter from St. Thomas's, dated February 6, 1771. "The Spaniards at Porto Rico are making great Preparations for a War. They have three Thousand regular Troops, and one Thousand Militia, doing Duty; their Fortifications are very strong, and they are transporting Cannon every Day to the Bays where they think an Enemy will land. This Information I had from a Gentleman who belonged to the Factory, and was ordered to leave that Island about a Month ago. He left this Place ten Days since, for said Place; and on his Arrival there wrote a Letter to the Governor desiring Permission to go on Shore to settle his Business, as he had been lately made a Burgess of Santa Cruz. The Governor ordered him to depart the Port the next Day, by the Advice of the Attorney General. This Gentleman sailed from Porto Rico the 1st Instant, in the Evening. Next Morning he met a Spanish Man of War going in, in which a Lieutenant General was expected, and more Troops."
PHILADELPHIA, March 21.
CAPTAIN Ashmead, arrived here from Barbados, informs us that the Snow Champion, Peter Green Master, from Ciz for Marblehead, having carried away his Rudder Irons on the Coast, ve away, and arrived safe at Barbados the 23d of January. That Capt. Cotton, in a Sloop from New London, on the 27th of December last, Latitude 37, Longitude 60, was obliged to cut away his Mast, in a violent Gale of Wind, had lost thirty Horses off his Deck; and the next morning saw a Sloop that was overlet, which he took to be Captain Naniel Doane, from the same Port, who failed in Company with him. 'Tis he was informed, by the Master of a Sloop from Dominica, that a Sloop, and two Schooners, had put in there, having each of them lost their animals in a Gale of Wind on the 25th of December; and that one of the Schooners had lost the Captain, Mate, and all the Hands, except two Men and a Boy. That a Vessel, dismasted, had put in at Antigua, and Schooner at St. Eustatia, with the Loss of her Mainmast, all from New England. And that Captain Robinson, in a Sloop from Halifax, being blown off the Coast, was also arrived at St. Eustatia.
In the Storm of Wind, Snow, and Rain, on Saturday the 9th Instant, the Brig Queen of the May, Captain Chancellor, bound to Lion from this Port, parted her Cables about seven o'Clock at Night, and did ashore about a Mile within Cape Henlopen. About ten o'Clock the Lion her Beam Ends, and the People took to that Side of the Vessel out Water to save themselves; but the Sea making a continual Breach over them, they were in the most imminent Danger of their Lives, and a New Man was washed overboard and drowned. The next Morning the Captain, and an Apprentice Lad, perished with Cold and Fatigue; the rest of the People made a Shift to get the Yawl free, by which Means they are safe on Shore, much fatigued, and scarcely able to help themselves. Captain Budden, inward bound from St. Eustatia, also parted his Cables in the above Storm, and drove ashore near Lewes Town, but it is thought the Vessel will be got off.
Extract of a Letter from George Town, on Potowmack, March 14. "Last Saturday we had a violent Storm of Rain, with the Wind so north east, which has done much Damage among the small Craft, as to drive the River as I have yet heard from; and drove Carlyle and Dalton, Brig on Shore, at or near Maryland Point, so that they will be obliged to unload their entirely."
By a Gentleman from Maryland we learn that in the late north east Storm several small Craft were lost in Chesapeake Bay, and all on Board drowned; particularly one Vessel, with six Men in it, none of which were saved, and all said to have Families.
On Sunday Night last, betwixt eleven and twelve o'Clock, Mr. Joshua Humphreys, of this City, was called up by one of the Watchmen, on finding the Door of his House open, when he found the Desk carried out of his Compting House into the Street, and robbed of all the Cash that was in it. He thereupon sent to call up his Servant, but he was gone; and next Morning it was discovered that he, in Company with three others, all French Servants, had stolen four Horses, with which they went off, and were seen by several People that Day travelling up the Lancaster Road.
The same Night the Store of Messieurs Rudolph and Hollingsworth, on Stamps's Wharf, was broke open, and their Desk rummaged; but a Pair of Money Scales, we hear, was all that was found missing.
WILLIAMSBURG, April 11.
THE Proser (late Thompson, who was washed overboard at Sea) in twelve Weeks from Bristol, and the John and Unity, Cooper, in ten Days from Barbados, are arrived in York River. Captain Cooper says that a Ship, in a short Passage from Gibraltar, arrived at Barbados just before he failed, the Captain of which informed him that the Spaniards had detained all the English Ships that were at Cadiz.
The Cochran, Duthie, Tibby, Moodie, from Glasgow, and Nancy, Barron, from Liverpool, are arrived in James River; and the Fame, Banks, from Liverpool, in York River.
NORFOLK, April 8. On Friday last, about four in the Afternoon, we had one of the most dreadful Storms of Hail, accompanied with Thunder and Lightning, that has ever been known here. It continued, inconceivably violent, above Half an Hour; and, what is hardly credible, the Hail that fell measured from five to seven Inches round. We are in Hopes, however, that it has not extended a great Way into the Country; and the principal Damage it has done in this Town is to our Gardens and Window Glass, both which have suffered extremely. In Window Glass alone, it is computed we have sustained at least seven Hundred Pounds Damage. Some say a Thousand.
Two of the Hail Stones, put into a Scale, weighed two Ounces. Mr. Newton had three Hundred and sixty five Panes of Glass broke, Mrs. Cann lost two Hundred and fourteen Panes; many fifty, sixty, and a Hundred. Not a House escaped.
To Mess. PURDIE & DIXON.
ACCOMACK, April 1, 1771.
