The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1773-03-11 00:00:00

It requires no great Depth of political Discernment to descry the Designs of the Prussian Monarch, by insisting on his Right to give Law to the Dantzickers. That City is, by its Situation, the most eligible Acquisition to the Prussians. A small Force will defend it, against any Invaders. Its Port, though a very good one, can be made useless to an Enemy in a few Hours. There are several Ways of conveying Provisions to it, in Case of a Siege. In short, in the Hands of Frederick, it may be the Key of the North, and its Master (as an able Politician) will always make it the Interest of all the neighbouring Powers to continue his Friend.
November 20. Letters from Paris advise that Orders have been sent to Brest and Rochfort to build there several large Men of War, from sixty to ninety Guns, with the greatest Expedition.
We hear that a quadruple Alliance is negotiating, and will soon be seen in the North, to the Surprise of all Europe.
Extract of a Letter from the Hague, November 13. "Letters from Vienna advise that a Conspiracy was lately formed in the Provinces of Poland allotted to the House of Austria, which would probably have been attended with very fatal Consequences, if it had not been timely discovered; and as several of the Polish Nobles are suspected to have been concerned in it, some of them have been taken up and confined till they can take their Trials."
November 21. The People of Paris are in the greatest Consternation at the Confinement of the Prince of Conti, and the Court are as much astonished at their bold Declaration in Behalf of his Highness. In short, every dreadful Consequence is to be expected from this Imprisonment. What with the Discontent of the Poor, for the Want of Food, and the Contempt of the Nobles to the Court, nothing is expected in France but a civil War. The Haughtiness of Madam Barre, and the Insolence of the King, will at last involve them in every melancholy Distress that Luxury, Vice, and Rage, can raise against them.
It is very strongly reported that a neighbouring Court is preparing a very formidable Squadron at Toulon, which we are assured is intended for the Levant very early in the ensuing Spring.
The Spaniards, we are assured, were never known to be so active as at the present Period, in fortifying their Settlements, increasing the Number of their Shipping and Forces both naval and military; but nothing can be apprehended in a hostile Way by this Country, so long as our present obsequious Ministry remain in Office.
Yesterday Lord Mansfield was sent for to St. James's, and had a private Conference with his Majesty.
Captain Wilkinson, of the Winchelsea Frigate, has received uncommon Insults from the States of Algiers. The Behaviour of the Dey is represented to our Court, but it is not expected that we shall even resent the Insolence of Savages.
The Moors have already begun the Attack of Ceuta; they opened the Cannonade at the Dawn of Day, and the Fire continued very brisk till Noon, when it suddenly ceased. The Occasion is not known, and when the Port left Spain they had not renewed the Attack.
By a Vessel from Dunkirk we learn that some of the most eminent of the French Engineers were there, taking Depositions of the State of the Harbour and Fortifications, by Order from Paris.
It is said that should an Union be effected between this Country and Ireland the latter would be greater Gainers on the Occasion, as all the Pensions in general would be dissolved.
Last Thursday, at a Meeting of the Royal Society, several curious Papers were read. Sir John Pringle, Baronet, was adjudged to succeed to the high Honour of Presidency. Viscount Mahon, a near Relation of Earl Stanhope, and Humphrey Jackson, of Great Tower Hill, Esquire, were admitted Members.
Extract of a Letter from Berlin, November 6. "The King, willing to encourage and extend the Commerce of his Subjects, granted a Patent the 4th of October for the Establishment of an Association, or a Company of Maritime Commerce, which will be composed of two Thousand four Hundred Actions each, valued at five Hundred Crowns, which will make a fund of twelve Hundred Thousand Crowns; and to encourage his Subjects and Foreigners to interest themselves in and take these Actions, his Majesty has taken seven Eighths of them (two Thousand one Hundred Actions) for his own Account, which make a Capital of one Million and fifty Thousand Crowns."
We hear from Dublin that the new Lord Lieutenant, the Day after his Arrival, gave Orders to put a Stop to the Exportation of all Kinds of Provisions; in Consequence of which some Dutch and French Vessels, waiting for loading at Corke and Kinsale, had been obliged to return home in Ballast.
Advice is just received from Lisbon, says a Correspondent, that the Duties on Wines exported to England are just taken off, as also the Duty on all English Goods imported there. The Duty on Wines to America still continues.
It is confidently said that the French have actually fifteen Thousand of their best Troops cantoned along their Coast, opposite to England; and that they continue to augment the same, but with what View is not known.
Extract of a Letter from Paris, November 13. "Some Gentlemen of Normandy have been arrested at their own Houses and sent to the Bastille, or to Vicennes, for it is not certainly known which. Among those who are known are the Marquis de Courcay, the Marquis de Try, and the Marquis de Monpeuse; Mr. du Fosse, Counsellor of the Great Chamber, and Mr. de Belbeuf, late Attorney General; besides Mr. le Maître, the celebrated Advocate before mentioned. Twenty five Members of that Parliament, who were at first banished into the Country, have since received Letters de Cachet, which direct them to go farther off. The Volunteers of Soubise are ordered into Normandy, to prevent the Disturbances that are apprehended there."
By the last Letters from Warsaw, we are informed of the Death of the famous Count Potocki, who was the Life of the Confederates.
It is said to have been determined, by the Board of Green Cloth, that the Verge of the Court shall in future screen no Debtor who owes more than twenty Pounds to one Person.
The supposed new Comet, which first appeared about three Weeks ago, and so much blazoned by the modern Astronomers, proves now, it is said, to be nothing more than the Star Venus, which has lately made its Evening Appearance, and at first shone with unusual Brilliancy.
A true State of the Number and Quality of the Manufactures at present carrying on in all the British Colonies, we are informed, is now preparing to be laid before an august Assembly.
The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor has given Orders for the proper Officers to attend every Market Day at Smithfield, to prevent the iniquitous Practice of the monied Butchers, who come often and purchase thirty Head of Cattle at eleven Pounds a Piece, and then sell them by one or two with an additional Price of five or six Pounds.
We hear that the Board of Admiralty will, for the future, be held three Times in a Week, for the quicker Despatch of Business.
A Correspondent from Glasgow says it is feared that the late Failures, with other Difficulties, will materially affect the Cambric, Thread, Hose, and other Manufactures in that Country.
Yesterday the Earl and Countess of Bute arrived in South Audley Street, from Luton Hoop, in Bedfordshire.
A Correspondent informs us there is no Truth in the Report of a great Performance being reconciled to the Marriage of the Duke of Gloucester.
November 25. Sunday his Majesty's Schooner the Sultana arrived at Spithead, Excludes from Admiral Montague, and brings Advice that the People of Rhode Island are so exasperated at the Restrictions he has laid on their Smuggling that they will not allow an Officer of any of the King's Ships to come on Shore. They insist that Men of War have no Authority to search their Ships, or interrupt their Trade, and threaten to burn all that the Admiral stations for that Purpose.
The Disputes subsisting between the Danes and Swedes are likely to be amicably adjusted, by the Interposition of a certain Court, contrary to the Desire of the Bourbon Family.
We learn from Madrid that the Spanish Ministry have at last granted Permission to the English Ships of War to enter into the Ports of Spain.
Yesterday, by a Decree of the Court of Chancery, Mr. Wilkes was ordered to pay Costs to the Orphan Charity at Aylesbury for the Money he had detained of it. What a Pity this Man lost his Election in the City! How glorious would it have been to have had the Lord Mayor of London Nominated for a petty Larceny Rogue upon Record!
