The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1772-06-04 00:00:00

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DELAWARE LOTTERY,
FOR THE SALE OF LAND BELONGING TO THE EARL OF STIRLING, IN THE PROVINCES OF NEW YORK and NEW JERSEY.
Table with 4 columns: PRIZES, £, s, d. It lists various prize amounts and their corresponding ticket numbers or values.
844 Land Prizes. 2118 Cash Ditto, at £. 5 each, 1 Ditto to balance, 2413 Prizes, 9862 Blanks, 22275 Tickets, at £. 4 New York Currency, or 46s. Sterling, or ten Dollars each, is £. 49100
The Lands and Houses have all been appraised by impartial Persons appointed for that Purpose by the Managers, and the Titles inspected and approved of by Counsel of the first Reputation in New York. The Managers are Gentlemen of the first Reputation in New York, who will see that strict Justice is done, and will make a good Title to the Persons who draw the fortunate Numbers, without any Expense of Deeds, and without any Deduction. The Drawing to begin with all convenient Speed. A List of the fortunate Numbers will be printed in the New York, Philadelphia, and Virginia Newspapers; such Prizes as are not demanded in three Years after the Drawing are to revert to the Society of the Hospital in the City of New York, in America, and esteemed as generous Donations to a most benevolent Institution lately established, for the Relief and Recovery of the Poor, Distressed, and Distressed, of all Denominations. The fortunate Adventurers distant from New York shall have their Prizes paid by, or their Deeds lodged with, the Persons who delivered out the Tickets, clear of any Expense.
TICKETS to be had at the POST OFFICES in WILLIAMSBURG, HAMPTON, NORFOLK, PORTSMOUTH, PETERSBURG, and FREDERICKSBURG, in VIRGINIA.
Advertisement.
BEING strictly enjoined by my late Instructions to enforce the punctual Payment of his Majesty's Quitrents, it is expected, for the future, that every Sheriff should settle with the Auditor, and pay the Money into the Receiver's Office, on or before the Day appointed by Law; and all Sheriffs who are yet in Arrear to this Revenue cannot expect any farther Indulgence. RICHARD CORBIN, D. R. G.
S C H E M E OF A LOTTERY
FOR RAISING THE SUM OF FOURTEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY POUNDS FOR BUILDING A COLLEGE IN Mecklenburg County, in North Carolina.
Table with 4 columns: Prize of, £, s, d. It lists prize amounts: 1000, 500, 300, 200, 100, 50, 25, 10, 5, 3 4, 2 8, 1 6.
2016 Prizes. 3984 Blanks. 6000 Tickets, at 32s. Proc. or four Dollars, - - - - £. 9600. Fifteen per Cent to be deducted from the Prizes. The said Lottery to be drawn on the 22d Day of August next, at the Courthouse in Mecklenburg, under the Inspection of Messieurs Morris Moore, Richard Henderson, Richard Caswell, Hugh Waddell, Alexander Martin, Thomas Neale, John McKnight Alexander, and Hugh Montgomery, or any three of them, who are to be on Oath to see the same done faithfully. -TICKETS to be had at the Post Office in Williamsburg, Virginia.
PROPOSALS for publishing, by Subscription, a MAP of the INTERIOUR PARTS of NORTH AMERICA. Price ONE PISTOLE. By Thomas Hutchins, Lieutenant of his Majesty's Royal American Regiment, and Engineer.
