The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1771-08-15 00:00:00

VIRGINIA GAZETTE.
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FOREIGN and DOMESTICK.
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HAGUE, May 24.
PRIVATE Letters inform us that when Count Alexis Orlow, Commander in Chief of the Russian naval Forces in the Mediterranean, had his Audience of Leave of the Empress, in Order to return to his Port, her Imperial Majesty caused to be delivered to him not only a considerable Sum of Money in Specie, but also Bills of Exchange for upwards of five Millions of Roubles, for the Support of the said naval Forces; which, added to the Contributions that the Russians levy in the Islands they have subdued in the Archipelago, will enable them to live plentifully, and to advance their Progress.
According to Advices from Stockholm, the Court Party diminishes daily, so that if the Defection continue its Partisans will soon be very few. This Diminution is attributed, on the one Hand, to the Manoeuvres of the Court of Petersburg, which covertly takes great Pains to prevent the new King of Sweden from having more Authority and Power than the King his Father and Predecessor possessed; and to this Effort every Sort of Influence is practised on the Senate and the Nobility of the Kingdom, as being the most powerful Order. On the other Hand, the Diminution of the Court Party is attributed to the Contents of the Declaration that the new King made in his late Letter addressed to the Senate.
CAIRO, March 13. Egypt, from whence Troops used to be drawn for the Use of the Grand Seigneur, is now drained both of Men and Money; this City, in particular, is in a most distressed State.
WARSAW, April 20. According to an exact List, the Plague has carried off, in this Kingdom, two Hundred and forty five Thousand Persons, and happily has now ceased.
METSAU, May 1. One Hundred and fifty Houses, with their Inhabitants and Cattle, were carried away by the Rapidity of the late Torrents at Riga.
NAPLES, April 30. A violent Eruption of Mount Vesuvius has just happened on the Side of the Principality of Oltajano, but the Lava has taken such a Course that no Damage has been received.
An English Gentleman, late arrived, broke his Leg so badly, in falling from his Carriage, that the Physicians and Surgeons of this City agreed there was no other Method of saving his Life but by Amputation, which was accordingly performed. The Presence of Mind, and Intrepidity, of the unfortunate Gentleman during the Operation, astonished all who were present. The King, touched with the Misfortune this Stranger had met with, has ordered a Guard to be placed at his Gate, in Order to stop any Carriages, or any other Annoyances that may disturb him, and has also ordered his first Surgeon to attend him.
MUNICH, May 12. This Country, which used to be the Granary of Tirol, Switzerland, and of several unfruitful Territories, is now reduced to great Extremity, and the Government is wholly employed in relieving it. For this Purpose one Hundred large Barrels of Flower, which had lain in one of the City Storehouses ever since the Year 1632, when Gustavus Adolphus ravaged Bavaria, have been examined; and though reduced to a Kind of Stone, are found in some Degree serviceable, by a proper Mixture of fresh Meal, and the Bread made in this Manner is distributed to the Poor. Many Expedients are taken to procure Corn from Italy and Austria, and all Persons who have no visible Occupations are ordered to leave the City; the Subjects to retire to their respective Habitations, and the Foreigners to remove out of the State.
The Situation of Ratibon is still more deplorable, as they have but small Hopes of escaping a Famine; and at Augsborg the poorer Sort of People are reduced to subsist on a Kind of Bread made of the Bark of Beech and Alder, into which a small Quantity of Spice is worked, though, from its heating Quality, it is of itself liable to produce Disorders.
LONDON, May 25.
WE hear from Copenhagen that the great Number of Executions of young Women for the Murder of their Bastard Children has induced his Danish Majesty to order an Hospital to be opened for the Reception of such unfortunate Babes. A Box is placed every Night in the Front of the House to receive all Children that are brought, and taken in every Morning; over the Box is cut, in Marble, an Inscription, signifying, Unhappy Children preserved! The Morning after the first Night six young Children were found in the Box.
Extract of a Letter from Paris, May 17.
The Scaffolding which had been erected on the Saone, for the People to see the Countess of Provence at the Time of her passing by Lyons, fell down, and a great Number of Persons lost their Lives by this unhappy Accident; many others are very much hurt.
The King of Denmark's Conduct since his Departure from England, by the great Reforms he is continually making for the Good of his Subjects, seems actuated by the same noble Spirit as the famous Prince the Czar was, in Consequence of his Residence in England. That Prince took with him not only the Models of Ships, but also the Schemes that were then newly projected for Charity Schools, Hospitals, &c. which, upon Return to his own Country, he ordered to be erected in all Parts of his vast Empire, which he enforced by an Edict, that none should be married that could not read the Bible. So differently did this wonderful Genius think from some Politicians amongst us, who have laid it down for a Maxim in Government, that the servile Part of Mankind are to be kept as ignorant as possible.
A Gentleman who arrived in Town on Thursday from France says that at Calais it is very difficult to get a Joint of Meat since the Exportation of live Cattle from England has been stopped, and that the poorer Sort of People there are in the greatest Distress. This Gentleman adds, that Trade is totally at a Stand, and that at Paris he bought for four Guineas a Sword for which he must have paid ten when Trade was in a flourishing Condition; so greatly are the French in Want of Money.
From Manchester we learn that last Market Day Provisions sold at the following Prices, namely, Beef from fourpence to sixpence a Pound, Mutton from fourpence Halpenny to sixpence, Lamb from sixpence to eightpence, Veal from threepence Halpenny to fourpence, and Pork from fourpence to fivepence; Butter from ninepence to tenpence, and Cheese from thirty one Shillings to thirty six Shillings the Hundred Weight.
The present enormous Price of Provisions, added to the Exorbitance of our Taxes, bids fair to keep this Nation poor for a long time.
Yesterday Morning one William Richards, a Journeyman Jeweller in the little Old Bailey, drank nine Quarters of Geneva within an Hour, and walked off without any Signs of Intoxication.
May 27. Early on Sunday Morning his Majesty, attended by a few General Officers, went privately to Tooting Common, in Surrey, where Elliot's and Burgoyne's Regiments of Light Horse were drawn up in two Battalions, and went through a complete Exercise in Imitation of a Bush Fight. This agreeably entertained his Majesty, and gave great Pleasure to the Spectators.
On Saturday, at one o'Clock, their Majesties set out from the Queen's Palace for Richmond, where they proposed dining. They had gone but a few Miles, when, her Majesty finding herself indisposed, they returned to the Queen's Palace.
On Saturday Evening their Majesties paid a Visit to her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales at Carlton House, where they continued for some Hours.
Yesterday the Reverend Doctor Long preached before his Majesty at the Chapel Royal, and Lord Cadogan carried the Sword of State; after which there was a numerous Court, at which the Dukes of Gloucester and Cumberland, several of the Nobility, and most of the foreign Ministers, were present.
Extract of a Letter from Portsmouth, May 25.
Lord Rochford, Lord Le Despencer, Lord Palmerston, &c. have surveyed the Men of War, and this Day they will visit the Dockyard. The Navy Board are down here, in Order to assist their Lordships. The Arrogant, of seventy four Guns, is paid off.
The following is said to be the real Cause of the Earl of Sandwich's present Survey of the Dockyards. At the Beginning of the last Sessions of Parliament Sir Edward Hawke declared, not only in the House of Commons, but in the Privy Council, that a certain Number of Ships was fit for immediate Service; in a few Days afterwards he was obliged to retract the Assertion he had made, not one Third of the Number being fit for Sea. Sir Edward was therefore summoned to a Cabinet Council. His Defence was, that he spoke from the Reports made to him by the Surveyor of the Navy, Sir Thomas Slade. It was then resolved, in Council, that Sir Thomas should answer for his Conduct before the House of Commons. This Resolution being taken only two or three Days previous to the Adjournment of the House for the Christmas Holidays, it was referred to the next Meeting, before which Time Sir Thomas Slade died.
On this Occasion a certain Nobleman was heard to say, he died just in Time to save his Neck. It was then agreed, in Council, that Sir Edward Hawke should be dismissed, and that for the future the Navy and Dockyards throughout the Kingdom should be surveyed by the Lords of the Admiralty every two Years.
On Friday was filed in the King's Bench Office a Declaration on Behalf of Lord L. against a Piedmontese Nobleman, for Crim. Con. with Lady L. wherein the Damages are laid at twenty Thousand Pounds. Mr. Dunning was retained for Lord L. immediately on the Discovery of the Cause of Action, as was Mr. Wedderburne for the Defendant.
An Account was received on Friday of some riotous Proceedings at Norwich, by vast Numbers of People assembling in that City under Pretence of fixing the Price of Provisions, &c.
The Corrigidore, a Dutch Man of War from St. Eustatia, was lost off Cape Finisterre in the Night of the 16th Ultimo, and every Soul perished. The Experiment, Hamlin, from Bristol and Virginia to Honduras, was lost off Cuba on the 17th of December, but the Crew were saved.
Last Wednesday died, in Worcester Infirmary, John Fawkes, who was brought in the Night before with his Throat cut in a shocking Manner, which he pretended was done by two Footpads; but a little before he expired he declared he was his own Executioner, and that he was urged to it by being disappointed in his Addresses to a young Woman whom he loved.
May 28. Yesterday, at Noon, a Privy Council was held at Lord Rochford's Office in Cleveland Row, on continental Affairs.
Yesterday her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia gave a grand Entertainment to several of the Nobility, of both Sexes, at her Seat at Gunnersbury.
A Bon Mot, which lately fell from his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, is much talked of at Court, and strongly marks the particular Turn of his Temper. Being lately at Play with his Brothers, and some other little Ones of Distinction, it was suggested by one of the young Gentlemen to make a temporary Prison of a large Closet in the Room, and to confine such Offenders there as violated the established Laws of any Amusement with which they chose to divert themselves. The Prince, however, instantly disapproved the Proposition, saying, that "Liberty in this Country was too serious a Thing ever to be made a Jest of."
Thursday last a young Woman of Somersetshire, whose Affections had unfortunately been gained by a young Barber of Chiswick, followed him to that Village, where the Mother of the Youth refusing to let her see him, and also giving her coarse Language, the unhappy Girl, in a Fit of Despair, seized a Razor, with which she cut her own Throat. The Affistance of an eminent Surgeon was immediately had, but she had done the Business effectually. She expired soon after, calling upon her "dear Billy," and in vain requesting to see him in her last Moments. It is said that the poor Girl was pregnant by her Deleter; and on Saturday Evening the Coroner's Inquest sat on the Body, at the White Hart at Chiswick, and brought in their Verdict Lunacy. It appeared that her Name was Richards, born of reputable Parents at Swansey in Glamorganshire, and was settled as a Milliner at Bath, where she became acquainted with a young Man, Son in Law to a Perukemaker. After he quitted Bath she followed him to Chiswick, where she committed this rash Action. No more than threepence Halpenny was found in her Pocket. She was buried the same Night in Chiswick Churchyard, attended by a great Number of Spectators, who shed Tears on the mournful Occasion.