Mr. Alderman Crosby (says a Correspondent) can by no Means be charged with the high Crime of Ingratitude to his political Creator, Mr. Wilkes. In his Silver Cup Silver Cup , Mr. Wilkes's brazen Face is not forgotten. It is engraved on the Lid, and two little Wilkes (modestly called Sayrs ) form the Handles.
November 26. The Lady Bacchus, Lemont, from Jamaica to London, was, on the 23d Instant, at Night, totally lost near Dungeness; the Captain and Crew, except a Negro, were drowned.
The Premier appears much chagrined at present, on Account of some powerful Personages having joined the Minority.
Last Night the Copy of a certain Speech was despatched by a Courier, who was in Waiting for that Purpose, to the Court of Versailles; and this Night Copies of it will be sent to all the Courts in Europe.
Yesterday a Messenger was despatched to the Queen of Denmark, at Zell, in Germany.
A Correspondent desires us to inform the Publick that the present high Price of Provisions may easily be accounted for, when one Merchant at Bristol exports every Year thirty five Hundred Tons of Chees, amounting to one Hundred Thousand Pounds.
We are informed a Gentleman in the Admiralty has lately received a Present from a Friend in North America, being the Body of an American Princess, supposed to have been buried upwards of four Hundred Years ago; it was enveloped in a Goat's Skin, and appears as fresh as if buried but yesterday.
November 27. The Prince of Wales and the Bishop of Osnaburg, attended by the Earl of Holdernesse, were at the House of Peers yesterday.
Yesterday Mr. Sheriff Lewes went up to the House of Commons, to present the City Petition for the Importation of Corn. He was accompanied by four Aldermen, and eight Common Councilmen.
November 28. Yesterday the Address of the House of Peers was presented at St. James's, by a Committee appointed for that Purpose, who were most graciously received.
On Monday next the House of Commons will present their Address of Thanks to his Majesty for his most gracious Speech from the Throne.
The House of Commons broke up yesterday at four o'Clock, and we hear will meet this Day to choose thirteen Persons by Ballot, as a secret Committee, to take the Affairs of the East India Company into Consideration.
Extract of a private Letter from Copenhagen, November 20. "The Post which arrived here this Day from Stockholm brought Advice that his Swedish Majesty had been let upon and shot at twice, but happily escaped unhurt."
The Transition of the Affairs of a great Company into the Hands of Government is inevitable, and the following are the Conditions upon which that important Measure will take Place. That Government will assume all the territorial Possessions of the Company into their own Protection, and suffer the commercial Trade to remain in their Hands.
Politicians predict the Destruction of Great Britain from the Acquisition of India. It is remarkable that the most powerful Empires upon Earth have been ruined by the Riches of that Quarter. It will not, therefore, be surprising if Great Britain should also receive her first Wounds from thence.
Amongst the various Reasons which are assigned for the early assembling of Parliament, the Naturalization of certain great Foreigners is not the least considerable, whose Fortunes and Connections promise to be highly beneficial to this Kingdom.
Orders are issued from the War Office for all the Regiments in Ireland to be immediately raised to their full Complement.
The Lord Baltimore, Captain Mitchell, from Baltimore, in Maryland, with Tobacco, for London, arrived safe at the Mother Bank the 26th Instant, and failed from thence for the River. She has had a long and tedious Passage, with very violent Hurricanes, which obliged the Captain to throw a Part of her Cargo overboard, to keep her from sinking, she being in very great Danger.
Extract of a Letter from Hamburg. "It is now certain there will be a speedy War between the Swedes and Danes. The former have renewed their old Demand of passing the Sound without Toll; which certainly cannot but be looked upon as a dishonourable Badge of Subjection upon all Nations, for all are obliged to pay it. The English might as well demand a Toll for a Passage into the Mediterranean, because they are in Possession of Gibraltar. It is likely to become a very serious Matter to the Danes, who cannot in Honour submit to a Demand which would be followed by a similar one from all other Countries, who would have full as much a Pretence for making it; and it would, besides, be a very great Diminution to their already paltry Revenue."
Extract of another Letter from Hamburg. "The King of Sweden, to divert the Attention of his Subjects from the new Charge in their Government, is resolved upon a War with Denmark. He first demands a free Passage through the Sound without a Toll. If that Demand is complied with, he has other Pretences full as ready; for Princes are never without a Budget of them. However, he has more than Memorials on his Side, for he has actually in Readiness the Regiments that are to enforce them, the Names of which are all given in our Gazette of this Day. We are all in the greatest Spirits here; for, like the Hollanders, we fatten by the Broils of our Neighbours. We are only fearful, from the defenceless State of Denmark, that it will become too easy a Conquest to the Swedes."
Extract of a Letter from the Hague, November 4. "Letters from the Lower Elbe advise that the King of Prussia and the Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin are in Treaty for the Exchange of the Duty possessed by the latter for the Dutchy of Cleves, but it seems to be an Affair of too great Consequence to be soon adjusted."
A naval Correspondent insists that Spain has not forty Men of War of the Line, nor is it possible she can double man such a Fleet at present.
December 3. They write from Kilkenny, in Ireland, that a considerable Starchmaker there is about to introduce a new Method of manufacturing that Commodity from Potatoes, which will not only lessen the Price, but also prevent the unnecessary Consumption of many Thousand Quarters of the best Wheat annually.
December 5. Lord Chatham, in a Letter to a noble Friend this Week, has these Words: "I do not think I shall attend the House this Session, unless some extraordinary Step of Administration should render it indispensably necessary."
Yesterday the Lord Mayor attended the Levee at St. James's, for the first Time since his Lordship entered upon the Mayoralty.
December 6. They write from Venice that the Republick are equipping a Squadron of Men of War, to put to Sea early next Spring, to watch the Motions of the Turks.
The latter End of last Week Doctor Solander, and Mr. Bankes, arrived in Town from their late Excursion to Iceland, and the Western Islands of Scotland. They have brought home with them a Variety of curious Plants, &c. two Boxes of which have been presented to his Majesty, and are removed to Kew.
December 8. The Queen will not appear any more in the Drawing Room till after her Lying-in.
They write from Gibraltar that the Moors are fitting out a powerful Force at Tetuan and Larache, at which last Place they have eighteen armed Vessels, ten of them from eighteen to forty Guns each. These Letters add, that they have suddenly withdrawn their Troops from before Ceuta, where their Loss is said to exceed fourteen Thousand killed and wounded.
The Merchants, we hear, intend to make Application to obtain a Bounty on the Importation of Corn from North America.
A Stop is expected to be put to the Exportation of Corn from North America to France, Spain, Portugal, or the Mediterranean Markets, excepting to Gibraltar and Minorca.
A Stop is also intended to be put to the foreign Exportation of any Kind of Provisions from Ireland, excepting to the British Colonies in America and the West Indies.
December 9. Letters from Lisbon advise that the Portuguese Court have lately broke with the Spaniards, concerning the Misconduct of the Spanish Governors in South America, and ill Treatment of the Portuguese Subjects; but that it was forbid being publicly talked of, by the Court.
They write from Corunna that three additional Battalions of Spanish Infantry have been ordered to reinforce the Troops which are now employed in carrying on some new Fortifications at Ferrol, which are to be finished with all Expedition.
The States General have lately presented a Memorial to our Court concerning the Treaty now negotiating between our Court, the Russians, and the Republick of Venice, which has greatly retarded the Conclusion thereof.
December 10. It is said that seventeen Thousand and seventy Men, including fifteen Hundred and twenty two Invalids, will be employed for the Land Service for the Year ensuing, and that sixteen Thousand eight Hundred and ninety five Pounds will be granted for defraying the Charge of maintaining the said Men.