GENTLEMEN,
AMONG many other Addresses to the Freeholders, which have been handed about in this County, the following hath made its Appearance; and as there is Nothing in it which can give Offence to any One, your giving it a place in your Paper, whenever you shall have Room, will oblige your humble Servant,
STREPHON.
MY DEAR COUNTRYMEN,
THE ever to be lamented Loss which has happened to this Province, by the Death of our late worthy Governor, will probably, in a short Time, give you another Opportunity of exercising one of your most valuable Privileges, I mean that of choosing your Representatives. As this Power, which is vested in you, is one of the principal Hinges on which your Liberties turn, you cannot be too cautious in jealously watching over it; you cannot be too solicitous to make a prudent Use of it, in electing such Gentlemen as shall be most likely to preserve inviolate the sacred Deposit with which you intrust them; and perhaps it may be attended with some Advantage if we here examine what are the Qualifications which ought principally to be sought for in those who may reasonably expect your Favour.
A good Understanding, and penetrating Judgment, are Qualities the Necessity of which must strike the most superficial Inquirer, else may the best Heart be the constant Dupe of ill designing Craft and Deceit. Without these your true Interest cannot be known, and consequently, however zealous he may be to serve you, the proper Steps to procure it cannot be taken; without these he will be unable to scan each Proposal, to view it in every Light surrounded by all the attendant Circumstances, and, piercing into Futurity, behold even how remote Posterity may be thereby affected; and without these will he be unable to strip every Measure of that Disguise under Cover of which it may be artfully obtruded on his Mind, and penetrate through all the sinister Designs and secret Machinations of the Enemies of Freedom, the Slaves of Interest.
But, the greater his Abilities, should he be inclined to prejudice his Constituents, the better will he be enabled to attempt it with Success. To guard against this, it is absolutely necessary that he be a Man of Probity and Integrity; One whose Conduct shall be upright, through Principle; One who regards Measures, not Men; who will be ready to second
Regiment, with having attacked and severely wounded Jacob Rowe, Esquire, Deputy Provost Marshal of this District, near the Bishop's Palace, on Monday Night the 18th Instant, and robbed him of a Silver Watch and two Dollars, or thereabouts, in Money, as mentioned in our last Gazette. The above Lampert has confessed being concerned in, and privy to, a Variety of other Robberies, committed by the above Gang in this City, for these two Years past. Joseph Goulet, a Lad of fifteen Years of Age, has been committed for being also concerned with the said Gang, in attempting to rob the House of Mademoiselle Abel, at St. Roc; and one Blunden, a Soldier in the 52d Regiment, is under Confinement for attempting, with the above Gang, to rob the House of Captain Williams, of said Regiment.
Mr. Rowe, whose Wounds were very dangerous, we can with Pleasure inform the Publick is in a fair Way of Recovery; and the Villains who were guilty of this cruel Robbery will, we are credibly informed, be tried for the same on Tuesday the 26th Day of March next.
BOSTON, February 25.
WE hear from Bridgewater that some Time since died there a Man who had lived in that Town, in a married State, with one Woman, in the House, sixty Years, always kept a large Family, and there never was a Birth or Death in the House in all that Time.
Died at Salem, aged sixty eight Years, Mrs. Abiah Fowler, Widow; who had been a School Mistress, except an Interval of a few Years after she was married, fifty Years. At Beverly, aged ninety six, Mr. Richard Byles, who has left five Children, and a numerous Family of Grandchildren, and great Grandchildren, and one of the fifth Generation; the whole Number said to exceed one Hundred and thirty.
On Friday last, as two Women, belonging to the fourteenth Regiment, were crossing the Ice at the fourth End of the Town, they both fell through; and although they were soon taken out by the Assistance of the Town's People, yet one of them, Susannah Mills, was so chilled with the Cold that she expired immediately; the other is like to do well.
Extract of a Letter from Liverpool, in Nova Scotia, January 31. "I have to acquaint you of a most sorrowful Accident in our Neighbourhood. Mr. Arthur Vance, with five other Men and a Lad, returning in his Boat from this Place to his Settlement, on the 24th Instant, were all drowned. This melancholy Event has reduced the whole Settlement of Portmason to the utmost Distress imaginable, as they had in the Boat the principal Part of all the Bread and many other Things they depended upon for the Winter. They have left five Widows, and twenty three Children; and, by the best Accounts, they have not, in all their Families, at this Time, one Pound of Bread. We are making some Collections here for their present Relief, but Provisions are scarce with us, and the People very poor, so cannot expect to collect any great Matter. The unhappy Sufferers were Mr. Arthur Vance, principal Man in the Settlement; Richard Scott, who lately had his House burnt, and lost every Thing except seven Guineas, which he had taken with him to Liverpool to purchase Necessaries, and are lost with him, left a Widow and three Children; James M'Clarin, left a Widow and six Children; John M'Clarin, a Widow and four Children; William Tomlinson, a Widow and six Children; Thomas Pattison, a Widow and four Children; Thomas Walley, a Lad."
His Majesty's Ship Beaver failed from Halifax for this Port the 12th of February, but is not yet arrived.
We have this Moment received the following Piece of Intelligence from Salem. Yesterday arrived here a Vessel from the West Indies, who eight Days ago met on George's Banks a Ship's Mainmast, which had been cut away; the Mast and Top, and Topmast, with the Yard and Topsail Yard. The Topsail was furled snug, and the Mainmast partly furled; a red Pendant in the Top. The Mainmast was wounded with five Woundings, by all which it appears to be some Man of War, perhaps the Beaver.