The following Letter from Petersburg, dated April 30th, has been sent to Prince Gallitzin, Minister from her Imperial Majesty to their High Mightinesses the States General.
"A Courier is just arrived here from the grand Army, with Advice that on the 24th of last Month Major General Wiefman passed the Danube, near Tulchi, with eight Hundred Grenadiers, in Order to make a Diversion while an Attack was made on this Side the River, by General Potemkin, upon the Fortresses of Torno. Notwithstanding Tulchi was defended by a Garrison of thirty Thousand Men, and several Batteries, M. Wiefman began the Attack, and with his small Body of Troops entirely routed the Garrison, took several Prisoners, conveyed Part of the Cannon away in small Boats, spiking up the Remainder, and pursuing the Enemy to a considerable Distance. The Grand Vizier being informed of this Enterprise, by a Spy, despatched seven large Vessels to destroy the Boats which transported our Troops; but our Forces perceiving this Fleet was intended to prevent their Retreat, re-embarked with the greatest Expedition, and immediately attacked and seized six of the Enemy's Vessels. General Wiefman repassed the River, and returned safe to Imaim."
Extract of a Letter from the Hague, May 21.
"By Letters from Paris, of the 17th Instant, we are informed that the Countess of Provence arrived on the 11th of this Month at Fontainebleau; on the 17th she went to Choisy with the King, the Count de Provence, &c. The next Day her Highness set out for Versailles, where the Marriage Ceremony was performed with all Pomp and Dignity suitable to her Rank. In the Evening there was a royal Banquet, to which the Princesses of the Blood were invited; but the Princes of the Blood were not present, except the Count de la Marche, who had assisted at the Marriage, with the Count d'Eu, and the Duke de Penthièvre."
"On the 19th a grand Firework was played off, and there were very fine Illuminations in the Gardens facing the Castle. This Festival, however, did not bring together so great a Number of People as was expected."
"Paris was illuminated on the Evening of the Wedding Day. The Hotel of the Sardinian Ambassador exceeded all the rest in Splendour, all the Walls and Gates of which had Illuminations on them forming Ciphers relative to the august Marriage and the Alliance of the two Houses. Wine and Provisions were distributed among the Populace."
"The Princess of Provence is announced to be of a most agreeable Figure, though not a perfect Beauty. is possessed of Wit, is rather serious than gay, but her excellent Understanding is much applauded. Her Affability, Goodness, and the Nobleness of her Mind, are universally extolled. Since her Arrival in France, the Princess, who is extremely charitable, has distributed among distressed Persons two Thousand five Hundred Louisdors."
Further Particulars of the above Marriage.
"The Count and Countess of Provence, entering the Chapel, advanced to the Bottom of the Altar, and knelt down on the Cushion placed on the Steps of the Chancel. The Archbishop of Rheims, Great Almoner, who came out of the Vestry the Moment the King entered the Chapel, presented his Majesty with holy Water, and then went up to the Altar, which the King and Royal Family approached. This Prelate, after addressing a Discourse to the Count and Countess of Provence, began the
Ceremony by the Benediction of thirteen Pieces of Gold, and of a golden Ring. He presented them to the Count de Provence, who put the Ring on the fourth finger of the left Hand of the Countess, and gave her the thirteen pieces of Gold. The Marriage Ceremony being finished, and the Count and Countess of Provence having received the nuptial Benediction, the King returned to his Seat, and the Great Almoner began Mass, during which the King's Band performed a Piece of Musick suitable to the Occasion. As soon as the Countess of Provence was in her own Apartment, the Duke de Duras, first Lord of the Bedchamber in Waiting, had the Honour of delivering to her the Key of a Box of Jewels which the King had ordered the Duke to send to her Apartment."
The Comet, supposed to be that discovered by Monsieur Messier the first of April last, has been seen several Times at Tenderden. The first of this Instant it was near the Star marked Beta, in the Foot of Auriga; and on Friday the 17th, at Half past ten, was in a right Line between Tau and Epsilon in Gemini, about two Degrees from the first and six Degrees from the last of those Stars. It had about a Hundred and two Degrees right Ascension, and about twenty nine Degrees north Declination, with a Tail about a Degree and a Half long, as seen through a refracting Telescope.
Letters from France mention a prodigious Scarcity of Provisions in that Country, especially in Picardy, where, for Want of proper and wholesome Food, a great Mortality now prevails amongst the lower Sort of People.
By a Letter from Rippon, in Yorkshire, we learn that there never was a more plentiful Prospect than at this Time. Fruit in particular, from the great Quantity of Blossoms appearing upon the Trees, it is thought will be very plentiful this Year.
On Sunday Night Mr. D——, the noted Trader in Westminster Hall, was detected in his abominable Practices about the Mews, and met with a very severe Drubbing from the Populace, who rolled him in the Dust, made him go down on his Knees and cry out God bless the Women! then took him to the Pump in Covent Garden, washed him well, and rolled him in the Dirt. Having been rescued by a Party of Irish Chairmen, whose Protection he procured by his Purse, he took Refuge in a Tavern, and at length, terribly bruised, got to his own House in Bridge Street.
May 29. It is said the Earl of Bath has been advised by his Physicians to drink the Bath Waters, and will set out for that Place in a few Days. The following is the Speech of Mr. Alderman ROSSITER, at the Court of Common Council, held yesterday at Guildhall, which was taken by a Member of the Court in short Hand.
"My Lord Mayor, I rise up to trouble your Lordship, and the Court, with a Proposition which I flatter myself may tend towards relieving the Poor at this Time, when Provisions are excessive scarce and dear, owing to a Length of Rain, and repeated hard Frosts in the Winter, succeeded by a long and cold Drought, which has deprived the Country of Pasture, destroyed great Quantities of Lambs, and occasioned Butchers Meat to be so much advanced in Price that poor labouring People, especially those who have Families, cannot afford to buy it. I consider the Article of Provisions as coming directly under our Cognizance; in the Article of Bread, we have the Regulation of it. I observe, by the List of the Prices which Wheat bears in the different Counties, that almost all of them is dearer than in this Metropolis, from whence I am convinced that no Arts are used, and that there is no Monopoly to raise that grand Staff of Life upon us; and I am also convinced that the Dearness of Meat is owing to the Inclemency of the Season. I have, with Pleasure, observed, that when any considerable publick Calamity happens, either in the Colonies or any Part of the Kingdom, this Court has always been forward to lend its Assistance by liberal Contributions. Let us not, on the present Occasion, be unmindful of the many Thousands of Poor encircled within our own Walls, and many Thousands more in Spitalfields, and other Parts of the Vicinity of this City, great Part of whom are useful and valuable Manufacturers, and labouring People, who cannot afford to eat Meat at its present Price, more than once or twice a Week. There is, my Lord, a Harvest in the Ocean, if we will give Encouragement to Fishermen to reap it, and to bring Mackerel and Herrings to this City. A Gentleman told us, in the last Debate, that there were twenty Thousand Pounds in the Chamber. I (who am an entire Stranger to the Finances of the City, having never served upon the City Lands Committee) am glad to be informed we are so well in Cash; and having been pretty generous upon some late Occasions, I doubt not the Concurrence of this Court to the Motion I shall propose, which I choose to confine to Mackerel and Herrings, they being the great Fifth Articles of Provision to the Poor; and I have chosen to avoid clogging the Motion with the high Prices of Corn or Cattle, from a Belief that it is a real and not an artificial Scarcity, and from a Presumption that an Inquiry into the Prices of those Articles more properly belongs to the legislative Authority of the Kingdom than to us, unless it were by a Petition, if it should be found necessary, from this Court, before the next Meeting of Parliament. And if, my Lord, we can, by a suitable Encouragement, bring in Quantities of Fifth, we shall, in Proportion to the Increase of that Article, lessen the Consumption of Flesh Meat, and consequently reduce its Value. I therefore humbly move, that a Committee be appointed to consider of the most effectual Method of encouraging the taking and bringing the largest possible Quantity of Mackerel to this City, as a seasonable Relief to the Poor, in this Time of general Scarcity of Butchers Meat, and as the most probable Means of reducing the present high Prices thereof; that the said Committee consist of six Aldermen and twelve Commoners; and that they have Power to draw upon the Chamber of London for any Sum not exceeding five Hundred Pounds."
Thursday the Daughter of a Man of Fortune, who had married her Father's Butler, having made an unsuccessful Attempt to be reconciled, on her Father's giving Orders to a Servant to turn her out of Doors, she, in an Agony of Rage and Despair, plunged a Penknife into her Breast in his Presence, which so wrought upon him that he ordered her to be taken Care of and remain in his House, promised to forgive her, and sent for a Surgeon, who we hear is of Opinion that the Wound is not mortal. Saturday Morning a Man had his Leg cut off by a Steel Trap, while robbing the Grounds of a Gardener in Lambeth Marsh.
It is reported that the Earl of Sandwich, during his Stay at Portsmouth, has intimated his Resolution of scratching off the List all those Officers of the Marines who absent themselves, provided they do not immediately repair to Quarters; which Resolution is in general highly applauded, on Account of the Number already draughted from the three Divisions, considerably before their Turn, which this Resolution will in future prevent, by reducing the Absentees to the Alternative of either attending their Duty or resigning their Commissions.
Monday Night Hostilities recommenced between the Marshal and the Prisoners in the King's Bench Prison. An Avenue within the Walls, contrary to the late Convention, he began to fortify with a strong Door. The Prisoners knowing this Step to be an Introduction to close Confinement, tore it down, and burnt it. They afterwards pulled down some Party Walls which obstructed the free Circulation of Air, and which for a Year past the Marshal had promised to demolish himself. On this Provocation the Marshal ordered to fire, which was obeyed. One Gentleman was shot through his Hat, and another had a slight Wound on his Finger. One Soldier was shot in the Arm by one of the Tunkeys. A strong Party of the Guards assisted to convey the offending Prisoners to the New Jail the next Morning.
May 30. Monday a Courier arrived from Madrid at the Spanish Ambassador's. His Excellency went immediately to the French Ambassador's, and had a Conference with him. Soon after a Messenger was

despatched to Paris, from which it is conjectured that there is some Scheme in Agitatio, which may prove disagreeable to England, at least to the present Ministry.
Tuesday the Right Honourable the Earl of Bute sat with his Family from South Audley Street, for his Seat at Luton Hoo, in Bedfordshire.
A Premium of ten Pounds is offered by the City of London to the Masters or Owners of the first twenty Vessels who shall deliver at Billingsgate Market Cargoes of not less than five Thousand Mackerel, at or under the Rate of ten Shillings for the Hundred or six Score, with sufficient Proof as to their Freshness.—Quere, Would not a Premium to Graziers, who should sell the greatest Number of Cattle at the lowest Price, be an effectual Method of preventing an artificial Scarcity?