Yesterday a Patent passed the great Seal constituting and appointing Edward Hay, Esquire, Governor of the Island of Barbados, in the Room of the late Admiral Spry.
December 11. From Genoa they write that they had Advice from Spain that Orders had been sent to all the Dockyards of that Kingdom, and to those belonging to Spain in South America, to hasten the Construction of the new Men of War on the Stocks, and for putting the old ones into thorough Repair.
The Flame of War, which was lately expected to break out on the great Continent, has now passed over to Italy, which many People expect soon to blaze out. It is certain that the Court of Versailles has peremptorily demanded of his Sardinian Majesty what Part he will take in the approaching Bustle, and the King of Naples is now scouring the two Sicilies for Recruits.
December 12. It is talked that Terms have been at last proposed, through the Mediation of Great Britain, to the three great Powers who
have seized upon different Parts of Poland; which, it is thought, will induce them to withdraw the Forces, and be the Means of restoring Unanimity and Peace to that distracted Nation.
Within these few Days eighty Thousand Pounds have been remitted to Holland from a capital House in the City, being one Half Year's Interest of Dutch Stock in our Funds.
We are assured, by Letters from a neighbouring Country, that such is the dreadful State of their Finances, as well as their domestic Affairs, that they are on the actual Eve of a civil War. Madam de Barré carries it with so high a Hand that not a Favour can be obtained, nor an Appointment filled up, but through her Interest and Intercession, except in the Chancellor's Department, who is her declared Enemy, and will neither have any Concern with her or her Friends.
December 14. It is determined by Administration not to suffer the Dantzickers to be oppressed by his Prussian Majesty, and the English Consul has acquainted the City with the same.
December 15. Yesterday several Vessels, loaded with Wheat, arrived in the River.
Extract of a Letter from Chatham, December 15. "Our Artificers are fully employed in building and repairing the following Ships in this Dockyard: The Formidable of ninety Guns, the Alfred (just begun) of seventy four, the Stirling Castle of sixty four, and the Roebuck of forty four; building. The Ruffel of seventy four, under slight Repair; the Ramillies of seventy four, and Augusta of sixty four, under a thorough Repair."
December 17. By Letters from Turin we learn that his Sardinian Majesty is now confined to his Chamber, at the Palace of Veneria, and is thought to be past Recovery.
Some Persons of Distinction have lately been seized at Petersburg, on Suspicion of a Design against the Empress.
December 19. Yesterday there was a Privy Council at St. James's, when Lord Clive was sworn in Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the County of Montgomery, in the Room of the late Lord Powis.
They write from Dantzick that the Agents of his Prussian Majesty are indefatigable in settling the Affairs of that City. The English and Dutch Merchants have sent a Petition to Berlin, an Answer to which is to be returned the 10th of next Month.
ST. JAMES'S, December 5. The King has been pleased to grant the Dignity of a Baronet of Great Britain unto James Wright, Esquire, Governor of his Majesty's Province of Georgia, in America.
PHILADELPHIA, February 15.
By Captain Timmons we hear that a Vessel from St. Vincent's was arrived at St. Eustatia, a few Days before he failed, the Captain of which informed him that there were upwards of three Thousand Negroes employed in cutting a Road across the Island, in Order to pen in the Indians; that the Troop under the Command of Colonel Dalrymple had taken Possession of two of their Towns, and all their Crafts; and that the Troops are very sickly, and upwards of a Thousand were in the Hospital at St. Vincent's.
WILLIAMSBURG, March 11.
To his Excellency the Right Honourable JOHN Earl of DUNMORE, his Majesty's Lieutenant and Governor General of the Colony and Dominion of VIRGINIA, and Vice Admiral of the same:
The humble ADDRESS of the COUNCIL.
May it please your Excellency, WE his Majesty's dutiful and loyal Subjects, the COUNCIL of Virginia, now met in General Assembly, offer our grateful Thanks to your Lordship for your Speech at the Opening of this Session. The alarming and rumourous Progress of Forgery evinces the Necessity of convening us at this Period. On so important an Occasion, as one wherein the Credit of the Colony is so much concerned, we judge, with your Lordship, that the Voice of the People by their Representatives, and every Branch of the Legislature, can only apply a Cure to this political Malady.
From the Experience we had of your Administration at our last Meeting, we found in you a ready Disposition to concur in every Measure, and assent to every Law, recommended to your Consideration. In our Recess, we have seen your Vigilance employed in the Execution of the Laws, by pursuing every Step for the Detection of the ingenious and therefore more dangerous Artifices of the Forgers of our Paper Money. Your Lordship's Activity in this Instance commands our warmest Acknowledgements, as Members of a Community whose Fortunes might have been deeply affected by the Circulation of a base Medium, vile in its Nature, as destructive in its Consequences.
In the Maintenance, Protection, and Advancement of this Colony, your Lordship may ever rely on our zealous Co-operation; and we beg Leave to assure you, when we consult its Prosperity, we do not lose Sight of that of the Mother Country, esteeming, with your Lordship, their Interests to be inseparable.
To which his Excellency was pleased to return the following Answer:
GENTLEMEN, AFTER offering you my most sincere Acknowledgement for this fresh Mark of your Goodness, permit me to assure you that nothing can give me greater Pleasure than the Thoughts of having acted in such a Manner as to merit your Approbation, which cannot fail of being extremely flattering to me.
The ADDRESS of the HOUSE of BURGESSES to the GOVERNOUR.
My Lord, WE, his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Burgesses of Virginia, now met in General Assembly, beg Leave to return your Excellency our unfeigned Thanks for your kind Speech at the Opening of this Session.
It gives us much Concern to find that our Paper Currency, which we hoped had been effectually guarded, hath been forged in so ingenious and masterly a Manner as to render the Counterfeits of it the most dangerous and alarming. The debasing of our Gold and Silver Coin, also, we consider as the greatest Addition to our Calamities; but it affords us much Consolation to be informed by your Excellency that Mischiefs of such extensive and destructive Influence have been so happily and seasonably discovered, and that the Authors of them are likely to be brought to exemplary and condign Punishment. We beseech your Excellency to accept our grateful Acknowledgements for giving us so early an Opportunity of deliberating on a Subject of such infinite Importance to the Credit of this Colony. We will take the Matter immediately under our most serious Consideration, and flatter ourselves that in the Discussion of this, and every other Subject which may come before us, we shall give your Excellency the most convincing Proofs of that Coolness and Candour which a proper Regard to our own Honour will incline us to upon all Occasions.
Sensible as we are, my Lord, of the reciprocal Benefits which redound to our Mother Country and this Colony from their intimate Connection with each other, we should be wanting to ourselves, and the Duty we owe to our Constituents, did we not consider their Interest as inseparable. We cannot therefore but receive great Satisfaction and Pleasure from your Lordship's Assurances of your Concurrence with us in enacting such Laws as may be thought advantageous and conducive to the Happiness of both Countries.
To which his Excellency was pleased to return the following Answer:
Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the HOUSE of BURGESSES, I RETURN you my most hearty Thanks for your very obliging Address. It gives me much Pleasure that you propose taking immediately under your most serious Consideration the Subject for which you are now assembled, and I make no Doubt but your Wisdom will suggest such a Plan as will relieve this Country from the very unfortunate Situation in which you now find it.
On Monday last it was resolved in the Honourable the House of Burgesses, that in Order to relieve the People from their present Distress, occasioned by the Circulation of counterfeit Paper Money, the Treasurer ought to be empowered to borrow Specie to redeem the Emissions of 1769 and 1771; and, if he cannot effect the same in a short Time, that those Notes now in Circulation ought to be called in, and exchanged for others, to be issued, the most guarded that may be against Counterfeits, to circulate until a proper Paper can be imported for a farther Exchange of such as not then be otherwise redeemed.
