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An extraordinary Instance of filial Piety. From the Expedition of Humphrey Clinker. By Doctor Smollett.
Mr. Melford to Sir Watkin Phillips.
W E set out from Glasgow by the Way of Lanerk, the County Town of Clydesdale, in the Neighbourhood of which the whole River Clyde, rushing down a steep Rock, forms a very noble and stupendous Cascade. Next Day we were obliged to halt in a small Borough until the Carriage, which had received some Damage, should be repaired; and here we met with an Incident which warmly interested the benevolent Spirit of Mr. Bramble. As we stood at the Window of an Inn that fronted the publick Prison, a Person arrived on Horseback, genteelly, though plainly, dressed in a blue Frock, with his own Hair cut short, and a Gold laced Hat upon his Head. Alighting, and giving his Horse to the Landlord, he advanced to an old Man who was at Work in paving the Street, and accosted him in these Words: "This is hard Work for such an old Man as you." So saying he took the Instrument out of his Hand, and began to thump the Pavement. After a few Strokes, "Have you never a Son, said he, to ease you of this Labour?" "Yes, and please your Honour, replied the Senior, I have three hopeful Lads, but at present they are out of the Way." "Honour not me, cried the Stranger, it more becomes me to honour your grey Hairs. Where are those Sons you talk of?" The ancient Paviser said his eldest Son was a Captain in the East Indies, and the youngest had lately enlisted as a Soldier, in Hopes of prospering like his Brother. The Gentleman desiring to know what was become of the second, he wiped his Eyes, and owned he had taken upon him his old Father's Debts, for which he was now in the Prison-hard by.
The Traveller made three quick Steps towards the Jail, then turning short, "Tell me, said he, has that unnatural Captain sent you Nothing to relieve your Distresses?" Call him not unnatural, replied the other; God's Blessing be upon him! he sent me a great Deal of Money, but I made a bad Use of it; I lost it by being Security for a Gentleman that was my Landlord, and was stripped of all I had in the World besides." At that Instant a young Man, thrusting out his Head and Neck between two Iron Bars in the Prison Window, exclaimed, "Father! Father! if my Brother William is in Life, that's he!" "I am! I am! cried the Stranger, clapping the old Man in his Arms, and shedding a Flood of Tears. I am your Son Willy, sure enough!" Before the Father, who was quite confounded, could make any Return to this Tenderness, a decent old Woman, bolting out from the Door of a poor Habitation, cried, "Where is my Bairn, where is my dear Willy?" The Captain no sooner beheld her than he quitted his Father, and ran into her Embrace.
I can assure you my Uncle, who saw and heard every Thing that passed, was as much moved as any one of the Parties concerned in this pathetic Recognition; he bobbed and wept, and clapped his Hands, and hollered, and finally ran down into the Street. By this Time the Captain had retired with his Parents, and all the Inhabitants of the Place were assembled at the Door. Mr. Bramble, nevertheless, pressed through the Crowd, and entering the House, "Captain, said he, I beg the Favour of your Acquaintance; I would have travelled a Hundred Miles to see this affecting Scene, and I shall think myself happy if you and your Parents will dine with me at the Publick House." The Captain thanked him for his kind Invitation, which he said he would accept with Pleasure; but, in the mean Time, he could not think of eating or drinking while his poor Brother was in Trouble. He forthwith deposited a Sum equal to the Debt in the Hands of the Magistrate, who ventured to set his Brother at Liberty without farther Process; and then the whole Family repaired to the Inn with my Uncle, attended by the Crowd, the Individuals of which shook their Townsman by the Hand, while he returned their Cassees without the least Sign of Pride or Affection.
This honest Favourite of Fortune, whose Name was Brown, told my Uncle that he had been bred a Weaver, and about eighteen Years ago had, from a Spirit of Idleness and Dissipation, enlisted as a Soldier in the Service of the East India Company; that, in the Course of Duty, he had the good Fortune to attract the Notice and Approbation of Lord Clive, who preferred him from one Step to another till he attained the Rank of Captain and Paymaster to the Regiment, in which Capacities he had honestly amassed above twelve Thousand Pounds, and at the Peace resigned his Commission. He had sent several Remittances to his Father, who received the first only, consisting of one Hundred Pounds; the second had fallen into the Hands of a Bankrupt, and the third had been consigned to a Gentleman of Scotland, who died before it arrived, so that it still remained to be accounted for by his Executors. He now presented the old Man with fifty Pounds for his present Occasions, over and above Bank Notes for one Hundred which he had deposited for his Brother's Release. He brought along with him a Deed ready executed, by which he settled a Perpetuity of fourscore Pounds upon his Parents, to be inherited by their other two Sons after their Decease. He promised to purchase a Commission for his youngest Brother, to take the other as his own Partner in a Manufacture which he intended to set up, to give Employment and Bread to the industrious, and to give five Hundred Pounds, by Way of Dower, to his Sister, who had married a Farmer in low Circumstances. Finally, he gave fifty Pounds to the Poor of the Town where he was born, and feasted all the Inhabitants without Exception.
My Uncle was so charmed with the Character of Captain Brown that he drank his Health three Times successively at Dinner. He said he was proud of his Acquaintance; that he was an Honour to his Country, and had in some Measure redeemed human Nature from the Reproach of Pride, Selfishness, and Ingratitude. For my Part, I was as much pleased with the Modesty as with the filial Virtue of this honest Soldier, who assumed no Merit from his Success, and said very little of his own Transactions, though the Answers he made to our Inquiries were equally sensible and jacobick. Mrs. Tabitha behaved very graciously to him until she understood that he was going to make a Tender of his Hand to a Person of low Estate, who had been his Sweetheart while he worked as a Journeyman Weaver. Our Aunt was no sooner made acquainted with this Design than she starched up her Behaviour with a double Proportion of Reserve, and when the Company broke up she observed, with a Toss of her Nose, that Brown was a civil Fellow enough, considering the Lowness of his Origin; but that Fortune, though she had mended his Circumstances, was incapable to raise his Ideas, which were still humble and plebeian.
The unheard of Cruelty of a Father. A true Story, translated from the Arabick of Adjaaib Mouaser, an Eastern Historian.
A MERCHANT, by Name Kebal, had married a young, rich, and amiable Wife. Though the Mohammedan Law authorises Polygamy, this imperious Wife would divide neither the Heart nor Bed of her Husband. Kebal, of few aspiring Views, having subjected himself to the matrimonial Yoke, contracted an habitual Dread of his Wife, to whom he was indebted for his Fortune; and his Timidity induced him even to renounce, in her Favour, the Privilege allowed him by the Law, having sworn to her an inviolable Fidelity. At a Distance from his Wife, he soon forgot the Oath and Protections he had made to her.
The Business of his Traffick having obliged him to take a Journey, he was smitten with the Charms of a young Slave, whom he purchased for five Hundred Sequins. At nine Months End the Slave brought forth a
Child, whose Birth, far from giving Joy to the Father, filled him with terrible Apprehensions.
Kebal, who wanted to keep Peace at home, made no Difficulty of securing it by a Crime. His Wife, whom he had forgot in the Heat of tumultuous Passion, then occurred to his Mind, and the Fear of a jealous Woman made him divest himself of every Sentiment of Humanity. He began by sacrificing to his Quiet the unfortunate Object of his Amours. After destroying the Mother, the same Intention was resolved on for the Son; but the Voice of Nature made itself to be heard within him, in Spite of his horrid Purpose, and stopped short his Arm. To keep himself from shedding his own Blood, he at length thought it advisable to take the Child with him into a Desert, persuaded that the innocent Victim would soon perish in it; but Providence, that watched over the Preservation of his Life, conducted a Shepherd to the Place where he was exposed. His Beauty, his Cries, his forlorn State, moved the Heart of the poor Shepherd to pity his Distress, and he carried him to his Hut. His Wife, as compassionate as himself, very willingly took upon her the Care of the Child, and assigned him a she Goat for his wet Nurse. He was already four Years old, when Kebal, on a Journey, halted in the Village where this Shepherd lived, and took up his Lodging with him. He took Notice of his Son, whom he was far from knowing; but whether he was struck with the Child's Beauty, or whether Nature spoke to him in his Favour, he felt strong Emotions at Sight of him, and asked the Shepherd if he was his Father.
How great was Kebal's Surprise when the Shepherd related to him how he had found the Child! It was his own Son; he could not help knowing him to be such, by the Circumstances of Time and Place, but to the Sympathy that first affected him soon succeeded Sentiments of violent Hatred; yet, dissembling, he pretended that the Child's Charms were very engaging to him, and pressed the Shepherd to sell him, offering fifty Sequins for him.
The Shepherd's Poverty, his Friendship for the Child, and the Certainty of his being more happy in the Hands of a rich Man than his own, induced him to consent to the Proposal. He was far from suspecting the Design that had been already meditated against him.
Kebal had him no sooner at his Disposal than he hurried away, and took him to the Sea Shore. There the Beauty of this young Child, his Innocence, his tender Endearments, his Cries, his Tears, Nothing could bend the atrocious Soul of Kebal. He seizes his Son, sews him up in a Bag of Leather, and casts him into the Sea, sure that now he would not escape Death. But propitious Heaven had otherwise ordered it; the Bag gave immediately into the Nets of a Fisherman, who fortunately hauled him out that very Instant.