March 14. In the Ship Boscawen, Captain Robson, from London, arrived here last Friday, came over his Majesty's Commissions appointing the Honourable Thomas Hutchinson, Esquire, Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Province of Massachusetts Bay; the Honourable Andrew Oliver, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor, and the Honourable Thomas Flucker, Esquire, Secretary, of said Province.
On Monday last Mr. Flucker's Commission was read, and he was sworn in Council.
This Day His Honour the Lieutenant Governor, the Members of his Majesty's Council, the Judges of the Superior Court, with the Gentlemen of the Bar, in their Gowns, the Officers of the Militia in their Uniforms, and many other principal Gentlemen, waited on his Excellency the Governor at the Province House, and about one o'Clock walked in Procession to the Townhouse, being preceded by a Company under Arms, composed of the non-commissioned Officers of the Regiment of Militia of this Town, and led by Captain Dawes, and being followed by the Troop of Guards under the Command of Colonel Phips. His Excellency, and the Gentlemen who attended him, went into the Council Chamber, and the Troop of Guards and Company of Militia marched into King Street, where was a Detachment of the Artillery under Lieutenant Trott. His Majesty's Commissions to the Governor and Lieutenant Governor were then read in the Council Chamber, and the usual Oaths administered. While the Commissions were reading the Guns were fired from his Majesty's Ships in the Harbour, under the Command of the Honourable Commodore Gambier, from the Batteries in Town, and from Castle William. Whilst several loyal Healths were drinking in the Council Chamber there were regular Firings by the Troop of Guards, the Train of Artillery, and Militia Company, in King Street.
In the Account of the Celebration of the Anniversary of the 5th of March, last Tuesday, was omitted (as it was unknown to the Publisher) that an Oration was delivered in the Evening by Dr. Young, at the Hall of the Manufactory, a Building originally designed for encouraging Manufactures and employing the Poor. The Oration, it is said, contained a brief Account of the Massacre, of the Imputation of Treason and Rebellion with which the Tools of Power endeavoured to brand the Inhabitants, and a Defeat upon the Nature of Treasons; with some Considerations on the Threats of the British Ministry to take away the Massachusetts Charter, &c. &c.
It is said that the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of this Province are to have Salaries annually paid to them out of the American Revenue, independent of the People of the Province; which, if true, is a Novelty that claims the serious Attention of this and the other Colonies. Of this; for although the Salaries are not paid out of the Treasury, yet the Money is to be raised out of the Pockets of the People, not with their own or their Representatives Consent, by an Act of Parliament which has been justly complained of as a most violent Infration of the natural Rights of all Men to dispose of their own Monies. It is all a Jest then to say that the People of this Province will be altogether eased of the Burthen of supporting the Governor. Besides, as the Revenue is forced from us by the British Parliament, so there is a Power exercised by the King to dispose of as much of it as he pleases to his Governor; consequently no Check in the Hands of the People over the Governor, consequently an arbitrary despotick Power in the Governor. It ought also to be seriously considered by the Sifter Colonies; for what Reason is there that they should be obliged to bear their Part in supporting the Government of Massachusetts Bay, when they always have, and are still willing, to support it themselves!
Last Friday Morning came on before his Majesty's Superior Court of Judicature, &c. now sitting for the County of Suffolk, the Trial of Charles Bourgate (commonly called the French Boy) for wilful and corrupt Perjury. The Indictment found against him by the Grand Jury set forth the Substance of his Testimony at the late capital Trial of Edward Manwaring, Esquire (his Master) John Monro, &c. for the supposed Murder of Crispus Attucks, &c. on the 5th of March last, and concluded with an Allegation that the Whole was false and malicious, and that so the said Charles was therein guilty of wilful, malicious, and corrupt Perjury. The Accusation of the above mentioned Persons was grounded upon a pretended Firing out of the Customhouse Windows that Evening, flatly and wickedly sworn to by the said Bourgate. At his Arraignment the Prisoner pleaded not guilty, but when set to the Bar for Trial signified his Desire to retract that Plea and throw himself upon the Mercy of the Court. The whole Bench, however, apprehending, as it was a Cause of popular Expectation, that the Verdict of a Jury might be most satisfactory to all Parties, thought fit to hold him to his first Plea; accordingly a Jury of twelve was empanelled and sworn, who, upon full Evidence of the Fact, from the Testimony of divers Witnesses of undoubted Credit, corroborated by the voluntary Confession of the Prisoner, returned their Verdict, without going from their Seats, guilty.
The Boy, in Excuse for himself, urged Nothing, but that he was advised to it by a Man who treated him well, and promised him he should not suffer for it.
TO THE PRINTERS.
WHEREAS three Officers belonging to his Majesty's Navy used me very ill some Time past, by cutting Buttons from my Hussar Cloak, in a private Manner, and carrying them off in their Pockets, which I resented, and on Friday the 15th Instant I met with one of them, whose Name was Davis, two other Officers being with him; and as Davis had not given me Gentleman-like Satisfaction, as he sundry Times promised, I again demanded Satisfaction of him, and he struck me with a Stick: I then gave him a genteel Basting, or Caning, and sent him off, bidding him, if he pleased, to go and acquaint his Commander that a Boston Man had given him, the said Davis, a genteel Trimming.
JOHN MALCOL.
The Right Honourable George I. Earl of Bathurst, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, has this Day, by his Majesty's Command, sworn one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State accordingly.
The Earl of Sandwich, as first Lord of the Admiralty, has declared that no new Lieutenant shall be made in the Royal Navy till all the Half-pay Lieutenants are first provided for.