THIS MAP comprehends the whole Country that lies between the thirty sixth and forty seventh Degrees of Latitude, and the seventy ninth and ninety fourth Degrees of Longitude; in which the great Rivers Mississippi and Ohio, with the numerous smaller Streams which empty into them, as well as the Lakes Erie, Huron, and Michigan, are accurately delineated; every considerable Town of the various Indian Nations which inhabit those Regions, with the Extent of their respective Claims, are also particularly pointed out. This Map contains an Extent of more than eight Hundred Miles in Length, and nearly seven Hundred in Breadth, which is not excelled, and hardly equalled, by any Country on the Face of the Earth, for its Beauty and the Fertility of its Soil, and which must soon become a most important and very interesting Part of the British Empire in America. The Author assures the Publick that a great Part of the Country, and most of the Rivers and Lakes, are laid down from Surveys, corrected by the Observations of Latitudes, carefully executed by himself, on the Campaigns he had the Honour of serving during the Whole of the last War, and the Department he has been constantly employed in since the final Treaty with the Western and Northern Indians, in 1764. This Map, which is delineated on a Scale of twenty Miles to an Inch, shall be neatly engraved, and accompanied with an Analysis, or a particular Description of the Face of the Country, its Lakes, Rivers, Timbers, Soil, and Climate. The Whole to be ready for Delivery as soon as the Subscribers amount to a Number adequate to defray the unavoidable Expense of the Publication. As the Author has been particularly requested, by a Number of Gentlemen, to undertake and publish this Map, and one Hundred Subscribers are already engaged, he wishes, for more speedily accomplishing the Design (and as the Work is meant and intended for the general Benefit and Information of his Majesty's good Subjects) that those who may think proper to encourage it will, as soon as possible, send their Names to the Post Office in Williamsburg, Virginia.
VIRGINIA, to wit. By his Excellency the Right Honourable JOHN Earl of DUNMORE, his Majesty's Lieutenant and Governor General of the said Colony and Dominion, and Vice Admiral of the same:
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS Complaint hath been made before me that Numbers of People have lately removed, and are daily removing, from the neighbouring Colonies, and settling themselves in the south western Frontier of this Dominion, upon Lands already granted by Patents to others, to the great Injury and Disquiet of such Patentees, availing themselves, in the said lawless Conduct, of his Majesty's Proclamation of the 7th of October 1763, wherein his Majesty is pleased to prohibit the Settlement of those Lands, by which they affect to think that all the Patents issued for granting any Part thereof are annulled and made void, and the said Lands thrown open to the Occupation of the first Adventurer: For putting a Stop, therefore, to such irregular and unjust Proceedings, I have thought proper, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Majesty's Council, by this Proclamation, in his Majesty's Name, to require all Persons coming under the above Description immediately to evacuate such their illegal Settlements; and if they shall refuse or delay so to do, that then the Sheriff of the County of Botetourt do use all lawful Means for removing them, and all his Majesty's Officers, both civil and military, and all other his Majesty's legal Subjects within this Dominion, to be aiding and assisting therein, as they shall answer the contrary at their Peril. GIVEN under my Hand, and the Seal of the Colony, at the Council Chamber, in the City of Williamsburg, this 5th Day of May 1772, and in the 12th Year of his Majesty's Reign.
DUNMORE. GOD save the KING.
Our Readers, in the following Memoir of the Life of the Honourable Mr. Hastings, may see a singular Character, in its Way, as any that ever existed.
THE Honourable Mr. William Hastings, of the Woodlands, in the County of Southampton, was second Son of Francis Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon. The extraordinary Character of this Gentleman, here recorded, was drawn up by Anthony Ashley Cooper, the first Earl of Shaftesbury, and Lord Chancellor, and is extracted from his Manuscript. In the Year 1638 lived Mr. Hastings, by his Quality, Son, Brother, and Uncle, to the Earls of Huntingdon. He was peradventure as Original in our Age, or rather the Copy of our ancient Nobility, in hunting, not in warlike Times. He was very low, very strong, and very active, of a reddish flaxen Hair; his Clothes green Cloth, and never all worth, when new, five Pounds. His House was perfectly of the old Fashion, in the Midst of a large Park well stocked with Deer, and near the House Rabbits to