The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1770-06-14 00:00:00

VIRGINIA GAZETTE.
With the latest ADVICES,
FOREIGN and DOMESTICK.
IN CIVITATE LIBERA LINGUAM MENTEMQUE
LIBERAS ESSE DEBERE. — Suet. in Tib. S. 28.
Printed by ALEX. PURDIE, and JOHN DIXON, at the POST OFFICE.
CHARLESTOWN, April 25.
To the general committee of PHILADELPHIA, and province of PENNSYLVANIA.
GENTLEMEN,
An authentic account of a bill, ordered to be brought into the House of Commons, to repeal so much of an act of the 7th of his present Majesty as imposes a duty on paper, glass, and painters coulers, imported into the British colonies in America, occasions this address to you. It is with the deepest grief we observe the oppressions of America so little regarded as that duties on a few articles, more ruinous in their precedent than fatal in their present operations, should become the serious objects of parliamentary attention; while the grand evils, which affect the life and soul of American happiness, are totally disregarded.
When the resolutions were formed, surrounded with difficulties as we were, on the only plan we had left for the recovery of our ancient liberties (and which, we are convinced, will ultimately have their desired effect, if we have but virtue enough to resist the allurements of present gain, in favour of the inestimable blessings of our envied constitution) for want of a communication with each other, the colonies adopted plans, various in extent of matter, and limitations of time. This province, as it was among the last, so it has been the most comprehensive; and well considering that liberty in retail is but another term for slavery, they have included every object which tends to sap the foundation of their freedom. While the Board of Commissioners are permitted to riot with such an extent of unrelenting power, while our property is subject to be dragged from colony to colony, under the controul of an oppressive Admiralty, we are not free; and while these acts continue in force, we are chained down by our resolutions. Such is our present situation, in which we glory. The day of trial is but approaching; unanimity is absolutely necessary; and we are positive nothing but an exertion of the purest virtue, in the prosecution of one generally adopted plan, can possibly revive our expiring constitution. Should any of our sister colonies take an advantage of the repeal of these trifling duties, we think it had been infinitely better to have submitted quietly to the yoke than to have discovered the deepest knowledge of our constitution, and a most ardent desire of preserving it; yet, when a variety of circumstances combine to ensure our success, we think it would be highly dishonourable to sink into a flaccid inactivity, when a spirited and steady conduct can alone crown our hopes.
The people of this province have bound themselves, in the general cause of American liberty, by extending their resolutions, until the whole of their complaints are removed. It would be a capital crime in us to suspect the publick virtue of our countrymen; nor can we even suppose, in the most distant manner, this province will fall a sacrifice to the purity of her intentions. The security of our inherent injured rights was the foundation of our agreements; until that security is amply obtained, nothing can be said to be done. The principal arguments in the House of Commons were founded on the division of the colonies, the impracticability of manufacturing, and the impossibility of continuing firm in our non importation. Let us convince them of our unanimity, and the fallacy of those dishonourable reports which declare any breach of consequence in our sacred engagements, and we may be certain of success. That individuals will be found in every colony who, dead to all the warm emotions of the heart, even when liberty is at stake, will sacrifice the only blessings which make life comfortable, to the dirty consideration of present emolument, is nothing extraordinary. Worthless men are the produce of every climate; they serve only as a foil to set off the cause; and, unless we become traitors to our own liberties, we have little to fear.
Our countrymen in Great Britain are equally engaged in the defence of the constitution. Surrounded on all sides with the minions of government, the best men in the nation have pledged themselves for its defence. These patriots are equally the objects of our admiration and imitation; and as our blood and our rights flow equally from the same source, we should scandalize the rough unremitting virtue of our ancestors did we not follow their example. Let us suppose the worst that can befall us, that the iron hand of power will at last prevail, and trample upon every right of American liberty; yet we think it an indispensable duty, which we owe to our country and descendents, inflexibly to persevere to the last, and let posterity record, FORCE OBTAINED A TRIUMPH OVER PUBLICK VIRTUE, and though we fell we fell with a dignity and spirit becoming the sons of GREAT BRITAIN. We are
Your most affectionate countrymen.
Signed,
By order of the general committee, JOHN NEUVILLE, Chairman.
SALEM, May 15.
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman in Gibraltar, to his friend in Salem, March 20.
OUR neighbours the Spaniards have actually farmed the port of Tangier for 37,000 dollars per annum, in consequence of which the Emperor has ordered that no vessels under our colours shall in future trade there; so that our communication with that port is absolutely shut up, and we fear will soon be with Tetuan and Latach, as it is reported they are likewise in treaty about these ports, and we dare say will succeed. If so, and they should be laid under the same restrictions as Tangier, we shall be in a glorious situation again for want of fresh provisions. What the views of the Court of Spain are in farming those ports time only will discover, but it seems to be the general opinion that they have some deep scheme in agitation. Many people imagine this place will be their first object; but let them come, they will meet with a warm reception, for the garrison was never in a better state of defence. Additional fortifications are making every day, so that we are under no uneasiness on that score.
The first division of the Russian fleet is, by the last accounts, still at Mahon, but preparing to sail for the Levant. The second division, commanded by Admiral Elphinstone, is not yet arrived in these seas, but hourly expected, when we shall anxiously look for the accounts of their operations, which may be interesting, all thoughts of a peace between Russia and Turkey being now laid aside.
BOSTON, May 21.
Extract of a letter from London, March 28.
ON Thursday the 15th instant Lord North motioned, in the House of Commons, to address his Majesty to lay a copy of the remonstrance before the House. On this occasion General Conway spoke long and forcibly on the necessity of checking the inflammatory publications that flowed from the press, and of making examples of the authors and publishers. The motion was carried, 271 to 108. Many of the opposition voted with the Ministry, among whom were the Lord Mayor and Alderman Trecothick. The Lord Mayor and his adherents declare they will not retract, but will defend and support the remonstrance in Parliament. The remonstrance and answer were laid before the House, in consequence of an address, on Friday the 16th, and they are to be taken into consideration to morrow the 19th. The bill for the repeal of part of the American revenue act was to have been read the third time said day, but will, I believe, give place to the remonstrance.
This week the business in Parliament will be much more interesting, and more strenuously and vigorously debated, than anything that has yet been before them this session, although the minority is so much decreased. Administration has acted with great caution: They have allowed the faction here to proceed to such extremities in their publications against Majesty and government as has not only roused the most moderate men on the side of the Ministry, and all sober impartial people of every rank without doors, but even the well designing, though misled, members of the opposition.
The leaders of the faction, and their jackals, being now playing their last stake, will fight every inch of ground with that desperation natural to men in their circumstances. I assure you, and the resolves of Parliament fully prove it, that a stop will be put to the outrageous overflowing of licentiousness and faction from the press; a measure which the people in general of every denomination here earnestly wish for, as the plan at present carried on by opposition, if pursued, could end only in bloodshed. They have, by their furious proceedings, hastened their overthrow, and whatever the rage of disappointment may lead them to, they will never be able to act with any prospect of success during the continuance of the present Parliament.
His Majesty did not laugh at the city, as is represented in some of their pieces, though every body present did at the time. Nugent, the Common Serjeant, stammered and stammered so in reading that he was unable to proceed. After the reading it, and the King's reply, the Lord in waiting asked the Lord Mayor if he chose to kiss the King's hand. Mr. Beckford replied, "O by all means, my Lord." Accordingly the city advanced and went through that ceremony, during which there was a gracious smile, just perceptible on his Majesty's countenance, which Pardon Horne misrepresented in his account published in one of the daily papers, and which, to comfort the dejected citizens, he converted to the purposes of sedition. Their procession to Court was truly ridiculous. Some who had no carriages of their own borrowed them; others who had no acquaintance from whom they could borrow rode triumphant in common hacks, crammed three and four in one vehicle, with footmen in livery stuck up behind, to dignify their appearance. Among the groupe appeared the great, consistent, and disinterested patriot, Samuel Vaughan, who, in spite of the remonstrance of all his friends, and to the great mortification of his brother patriots, who had never as yet been detected in grasping at the forbidden fruit of the tree of corruption, conscious of his own purity, and disregarding the sneers of the surrounding mobility, added one worthy member to support a remonstrance, commanding his Majesty to dismiss for ever from his presence a corrupt Ministry, which this same Samuel Vaughan had found incorruptible.
The Earl of Chatham behaved in such a manner in the House of Peers, on Tuesday last, that Lord Marchmont made a motion twice to send him to the Tower; but Lord Mansfield made an apology for the raving patriot. The next day he proceeded in his ravings, and though called to order frequently he would not sit down, but continued to harangue in such a manner that even his brother in law (Lord Temple) a man not remarkable for decency himself, was ashamed of him, and pulled him down to his seat by main force.
Last Saturday morning sailed the Lydia, Captain Scott, for London, having on board the bulk of the goods lately imported here from Great Britain contrary to the agreement of the merchants.
At a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of Marblehead, on the 10th instant, a number of votes passed, too many to insert here. They chiefly respect a continuation of the non importation agreement; that the goods that should arrive, which were shipped on account of the partial repeal, be reshipped, and application made to the town for the payment of the freight, &c. An agreement was also come into to prevent drinking any India tea, the committee having reported that 712 heads of families have generously signed the same, and only seventeen refused; seven of whom afterwards came in, and the remaining ten were advertised in the last Essex gazette. Those who shall continue to drink tea are to be recorded in the clerk's office, and publickly advertised.
Last Thursday morning the 29th regiment quitted the barracks on Castle island, and landed at Dorchester Neck, from whence they marched for Providence, where vessels are provided to transport them to New Jersey.
Last Wednesday forty five daughters of liberty met, in the morning, at the house of the Reverend Mr. Morehead, in this town; in the afternoon they exceeded fifty. By the evening of said day they spun 232 skeins of yarn, some very fine. Their labour and materials were all generously given to the worthy pastor. Nothing appeared in their whole conduct but love, festivity, and application. They were, by a great majority, of his own congregation; the rest of the Ladies belonged to other societies in the town, who generously offered their service. Their entertainment was wholly American production, excepting a little wine, &c. Many Ladies and Gentlemen were pleased to visit this agreeable collection, and appeared highly gratified. There are above 100 spinners in Mr. Morehead's society; and considering they are comparatively small, it is supposed that no congregation in the province produces so great a number, of the same number of families. The whole was concluded with many agreeable tunes, anthems, and liberty songs, with great judgment, and fine
voices; performed, and animated on this occasion, in all their several parts, by a number of the sons of liberty. Let this serve as a specimen to excite the numerous fair in this metropolis, and county towns, to exert their parts in rendering this happy climate opulent and flourishing.
Last Friday evening one Richards, employed as a sidewaiter in the custom, being suspected of having given information of a parcel of sugar brought here in a vessel from Connecticut, which was seized that day, was taken by a number of persons, who after tarring and feathering him, agreeable to the modern mode of punishing informers, carted him through all the principal streets in town for about three hours, and then dismissed him.
Extract of a letter from London, March 22.