The Lords of Admiralty, yesterday Evening, sent a Message to the Master of Lloyd's Coffeehouse, to acquaint the Merchants, and others concerned in Shipping, that Protections are now granted to all Merchant Ships, outward or homeward bound, and to all other Persons who may apply for them.
By Letters from Gibraltar there is Advice that a Vessel which put in there from Tangier, in Africa, brought an Account that on the 12th of December last there was a severe Shock of an Earthquake felt there, which lasted two Minutes and a Half; that great Part of the Houses were thrown down, and the Inhabitants buried in the Ruins. The Letters farther say, that it was felt several Leagues at Sea; and that it was perceived at Gibraltar, and at the Time it happened the sea Rose considerably.
It is said the Peers of Scotland propose to instruct their Representatives, the Sixteen, to use their Endeavours in Parliament to prevent, for the future, the Exertion of ministerial Influence in all Elections, upon any Vacancy in the Peerage; and the circular Letter they received from the Earl of Sandwich, upon a late Occasion, is to be laid before the House of Lords.
It is said one of the Transports convicted this Session of picking Pockets is possessed of real and personal Estate to the Value of between one and two Thousand Pounds.
The following are said to be the principal Particulars of the late Duke of Bedford's Will.
To the present Duke he has left six Thousand Pounds a Year, until he arrives at the Age of eighteen; and has appointed the Dutchess of Bedford, the Dutchess of Marlborough, and Mr. Palmer, Guardians to the young Duke.
He has left the Dutchess of Bedford eight Thousand Pounds a Year, during her Life; besides all his Jewels and Plate, Furniture, Pictures, &c. at Wooburn and in Bloomsbury Square Houses, entirely at her own Disposal.
To the two Brothers of the present Duke he hath bequeathed three Thousand Pounds a Year each, until of Age, at which Time they are to receive fifty Thousand Pounds each. To Mr. Rigby five Thousand Pounds. To the Honourable Captain Fitzpatrick, Brother to Lord Ossory, and Nephew to the Dutchess of Bedford, one Thousand Pounds. To Lady Ossory, late Dutchess of Grafton, two Thousand Pounds.
It is looked upon that the Spanish Convention is the finest Hold that could be given to the Opposition, and will afford them the fairest Opportunity to exert their Strength and Abilities.
The present unexpected Concurrence of the Court of Madrid with our Demands seems, in the Opinion of many, more political than honest; and some even go so far as to say that their Intentions are hostile, though their Professions are peaceful.
France, it is said, absolutely refused to assist Spain at the present Time against Great Britain; and this, it is reported, occasioned the Orders for the Spanish Ambassador's signing.
We are informed that for the future thirty Thousand Seamen will always be kept in Pay, in Order that the Nation may be in Readiness against the Attacks of any foreign Enemy.
January 23. His Majesty, in Council, having been this Day graciously pleased to deliver the Great Seal to the Right Honourable Henry Lord Ashley [Mr. Justice Bathurst] his Lordship was thereupon, by his Majesty's Command, sworn of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and likewise Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain; and accordingly took his Place at the Board.
A few Days ago one of the greatest Politicians of the Age, equally remarkable for his Concilienss and Authenticity, declared his Sentiments upon the present Crisis of Affairs, in the following Terms "Spain is to make some Acknowledgments, and we are to rest satisfied as we are; that is, till France is in a Condition to assist Spain."
The political Wits say that an Address of Thanks on the Determination of the Disputes with Spain will be as much as to say, Thank ye for Nothing.
The Friends of the Ministry say, "Blessed are the Peace Makers." Their Enemies assert, that "There is no Peace to the wicked."
The POLITICAL and MISCELLANEOUS REPOSITORY, Lord North, we understand, is the King's favourite Minister, and the Person to whom he unbosoms himself more freely than to any other.
Lord Chatham, we hear, complains very loudly of the Defection and political Apostasy of his Friends, and at the same Time declares there is not one in which he can confide, in political Matters, but Lord Camden; and this is easily to be imagined, when we consider the Motives those conceded by political Friendship generally act upon, and those which Lord Camden has always made the Rule of his Conduct.
It is expected there will be warm Work, in a few Days, in the Field of Battle near St. Stephen's, Westminster. Generals Chatham and Camden spend most of their Time in rallying the dispersed Troops (disciplined only) of the patriotick Army; and General North, we hear, is not behind Hand in drawing together the ministerial Army, and learning them their Exercise, to be in Readiness for an Engagement.
Colonel Barré wittily calls the Room the Book of Numbers.
According to some private Letters, the Conspiracy formed between the Marquis de Grimaldi, the Head of the Spanish Ministry, and the Duke de Choiseul, to involve Europe in a general War, was the real Cause of the Disgrace of the latter. It was agreed between the two Ministers that the Negotiation with England should be protracted till a French Army of forty Thousand could be got ready to march into Brabant. The Count de Stainville, Choiseul's Brother, was to have the Command, and to carry a Requisition that the United Provinces should immediately become Parties in the War on the Side of France. In Case of a Refusal, he was to commence Hostilities. The States, upon the Discovery of this secret Machination, applied immediately to the King of Prussia, whose Minister was the first Person who carried the Design of Choiseul to the King his Master. Louis, who is naturally an Enemy to Bloodshed, preferred the turning out of his Minister to a War.