Yesterday came on at Lincoln's Inn Hall, before the Lord Chancellor, a Petition on a singular Case.
A Lady in Ireland had a certain Disorder communicated to her by her Husband. She sued him accordingly in a Cause of Divorce or Separation from Bed and from Board, as well upon this Account as for Cruelty. The Judge of the Ecclesiastical Court in Ireland dismissed the Husband, doubting whether the Proof of that Fact was Cruelty sufficient to entitle her to Separation, and not knowing of any Precedent. Besides this, he did not allow her Alimony during Suit. The Lady appealed to the High Court of Delegates in Great Britain, to be named in a Commission by the Lord Chancellor. A Caveat was entered by the Husband, who prayed that the Commissioners delegate might be Irish. The Lady prayed that they might be English Common Law Judges and Civilians. After long and learned Arguments, the Lord Chancellor granted the Commission to Irish Delegates, five to be named by each Party. The Counsel for the Lady were Doctor Marriott, his Majesty's Advocate General at Doctors Commons, and Mr. Maddox; Doctor Wynne, and Mr. Wedderburne, for the Gentleman.
It is said that Lady Grosvenor has proved her Recrimination. The Counsel for her Ladyship are, Doctor Marriott, Doctor Harris, and Doctor Calvert; for his Lordship, Doctor Collier, Doctor Wynne, Doctor Burrel, and Doctor Bevan. The Success of her Ladyship's Attack on his Lordship will be very alarming to many Men of Fashion, who neglect their Ladies; for if the Facts are proved, they will be in Bar of any Sentence of Separation, although any Thing may happen to be proved against a Lady, the Law holding that Persons of Gallantry are the fittest to live together.
Letters from Paris, of the 24th Instant, mention that several Hawkers have been lately taken into Custody for vending some Arrets, Remonstrances, Letters of the Princes of the Blood, &c. and committed to Prison. The Informers on these Occasions have been chiefly Ecclesiastics, who urge that in serving the Police by such Informations they act agreeably to the Will of God.
The Comet lately seen at Tenterden has also been observed at Canterbury. On Sunday Night last it had one Hundred and sixteen Degrees forty five Minutes right Ascension, and twenty seven Degrees north Declination, continuing its apparent Course almost parallel to the Ecliptic, and it is at present visible with a Telescope only.
May 31. The Regency of Tunis have laid an Embargo on all foreign Vessels in their Ports, indiscriminately. An English Fleet at two Dutch Merchantmen, were in that Port when this Event happened.
Extract of a Letter from Paris, May 20.
"The Distractions of this Country daily increase. The Princes of the Blood, and the Parliaments of France, are united in one firm Body to oppose the Tyranny of the Court; and the King of Spain, as a Prince of the House of Bourbon, is strongly attached to them, and determined to support them against the Court of Versailles, whose Politicks he detests, and whose Plan he abhors, for re-establishing the Jesuits in France. The fin qua non of the Princes of the Blood is, the Restoration to all the Parliaments of France of their original constitutional Privileges; their Freedom of Debate; of annulling and registering parliamentary Edicts; and the Dismission, for ever, from the Service of France, the Regiments of foreign Mercenaries, the strongest Support of Tyranny in France, and at this Crisis the only Foundation for absolute Government."
Yesterday several of the Nobility paid a Visit to her Majesty at the Queen's Palace, who continues in a perfect State of Health.
Tuesday the Earl of Grantham set out to embark for his Embassy at the Court of Spain; he goes by Way of Paris, where he proposes continuing for some Time.
Tuesday the Earl of Halifax came to Town from his Seat on Hampton Common, but still continues in so bad a State of Health as not to be able to attend on any Business.
Wednesday General Elliot's Regiment of Light Horse relieved the Horse and Horse Grenadier Guards on St. James's Duty, and the same Day General Burgoyne's Regiment marched for Shropshire, where they are to be quartered in different Parts of that County.
Lord Sandwich, in Consequence of his Visit to the Royal Hospital at Haslar near Gosport, has ordered a new Guardhouse to be built there. It is said that the Lords of the Admiralty have given strict Orders for no Stranger whatever to be admitted into the Dockyards of this Kingdom in future; and double Sentinels are to be placed at the Water Side, to prevent any One landing, except such as belong to Yards.
June 1. An Evening Paper, of last Night, positively asserts that the Terms of the Treaty of Peace, on the Eve of being concluded between Russia and the Porte, under the Mediation of the Courts of Berlin and Vienna, are these. Belgrade, and all the Forts on the Danube, to its Mouth, to be ceded to Austria, as a Barrier against the Turks. Bender ceded to the same Power, as a Barrier against the Russians. The intermediate Countries between the Neister and Danube to remain neutral, under their Princes and Waywodes. The Danube to bound the Turkish Dominions in Europe. All the Coast of the Black Sea, with its Ports and Harbours, comprehending those of the Crimea, ceded to Russia. The Crim Tartars to become nominally independent. The Russians not to have the free Navigation of the Bosphorus and Hellespont, and to evacuate the Archipelago and its Isles. The Throne of Poland to be declared vacant, and a free Election permitted, by withdrawing of all foreign Troops, which might overawe the Diet. The Candidates for the Polish Throne to be the Elector of Saxony, the present King, and an Archduke. Should the Election not fall on the present King (which it is generally believed it will not) he is to retain the Title of King, to which will be annexed the Duchy of Posen. The King of Prussia to cede his Part of Silesia to Austria, and to receive Polish Prussia and Dantzick in Lieu of it, guaranteed by Austria. The only Obstacle which retards the Completion of the above Treaty is the Neutrality of the Countries between the Neister and Danube, which the House of Austria wish to erect into a Sovereignty for a Branch of their Family.
It is said that the Committee for the Defence of the Lord Mayor and Mr. Alderman Oliver, who sat on Thursday last at the Mansion House, have ordered Prosecutions to be commenced against Sir Fletcher Norton.
Some Letters from the Hague mention that the States General have received some very important Despatches from their Ambassadors at two powerful Courts, the Contents of which had thrown them into great Consternation.
Letters from Vienna say that the Emperour is employed for four Hours at a Time in his Cabinet, and often passes the whole Day there. Military Preparations are going on every Where there; however, the Time of the Emperour's Departure for the Army is not fixed.
Letters from the Continent say that there is not the least Probability that an Accommodation between the Russians and Turks will speedily be brought about, as the Empress will not give up several Points laid down as the Basis of a Pacification, which the Porte looks upon as humiliating and dishonourable.
June 4. France has at length effected the great Stroke of Politicks she has been long aiming at. The Government is become bankrupt, and the whole Score of State Debts is rubbed out. All Pensions, all Annuities, are sunk. All these important Resolutions have actually passed the Grand Council, and the publick Declaration of them is expected by the first Post. By private Letters from Paris we learn that the Court finds new and almost insurmountable Difficulties in their Attempts to raise the new Impôts, and that the whole Kingdom is upon the Point of revolting; so that it is generally imagined that the King will, at last, be constrained to recall the old Parliament.
The Squadron under the Command of Admiral Rodney was spoken with on the 28th Ultimo, all well, by the Maryland Planter, Piper, from Virginia, in Latitude forty eight Degrees thirty Minutes north.
They write from Lisbon that the English Factory there has been restored to its former Privileges. The Woollen Manufactures of France having been prohibited, the French Minister there lately presented a Memorial on the Subject, to which he had not then received an Answer from the Portuguese Ministry.
The piratical State of Tunis has furnished six Vessels, carrying one Hundred and thirty nine Guns and one Thousand two Hundred and sixty Men, for the Service of the Porte; three of them are English built, and were bought of Merchants in London. They are failed to oppose the Entrance of the Russian Fleet into the Strait of the Dardanelles.
June 6. Yesterday Morning, at Half an Hour past four o'Clock, her Majesty was taken in Labour, Notice of which was immediately sent to her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Secretaries of State, and the Ladies of the Bedchamber,
and a little before six o'Clock her Majesty was safely delivered of a Prince. This happy Event was announced to the Publick by the ringing of Bells, hoisting of Flags, and firing at the Tower Gun.
Her Majesty and the young Prince were yesterday, in the Afternoon, as well as could be expected.
It is said that a certain great Personage is at length come to a Resolution to dismiss from his Service all such of his Servants as he finds are grown obnoxious to his People.
It is said that Lord Hillborough is to succeed Lord Townshend as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; and that the Earl of Shelburne is to be Secretary of State for the Colonies, in the Room of Lord Hillborough.
At a Court of Common Council, held yesterday, a Report was read from the Committee appointed to consider and assist the Lord Mayor, and Mr. Alderman Oliver, with the Opinion of Council, whether their Imprisonment by the House of Commons could be tried by a legal Course of Law. The Council's Opinions are, that it could not; however, a Motion was made that this be laid before the Common Hall on Midsummer Day next. The Council concluded on this Occasion were Messieurs Glynn, Dunning, Mansfield, and the Common Serjeant.
It was reported yesterday that a new Treaty of Commerce is now upon the Tapis between the Courts of Lisbon and London.
A considerable Fall in the Price of Port Wines is soon expected, in Consequence of the new Arrangement which has lately taken Place with Respect to the British Merchants at Lisbon and Oporto.
It is said that some Papers of a treasonable Import were dropped about St. James's Palace on Tuesday Night.
June 8. The Number of the Minority Noblemen and Gentlemen that honoured St. James's with their Presence on Tuesday surpassed that of any other Birthday for these seven Years.
Within these few Days, the Lord Chancellor, it is said, has paid very frequent Visits to Lord Camden, both in Town and at his Seat in Kent. The latter Nobleman has also had several Conferences with his Majesty very lately.
Sir Edward Hawke is said to have declined the Acceptance of a Peerage. Yesterday the Lord Mayor received a Letter by the Penny Post, containing most audacious Threats against a great Personage, and against his Lordship, if Something be not immediately done to reduce the Price of Provisions. His Lordship sent the Letter to the Earl of Rochford for his Inspection, and to be laid before the great Personage. It is written in a fair Hand, and well spelt. It was put into the General Post Office, and conveyed from thence by the Penny Post.
Extract of a private Letter from Berlin, May 25.
"The Ottoman Porte has thought proper to release the Russian Minister at Constantinople from the Confinement under which he has been kept ever since the Rupture between Russia and the Porte. As the Empress of Russia always positively refused to hearken to any Proposals of Accommodation until her Minister was set at Liberty, his having now obtained it is considered as a Prelude to a Peace between these two Powers. The King of Prussia, having finished his grand annual Reviews here, set out from hence early this Morning, to review and exercise his Troops in Pomerania, and will return to Potsdam about the End of the Month. I never saw that Prince in better Health and Spirits than he is at present. He has a most surprising Constitution, and appears as capable of bearing Fatigue as he was at the End of the late War."
They write from the Hague that Couriers are frequently passing between that Place and Berlin, in Consequence of an Affair of Importance now on the Carpet between the States General and his Prussian Majesty.