As you will no doubt be anxious to hear the fate of the complaint against Sir Francis, I send you the substance of what passed in the committee of the Council the 28th of February, and the report of that committee drawn up March 7th, which were read in Council the 14th, when the final decision, before the King in Council, was given. The report from the Lords of the committee for hearing complaints from the plantations was read, in which all the steps taken, and the several petitions of both parties, are recited; those of Sir Francis Bernard, praying a hearing, and those of Mr. De Berdt, for due time to procure documents to make good the allegations; the different adjournments, until the Lords ordered it to be peremptorily heard the 28th of February; the questioning Mr. De Berdt on that day touching the steps he had taken to obtain proofs; his acknowledging that he had corresponded with the Speaker; that when the province petition was first sent him he was told the proofs would soon follow; that he also had written for them, and had received answers to the other parts of these letters, but none concerning this point; Sir Francis Bernard's reply to this, offering reasons to show that the proofs might have been transmitted, if they had any, for that the complaints originated in the House of Representatives the 30th of June 1768, but was remitted until proof should be procured, and that it passed the House June 27th, 1769, since which time eight months were elapsed; Mr. De Berdt's declining proceeding on the business, unless allowed seven months, and after that time as much more, indefinitely, as might be necessary to receive instructions from his constituents. The opinion of their Lordships, March 7th, 1770, was also read, which is as follows:
The Lords of the committee considering that the complainants ought to have been prepared with evidence to support their charges at the time of presenting the same, or within a reasonable time after, or at least that they might have been sufficiently prepared since the bringing into the House of Representatives the former petition to remove the Governor in June 1768; and farther, that the House of Representatives, having omitted to send over to their agent the documents necessary to make good their complaints, although it appears by the printed journals of the aforesaid House that they continued sitting eighteen days after the passing of the said order, 27th of June 1769, could only be with a view of keeping up the spirit of clamour and discontent in the said province. And considering likewise that the said articles of complaint against the Governor could not be supposed to affect the Governor, but rather a charge against your Majesty's government, their Lordships are therefore of opinion, upon the whole, that the several charges contained in the said petition of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts Bay are groundless, vexatious, and scandalous, and that the said petition ought to be dismissed.
March 14th, 1770.
P R E S E N T.
The King's Most Excellent Majesty, in Council.
  Earl Gower, Lord President of the Council,  Earl of Rochford,    Earl Halifax, Lord Privy Seal,  Earl Percy,    Duke of Queenberry,  Earl of Bristol,    Duke of Ancaster,  Earl of Hillsborough,    Duke of Newcastle,  Viscount Weymouth,    Earl Talbot, Lord Steward,  Viscount Falmouth,    Earl of Harford, Lord Chamberlain,  Lord North,    Earl of Denbigh,  Lord Le Despencer,    Earl of Litchfield,  Lord Pelham,     Sir Gilbert Elliot,     Sir Edward Hawke.  
His Majesty, taking the said report into consideration, was pleased, with the advice of his Privy Council, to approve thereof, and to order that the said petition of the House of Representatives of the Massachusetts Bay be, and it is hereby dismissed this Board, as groundless, vexatious, and scandalous.
NEW YORK, May 28.
Extract of a letter from London.
NOW is the time of trial; now will all Europe see whether the Americans are possessed of virtue. The eyes of all are turned to your part of the globe, in eager expectation of discovering your sentiments in regard to the part you will act since the partial repeal; the particulars of which, with the debates thereon, you will see by the English prints. Your conduct at this juncture will, in a great measure, determine your future fate; as the omission of the duty on tea, in the repeal, is left as the test of American liberty. It is scarce possible, my dear friend, for you to conceive the anxiety I shall feel until I hear of your determination, as on that the very existence of the present Ministry (whose principles are so diametrically opposite to the true interests of this great nation) in a great measure depends. They flatter themselves with the expectation of seeing the provinces divided; that some will choose to import, which must in a little time induce the rest to follow the same steps. But your real friends think better of you, and I cannot be persuaded that you will now, after so noble a stand, sell your birthright for a mess of pottage. It is only necessary for you to be true to yourselves, and all will be well in the end; as your friends here are composed of the most sensible and important characters in the nation, who must, in time, bear down all opposition. Be steady, be virtuous; and as King Henry observed to his men (just entering on action) distinguish not your mothers, now assert that those whom you called fathers did beget you.

Mr. PARKER, NEW YORK, May 19. The following, though of an old date, was received but yesterday. I beg you will communicate it to the publick, through the channel of your next paper, and oblige yours, &c.
LONDON, Feb. 7, 1770.
"To be free, I grow more and more tired of my country, and I shall be more and more in love with the colonies, if they continue firm until they have carried their point; but I shall be grieved, to my very soul, if they at length faint and crouch to the burthen of unconstitutional impositions. I am fearful of them, and yet encourage myself to hope that they will hold out. Perseverance, union, and steadiness, must bring them redress, and nothing besides will do it. The full removal of American grievances is not expected in general. It is thought the Ministry will attempt the repeal only of some, and not of all the taxes, and that the duty on tea, and the Board of Commissioners, will be continued, to prove the authority, and maintain the right, of England's taxing them. Should this be the case, you must renew your associations against trading with us; for if the Ministry once find you are to be wearied out they will expect it will be always so, and you will have your chains rivetted. The time for your contesting the point with them is very favourable to you, through our party divisions and other circumstances; and such an opportunity may not soon offer again. The opposition to the Ministry is increasing in the weight and consequence, as well as numbers. Many of them (it is to be apprehended) are no friends to America, but may help her from sinister views; and will be glad of a handle, through her assistance, for overthrowing the Ministry. The ministerial blunder in the Irish Parliament is, and must be, the means of increasing the opposition. The present Court system must be demolished, or liberty will ficken and die."
"Liberty, it is likely, will erect its standard in America, for the sons of liberty in all quarters, and of all nations, to flock to."
February 7.
P. S. Talking yesterday with Mr. ———, I gathered that the merchants here would, as it were, sit down quiet with a repeal of the duties, the tea excepted; that you are to be soothed with the hopes of that's being repealed after a time, by the influence of the East India company, and that the goods ordered would be sent: To which I replied, that, if so, the merchants betrayed you; and I hoped that you would make them suffer for it, by returning every article, and so loading them with freight out and in. The merchants here want, in general, resolution and spirit; and you must force them into it. Would they exert themselves properly, they would have greater weight; but the Ministry have tools among them, who are managed to betray the rest."
"This is a very considerable house in London."
Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, May 15.
"Agreeable to promise, I take this opportunity to inform you of the result of the committee at Bradford's, last night, which was, that no resolutions respecting importation be entered into before the 5th of next June, in order that they may have an opportunity of being made acquainted with the sentiments of their sister provinces; that a committee of twenty one merchants (then appointed) in the intervening time, prepare a list of such articles of merchandise as they shall think necessary to import, to be produced at a general meeting on the said 5th of June."
"The favourers of an importation were our principal dry good merchants, the principal opposers persons who are not importers, or but small so. Now, say the principal merchants, "We are immediately injured from a non import. We particularly are aggrieved, and should not suffer any person who has not signed our former resolutions or agreement, or who is but triflingly concerned in trade, to have any voice in our resolutions." Is there the smallest appearance of justice in such an arbitrary argument? Shall a few men, because they are extensive in particular imports (admit they cannot accumulate, from a temporary cessation of importation, as many thousands as their avarice would dictate) shall they, I say, shall such canker worms of provincial industry and emolument have it in their power to form resolves apparently destructive of the rights of every true inhabitant in the government? I am afraid many will say they have a right to do so; and I grant, from one principle, they have. But, at such an important crisis as this, I shall never think I am right, except when I indulge a contrary opinion."
Friday last a number of transports, with the 29th regiment on board, arrived here from Providence; and the next day they sailed for the Jerseys, where they are to be quartered, in the room of the 26th regiment, lately arrived here from that colony.
PHILADELPHIA, May 24.
CAPTAIN M'Culloch, in 26 days from Pensacola, informs that Lieutenant Governor Brown had left that place for England about 6 or 7 weeks before; that about 250 troops were arrived there from Augustine, but that the troops from New York were not arrived when he sailed. He also informs that General O'Reilly had left New Orleans with all the troops (except about 4 or 500) for the Savannah, and that numbers of those troops left at New Orleans were daily deserting from that garrison.
By Captain Hanse, from Jamaica, we learn that on the 6th of January his Majesty's sloop of war the Jamaica was cast away on the Colleradoes, on her passage from that island for Pensacola; and that on the 14th ult. as he came out, he saw a Spanish sloop going into Port Royal with her crew.
Captain Hanse informs us that they were under no apprehensions there of a visit from the Spaniards; that martial law was proclaimed for a few days, during the Easter holidays, as customary, but was taken off before he failed.
Captain Young, from the Bay of Honduras, advises that a large ship called the St. Elizabeth, commanded by Captain Wilson, and bound from Jamaica for London, loaded with dry goods, was cast away the 31st of March, on Glover's Reef; the people saved. Next day several boats, schooners, &c. went from the bay, in search of the wreck, in order to get what they could from her.
A few days ago a rumour was spread that the merchants of Newport, in Rhode Island, had basely violated their non importation agreement, which they had freely plighted their word and honour to maintain inviolably, until the revenue act against America was repealed. This report, notwithstanding it appeared well authenticated, could hardly gain credit, it being thought there could not be found in America any set of men, much less a whole town, so devoid of honour, so lost to all sense of liberty, as, for any duty consideration of present gain, to sacrifice that which alone can make life comfortable, and to sell their birthright for a mess of pottage; but on Tuesday last, we are informed, the merchants committee here received by the post a letter from the late committee of Newport confirming the truth of the report. The news of this base detection was hardly communicated when a vessel came in sight from Newport. The people, fired with indignation at the base conduct of the Newport merchants, in order to show their abhorrence and detestation of their proceedings, unanimously resolved to have no dealing, traffick, or commerce, with them, but to look on them as betrayers of the liberties of America.
In consequence of a summons issued for a meeting of the artificers, manufacturers, tradesmen, mechanicks, and others, to be held yesterday at the Statehouse, a considerable and respectable body of them then met there, and unanimously came into the following resolutions:
First. We will, by all prudent way and means, endeavour to render the non importation, as it now stands, permanent, and prevent any the least violation of it.
Secondly. We will exert our influence for the promotion of American manufactures, both by using them ourselves, and by recommending them to others.
Thirdly. Should any person or persons be found so dead to all the warm emotions of the heart, even when liberty is at stake, as to import contrary to the spirit and intention of the non importation agreement, we will never purchase any article whatever of
such persons; and when the present momentous struggle is past, and our constitutional rights restored, we will hold them in the most abject contempt, and treat them accordingly.
Fourthly. As the Rhode Islanders have been found deficient in their publick faith, pledged to the other colonies, for maintaining a non importation agreement, it is requested by this meeting that Captain Whitman, who arrived here on Tuesday last with a cargo from Newport, will, as soon as possible, depart quietly from this port, without attempting to unload any part of his cargo; it being the determination of this meeting not to have any intercourse with that colony, until they return to their former agreement, or until the revenue act is totally repealed.
Fifthly. We will attend the general meeting appointed to be held on the 5th of June next, and support the resolutions of this day to the utmost of our abilities.
We hear Captain Whitman returns, with his cargo, this day.
Extract of a letter from London, March 22.