serve his Kitchen, many Fish Ponds, great Store of Wood and Timber, a Bowling Green in it, long, but narrow, and full of high Ridges, it being never levelled since it was ploughed; they used round Sand Bowls; and it had a Banqueting House like a Stand, a large One, built in a Tree. He kept all Manner of Sport Hounds, that run Buck, Fox, Hare, Otter, and Badger; and Hawks, long and short winged. He had all Sorts of Nets for Fish; he had a Walk in the New Forest, and the Manor of Christ Church; this last supplied him with red Deer, Sea and River Fish. And indeed all his Neighbours Grounds and Royalties were free to him, who bestowed all his Time on these Sports but what he borrowed to care his Neighbours Wives and Daughters; there being not a Woman, in all his Walks, of the Degree of a Yeoman's Wife, and under the Age of forty, but it was extremely her Fault if he was not intimately acquainted with her. This made him very popular, always speaking kindly to the Husband, Brother, or Father; who was, to Boot, very welcome to his House whenever he came. There he found Beef, Pudding, and small Beer, in great Plenty, a House not so neatly kept as to shame him or his duty Slices; the great Hall strewed with Marrowbones, full of Hawks Perches, Hounds, Spaniels, and Terriers; the upper Side of the Hall hung with the Fox Skins of this and the last Year's killing, here and there a Polecat intermixed; Gamekeepers and Hunters Poles in great Abundance. The Parlour was a large Room; as properly furnished: On a great Hearth, paved with Brick, lay some Terriers, and the choicest Hounds and Spaniels; seldom but two of the great Chairs had Litters of young Cats in them, which were not to be disturbed, he having always three or four attending him at Dinner, and a little white round Buck of fourteen Inches long lying by his Trencher, that he might defend such Meat as he had no Mind to part with to them. The Windows, which were very large, served for Places to lay his Arrows, Cross Bows, Stone Bows, and other such like Accoutrements; the Corners of the Room full of the best choice hunting and hawking Poles; an Oyster Table at the lower End, which was of constant Use, twice a Day, all the Year round, for he never failed to eat Oysters, before Dinner and Supper, through all Seasons; the neighbouring Town of Pool supplied him with them. The upper Part of the Room had two small Tables and a Desk, on the one Side of which was a Church Bible, and on the other the Book of Martyrs. On the Tables were Hawks Hoods, Bells, and such like; two or three old green Hats, with their Crowns thrust in, so as to hold ten or a Dozen Eggs, which were of a Pheasant Kind of Poultry he took much Care of and fed himself. Tables, Dice, Cards, and Boxes, were not wanting. In the Hole of the Desk were Store of Tobacco Pipes, that had been used. On one Side of this End of the Room was the Door of a Closet, wherein stood the strong Beer and the Wine, which never came thence but in single Glasses, that being the Rule of the House exactly observed; for he never exceeded in Drink, or permitted it. On the other Side was the Door into an old Chapel, not used for Devotion. The Pulpit, as the safest Place, was never wanting of a cold Chine of Beef, Venison Pastry, Gammon of Bacon, or great Apple Pie, with a thick Crust, extremely baked. His Table cost him not much, though it was good to eat at. His Sports, supplied all but Beef and Mutton; except Fridays, when he had the best of Salt Fish (as well as other Fish) he could get; and this was the Day his Neighbours of best Quality most visited him. He never wanted a London Pudding, and always hung it in, with My port Eya tverin a. He drank a Glass or two at Meals, very often Syrup of Gilliflowers in his Sack; and always a Tun Glass, without Feet, stood by him, holding a Pint of small Beer, which he often stirred with Rosemary. He was well natured, but soon angry, calling his Servants Bastards and cuckoldly Knaves; in one of which he often spoke Truth to his own Knowledge, and sometimes in both, though of the same Man. He lived to be a Hundred, never lost his Eyesight, but always wrote and read without Spectacles, and got on Horseback without Help. Until past fourscore he rid to the Death of a Stag as well as any.
Letter from a Lady to a Gentleman who found Fault with her on Account of her being over studious of Dress.
IT was unnecessary, Sir, to conclude your Letter by an Apology for the Motives that induced you to write it. I have read with Attention, and without Displeasure, your Advice. Fully determined to permit my Guidance to my own Inspirations, I listen to an Advice without being out of Humour, especially when it is dictated by Friendship. I am glad to have the Opportunity of communicating my Reasons to the honest Man who wishes me to be perfect, and has Esteem enough for me to think it would be easy for me to become so.