The astonished Fisherman opens the Bag, and seeing in it a Child, who still could breathe a little, suspended it by the Feet, and after bringing it to Life carried it to his Cottage. Kebal's Son was destined to find every Where sensible Hearts, except that of his barbarous Father.
The Fisherman brought him up in his Profession, and the Lad distinguished himself in it by equal Dexterity and Intrepidity. He was already arrived at the Age of fifteen Years, when Kebal, who took frequent Journeys to promote the Concerns of his Commerce, passed through the Town where the young Man lived. He met him with the Fisherman that had saved his Life, and both were loaded with Baskets of Fish, which they sold about the Streets. The young Man's pleasing Aspect attracted Kebal's Attention, and, to have an Opportunity of knowing who he was, he bought some of the Fisherman's Fish. Afterwards, asking him if that followed was his Son, the Fisherman answered that he was not his Father, and related to him in what Manner he found him in his Nets sown up in a Bag.
Kebal, knowing him to be his Son, could not imagine how he had escaped a Death which he thought to be inevitable. Enraged at seeing the ill Success of so many Crimes, he resolved to concert better his Measures. He offered five Hundred Sequins to the Fisherman, as Purchase Money for his Servant; and the Bargain was soon concluded.
Kebal, without making himself known to his Son, kept him to do Business for him as his Slave. His sweet Temper, his Fidelity, Nothing could touch that cruel Father, who was still more and more bent on his Destruction.
Two Years had now elapsed since his Son had served him with an unexampled Zeal, when he put into his Hands a sealed up Letter. "Set out, said he to him, for Bagdad; you will there find my Daughter, and deliver to her this Letter; I recommend you to her Care. Remain with her till my Return; I shall soon follow you."
The young Man obeyed Kebal, and immediately went on his Way. Arrived at Bagdad, he inquired after his Master's House, and knocked at the Door of that which was shown him to be his. Kebal's Daughter chanced to open it, and saw a young Man, more beautiful than Love itself, that delivered to her a Letter on the Part of her Father. Impatient, she opens it; but how great was the Horror she was seized with in reading these Words: "The Bearer of this Letter is my greatest Enemy; I send him to you that you may procure him to be assassinated; I require from you this Proof of your Tenderness."
Kebal's Daughter, far from resembling her Father, was remarkable for Singleness of Heart, and a very humane Disposition. Considering more attentively the Letter Carrier, she could not help loving him; and Love suggested to her a Means of saving the Life of him who in a Moment was become so dear to her, and of seeking with him an Union that was to last for Life. Having ordered the young Man to wait for a short While, she wrote, counterfeiting her Father's Hand. Writing, another Letter, conceived in these Words: He who shall deliver to you this Letter is dearer to me than my own Son could be; consider him as myself; confide to him the Management of all my Business, and see him married directly to my Daughter Melahie."
Having wrote this Letter, she sealed it. Stepping afterwards into the Room where she had left the young Man, "You are mistaken, said she, the Letter you gave me was for my Mother; I will show you to her Apartment." Young Kebal presented the Letter to the Mother, who having read it, and not doubting it was from her Husband, executed the Orders he had given her, and had the young Man married to her Daughter.
In the mean Time, Kebal, having settled all the Business he had to transact, set out on his Return to Bagdad. Nothing could equal his Astonishment, when, coming home, he found his Son quite alive and joyous. His Surprise was still greater when he learned that he was become his Son in Law. All these Events appeared to him incredible, but the Fear of discovering his Iniquities made him loth to have the Affair cleared up to him; he therefore thought it best to dissemble, and disguise, under the Appearances of Friendship, the mortal Hatred he still bore his innocent Son. Melahie, his Daughter, was not the Dupe of this deceitful Tranquillity. Her Tenderness, alarmed for the Safety of a dear Husband, made her pry into every Device and Design of her Father.
Kebal, some Time after his Arrival, gave a Sheep to his Domestic, with several Pitchers of Wine, "Make merry, said he, this Night, and celebrate my happy Return into my Country; but I require of you the doing me a good Piece of Service. A secret Enemy has a Design on my Life; this Night I will invigilate him into my House; about the fourth Hour of the Night he will go down the Stairs leading from my Apartment; as soon as ye hear him, stab him to Death in the Dark."
At the fixed Hour Kebal desired his Son to go into the Yard where his Domestic were, and to bring one of them to him. He was just going to step down the fatal Stairs, when his Wife, who had strong Suspicions of Something intended against him, stopped and beseeched him not to execute a Commission in which she perceived some Mystery; and, so saying, pulled him along with her.
In the mean Time, Kebal was agitated by a Diversity of Passions. Half an Hour was gone without his having any Intelligence of the Success of his Perfidy; and, impatient to know in Person if his Domestic had executed his Orders, and who till then had heard no One stir, not doubting but it was their Victim, fell upon and massacred him in the Dark. Such was the well merited End of this barbarous Father. He to whom he had given Life, and from whom he had several Times attempted to rob Life, inherited all his Substance. As his Birth was a Mystery to himself, he lived composed and tranquil with his Wife, and never knew that she was his Sister.
The Eastern Historian concludes this Narrative by an Arabian Proverb: "He that digs a Pit for his Brother falls himself into it."
The Ceremony of taking the VEIL at Rome.
THIS Morning I went to the Convent of St. Ursula, to see a Nun take the Veil. The Company was very numerous, and composed chiefly of the first People of Rome, who were all in full Dress. I was placed close to the Altar, where I could see the whole Ceremony, and hear every Word that was uttered. The Service was begun by saying Mass; then Cardinal de Rossi entered in great State, while the Organ was playing, and the Mass was singing; the Musick, both vocal and instrumental, was performed by the Nuns and Ladies of the Convent, who were placed in the Organ Gallery. The Composition was pretty, but ill executed; the Organ was a bad One, and too powerful for the Band; most of the best Hands, as I was informed, were occupied in the Convent with the internal Ceremony, the external was all performed in the Chapel.
When the Cardinal was robed the Noviciate was led into the Chapel by a Lady of the first Rank in Rome, and brought to the Altar in exceeding high Dress. Her Hair was of a beautiful light brown, and curled en Tete de Mouton all over her Head. Her Gown was of the richest embroidered, and, I believe, embossed blue and Silver, ever few. She had on a large Stave Hoop, and a great Quantity of Diamonds; the Train of her Robe dragged full two Yards on the Ground; she seemed rather a pretty Sort of young Person than a Beauty. When she first appeared she looked very pale, and more dead than alive; she made a most profound Reverence to the Cardinal, who was seated on the Steps of the Altar, in his Mitre and all his rich Vestments, ready to receive her. She threw herself upon her Knees at the Foot of the Altar, and remained in that Posture some Time, while other Parts of the Ceremony were adjusting; then she walked up to the Cardinal, who said, Figlia mia, che domandate? My Child, what is your Request? She said that she begged to be admitted into that Convent as a Sister of the Order of St. Ursula. Have you well, said the Cardinal, considered of what you ask? She answered, cheerfully, that she had, and was well informed of all she was about to do. Then she kneeled down again, and kissed the Cardinal's Hands, and received from him a little Crucifix, which she also kissed; after which she retired again to the Foot of the Altar, where she threw herself on her Knees while the Cardinal said Mass, which was sung at the same Time in the Organ Loft. After this there was a Sermon in the Italian Language, and that being over the Cardinal led the Nun elect into the Convent, where she was divested of all her gorgeous Attire and worldly Vanities, and had her Hair cut off. She then came to the Gate in her religious Dress, to receive the white Veil, with which she was invested by the Lady Abbess, the Cardinal and the other Assistants standing by.
After this there was more pretty Musick badly performed; the Organ, by executing all the Symphonies and Accompaniments, overpowered the Violins, and had a bad Effect, though neatly played.
When her Veil was on, her new Sister came to the Convent Door to receive the Congratulations of her Friends and of the Company; but first, with a lighted Taper in her Hand, she went round the Convent to salute all the Nuns, who had like-wise Tapers in their Hands. When she was at the Door, with the Veil and Crown on, but her Face uncovered, I, among the rest, went close to her, and found she was much prettier than I had before imagined. She had a sweet Mouth, and the finest Teeth in the World, with lively sparkling Eyes, and a genteel shaped Visage; she would, any Where else, have been stiled a very pretty Woman, but here, so circumstanced, a Beauty. At the Altar the changed Countenance several Times, first pale, then red, and seemed to pant, and to be in Danger of either bursting into Tears or fainting; but she recovered before the Ceremony was ended, and at the Convent Door assumed an Air of great Cheerfulness, talked to several of her Friends and Acquaintance, and seemed to give up the World very heroically. And thus ended this human Sacrifice!
PARIS, September 13.
ON the 4th of this Month the Parliament of Bourdeaux was suppressed, and a new One created. About the same Time the old Parliament of Toulouse was dissolved, and fifty five of its Members sent into Banishment. Their Seats are replaced by new Ones.