A certain Ambassadour, we are assured, has disavowed any Knowledge of the Insults said to have been committed by the Spaniards in the West Indies upon the trading Subjects of his Britannick Majesty.
It is said that Letters are received in Town which mention that a certain southern Potentate had like to have lost his Life by opening a Letter directed to him, which contained a very subtle and deadly Poison; but his Majesty was immediately seized with a Giddiness, and dropped the Letter out of his Hand.
The French intend to secure to themselves the Possession of Corsica, by the following politick though barbarous Plan. They are continually transporting new Settlers thither, and bringing away the Natives; so that, in Time, the greatest Part of the Malcontents will be removed off the Island, the Chiefs shut up in the Prisons of Old France, and the rest dispersed through their Colonies.
The Account in some of the Papers, of a large Body of Troops marching from Madrid, to prevent an expected Insurrection in France, is entirely without Foundation.
One of the Morning Papers mentions the Death of the Earl of Halifax. Two others say his Lordship is dangerously ill, but not dead.
PHILADELPHIA, August 1.
Extract of a Letter from London, May 13.
THERE is Nothing new, of a publick Nature. The City of London is a good Deal agitated with the Dispute about the Office of Sheriff. Wilkes and Oliver are engaged against each other, and it is uncertain which will succeed. The Election will be on Midsummer Day. The Parliament was prorogued last Week. Lord North is yet firm in his Place, and boasted a Week or two ago that the Riots occasioned by confining the Lord Mayor had fixed him more firmly than ever."
Extract of another Letter from London, of the same Date.
"The following Bounty on Staves and Heading passed last Week, namely."
Pipe Staves, one Thousand two Hundred to the Thousand; five Feet and a Half long, four and a Half to six Inches wide, and two Inches thick on the thinnest Edge.
Hoghead Staves, one Thousand eight Hundred to the Thousand; four Feet and a Half long, four and a Half to six Inches wide, and one and a Half Inch thick on the thinnest Edge.
Barrel Staves, two Thousand four Hundred to the Thousand; three Feet six to three Feet eight Inches long, four to five Inches wide, and one and a Half Inch thick on the thinnest Edge.
Heading, three Thousand six Hundred Pieces to the Thousand; Pipe two Feet eight Inches long, Hoghead two Feet four Inches, and Barrel two Feet one Inch long; each Piece five to six Inches wide, and two Inches thick on the thinnest Edge.
Bounty, six Pounds a Thousand for three Years, to commence the first of next Year; four Pounds a Thousand for three Years after that, and two Pounds a Thousand for three Years after that. All to be six Score to the Hundred."
Extract of a Letter from London, June 5.
"Every Thing in the political Way remains exactly in the same Situation as when I wrote last. If Wilkes is chosen Sheriff next Midsummer Day, as I am apt to think he will, it will serve to prolong his political Life for some Time longer. When in Office, it is expected he will be guilty of some Extravagance or other, which may tend to undo him; but whether that shall happen or not, he is an Object highly unworthy any farther Consideration."
"I saw Doctor Franklin this Day. He is just returned from a little Excursion into the Country, and is in perfect Health. I hope the Time is approaching when our Ministry will have both Inclination and Leisure to call for and listen to his Advice. No Man hath more studied, and more fully comprehends, the true Interests of both Countries, and has more enlarged Views of human Nature, and the general Interests of Mankind, than he has; no Man deserves better of Society; and, of Course, no Man is fitter to be consulted upon the great Objects now in Contemplation, and upon the Grounds of Dispute which still remain to be adjusted between us."
Captain Lattimore, from London, on the 21st of June, off the Western Islands, spoke the Schooner Shirley, Captain Minlen, from Virginia for Madeira.
By Captain Higgs, from St. Eustatia, we learn that the 8th Instant Captain Calvert, in a Sloop belonging to Virginia, as he was going into St. Eustatia from St. Croix, ran on Board a French Schooner, then at Anchor in the Road, with thirty six Hogheads of Sugar, twelve Hogheads of Rum, and a Quantity of Coffee on Board, and did her so much Damage that she immediately sunk. Captain Calvert was soon after secured in the Fort, and his Vessel seized, to make Reparation for the Damage.
NEW BERN, July 19.
BY a Person arrived in Town, who has just been through the Settlements of the Regulators, we have Advice that upwards of six Thousand of those People have taken the Oaths of Allegiance to his Majesty, and happily returned to their Farms and Plantations. They say they are now perfectly contented, and express much Satisfaction at the Event of the late Battle, which has opened their Eyes, and fully convinced them of the wrong Measures they were pursuing.
By several intercepted Letters from the Regulating Chiefs, it has very plainly appeared that they intended to seize the Government, though it was a profound Secret among themselves, and not suffered to transpire among the common People, who were to have been led on by Degrees, with the Pretence of redressing Grievances, till their Successes against the Provincial Forces (which they made no Doubt of) should have insinuated their Minds, and ripened them for the Execution of the grand Plot.
WILLIAMSBURG, August 15.
THIS Day many Gentlemen honoured the College of William and Mary with their Attendance, to assist in commemorating the Foundation of that useful Establishment. After Prayers and a Sermon in the Chapel, two elegant English Oration, in Praise of the Founders and Benefactors of the College, were pronounced in the Hall by two of the Students, Messieurs Edmund Randolph and William Leigh, with such Spirit and Propriety as to obtain the just Applause of a numerous and attentive Audience. These academical Exhibitions being finished, the rest of the Day was spent in a decent Festivity, suitable to the Occasion.
Upon examining a Flat which had lain anchored several Days past just above the Mouth of Carter's Creek, in York River, there was found the dead Body of an elderly Man, whose Name, it since appears, was George Smith, a Waterman. He was found lying on his Back, in the Middle of the Boat, and had Nothing on but a Shirt and an old Cotton Waistcoat. The Jury of Inquest found his Body so much swelled and mortified that they could not tell whether he died a natural Death or not, although it was believed he did, the same Man having been seen in a Flat, alone, a Week or two before, and at that Time very sick. He was very poor, and has left a Wife and several Children in King William.—The Flat, which carries about nine Hogheads, and the few Articles which were found in her, are under the Care of Mr. Spencer, at Aberdeen Creek; and we have heard that the Flat is the Property of Mr. Daniel Lipscomb.
The two Sifters, Taylor, from London, is arrived in James River. Arrivals from Virginia, at London, Liberty, Blackwell, and Middleton, Clark.
[Marriages.] DAVID KERR, Esquire, Attorney at Law in King and Queen, to Miss FANNY TUCKER, a Daughter of the late Colonel Robert Tucker, of Norfolk.
[Deaths.] Mr. FRANCIS JERDINE, of Louisa, an eminent Merchant in that County. He acquired a handsome Fortune by Trade, with the fairest Reputation.
To the Reverend Mr. THOMAS GWATKIN, on his Defence of the Press.
THE Number of Peers required to proceed to Business in the House of Lords is, you say, usually and properly filled the Representation of the Peerage . All the Lords then, to a Man, never being assembled on any Occasion, the whole Business of the upper House of Parliament is not done, according to you, by the Peers, but by a Representation of the Peerage ; that is, by those present Members that represent both themselves and the absent Members, who also may come and represent themselves if they please. For a like Reason, the whole Business of the lower House of Parliament is done not by the Representatives of the People of Great Britain, but by the Representatives of the Representatives of the People, by sitting Members, that represent both themselves and the absent, who also may represent themselves, if they please to attend. And this you esteem usual and proper Language! What our Laws call the General Court you call the supreme Tribunal of this Dominion. What our Laws call the Burgess you call the General Assembly, leaving out two Parts in three of those who are comprised, by our Laws, under the Terms General Assembly. These Observations are not so trivial or immaterial, as, at first Sight, they may be thought; because you appear to me to place a great Deal of your Strength, with Respect to Argument, in misnaming Things, or endeavouring to make them go by wrong Names. Thus you denominate our Plan for an Episcopate an Attack upon religious Liberty, and its Favourers you treat as Men prepared to sacrifice you to the Fury of ecclesiastical Ambition. If you will allow me the same Liberty, that is, to call Things by what Names I please, I will undertake to prove any Thing required. For Instance, I will undertake to prove the handsomest Face in the World to be the ugliest; if you will only permit me to put what Mask I have a Mind upon it, and agree that this Mask shall be taken for the real Face. You say of the Bishop of London, "he likes wife recommends to all the Professorships in episcopal Colleges, and I believe his Recommendation either to them or to vacant Parishes is rarely set aside." Let us examine how this Matter stands with Respect to the College of which you are a Member, and which, I suppose, you reckon, as yet, among the episcopal Colleges. The Bishop of London, as Bishop of London, has Nothing to do with recommending to vacant Professorships in William and Mary College, nor has any Title so much as to be made acquainted with those Vacancies. The Visitors of the College, when they think proper, choose the Bishop of London Chancellor of the College; but even this Chancellorship is no more than an honorary Title, except when the Visitors choose to make it more. The Visitors can prefer whom they please here to vacant Professorships, without waiting for the Chancellor's Recommendation; and if they determine to send to England for Professors, they can, if they please, pass by the Chancellor, and send to any other Person for their Professors. I have put these Things together to show that when you give us no Authority but your own we cannot depend upon you for what is usual or proper Language, or for Matters of Fact, much less for Anecdotes; because you are not careful to express yourself, in Point of Language, with Precision, and are capable of stumbling, we see, in the plainest Matters of Fact, with which we had Reason to suppose you the best acquainted. It is not a little amusing to observe here, by the Bye, what strange Difficulties and Perplexities a Writer may plunge himself into by having unwarily rendered it incumbent upon him to maintain two Points which will not agree with each other. You are against any Bishop's Court here, when you contend for placing ecclesiastical Censures in the General Court; yet you acknowledge the Bishop of London's Jurisdiction, extol his Government, and affirm yourself to be tied to it by an Oath of canonical Obedience, when you set yourself against the proposed Episcopate. Hereupon what shifts you are put to, that you may find out Something wherein the Bishop of London's Jurisdiction and Government may consist! How laughable it is to see you place the Bishop of London's Jurisdiction and good Government, to obey which you are bound by an Oath in his recommending to vacant Professorships and vacant Parishes, to which he never does recommend, especially when we consider that if he did recommend to them all Connection between him and the Persons recommended must cease on your Plan with either the good or ill Success of the Recommendation.
In your Paragraph on the Clergy's altering their Minutes at one and the same Sitting, you call their not adhering to their first and hasty Resolutions, passed with little or no Debate, the Want of Order and Decorum, and their adhering to their final Resolutions, after a great Deal of Debate, after you and Mr. Henley had said what you pleased against them, proceeding with a Precipitation beyond Example; that is, you complain of Precipitation, and are an Advocate for Precipitation in the same Breath. In your Passage on the proposed Address, with Respect to its being signed by the Clergy out of Convention, you represent the Clergy in general, and those employed about the Address in particular, as very wicked and very foolish, without any just Grounds; for what should induce some to bribe, and others to be bribed, in Relation to signing the Address? Or what should make any of them guilty of pretending to have obtained Names to it which they had not obtained? The Objections which you make here would lie against an Address debated and signed in a Convention; for People at three Thousand Miles Distance might still consider the Whole as a Forgery, if they had a Mind to be so perverse.