I spend a considerable Time at my Toilette; that is true, Sir. I spend much in the Choice of Ribands, Lace, and other Bagatelles; I spend much in Decisions on the Ton of Dress for the Day, and for that of the Evening; all this I grant. But that this lost Time might be better employed in reading, thinking, reflecting, forming my Character, cultivating my Talents, adorning my Mind, acquiring a just Taste for and making a true Estimate of Things, you will permit me, Sir, to believe Nothing of the Matter.
As long as a brilliant Dress, an enticing Air, Caprice, Levity, Indiscretion, and even a Sort of a giddy random Temper, shall attract after me a Number fond, extremely fond, of pleasing me, distinguishing me, preferring me, cherishing me, what Need have I to trouble my Head about more estimable Qualities, which must cost much in the Acquisition, and which it is so commodious and easy for me to do without?
If your Sex would place a flattering Value on our Virtues, if it would but grant to Merit the Tribute of Praise it lavishes on Beauty, we should be seen studious to embellish our natural Graces with the solid Charms of even Temper, Goodness, Sweetness, Wit, and Knowledge; sure of finding Friends, we should disdain the Art of attracting Lovers.
But a Woman never inspires any Thing more but a Sentiment of Interest. Desires, Amusement, the Expectation of a transient Pleasure, are the secret Motives of the Homage rendered to her Charms; she is beloved, because she is beautiful; she is in Request, she is followed, she is served, in the Notion that she is weak; Attachment flies after her, in Hopes of seeing her become a Fool, and profiting by her Indiscretion. Is it worth While, Sir, to take all this Trouble, and yet gather so little of the Fruit of true Merit? If it was, a Woman should be worthy of all that a Man is capable of feeling at Sight of her.
If ye were Persons of Sense, Women would be rational Beings. Their Manner of Life is not a Fault of their natural Disposition, but the inevitable Consequence of your Behaviour to them; your Errors necessarily lead them astray. Correct yourselves; be candid, honest, sensible; cherish Decency; prize Virtue; you will create our Sex anew. Born and destined for loving you, your Sentiments will always determine ours.

A Narrative of the late Revolution in Copenhagen, as planned by the Queen Dowager of Denmark, with an Account of the seizing and imprisoning the Queen Consort, &c.
ACCORDING to the most authentick Accounts of this Affair, we find that the Queen Dowager has long projected a Design, by Force or Fraud, to destroy the present King of Denmark, and advance her own beloved Son to the Throne; which Plot being greatly hindered by the King's Alliance with the Royal Family of England, and by the Issue of that Marriage, she, and her Creature, the Baron de S—m—b—n, conceived an implacable Hatred against the Queen Consort, though they took Care, for a long Time, to dissemble it in such a Manner that it was not visible either to her or to the King.
In the mean Time, under the Mask of Friendship, the Dowager was busied in kindling in the Breast of the young Queen an Ambition to meddle with State Affairs, on which she meant to build her Ruin.
By her Confess his Danish Majesty was intimated to leave his Kingdom, to travel into the more remote Parts of his Dominions (as they said) for his Health, Information, and Amusement. He was persuaded, with some Difficulty, to leave his Royal Consort behind him. Meanwhile the wicked Baron used all his Influence to lead the King into every Excess he could devise, made himself more necessary to his Master in Proportion as he began to want Supplies, though, through the natural Goodness of the King's Heart, he could never induce him to be guilty of any Acts of Cruelty or Oppression.
During the Interval of his Majesty's first Absence from the young Queen, though the Dowager persuaded her into the Commission of some female Errors in a State Policy, yet she was far from succeeding in rendering that Princess odious to the Body of the Nobility, which it seems was the Plan adopted to destroy her.
However, as the Dowager thought that the Queen appeared in some Measure enamoured of Power, and the Baron found the King, at his Return, fond of Journeys, they planned between them his Majesty's Expedition to England, taking the Opportunity of his Absence, once more, to endeavour at enraging his Consort. They knew the Jealousy of the Nobility for their Privileges; and they thought it an easy Matter to persuade a Princess, born in a free Nation, to incline the Scale in Favour of the People. They hoped she would do this, and fall into other political Errors, and determined to flatter every Foible accordingly; but in many Things they were disappointed.