When the Gentleman who went to the Masquerade on Wednesday last, in the Character of a dancing Bear, offered his Ticket, the Person who received it objected to its being a Lady's Ticket; whereupon the Companion of the Bear insisted the Ticket was right, and asked the Person if he did not plainly perceive it was a Bear. The Person, being under Difficulties how to determine the Sex, was forced to submit, and the Bear was accordingly admitted as a Lady.
The Robinhood Society, it is said, flatter themselves that they shall be able to establish their Meetings on a similar Plan with those of the Freemasons; consequently that not a Syllable relative to them shall reach an Ear beyond the sworn Brethren of that Community.
Some very extraordinary Secrets have transpired relative to a certain fashionable House in Soho. It is said there were actually found to be in it no less than forty Beds, made and unmade every Day.
GLASGOW, February 21. Since our last the Weather has taken a most favourable Turn, and has all the Appearance of Spring, so that we hope the Husbandman will soon be enabled to proceed with Alacrity in his useful and necessary Occupation.
Extract of a Letter from London, February 14. "You will no Doubt, before this reaches you, have received the disagreeable Accounts of the Loss of the Ship Thames (Grindly Master) in her Passage from Borrowstownes to London, which happened in the Afternoon of Friday the 8th Instant, during a Fall of Snow; she unluckily struck upon a Sand Bank in the Sween, near the Nore, where Ship and Cargo, valued about seven Thousand Pounds, are totally lost. The Crew and Passengers, finding themselves in imminent Danger, took to the Long-boat, and were soon after very providentially taken up by a Harwich fishing Smack. So soon as the Weather became more moderate the Captain returned in the Smack, in Order to save what he could, but found the Vessel funk and overlet in pretty deep Water, and both her Decks broke off, so that he could not recover a single Article. We hear there is little ensured on this Vessel. A similar Accident of this Kind has not happened to any of the Vessels employed in this Trade these twenty Years."
Extract of a Letter from Jamaica, November 14.
"The only Thing that has occurred here, worth writing, since my last, is a Plot that has been for some Time past formed among the Negroes, to poison every white Person in the Island. This hellish Plot was luckily discovered, as all such like usually are, before put into Execution, and for which we ought to be thankful to God. We are now daily taking up the principal Negroes of the different Gangs; some of them are hanged, some burnt, and others beheaded, after being first strangled. Their Heads are fixed on Poles along the high Roads, as a Warning to the rest."
QUEBEC, February 28.
SATURDAY last, the 23d Instant, John Best, William Stewart, and John McEwen, Soldiers in his Majesty's 10th Regiment of Foot, were committed to the Jail in this City, being charged, upon the Oath of Richard Gascogne, Publican, and Henry Lampert, Soldier of the said

any Proposal for the Advantage of his Country, even should its Execution...
These, my Friends, are some of the chief Traits for which you ought to seek...
In what I have wrote, I protest to you I have no Design of profiting this Man...
NO PARTY MAN. To Messrs. PURDIE & DIXON, GENTLEMEN...
To the Gentlemen of the FORETOPS. It has long, I believe, been the Opinion of the World that every Change...
Advertisements. APRIL 7, 1771.
THIS is to give Notice to all my Creditors that I intend to take the Benefit of the Insolvent Act...
FIFTY very fine SLAVES, Men, Women, Boys, and Girls (among them some good Tradesmen) will be sold...
BRUNSWICK, April 1, 1771. WHEREAS I did, some Time in the Year 1769, purchase of John Walters...
ABOUT twenty likely SLAVES, Virginia born (Men, Women, Boys, and Girls) will be sold at Amelia Courthouse...
WANTED in NORBORNE Parish, Frederick County, A SCHOOLMASTER well qualified to teach Writing and Arithmetic...
SOLD at John Greenhow's Store, near the Church in Williamsburg, very cheap for ready Money, LINENS of most Sorts, Breadths, and Fineness, Durants, Tamies...
To be SOLD at Fredericksburg, on Monday the 20th of May, being Fair Day, ABOUT fifty choice SLAVES, used to Cropping and Farming...
Just IMPORTED in the Matty, Captain Fox, and to be sold reasonably by the Subscriber, in Williamsburg, LARGE Assortment of DRUGS and MEDICINES...
To be SOLD, on Monday the 29th of this Instant (April) at Thomas Gilliam's, Senior, in Southampton, A PIECE of exceeding good TOBACCO LAND...
To be SOLD for ready Money, at the Raleigh, on Thursday the 2d of May, SUNDAY fine Virginia born SLAVES, belonging to the Estate of Mr. Charles Blacknall...
By Decree of the Court of Vice Admiralty, to be SOLD for ready Money, on Saturday the 20th Instant, at Onancock, in Accomack County...
THE Schooner PRISCILLA, together with her Rigging, Tackle, Apparel, and Furniture. She is about fifty Tons Burthen, and a new Vessel...
To be SOLD by Auction, by Virtue of a Deed of Trust from William Cole, for the Benefit of his Creditors, at Charles City Courthouse, on the first Wednesday in May...
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Lancaster, on the 24th of December last, a slim Negro Fellow named WILL, about five Feet ten Inches high...
RUN away from their Master, this Day, two Irish Servant Men. One named THOMAS TODD, five Feet seven or eight Inches high...
TAKEN up, in Spotsylvania, a small Bull Stag, of a reddish Colour, with sundry white Spots about him...
TAKEN up, in Cumberland, a white Mare about four Feet five or six Inches high...
THOMAS GLASS, GOLDSMITH and JEWELLER, HEREBY informs the Publick that he has opened Shop in the Town of Hanover...
FOUND, some Time ago, A REMARKABLE SILVER WATCH, which the Owner may have on proving his Property...