Having thus considered what you have said in Relation to the Proceedings of the Clergy at the Convention, and the Measure then agreed upon, I will now endeavour to lay together, and bring into one Point of View, the many Accusations which you bring against the proposed Episcopate, and deliver them, if I can, from that State of Confusion in which they lie in your Defence, in Order that it may be examined whether they be true Accusations or otherwise, and what you have urged in their Support. According to you, 1. this Episcopate includes a Jurisdiction over the other Colonies; 2. it is contrary to the natural Rights and fundamental Laws of the other Colonies; 3. it is an Attempt to withdraw ourselves from our ancient Jurisdiction in ecclesiastical Matters; 4. it contains an Attack upon religious Liberty; 5. four or five respectable Persons among the Dissenters have written against the Episcopate; 6. if a Bishop comes there is Danger that he will be thrown into the Sea; 7. ill disposed Persons will make Use of it (the Episcopate) to kindle such a Flame as may go near to put a Period to the British Empire in America; 8. the Clergy aim, by the Episcopate, to detach themselves from the rest of the Community; 9. sufficient Security is not offered for the Continuance of our Rights, civil and religious, if the Episcopate takes Place.
It may be proper, in this Place, before we examine into the Strength of these Articles of Accusation, to give you our Plan of an Episcopate, especially as you think proper, once more, to call upon us for what is already in every Body's Hands, who chooses to have it. Our Plan, then, is to obtain a Bishop, if we can, who shall create no Expense to any Person in America, for the sole Purposes of ordaining, of confirming those who desire to be confirmed, of exhorting the Clergy to their Duty, and of presiding in a Court of Clergymen to be held for the single Business of punishing Clergymen according to the Nature of their Offence, as it shall appear to this Court. But what signifies it now to have told you this Plan? You can still modestly ask what Part of the Plan is kept out of Sight ? And why must any of it be kept out of Sight? Why, but because it is convenient for you that some Part of it should be supposed to be kept out of Sight ; because, if you may be allowed to imagine what you please to be kept out of Sight, you have a great Deal to say against this Part which you imagine to be kept out of Sight.

With Respect to the first Article, you say "The Expression American Episcopate must include a Jurisdiction over the other Colonies; so if it include a Jurisdiction over the Clergy of the said Colonies, it must, in some Measure, include a Jurisdiction over the Colonies themselves." Notwithstanding this, the Episcopate, if the King pleases, may be confined to the Clergy of this Colony. If other Clergymen be included, it will be because they have desired it. It includes no Jurisdiction over any Body but Clergymen: Just as a Surveyor General includes no Jurisdiction over any Body but certain of the King's Officers; and why the King may not appoint a proper Superintendent over the Clergy, as he is Head of the Church, as well as appoint proper Superintendents over other Sets of Men, in Quality of Head of the State, I cannot understand. In Regard to the second Article, you urge, "The Manner wherein the natural Rights and fundamental Laws of the other Colonies may be affected by an American Episcopate I am not obliged to point out. The Protesters intimated their Suspicion of its being productive of these bad Consequences, which was not without Reason; for the general Opposition the Scheme meets with from almost all Ranks of Men to the Northward, the Endeavours that have been made Use of to defeat it at Home, the express Application of Doctor Mayhew, and others, for that Purpose, afford sufficient Grounds for such Apprehensions." Here you tell us, in express Terms, that you are not obliged to make out a very material Proposition in the Present; which, if it mean any Thing, is a bold Assertion. Then you endeavour to sink this bold Assertion into an Intimation of a Suspicion; then this Intimation of a Suspicion becomes an Apprehension; and, finally, this Apprehension is proved to be reasonable and well grounded, not by any Thing which you have to say of your own Knowledge, but by the Opposition of some, and the Application of others, the Particulars of which we are left in the Dark about. Is this, now, maintaining, or giving up, a great Point in Question? Is it demonstrating, or retracting, nay is it not retracting with a very ill Grace, more like a pertinacious Wrangler than a Man of Candour? Let the Reader judge. In Relation to the third Article, which consists in your affirming that the proposed Episcopate is an Attempt to withdraw ourselves from our ancient Jurisdiction in ecclesiastical Matters, let us inquire. A Commission was granted by George the first, and renewed by George the second in the first Year of his Reign, as may be seen on our Records, to Doctor Gibson, Bishop of London, to put the Clergy of the Church of England in America under the Jurisdiction of the said Bishop. The Clergy in America, as appears by the Commission, had, before this, been annexed to none of the Bishopricks in England; which also agrees with an old Law of this Dominion, requiring our Clergy to consist of such as have been ordained by a Bishop in England. The Commission empowers the Bishop, either in his own Person, or by his Commissioners, to visit the Clergy, to call them before him, to hear Witnesses against them, and to inflict various Degrees of ecclesiastical Censures upon them; such as Suspension, Removal, and Excommunication. The same Commission not only confers these Powers for governing the Clergy, but retains the Bishop from concerning himself with all other Persons whatsoever; and the Commission claims to the King the Power of doing all this by Virtue of his being Head of the Church in America. In consequence of this Commission, the Bishop's Commissary held a Court in this Dominion, which consisted of himself and four grave Clergymen, agreeable to the Constitutions of the Church of England; from which Court there lies an Appeal, by the Commission under which it acted to his Majesty's Privy Council in England, which accords with the established Method of Proceeding in our civil Courts. The Remarks which I have to make hereupon are these; 1. that in our proposed Address we desire the King to grant no more than has been already granted by his Royal Grandfather and Great Grandfather; for there is no Difference, we think, between granting certain Powers to the Bishop of London and granting the same to an appropriated Bishop, except that in granting them to the latter they will be granted to the Person best able to carry them into Execution, as acting in his own Person, and not through the Mediation of Commissioners, who will become unnecessary; 2. that Gibson, and his Commissioners, never attempted to exceed the above Commission; 3. that no good Reason can be assigned why we should wish to part with such a Court as the above, for the Sake of putting the Business that belonged to it into the Hands of the General Court; 4. that what the Favourers of an American Episcopate desire agrees with both the most ancient and the only ecclesiastical Establishment respecting the Government of the Clergy, as Clergymen, that ever yet took Place in this Colony; 5. that the Bishop of London's Jurisdiction over the Clergy here, being none before the above Commission, expired also with the above Commission, which has not been renewed since the Death of Doctor Gibson, and lastly, that Commissions granted in quiet Times by such Kings as George the first and George the second, for the very Purpose of erecting a regular and standing Government over the Clergy in America, are surely better Precedents to be followed, at this Juncture, than Commissions granted in very unsettled Times, and on very extraordinary Occasions, that had no Relation to our present Case, by either King Henry the eighth or Queen Elizabeth. The fourth Accusation which you bring against our American Episcopate is that it contains an Attack upon religious Liberty, or will be looked upon to be such an Attack by the Dissenters. The Country Clergyman denies that Bishops are of Apostolical Institution, in Hope, I suppose, to draw us into that as well as other Controversies which subsist between the established Church and the Dissenters. But there is no Need for entering into all these Disputes on the present Occasion. The Defenders of the Church of England maintain Bishops to be of Apostolical institution. The Defenders of Calvinistical Establishments take the other Side of the Question. Neither Party have a Right to determine the Point for the other, neither of them acknowledge any infallible Judge of Controversy. Religious Liberty does not therefore consist in the Settlement of Points which never can be settled, at least to the Satisfaction of both Parties; but religious Liberty consists in this, that they who maintain Bishops to be of Apostolical Institution shall have their Bishop, and they who maintain the Presbyterian to be of Apostolical Institution shall have their Presbytery. Now if any Dissenters will be so unreasonable as to call our Use of our own religious Liberty an Attack upon theirs, will impute upon that to be the Denial of religious Liberty which is indeed the Exercise of it, we cannot help it; nor ought they, I think, in such a Case, to be heard or regarded. With Respect to the fifth, sixth, and seventh articles of Impeachment, concerning a few respectable Persons among the Dissenters that have written against our Episcopate, an Anecdote about tossing the Bishop when he comes into the Sea, and your Dreams of a Flame to be kindled on his Arrival that will go near to put an End to the British Empire in America, not to pass by what the Country Clergyman lays about moistening the Soil with blood, what does all this prove, but that if you, and some others, had the Elements at Command, you would have no Occasion to call down Fire from Heaven! If Fire and Water will obey you, it seems you will no longer stand reasoning with us; you will not appeal to Argument, but to Violence, or to one of the severest Methods of Persecution, namely, that of letting loose the inflamed Mob upon the Person devoted to Destruction. And what is all this Communion, this Blood, and Water, and Fire, to be employed for? To oppose the landing of a Bishop who comes with no other Powers but such as have been exercised here long ago by Doctor Gibson and his Commissioners, and have been found to be perfectly harmless; to oppose a Man who comes to take no Money out of any Body's Pocket, who comes to hurt no Body but Clergymen, at whose Desire he comes, and none of those but such as shall have been adjudged, by a Court of their Brethren, to be incorrigible by milder Treatment. I hope, for the Honour of America, it will require more Firebrands to kindle the Flame you mention than you imagine. When you get into such Fermentations as these, on Occasions that have Nothing in them which ought to provoke your Resentment, surely a little Bathing in salt Water, I mean not to hurt you, might properly be prescribed to you by your Physician, as equally salutary in your Case and in that of a Person's being bit by a mad Animal. I cannot quit this Topic without observing that you ought to show a Resemblance between the proposed Episcopate and those Acts of Government which have caused Disturbances in America, and thence deduce the Probability of its raising the like Disturbances; instead of which, you take the Disturbances for granted, and thence are willing to infer a Resemblance between the Episcopate and such Acts of Government as have caused such Disturbances. This, in my humble Opinion, is just as if you should fire at a Mark with the wrong End of the Fowling Piece foremost, by which the Fowler is more in Danger than the Animal whose Life is intended to be taken away. The eighth Article is, that the Clergy aim, by the Episcopate, to detach themselves from the rest of the Community. You are pleased to say, on this Head, that the Gentlemen of the Law, and Physicians, might as well desire such a Distinction as the Clergy. I will then tell you what I conceive the Distinction to be which the Clergy desire; it is no other than what is common to other Men who act in different Capacities. Candidates for a License to plead have their Examiners here; and would think it hard, no Doubt, to be obliged to take a Voyage to the Temple, whatever Improvement they might receive from such a Voyage, for the Sake of obtaining the said License. In this Respect, the Clergy, or rather they who intend to be Clergymen, wish to be on a Footing with the Gentlemen designed for the Law, and with the Gentlemen designed for the Faculty, who are not compelled to go to Europe for a License to practise. Our Militiamen are not, therefore, detached from the
rest of the Community, because, for certain Offences, respecting them as Militiamen, they are answerable in a Court Martial. In this Respect, we desire to be upon a Footing with our Militiamen. Why should there not be the same Order and Regularity observed in governing Clergymen, so far forth as they are Clergymen, which is observed in governing other Bodies of Men, in their distinct Capacities? The Bishop ordains and grants a License to preach, which runs during Pleasure. You might, I think, as well take away those Powers from him as the Powers of governing the Clergy, which are the natural Consequences of those Powers. Notwithstanding the ecclesiastical Court which we contend for, Clergymen will, no Doubt, be punishable for Treason, and other Offences against the State, and against the Laws in the civil Courts, with other Men, and in the same Manner as they have been hitherto. We contend not for an ecclesiastical Court on Supposition that Clergymen are less, but more, punishable than other Men, for many Offences; which, I think, is agreeable to the Sense of the penal Law against Vice, Blasphemy, &c. passed in the fourth Year of Queen Anne, wherein is this Clause: "Provided always, that Nothing herein contained shall be construed to exempt any Clergyman within this Colony, who shall be guilty of any of the Crimes herein before mentioned, from such farther Punishment as might have been inflicted on him for the same before the making of this Act, any Thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding." You seem to take it for a Maxim that the Clergy must necessarily either be detached from the rest of the Community or from the Bishop. On the other Hand, we see no Necessity for either. We desire to remain under the civil Jurisdiction of the General Court, in our civil Capacity, as other Men are; but, besides this, to be under the Jurisdiction of an ecclesiastical Court, as being Clergymen. (The Remainder in our next.)