During the Absence of the King, the Queen had managed Affairs with Moderation, except in one or two Instances; but, upon a Remonstrance of those who really loved the King and her, forbore. Amongst that Number was a Gentleman of her Household, who had formerly practised Physick, and who was extremely attentive to what passed both in the King's Court and that of the Dowager Queen. This Gentleman being well known, and much conversant in the City, and of a most affable and obliging Disposition, was well received by all Persons and Parties; he could speak indifferently well the English Tongue, on which Account, and his general good Name, the Queen, with her usual Affability, frequently inquired, in English, what News he heard. Thus distinguished, he, in Gratitude, became exceedingly industrious in his daily Inquiries, and constant in his Report of whatever he thought might instruct or amuse the Queen; and from him, amongst other Things, he had Intimation of some intended Scheme being on Foot, and, though he could not be sure of the Particulars, the Dowager Queen was at the Head of it, and that the Prince her Son had made himself familiar with the Officers of the King's Guard, frequently distributing Money amongst the Soldiers. Upon this Information, the Queen determined to form her Conduct and grow more circumspect, and in a short Time ordered it to be told the Dowager Queen that her Visits were neither necessary nor agreeable.
Affairs were in this Situation, each Party impatiently expecting the Return of the King, but from opposite Motives, when, on the King's Return, the Queen gave him a true and critical Account of every Circumstance that happened during his Absence, and amongst the rest the Intimations given her by her Gentleman. Meanwhile the Dowager, Baron, and their Creatures, held a Council immediately after the King's Arrival, and, on Examination, it appeared Success had not crowned their Endeavours; the King's Constitution, and the Prudence, Intrepidity, and Understanding of the Queen, were two Obstacles, both unexpected. The Baron found that although he had in a great Measure made the King an Invalid he had not been able, with his utmost Effort, to reach the Seat of Life, though he had introduced to the King every Excess of the most destructive Kind.
It was at this Period that new Measures were taken, and pursued, by the Dowager and Baron. They concluded they had gone too far to recede, the King having from the Queen the Information she received from her Gentleman, and the Secret being with many Persons of her Creatures; and they likewise dreaded the Diligence of the Physician, and other of the Queen's Friends; therefore determined to execute their Purpose, or perish in the Attempt. But as the common People must be amused with some Story, as well to employ their Minds as to gain their Assistance, no Measure so certain to succeed on, and to ensure Success, as that of attacking the Queen's Honour; to make them believe she was a Murderess, and Adulteress, would infallibly serve their Purpose.
The King, has since his Return, been often afflicted with a violent Pain in his Head, attended frequently with a Stupfaction and Dizziness, the Consequence of his Excesses. The Queen, on that Account, now grown thoroughly experienced, engaged herself more frequently in Business, and became interested in carrying some Things, which were an Indulgence to the lower Order; and which she did carry, and afterwards was a great Prejudice to her, and afforded much Cause of Discontent among the higher Class.
The Dowager failed not, at this Juncture, properly to apply this; she caused it to be rumoured that a Scheme was in Agitation which would wholly extinguish their Power, and caused it to be believed that many Innovations and Novelities would shortly take Place that would in a great Measure make them Slaves; that the Queen was at the Head of the Project, and that the King was quite averse to any Alteration, and would have all Things continue in the old Mode; but that, being always afflicted with Pain and Sickness, the Queen obtained Ordinances from him to the Contents and Meaning of which he was a perfect Stranger; and that the King's Illness proceeded from Something given by a Person of the Queen's Household, as the King always, on taking it, grew worse. The Baron, who was yet in Favour with the King, and regularly paid his Court, communicated to the Dowager every Word and Circumstance which might serve her Purpose; and likewise employed his Creatures and Dependents to attend the Coffeehouses, &c. And the King's Illness, and the new Ordinances, being generally the Subject of Conversation, they first, by broken Hints, and sagacious Shrugs, introduced Suspicion, and after a Time a plain Declaration, that the King was undoubtedly poisoned; that the Queen, having tasted of Power, was run mad therewith; and not being able to cause the King to act in all Things according to her Pleasure, she was determined, in Conjunction with others, to make away with the King, that during the Minority of her Son she might enjoy that Love of Power to the full Extent, as well as the infamous Correspondence which they alleged she had carried on a long Time with one of her own Servants.