CADIZ, August 28. A Letter received from Mogador (in the Kingdom of Morocco) dated the 9th of June, gives the following Detail. A Man, who pretended to be inspired, entered the City of Morocco at the Head of about six Thousand Fanatics, armed with Clubs, who killed and pillaged the Houses of the Jews, and those of some of the richest Moors. The Populace were beginning to join them, in the Name of the Holy Prophet; but the principal Inhabitants repairing to the Palace of the Emperor, to demand his Succour, that Monarch, finding them so numerous, thought proper to temporize, being fearful, if he attempted Force against them at first, he should hazard a general Revolt; and taking Advantage of a short Calm among them, after their first Outrages, the Emperor informed the People that the Person at the Head of the Band could never be inspired from Heaven, as Nothing had been done by him or his Followers but the greatest Acts of Cruelty and Rapine. In the mean Time he caused the Revolters to be surrounded by his Troops; many of the least criminal were suffered to escape, some others were seized, and the Ringleader was put to Death. Some Troops have since been sent into the Provinces, to calm the Sedition which had been raised there.
VIENNA, September 7. All the Troops which form the Camp at Pest in Hungary will decamp about the 16th Instant. A Detachment of twenty Thousand of them is to be sent to reinforce the Line of Troops upon the Frontiers of Poland.
LEGHORN, September 4. Yesterday an English Packet arrived here, with two Russian Frigates from Paros. They brought Letters dated the 1st of August, by which we find that the Admirals Spiridow and Arif were at the said Island, as likewise Count Orlow, who was returned thither without meeting the Turkish Fleet, which is not yet sailed out of the Dardanelles. Thus the Accounts we had some Time ago of a Sea Fight in the Haven of Modon are not confirmed.
LONDON, September 23.
THE Queen is so exceedingly fond of her Children, that she spends very little Time out of their Company; and his Majesty, we are assured, lately told her it would be difficult to determine whether she was most expert in the Duties of a Tutor or a Nurse.
Friday last, a little after one o'Clock, the Princess Dowager of Wales was seen in her Coach with Lord Mansfield driving before her, at a very great Rate, towards Canewood, which has been the Occasion of much political Speculation.

GENTLEMEN, NASSAU STREET, November 10, 1771. Below is a Conversation I heard, on the first of this Month, between two Brothers in North Carolina on the Subject of PAPER MONEY, intended to be printed by their next Assembly. To say you may think it worthy a Place in your Paper. I am A FRIEND that to PROVINCE.
A. WELL, Brother, you are going to Newbern; how do you expect the Publick will pay their Debt incurred by the Expedition against the Regulators? B. There is no Way can be thought of but that of making Paper Money, as usual. I want to have two Hundred Thousand Pounds of it made; it will be an easy Matter to find Pretences for so large an Emission, by which Means Men of visible Fortunes will be made easy as to their Debts; They can all borrow of the Treasurers, on giving Security, with Interest; and there are so many of us want Money, it will be an easy Matter to postpone their being called to an Account, if Money should run short with them. Besides, there is a Certainty that Exchange on Bills, and the Price of all Kinds of hard Money, will rise by it. I have laid up five Hundred Dollars to pay the two Hundred Pounds I owe our Uncle's Son, against the Time he comes of Age, and I doubt not but I shall change four Hundred of them by and by at ten Shillings each, which will pay the Debt, by which I shall save one Hundred Dollars. There is another Thing, that Debt of four Hundred Pounds which I owe the Store, I shall save two Hundred Dollars in the Payment of it; and left the Merchants, or others, should refuse to take our new Paper Money in Discharge of Debts, I want a Law made by which every Creditor who refuses it shall be obliged to take Lands, or even Button, Pine Logs, &c. at whatever Price they may be valued at, and not to have them at two Thirds of the Value, as formerly.
A. O, Brother; are these the Resolutions you have entered into? Or have you only spoke what you think will be the Sentiments of a Majority of your House of Assembly? I should be sorry to be convinced of the first; let me never have Cause to harbour a Thought by which my Brother must appear to me so contemptible, both for the Errors of his Head and Heart. I hope the Majority of your House of Assembly are too honest to make a Law that would be so injurious to Individuals, and so destructive of publick Faith. There cannot be an honest Pretence given for making any Paper Money at this Time. Was it not clear, beyond a Doubt, that there were forty Thousand Pounds due to the Publick, by the different Collectors of publick Money, at the last Assembly? A great Part of this has been collected since last Session, for in the Frontier Counties large Collections have been made. Besides, are not the Lands of the outlawed Regulators to be sold to pay Part of the Expense? That Sum will perhaps not be sufficient to pay off the present Debts of the Publick; but would it not be better to give Bonds to such publick Creditors as cannot be paid now by the Money in the continent Fund, signed by the Governor, President, and Speaker, in the Presence of the whole Assembly, payable at such Times as it may be found the Treasurers will be in Cash for that Purpose, and to bear Interest from the Date till paid? These Bonds would be taken by every Person who has Money of Orphans in his Hands, and by every Person who lends Money out on Interest, as by them they would have the publick Security for Principal and Interest, without the Risk of Insolvency, and litigious Suits against Principals and Securities. The Tax for sinking our present Paper Money will, in a very little Time, sink the Whole. Let that Tax be continued to pay these Bonds; the publick Tax will not be increased. The Expense of Commissions to the Signers of Paper Money, and to the Treasurers for paying it away, will be saved, and Counterfeits will be easily detected; for if any Attempts should be made to counterfeit these Bonds, as they will be payable to the publick Creditor, his Heirs or Assigns, the Endorsers will immediately detect them. The designing Villain of a Guardian, who would cheat an Orphan under a Sanction of Law, will be disappointed in his Intention, and other Creditors will be paid their just Debts, in Money of the same Value with that they paid, or dealt for, and not at a Loss of twenty five per Cent. by which they and their Families would be ruined, and every honest and fair Trader obliged to leave the Province; for though you might pay him in your depreciated Currency, yet he will be obliged to pay his Debts due to People in other Countries in your Currency, or valorem , to the Currency of the Country where the Debt is due. What Assembly of honest Men could lay their Hands on their Hearts, and be guilty of such an Act of Injustice as that of enabling the villainous Debtor, after litigating his just Debts for Years in Courts of Law, to pay them off at four Fifths of the Value; or coolly, and without Horror, deprive the innocent Orphan of a Fifth of his Estate? Such an Emission as you talk of would certainly have that Effect. I have heard of a Law obliging Creditors to take the Goods of their Debtors, at two Thirds of a certain Valuation, whether merchantable or unmerchantable, and whether on navigable Water or not; but I have no Doubt, when the Assembly are informed how many Creditors have been ruined by the Partiality of Valuers, and Villainy of Debtors, who have screened themselves for Years from the Payment of this just Debts, under the Sanction of Law, they will repeal it and every other of so destructive a Nature, and will consider themselves in their legislative Capacity (whatever their own private Circumstances may be) as the Representatives of every honest Creditor as well as Debtor.
B. My dear Brother, what I told you as my Intentions were rather what I understand are those of some of the leading Members in our Assembly, who have more Influence than I could wish, and whose Principles are as bad as I have represented mine to be. But how can we justify the giving Interest on Paper Money?
A. I know you have Men in your Assembly capable of any Kind of Villainy, and that they are Men who have plausible, though futile Reasons, to urge in Favour of every dirty Action of their Lives, and who have acquired Influence with unthinking Members. But as to Interest, does not Justice, does not Equity, and every other generous Passion, upbraid the Man's Conscience who can refuse to pay legal Interest to his Creditor for the Forbearance of his Debt, and can an Assembly be guilty of doing, in a publick Capacity, what, in a private One, they must blush for with conscious Shame? No, says he but Half-one Member, let us be honest in a publick Capacity, though we are not in a private One; for by the first we shall reflect Honour on the Province, at but a small Expense to ourselves, though by the last we might ruin ourselves as well as Posterity.
A CARD.
MR. Henley presents his most respectful Compliments to the American at Penthill, is exceedingly obliged to him for his dry forty Shilling Treat, and hopes to be indulged with a Repetition of the Favour.
Advertisements.
THE Subscriber, residing at Gosport, being appointed a NOTARY PUBLICK, will be obliged to those who favour him with notarial Affairs to negotiate, and they may depend that their Business will be done with Accuracy and Despatch and on moderate Terms. THOMAS MCCULLOCH.
To the PUBLICK.
THE Subscriber having studied and practised MIDWIFERY for some Time past, with Success, under the Direction, and with the Approbation, of Doctors Paster and Galt, flatters herself she will meet with Encouragement, as Nothing will be spared to complete her in the Knowledge of an Art so eminently necessary to the Good of Mankind. Ladies, and others, are therefore desired to take Notice that they will be waited upon on the shortest Warning, by their humble Servant, MARY ROSE.
M. EVANS,
LATELY arrived from London, at her Store the Corner of Church Street, Norfolk, takes this Method of acquainting the Publick that the WASHES BLOND LACE, and GAUZE, equal to new; likewise WASHES and MENDS SILK STOCKINGS in the nicest Manner. Those Ladies and Gentlemen who please to honour her with their Commands may depend on having the greatest Attention paid to their Orders, as it shall be her Study to merit a Continuance of their Favours, by her being particularly careful to give Satisfaction. N. B. Any Country Orders shall be speedily executed.
WILLIAMSBURG, November 23, 1771.
TAKEN out of my Stable about the 8th of this Instant, a small light gray HORSE about ten or twelve Years old, four Feet three or four Inches high, with a roached Mane pretty much grown out, a Switzer's Tail, and trots and gallops but indifferently; his Brand, if any, is forgot. Whoever will bring him to me, or give me Intelligence where he is, shall be allowed whatever may be thought reasonable. RICHARD DAVIS.
some very extraordinary Offers made if she would stay in that Kingdom, but declined the Acceptance of them; on which Account, it is probable, London and the will soon be visited by some of the above Heroes. Mrs. A——, the Actress, is also just returned from Paris, where she has been about a Month.