Advertisements.
FALMOUTH, August 6, 1771. THE Subscriber will rent out, for a Term of Years, the Publick House which John Newton at present occupies in Falmouth; or will sell it, and make the Terms easy to the Purchaser. Mr. Newton's Time expires the first of November next. The Subscriber has a Cask of Merchandise, in his Store, marked A Mc No. 12, which does not belong to him; nor can he say when or where he received it, but that it must have been received since the Middle of last May. He misses a Cask of Nails marked G F I, that it is probable some Person has received his Cask instead of that left with him. ARTHUR MORSON.
LANCASTER, August 5, 1771. WHEREAS one William Batten (alias Tomkins) has carried off TWO NEGROES, which I, as Guardian to the Orphans of Thomas Pollard, deceased, hired to him for the present Year; and as it is imagined the said Batten intends to sell the said Negroes, all Persons are desired to take Notice that he has no Property in them. The said Negroes are, a Woman named Hannah, about two and twenty Years of Age, very low, but well made; and a Girl named Lucy, about eleven Years of Age, small and slender made. Whoever will bring the said Negroes to me, on Rappahannock River, shall receive TWENTY SHILLINGS for each, besides what the Law allows. JOHN BAILEY.
ENSURANCE OFFICE, BALTIMORE TOWN, MARYLAND, JULY 29, 1771. I TAKE this Method to acquaint all Gentlemen, Merchants, and Masters of Ships or Vessels, that I have lately opened an Office for insuring Ships, Vessels, and Cargoes, on any fair Risk, at the customary Premium, being supported by a Number of Gentlemen of Probity and Property, as Underwriters. Any Orders, accompanied with the Premium or Credit, shall be punctually executed by their very humble Servant, THOMAS BRERETON.
A MATCH OF COCKS to be fought at Lunenburg Courthouse, on Tuesday the 17th of September between the Dinwiddie and Lunenburg Gentlemen; to show fifteen Cocks for five Pounds a Battle, and fifty Pounds the odd Battle. There will be good Entertainment for all Gentlemen that are disposed to come. JAMES COLE.
To be SOLD by the SUBSCRIBERS, at their Store in PORTSMOUTH,
LOAF, Lump, and Muscovado Sugar, Jamaica Spirits, Antigua and Northward Rum, Chocolate, Madeira Wine London Quality five Years old, a few Pieces of very fine Bolting Cloths, a Parcel of Grindstones, a Pair of Cologne Millstones four Feet five Inches Diameter, a Quantity of double Oil Flints, Marble Slabs, a few Wheat Fans, and a few Dozen of Russia Mats. Good clean bright FLAXSEED taken in Payment. INGLIS and LONG.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, upon the Premises, on the 25th Day of October next,
A TRACT of LAND in Dinwiddie County, on the Branches of Namaxen Creek, near Hutchings's Ordinary, about twenty Miles from Petersburg, containing eight Hundred and forty four Acres. There are about fifty or sixty Acres of it cleared, with a new Quarter, Overseer's House, Tobacco House, and some Apple and Peach Trees. The Time of Payment of the Purchase Money to be agreed on at the Day of Sale. Any Person wanting to purchase may see the Land by applying to the Overseer, on the Place. JOSIAH TATEM.
Just IMPORTED from London, in the Virginia, Captain Robertson, and to be SOLD at the Subscriber's Shop in Williamsburg,
LARGE and complete Assortment of Drugs and Medicines, chymical and galenical. Also Spices of all Sorts, Jar Raisins, Currants, Prunes, Figs, plain and coloured Comfits, white and brown Sugar Candies, Barley Sugar, Orange Chips, candied Ginger and Eringo, Capers, best Sallad and Barbary Oil, best Durham Flower of Mustard, Sago, Vermacelli, Salop, Pearl Barley, fine old Sack and Rhenish Wines, Saltpetre, red and white Lead, Verdigre, Prussian Blue and Vermilion, Anderson's, Lockyer's, and Agard's Pills, Godfrey's and Freeman's Cordials, Eau de Luce, Turlington's Balsam and Balsam of Honey, Daffy's, Squire's, and Stoughton's Elixirs, Eaton's Styptick, Hill's Tincture of Valerian, Mrs. Rednap's real Fit Drops, Greenhow's Tincture for the Gums and Teeth, Dittos for the Toothach, British Rock Oil, Bateman's and Jessuits Drops, Essence of Water Dock and Lemons, Elixir Bardana, Doctor James's Fever Powders, Blackie's famous Lixivium for the Stone and Gravel, very neat Smelling Bottles, Anodyne Necklaces, Breast Pipes and Nipple Glasses, Ivory and Pewter Syringes, best and second Lancets with or without Cases, Gold and Silver Leaf, Court Plaster, small Glass Funnel, Vials, Gallipots, Lint, Tow, &c. &c. &c. WILLIAM PASTEUR. I would willingly dispose of my Shop Bottles, Pots, &c. at a reasonable Price. W. P.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, on Monday the 16th of September, at Dinwiddie Courthouse, being Court Day,
THE Land and Plantation whereon Mr. William Gunn now lives, near Lewellin Jones's Bridge, on Nottoway River, whereon is a Dwellinghouse with four Rooms on a Floor, a Barn thirty two Feet by sixteen, a Garden eighty Feet square paled and railed, and a Peach Orchard. Credit will be allowed to the Purchaser until April next. Also will be sold, at the same Time and Place, the Land and Plantation whereon John Wood now lives, containing one Hundred and twenty five Acres, on which is a Dwellinghouse with two Rooms on the lower Floor plastered and whitewashed, one Brick Chimney, and two Fire Places, a Kitchen twelve by sixteen, an Apple Orchard of the best Kind of Fruit, and a Peach Orchard. The said Land is about ten Miles from Petersburg. One Third of the Money to be paid down, and the Remainder in October 1774, the Purchaser giving Bond with Security. STEPHEN DANCE.
STRAYED from York County, a bright bay MARE, about thirteen Hands and a Half high, a Star in her Forehead, reached Mane and Switch Tail, branded on the near Buttock T D, paces naturally, and is about seven Years old. Whoever delivers her to Mr. Thomas Duffell in Hanover, or Mr. David Jones in York, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward. ELIZABETH GOODWIN.
KING WILLIAM County, August 5, 1771. I HEREBY beg Leave to inform my old Clients, as well as the Publick in general, that I shall again attend Louisa County Court to practise the LAW. I hope who please to favour me with their Business may depend on the utmost Expedition and punctuality. HARRY ROBINSON.
AUGUST 15, 1771. RUN away from Williamsburg, on Sunday last, a Convict Servant Man named ANDREW FRANKS, a Ropemaker by Trade, and can play very well on the Violin. He is about six and twenty Years of Age, five Feet five or six Inches high, wears his own black Hair, which curls behind, and had on a light brown Duroy Coat and Waistcoat, and white Breeches. He has a remarkable Scar on his Breast, and is pretty fond of strong Drink. As it is probable he will endeavour to get out of the Country, all Masters of Vessels are forewarned from taking him on Board; and I hereby offer a Reward of THIRTY SHILLINGS, besides what the Law allows, to any Person who will deliver him to me at Williamsburg, or secure him in any Jail; if taken out of the Colony, FIVE POUNDS. WILLIAM FEARSON.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Dinwiddie, a NEGRO MAN named DAVIS, about twenty six Years of Age, near six Feet high, and remarkable likely, but has a Scar under his right Eye. He was raised near Norfolk, to which Place, I presume, he will endeavour to go. Whoever apprehends said Negro shall receive FIVE POUNDS Reward. JOSEPH HARPER, Senior. The Fellow is outlawed.
AUGUST 1, 1771. STRAYED from Mr. Scott's, at Hood's, in April last, a small bay HORSE, eight Years old, one hind Foot white, and the other partly white, branded on the near Shoulder T, and on the Buttock S, has some white Hairs on the near Side of his Wither, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail. He trots and gallops. Whoever will bring the said Horse to Mr. Scott, or to the Subscriber at Blandford, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward. WILLIAM M'WHANN.
AUGUST 1, 1771. STRAYED or stolen from the Subscriber, near Fredericksburg, a GRAY HORSE, about four Feet seven Inches high, not branded, has a remarkable Scar over his left Eye, occasioned by the Bones being broke, a large white Spot under his Belly, and his Head much fleabitten. Whoever delivers him to me, or Mr. Benjamin Robinson in Fredericksburg, shall receive TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward. WILLIAM HUNTER.
TAKEN up, in Amelia, a red and white COW, marked with a Crop and two Slits in the right Ear, and an Underkeel in the left. Potted, and appraised to forty Shillings. JOSEPH HARPER, Junior.
BEING very desirous to settle all my Affairs, and to release the Gentlemen who at my Request became Trustees from their Engagements for me, I propose to sell, at Rocky Ridge, on Monday the 2d of December next, to the highest Bidders, two Thousand five Hundred Acres of exceeding rich and valuable LAND, lying just below the Falls of James River, in the County of Chesterfield, on which is an exceeding good Dwellinghouse, and all Conveniences for Cropping. There will be Land enough town in Wheat to produce five Thousand Bushels. A Stream of Water runs through it sufficient for a Mill. I likewise intend to sell the Waquoits and many Lots in Rocky Ridge, the valuable Ferries on each Side the River, the Fishery known by the Name of Sandy Bar, with several Hundred Acre Lots in Henrico, and many Lots in Spock. At the same Time will be sold two Hundred Negroes, and Stocks of all Sorts. The Time of Payment will be agreed on at the Day of Sale. Those who have an Inclination to purchase may be shown the Premises by applying to Mr. David Pattison. W. BYRD.