CUMBERLAND County, March 25, 1771. EDWARD CARRINGTON intends to leave this Colony in a very short Time.
NEWMARKET, March 28, 1771. FEARNOUGHT will cover the ensuing Season, as usual.
FREDERICKSBURG, March 23, 1771. I INTEND to take Shipping for London in August next, and to be back here early the ensuing Spring...
WILLIAM & MARY College, April 2, 1771. THE annual MEETING of the Clergy, for the Support of the Fund for the Relief of Clergymen's Widows and Orphans...
WILLIAMSBURG, April 4, 1771. ALL Persons who have any Demands against the Estate of Mr. Frederick Bryan deceased, are desired to send their Accounts...
FREDERICKSBURG, March 26, 1771. ALL Persons indebted to Messrs. Robert and William Bogle and Scott, of London, are hereby desired to pay off their Accounts...
To be SOLD upon the Premises, on Tuesday the 30th of April, by the Subscriber, A TRACT of good TOBACCO LAND, consisting of about two Hundred Acres...
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, at Norfolk, on the third Thursday in April, being Court Day, for ready Money, short Credit, or Bills of Exchange...
THE Schooner WINDSOR, quite new, and Burthen three Thousand Bushels. She was advertised to be sold at Suffolk, in February...

POETS CORNER.  VERSES sent by Lord MELCOMBE to Doctor YOUNG  not long before his Lordship's Death.  KIND Companion of my Youth, Lov'd for Genius, Worth, and Truth, Take what Friendship can impart (Tribute of a feeling Heart) Take the Muse's latest Spark, Ere we drop into the Dark. He who Parts and Virtue gave Bade thee look beyond the Grave: Genius soars, and Virtue guides, Where the Love of God presides. There's a Gulf 'twixt us and God, Let the gloomy Path be trod; Why stand shivering on the Shore, Why not boldly venture o'er; Where unerring Virtue guides, Let us brave the Winds and Tides: Safe, through Seas of Doubts and Fears, Rides the Bark which Virtue steers.
GENERAL POST OFFICE, NEW YORK, January 22, 1771.  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.
To be SOLD, on Thursday the 25th of next Month, at the late Dwellinghouse of Captain William Chapman, deceased, in Brunswick County, ALL the personal Estate of the Deceased, consisting of a large Stock of fine Horses, Cattle, Hogs, and Sheep; also the Household Furniture, Plantation Utensils, and about one Hundred Barrels of Indian Corn. Credit will be given until Christmas next for all sums above twenty five Shillings; and all Persons that have any Demands against the Estate are desired to make them known at the Day of Sale, and those indebted are requested to be speedy in their Payments. BENJAMIN CHAPMAN, Executor.
To be SOLD, on Thursday the 25th Instant, at Hicks's Ford, in Brunswick County, for ready Money, or Merchants Notes payable the last of the Court, TWENTY five choice Virginia born SLAVES, amongst which are some valuable House Servants. An indisputable Title will be made the Purchasers on the Day of Sale. Should the Day prove bad, they will be sold the next fair Day.
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.
GEORGE III. by the Grace of GOD, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. to the Sheriff of Southampton County, greeting: We command you that you summon Captain William, Son and Heir at Law of Captain William, deceased, to appear before our Justices of our said County Court, in Chancery, at the Courthouse of the said County, on the second Thursday in February next, to answer a Bill in Chancery exhibited against him and Stephen Williamson, by Thomas Williamson, and John Hyndman, Merchants; and this he shall in no wise omit, under the Penalty of one Hundred Pounds; and have then there this Writ. Witness Richard Kello, Clerk of our said Court, at the Courthouse, the 10th Day of January, 1771, in the eleventh Year of our Reign. RICHARD KELLO.
STOLEN, or STRAYED, from York Town, a small sorrel HORSE about thirteen Hands high, has a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, with a Star in his Forehead, branded on the near Buttock in a Piece; paces and trots. Whoever brings the said Horse to me shall have TEN SHILLINGS, and upon Discovery of the Thief TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward. WILLIAM WRIGHT.
STRAYED, or STOLEN, some Time in the latter End of last Summer, from a Plantation on Buffalo, in Prince Edward County, belonging to the Estate of William Randolph, Esquire, deceased, a very likely sorrel Mare, some of her Feet white, and a Blaze in her Face, three Years old next May, neither docked nor branded. Whoever will bring her to me, or to the Overseer on the Plantation, or give such Intelligence that I may get her again, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS. RICHARD EGGLESTON.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Williamsburg, DAVID DAVIS, an Apprentice Lad about twenty Years of Age, about five Feet ten Inches high, walks very straight, wears his own light brown Hair, which is tied, is much marked with the Small-pox, and a Cabinet Maker by Trade; had on, and took with him, a new light coloured Cloth Coat and Breeches, a new Waistcoat of reddish Willow Cloth, an old brown Coat and Waistcoat, a Pair of Breeches of a lighter Colour, new Shoes, and an old Hat. He likewise took with him a brown shagged Dog with a short Tail, that had an Iron Collar. Whoever conveys the said Apprentice to me shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward. BENJAMIN BUCKTROUT.
I forewarn all Persons from harbouring him, and Masters of Vessels from carrying him out of the Country.  THE Subscriber having been bred to Physick in his younger Years, and having attended particularly to this Study for these three Years past, new purposes to practise on the most moderate Terms. He cannot with Sincerity boast of having attained the Ne plus ultra of the Aesculapian Art, nor yet of acquiring any superior Degree of Knowledge in this Science; but flatters himself that, by a vigilant and due Attention to the Indications and Effects of Nature in those sick Persons who should, through Choice or Necessity, be committed to his Care, he may be able to afford them proper and timely Assistance. W. STARK.