The King and Queen were presently made acquainted with these Reports, when his Majesty, in great Anger, declared they were worse than Devils that said those Things, and determined to punish the Author. The Queen, on her Part, sent her faithful Servant, the Gentleman already mentioned, and who, by diligent Inquiry, traced the Author in the Person of the Baron. The King sent for him, and challenged him therewith; but the Baron, with the utmost Assurance and Confidence, denied the least Knowledge of the Report at all, much more of being the Author. The King stopped him short, and immediately called in the very Persons whom he employed, and who declared, on Oath, he did employ and instruct them what to say. Notwithstanding, the Baron obstinately persisted that he never did; but the Fact being proved, to the Satisfaction of the King, the Baron was discharged from all his Employments, and forbid the Court. The King being now made sensible that some Scheme was in Agitation to disturb the publick Tranquillity, and having received a Confirmation that the Dowager and her Son had distributed, at several Times, Money among the Soldiers of the Guard, and that the Officers of that Corps went frequently to the Palace of the Dowager Queen, unhappily resolved to incorporate therewith another Regiment, which caused a Mutiny, that was of the greatest Service to the Dowager and her Party, as it seemed directly to confirm the Truth of what had so frequently been reported in Respect to the intended Alterations.
However, the Dowager knew not well what to make of it. She imagined that the King had some certain Information, and upon the Discharge of the Baron determined to proceed in another Way; and, with the most seeming Sorrow and Humility, wrote to the King and Queen, earnestly desiring a Reconciliation might take Place. The Queen, who never expected the least Condescension from that Quarter, was equally charmed and surprised, and desired the King would immediately make her happy, and forget all that was past; and the King, to whom this was very agreeable, consented, and that very Day the Dowager was at Court, and seemed perfectly happy, and proposed, for the Diversion of
the King, to give a masked Ball. This was very agreeable to the Queen, and the Day was appointed.
Previous to this Time, the Dowager and the other Conspirators, and Disaffected, were preparing themselves, every One having his proper Part assigned him; the Officers of the Guards being gained, who having full Command over the Men, these were to be in Readiness at the Time appointed.
The fatal Evening being come, the King, who was in remarkable high Spirits, had fatigued himself with dancing, demanded to drink, which having done, he became immediately very much inclined to Sleep, and presently withdrew, as did the Queen soon after; and, as it was so contrived, was conducted into Apartments at a Distance from that in which the King was reposing. No sooner had the Queen withdrawn but all of the Traitors repaired to their respective Posts, and began to execute their infernal Commissions. About twenty unhappy Persons were cruelly murdered on the Spot, and amongst them was that worthy and honest Gentleman whom the Queen used merrily to call her Informer, and whom the Dowager Queen had sworn to sacrifice to her Revenge. All, or as many as were known to be Friends to the Queen, who were not murdered, were immediately secured, and committed to separate Prisons; which being done with all Haste, the Dowager and her Son, attended by some of the Traitors, repaired to the King's Apartment, before which a Guard had been immediately placed. The King, on hearing a Noise, awaked. The Dowager was Orator, and began with great Encomiums on his Majesty's Wisdom, and Protestations of her Love, and Fidelity of his Subjects; then she informed the King of Plots, of Poison, of dethroning, and Death! all the Contrivance of his Queen! of her infamous Correspondence with a Person of a low Degree, whom she had punished for his Presumption. To all which the King made no Answer, but demanded where the Queen was.
The Dowager then altered her Tone, and said to the King, "You are not to ask any more after One who is unworthy; it is necessary that you immediately sign the Order for her Imprisonment, or it will be attended with a worse Consequence; the Queen is now in Custody, and must immediately be gone." The King at first refused; but, being threatened, at length complied, and signed the Order.