THE ship NASSAU, about five Hundred Hogheads Burthen, would be glad to take on Liberty for Liverpool about a Hundred Hogheads of Tobacco, at eight Pounds a Tun, and will sail on or before the last of August, with or without the Tobacco. Any Person inclinable to ship will please to forward their Orders to the Captain on Board, lying at Hobb's Hole. JAMES WIGNALL.
ON MONDAY the 19th Instant (August) will be sold by the Inspectors of Warwick, Rocky Ridge, Spock, and Byrd's Warehouses, at Richmond, in Henrico County, all the Tobacco then ready, supposed about two Hundred Hogheads, that was damaged in the late great Fresh. 2
To be SOLD by the Subscribers, in Hanover County, TWO Thousand four Hundred and sixty four Acres of LAND lying in Augusta County, on the south Branch of Potomac River, whereon is a large Quantity of rich low Grounds, with several small Plantations in tenable Repair, and it will afford a large Proportion of fine Meadow. It is proposed to be laid off in moderate small Parcels to suit the Convenience of Purchasers, who may be shown the Land by the Tenants that live on it. The Terms may be known by applying to Captain Alexander M'Clenachan of Augusta, or to the Subscribers. WILLIAM PARKS SHELTON. JOHN SHELTON.
THE Subscriber begs Leave to inform his Friends, and the Publick, that he has opened Store near the College, where he intends to sell cheap for ready Money. Their Faviours will be thankfully acknowledged by their obedient Servant. MATTHEW HOLT. Those already indebted are desired to pay off their respective Balances by October, as I shall give no farther Indulgence.
ROCKY RIDGE, July 29, 1771. THE Subscribers Store at this Place will be, from the first Day of September next, under the Management of Mr. John Scott, by whom Customers will be supplied as formerly. We hope, therefore, they will continue their Deings. ALEXANDER & PETERFIELD TRENT.
For SALE, the following Tracts of LAND. THREE Thousand three Hundred Acres (eleven Hundred of which are low Grounds) on Dan River, Halifax County, Virginia. Also the following Tracts in North Carolina: fifteen Hundred and forty Acres on Grassy Creek, Granville County; four Hundred Acres on Lizard Creek, joining Roanoke River, in Northampton County; six Hundred and forty Acres on Fishing Creek, Halifax County; two Hundred Acres on Pretty Creek, Halifax County; two Thousand Acres on Governor's Branch, Halifax County. Long Credit will be given, if required, and the Terms made known by the Subscriber, who resides near Suffolk, in Nansemond County. DAVID MEADE.
Just IMPORTED, by Fisher, Bragg, & Fleming, of Norfolk, from their Warehouses in Whitehaven and Birmingham, and to be SOLD by Wholesale, upon the lowest Terms, in Parcels assorted to Order.
HARDWARE, Cutlery, Nails, Saddlery, and every Article necessary in the Manufactory of Saddlery and Harness, Osnabrugs, Mens and Womens Shoes and Hats. They make and sell, by Wholesale or Retail, Mens and Womens Saddles of every Kind, in the newest and nearest Fashion, all Kinds of Silver or Gold Ciphers or Sprigs on Saddles, Holsters, or Houings, Harness, and every Article in the Saddlery and Harness Branches. As the greatest Part of the Leather they use is imported from their own Tanyard in Whitehaven, which is well known to be neater and more durable in general than the Leather of this Country, it is hoped that, with the greatest Care in manufacturing it, they will be able to give entire Satisfaction to those who may be pleased to apply.

POETS CORNER.
CUPID turned Thief.
CUPID, the arrantest Knave alive, Stole from Mamma to rob a Hive; As soon as he the Prize had took, With merry Laugh his Sides he shook;
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.
TAKEN up, in Dinwiddie, a black HORSE about four Feet ten Inches high, with a small Star in his Forehead, a short Switch Tail and hanging Mane, some Saddle Spots, branded on the near Shoulder 3S, and had a Bell on marked IS. DANIEL BAUGH.
TAKEN up, in Cumberland, a black HORSE about four Feet nine or ten Inches high, paces naturally, and branded on the near Shoulder and Buttock I; also a gray HORSE about four Feet four or five Inches high, branded on the near Buttock R. Posted, and appraised to eighteen Pounds. JOHN STEWART.
THE Subscriber intending to leave the Colony soon, begs those who have any Demands against him to make them known. FREDERICK JOHN STEPHENS.
LOST, or mislaid, on Friday last, either at the Capitol or Mr. Spur's, or between there and Mr. Richard Cary's, in Warwick County, an old Newspaper, in the usual Fold, containing a Ticket in Byrd's Lottery, the Number of which Mr. Treasurer has, and is a Prize of one Hundred Acres of Land, a five Pound Bill, two of twenty Shillings, one of ten Shillings, several Receipts, Memorandums, and other Papers. Whoever delivers the same to me, or the Printer hereof, shall be handsomely rewarded. J. WALLACE.
For SALE, or to be RENTED for a Term of Years, and entered upon immediately. THE capital Prize drawn in the Honourable William Byrd's Lottery, consisting of a DOUBLE FORGE and valuable GRISTMILL, with two Acres and a Half of LAND adjoining; also two Thousand Acres of exceeding good LAND, the farthest Part of which is not more than three Miles from the Works. The Land, &c. will be sold, or rented, with or without the Forge and Mill, and laid off in small Parcels to suit Purchasers. Long Credit (if required) will be allowed for greatest Part of the Money, Bond with approved Security being given. I would have no Objection to dispose of one Moiety of the Whole, or the Stream with or without the Land, to a suitable Partner. It is capable of great Improvement, being situated in the Heart of a fine Wheat Country; and, at a small Expense, the Forge may be converted into a good Merchant Mill, which would manufacture a Hundred Thousand Bushels in a Season, besides the Advantage arising from the Gristmill, which is worth, at least, two Hundred Pounds a Year. The Terms will be made agreeable; and the Land and Works may be viewed, at any Time, by applying to Mr. Richard Crump, Merchant at Rocky Ridge. HENRY MORSE. N. B. The UTENSILS, and OLD IRON, belonging to the Forge, will be sold on reasonable Terms.
To be SOLD, On Thursday the 26th of September next, THE PLANTATION whereon the Subscriber formerly lived, known by the Name of Beulah, with seven Hundred and eighty or five Hundred and eighty Acres of Land, as may suit the Purchaser. The said Land is well watered and timbered, and the Plantation is in good Order, with a very fine Apple Orchard, from which are made seven or eight Thousand Gallons of Cider a Year (that Quantity has been made on an Average ever since the Year 1756) the Trees are of the best Kind of Fruit, and the Cider as good as any on the Continent. The Situation of the Place is convenient to Trade, lies fourteen Miles from the Falls of Rappahannock, twelve from Dumfries, on Potomack, seven from Aquia Warehouse, the same Distance from Aquia Church, six from the Quaker Meeting House, five from the Baptist Meeting House, in Fauquier County, four from Chappawomick Meeting House, in Stafford County, and not quite three Miles from two Grist Mills. There are Buildings fit for a private Gentleman, Planter, Farmer, or Merchant. I could almost engage, to any reasonable Man, that there is Nothing wanting for Convenience; that is to say, for Houses, Cellars, &c. for a Planter, Farmer, or Merchant, ready fitted to carry on Business, and a Quantity of Ground fit for small Grain this Fall, at which Time the Purchaser may have Possession of the Plantation. The Title is indisputable, and will be sold with as good a Warranty as any Man can require, and a great Bargain. I am determined to sell for the Benefit of my younger Grandsons, and therefore propose to sell my Land and Plantation at fourteen Years Credit, the Purchaser giving Bond and Security, with Interest. If any Part of the Purchase Money be paid down, five per Cent. will be deducted. I have sundry other Things belonging to the Plantation which I propose to sell on six Months Credit, namely, the Utensils and Stock belonging to the Plantation, such as Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, &c. and all the Corn, Fodder, and Hay, made on the Plantation this Year. There is a very good Copper Still and Alembick, a great many good Cider Casks, and sundry other Things too tedious to mention. Any Person inclined to purchase may see the Land and Plantation at any Time before the Day of Sale by applying to the Subscriber, about a Mile from the aforesaid Plantation. JOHN RALLS.
HAMPTON, July 25, 1771. I INTEND to leave Virginia, on Account of my Health, for a few Months. All Persons indebted to me are desired to make Payment to Mr. Walter Peter, Merchant at Cabin Point. JAMES M'CAW.
To be SOLD, A TRACT of LAND, in Fauquier County, containing two Hundred and eighty Acres, on a Branch of Occoquan River, about thirty Miles above Fredericksburg; a double GRIST MILL, in Westmoreland County, in good Order, the Ground Work of which is entirely Locust, never known to want Water since first erected; also forty Acres of Land adjoining the said Mill. An indisputable Title will be made, and a reasonable Credit allowed for either, or both, by JOHN CORRIE.
STRAYED from Mr. James M'Dowall's, in Richmond, a black or very dark bay HORSE, about four Feet nine Inches high, five Years old, branded on the near Shoulder and Buttock I, paces extremely well, and is a Horse of great Spirit. As he went off with a Horse of Mr. M'Kenerick's that was bred in Amherst, I imagine he has taken that Course. I will give THIRTY SHILLINGS Reward, besides what the Law allows, and pay Charges, to any Person that will bring him to Mr. James M'Dowall, or to me in Bedford. JAMES DONALD.
SURRY County, July 26, 1771. RUN away from the Subscriber's Plantation in Pitt County, North Carolina, on the sixteenth of May last, a Negro Man named EMANUEL, a square made Fellow, of a yellowish Complexion, upwards of twenty Years of Age, speaks remarkably hoarse, and is supposed to be gone towards Williamsburg. He formerly belonged to Mr. Simon Holiar, of Elizabeth City. Whoever apprehends the said Runaway, and brings him to me, or secures him so that I get him again, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward. CHARLES REEKES.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in King William, a little above West Point, an Apprentice Boy named JAMES CURTIS, of a dark Complexion, has a sharp Nose, large fore Teeth, and very light coloured Hair. He took with him two brown Linen Shirts, both patched with Cotton, two Pair of Trousers, a light coloured Duffel Jacket unlined, that buttons on the Hip, and a Virginia Cloth double breasted Waistcoat, with Holes in one Side, striped with different Colours of Worsted. He is supposed to be gone towards Dumplin Island, in Nansemond County. I hereby forewarn all Persons from harbouring him, and all Masters of Vessels from taking him away. Whoever conveys the said Boy to me shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward. WILLIAM ROW.