The Copartnership in a medicinal Shop between Doctor Bland and myself being dissolved, the Debtors are desired to be as expeditious as possible in making Payment. The Shop will be furnished as before, with Medicines of the best Quality, and Prescriptions made up in the most accurate and elegant Manner.
STOLEN, or STRAYED, from Williamsburg, a few Days ago, a likely black Mare, about fourteen Hands high, five Years old, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, her Brand (if any) T. Whoever delivers the said Mare to me, at Jamestown, shall have THIRTY SHILLINGS Reward. CHAMPION TRAVIS.
LOUISA, March 1, 1771.  THE Partnership of William Anderson and Company being discontinued, the Subscriber requests all Persons indebted thereto to settle their Accounts immediately, by Payment, or otherwise. This Advertisement, it is hoped, will save farther Application, as all those who do not comply with it may expect to have their Accounts put into an Attorney's Hands, without farther Notice, or Respect of Persons. The Goods on Hand will be sold at a very low Advance, for ready Money, or Tobacco; and the Trade carried on, after the first of September next, by WILLIAM ANDERSON.
MATTOX BRIDGE, March 15, 1771.  THE Trade carried on at this Place, for Messrs. Andrew Thomson and Company of Glasgow, being discontinued, all who are indebted to the Store are requested to come and settle their Accounts, and make speedy Payment. Those whose Debts have been long due are desired to regard this as the last gentle Intimation; and, unless they are discharged this Summer, must blame themselves for the Consequence. The Goods on Hand, consisting of a neat Assortment, most of them lately imported, will be sold at Wholesale, on reasonable Terms. ARCHIBALD BRICE.
A MEETING of the Creditors of Mr. David Galloway, at the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, on the 7th May, is requested by the Trustees. 6
To be SOLD, on reasonable Terms, HIS Majesty's PATENT, or Grant, for twenty Thousand Acres of LAND in West Florida. Any Person, or Persons, inclined to purchase may be informed of the Particulars by inquiring of Joseph Ogden, at the Sign of the Cross Keys, the Corner of Chestnut and Third Streets, Philadelphia. 12
WANTED,  A VESSEL that will carry between eighty and one Hundred and twenty Tuns (twenty four neat Hundreds to the Tun) to transport Ore from Patapsco to Rappahannock, and to carry out Pig Iron. The Terms are six Shillings a Tun, with Liberty of sending out Pig Iron gratis to any Part of Rappahannock, Corn, or any Thing we may have to send to Patapsco, or five Shillings a Tun for the Ore, and the customary Freights of what we may send out. Four Hands will be found to assist to load, and unload. Sixty Tuns of Ore at least may be put in a Day; and a Trip may be made in twenty four Days, on an Average, with Ease, as many Trips have been made in sixteen. Employment for such a Vessel may be depended on the whole Season. ANTHONY THORNTON, Junior. RECOVERY Furnace, January 23, 1771.
JOURNEYMEN TAILORS, by applying to the Subscriber, in Blandford, may depend on meeting with good Encouragement. ANDREW HAMILTON.
Just IMPORTED, and to be SOLD by the Subscribers, in NORFOLK, A QUANTITY of very fine Jamaica COFFEE, PIMENTA, GINGER, MUSCOVADO and REFINED SUGARS, LIVERPOOL SALT, Crates of EARTHEN WARE, &c. &c. &c. BOLDEN, LAWRENCE, and Company.
To be SOLD at Petersburg, on Saturday the 13th of April, TWENTY LIKELY VIRGINIA BORN SLAVES, belonging to the Estate of the late Mr. Thomas Gray, deceased, of Southampton County. Also to be sold, at Southampton Courthouse, on the 9th of May, all the said Thomas Gray's LAND, in the said County, consisting of the Tract whereon he lived, and a small Tract called the Wolf Pit; the last is very conveniently situated for a Store, or Ordinary. These Lands and Slaves are to be sold in Purseance of a Decree of Dinwiddie Court. Nine Months Credit will be allowed, the Purchasers giving Bond, with good Security, to Gray Briggs. Also to be sold, at Brunswick Court, on the 22d of April, a Tract of Land in that County, whereon Richard Raines formerly lived, and by the said Raines mortgaged to me. Twelve Months Credit will be given for this Land, which is sold under a Decree of Brunswick Court. Bond and Security will be expected from the Purchaser. GRAY BRIGGS.
To be SOLD at publick Auction, on Thursday the 25th of April, before the Raleigh Tavern, in Williamsburg, A VALUABLE Tract of LAND, containing four Hundred and eighty Acres, commonly called and known by the Name of Timson's Neck, lying in York County, about five Miles from this City, and is bounded by York River and Queen's Creek, where there is a great Variety of Fish and Oysters. The Time of Payment will be agreed on at the Sale. ORLANDO JONES.
STRAYED or STOLEN, about four Weeks ago, a bay HORSE about thirteen Hands and a Half high, with a roached Mane and Switch Tail, trots well, and branded on the off Shoulder 1 P, though hardly perceivable. Whoever conveys the said Horse to me, in Williamsburg, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward. THOMAS BRAMMER.