The Honourable the House of Burgesses, upon the Memorial of Robert Bolling, Esquire, of Buckingham, have directed the Treasurer to pay to that Gentleman fifty Pounds Sterling yearly, for the Term of five Years, in Order to enable him to prosecute his Scheme of cultivating Grapes, for the making of Wine; which he is convinced, from Experiments, may be propagated in the upper Parts of the Country, with singular Advantage to those possessed of such mountainous Lands as are scarcely fit for any other Purpose. He has engaged a Foreigner, thoroughly acquainted with the Business, in all its Branches, to instruct him therein; which we heartily with Success to, as it appears to be an Object of the greatest probable Utility to this Colony.
BENEVOLUS came too late for this Week's Paper, but will certainly have a Place in our next,

IN the Night of Saturday the 27th Ultimo the Store kept by the Subscriber, in the Absence of Mr. George Mitchell, Merchant of this Place, was broke open and robbed of a Drawer containing CASH, a BILL of SALE from George Mitchell to Colonel Fielding Lewis, sundry other Papers, and the under mentioned TOBACCO NOTES; also a Cafe with MONEY SCALES and WEIGHTS, and a GARNE F NECKLACE set in Gold, like open Rofes, valued at about twenty Guineas.
Table with 5 columns: Warehouse, When received, Marks, No., Gross, Tare, Net. It lists tobacco notes from various warehouses like Frederickburg, Royston's, Dixon's, Morton's, and Conway's.
Upon making out a proper List of the above Tobacco, in Frederickburg, Royston's, and Dixon's, the Notes have been got from the different Inspectors; Lists of Tobacco on the other Warehouses have also been sent, and the Notes are expected of Course; of which the Publick are desired to take Notice, as well for the particular Safety of Individuals as for the Detection of the Villains, whose Education being probably of a Degree with their Humanity, they may be ignorant enough to expose the above Contents, wherein they cannot fail of being detected, after this timely Notice. and to which the Publick are again entreated to pay due Regard. If any Persons, having a just Suspicion tending to discover the above Robbery, or have got any of the above Contents ignorantly, or otherwise, their signifying the same as soon as may be shall be duly acknowledged by
JOHN MUNRO.
I HAVE lately received a Power of Attorney from Messrs. John Thompson and Walter King, of Bristol, Merchants, and surviving Partners of Tarpley, Thompson, and Company, to collect the Debts due that Company, with Directions to commence Suits, without Loss of Time, against those Debtors who delay Payment. The Situation of this Concern (which has proved an unfortunate one to those Gentlemen) makes a speedy Settlement thereof absolutely necessary. This Consideration, therefore, as well as the very long Indulgence the Debtors have already received, will, it is hoped, induce them to make speedy Payment; if not, I shall most certainly observe my Instructions, however disagreeable they may prove to the Persons concerned.
(2) JOHN TAZEWELL.
MR. PRATT, PORTRAIT PAINTER.
Lately from ENGLAND and IRELAND, But last from NEW YORK,
HAS brought with him to Williamsburg a small but very neat Collection of PAINTINGS, which are now exhibiting at Mrs. Vobe's, near the Capitol; among which are, first, a very good Copy of Corregio's ST. JEROME, esteemed to be one of the best Pictures in Italy, and ranks next to RAPHAEL'S TRANSFIGURATION. Secondly, VENUS and CUPID, the only Copy from an original Picture by Mr. West, whose rising Reputation has already done great Honour to America. Thirdly, a HOLY FAMILY. Fourthly, a Copy of Guido's JUPITER and EUROPA, from the Original in the Collection of a Gentleman who travelled through Italy with Lord Northampton. Fifthly, FLORA, a Companion to the above. Sixthly, a very fine FRUIT PIECE.
The above Pictures are to be disposed of as they hang up at Mrs. Vobe's, by Way of Auction, to the highest Bidder, on Saturday Morning the 13th Instant, at eleven o'Clock, as Mr. Pratt intends to leave the City on Tuesday next, on his Way to Jamaica, if no farther Business should offer by that Time.
FALMOUTH, February 17, 1773.
A CAUSE having arose to prevent Mr. Francis Hay from continuing the Direction of Messrs. William Cuninghame and Company's Business at Dumfries, he is succeeded therein by Mr. William Cuninghame, to whom, or to his Order, all Persons indebted for Transactions with the deceased Mr. John Neilson, or Mr. Hay, on Account of the said Company, are desired to pay the respective Sums they owe. The Business will be continued to the former Extent, and the usual Indulgence of Credit allowed.
JAMES ROBISON.
FREDERICKSBURG, February 24, 1773.
WHEREAS some of those indebted on the 1st of December last, I give them this last Notice, that all and every Account not paid off, or a good Part of it, before the 20th of April, or our May Fair at the farthest, or settled by Bond or other Specialty before that Time, will most certainly be put into the Hands of a Lawyer, without Respect of Persons. Unavoidable Reasons will oblige me to this, which I shall probably in Time acquaint them with. Those who may be put to Trouble and Expense cannot now blame me for Want of Notice.
I have sold Part of the Goods now on Hand, but so as not to disturb the Store, and have still a large Assortment on Hand, which I will sell by Wholesale or Retail, on the Terms formerly advertised. Any Person who will purchase the Whole shall have them on Terms which they themselves will say are very low and reasonable.
(1) GEORGE MITCHELL.
THE Inspectors at Page's and Crutchfield's Warehouses take this early Opportunity of informing the Publick that no Tobacco will be shipped by them from their respective Warehouses unless the Inspection Money accompanies the Notes or Orders. Their frequent Disappointments from Shippers of Tobacco oblige them to insert this Advertisement.
(4) TINSLEY & CLARKE. CLARKE & WINGFIELD. N. B. Inspection, six Shillings and four Pence a Hoghead.
SURRY, February 23, 1773.
THE Commanding Officers of the southern District are requested to appoint their General Musters upon the following Days, when they will be waited on by their most obedient Servant,
Table with 3 columns: Location, Day, Date. Lists musters for Surry, Prince George, Chesterfield, Cumberland, Prince Edward, Amelia, Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Sussex, Southampton, Isle of Wight, Nansemond, Norfolk County, and Princess Anne.
To be SOLD, on Friday the 12th Instant (March)
ALL the personal Estate of Captain James Patterson, late of Portsmouth, deceased, consisting of Half the Brigantine Friendship and her Cargo, as the now lies in the Harbour of Norfolk, and sundry other Articles. Her Cargo consists of red and white Oak Hoghead Staves and Heading, Bread, and Flower. All Persons indebted to the said Estate by Bond, or otherwise, are desired to make immediate Payment; and those who have any Demands against the same are requested to make them known, that they may be adjusted, and paid according to their Dignity, by
(2) MARSDEN, MAXWELL, & Co. N. B. The other Half of the said Vessel and Cargo will be sold at the same Time.
GLOUCESTER County, February 22, 1773.