JULY 17, 1771. RUN away from the Subscriber, last Night, a Convict Servant Man named SAMUEL BAILEY, by Trade a House Joiner, and has been in the Country about two Years. He is a stout well set Fellow, of a ruddy Complexion, about five Feet six or seven Inches high, has a fore Leg, which is much swelled, a Caste with his Eyes, which are large and gray, his Head remarkable gray, occasioned by the Smallpox, which he is a little pitted with, his Dress is an Osnaburg Shirt and long Trousers, a light brown Jacket, an old Felt Hat, old Country made Shoes tied, and commonly wears a green Worsted Cap. All Masters of Vessels are forewarned from harbouring or employing him. I will give a Reward of FORTY SHILLINGS to any Person who will deliver the said Servant to me, besides what the Law allows. WILLIAM BUCKLAND.
COMMITTED to Suffolk Jail, on the 18th of this Instant, James Thompson, from Glasgow, about five Feet nine Inches high, with brown Hair, and was committed on Suspicion of being a Convict Servant. WILLIAM GRANBERY, Jailer.
COMMITTED to Suffolk Jail, on Suspicion of being a Servant, a Negro Man about five Feet nine Inches high, who calls himself Francis Stanfoot, and has passed for a Freeman. WILLIAM GRANBERY, Jailer.
COMMITTED to the Jail of Surry County, on the 16th of July, an outlandish Negro about twenty eight Years of Age, four Feet six or seven Inches high, is very black, has lost two of his upper fore Teeth, and speaks but indifferent English. He says he belonged to one Tuboutbe of St. Kitt's, and failed from thence with one Captain Dunn into James River. The Owner may have him on proving his Property, and paying as the Law directs. DRURY WARREN.
TAKEN up, in Mecklenburg County, a bright bay HORSE about four Feet two Inches high, with some Saddle Spots, a Star in his Forehead, some white on one of his hind Feet, and branded on the near Buttock M. Posted, and appraised to forty Shillings. WILLIAM LADD.
For SALE, THE LEASE of a STORE and WAREHOUSE in Petersburg, extremely well situated for Trade, being close to the Tobacco Warehouses, and convenient either for dry Goods or wet. The Terms may be known by applying to Mr. David Ross in Goochland, or to WILLIAM BEATTIE.
To be SOLD, A VALUABLE TRACT of LAND, containing five Thousand five Hundred and fifty seven Acres, in Ward's Fork, Charlotte County, which is in fine Order for Cropping, having all convenient Houses, Barns, Negro Quarters, &c. and under good Fence. It will be sold in Lots, or laid off in the old Survey. Also for Sale, eleven Hundred and twenty Acres on Buck Mountain. Long Credit will be given, if required. For Terms apply to BENJAMIN WALLER, JOHN WAYLES, RICHARD HANSON, Attorneys for John Liddeddale, Esquire.
TAKEN up, in Mecklenburg, a bright bay HORSE, branded on the near Buttock two .. about four Feet seven Inches high, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail. Posted, and appraised to eight Pounds. JOSEPH EASTLAND.
TAKEN up, in Isle of Wight, a Chestnut sorrel HORSE about four Feet six Inches high, with a Star in his Forehead, a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, branded on the near Shoulder and Buttock B, paces naturally, and had a small Bell on. Posted, and appraised to five Pounds ten Shillings. WILLIAM BELL.
TAKEN up, in Amherst, a bright bay MARE about four Years old, one of her hind Feet white, but neither dockt nor branded. Posted, and appraised to three Pounds. RICHARD TANKESLEY.
CHARLESTOWN, South Carolina, April 11, 1771. THE St. CECILIA SOCIETY give Notice, that they will engage with, and give suitable Encouragement to, MUSICIANS properly qualified to perform at their CONCERT, provided they apply on or before the first Day of October next. The Performers they are in Want of are, a first and second Violin, two Hautboys, and a Bassoon, whom they are willing to agree with for one, two, or three Years. JOHN GORDON, President. THOMAS LN. SMITH, Vice President.
TAKEN up, in Amherst, a small sorrel HORSE about four Feet five Inches high, trots and paces slow, with a small Star in his Forehead, a roached Mane and Switch Tail, and branded on the near Buttock C. Posted, and appraised to four Pounds. JOHN LEWIS.
TAKEN up, in Chesterfield, a red and white pied HEIFER marked with a Half Moon on the upper Side of the right Ear, and a Crop and Half Moon on the upper Side of the left. Posted, and appraised to thirty five Shillings. BLACKMAN WARD.
TAKEN up, in Charlotte, a dark bay MARE about four Feet six Inches high, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, some Saddle Spots, branded on the near Buttock thus O, and had on a Bell marked R. Posted, and appraised to seven Pounds ten Shillings. JOHN WHITE.
TAKEN up, in Orange, a bay HORSE about four Feet ten Inches high, has a Blaze in his Face, one hind Foot white, had a Bell on, and is branded on the near Shoulder 71, as near as can be made out. Posted, and appraised to eleven Pounds three Shillings. JOHN HENDERSON.
TAKEN up, in Chesterfield, a red and white pied HEIFER marked with a Crop in each Ear, and a Nick in the under Part of the left. Posted, and appraised to thirty five Shillings. JOHN ARCHER.
To be SOLD for ready Money, or on Credit, A TRACT of LAND containing seven Hundred Acres, in Goochland County, on Little Bird Creek, where the Subscriber now lives, upon which are the following Improvements, a Dwellinghouse thirty eight Feet by twenty eight, with two Brick Chimneys, well finished both above and below, all convenient Outhouses, and a good Storehouse, a large Garden well paled in, very fine Orchards, and the whole Plantation in excellent Order for Cropping. It is a healthy Situation, well supplied with fine Water, and the Soil fit for Tobacco, Corn, and Wheat. Also a Tract of three Hundred Acres near joining the other, whereon are two small Plantations, and Orchards. Any Person inclined to purchase may know the Terms by applying to the Subscriber on the Premises, to Mr. Neil Campbell, Merchant in Richmond, or to James Lyle, Merchant at Rocky Ridge, who have Power to dispose of the Lands. Deeds will be made, clear of every Encumbrance. JAMES GEORGE.
To be SOLD at Fredericksburg, on Monday the 23d of September, being Fair Day (the Sale formerly advertised being prevented by Badness of Weather)
ABOUT fifty choice SLAVES, used to Cropping and Farming. Twelve Months credit will be allowed, on Bond, with Security, bearing Interest from the Date. I have also some other SLAVES to dispose of at private Sale, among whom are two Carpenters and a few House Servants. I will also sell the Plantation whereon I now live, in King George County, opposite to Fredericksburg, with or without the Ferry. Credit (if required) will be extended to one, two, or three Years, to suit the Purchaser. JAMES HUNTER.
VIRGINIA, &c. At a GENERAL COURT held at the Capitol, May 4, 1771.
John M'Dowall, Plaintiff, against Ebenezer M'Calloch, and George Young, of Edinburgh, North Britain, Bankrupts, Alexander Baine, James Gibson, and Hugh M'Mekin, Defendants, and John M'Dowall, and Alexander Gray, Plaintiffs, against Ebenezer M'Calloch, and George Young, of Edinburgh, North Britain, Bankrupts, Alexander Baine, and Hugh M'Mekin, Defendants, In Chancery.
THE Defendants Ebenezer and George being beyond Sea, and not having entered their Appearance according to the Rule of this Court, on the Motion of the Plaintiffs, by their Counsel, it is ordered that the other Defendants, who have Effects of the said Ebenezer and George in their Hands, as is suggested, do not pay, convey away, or secrete such Effects, until the farther Order or Decree of this Court concerning the same; but that they deliver up such Effects, or so much thereof as will be of Value sufficient to satisfy the Demands of the Plaintiffs, unto the said Plaintiffs, upon their giving Security to the Clerk of this Court for the Return of such Effects, in such Manner, and to such Persons, as the Court shall hereafter adjudge. And it is farther ordered that the said Defendants (Ebenezer and George) do appear here on the first Day of the next Court, to answer the Bills of the Plaintiffs; and that a Copy of this Order be, within fifteen Days, inserted in the VIRGINIA GAZETTE, for two Months successively, and published on some Lord's Day, immediately after divine Service, in the Church of the Parish of Elizabeth River, in the County of Norfolk; and be also posted up at the Front Door of the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburg. BEN: WALLER.
As I intend to remove up the Country next Fall, I would sell my Plantation in King & Queen County, which consists of six Hundred and fifty five Acres of LAND, pleasantly situated on Mattaponi River, about six Miles above West Point, and has on it a very good neat convenient Brick House with two large Rooms, two Closets, and a Passage on a Floor, with good Cellars under it, two very pleasant Porticoes, one above and the other below Stairs, neatly finished, with Banisters and India Work, a very convenient Storehouse sixty Feet long, with two Floors and a Cellar, and all other Outhouses necessary, Garden, &c. in good Order. The Land is good for Corn, and with Manure will produce fine Tobacco. There is also belonging to the above mentioned Tract one Hundred Acres of Marsh, lying opposite, on the other Side the River, which is very convenient for getting Hay, &c. Any Person inclined to purchase may be shown the same, and know the Terms, by applying to JOHN MEREDITH.
Who has also for Sale another Plantation in King & Queen County, just below West Point, known by the Name of Gough's Point, containing two Hundred Acres, adjoining the Land of Mr. Samuel Meredith, on which is a good Deal of Marsh that with little Expense might be made a valuable Meadow. The Land is well timbered, but no Improvements on it. I have also three LOTS in West Point for Sale, whereon is a neat little Dwellinghouse with two Rooms on a Floor, and an old Kitchen. The above mentioned Land will be sold together, or in separate Tracts, as may best suit the Purchasers. TF
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 Clements'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 Irwing, Merchant in Albemarle County, or to the Subscriber in Richmond Town. The above Lands are the Property of John Loving, Senior, of Amherst County, but made over by a Deed of Trust to the Subscriber. Two Years Credit, or longer if required, will be given, on Bond and approved Security. WILLIAM MITCHELL.
For SALE, and may be entered on immediately, THE LOT and HOUSES, near Cabin Point Warehouses, at present occupied by Mr. Walter Peter. There are four Acres of Land well enclosed, a good Dwellinghouse, with all necessary Outhouses, also a Storehouse, Counting Room, and two Lumber Houses. Any Person inclining to purchase may know the Terms by applying to JAMES BUCHANAN. N. B. If the above Lot and Houses are not sold they will be rented for a Term of Years, not exceeding three.
ALL Persons may be supplied with this PAPER at 12s. 6d. a Year, and have ADVERTISEMENTS (of a moderate Length) inserted in it for 3s. the first Week, and 2s. each Week after. * * All Sorts of PRINTING WORK done at this Office in the neatest Manner, with Care and Expedition.