"Junius's letters are attributed to Lord George Sackville, Edmund Burke, Mrs. M'Caulay, and Lord Shelburne's chaplain; but which is the real author is very uncertain. With all their eloquence, and fine turned periods, the partiality of party shines but too visibly through them. However, excepting the Marquis of Granby, and Sir William Draper, most of the other characters attacked are such whose deformities deserve no quarter; for to be sure the Dukes of B----- and G-----, Lord S-----, Lord D-----, Lord M-----, Lord C-----, Lord B-----, Sir F-----, N-----, and above all R----- R-g-y, are matchless persons in these lower regions. Such are the men that grace the Court of George III. said to be a good natured virtuous Prince. It is, however, to be lamented that too much of the spirit of opposition arises from disappointed ambition; and though many very respectable, and a few very amiable characters, are engaged therein, there is such a number of a different cast and character that it cannot but fill the minds of all persons of discernment, who are well-wishers to the prosperity of this country, with the worst of apprehensions of what may be the consequence."
Monday last the sloop Nancy, Captain Alexander, arrived here from North Carolina, with whom came passenger Captain Anthony Shoemaker, late of the ship Charming Polly, bound from London to Ocracoke, in North Carolina, whose vessel was cast away on the 15th of last month, on Cape Hatteras shoals, and soon after beat to pieces, in a gale of wind, at N. E. by E. Being thick dirty weather, the people, with difficulty, saved themselves. At the same time the snow Lillie, Captain Ewer, from Glasgow for Ocracoke, was cast away about ten miles to the northward, on the beach; the people and cargo saved, but the vessel lost. The sloop Polly, inward bound from the West Indies for North Carolina, was lost about 15 miles to the southward of him; and a schooner, outward bound for the West Indies, lost about three miles from the bar of Ocracoke, the people all saved.
To the PRINTERS.
GENTLEMEN,
BEING sensible of the vast importance of continuing the resolutions of our merchants, until our grievances are redressed, I was much pleased with a piece in the Chronicle, signed A TRADESMAN, encouraging his brethren to enter into resolutions of denying their custom to any who should dare an infraction of the mercantile resolutions; but as our merchants have done much already, and there is something which I think the people ought to do, and which, in my opinion, would doubly enforce the resolutions of the merchants, and would render them more stable and firm, I beg that you would convey the following queries to the publick, through the channel of your paper.
PLEBARIUS.
 1. Whether the conduct of the Administration, upon hearing that New England had broke through its resolutions, does not show us plainly that the way to obtain redress is by enabling our merchants to continue firm in the resolution of non importation?  2. Whether such merchants as lived solely by their trade with Great Britain, and find themselves much straitened by the non importation agreement, are obliged to continue it, for the good of the publick, unless the publick agree, by some means, to provide for their subsistence, so as they alone may not be sufferers in so good a cause?  3. Whether we ought not to take example by the people of England, who, when they could not support the cause of liberty, in Paoli, with their lives, were not slack to aid him with their fortunes?  4. Whether a subscription should not be opened in every part of the province, in order to indemnify, in some measure, such merchants as are likely to suffer in the cause of liberty?  5. Whether there can be a man in the province who would not generously and freely subscribe to support them in their resolutions, so long as he is able to support himself; and whether, as long as there is a penny in the province, they may not expect a share of it?  6. Whether this resolution of the people, either to indemnify the non importing merchants, or at least to keep them from suffering by their patriotick resolutions, would not be the most effectual way of convincing the Ministry that the resolutions of the American merchants are neither that of a party or faction, but of every man in British America, and not to be dispised or trifled with? 
LONDON, April 13.
YESTERDAY, at eleven o'clock, there was a most numerous and respectable meeting of the Livery at Guildhall, agreeable to the Lord Mayor's precepts, to receive the report of his Majesty's answer to their humble address, remonstrance, and petition; likewise to take into consideration some late resolutions and orders of the courts of assistants of the companies of Goldsmiths, Weavers, and Grocers. The Lord Mayor, attended by the two Sheriffs, Sir William Stephenon, Alderman Crosby, a great number of the Common Council, and city officers, took the chair a quarter after one; when, silence being proclaimed by the common crier, the Lord Mayor came forward, and opened the business of the Hall as follows:
Gentlemen of the Livery,
"I have called you together on this day to receive the report of his Majesty's answer to your humble address, remonstrance, and petition, with the resolutions of the House of Commons, and their address in consequence; as likewise to take into consideration some late resolutions and orders of the courts of assistants of the companies of Goldsmiths, Weavers, and Grocers. As I have several observations to make on these subjects, I shall decline them for the present, until your town clerk reads them to you regularly; then I shall beg your patient hearing for some time."
This speech being received with universal acclamations, the town clerk read aloud the King's answer to the remonstrance, with the resolutions and address of the House of Commons thereon; as likewise the resolutions of the Goldsmiths, Grocers, and Weavers. After this was done a motion was made, and seconded, that the King's answer should be entered on the city journals, which was agreed to, nem. con.
The Lord Mayor then, agreeable to his promise, came forward a second time, and defended with great good sense and spirit on these proceedings. He observed, "that the answer received from the King was a very harsh one, so much so that in the whole history of England it perhaps could not be paralleled. Notwithstanding this, he said he could not arraign his Majesty, but with his Ministers; who on this, as well as upon every other occasion, treated the opinions of the people with insolence and disrespect. As a proof of the affability of the King, he urged their having all the honour to kiss his hand. In respect to the House of Commons, he observed that as their proceedings clashed so notoriously with the rights of the people he should say nothing farther on that head, but that he hoped it was universally known that he, along with their two worthy Sheriffs,
"made a manly stand against that resolution; which if they had not, along with several other worthies who assisted them, God only knows what would be the consequence."
In regard to the resolutions of the Goldsmiths, Weavers, and Grocers, he said "that their resolutions were as illiberal as untrue, as that, as well every act of the Livery, was not done clandestinely, or insidiously, but in the face of open day, and with the joint concurrence (one only excepted) of the most respectable citizens in the world."
He observed, "that they all (meaning the three companies) used, or rather copied, the language of Parliament in their private discourse; such as calling the generality of the Livery the offspring of parish poor, scum of the earth, and such opprobrious language. But that as these phrases were beneath the notice of the Livery, he begged them not to regard them, but act with that legal caution and spirit that became them; and he hoped, by God's grace, by these means, they would soon accomplish all their legal desires."
This speech, which continued near half an hour, was attended to with great silence, except the bursts of applause that every now and then accompanied its pauses.
His Lordship concluded with an exhortation to them, that as the holidays were coming on to behave with order and decorum, as he was resolved (if it was his brother) to punish any one who should transgress. His Lordship spoke for near three quarters of an hour.
After which the following motions were made, and seconded, "that the King's answer, along with the resolution of the Goldsmiths, Weavers, and Grocers, should be referred to the consideration of the committee of the Livery; and that the thanks of this Hall be given to the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Aldermen, &c. who presented the remonstrance, and this last to be printed in all the publick papers." Which being universally agreed to (one hand only excepted) the business of the day concluded.
The person who dissented is said to be insane.
Mr. Alderman Crosby, in a handsome speech, assured the Livery, "that nothing but illness should have prevented him from attending at the last Common Hall, and accompanying the Lord Mayor with the address to St. James's."
Several patriotick Gentlemen have very lately engaged in establishing a club on an independent plan, every member of which declares, on admission, his resolution neither to accept place, pension, nor any emolument under government, whilst he has a seat in Parliament. This club is already become respectable in its number, the names on the list amounting to near thirty, amongst whom are Sir Edward Astley and Mr. Harbord. The minority, as well as Ministry, we are informed, are rather displeased at it; and perhaps with some reason, since the members are not likely to be at the beck of either.
The King of Prussia is augmenting the corps of Bosniacks in his service, for his better success in which he avails himself of the present troubles in Poland, by inviting all such Gentlemen as have quitted that kingdom, on account of the disorders which have long reigned in it, to enter into his service, on the promise of considerable rewards, and being every one provided for according to their respective merits.
The murder of Mr. Powell, as set forth in the authentick trial printed at Hereford, seems to occasion various conjectures, arising from some very singular circumstances, totally different from the accounts hitherto given of that inhuman villainy, and which, on some future inquisition, are likely to excite the astonishment and indignation of the publick.
The city of London have retained Mr. Dunning, Mr. Wedderburne, and Mr. Serjeant Glynn, in the cause which will be tried between the city and the companies who have denied the authenticity of the Lord Mayor's precept, upon all occasions except elections.
We are assured that there is no present prospect of Lord Camden's having the Seals returned him; and so far from that Nobleman's having had private conferences of late with a great personage, respecting his restitution to office, as has been lately said, he has not been once at Court within this last month.
The reports of a coalition of parties are now universally believed to have their foundation in truth.
Yesterday his Majesty, attended by his Grace the Duke of Ancaster and the Earl of Denbigh, went to the House of Peers, and gave the royal assent to sundry bills, among which are the following, viz.
The bill to continue an act for punishing mutiny and desertion in the American colonies.
The bill for repealing part of an act for granting certain duties in the British colonies in America.
On Wednesday se'nnight, it is said, the budget is to be opened. Among other plans for the service of the current year, a lottery is fixed on. The savings for the sinking fund, in the last quarter of a year, are not less than 780,000.
It is said the remittances of a great city magistrate, from the island of Jamaica only, have fallen short this year some thousand pounds, occasioned by the failure of crops.
A special meeting of the Supporters of the Bill of Rights is to be held tomorrow, for the purpose of receiving subscriptions, and making a settlement of Mr. Wilkes's affairs, previous to his enlargement.
Some Gentlemen in Shoreditch waited on Mr. Wilkes in the King's Bench on Friday last, and made him a present of 301. which they had collected for him at a club. They were received in a very polite manner.
At a meeting of a few friends, on Tuesday evening, at the Fleet in Tothill Fields, Westminster, they voluntarily contributed 201. and upwards, which was agreed should be paid immediately to the society, Supporters of the Bill of Rights, for the sole use of Mr. Wilkes.
A certain Westminster magistrate, it is said, has declared that he was ordered to call in the military, if there should be occasion, on the day of Mr. Wilkes's enlargement; that some battalions of the Guards were already appointed to line the principal streets at the west end of the town; and that proper peace officers were to be dispersed in all parts of the town.
We hear that the sudden death of a certain Gentleman of immense fortune, and good family, was self procured.
We are assured that a bill is in agitation for the better securing the Asiatic possessions of the Hon. united merchants trading to the East Indies.
It is reported that a great personage has appointed General Monson to be commander in chief over the company's forces in India.
The Ponsomby Indian, that is just arrived, has brought an exact account, from the Cape of Good Hope, of all the French ships, and forces carried in them, which have gone to India since the year sixty five.
It appears, by these accounts, that, notwithstanding all the reports and fictitious stories to the contrary, the French have not sent any ships but what belonged to their India company; and that all the men which have been carried, besides those belonging to the ships, have been with a view to the making a settlement on the south east point of Madagascar, which is a project the French have long had in view.
Yesterday, being Maundy Thursday, his Majesty's alms were distributed in Whitehall chapel to thirty two poor men and women, as follows, viz. To each three ells of holland, a piece of woollen cloth, a pair of shoes and stockings, twenty shillings in a purse, thirty two silver pence, a loaf of bread, and a platter of fish.