RUN away from Urbanna, on Monday the 8th Instant, a Convict Servant named JOHN WOOD, an Englishman, by Trade a Bricklayer, about twenty two Years old, about five Feet eight Inches high, a thick well set Fellow, of a brown Complexion, speaks very plain, is very full faced, and pitted with the Smallpox, wore, when he went away, long brown Hair tied behind, with his Foretop turned up, had a Piece of black Silk round his Neck, in the Manner of a Neckcloth, a dark coloured Duffel Frock Coat with white Metal Buttons, a light yellowish Waistcoat, Leather Breeches, white Yarn Hose, a fine Hat Half worn, with a Knee Garter buckled round the Crown, and a Piece of Knee Garter sewed on for a Loop to the Button; he also took with him a white Shirt, and an Osabrug one, with sundry other Clothes which he stole, namely, two Pair of Shoes; one Pair of white Worsted Hose, one Pair of gray Ditto, a white Shirt, a light coloured Wilton Cloth Coat Half worn, and a striped Silk Waistcoat. Whoever apprehends him, and brings him to the Subscriber, in Gloucester County, or to Mr. George Lorimer at Urbanna, shall have FIFTEEN DOLLARS Reward, and be paid all reasonable Expenses.
(2) JOHN HOWLET.
TAKEN up, in Amelia, a white HORSE about four Feet four or five Inches high, and branded on the near Shoulder with something resembling a Heart. Potted, and appraised to four Pounds.
WILLIAM FITZ GERRALD.
HALIFAX, North Carolina, February 25, 1773.
HAVING been informed, by sundry Gentlemen of Veracity, that a Report was propagated in Virginia highly injurious to the Character of the deceased Mr. James Milner, late Attorney in this Place, importing that a large Quantity of counterfeit Treasury Notes of that Colony, some signed and others unsigned, was found in his House after his Death; and although I am convinced that only the credulous and malicious part of Mankind could put any Faith in so scandalous a Story, Mr. Milner, in all his Transactions, having ever approved himself a Man of Honour and Integrity, and did Credit to his Profession as a Lawyer: Yet as no Person, however virtuous (especially if he be of superior Abilities, and rising in the World) but is liable to the Shafts of Envy and Malice, I think it my Duty, as a Friend and Intimate of the Deceased, and in Justice to his Memory, to declare, in this publick Manner, that I had all the Keys of the Deeds in which his private Papers lay, for several Days before his Death, and that after his Decease I searched every Place in his House, to discover what Money he was possessed of, in the Presence of the Reverend William Willie, of Sussex County, Virginia, as well as sundry Gentlemen of the first Character in this Place; and that I have never yet found, in his House, or among his Papers, any Thing that bore the least Similitude to the Virginia Treasury Notes, either signed or unsigned, counterfeit or good, nor a counterfeit Bill of any Kind, except forty five Shillings Proclamation Money of this Province, which appears to have been received from one Irvine, in Guilford County, by Mr. Edward Stabler of Petersburg, Virginia, or by Mr. Milner on his Account. Of the Truth of the above I am ready to make Oath to, when required.
ANDREW MILLER.
SUSSEX County, March 5, 1773.
AT the Desire of Mr. Andrew Miller, I attended him while he searched every Desk, Scrutoire, Press, and Box, in Mr. Milner's House, and examined every Paper and Pocket Book where it was likely any Money might be; having heard that Mr. Milner had, not long before his Death, about five Hundred Pounds by him, great Part of which, it was said, was Gold. But no Paper Money was found, except two Parcels of Carolina Proc. little more than forty Pounds, which it seems he had received on Account of some of his Clients; not one Shilling Virginia Currency. I do therefore affirm what Mr. Miller has said to be true; but that Gentleman needs not any Testimony of mine to the Truth of what he says, he being of undoubted Veracity and Integrity; as was, also, Mr. Milner. This Search was made within two Hours after Breath left the Body of the deceased worthy Gentleman.
WILLIAM WILLIE.
THE next MEETING of the Subscribers to the Fund for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of Clergymen is to be held on Saturday the 1st of May next. Officers for the present Year are the Reverend John Cumm, Treasurer; Reverend Samuel Klug, William Bland, William Willie, Henry Skyring, James Maury Fontaine, and Thomas Lundie, Trustees; the Reverend William Harrison Morning Preacher, and the Reverend Price Davis Afternoon Preacher.
JACOB BRUCE, Clerk.
WANTED, In ST. MARY'S Parish, CAROLINE County, AN ORGANIST.
Any Person properly qualified, upon Application, will meet with due Encouragement. JAMES MILLER, JOHN BUCKNER, Churchwardens.
GOOCHLAND, March 2, 1773.
AS I intend to leave the Colony in a few Weeks, I must entreat those that have Accounts unsettled on the Books kept by me for Messrs. Henderson, McCaul, and Company, Merchants in Glasgow, to come and settle them by Bond, or otherwise, without Loss of Time. At my Departure the Books and Vouchers for the Debts will be put in the Hands of Mr. William Mitchell, Merchant in Richmond, to collect.
ROBERT BIRKMYRE.
THE noted Horse OLD PARTNER stands at my Plantation in Goochland, and will cover Mares at five Pounds the Season each Mare. I have very good Pasturage, but will not be answerable for any Mares that may be stolen, or stray away.
THOMAS M. RANDOLPH.
THE MATERIALS saved from the Ship Donald, James Pafteur Master, from Glasgow, stranded on Hog Island, near Cape Charles, will be sold at Norfolk, for ready Money, at publick Vendue, on Saturday the 20th Instant (March) for the Benefit of the Owners or Ensurers.
(2) ARCHDEACON & INGRAM, V. M.
A QUANTITY OF DAMAGED GOODS, saved out of the Ship Phoenix, John Lamont Master, from Glasgow, will be sold, for the Benefit of the Owners or Ensurers, on the 22nd of this Instant (March) at the House of Mr. Caleb Upshaw in Accomack, and on the next Day a farther Quantity at the House of Captain John Calburn.
(2) EDWARD KER. N. B. The Goods remaining in the Ship, as also the Hull of the Ship, will be sold on the 22nd of March, at the said Upshaw's.
To be SOLD, on Wednesday the 5th of May next, ABOUT ten LOTS OF LAND, situated in the Borough of Norfolk, and on the main River, one of which is erected a Brick GRIST WINDMILL in good Repair. One Half the Purchase Money to be paid on the 23rd of July 1774, and the Remainder on the 23rd of July 1775, upon Bond, with good Security, carrying Interest. The Lands, &c. will be shown at any Time before the Day of Sale by applying to Mr. John Smith.
(tf) THOMAS TALBOT. JOSEPH HUTCHINGS.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Stafford
County, on the 31st of January last, a Convict Servant named THOMAS PHILIPS, alias HAMILTON, about twenty five Years old, about five Feet four Inches high, thick made, wears long brown Hair tied behind, has a broad smooth Face, fair Complexion, thick Legs, is by Trade a Tailor, and says he was born in Hertfordshire; he had on, when he went away, a light blue German Serge Coat with a Velvet Cape, red Jacket and Breeches, a fine Felt Hat, two Shirts, one plain and the other ruffled, Country made Shoes, and white Thread or Yarn Stockings. He is very talkative in Company, addicted to Swearing and Drinking, and it is probable he may have a Woman with him about nineteen Years of Age, of a thin long Vilage, and a little above his Stature. Whoever brings the said Servant to me, Tailor near Boyd's Hole, or secures him so that I may get him again, shall have FIVE POUNDS if taken in Virginia, and if out thereof EIGHT POUNDS.
(1) WILLIAM THOMSON.
RUN away from the Subscriber, about the
End of October last, a Negro Fellow named ANTHONY, about five Feet nine or ten Inches high, about twenty five or thirty Years of Age, with a Scar on his Face, a remarkable curly Look, speaks fast, and is of a most quarrelsome Disposition; he carried with him a Variety of Clothes, for which Reason I cannot describe his Dress. Some Years ago he lived about Norfolk, where he is well known, and I believe was the Property of Messrs. James Campbell and Company. Masters of Vessels are forbid, at their peril, to carry him out of the Colony. Whoever delivers him to Mr. Alexander Banks at Rocky Ridge, or to me in Cumberland, shall have FIVE POUNDS Reward.