RUN away from the Plantations of Mr. Butt Randolph, deceased, in Cumberland County, on the first of January last, two Negro Men, viz. CHARLES and CLAIBORNE. CHARLES is about twenty four Years of Age, five Feet six or seven Inches high, of a lively Countenance, walks quick and upright, of a yellowish Complexion, has lost one of his upper front Teeth, has had a small Piece cut off one Ear, and had on, when he went away, a Jacket made of Cotton, with Cuffs, and a Cape; his other Clothes such as usual for Negroes. CLAIBORNE is about eighteen Years old, five Feet nine or ten Inches high, well made, has remarkable thick Lips, and very black; he is an African, but speaks plain, and had on such Clothes as Negroes usually wear. Whoever will bring the said Slaves to Charles Rice, in Cumberland County, at the aforesaid Plantations, or to the Subscriber, in Chesterfield County, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS for each, besides what the Law allows; and if taken out of this Colony, FIVE POUNDS for each. BERNARD MARKHAM.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, on the Premises, pursuant to an Act of Assembly, on Wednesday the 15th of May,
TWO Thousand eight Hundred Acres of LAND, being the upper Part of a Tract belonging to Armistead Lightfoot, Esquire, in Brunswick County. It will be laid off into Lots, to make it convenient to the Purchasers; and any Person inclined to buy may be shown it by applying to Thomas Gholson, who lives on it. Credit will be allowed until the first of November next, upon giving Bond and Security to LEWIS BURWELL, JAMES BURWELL, THOMAS MANN RANDOLPH, } Trustees. JOHN WOODSON,
TAKEN up, in Betscourt, a small black HORSE about four Years old, branded on the off Shoulder 1 R. Potted, and appraised to six Pounds. JACOB KENT.
TAKEN up, in Betscourt, a small bay Horse, about seven Years old, has a Scar on his near Cleft, and is branded on the near Shoulder R C, and on the near Buttock 5. Potted, and appraised to five Pounds. JAMES BARNETT.
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 exceedingly 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 Mariner, 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 House, two fine Gardens, of the best hewed Framing and Pales; and, in short, every Convenience that is necessary for the Ordinary and Plantation Use. 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 Chimnies, the Houses underneath with Becks, 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 Ankers 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. 16 GABRIEL PEN.
N. B. All the Merchants, Storekeepers, Clerk of the County, their Servants, &c. are boarded in the Ordinary, the Profits of which are very considerable to me.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Prince Edward, some Time in June last, a Negro Lad named WINDSOR, who for several Years past has waited upon me, and is acquainted with most Parts of the Country. He is a sensible and artful Fellow, about five Feet high, a handsome lively Look, and speaks quick. He was taken up by Mr. William Mitchell of York, and committed to that Jail, at which Time he called himself William Florence, and said he was free, and, by the Assistance of some other Negro imprisoned with him, broke the Prison. He has since been seen about Williamsburg, near which Place perhaps he is still concealed. He carried away with him a brown Holland Coat, blue Broadcloth Waistcoat, two white Linen Shirts, two Pair of Osningburg Breeches, and good Shoes and Stockings. As I have Reason to apprehend he will endeavour to get on Board a Vessel, in Order to make his Escape out of the Colony, I do hereby forewarn all Masters and Commanders of Vessels from taking him on Board. I will give TEN POUNDS to any Person that will contrive him to me, and FIVE POUNDS for such Intelligence that I may get him. WILLIAM WATT.
For SALE,  TWENTY Thousand Acres of LAND, in the Counties of Frederick and Hampshire, which was advertised some Years ago in this Colony, and the neighbouring Provinces, and its Situation and Qualities then described; therefore think it needless to repeat them now. It will be sold very cheap, and reasonable Time of Payment will be allowed the Purchaser, or Purchasers, for one Half of the Purchase Money; who may be shown the Premises by applying to the Subscriber, in Winchester. BRYAN BRUIN.
Pursuant to the last Will and Testament of Mr. Anthony Hay, deceased, will be SOLD, on TUESDAY the 7th of MAY, before the Raleigh Door, in Williamsburg, NINETEEN NEGROES belonging to his Estate, amongst them a very good Cabinet Maker, a good Coachman and Carter, some fine Waiting Boys, good Cooks, Washers, &c. Six Months Credit will be allowed, the Purchasers giving Bond and Security to WILLIAM TREBELL, ROBERT NICOLSON, } Executors.
N. B. All Persons who have Demands against Mr. Hay's Estate are requested to make them speedily known, that Provision may be made for discharging them; and those indebted thereto are desired to make immediate Payment. It is hoped none of the Creditors will put the Estate to any unnecessary Charge, by Suits, when we assure them the best Means will be used to pay the Debts with all Speed, and when it is considered that Mr. Hay has left a large Family, whose tender Years entitle them to some Indulgence.
RUN away from the Subscriber, on Saturday the 26th of January, an indented Servant Man named WILLIAM READ. He is a well set Fellow, about five Feet ten Inches high, and speaks the West Country Dialect pretty broad; had on, and took with him, a dark coloured Duffil short Frock Coat, a Pair of blue Plains Breeches with a spotted Cotton Waistband, a Pair of Yarn Stockings, Check Shirt, and Virginia made Shoes. He is a Farmer, and understands Something of making and laying Bricks. Whoever delivers the said Servant to me at West Point, in King William County, or secures him so that I may get him again, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward. JOHN WEST.
Wanted on CHARTER, to load Tar and Turpentine in NORTH CAROLINA, A VESSEL of about fifteen Hundred Barrels Burthen. For Terms apply to James Marsden in Norfolk, or the Subscribers at Richmond, who have for Sale a Quantity of good SEINE TWINE. STORRS & ELLIS.
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.
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