A few days since a servant of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk was attacked, by a footpad, between his Grace's house at Coombe and Kingston. The villain after knocking him down presented a pistol, and swore he would blow out his brains if he did not deliver his watch and money instantly, which he accordingly did; but following the villain, he soon overtook him, and with a stick knocked the fellow down, took from him his pistol, made him

redeliver his watch and money, and drubbed him in such a manner that he left him almost dead. He gave notice of the above at the nearest house he came to, but the villain had made shift to crawl off.
A society of Noblemen and Gentlemen, of the kingdom of Ireland, dined at a tavern in Pallmall on the 17th ult. (St. Patrick's day) when they came to a resolution to erect a monument, by subscription, in St. Patrick's cathedral in Dublin, to the memory of the late Dean Swift. One hundred and eighty guineas were then subscribed; and they are to meet and dine together on the first day of June next, when they are to close their subscription, and to elect a committee to carry their design into execution.
A second incendiary letter was on Wednesday received by the Dean of Westminster, threatening to put their design against his life, &c. into immediate execution, as he had not yet made a passage through the wall in Dean's yard; which is not in his power to do, the said wall and ground not being his property.
A correspondent desires (as a fever and fore throat, which are infectious, are now very ripe) that we will communicate to the publick the following excellent preservative against the infection of any malignant distemper; which is to put a little bit of camphire into the mouth and up the nose, repeating it frequently.
It is said that a bill is now in contemplation to enable the Speaker of the House of Commons, during the recess of Parliament, to issue his warrant to the clerk of the Crown to make out new writs for the choice of members to serve in Parliament, in the room of such members as shall happen to die during such recess.
Mr. S—— W——, the present member for the town of Bedford, offered himself a candidate for that place, then contrary both to the interest and inclination of the Duke of Bedford. Soon after he declared himself, he had an interview with the Duke, in which his Grace inquired of him if he intended to proceed in the canvass. "Certainly, my Lord," answered Mr. W——. "Indeed!" said his Grace. "And pray, Sir, what are you?" "A brewer, my Lord." "A brewer! why we shall have the House of Commons all froth." "True, my Lord, answered the candidate, but does your Grace remember that the froth is always uppermost?"
A letter from Bristol says: "A meeting was held last week of the principal merchants in this city, to consider of a remonstrance to the Throne; but a powerful opposition has been forming against it."
Of the 9681. 21s. that was paid into the hands of the Supporters of the Bill of Rights, 2001. we hear, were remitted from the city of Bristol, and 1001. from some Gentlemen of Essex. Mr. Wilkes's debts, it is said, are now reduced to 16001.
The Hon. East India company have made the following appointments in their service: Colonel David Wedderburn to be Brigadier General, and commander in chief at Bombay and its dependencies; Alexander Macmillan, Esq; to be Captain of a company, and aid de camp to the commander in chief; Richard Campbell, Esq; to be Captain, and Major of Brigade to the troops at Bombay. And on Wednesday the General and his family set out from his house in Cavendish square for Portsmouth, to embark on board the Northumberland East Indiaman.
On Monday next the two regiments of light horse, Elliot and Burgoyne, will, we hear, be reviewed by his Majesty on Wimbledon common. The Horse Grenadiers have been doing duty at Kensington, and elsewhere, for some days past, instead of the light horse, they having ten field days for exercise to practise what is ordered to be done on that day.
When the next fleet fails from Russia there will not be a ship or sailor hardly left in their ports. It is hoped the Swedes are in alliance with them, and will be sincere.
Private letters from Rochfort inform that three of the workmen employed in the King's yards had just been arrested there, on suspicion of treason against the state.
Monday Mr. Hurst, grocer, in the borough, was robbed upon Blackheath of 11. 3s. by a single highwayman, mounted and gently dressed. Mr. Hurst begged of him very earnestly to return one or two shillings, to serve him till he got home; which the highwayman refused, adding, "I'll hear no petitions." The house-breakers lately taken, it seems, agreed to sell the stolen plate to the Jews for three shillings an ounce; but did not receive for above half the number of ounces delivered.
The following copy of a letter from M. de Voltaire, to the Marshal Duke de Richelieu, is handed about at Paris:
"I wish, my Lord, to have the pleasure of giving you my blessing before I die. The expression may be new to you, but it is nevertheless true. I have the honour to be a Capuchin; our General at Rome has just sent me my patent, in which I am stiled Spiritual Brother, and Temporal Father Capuchin. Send me word which of your deceased mistresses you would wish to get out of purgatory, and I swear by my beard she shall not be there twenty four hours longer. As in consequence of my new vocation I must give up the good things of this world, I have resigned to my relations what is due to me of the estate of the late Princess de Guise, and from that of Monsieur votre Intendant. They will apply to you for your directions in these affairs, which they will esteem a favour. I sincerely give you my blessing, and am, &c. A proposal to the politicians."
THE great contest through Britain's isle is who shall places win, The ins strive hard to keep their hold, the outs would fain The amor patriæ's quite forgot, an antiquated dream, [he in; Corruption reigns through every rank, self interest is the theme. A simple thought I would propose, to harmonize the land, Withdraw the profits from each place, and let the honours stand.
WILLIAMSBURG, June 14.
LAST Sunday, about two o'clock, we had a great deal of rain, attended with some sharp lightning, which struck a tree a little above the college. There was a parcel of sheep under it, sixteen of which were killed.
About a fortnight ago Mr. James Dowling, of Warwick county, aged 66, who has for many years been much afflicted with the gravel, was cut at York by Doctor Matthew Pope of that town, and three stones taken from him weighing two ounces eighteen grains. He is now in a fair way of doing well.
Mr. James Bell is returned a member for Sussex county, in the room of Mr. John Edmunds, deceased.
The Barrietta, Clark, and Power, from London, are arrived, the former in York and the latter in James river.
Captain Dawson, in one of his Majesty's cutters, arrived last week at Hampton. She was sent express from London to Commodore Hood at Halifax, who despatched her to Sir Thomas Adams.
On the 2d instant died Mr. William Westwood, of Elizabeth city county, aged 73. He served that county, as one of their Representatives, for many years, to the general satisfaction of his constituents. His charity, hospitality, and benevolent turn of mind, endeared him to his neighbours, which makes his death much lamented.
Extract of a letter from an eminent merchant in London, April 13. "We have had another effort for the repeal of the duty on tea, by Alderman Trecothick's making a motion in the House, on the 9th instant, being the day before the repeal of the duty on paper, painters colours, and glass, was to be read the third time; on which motion some ministerial members said it was not according to order, as the taking off the duty on tea had been mentioned this session in the House, and the question divided upon. Alderman Trecothick's motion was spoke to by many; and after about four hours debate the House divided therefor, 80 against the motion, 52 for it: So that the motion, being deemed irregular, nothing farther could be done in it; therefore, for this session, all hopes of the repeal of the duty is at an end. The Americans are under great obligations to Alderman Trecothick, as he has taken great pains to bring about the above repeal, though attended with no better success."
Yesterday Mr. Douglass, with his company of comedians, arrived in town from Philadelphia; and, we hear, intend opening the theatre in this city, on Saturday, with the Beggars Opera, and other entertainments.
On Tuesday last, at the court of Oyer and Terminer, John Sedgewicks Grover, from Fairfax, and Thomas Robison, alias William Orton, from Frederick, for horsestealing, were tried, and found guilty, but pardoned. The trial of Charles Smith, from Frederick, for felony, is put off until next court.
Tres, Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agatur. Virginianus et externus eadem jura habebunt.
THE strength of a people rising and falling with the increase and decrease of inhabitants, it is good policy in all states, by every prudent regulation, to encourage the importation of strangers. To this end, all invidious distinctions, between natives and foreigners, should be for ever banished. In like manner care should be taken that none suffer the smallest inconvenience on account of their religious tenets, which in all men differ as much as their faces.
As long as a people are so infatuated as to suppose that a man's merit is less merely because his father begat him on the other side of the Atlantick, no wonder that such a people increas'd but slow. For the same reason it might be supposed that a place where men of all religious persuasions have not equal advantages should be shunned by all whose opinions did not tally with the publick standard.
The rapid population of the late planted colony of Pennsylvania is a proof of the above assertion, the inhabitants of which, by shunning a supercilious contempt of foreigners, and its founder, the worthy Mr. Penn, impartially giving equal privileges to men of all parties, have induced such numbers of settlers that they nearly equal the inhabitants of this ancient colony, which has been planted very near double the time. I am bold to assert that for one foreigner that settles here Pennsylvania receives a hundred.
The love of our country, when rightly understood, is a most important virtue; but I greatly fear that, with partial bigots, it degenerates into the meanest of vices. The whole human race is the proper object of a true philanthropy, and when we confine it within narrow limits what is love to one becomes cruelty to another. The old Romans boasted much of their amor patriæ, and from this mistaken principle they destroyed Carthage, Numantia, and depopulated fine countries to aggrandize their own. I would beg leave to recommend this to the consideration of those narrow souled people who, under the pretence of encouraging native merit, cruelly and partially discountenance all foreigners. If such a selfish attachment to one part of the community be genuine benevolence, I see no reason why pirates and robbers should not be canonized for martyrs; who, though they proclaim war with all the world besides, are so inviolably attached to one another that they will sooner submit to the halter than involve their accomplices.
When the Romans sacked the city of Corinth, the various melted metals running down the streets by accident concreted into one substance, which far surpassing any of its component materials came into common use, and acquired the name of Corinthian brass. Thus may we, who are a collection from almost all the various kingdoms of Europe, forgetting our former connections, and banishing all illiberal distinctions, glory in the name of Americans. Let us not inquire whether any man is a native or foreigner, of this or that party, but let it be sufficient that he wears the human form. If this be our character, we will encircle so fast, by natural generation and the accession of foreigners, that in a little time Great Britain may the combin'd world defy And in the strength of brave Virginia joy.
A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD.
Entered in the upper district of James river.
June 9. Speirs, James Lusk, from Barbados, with 358 hlds. of rum, 120 barrels of brown sugar, 2 pipes of Madeira wine, 2 casks of saddlery, 1 box of hats, 20 trunks and 3 bales of dry goods, 4 casks of claret, 2 casks of ale, and 15 Negroes.
Cleared.
June 1. Thomas, Thomas Falcon, for Whitehaven, with 200 hlds. of tobacco, 70 pieces of timber, 60 oak planks, 7810 staves, and 32 oak knees.
5. George, James Coats, for Glasgow, with 500 hlds. of tobacco, 400 hoops, and 13,000 staves.
6. Nancy, Richard Barron, for Lisbon, with 3000 bushels of wheat, 200 barrels of flour, 4000 staves, and 100 wt. of bees wax.
Advertisements.
WESTMORELAND, May 10, 1770.
THE NOMONY FULLING MILL
Under my care being now completely fitted, all those who are pleased to favour her with their custom may depend upon having their cloth finished with the utmost expedition, and in the neatest manner. Though the prices hitherto charged were agreeable to the custom of the northern colonies, yet as this mill was erected principally with a view of encouraging our own manufactures at this time, when the use of British is utterly destructive of our liberty, therefore the following low rates will for the future be charged, and it is expected the money will be lent when the cloth is taken away, otherwise the mill will by no means support herself: For fulling 4 d. a yard, dying all shades of drab 2 d. a yard, other colours 4 d. except fine greens and blues, which are more costly shearing, 2 d. a yard each time the shears go over the cloth, which must depend upon the fineness of the cloth, and the use it is intended for.