Friday last the Reverend Mr. Horne came to the Sessions House in the Old Bailey to give Evidence against a Pickpocket, and sat on the Bench near the Aldermen. Soon after Mr. Alderman Wilkes came into Court, and passed him; but they took no Notice of each other, and Mr. Wilkes soon left the Court.
The virulent and unjust Abuse daily propagated against the publick and private Character of a great Personage calls to Mind what a celebrated female Historian is said to have thrown out in a Company of Republicans, who were treating the Royal Character with great Freedom and Levity: "I am (said she) as much for a Republick as any of you, but whilst you have a King treat him like a Gentleman."
Letters from Aleppo, dated June 18th, say: "The News of the taking of Damas, by the Troops of Aly Bey, hath spread the greatest Consternation here. The rich Jews are particularly affected, and the more so as they know that the new Sultan of Egypt is no Friend to their Nation. A Dutch Ship is hired to carry forty Jews, with their Effects, to Leghorn."
They write from Rome, of the 10th of August, that the Pope has taken a Year to determine the Fate of the Jesuits; they add, that, at the repeated Instances of the Courts of Versailles and Madrid, that Society will certainly, sooner or later, be suppressed.
They write from Scotland, that at Irwin, while one Donaldson, a labouring Man, who had been deaf upwards of twenty Years, was at Work in the Fields, he was struck to the Ground by a Flash of Lightning; but soon after recovering, he found, to his great Surprise, that he was restored to his Hearing.
The Pretensions of Dudley and Britain to discover the Author of the Fire at Portsmouth, says a Correspondent, require the strictest Examination, as they are probably the mere Invention of those Persons, in Order to impose upon and mislead the Credulous; a Practice that was attended with terrible Consequences to many worthy Characters in that infamous Era of pretended Plots, the Reign of Charles the second.
September 6. The late Consultations of the Cabinet have, it is said, turned upon the Propriety of establishing the Settlement so much talked of on the Mississippi, as the Spaniards have threatened to interrupt us in the lawful Act of peopling our own Territories.
It is said that Lord Holland's Accounts are to be laid before Parliament the approaching Session by himself , as he is to come over to England for that Purpose.
It is said that Mr. Dudley is ordered to make out a written Account of the Particulars relating to setting Portsmouth Dock on Fire, which is to be submitted to the Inspection of the Lords of the Admiralty, previous to his personal Examination before their Lordships.
Wednesday the Depositions taken before the Lord Mayor, on the Examination of Dudley, relating to the Fire at Portsmouth Dock, were sent to the Secretaries of State for their Perusal.
ST. JAMES'S September 20. I send you a Copy of a Letter I have received from Mr. Dudley, which I think merits a Place in your Paper. I am very well acquainted with the Gentleman; his Extravagancies have brought him to experience the Consequence of not listening to the Advice of a Father, who, though a Gentleman of a very genteel Fortune, is willing to punish his Son in Order that he may know the Value of what he is to inherit. He is nearly related to a certain unpopular Earl; his Brother in Law is a Member of the Irish Parliament; and himself, though wild, is endowed with a great Deal of good Sense.
Berwick Street, Soho, Tuesday Afternoon.
"Dear Sir, "There are some Paragraphs in the daily Papers which intimate that the Secretaries of State are backward in bringing the Affair of Portsmouth Dock to Light. This Assertion is false, and certainly invented by an Enemy to the Welfare of this Nation; there is no Person who is a better Judge than I am, there not being One, I believe, at present in the Kingdom, acquainted with the Particulars of the Plot but myself. Their Proceedings, in every Respect, showed their Desire of bringing the Delinquents to Justice, which as yet have proved ineffectual. I was, agreeable to my Request, sent down to Portsmouth, Plymouth, &c. to apprehend the Persons; but they were fled, in Consequence of my Discovery being made so publick. From whence it transpired I cannot say, but my Intelligence was a Secret till I had the Honour of attending at the Lord Mayor's, since which I leave you to judge the Noise it has made in the Kingdom. You may imagine I write this being biased by either Fear or Hope of obtaining Money from the Ministry; if you form any Idea of the Kind, you are wrong. In the first Place, I am not to be awed by any Person in the Kingdom, let his Rank be what it will. As for my Expectation of receiving any Compliment from Government, I have none; nor is there any Reason I should. It is true I have given such Cautions to Persons in Power as I think highly necessary to be observed, and every Means is taken to prevent a Repetition of such another Scheme being carried into Execution. I must inform you it was four Frenchmen and two Irish Priests who set Fire to the Storehouses, but the Plan was laid by an Irish Gentleman in the French Service; they are all, I believe, by this Time, safe in France. If there had been proper Steps taken they might have been apprehended in August last, as they were at that Time on such another Scheme in Plymouth. It was not the Secretary of State's Fault, I can assure you; I was mostly the Occasion of their Escape, not being explicit enough till it was too publick. Most of your publick Intelligence concerning this Affair is false; if you honour me with a Visit I shall acquaint you with the Particulars of the Whole, and shall have no Objection to having it made publick, there not being an Action of my Life I fear being known. I expect to settle my Affairs soon; you are too well acquainted with my Connections to think my Dependence is on this Affair; I expect Nothing from it but a contented Mind, in having done my Duty to my Sovereign. I am, dear Sir, your's most sincerely, DUDLEY.
EDINBURGH, August 21. We hear from Fort William that on Sunday the 11th Instant the notorious Thief and Deleter Donald Dow M'Pail was apprehended, about the Mines of Strontian, by a Son of Mr. Cameron, who is employed by Government for suppressing of Theft in the Highlands of Scotland. This is the most famous Thief that has been known in Scotland for a long Time past; he displayed the utmost Ingenuity in his Acts of Theft and Deletion, in secreting himself, and avoiding the most sanguine Pursuits of the Officers of the Law and Government. He has been apprehended many Times formerly by Mr. Cameron, and has as often made his Escape, in which he displayed equal Ingenuity. He particularly, at one Time, broke Inverness Jail, after every Precaution had been used to secure him; at another Time he escaped in the Black Mount, by Speed of Foot, from twelve Men and a Serjeant of the twenty fifth Regiment, notwithstanding his Hands were bound with Iron. When last apprehended, and after being taken and disarmed by Mr. Cameron, and two of his Servants, he had near made his Escape by the Assistance of a Parcel of Women, who attacked and mobbed them; and after he was delivered to a Party of the Military at Strontian, and every Method used to secure him, pinioning him, tying his Wrists, &c. on their Way to Fort William he found Means to get rid of every Encumbrance and made his Escape; upon which he was fired at by the Party, and wounded, but afterwards ran a considerable Way, till, being quite worn out, he was apprehended by Mr. Cameron and the Serjeant, who have brought him to Fort William, where he now lies with one of his Arms broke in two Places, and a Quantity of small Shot in his hinder Parts. It is however thought he will recover, and live to be made a publick Example of.
September 13. For this Fortnight past we have had the most agreeable Harvest Weather that could be wished for; we hear that great Part of the Grain in the three Lothians is cut down, and Part of it gathered in. The Moorland Crops this Year are remarkably good, and it is expected they will begin cutting down in a few Days.
There is now living at Dalmenie, seven Miles from this City, a poor Woman, aged sixty seven Years, who has been tapped fourteen Times for the Dropsy within these thirteen Months. In these several Operations, no less than two Hundred and forty four Scotch Pints (or one Hundred and twenty two Gallons English) of Water, have been taken from her; between the Operations, which is once a Month, she enjoys tolerable Health, and is able to work a little for her Subsistence.
WILLIAMSBURG, November 28.
WE have received an Account of the following Elections:—For William & Mary College, Mr. JOHN P. G. E., Junior.—For James Town, Mr. CHAMPION TRAVIS.—For New, Mr. HARTWELL COCKE, and Mr. ALLEN COCKE.—For Surry Kent, Mr. BURWELL BASSETT, and Mr. BARTHOLOMEW DANBRIDGE.—For King and Queen, Mr. JOHN TAYLOR CORBIN, and Mr. GEORGE BROOKE.—For King William, Mr. WILLIAM AYLETT, and Mr. PHILIP WHITEHEAD CLAYBORNE.—For Spotsylvania, Mr. GEORGE STUBBLEFIELD, and Mr. MANN PAGE, Junior.
The Lyon, Captain Gossley, in the Interest of John Norton, Esquire, and Son, is safe arrived at the Port of London.
The Greenvale, from Ayr, is arrived in York River.
On Saturday four Men were employed in making a new Shore from Hay Hill, in Albemarle Street, to communicate with the main Shore in Old Bond Street, when the Earth suddenly fell in upon them; by which Accident two were killed on the Spot, and the two others were so much bruised that their Recovery is doubtful.
Letters from Dublin mention that a certain theatrical Performer there, having some Words with one of the Carpenters on the Stage during the Time of Rehearsal, suddenly knocked him over the Orchestra, and the Man falling upon the Spikes, was so terribly wounded that he died soon after. The Offender was secured, and committed to Jail.
Yesterday arrived a Mail from Lisbon, brought by the Hanover Packet Boat, Captain Todd, after a Passage of fourteen Days from Lisbon to Falmouth. She brings Advice that the Venus, Captain Balfour, which had on Board the Duke of Gloucester, and the Alarm Man of War, Captain Jarvis, both from Portsmouth, arrived at Lisbon the 29th of August last, all well on Board.