BENAJAH THOMPSON.
GOOCHLAND, March 9, 1773.
RUN away from the Subscriber, near two
Years ago, a likely Negro Man named JUBA, about five Feet nine or ten Inches high, between twenty five and thirty Years of Age, squints much, is an African by Birth, and speaks bad English. He is supposed to be lurking about Mattox's Warehouse in the Northern Neck, where he formerly lived with Mr. Archibald Bryce, or Hebb's Hole, in Essex. Whoever delivers him to me shall have TWENTY POUNDS Reward, and TEN POUNDS for committing him to any Jail within this Colony, so that I get him again.
JOHN BOLLING.
STRAYED, or STOLEN, from Roslin,
near Pokahontas, in Chesterfield County, on the 2d of November last, two WORK HORSES, one of them a large light Gray, about four Feet ten or eleven Inches high, a natural Pacer, but do not recollect whether he had any Brand; the other is a middle sized dark Roan, branded on the near Shoulder TR in a Piece, and may be known by a remarkable Wart on his Breast. They had both hanging Manes, the Gray a Switch, and the Roan a pretty long Bob Tail. Whoever brings them to me shall have THREE POUNDS Reward, or THIRTY SHILLINGS for either; and if taken up at a Distance, all reasonable Charges paid.
(5)
WILLIAMSBURG, March 11, 1773.
COMMITTED to the publick jail, from
Orange County, a Negro Man named JEFFREY, five Feet six Inches high, about twenty two Years old, pretty black, has a pleasant Countenance, is bow-legged, and such a Stranger to English that he cannot give any Account of either his Owner or the Place from whence he came. It is needless to describe his Dress, as that has undergone many Changes in the County from whence he was brought. The Owner is desired to apply for him, and pay Charges.
(6) PETER PELHAM.
TAKEN up, in Amherst, a STEER of a
pale coloured Red, with a small Piece taken off the upper Part of the End of the right Ear. Potted, and appraised to three Pounds ten Shillings.
(1) JOHN SHEILDS.
TAKEN up, in Henrico, a dark bay MARE about four Feet eight or nine Inches high, six or seven Years old, with a Switch Tail and hanging Mane, trots and paces, and branded on the near Buttock with three Dots. Potted, and appraised to twelve Pounds.
MARY STEWART.
TAKEN up, in Chesterfield, a sorrel MARE about four Feet seven Inches high, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, but no Brand can be discovered. Potted, and appraised to eight Pounds.
(1) DANIEL GILL.
TAKEN up, in Amelia, a red COW with a Crop and Hole in the left Ear, and a Halfmoon and Hole in the right. Potted, and appraised to forty Shillings.
(1) GILES NANCE.
TAKEN up, in Amelia, a sorrel HORSE about thirteen Hands and a Half high, about six Years old, with a Star in his Forehead, a white Spot on one of his Buttocks, and branded on the near Buttock A. Potted, and appraised to six Pounds ten Shillings.
JOHN MITCHELL.
NORFOLK, March 2, 1773.
THE Building of a BRICK WORKHOUSE, two
Stories high, will be let on Thursday the 18th Instant (being Court Day) at which Time the Plan will be shown, and the Terms agreed on, by
(2) JOSEPH HUTCHINGS, MATTHEW PHRIPP, Churchwardens.
PORTSMOUTH, February 25, 1773.
I FIND, on opening the Cask of PEWTER which
I formerly advertised, that it is marked with the ciphered Initials W W, with a Cross under the A. The Owner, on proving his Property, may have it by applying to
JOHN GOODRICH.

***** P O E T S C O R N E R. *****
Thoughts on DIVINE and MORAL SUBJECTS.
T HE Pleasures of the World are Snares, design'd To catch the weak and unexperience'd Mind: Like Nightshade, tempting to the longing Eye, They bid us taste the poisonous Fruit and die; While sage Adversity's severest Blows Relieve the labouring Soul from keener Woes. In Virtue, all true Pleasure lies; From Vice, Content and Comfort flies. Calm and serene the pious Man remains, And smiles secure in Slavery and Chains; Lifted above the Storms of human Life, He pities Vice, and Folly's noisy Strife; Bless'd in himself, he looks beyond the Grave, On him whose Arm is vigorous to save.
Youth is the Season when the Mind Is by headstrong Passion blind; Bless'd is the Fate of those who steer, Through Heaven's bless'd Aid, from Error clear.
The Man who feels the heavenly Prize Must stop his Ears, must shut his Eyes, Lest the Syren Passions bind Infernal Shackles on his Mind; Break through strong Chains, more hard than Steel, With Courage fierce as Lions feel.
The God whose Power directs our Ways, Merits our Wonder, Love, and Praise; To him should all our Thanks ascend, Our first, our best, and dearest Friend.
Why should the Miser, with unceasing Pain, Strive to acquire unsatisfying Gain? Why should the Courtier cringe to get a Place? Why should Dorinda triumph in her Face? Why should mistaken Man a Cloud pursue, Catch at the seeming Good, and flight the true?
Loft and bewild'red in Perdition's Road, Few seek the Presence, great eternal God! Though by thy Power alone our Pulses beat, Our Nerves receive their Strength, our Heart its Heat.
'Tis only in Retirement we can find The calm unchanging Pleasures of the Mind: Here true Content, and Silence, Friend to Thought, Displ. their Thousand Charms, by Wisdom sought; Here philosophick Reason takes her Seat; Here Science, and its Kindred Graces, meet.
The Thousand Blessings here below From our Almighty Father flow; The wonderful Works, in every Part, Display our great Creator's Art.
In Youth, what Comfort can we find? Youth, the high Fever of the Mind, Attracted by each trifling Thing, Its only Guard Heaven's mighty King; Who, with a Father's friendly Arm, Can Hell of all its Force disarm.
Happy is the Man whom Heaven protects, His Thoughts, his Words, his Steps directs; This Man is form'd for Bliss below, Which none but Virtue's Sons can know.
Exalted Virtue lifts the Mind Above the Dross of human Kind; Refines and purifies our Dust, And crowns with Bliss the Good and Just.
To look with Pleasure on the past, The greatest Comfort Man can taste, Must render all his Joys complete, And Wealth and Greatness doubly sweet.
Each Plant and Flower Display thy Power, Omnipotent and just! Each Leaf and Plant Our Vow enchant, Though form'd of abject Dust.
Far from Ambition's airy Schemes, Far from vain Folly's busy Scenes, Remote from Falsehood, Care, and Noise, Wisdom seeks substantial Joys; In Virtue's calm sequester'd Shade She dwells, in heavenly Charms array'd.