It is impossible to make good work, unless the cloth has been properly managed before it is sent to the mill. The following directions, if complied with, will enable me to give that satisfaction to my customers of which I am very desirous: Separate the fine parts of the fleece (which are the neck, shoulders, back, and sides) from the coarse; spin the warp as hard as possible, but of an even hardness, the filling very loose and even; never spin coarse wool into fine thread, the cloth will always be harsh; the least width should be an ell; clothes intended to be died should be kept clear of spots or stains, they will always show.
We die and dress jeans and fustians to look as well as those from England; wool and cotton dyed in grain of any colour. Those who favour us with their work are desired to write fully how they would have it done.
BENJAMIN BROOKS.
KING WILLIAM, June 1, 1770.
I INTEND for GREAT BRITAIN the beginning of next month.
JEFFERY GRISLEY.
BLANDFORD, June 5, 1770.
ANY person capable of teaching the English language, and writing it, will get good wages by applying to Theophilus Field, James Field, or William Stark.
One Hundred Slaves
to be sold at Mecklenburg court in September next, for ready money, or merchants notes payable in October General Court.
years old, and the most part of mulberry, cedar, and locust. T. may have a long credit, if required, bond with good security to the subscriber, where the vessel may be seen. EDWARD C. TRAV.
To be SOLD, or CHARTERED, A BRIGANTIN of about five thousand bushels burthen. For terms apply to Aitchison and Parker, in Norfolk, or the subscriber in Northampton. WILLIAM RONALD.
 To be SOLD, A TRACT of LAND, which I lately purchased of James McDoual, of James City county, adjoining Doncaste's ordinary, containing about 400 acres, chiefly swamp, and well timbered. The required credit will be given, on bond, bearing interest, with security thereto. JAMES PRIDE.
TAKEN up, in Hanover, two red heifers, marked with a crop and underkeel in the right ear, and a crop in the left; posted, and appraised to 35s. JOSEPH GOODMAN.
TAKEN up, in Sussex, a gray mare, about 8 or 9 years old, 4 feet 8 or 9 inches high, with a hanging mane and switch tail, her head fleabitten, but no brand perceivable; posted, and appraised to 101. CHARLES DILLEYHAY, sen.
TAKEN up, in King and Queen, a dark bay mare, about 4 years old, with a hanging mane and switch tail, a star in her forehead, one hind foot white, trots altogether, but not branded; posted, and appraised to 31. EDWARD WALLER.
TAKEN up, in Amelia, a light gray horse, about 4 feet 9 inches high, and branded on the near shoulder and buttock W; posted, and appraised to 121. REUBEN PALMORE.
TAKEN up, in Albemarle, a small dark roan mare, with a white spot on her jaw, branded on the near shoulder I-B, and on the buttock O; posted, and appraised to 31. 12s. 6d. WILLIAM HENSON.
In the Brilliant, Captain Robertson, from London, ANDERSON and Co. have just imported
A LARGE and complete assortment of DRUGS and MEDICINES, to be sold either wholesale or retail, at the lowest advance, for ready money or short credit. Among a variety of other articles are the following, viz. Mace, cloves, cinnamon, white ginger, black and long pepper, brown sugar candy, capers, olives, anchovies, best and common oils, Freeman's cordial, Daffy's, Squire's, and Stoughton's elixirs, Turlington's and Fryer's balsams, eau de luce, Hill's elixir, bardana, do. essence of water dock, balsam of honey, Blackie's Ixivium for the gravel and stone, Bateman's drops, James's fever powders, Anderson's, Lockyer's, and Hooper's pills, gold and silver leaf, Dutch metal, ivory and pewter syringes, hungary, lavender, and honey waters, British oil, spirit of turpentine, painting oil, Prussian blue, red and white lead, vermilion, verdigris, &c. &c. &c.
All persons who please to favour us with their orders may depend that they will be faithfully served, and executed with the greatest despatch, by Their obedient humble servant, ANDREW ANDERSON.
Just imported from London, in the Brilliant, Captain Robertson, and to be sold at the subscriber's shop, in Williamsburg,
A LARGE and complete assortment of DRUGS and MEDICINES, both chymical and galenical; also white and brown candies, barley sugar, carraway comfits, candied ginger, best jarra fins, currants, capers, anchovies, best Durham mustard, sallad oil, spices of all sorts, ivory syringes, nipple glasses and breast pipes, gold and silver leaf, saltpetre, a variety of paints, smelling bottles, tooth brushes, court plasters, lancets, &c. &c. &c. WILL. PASTEUR.

MAY 30, 1770.
RUN away from the subscriber, on Monday the 28th instant, a very likely Virginia born Negro fellow named HARRY, about 6 feet high, was clothed, when he went away, with the usual clothing of crop Negroes, and was purchased last March of Joseph Sowell, of Gloucester county, at the sale at Petersburg. It is expected he is lurking somewhere in Gloucester. He carried off with him a black mare, about four feet six inches high, branded on the near buttock IP, paces slow, and has been worked lately. Whoever secures the said Negro and mare, so that I may get them again, or will deliver them to me at Shoccoe, in Henrico county, shall have 20 s. reward, besides what the law allows, or in proportion for either of them.
JOSEPH PLEASANTS.
FAUQUIER, May 25, 1770.
AS the Gentlemen resorting to the WARM SPRINGS, in Augusta, may be under some apprehensions on account of their horses being properly fed and pastured, I take this method to acquaint them that I have directed my overseer, living within five miles of the HOT SPRINGS, to take into pasture thirty six acres, to allow them a peck of oats a day, or six quarts of Indian corn, with pasture, for five shillings and three pence a week. As the owners of horses to put out may choose to have servants with them, to see to their being properly managed, I have also directed my overseer to take one servant in for every twelve horses, and allow him house room, and utensils to cook his provisions with, gratis. As these servants provisions may be bought at reasonable rates at the Bath market, they will be little expense to their owners. I intend to the springs about the 20th of June, when I will see those regulations complied with. In the mean time Mr. John M c Clanahan will act for me.
THOMAS BULLITT.
Just imported from London,
A FRESH assortment of MEDICINES, viz. Elixir bardana, essences of burgamot, waterdock, lemons, and pepper mint, pectoral balsam of honey, Anderson's, Lockyer's, and Hooper's pills, Daffy's and Squire's elixirs, Hungary and lavender waters, Turlington's balsam of life, court plaster, salop, pearl barley, Venetian borax, white wax, castle soap, vials and gallipots sorted, &c. to be sold as reasonable as possible by
RICHMOND, May 21, 1770.
ROBERT BROWN.
To be SOLD, on Wednesday the 20th of June, at the dwelling-house of John Davis, in Kingston parish, Gloucester county, for ready money,
ATTRACT OF LAND, containing about 500 acres, whereon is a good dwelling-house, a new storehouse, several good outhouses, and a very fine orchard. At the same time will be sold several valuable NEGROES, STOCKS of CATTLE, &c. and some HOUSEHOLD GOODS. The land will be sold together or in parcels, as may best suit the purchasers.
RUN away from the subscriber, living in Northampton county, North Carolina, on the 10th of April 1769, a mulatto woman slave named ANNIS, about 21 years of age, near 5 feet high, thick and well set, straight hair, scarred on the back part of her neck by cupping, has a scar on the elbow joint of her right arm, branded on the right cheek E, and on the left R, is very cunning, and will endeavour to make her escape. Whoever apprehends the said slave, and secures her so that I get her again, if taken in this province shall have 5 l. reward, if out thereof 7 l. 10 s.
EDWARD RUTLAND.
LUCY RANDOLPH, of London, at the Three Angels, No. 9, Long Walk, Cloysters,
UNDERSTANDING that her friends in Virginia being unacquainted with the business transacted by her, takes this method to inform them that she makes and sells all sorts of MILLINERY, viz. Brussels, Mecklen, and minonnet laces; blonds and black lace, gauze and catguts; plain and worked mullins and long lawns; black and white crape, and black love handkerchiefs; fine threads and tapes, Dutch and French; Manchester tapes and threads, cotton, thread and tapes; silk purples, gloves, mits, and ferrets; stay, silk, lace, cotton, thread, and serret, laces; bobbins, pins, and needles; head and breast flowers, Italian and French; skeleton and bunch wire; muffs and tippets, feather and fur; leather gloves, mits, and silk pocket books; Gentlemen's bags and roges; children's shoes, stockings, bone and packthread stays; boys silk and satin caps, ostrich and cock feathers; Ladies and boys satin and beaver hats with do. hair rolls, tates, curls, and silk rolls; ribands, riband and flower stomachers and knots; sheneals, garlands, and gown trimmings; quilted and pucker'd girls caps, white and black; coloured and black fans, velvet and silk collars, beaded or plain; Gentlemen's flocks and flock tapes; childbed linen, baskets, cushions, and lines; wax beads, French and English, India and wax pearl; horn and tortoise-shell combs, plain or set; set necklaces and earrings, fancy paste pins, &c. flannels and dimities of all sorts, dimity and calico bed gowns; modes, satins, persians, sarfeneys of all widths, figured and plain; mantuas 3-4 and half ell, and all sorts of silks in pieces; russels, calimancoes, durants, and tamines, coarse and fine; scarlet cloths and duffles, in cardinals or by the yard; satin and silk cardinals, cloaks, hats, and bonnets; satin, silk, and stuff quilts, of all prices; with all kinds of childrens ready made clothes, wholesale and retail, on the lowest terms.
RUN away from the subscriber, in Hanover county, about the 1st of September, a Negro man slave named WILL, about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, is a very remarkable fellow, has but one eye, and was outlawed some time before Christmas. Matters of vessels are forewarned carrying him out of the colony. Whoever brings the said Negro to me shall have 40 s. reward, besides what the law allows; and if taken out of the colony 5 l.
N. B. He was formerly the property of Mr. Arthur Lickens, of York county, and may probably be lurking thereabouts.
THERE is now lying in Mess t . Balfour and Barraud's store, in Norfolk, a strong case, marked on the top IB, No. 1, and on the end P No. 89, a case marked IB, No. 2, and a box marked IB, No. 3, containing apothecaries drugs, &c. They were landed here from on board the Hanbury, Captain James Esten, in February last.
BLANDFORD, May 26, 1770.
STRAYED or STOLEN from the subscriber, about ten days ago, a black mare, about 4 feet 8 inches high, with a star in her forehead, a hanging mane and switch tail, paces remarkably fast, and I am informed was bred in Goochland, but having only had her a few days did not take notice whether she had any brand. Whoever brings her to me shall have twenty shillings reward.
CHARLES DUNCAN.
TAKEN up, in Brunswick, a large black steed, with a small bell on, is much cut round the horns with a rope, marked with a nick under his right ear, and a crop or swallow fork in the left; potted, and appraised to 3 l. 10 s.
JOHN THACKER.
TAKEN up, in Albemarle, a bay mare, about 4 feet 3 inches high, about 8 years old, with a hanging mane and switch tail, one saddle spot, trots only, had on an old bell with cracks in it, but no brand perceivable; potted, and appraised to 4 l.
JOHN HANDCOCK.