Letters from Gibraltar mention that a Danish Squadron in the Mediterranean, as soon as Intelligence was received that a Danish Merchant Ship was taken by the Algerines and carried into Algiers, sailed for that Place, and demanded a Restitution of the Ship and Cargo, on Refusal of which they threatened to bombard the Town and reduce it to Ashes; that these Threats had the desired Effect, the Ship was restored, and the Cargo, which had been confiscated, was paid for. The Letters farther say, that these Pirates had many armed Vessels lying there ready to put to Sea.
At a very numerous Meeting of the Livery yesterday Evening at the Half Moon Tavern, Cheapside, Deputy Cockefield in the Chair, the Business of the Meeting was proceeded upon. The present Lord Mayor was put in Nomination, and had a great Majority of Hands in his Favour; then followed Messieurs Aldermen Bridgen, Trecothick, Townsend, Sawbridge, Banks, Peers, Nash, Halifax, Shakespear, Eidalde, and Kennett. Mr. Alderman Townsend had a pretty Show of Hands, as that Gentleman is in some Esteem with the Livery, and it is not doubted but he will make a good chief Magistrate in a future Time; but the Majority of the Company was greatly in Favour of the present Lord Mayor, and Mr. Alderman Sawbridge, to be returned to the Court of Aldermen for their Choice of Lord Mayor for the Year ensuing. Several spirited Motions were made in Favour of the Constitution, which was almost unanimously agreed to; and before the Company broke up they agreed to support their Country's Cause against any ministerial Alderman, and all their inefficacious Threats.
The Princess Dowager of Wales has taken a House on Kew Green for the Use of her Royal Highness's old and infirm Servants, where they are supported by her Royal Highness's Bounty.
Mr. Horne is indefatigable in his Attempts to seduce the Livery to vote for Alderman Townsend, in Order that Lord Shelburne may get Possession of the City.
Though young Reynard has not a Seat at a certain Board, we are assured, from very good Authority, that he is frequently summoned thither when any important Matters are on the Tapis.
Last Week the Niece of a noble Duke, who has a considerable Fortune in her own Disposal, went off to France with a Halfpay Lieutenant, though she previously knew he was a married Man.
They write from Stockholm, of the 3d of this Month, that the King having taken into Consideration the Complaints of the People concerning the Dearness of Provisions, and being desirous to remedy that Evil, had caused the Bread to be weighed in his Presence. They add, that though the publick Altercations still continue with great Vivacity, and Unity still seems to be at a great Distance, yet all zealous Patriots confide in the King's Wisdom, whose paternal Care for the Welfare of his Country and Subjects manifests itself daily upon every Occasion.
They write from Paris, of the 13th of this Month, that the Dutchess de la Rochefoucault, whose Revenues amounted to a Hundred and thirty Thousand Livres, died there the 9th, in the twenty third Year of her Age. She had a fall from her Horse, as she was hunting, which fractured her Skull; and though she was trepanned, she expired immediately after the Operation.
Extract of a Letter from Lemberg, in Poland, September 1.
"Clemency is one of the King's most eminent Qualities, which Mr. Mianczynski has experienced in a striking Manner. Although this Condescender had rendered himself unworthy of it, by having been the first who, with his Body of Troops, had deposited at the Grod of Oswiezie the Declaration of the pretended Vacancy of the Throne, and he afterwards fell into the Hands of the Russians, who conducted him Prisoner to Kiow, yet his Majesty has been graciously pleased to interest himself in his Behalf, and by his Intercession to obtain his Liberty."
A Letter from Paris observes, "that it is very true that a great Number of Jesuits appear in our Streets in the Habit of their Order; this is perhaps what gave Rise to the Report that has prevailed for some Days past, that several Individuals of that Society were to return to one of the principal Colleges they possessed before their Expulsion."
A Correspondent, who has seen and approved of Mr. Moore's late Invention in broad wheeled Carriages, observes, that he does not at all wonder at the Publick not readily adopting such an obvious Improvement in Mechanics, when so late as the Reign of James the first it was with great Difficulty the Natives of Ireland could be persuaded to give over that barbarous and ignorant Practice of ploughing the Ground with no other Harness than their Horses Tails.
We hear that the Wheat and Barley are now pretty well secured; and we are assured, from every Part of the Country, that the Crops are remarkably fine. Even the Farmers themselves allow they have not known a more plentiful Harvest for many Years. Our Accounts from Devonshire, Dorsetshire, and all the West, are equally pleasing.
Lord Chatham, speaking of the Struggle likely to be in the City for the Office of Lord Mayor, declared that Mr. Wilkes acted very imprudently to make his Designs so publick. "He is so eager (said this great Man) to engross all the Employments to his own Circle, that his true Motives cannot remain long concealed; and the Moment the Livery discover that he is only labouring to make himself their Master, they will see their Dependency as much in Danger from him as it is from an abandoned Administration."
Neither Merit nor Application (says a Correspondent) in any publick Office, are now necessary to gain the Favour of the Citizens of London; since the Man who has already disgraced their Choice, and neglected his Duty most notoriously, is selected a second Time for the Chair, and forgiven all his former Delinquency, merely because he seems calculated to serve the Purposes of Faction.
It is idle (says the same Correspondent) to talk of Independence in the City of London; the Livery, who would never suffer even Princes to dictate to them, are now the veriest Tools that can be imagined, and yet fancy they are taking the best Means of securing their Freedom, when they are only executing the Mandates of an insolent Club at the London Tavern.
It is pleasant enough (says a Correspondent) that the greatest Advocate for the Independence of America is willing to make America subordinate where the Subordination is likely to answer his own Purposes. Formerly one of the Complaints made by Mr. Otis, of Boston, was the Independence of the American Law Courts on the Jurisdictions of England; yet in his late Prosecution of Mr. Robinson, who caned him for Misbehaviour, the Patriot Otis having recovered only two Thousand Pounds Damages, he removes the Cause by Appeal to the Mother Country, and supplicates Favour from the very Tribunal which he has for Years been treating with the grossest Scorn.
From the excessive Damages given in Mr. Otis's Cafe (says the same Correspondent) at Boston (two Thousand Pounds Sterling being scarcely ever granted before for a mere Assault) the Impatience of the Bostonians may be easily discovered under the just Supremacy of the Mother Country. Mr. Robinson was a Commissioner of the Customs, at Boston, and distinguished himself remarkably by his spirited Endeavours to enforce the commercial Laws of England. This Conduct, though highly meritorious on our Side of the Atlantic, made him generally obnoxious to the Babes of Grace in New England; in Consequence of which Mr. Otis, it has been asserted, publicly intitled him, and Mr. Robinson chastised the Insolence as publicly, in the Coffeehouse. To qualify the Disgrace of their Leader, under such a Castigation, the Saints gave out that Mr. Robinson was assisted by others in belabouring poor Otis. The contrary, however, was the Fact, as appears by the Publications of the Period. Mr. Robinson only struck Mr. Otis; but several, in the Course of the Scuffle, struck Mr. Robinson. It is generally imagined, that, upon a Hearing of the Matter before an impartial Judicature, the mere Circumstance of Excess in the Damages will be a sufficient Ground to annul the whole Proceedings. The Inadequacy of the Offence to the Fine proclaims how much Prejudice operated in the Verdict; and the Moderation of the Plaintiff may be easily determined, who appeals to this Kingdom for another Thousand Pounds.
By a Gentleman arrived in Town from Bengal, we are informed that a very handsome Yorkshire Girl, who arrived there in 1769, in the Character of a female Fortune Hunter, had succeeded so well as to captivate a Black Trader, esteemed worth seven Hundred Thousand Rupees, who made her his Wife, and settled his whole Fortune upon her.
Mrs. B——, the Actress, has lately been at Paris, where she attracted the Notice and captivated the Hearts of several distinguished Monieurs, nor were those of the most elevated Station excluded from sharing that Anxiety which her Charms are known to excite. She had

A QUANTITY of Mens and Womens SADDLES, BRIDLES, and HUNTING WHIPS, lately imported in the Tibby , to be sold to the highest Bidders, for ready Money, on Friday the 20th of December, at publick Sale, at the Subscriber's Store in King and Queen, for the Benefit of the Underwriters. SPENCER BOYD.
VIRGINIA, sc. At a General Court held at the Capitol October 14, 1771. James Agar, Esquire, of the Kingdom of Ireland, Plain-tiff, against Lewis Burwell Martin, of the said King-dom, and William Harrison, Defendants, THE Defendant Martin being beyond Sea, and not having entered his Appearance according to the Rule of this Court, on the Motion of the Plaintiff, it is ordered that the other Defendant, who hath Effects of the said Martin in his Hands, as is suggested, do not pay, convey away, or secrete such Effects, except pursuant to former Decrees against him, until the further Order or Decree of this Court concerning the same; but that he deliver up such Effects, or so much thereof as will be of Value sufficient to satisfy the Demand of the Plaintiff, unto the said Plaintiff, upon his giving Security to the Clerk of this Court for the Return of such Effects; in such Manner, and to such Persons, as the Court shall hereafter adjudge. And it is farther ordered, that the said Defendant (Lewis Burwell) do appear here on the first Day of the next Court, to answer the Bill of the Plaintiff; and that a Copy of this Order be, within fifteen Days, inserted in the VIRGINIA GAZETTE , for two Months successively, and published on some Lord's Day, immediately after divine Service, in the Parish of St. Anne, in the County of Albemarle, and posted up at the front Door of the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburg. BEN: WALLER.