***** NORTH CAROLINA, January 1, 1773. *****
THE Subscriber will be in the Neighbour- hood of Salisbury during the Months of March, April, and May next, in Order to treat with such Gentlemen as may be inclined to purchase any of his Lands in this Province. What are now in his Hands are the Choice of several large Surveys, run as far back as the Year 1739, and are laid off in several Hundred Tracts, from two Hundred to a Thousand Acres. The Soil is remarkably suited to the Culture of Wheat and Tobacco, and is generally allowed to be equal in Goodness to any upon the Continent. The Time of Payment will be allowed as may be agreed on and the Lands may be viewed, and farther Particulars known, by applying to Benjamin McCulloch , Esquire, of Halifax County , William Johnson and Michael Holt , Esquires, of Orange County , John Kimborough , Esquire, of Guildford County , Thomas Frobeck , Esquire, of Rowan County , Thomas Polk , Esquire, of Mecklenburg County , and Felix Kenan , Esquire, of Duplin County . HENRY E. McCULLOCH.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, by Virtue of a Deed from Mr. Benjamin Chapman to the Subscriber, on Thursday the 1st of April, if fair, otherwise next fair Day, at Hix's Ford, in Brunswick County,
ALL the Estate of the said Benjamin Chapman , consisting of twenty likely NEGROES, many of whom are very choice Fellows, about thirty good WORK HORSES, OXEN, STOCKS OF CATTLE, SHEEP, and HOGS, &c. Credit will be allowed till the 25th of December next for one Half the Purchase Money, and ready Money to be paid for the other Half. All Bonds are to bear Interest from the Date if not punctually discharged. The Publick may be assured that nothing will happen to disappoint the Sale. (4) WILLIAM EDWARDS.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Fau- quier , on the 29th of December last, a likely Virginia born Mulatto Boy named CHALERS , who I understand calls himself Charles Hulet , and says he is a Freeman; he is about nineteen Years old, five Feet four or five Inches high, had on, when he went away, a Virginia Cloth Coat and Waistcoat mixed with black and white Yarn and Cotton, lined with blue Shalloon, and trimmed with plain white Metal Buttons worked with Blue, a Pair of Negro Cotton Breches dyed of a pale Blue, with Half of each Waistband white, a Pair of Plaid Hose, and a blue Duffil great Coat. He has been taken up in Maryland , and made his Escape from Mr. Jacob Pofey , from whom he took a bright bay Horse, with a new small Saddle and Bridle; both the Horse's hind Feet and one fore Foot are white, has a Blaze Face, and is branded on the near Buttock C D . Whoever conveys the said Boy to me shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, and if he is taken out of the Colony TEN POUNDS. (Tf) JOHN CHURCHILL.
DINWIDDIE, March 1, 1773.
LOST from Mr. Wild's Rack, on Saturday the 20th of last Month, a dark bay GELDING about four Feet nine Inches high, with a hanging Mane and short Switch Tail, the Hair much worn off his Sides by the Traces of a Waggon, he paces slow, trots easy, has a sprightly Look, and is a likely Horse, except his Rump, which is remarkably short. It is strongly suspected he was stolen, but when at Liberty will attempt to reach Bute County , in Carolina , where he was bred by one Green . Whoever brings him to me shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, and any farther Reward that may be adequate to their Trouble. JOHN RUFFIN, Junior.
STRAYED, or STOLEN out of a Stable at Batte's Ferry , in Chesterfield County , in the Night of the 29th or 30th of last Month, a sorrel HORSE about fourteen Hands high, six Years old, with a Switch Tail and hanging Mane, a Star in his Forehead, a Spot on one of his Buttocks, and was shod when he went off, but his Brand (if he has any) is not remembered. Whoever delivers him to me in Petersburg , or to Mr. Charlton in Williamsburg , of whom I borrowed him, shall have THREE POUNDS Reward. HENRY LOCHEAD. (5)
CUSTOMHOUSE, Boston, December 15, 1772.
WHEREAS there has been great Neglect on the Part of the Owners of sundry Vessels in the Plantations, in not complying with the Act of the 7th and 8th of William III. Chapter 22d, and more particularly the 21st Section, wherein it is enacted, "That no Ship's Name registered shall be afterwards changed without registering such Ship de novo , which is required to be done upon any Transfer of Property to another Port, and delivering up the former Certificate to be cancelled; and in Case there be any Alteration of Property in the same Port, by the Sale of one or more Shares in any Ship after registering thereof, such Sale shall always be acknowledged by Endorsement on the Certificate of the Register, before two Witnesses, in Order to prove that the entire Property in such Ship remains to some of the Subjects of Great Britain, if any Dispute arises concerning the same." And whereas all Vessels trading at, or belonging to, any Port in America , the Owners or Masters of which shall omit to comply with the Directions given in the said Act, will be liable to the same Prosecutions and Penalties as if such Vessels were owned entirely by Foreigners, the Commissioners of his Majesty's Customs therefore give this Notice, that all Persons concerned may govern themselves accordingly. By Order of the Commissioners. SAMUEL MATHER, Principal Secretary.
WHEREAS I intend for Great Britain in a short Time, I request all those indebted to me to make Payment to Mr. David Cation of Richmond , whom I have appointed to transact my Business in my Absence; and those who have Demands against me will likewise apply to him for Satisfaction. ARCHIBALD M'KENDRICK.
Doctor GRAHAM, OCULIST and AURIST, AT PHILADELPHIA,
THUS publickly gives Notice that he purposed to be at Williamsburg about the Middle of April next, where those Persons whose Circumstances or Situation have precluded them from the Benefit of applying for Assistance at Philadelphia may consult him in all Disorders of the Eye and its Appendages, and in every Species of Deafness, Hardness of Hearing, Ulcerations, Noise in the Ears, &c. Those Persons likewise who have been born deaf and dumb, or those who labour under any Impediment in their Speech, by applying personally, will probably be assisted. (tf)
HANOVER Town, February 18, 1773.
WHEREAS, by the Death of Mr. John Smith , the Partnership between him and myself, of Course, is dissolved, this is therefore to inform those indebted that it is expected they will immediately make Payment of their respective Balances, or close their Accounts on the Books by giving Bonds. I shall attend, as usual, at this Place and the adjoining County Courts, in Order to make a final Close of this Concern; and it is expected due Regard will be paid to this Advertisement, as no Indulgence can possibly be given. (4) ZACHARIAH CLARKE.
N. B. There is a genteel Assortment of GOODS on Hand, suitable the Spring, which I will dispose of at a low Advance.
THIS is to give publick Notice that the Business of the Customhouse of South Potomack was discontinued at Lee Hall (where the Office has been kept for many Years) on Friday the 29th of January last, and the Customhouse Books and Papers are removed to Homony Hall , the Seat of the late Colonel James Steptoe , which is the second House above Sandy Point , and the Office is there opened for the Despatch of publick Business. JOSEPH LANE, Deputy Collector. GILBERT CAMPBELL, Comptroller.
NANSEMOND, February 13, 1773.
AS I intend for England by the first Oppor- tunity, all those who have Demands against me are desired to apply to me at Mr. John Hamilton's of this Place, and they shall receive Payment. JOHN VAN VOORST.
IMPORTED, last October, from Liverpool, in the Sparling , Captain Priseman , two HOGSHEADS and a TIERCE of STONE and EARTHEN WARE marked WA in a Piece, numbered 5, 6, and 7. Any Person having these Packages in Possession will much oblige the Subscriber by giving him Notice thereof, who will pay all Charges for conveying them to him, in Hanover Town . WILLIAM ANDERSON.
F O R S A L E,
THE PLANTATION whereon the Subscriber lives, in King and Queen County , about a Mile and a Half from Todd's Warehouse , containing six Hundred and fifty seven Acres, in good Order for Cropping, having a large Peach and Apple Orchard thereon beginning to bear, a Quantity of low Grounds which may be made good Meadow with little Expense; the Dwellinghouse, Kitchen, and other Outhouses, have been built between four and five Years. Any Person inclined to purchase may know the Terms by applying to (tf) R. DAINGERFIELD.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in King William County , near Todd's Bridge , on the 8th of January last, a Convict Servant named MARY DAVIS , but I understand has changed it to PHILIPS . She is a lusty Woman, of a swarthy Complexion, pitted with the Smallpox, and had on a dark Camlet Gown, a black Hat, a red Silk Handkerchief round her Neck, and Leather heeled Shoes. She always talks as if she had a Cold, has been seen lurking about in Gloucester and Middlesex , passing as a Beggar, saying she has lost her Husband, and has two Children to maintain. Whoever secures her so that I may get her again shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, and be paid reasonable Expenses if brought home. (tf) JOHN CATLETT.