I HEREBY give notice to all those who are indebted to the store lately kept at Major John Baskett's, in Hanover county, to settle their respective accounts with Mr. William Donald, who will give constant attendance for this purpose at the above mentioned place until the 1st of September next. As great indulgence has been granted to many of the customers, it may reasonably be expected they in return will immediately give bonds for the balances now remaining due, that, being properly ascertained, they may be collected with less expense and trouble than if the accounts stood open. Those who refuse to comply with this reasonable request may depend on their accounts being put into a lawyer's hands, without farther delay, or respect of persons.
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JOHN JOHNSON.
WILLIAMSBURG, May 4, 1770.
AS I am determined for the future to receive more money, or have less business in the way of my profession, I take this method (in order to prevent unnecessary applications) of declaring that I will not for the future undertake the management of any cause unless my fee is first paid down, or a bond given for it, payable with interest twelve months after the date of such bond; nor will any letter to engage me in any cause for the future meet with the smallest attention, or answer, that does not enclose either the fee or such bond for it. And that no person may be deceived, they will please to observe that it is my determined resolution to put every such bond in suit which is not discharged within one month after it becomes payable. Every person who favours me with their business upon the above terms will meet with my most grateful acknowledgments, and may depend upon the exertion of my utmost abilities to serve them. With regard to those who, at the time they pretended to be my friends, could coolly sit still and see me reduced to the necessity of selling my slaves to a very great disadvantage, and yet withhold the small sums due to me, which if paid would have removed that necessity, I leave it to their own hearts to determine whether they deserve any farther indulgence. Every person therefore indebted to me before the first day of January last, who does not before the first day of August next either send the money due to me or a bond for the same, payable with interest in twelve months, may depend upon being sued immediately after that time in the General Court, if the sum due amounts to ten pounds, and in any county I can catch him if under that sum. I shall be in Williamsburg from the 20th of May until after the court of Oyer in June.
THOMSON MASON.
To be SOLD, on Friday the 29th of June, on the premises, in Orange county, at the South West mountains,
ONE thousand two hundred and eighty acres of exceeding good LAND for either corn, wheat, or tobacco, late the property of Captain Richard Todd, of King and Queen county, deceased; 500 acres of the said land are laid off in 100 acre lots, with all convenient houses, and tenants living thereon, which will be sold separate; the other 780 acres are uncultivated, and will be sold together, or in parcels, as may best suit the purchasers. There are near 2000 acres in the said tract, and the whole entailed; but the above mentioned quantity was docked, by act of Assembly, in the year 1764, and the Royal assent will certainly be obtained before the day of sale. The widow's dower will be made easy, that no encumbrance may prevent the sale. Credit will be allowed until the first day of April 1771 for one half the purchase money, and for the other half until April 1772, on bond, with approved security, being given to
WILLIAM RICHARDS TODD.
N. B. Five per cent. will be discounted for ready money. At the same time and place will be rented the manor plantation (which is in good order for cropping) for eight or ten years.
£. 2 Reward.
RUN away from Westover, on Sunday last, a very likely Negro man named EDM, of the middle size, about 25 years old, by trade a bricklayer. It is supposed he will go into KING WILLIAM county. I will give the above reward to whoever delivers him to me at Westover, or to Mr. David Pattison, at the falls of James river.
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W. BYRD.
MARCH 26, 1770.
Portrait Painting. GENTLEMEN and LADIES that are inclined to have their pictures drawn will find the painter ready to serve them, upon very reasonable terms, either at their own homes or where he lives, which is next door to the Hot Springs. J. DURAND. WILLIAMSBURG, June 7, 1770.
ASOBER diligent man, capable of teaching children English, arithmetick, the most common branches of the mathematicks, and writes a good hand, will be employed upon applying to me in Sussex county. AUGUSTINE CLAIBORNE. KING WILLIAM, May 27, 1770.
THE subscriber having formerly advertised a quantity of lands for sale, and not having yet disposed of the whole, and being very desirous of paying the demands against him, takes this opportunity of informing those who incline to purchase that he has now for sale a tract of about 600 acres of high land, with about 1000 acres of very valuable marsh adjoining lying on Pamunkey river, with every convenience attending a river seat; also a very fine and well accustomed water grist mill with two pair of stones, and fixed on a stream that never fails, which would rent for 100 l. per annum, as there are 100 acres of valuable land adjoining. Any person inclined to purchase may know the terms by applying to the subscriber privately, and if not sold in that manner will be exposed to the highest bidder on King William court day in July next. THOMAS CLAIBORNE.
To be SOLD at Amelia courthouse, at the Amelia court day in July next (if fair otherwise next fair day)
THIRTY choice VIRGINIA born SLAVES, consisting of men, women, and children, for ready money, or good established merchants bills of exchange. An undoubted title will be made to the purchaser or purchasers. WILLIAMSBURG, June 1, 1770.
COMMITTED to James City prison an Ibo Negro fellow named HARRY, about 5 feet 6 inches high, about 35 years old, his left hand burnt, has on a osnaburg shirt, Negro cotton waistcoat, with flat metal buttons on a pair of Negro shoes, the soles nailed on, and says he belongs to John Todd, in North Carolina. The owner is desired to send for him, and pay charges. WILLIAM SEALY LANE.
TAKEN up, in Amelia, a bay mare about 4 feet 2 inches high, with a blaze in her face, a star on her nose, a raw hide string round her neck, and branded the buttock with three dots; potted, and appraised to 30 s. SAMUEL BENTLEY.
Taken up, in Prince Edward, a sorrel horse about 4 feet 6 inches high, with a star in his forehead, a snip on his nose, one hind foot white, drags both of his hind feet, hanging mane and switch tail, trots and paces slow, gallops well but no brand perceivable; potted, and appraised to 6 l. WILLIAM ATKINS.
Taken up, in King William, three cattle viz. one cow, pied red and white, marked with a half crop and swallow fork in each ear, a steer of the same colour and mark and a black heifer unmarked; potted, and appraised to 4 l. GEORGE DABNEY, jun.
Taken up, in Chesterfield, a dark bay horse about 4 feet 4 inches high, near 18 years old, with a snip on his nose, a very fore back, marked with a small half moon on the under side of his left ear, but not branded. GEORGE TRAYLOR.
I INTEND for Great Britain for a few months. Those indebted to me are desired to make payme to Mr. Richard Taylor. Any person that wants to purchase good TRACT of TOBACCO LAND, containing 400 acre in Charlotte county, or a TRACT of LAND in Chesterfield containing 50 acres, very convenient to Petersburg, may know the terms by applying as above. Long credit will be given. RICHARD HANSON.
ALL Persons may be supplied with this PAPER at 12 s. 6 d. a Year, and have ADVERTISEMENTS (of a moderate Length) inserted in it for 3 s. the first Week, and 2 s. 6 d. per Week after. All Sorts of PRINTING WORK done at this Office in the neatest Manner, with Care and Expedition.

WARSAW, March 17. A COURIER is just arrived from the banks of the Danube, with advice that the Russian General, Major General Czerwich, had taken the town of Kilianova by assault, in which was found a considerable magazine, part of which they conveyed to Iassy, and burnt the rest.
A Russian detachment, commanded by Lieutenant General Kilagen, attacked, on the first instant, a party of the confederates, in the neighbourhood of Opalow, consisting of 800 men, whom they put to flight, after killing about one hundred of their number, and forcing them to abandon a part of their baggage.
HAMBURG, March 18. They write from Altenbourg that the Duke of Saxe Gotha had caused a seminary to be erected for the instruction of school mistresses, and that none will be permitted to follow that profession but such as have attended the publick exercises for the space of two years. The gross ignorance of the ordinary class of these sort of women has made this establishment necessary, which has already been the practice of Vienna for many years.
LONDON, April 7. WE hear that the reports concerning changes in the Ministry are entirely without foundation, and took their rise only from a division in the House of Commons, in which a majority appeared against the opinion of the Minister, on a question on a matter of speculation that had no relation to party.
We are assured that a bill is now preparing to be laid before an august assembly, to prevent the delays of justice, occasioned by the privilege of Parliament. To the honour of the Prime Minister, we are also assured that as it was planned so it will be strongly supported by him.
The question upon which the Minority became the Majority yesterday se'nnight has not yet been clearly explained. A motion having been made by Mr. Grenville for leave to bring in a bill for the more equitable decision of contested elections, the same was granted; but the Ministry thought fit to oppose its passing, not perhaps because they did not approve it, but because they might think it was giving up a branch of the ministerial prerogative. It had been a custom, of which all Ministers had availed themselves, from the time of the Revolution down to the meeting of the present Parliament, to determine contested elections by numbers; and as the Minister could, in former Parliaments, always command a majority, the decisions in contest were sure to be carried in favour of the man whom the Minister approved, inasmuch that during the Tory Ministry of Queen Anne there was not one instance of a Whig member's being admitted upon petition, and during the Ministry of Sir Robert Walpole it is well known that the loss of the Chippenham election was the loss of his power as a Minister. To prevent these shameful proceedings for the future, the bill in question provides that 45 members shall be appointed by the House as a select committee, to inquire into the merits of the election in contest, out of which number each candidate shall have a right to except against fifteen; so that the number of fifteen will at last only remain to decide the contest, and these are, upon oath, to determine according to the evidence that shall be produced before them. A more equitable bill than this the mind of man could not have suggested. It was not therefore to be wondered that it met the countenance of a very great majority, and the rather as the principle upon which it was opposed could have weight only with a few. This bill will, in its consequences, operate farther than at first view it may seem, as it effectually strikes at the root of bribery and corruption; for as there is already a law, as strong as words can frame it, against bribery and corruption, the slightest proof of any such influence will now disqualify any member from sitting in the House, and no Minister will be able to defend him.
The Earl of Chatham, in a conversation a few days since, respecting the circumstance of the Ministry turning out Lord Camden from the Chancellorship, and the concern expressed by some of them at the precipitate step they had taken, took upon him to advance that if his sovereign himself desired it he would venture to undertake that his Noble friend should accept of the Seals again; but that he thought the least the King could do, on such an occasion, would be for his Majesty, out of his own spontaneous grace and munificence, to raise Lord Camden to the dignity of an Earl, and to grant him an additional pension of two thousand a year, durante vita , to support it.
A certain Lady of Grosvenor street, remarkable for her beauty, has again eloped from her husband, and now a final separation must ensue. The Lady went off some time ago, but by the interposition of friends her husband received her again. Some symptoms of pregnancy appearing, the Lady candidly owned that a Gentleman who married a certain courtesan (Kitty Fisher) was the occasion. On the husband's expressing his resentment, she retired with the above mentioned Gentleman.
On Tuesday night the President in the lower room of the Robinhood society ordered the lobby to be cleared of all but members. His order being obeyed, he resumed the thread of his discourse, previously
acquainting the room that none but members were in it; on which a spirited Gentleman got up, and answered, Mr. President, you are much mistaken, there is a certain Colonel, whom I am confident is no member, and consequently has no right here.
On Thursday last twenty one witnesses were produced in court and sworn in the Grosvenor cause, besides those at St. Alban's, &c. and on Thursday several of the witnesses in the above cause attended, to be examined at Doctors Commons.
April 9. On Friday Lord Camden waited on a great personage, at twelve o'clock, at St. James's, with whom he had an hour's conference before the levee was open; and it is next to certain, we hear, that his Lordship will shortly resume the Seals.
It is very confidently asserted, at the west end of the town, that some material alterations will shortly take place in the government of all our American provinces.