To be SOLD at Fredericksburg, on Monday the 13th of January, if fair, otherwise next fair Day, ABOUT forty valuable Virginia born SLAVES, consisting of young Fellows, breeding Wenchies, and Children. Credit will be allowed till the 10th of next May, on giving Bond, with good Security, to John Wayles, Esquire, and the Subscriber. Those who do not discharge their Bonds immediately when due are to pay Interest from the Day of Purchase. THOMAS LOMAX.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, on Tuesday the 10th of December, and to continue till all are sold, A TRACT of LAND containing about two Hundred Acres, on Rappahannock River, about two Miles above Falmouth, whereon are two Merchant Mills, one of them in good Repair, with several convenient Houses; also sundry Negroes and Mulattoes, Horses, Cattle, Waggons, Household Furniture, a good Collection of Books, and several LOTS in the Town of Falmouth. Credit will be allowed till the 25th of October next; the Purchasers to give Bond, with approved Security, to ALEXANDER WODROW, Surviving Partner of Wodrow & Neilson.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, on Thursday the 12th of December, at the late Dwelling-house of James Holloway, deceased, in Prince George, ALL the personal Estate of the said James Holloway, consisting of a Variety of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, and a large Stock of CATTLE, among which are three Yoke of Oxen, Horses, Hogs, and Sheep, Crops of Corn and Fodder, the Plantation Utensils, and many other Articles. Six Months Credit will be allowed the Purchasers, on giving Bond and good Security. At the same Time and Place will be hired several likely SLAVES, consisting of Men, Women, Boys, and Girls; also to be rented, for a Term of Years, a Plantation in good Order for Cropping, with convenient Outhouses. JOHN POYTHRESS, } Executors. HAMILTON JONES, }
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, pursuant to the last Will and Testament of Lewis Davis, deceased, on the Premises, on Friday the 13th of December, TWO Hundred Acres of LAND on the River Nottoway; about four Miles from the Mouth of the said River, and about Half a Mile from a Landing adjoining the Land of Mr. Richard Williams, in Nansemond. It is well wooded and watered, and a good Herring Fishery may be cleared thereon. There is a Plantation on the Premises, with a small Dwellinghouse, several Outhouses, and Apple and Peach Orchards. The Time of Payment will be agreed on at the Sale, and Bond and Security will be required. NICHOLAS MAGEE, Executor:
To be LET by the Subscribers, at Rocky Ridge, on Monday the 2d of December, to the lowest Bidder, THE BUILDING of a STOREHOUSE forty four Feet by twenty two, ten Feet Pitch, with a Cellar seven Feet deep under the whole House, a Brick Chimney at one End, and a Compter, &c. also a DWELLINGHOUSE thirty Feet by eighteen, twelve Feet Pitch, with one Chimney, and a Cellar eight Feet, the Length of the whole House. These Buildings are to be done by the first of September, and finished in a Workman-like Manner. The Undertaker will be furnished with Cash to carry on the Works, and when they are done shall receive full Payment. We will furnish him with Nails, Locks, Hinges, Glafs, Putty, Paint, and Oil, at Wholesale Advance. ALEXANDER & PETERFIELD TRENT.
GEORGE III. by the Grace of GOD of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. to the Sheriff of Northumberland County, greeting: We command you that you summon Robert Gordon, Administrator, &c. of Robert Wadsworth, deceased, John Wadsworth, his Brother and Heir, both of Great Britain, Merchants, and Thomas Reid, to appear before our Justices of our General Court, in Chancery, at the Capitol in Williamsburg, on the first Day of the next Court, to answer a Bill in Chancery exhibited against them by James McCall, of Great Britain, Merchant, and this they shall in no Wise omit, under the Penalty of a Hundred Pounds each; and have them there this Writ. Witness JOHN Earl of DUNMORE, our Lieutenant and Governor General, at Williamsburg, the 5th Day of November, in the eleventh Year of our Reign. BEN: WALLER.
COMMITTED to Isle of Wight Jail, A Negro Fellow who says his Name is JACK, speaks bad English, and either cannot or will not tell his Master's Name; he is a small black Fellow, appears to be about twenty Years of Age, and has on very ragged Clothes. The Owner is desired to prove his Property, take him away, and pay Charges to JOHN TAYLOR, Jailer.
TAKEN up, in Albemarle, a light sorrel MARE about four Feet five or six Inches high, with a hanging Mane and long Tail, some Saddle Spots, a remarkable swayed Back, and branded on the near Shoulder 12. Posted, and appraised to forty Shillings. MATTHEW MAURY.
TAKEN up, in Chesterfield, a black HORSE about four Feet five Inches high, with a Bob Tail and roached Mane, and branded on the near Buttock WE in a Piece. Posted, and appraised to six Pounds. WILLIAM ELAM, Senior.
TAKEN up, in Botetourt, a bay HORSE about fourteen Hands high, thirteen or fourteen Years old, and branded on the Shoulder and Buttock SS. Posted, and appraised to four Pounds ten Shillings. ALEXANDER DALE, Junior.
TAKEN up, in Augusta, three MARES, namely, a black, a dark bay, and a Hip-flotten one of a blackish Colour; the first is branded WM, the second WC, and the third TA. They are posted, and appraised to eleven Pounds ten Shillings. ALEXANDER DALE.
CABIN POINT, November 12, 1771. As it is out of the Power of the Cabin Point Inspectors to collect the Money that arises from shipping Tobacco, it is desired of all Persons to send the Money with their Notes, or their Tobacco will not be delivered. PUTNEY & HOWARD.
WILLIAMSBURG, November 21, 1771. ALL Persons who are indebted to the Estate of John Blair, Esquire, late of this City, deceased, are desired to make speedy Payment, and thereby enable us to satisfy the Demands against the Estate. We shall take it kind of all those who have any Claims, whether arising on Contracts made by the Testator on his own Account, or as Security for others, if they would make them immediately known to JOHN BLAIR, } Executors. JAMES BLAIR, }
RUN away, a likely Negro Woman called SALL COOPER, belonging to the Estate of John Blair, Esquire, deceased, between twenty and thirty Years of Age, and has lost the first Joint of the Finger next the little Finger of her left Hand. As she has been for some Time past much in the Company of a white Man, who is lately gone to Norfolk, she is probably lurking in that Place. Whoever will deliver her to us in Williamsburg shall receive FORTY SHILLINGS, besides all reasonable Expenses. JOHN BLAIR. JAMES BLAIR.
WILLIAMSBURG, November 18, 1771. WHEREAS the Shop lately kept by Mr. Andrew Anderson, in this City, is become the sole Property of the Subscriber, as also the Debts due to the said Shop, I do hereby give Notice that all Balances which remain unpaid by the last Day of next December will have Suits commenced against them, without Respect of Persons, or any farther Notice. I have added the above mentioned Shop to my own, which is kept by Mr. James Russell, the same Person that kept the other; where all Gentlemen, Practitioners and others, may be supplied at the same low Rates, for ready Money only. JAMES CARTER.
WILLIAMSBURG, November 21, 1771. PURSUANT to the last Will of our deceased Father, we purpose, on the 11th Day of next Month, to sell to the highest Bidder four Tenements near the Church, in the said City, and another adjoining the Lot of the late Mrs. Blaikley, on the South. There are Tenants in all of them at present, but we will deliver them to the Purchasers at Christmas next, except one of the said four, which Mr. John Holt is to possess till the 22nd Day of next July. Also, on the 5th Day of the same Month, we intend to sell, at Hanover Court, a Tract of Land in that County containing one Thousand seven Hundred and fifty Acres, commonly called Brewer's , having been formerly occupied by a Man of that Name. The Credit to be allowed the Purchasers, and other Conditions, will be particularly mentioned at the Sales. JOHN BLAIR, } Executors. JAMES BLAIR, }
WILLIAMSBURG, November 21, 1771. THE Trustees, not thinking it proper to proceed on the Sale of Colonel Philip Johnson's Land, near this City, on the 31st of October last, according to their former Advertisement, without an exact Survey of the valuable Tract called Titty's Neck , and having the Land contiguous to the Town laid out in small Parcels, now give Notice that they intend to sell those Lands on Tuesday the 10th of December, at four o'Clock in the Afternoon, before Mr. Southall's Door; when the Plan of the Survey and Division will be shown to any who are inclined to buy. The Purchasers will be allowed two years Credit; and it is expected they are to give Bonds, with unexceptionable Securities, which are to carry Interest from the Time they bear Date. PEYTON RANDOLPH, RO. C. NICHOLAS, } Trustees. LEWIS BURWELL, PHILIP W. CLAIBORNE. }
To be SOLD, on the 9th of January next, at New Kent Courthouse, THE LAND whereon Richard Terrell, deceased, lately lived, near the Courthouse, containing about thirteen or fourteen Hundred Acres; the Land will be laid off in Lots. Credit will be allowed to suit the Purchasers, on giving Bond and Security to FREDERICK HARRIS, } Executors. ZACHARIAH LEWIS, GARRET MINOR, }
To be SOLD, very cheap, TWO LOTS, or Half Acres of Ground, on the main Street in Fredericksburg, whereon is a genteel well built Brick House; likewise a LOT on the River, near the former, where Vessels of large Burthen may lie close to the Shore. Inquire of Mr. Roger Dixon in Fredericksburg, or the Subscriber at William and Mary College. JOHN DIXON. N. B. Credit will be allowed for Half the Purchase Money, on giving good Security, and paying Interest from the Date.