To be LET on CHARTER, THE Brig JOHN, Ralph Elliott Master, Burthen about two Hundred and fifty Hogheads of Tobacco. For Terms apply to me, in Norfolk . (tf) JOHN GREENWOOD.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in the Night of the 9th of November last, two Negro Fellows, namely: NAT , a tall stout made Negro, knock kneed, a little bald, wore a Truss when he went off, which he may probably have on when taken, is a good Cooper, and understands Something of the Carpenter's Trade. CATO , a small short Fellow, very black, not Virginia born, but speaks tolerable plain. They probably may say they belong to Mrs. Hannah Price , or may have changed their Names, and got some Villain to write them a Pass, by which Means they may endeavour to pass for Freemen, and attempt to get out of the Country. All Masters of Vessels are forewarned from harbouring or carrying them out of the Colony. Whoever conveys them to me in Middlesex shall have THREE POUNDS Reward for each, or FORTY SHILLINGS for each if secured in any Jail within Virginia , and giving me such Notice that I may get them again. (5) GEORGE BIRD.
WHEREAS I intend shortly to remove from the Place where I now live to Fincastle County , on the Western Waters , it is expected that all those Gentlemen who have Business to do with me will attend at the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg , where I shall be from the 15th of April next to the 25th of the said Month, in Order to have all those Accounts which are now unsettled properly adjusted. (Tf) ISRAEL CHRISTIAN.
HUNTINGTOUR, January 23, 1773.
I WILL sell twelve or fifteen Hundred Acres of rich LAND on each Side of Fish Pond Creek , in the lower End of Buckingham , whereon are all necessary Houses for Cropping, with the Corn, Fodder, and Stock, on the said Land, and six valuable Virginia born SLAVES. If my Debtors had not unjustly kept me out of considerable Sums of Money for a long Time, I should have had no Occasion to have sold Land or Negroes to have paid my Debts. Land that I sold eleven Years ago I am not yet paid for, and for a Cargo of Goods which I intrusted a notorious Villain with several Years ago I have not received forty Pounds, and he refuses to let me see the Books, to copy them, or to settle with me. (6) ANTHONY WINSTON. N. B. The Land shall be laid off in Parcels, if not sold soon.
TO BE SOLD,
A VALUABLE Tract of LAND , containing about sixteen Hundred Acres, more or less, lying on the River Shenandoah , in Berkley County (formerly Frederick ) which is one of the most flourishing Counties in Virginia . The Land is exceeding good, well timbered, and adapted to the raising of all kinds of Grain, as well as Tobacco, and has the Advantage of a very fine Stream of Water, on which is a Blomery with two Fires, a good Stone Merchant Mill with two Pair of Stones, a Saw Mill, a Distillery conveniently situated, a Smith's Shop, a Cooper's Shop, and many other Outhouses. There are about a Hundred and fifty Acres of Land cleared, and about fifty Acres of Meadow may be made with a very small Expense, one Half of which may be watered any Day in the Year. A Stock of Cattle, Horses, and Hogs, some Household Furniture, and all Kinds of Utensils proper for carrying on the above different Branches of Business, will be sold with or without the Land. For farther Particulars inquire of Mr. William Little , on the Premises. Credit will be allowed for Part of the Purchase Money, the Purchaser giving Bond, with Security if required. For Terms apply to the Honourable George William Fairfax , Esquire, Carlyle and Dalton in Alexandria , or Preston Bowdin in Norfolk . (Tf)
THE Subscriber will sell, on reasonable Terms, his LAND and HOUSES whereon he now lives, known by the Name of HOOD'S , in Prince George , on James River . As to its Situation, it is hardly worth While to say any Thing about it, though it is looked upon to be the most pleasant Place, and has the finest View, of any Seat on James River . I have just now finished a House upon it, in the best Manner, thirty three Feet by thirty, with two large Rooms and a large Passage below, and three Rooms above; there is also a Garden lately laid in with good Cypress Pales, with all necessary Outhouses, a very good Storehouse, sundry Lumber Houses, and a Set of very good Tobacco Warehouse. I think, with very little Trouble, there might be an Inspection erected there again, as it is the general Cry of the People for it; and as the Place is very well situated for carrying on both the Inland and West India Trade, any Person, with a pretty good Capital, may carry them on to a very great Extent. Whoever is inclined to purchase may know the Terms by applying to Mr. William M'Whann , Merchant in Blandford , or to the Subscriber, on the Premises. (Tf) DAVID SCOTT.
For SALE, in the Town of NEWCASTLE, A LARGE two Story DWELLINGHOUSE , with three commodious Rooms on a Floor, each with a Fireplace. It is exceedingly well calculated for a Tavern, and is pleasantly situated near the River. The Terms may be known of the Subscriber, near the Premises. (Tf) W. JOHNSON.
RUN away from the Subscriber, at Peters- burg , about the Middle of September last, a very likely Negro Man named PHILL , about twenty Years of Age, of a yellow Complexion, and about five Feet nine Inches high, proportionably made. He is a Native of Africa , but speaks broken English , having been some Years in the West Indies , and has lost two Joints off two of his Fingers on his right Hand. Had on, when he went away, an Osnaburg Shirt, an old Virginia Cloth Waistcoat, with a new Negro Cotton Jacket over it, and a Pair of old Check Trousers. As he has been used to the Sea, he will probably endeavour to get on Board some Ship and make his Escape out of the Colony; all Masters of Vessels are therefore forewarned from harbouring or carrying him off, at their Peril. I will give THREE POUNDS Reward to any Person who will deliver said Slave to me, or to Mr. Hugh M'Mekin at Portsmouth , and FORTY SHILLINGS to secure him in any Jail, and give Notice thereof. (tf) THOMAS GORDON.
TWENTY POUNDS REWARD
FOR apprehending JOHN HUTCHINSON , who ran away last Night from the Subscriber, in Lancaster . He is a Blacksmith by Trade, a likely stout Man, about five Feet ten or eleven Inches high, wore his own short dark Hair, and is a Yorkshireman , which may be easily known by his Dialect, is much given to Drink, and in which he is apt to be very noisy. He took with him a brown Duroy Coat lined with white Durant or Tammy ; also a brown Water Dog with a white Face, which I expect is still with him, as he was a great Favourite. A short Time before he ran off he broke open the House of Mr. Anthony M'Quhae , and stole about forty Pounds. The above Reward will be paid to any Person who delivers the said Runaway and Cash, or TEN POUNDS for him alone, and FIVE POUNDS to have him secured in any Jail within this Colony. NOVEMBER 4, 1772. (Tf) THOMAS POLLARD.
For SALE,
A VALUABLE TRACT of LAND lying on both Sides of Hunting Creek , in Halifax County , containing five Hundred Acres, the Soil of which is exceeding good for Tobacco and Corn. There is a small Plantation cleared on the Land, which has been tended but a few Years, and two Tobacco Houses, an Overseer's House, and Negro Quarter almost new. Any Person inclined to purchase may apply to Colonel Paul Carrington , in Charlotte , who will show the Land, and is fully empowered to dispose of it. (tf)