In the mean Time, the Queen, on entering the Door of the Apartment, had a Guard placed thereat, which she did not perceive, as those without had drawn to the Door. When the Order came for her Confinement, the Ladies of her Retinue being called out separately, were committed to separate Places of Confinement; and on the Queen being made acquainted with their Commission with Respect to herself, she was perfectly astonished, and demanded to see the King, and was going to the Door for that Purpose; but the Count, who had the Charge of her Person, told her it was not permitted; that he was commanded, that she must know it was his Business to obey, and she must immediately depart. The Queen refused, and persisted in the Resolution of seeing her Lord and Husband; and in the most earnest Manner, accompanied with a Flood of Tears, desired they would permit her. To this the Count returned no Answer, but ordered all but one Person out of the Room. What followed is not known, only that her Cries were heard at a great Distance, calling alternately upon the King her Husband and her Royal Brother; and it was also known that about four o'Clock the Queen left the City.
The Publick is acquainted with the Sequel, the Confinement of the Queen, the Imprisonment of Struenfee, and the Disgrace of many others; all which Circumstances, we are told, wait the Issue of the Determination of certain Commissioners appointed for this Purpose. But we may safely conclude, that, unless the ascendancy of the Queen Dowager be removed, there will be no Safety for the King himself, nor Justice for our injured Countrywoman.
This Dowager Queen, though it does not appear that she is possessed of any truly respectable Qualities, is yet Mistress of the most profound Cunning.
ANECDOTES of the private Lives of his MAJESTY and his amiable QUEEN.
SOON after our gracious Monarch, George the third, ascended the Throne, he became desirous of securing to his Subjects the Blessing of a Protestant Succession. When the nuptial Knot was tied, Queen Charlotte, far from being elated at her Exaltation, showed by her extreme Affability and Condescension of Mind, infinitely superior even to Royalty, an engaging Behaviour, which endeared her to all Ranks of People, whilst her innocent and virtuous Disposition gained so much upon the Affections of her Royal Consort that he became enamoured to an Excess of Fondness; and each revolving Day increased his Happiness, as it increased his Years.
As the German Ladies are generally prolific, her Majesty has produced a numerous Brood of Fondlings. Unlike, in most Things, to our fashionable Dames, her Majesty seems to leave the Management of her Offspring to an unfeeling Nurse, or a prattling giddy Waiting Woman. The Queen watches over her helpless Innocents, and with all the soft Solicitude of maternal Tenderness guides their Infant Steps with a Mother's soothing Hand. Her Majesty is truly sensible, that, as she cannot transfer her Feelings, so neither can she her Anxiety, for her Children's Welfare, to another; and that she abhors the Opinion, too universally received amongst the Ladies, "that attending upon Infants is a servile Drudgery."
It would be needless to recapitulate every minute Occurrence, as we mean not to write a History of our Sovereign's Life, but only to sketch out his Excellencies, for others to copy after so truly illustrious an Example. As our Readers may be solicitous to attend our Monarch into his most private Receives, we have endeavoured to procure every Information which we thought might gratify their Curiosity.
In Winter, his Majesty usually rises between six and seven, and retires to his Devotion in a private Apartment, where he continues near an Hour. In Summer, his Majesty seldom lies longer than six. After Breakfast, his Majesty dresses, and attends the publick Business, if any. Afterwards, he has his Children brought to him, and then retires to his Study to prosecute some new ingenious Discovery, or attend to the Conversation of some Man of Science and Knowledge.
The Queen generally spends the Forenoon with her little Ones; and, as she is to the last Degree ingenious, she is generally employed about Drawing, or most curious Kinds of Needlework, the latter of which is her favourite Amusement.
The King is remarkably temperate, seldom indulging himself in more than four Glasses of Wine at Dinner, and a little Wine and Water at Supper. The Afternoon, if no State Affairs require Consultation, his Majesty spends in reading some favourite Author to the Queen, who has given the best Proof that she thoroughly understands our Language, by conceiving the greatest Attachment to Shakespeare's most esteemed Plays.