ON the 6th of this Instant (November) I took up, near the Mouth of Occabannock Creek, in the County of Northampton, a new SCHOONER, not quite rigged, about fifteen Hundred Builts Burthen. She was over-set, and I was obliged to cut away her Masts to right her. She is much wrecked, and it is doubtful whether the Hull can be saved. I have taken off her Rigging, and have saved her Anchors and Cables. It appears, by some Papers found in the Vessel, that the Captain's Name was Joseph Gale. The Owner may be informed of the whole Affair by applying to me, in Northampton. WILLIAM MAJOR.
ON the 5th of December, on the Premises, will be rented to the highest Bidder, for a Term of Years, or as then can be agreed on, the LAND and FERRY called Booker's , on Staunton River, in the County of Halifax. The Ferry alone is worth near a Hundred a Year, and a very profitable Ordinary might be erected, being one of the most publick Passages on that River. 2
To be SOLD at the Indianfields, in Charles City, on Friday the 6th of December, ALL the personal Estate of Captain Littlebury Hardyman, deceased, consisting of Household Goods and Furniture, Stocks of Horses, Cattle, Hogs, and Sheep, a Chariot with Harness for six Horses, and a single Chair. Six Months Credit will be allowed, on giving Bond and Security. The Sale will begin at ten o'Clock, and continue from Day to Day till all is sold. All Persons that have any Demands against the said Estate are desired to make them known, and those who are indebted to make immediate Payment to WILLIAM GREEN MUNFORD, } Executors. LITTLEBURY IRBY, }
To be SOLD for ready Money, on Monday the 9th of December, at the late Mansion House of Mr. Drury Dunn, deceased, in Dinwiddie County, ABOUT six or eight NEGROES, the Crops of Indian CORN and FODDER, PLANTATION TOOLS, HORSES, HOGS, and sundry other personal Matters. All Persons indebted to that Estate, by Purchases at the former Sale, are desired to make Payment on that Day, as their Bonds then become due, and no farther Indulgence can be given; and all Persons that have any Demands against the Estate are desired to make them then known, to the Administrators. 2
To be SOLD, to the highest Bidder, on Thursday the 28th of December, at Sussex Courthouse, being Court Day, A Valuable Tract of LAND, on Nottoway River, containing twelve Thousand Acres, or thereabouts, well situated for making Corn, Wheat, and Tobacco. Twelve or eighteen Months Credit will be allowed, if required, for the greatest Part of the Purchase Money, on giving Bond, with good Security, to JOHN SYME.
COMMITTED to Sussex Jail, on the 12th of this Instant (November) a Mundingo Negro Man who cannot, or will not, tell his Owner's Name; he is about five Feet six Inches high, clothed in Negro Cotton, has on an Osnaprug Shirt, and says his Name is PETER. The Owner is desired to prove his Property, pay Charges, and take him away. ROBERT OWEN, Jailer.
A JOURNEYMAN CARPENTER, that understands his Business perfectly, and comes well recommended, will meet with good Encouragement by applying to me, in Newcastle. WILLIAM MARROW.
COMMITTED to the Jail of Chesterfield, a tall slim Negro Man named CHARLES, who I have Reason to believe belongs to Captain Francis Foy of Amelia; he has the customary Clothing of Plantation Negroes. The Owner is desired to prove his Property, pay Charges, and take him away. JAMES BALL, Jailer.
WHEREAS his Excellency the Earl of DUNMORE has been pleased to appoint me to act as Deputy Auditor, in the Room of the Honourable John Blair, Esquire, deceased, I have therefore taken this Opportunity to request the Favour of the several Sheriffs concerned to be punctual in making their annual Returns, and settling their Accounts; and I beg Leave to inform the said Sheriffs that no partial Settlements will be admitted, and hope that the several Deputies who collect in each County will, for the future, attend together at the Office (which, till farther Notice is given, will be held at the usual Place) that the Settlement of the respective Counties may be completed at the same Time. EDWARD FOY.
NORFOLK, November 13, 1771. A LAD of fifteen or sixteen Years of Age, with a good Character, who has had a proper Education, is wanted as an Apprentice in the Business of Surgery, Pharmacy, &c. An Apprentice Fee will be expected. RAMSAY & TAYLOR.
TREASURY OFFICE, November 13, 1771. BEING informed that some Doubts prevail amongst the Inspectors and other Collectors of the Duties and Taxes, I have to inform them that the Taxes on Wits, Ordinary Licenses, and Wheel Carriages, are continued till the 25th of October 1775. For each Hoghead of Crop Tobacco there is to be paid three Shillings, and for every Hoghead of Transfer five Shillings and Sixpence, under the Tobacco Law. Besides this there was an additional Duty of one Shilling and Sixpence a Hoghead continued to the 25th of October last, and from that Day, when the one and Sixpence Duty ceased, the Inspectors are to receive an additional Duty of three Shillings for each Hoghead of Crop and Transfer till the 25th of October 1775; the Whole to be paid before the Delivery of the Tobacco, and the Accounts to be settled on or before the 10th of November, in each Year. It is hoped that this will be attended to without farther Notice, and that the utmost Punctuality will be observed in these and all other Transactions with the Treasury. I SHOULD BE GLAD TO EXCHANGE GOLD AND SILVER FOR ANY OF THE OLD TREASURY NOTES, AS WELL AS THOSE OF THE TEN THOUSAND POUNDS EMISSION IN 1770, ESPECIALLY SUCH AS ARE TATTERED OR DEFACED. RO. C. NICHOLAS, Treasurer.
To be RENTED by the Year, or LEASED for a Term of Years, a Plantation on HAMPTON River known by the Name of LITTLE SCOTLAND, containing about seventy Acres of fine rich LAND, a good DWELLING-HOUSE genteelly papered and wainscotted, with three Rooms below, a Passage fourteen Feet wide, three Rooms and a Piazza above, and two Brick Cellars; also a KITCHEN, a WAREHOUSE with a Lodging Room above, a DAIRY, SMOKEHOUSE, STABLE, HENHOUSE, a fine ORCHARD of Hugh's Crabs , Peaches, Cherries, &c. and a large GARDEN well paled in. It is a delightful and healthy Situation, with pleasant Prospects of Land and Water, lies on an open View to Hampton Road, where all the Shipping to and from James River pass within a few Miles, and Oysters, Fish, and Wildfowl at the Door. Several WAREHOUSES, a WHARF, WATERING PLACE, and SOAP WORKS, to be let separately, or altogether. BALFOUR & BARRAUD. N. B. This is an excellent Place to remove to from the Fresses in the Summer Months, either for Health or Pleasure.—The House and Garden may be had separate.
WILLIAMSBURG, November 14, 1771. JOURNEYMEN CABINET MAKERS, who understand their Business well, will meet with good Encouragement by applying to EDMUND DICKINSON.
THE Land belonging to James Burwell, in the County of ISLE of WIGHT, not being sold on the 11th Instant (agreeable to a former Advertisement) this is to give Notice that it will certainly be exposed to Sale, on the Premises, on Saturday the 30th of this Month, if fair, otherwise next fair Day, and may be entered on the 11th Day of January next. Six Months Credit will be allowed the Purchasers from the Day of Entry, on giving Bond, with approved Security, to LEWIS BURWELL, } Trustees. DUDLEY DIGGES, THOMAS NELSON, NATHANIEL BURWELL, }
NORFOLK, November 9, 1771. ALL Persons indebted to the Estates of Mr. Robert Daigleish, and Doctor Alexander Daigleish, late of the County of Gloucester, are requested to make speedy Payments; and those who have any Demands against them are desired to make them known. Attendance will be given by Mr. David Kerr, or myself, at the ensuing December Gloucester Court, and Court of Oyer at Williamsburg, to collect the Debts; and all those who then fail to make Payments may depend on being sued, as there has already been a long Indulgence given. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, Administrator.
PETERSBURG, November 10, 1771. WHEREAS great Quantities of Tobacco, as well inspected as uninspected, floated down James River in the late great Fresh, many Hogheads of which were secured by Persons living on or near the River, who have not yet sent any Account thereof to the Commissioners appointed to settle and state an Account of the publick Lofs sustained at that Time, it is requested of all Persons who are in Possession of such Tobacco, or have passed and taken out Notes for any Part of it, that they will send an Account thereof to me, specifying the Quantity taken up, how much has been saved, and the Marks (if any) which were upon the Hogheads, in Order that their Proportion for Salvage may be ascertained and paid, and the Residue applied according to the Directions of the Act of Assembly. By the Commissioners. JERMAN BAKER.
IMPORTED from London, in the Ship Juno, Captain McCann, and lodged with the Subscribers, at Portsmouth, four Barrels of GUNPOWDER marked IM in a Piece, within a Diamond; also a Trunk marked B in a Diamond. The Owner may have them by applying to LOVE, MITCHELL, & Company.