A correspondent assures us we may depend on the truth of the following anecdote. A very great number of those whose hands are set to the Durham petition cannot write, so they have made crosses as their marks. A waggish Gentleman, who disliked the petition, said to one who stickled for it, "Sir, I never thought you had so great a number of Papists in the county of Durham." What do you mean, said the other? Why, said he, I judge so from the vast number of crosses at your petition. The other laughed at the joke, and owned there were many.
We hear the inhabitants of Brentford illuminated their houses, and great rejoicings were made there, on account of Mr. Horne's having nonsuited Mr. Onslow at Kingston on Friday last.
A correspondent desires us to insert the following. It is necessary to explain some facts relative to the proceedings on Friday at Mr. Horne's trial at Kingston. That Gentleman's counsel made not the least attempt to clear their client of the charge brought against him of defaming Mr. Onslow, but took advantage of the most contemptible quibble in the law (the inserting a single letter in the copy which was not in the original) to avoid entering into the merits of the cause, and merely to put Mr. Onslow to three months longer delay and expense. The reason of the Duke of Grafton's being at Kingston is this, and is fit to be known: Mr. Horne subpoenaed his Grace the night before, and within three minutes after his arrival Mr. Reynolds acquainted his Grace they had no occasion for him, and he was never in court. The account of Mr. Onslow's having engaged all the short hand writers is too absurd to be believed by any body. Quere, Was not Mr. Horne in hopes that the Duke of Grafton might refuse to come, of which every body guesses the use he would have made?
They write from Tewkesbury, in Gloucestershire, that several Gentlemen there have purchased an ox, which is to be distributed to the poor of that place on the day of Mr. Wilkes's releasement, with a sufficient quantity of bread and liquor. They have also ordered a ball in the evening for the Ladies, fireworks are to be exhibited, and the town illuminated.
Letters from Constantinople mention that the Jews have been assured of the protection of the Grand Seigneur throughout his dominions, which had impressed them with so much gratitude that very large voluntary contributions were raising through all their tribes for the service of his Sublime Highness.
Great preparations are also making at Devizes to celebrate the day of Mr. Wilkes's enlargement.
April 10. A certain distinguished Nobleman will set out in a few days for a neighbouring Court, in order, if possible, to discover whether any hostilities are at this time intended towards England.
We hear a bill will speedily be brought into Parliament making it felony to compel people either to light bonfires or to hang out lights; a regulation which, together with the penalty to be laid on breaking of windows, will, it is believed, secure the future tranquillity of this metropolis.
We are told that all contests, for the present session, are at an end between the Majority and the Minority, and that before next winter such a coalition will take place as, by an equal participation of honours and emoluments, will render the balance of patriotism pretty even, and leave it a disputable point which are best friends to the community.
A few nights ago the Earl of Chatham having asserted in the upper club room of the Robinhood, that the arrears of the Civil List were principally owing to the enormous sums expended in bribery and corruption at the late general election, the late Premier rose up and said that such a charge came with an ill grace from a man in whose administration the sums lavished in bribery and corruption, at one general election, exceeded those expended in the last by 170,000 l.
A petition has been presented by Mr. Harrison for the remainder of the reward allowed for the discovery of the longitude.
Yesterday Earl Temple set out for his seat at Stowe, but will return to be present at the Lord Mayor's dinner and ball on Easter Monday next, at the Mansion House.
A Lady at the west end of the town, who some time ago won 30 guineas at a rout on a Sunday evening, happened a short time afterwards to hear a celebrated
preacher near Hyde Park corner exclaim against gaming on a Sunday. In a fit of contrition she immediately made a present of her winnings to a publick charity; but, so frail is human nature, the poor Lady has again fallen into the same error, but has not the same means of redress, as she lost not only her money but some part of her jewels.
On Friday afternoon eight Noble Peers, all in the Minority, had a long conference with his Majesty at St. James's.
The next day after Mr. Wilkes's enlargement, we are informed, a court of Aldermen will be summoned to swear him in Alderman of Farringdon ward Within.
After the above Gentleman has gone through all his business, we hear he intends to spend a few months at Bath.
The principal inhabitants of Whitney, in Oxfordshire, lately made a present to John Wilkes, Esq; of a fat buck and a large basket of fish, and have subscribed among themselves to give a grand entertainment on the 18th instant, on which day that Gentleman's enlargement is expected.
Letters from Venice advise that on the 3d instant a plot was discovered, formed for setting fire to the magazine of wood. About eight at night were found in this magazine, situated near the palace of the Procurator of St. Mark, some combustible materials disposed for that horrible purpose. The Council hath promised, by a publick act, a reward of 1000 ducats to the person who shall discover the incendiary.
Letters from Naples, of the 10th of March, say: On Tuesday evening Don Juan Ciavaria, Treasurer General of the King's household, being at his office in the great court of the palace, was assassinated and robbed by a soldier of the Italian guards, who was at the gate of the treasury. The offender was immediately arrested, and sent to prison. The process against him will be instituted by the ordinary judges, and his Majesty hath ordered that speedy and rigid justice be executed on him.
Last week, as Mr. Harding's men were plowing in his grounds at Tottenham, the plough struck rather lower than common in the earth, and turned up a large quantity of broad pieces of gold of James I. and Charles I. quite fresh, as if just coined. Some men dug afterwards with a pitchfork, and threw up at one stroke eighteen of the above pieces, also a horn with some silver at the bottom; the whole amounting to upwards of 70 l. value.
On Thursday afternoon a severe battle was fought, near Chinkford in Essex, between the noted Gregory of Whitechapel, and Samuel Peters, a gunsmith, in the Minorities; when, after a contest of an hour and twenty five minutes, victory declared in favour of Gregory, notwithstanding he was so much bruised that it is thought he cannot survive. There were very considerable bets depending.
This day the King was pleased to invest his Royal Highness Prince William Henry, his Majesty's third son, with the ensigns of the most ancient and most noble order of the Thistle.
The report lately propagated that a fresh prosecution was intended to commence against a popular patriot is entirely void of foundation, the Premier himself having recently declared, on his word and honour, no such thing was ever thought on; and it is asserted, on very credible authority, that such reports are circulated merely to render Administration odious to the people.
April 11. It is said that a great number of the principal inhabitants of Westminster have signed a paper, signifying their disapprobation of the remonstrance of that city.
The present plan talked of for an accommodation between the Majority and Minority is said to be the production of Lord Lyttleton.
A great personage, we are told, refuses to see Earl Temple, being greatly disgusted with him for publishing to the world, some time since, in print, a private conversation which had passed between them.
A report prevailed yesterday morning that a certain Colonel will vacate his seat by the acceptance of a place, when a new writ will be issued for the county, in order to give a patriotick Gentleman an opportunity to be rechosen.
Monday night the question whether the duty on tea should be taken off in America was debated in the lower room of the Robinhood society, when there appeared, on a division, against the repeal 124, for it 52; majority 72.
Certain claims upon the Government, with regard to some Scotch estates, forfeited in the last rebellion, and which have been depending near twenty five years, were taken into consideration on Monday in a certain society.
We hear that a sum not exceeding 72,000 l. is proposed to be divided among the above claimants.
We hear that the committee of Gentlemen appointed to conduct the preparations for the approaching entertainment to be given at the Mansion House, and which is supposed will be the grandest ever given in this country, on a private account, are unlimited in their expense, under the amount of 2000 l.
The town of Bath was never known, at this season of the year, so thin of company as it has been for these six weeks past, inasmuch that one half of the publick diversions are laid aside.

We hear that another amour has lately been discovered, between an officer of rank and the wife of a Gentleman of considerable estate in the west of England. It is worth observation that the Lady's husband is about thirty, and her gallant is turned of sixty.
We hear that Captain Carver, famous for his late travels in the interior parts of North America, has received orders from the government to deliver up all his plans, journals, and discoveries, to the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations, which he has complied with. By this prudent measure, it seems, that the Spaniards, who are making themselves formidable at the mouth of the Mississippi, will be prevented from obtaining that knowledge of the heads of that vast river, and the continent thereabouts, which otherwise they would have done, had those journals been made publick.
Tomorrow will be launched, at his Majesty's yard at Deptford, a new man of war of 74 guns, and is to be called the Resolution.
We hear from Portsmouth that a workman in one of the dockyards has discovered a method of sheathing ship bottoms with a kind of leather, prepared in such a manner that the longer it lies in the water the harder it grows, and is impenetrable to worms in the West Indies, by means of a chymical preparation.
A Thames salmon, weighing forty pounds, was sold last week to a fishmonger for the amazing price of nine pounds sterling.
On Friday night last, as Peter Dutens, Esq; of Leicester square, was returning from a ball in the Borough, he was stopped in St. George's Fields by three fellows in sailors habits, who robbed him of his watch, money, and two valuable rings; and afterwards one of the villains had the meanness to take Mr. Dutens's stone buckles out of his shoes, and even had the audaciousness to chalk No. 45 on each of his feet, which he said would be a sufficient passport in case he fell in with any more of the True Brotherhood, as he was pleased to stile them. By the description, these fellows are supposed to belong to the famous gang of fresh water pirates.
Monday night the house of Charles Kent, Esq; in Old Bond street, was broke open, and robbed of plate, money, wearing apparel, &c. to the amount of 1000 l.
Saturday night Lady Mansell's house, in St. James's place, was broke open and robbed of plate, &c. to the amount of 100 l.
It is said that some Jews, who are worth at least ten thousand pounds each, have been concerned in receiving and melting down stolen plate.
It is said the seizures of lace, that have been made by Mr. Tankred, and another officer, in and about London, amount to upwards of 40,000 l. and it is said, if they are all condemned, that the officers will share 10,000 l. each.
On Monday the Middlesex petition, remonstrance, and address, was presented to his Majesty at St. James's by Mess. Sawbridge and Townshend, Sheriffs for the county, which was received and given to a Lord in waiting, but no answer returned.
The same day the petition from the county of Kent was presented to his Majesty by John Calcraft, Esq; member for Rochester, and some other Gentlemen.
The petition of the county of Kent is signed by upwards of 2700 freeholders.
A letter from Reading, in Berks, mentions that a meeting was lately held in that town, to consider of a petition to the King for redress of grievances; at which, out of near 900 electors no more than 16 were present, who petitioned the Mayor for a Common Hall, which he declined granting, on account of the inconsiderableness of their number, and their not being joined in their request by any of the opulent independent electors.
April 12. The sum of 55,011 l. is granted to make good the deficiencies of the grants for the year 1769.
We hear that the Middlesex remonstrance was delivered and received in state, and not through the hands of a third person, as is generally reported and believed.
Tuesday a court of assistants of the Fishmongers company was held at their hall in Thames street, when a motion was made for their entering into resolutions similar to those of the Goldsmiths, Weavers, and Grocers companies, but the motion was rejected.
Tuesday the sum of 9681. 11 s. was paid into the hands of the Supporters of the Bill of Rights, for the use of John Wilkes, Esq;
We are informed that precepts will be issued, by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, to all the peace officers of the city of London, to be on duty, in all parts of the city, on the day and night of Mr. Wilkes's enlargement, to prevent riots, or any mischief being done to the inhabitants by the mob.
A letter from Denbighshire, received on Tuesday, contains the following account: "The people of this county have refused to pay the land tax, in consequence of which great disturbances ensued, and the military quartered in this neighbourhood have been called upon to assist in preserving the peace and reducing the malcontents to order; which we hope they will be able to effect, but are apprehensive a reinforcement will be necessary."