WHEREAS several People want to purchase the convenient Half Acre Lots in the Town at Rocky Ridge Warehouse, but are at a Loss to find out the Proprietors, it is therefore requested of those who hold Lots there, and incline to dispose of them, to send their Names, and Numbers of the Lots, to Mr. Patterson (Colonel Byrd's Steward) and it is probable they may hear of Purchasers.
FOUND by a Negro Boy, at Burwell's Ferry, a Piece of GOLD COIN, which the Owner may have on paying the Expense of this Advertisement. SAMUEL COKE.
HAMPTON, November 10, 1771. BENJAMIN BLAGROVE intends to leave the Colony soon.
For SALE, TWO Tracts of LAND on Roanoke River, in North Carolina, about twenty or thirty Miles below Halifax Town, each containing eight Hundred Acres. For Terms apply to Mr. John Driver in Northfield, or to the Subscriber in Amelia. EVERARD MADAM.

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HIS Majesty's Postmaster General having (for the better facilitating of Correspondence between Great Britain and America) been pleased to add a fifth Packet Boat to the Station between Falmouth and New York...
To be SOLD, A TRACT OF LAND containing five Hundred and forty three Acres, on Butterwood, in Amelia County, formerly belonging to Mr. Samuel Gordon, of Blandford.
To be LET on LEASE, A VERY large and commodious HOUSE in the Town of Petersburg, built for a Tavern, and well fitted for that Business; it is two Stories high...
RUN away from Richmond, about the Beginning of September last, a Mulatto Wench named JEMIMA, about sixteen Years of Age, remarkably well grown, has a large bushy Head...
TAKEN up, in Amelia, a small gray Mare about four Feet two Inches high, not branded. Posted, and appraised to fifty Shillings. THOMAS SIMMONS.
TAKEN up, in Charlotte, a bay HORSE about four Feet five or six Inches high, five or six Years old, with a white Spot over his right Ear...
TAKEN up, in Amelia, a bay HORSE about four Feet four Inches high, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, a Crop in one Ear, a Star in his Forehead...
TAKEN up, in Augusta, a black MARE about three Years old, four Feet seven Inches high, with a Star in her Forehead. Posted, and appraised to seven Pounds. ARCHIBALD SMITHERS.
TAKEN up, in Goochland, a white HORSE about four Feet four Inches high, about fourteen or fifteen Years old, and branded on the near Shoulder. Posted, and appraised to five Pounds. JOHN MIMS.
TAKEN up, in Buckingham, a red HEIFER marked with a Swallowfork and Underkeel in the right Ear, and a Crop and Hole in the left. Posted, and appraised to thirty Shillings. JAMES BRISTWO.
TAKEN up, in Bedford, a black HORSE about six or seven Years old, four Feet seven or eight Inches high, a natural Pacer, with a Wart on his Breast...
TAKEN up, in Dinwiddie, a bay HORSE about four Feet five or six Inches high, with a Blaze in his Face, his near hind Foot white, and branded on the near Buttock with three Dots. Posted, and appraised to fifty Shillings. WILLIAM THOMLINSON.
TAKEN up, in Hanover, a young black STEER marked with a Half Crop in the right Ear, and an Underkeel in the left, a Star in his Forehead, some White on his Belly, and all his Feet white. Posted, and appraised to fifty Shillings. THOMAS RAILEY.
TAKEN up, in Chesterfield, a red piek STEER marked with a Swallowfork in both Ears, and a remarkable wide Horns. Posted, and appraised to three Pounds. RALPH JACKSON, Junior.
TAKEN up, in Charlotte, a dark bay MARE about nine Years old, branded on the near Buttock 7, and on the off Buttock X, with a small Star in her Forehead, a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, and had a small Bell fixed on her with a Leather Collar and Buckle. Posted, and appraised to seven Pounds ten Shillings. RICHARD GAINES.
TAKEN up, in Bedford, a white MARE about four Feet five Inches high, about fourteen Years old, shod before, and branded on both Buttocks M. Posted, and appraised to four Pounds ten Shillings. WILLIAM WAYLIE.
TAKEN up, in Prince Edward, a gray MARE about four Feet high, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, paces naturally, and branded on the near Buttock H L in a Piece. Posted, and appraised to thirty five Shillings. SAMUEL GRAHAM.
TAKEN up, in Chesterfield, a dun coloured HORSE about four Feet seven or eight Inches high, with a Star in his Forehead, a black Spot on his left Flank, and branded on the off Buttock with a Horse Shoe. Posted, and appraised to ten Pounds. MARY SOWELL.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Hanover Town, about a Month ago, a likely Negro Fellow named POPE, about twenty seven Years of Age, five Feet eight Inches high, and much pitted with the Smallpox.
COMMITTED to Suffolk Jail, a Negro named JACK, who says he belongs to Charles Clay, of Lunenburg. He formerly belonged to Mr. Thomas Gilchrist, of Suffolk, and sold by Mr. McDonald up James River.
For SALE, The Ship NEW INDUSTRY, William Miller Master, now lying at Portsmouth, built at Philadelphia about eleven Months ago, with a Cedar Frame, fifty eight Feet Keel, twenty four Feet and a Half Beam...
Who have for Sale LOAF, LUMP, and MUSCOVADO SUGAR, West India and Northward RUM, Jamaica SPIRIT, WHEAT FANS, a Parcel of double OIL FLINTS, MARBLE SLABS, a Pair of Cologne MILLSTONES...
BALTIMORE TOWN (MARYLAND) October 10, 1771. THE Subscriber takes this Method to inform the Publick that, for the Encouragement of bringing to Perfection the manufacturing of ALCALINE SALTS...
The Subscriber also instructs Persons to make good Potashes, in a very short Time, with the above Materials, for fifty Guineas; so that they cannot go wrong in any Part of the Process...
FALMOUTH, October 30, 1771. THE Partnership of William Love, & Co. dissolves on the 1st of January next; at which Time will be sold, on the Premises, to the highest Bidder, the LOT and HOUSES whereon the Subscribers now keep Store.
FREDERICKSBURG, October 29, 1771. AT next Culpeper Court I shall be ready to treat with any Person for the Sale of two TAVERNS which I own in the Town of Fairfax...
At the same Time I shall offer for Sale a Tract of LAND of about thirteen Hundred Acres, which lies on Hedgeman River, in the County of Culpeper...
Also a Tract of very good LAND, in the same County, which I had of Colonel Gabriel Jones, deceased, containing about four Hundred Acres, in fine Order for Farming...
I will also sell the remaining Part of my Pretty's Creek Tract, in Albemarle County, containing about two Thousand Acres, and great Part of it fine Land.
I have about a Thousand Acres in Orange County, not far from Captain Rowland Thomas's, which I will sell at a great Bargain. Inquire of Mr. Hugh Jones, who lives not far from it.
For the Encouragement of Tradesmen and Manufacturers to settle in the Town of Fairfax, at Culpeper Courthouse, where they are much wanting, I will lease out twenty vacant Lots of Half an Acre each...
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Prince Edward, some Time in June 1770, a Negro Lad named WINDSOR, who for several Years past has waited upon me, and is acquainted with most Parts of the Country.
THE Subscriber still continues to make the VENDUE and BROKERAGE, Business his whole Employment. He returns his most grateful Thanks to his Employers and Friends for their Favours heretofore received...
To be SOLD, on the 5th of December, on the Premises, pursuant to the last Will and Testament of Edward Booker, deceased.
A VALUABLE Tract of LAND in Halifax County, near Booker's Ferry, adjoining the South Side of Staunton River, whereon is a fine Plantation, and the low Ground equal to any in the Colony.
N. B. Also, at the same Time and Place, will be sold, all the Stock, Plantation Utensils, Fodder, and Corn, with sundry valuable Slaves; for which Credit will be allowed till the 10th of June.
To be SOLD altogether, or in Parcels, FOURTEEN Hundred Acres of valuable LAND at the upper Navigation on the north Side of Meherrin River, in Hertford County, North Carolina...
THE Subscriber having provided convenient Warehouses for the Reception of Goods, purposes selling on Commission, either by private Sale or publick Vendue, and begs Leave to assure the Publick that his best Endeavours shall be used to dispose of any Goods given him for Sale to the most Advantage...
COMMITTED to the publick Jail, from Buckingham, Prison, a Negro Man named SHARPER, a likely well made Fellow, who seems to be about twenty two Years of Age, speaks broken English, and either cannot or will not tell his Owner's Name...
NORFOLK, September 11, 1771. I INTEND for England early in the Spring, and request all those who have any open Accounts on my Books to settle them. Bonds, or Cash, will be required from all indebted, and Payment made to those who have Balances in their Favour.
For SALE, or to be RENTED for a Term of Years, and entered upon immediately, THE capital Prize drawn in the Honourable William Byrd's Lottery, consisting of a DOUBLE FORCE and valuable GRISTMILL...
The UTENSILS, and OLD IRON, belonging to the Forge, will be sold on reasonable Terms. HENRY MORSE.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Lancaster, on the 24th of December last, a Negro Man named WILL, about five Feet eight or nine Inches high, between thirty and forty Years of Age, but looks older than what he really is.
AS I intend to remove up the Country next Fall, I would sell my Plantation in King & Queen County, which consists of six Hundred and fifty five Acres of LAND, pleasantly situated on Mattaponi River, about six Miles above West Point...
Who has also for Sale another Plantation in King & Queen County, just below West Point, known by the Name of Gough's Point, containing two Hundred Acres, adjoining the Land of Mr. Samuel Meredith...