It is said three regiments are sent to quell the above riot, which is supposed to have taken rise from the enclosure of some common lands, and other measures which have been deemed oppressive.
At Wynstay, the seat of Sir Watkin William Wynne, Bart. who comes of age the 19th instant, an amphitheatre is built that will contain at least 4000
people; 160 hogheads of strong beer, part of it brewed the day he was born, will be given to the populace, and open house will be kept for all comers, without distinction.
Letters from Lisbon, of the 12th ult. advise that a paper was presented to his Majesty, on his way to Salvador, by a mean person, who offered to make a discovery of several persons disaffected to his Majesty, whom the person had overheard talk disrespectfully of the Royal family.
We can assure the publick that Mr. John Scott, well known by the name of the patriotick newsmen, has provided a buttock of beef, weighing exactly 45 pounds, to be boiled on the 18th day of this month (being the day of John Wilkes, Esq's enlargement, and Mr. Scott's birthday, being 45 years of age) together with 45 carrots, 45 loaves, 45 pots of beer, and 45 drams; to which he invites his friends (sons of liberty, foes to tyranny) to pledge the following toasts, the King, Queen, forty one protesting Lords, and the Gentlemen of the Minority in the Lower House, with many other loyal and constitutional toasts. The dinner to be served up under the banner of a flag richly ornamented, with this motto:
"May the blossoms of liberty never be blighted, Nor the lovers of freedom ever be slighted." N. B. The bullock was killed by Mr. Swan, butcher, of Newport market; and, what is very remarkable, had 45 stone of fat. The room will be illuminated with 45 lights.
A candle of curious construction has lately been made at Newcastle. It consists of 45 branches, issuing in four circular divisions from the main stem, and forming four circles at the top, where they all terminate horizontally with each other, and will cast 45 lights. It weighs 22 lb. and from the bottom to the top of the main stem is about three feet. It is intended to be lighted up at the Cappadocian entertainment, held in that town on the day of Mr. Wilkes's enlargement.
It is imagined, by persons leaned in the law, that the cause depending in the court of King's Bench between Lord Grosvenor and his R. H. the Duke of Cumberland, will be determined before the cause depending in Doctors Commons, between him and his Lady, in order that the verdict given in the former court, if in favour of his Lordship, may be pleaded in part of proof in the latter.
We have authority to assure the publick that Mr. Onslow's attorney has served Mr. Horne with a new writ, on a fresh trial to come on at the ensuing summer assizes at Guildford, and that every legal method will be taken to bring Mr. Horne to justice.
We have received advice that twelve Turkish men of war are cruising off the Morea, and that 16,000 Turks from Albania are on full march towards Montenegro, in order to oblige the inhabitants of that country to submit to the dominion of the Grand Seignior.
A letter from Dantzick, dated March 20th, says: "The new Russian fleet, which is fitting out at Cronstadt, will sail with the first fair wind for the Mediterranean. Some of the ships are commanded by Danish officers, who have entered into the Russian service, by desire of the Empress."
Tuesday upwards of thirty artificers, in the watch-making branch, engaged themselves at an agent's office, near Cornhill, to go to North America.
WILLIAMSBURG, June 14.
IN 1714, in the large tract of country which Prince George county at that time comprehended, the levy was laid upon only 1040 tithables; and this present year, we are well informed, they amount to 26,412, which shows the vast increase, in 56 years, of 25,372 tithables. The county of Amelia contains 4903 tithables, Bedford 1772, Brunswick 3793, Charlotte 1655, Dinwiddie 2986, Halifax 1827, Lunenburg 1585, Mecklenburg 2185, Prince Edward 1620, Pittsylvania 1677; all which counties have been taken from Prince George, and the number of tithables in it amounts to 2449.
The Totness, Hudson, from Liverpool, is arrived in York river.
We have seen Mr. Wilkes's two addresses upon his enlargement, the 18th of April; one to the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders, of the county of Middlesex, the other to the inhabitants of the ward of Farringdon Without. They came to hand too late for this week's paper, and indeed contain nothing new, his topics being the same with what he has formerly laid before the publick.
NAPLES, March 20.
OUR conjectures of an eruption of Mount Vesuvius being at hand have proved true, for on Wednesday last the mountain burst within 100 yards of the crater, on the side of Pompeii, from whence issued a lava of about two miles in length, and 2700 paces in breadth; at the same time that volleys of stones, some not less than a tun weight, were thrown out of the crater to a very considerable height, 1000 feet or more, as we could judge by the time they took in falling. The lava has not yet reached the cultivated parts of the mountain.
LONDON, April 14.
By the Dutch mail, which arrived late yesterday afternoon, we are assured that General Stoffeln defeated a body of 15,000 Turks, who were intrenched near Shurfska, in Wallachia. The Ottomans had 3000 men killed, and 400 made prisoners. Shurfska was immediately after surrendered to the Russians, who held a grand gala, and made great rejoicings on that occasion.
Admiral Elphinstone failed yesterday from Spithead, with four ships of the line, two frigates, and three transports.
The petition against a certain American Governor, we hear, has been censured by a great assembly, as groundless, vexatious, and scandalous.
April 16. Letters from Gibraltar mention that they were in daily expectation of receiving accounts of an action between the Russian and Turkish fleets, which in all probability would decide the fate of the latter, their whole naval powers being collected on the occasion.
They write from Hamburg that several large ships are now fitting out in the Elbe, to sail for the Mediterranean, and act as privateers under the Empress of Russia's commission against the Turks.
Some very interesting advices have last week been received from the Court of Berlin, relative to the part his Prussian Majesty intends to take in the present war between the Russians and Turks; which have already been the subject of some Councils held at the Cockpit, and St. James's.
If credit may be given to some late advices from a northern Court, she will soon formally declare war against the Grand Seignior.
It was on Friday said that a great personage was reconciled to Earl Temple, through the intercession of the Marquis of Rockingham.
Letters from Paris, dated April 6th, advise that the Princes and Peers were invited to sit in Parliament on the Tuesday following, to deliberate under his Majesty's orders, and in his presence, on the affair of the Duke d'Aguillon, who is accused of many atrocious crimes in his government.
Some people, who pretend to better intelligence than what is communicated in the publick prints, give out that the prosecution against the Duke d'Aguillon has other views than the vindication of M. Chalatois, and that it will lead to such discoveries as will astonish all France.
By a private letter from Marseilles we have an account that the Alarm frigate, Captain Jarvis, who failed from Cadiz on the 18th of last month, was driven on the rocks in that road, and much damaged. It was awful to see this fine vessel, with a number of brave men, striking upon the rocks within pistol shot of the shore, without any person daring to venture out to their relief. However, by cutting away her masts, and other providential means, she at length made land upon a soft shore, where all her men were saved. She had a large sum of money on board.
It is reported that a certain foreign Ambassador has complained, in pretty severe terms, of the dark insinuations lately thrown out by a Noble Earl, respecting a blow affirmed to have been struck against this nation, which he thinks highly reflects upon the honour of his master.
We hear that Mr. Wilkes has sent circular letters to all his friends, requesting them to exert their utmost influence to preserve good order among the people on the day of his release.
We hear that the several clubs which have elected Mr. Wilkes one of their members have all made contributions for the total discharge of that Gentleman's debts.
April 17. Late last night advices were received that Gibraltar is taken by the French and Spaniards; and it is absolutely certain that at 12 o'clock, the same night, Count de Chatelet (the French Ambassador) set out suddenly for Paris.
Extract of a letter from Nice, March 23. "The crew of a vessel arrived from Corsica relate that the national regiments formed in that isle deserted all on their march to their respective garrisons, and carried with them their arms. It is no longer doubted but the republick of Venice intend opening the campaign as soon as possible with 16 ships of war, which have just been fitted out in that port, besides several other large vessels and marine forces, which are already at Corfu, under the command of their Captain General."
Mess. PURDIE & DIXON, GENTLEMEN,
I HAVE lately made a tour through several of the neighbouring provinces, and find the sensible people in them greatly displeased with the Virginians, for not adhering more strictly to the articles of association for non importation. They justly observed that very few Virginians are concerned in trade; to any great extent; that all the profits of trade in this colony centered in Great Britain, being generally carried on by factors, employed by the merchants there; and that by considering the increase and wealth of Glasgow, within these few years past, we readily see what wealth is lost to the colony by the inhabitants not having greater interest in the commerce of the country, inferring from thence that the not importing superfluous commodities would be more generally useful than in any of the other provinces. But, be this as it will, they insisted that we ought to contribute, at least equally, to the reestablishment of American liberty; and if some prudent steps are not taken to regulate importation, in a short time Virginia will be remarkable, only, for resolving.
HEARTS of OAK.
Come cheer up, my lads, and your liberty shield, Let no wrong headed statemen induce you to yield; Oppression oppose, servile measures detest! Maintain with your lives what your fathers possess'd. Then rouse up, my lads, and your freedom defend; By firmness and bravery oppose British slavery, Your lives and your fortunes on freedom depend. Should Grafton or Hillsboro', with threatening alarms, Perish to enslave us by acts or by arms, America's sons, in support of their right, All fair means will try, but if urg'd they can fight. Then rouse up, my lads, &c. &c. See! America smiles, from her stately abode, Admitting her sons she applauds with a nod: "My children, she cries, may your blessings increase! On freedom depend all the blessings of peace." Proceed then, my sons, and your freedom defend; With firmness and bravery oppose British slavery, Your dearest connexions on freedom depend.
The above mite is cheerfully contributed by a well-wisher of his country, who call for every person possessed of publick virtue to act with spirit, prudence, and moderation, at this alarming crisis.
Advertisements.
The beautiful high bred horse MARK ANTHONY, near 15 hands high, and remarkable for his swiftness, stands at the Indian Fields , in Charles City county , in order to cover mares at 20 s. the leap; the money to be paid at the stable door. Mark Anthony's sire was Partner, and his dam Septima. Septima's sire was Othello, and her dam Moll Brazen. Moll Brazen's sire was Spark, who belonged to Governor Ogle, and was given to him by Lord Baltimore, who received him as a present from Frederick Prince of Wales. Spark's dam was Miss Colvill.
RUN from the subscriber in Winchester, Virginia , an Irish servant man, by trade a cooper, of the middle size, dark complexion, black hair and eyes, halts, occasioned by a hurt in his heel or ankle, has lost an upper fore tooth on the left side, calls himself JOHN HOLMS (alias Commodore ) writes indifferently. He served as a soldier under General Braddock, as he says, and in other companies, and pretends to have been a prisoner amongst the Indians, was taken on shipboard last summer at the Cove of Cork , and landed at Alexandria , is fond of spirituous liquors, and a remarkable reprobate when drunk. Had on and took with him his common wearing apparel, together with shirts and trousers of country made linen, and a vest of stuff coloured country cloth without sleeves, and some coopers tools. I imagine he will make for a leap, or some of the frontier garrisons. Any person that secures him in any jail, so that I get him again, shall have a reward of THREE POUNDS , or if brought home to me FIVE POUNDS , and reasonable charges. And as he has been treated with great humanity, I hope every person will make it a point to secure to an ungrateful a villain, should he fall in their way.
ROBERT RUTHERFORD.