As his Majesty was taught to speak with all the Graces of Oratory, by the celebrated Quin, Persons who have Access to his Royal Presence declare that the King reads and speaks more like a Professor of Eloquence than a Monarch, who might be supposed somewhat softened with the Luxury of a Court.
After Supper, his Majesty and the Queen join in private Devotions; and perusing each some moral or religious Author, they retire early to Rest.
Such is the Life, such the Disposition, of our amiable Sovereign. His Court is not filled with "Bacchus and noisy Revellers." It is not an Eastern Seraglio; it is the Residence of Virtue, Science, and Religion. He is the Father of a well governed Family, the fond, the affectionate Husband of the most meritorious Lady in the British Dominions. Their Days are spent in social Comfort, and each rising Morn they experience "high favoured Joy proceeding from Heart-felt Delight."
It is not possible to view this happy Pair without becoming Converts to Hymen, and praising the connubial State in the Language of Milton:
Hail, wedded Love! mysterious Law! true Source Of human Offspring! sole Propriety In Paradise! of all Things common else, &c.
COPENHAGEN, March 24.
COUNSELLOR Struenfee has lost his Courage since his Examination; he even says that he is not in his right Senses, as the Interrogatories he has answered disturb his Brain Night and Day. It is thought this Delirium is occasioned merely by the false Hopes he had entertained, that, after being heard, he should be delivered from his Chains. The Count de Brandt declares plainly that he does not grieve on Account of the Questions that have been put to him, but that he is extremely sorry to be obliged to tell the Truth, to the Disadvantage of his best Friends. Nevertheless, he preserves his good Humour, though he does not joke so much as usual.
PARIS, March 28. We have received Accounts this Week of the Deaths of several Persons, in this Kingdom, who had attained to the Age of upwards of a Hundred Years; amongst the rest, of an Inhabitant of Privas, named Andrew Dulac, aged one Hundred and five, whose Wife, aged one Hundred and three, desired to be carried to his Bed Side before he expired, embraced him, took an affecting Leave, and died two Days after him.
HAMBURG, March 27. Letters from Petersburg advise that the Castle of Moscow is burnt down to the Ground; the Damage is estimated at five Hundred Thousand Roubles. Though that Edifice was called a Castle, it was only a Palace built with Timber, by Order of the Empress Elizabeth, and was constructed in forty five Days and Nights by Count Schuwalow, on Occasion of her Majesty's Birthday.
The Court and Domestic of Queen Caroline Matilda are changed, and at the Head of the former is the Lady D'Athfield. Mention of thirty Thousand Crowns is said to be assigned to her Majesty; it is added, that the Ministers who were sent to her at Kronenbourg, the 8th of this Month, were with her only a Quarter of an Hour, being charged with only one Question, to which they were to receive her Answer. They returned on the 13th, but it is not confirmed that they were attended by Mr. Keith.
We are informed, by good Authority, that the Danish Ministry is not a little embarrassed to find out how to satisfy Colonel Keith, the British Minister at Copenhagen, who has demanded a categorical Answer, in the Name of the King his Master, concerning the Fate of the Queen. It is said that the King of Denmark will soon go to Holstein, and that during his Absence the Counts De Struenfee and De Brandt will be executed. The other Prisoners, it is thought, will be set at Liberty, there not being sufficient Proofs against them to affect their Lives.
WARSAW, March 11. It seems as if a fresh Attempt was apprehended against our Sovereign's Life. The Russians are all Night under Arms, and have placed Piquets in all the Squares, and Cannon in all the Streets; the Castle Guard has been reinforced with one Hundred Men; as soon as it is Dusk Chains are put across the Gates, and no Person in a Carriage is suffered to enter after eight o'Clock, nor on Foot after ten. It is said that these Measures are taken on a Report of some Spies who have been arrested, and who report that more than three Hundred Confederates of Pulawski's Corps are already in the Town, and that more are expected soon. For which Reason General Ribikow is assembling all the Troops he can get, and has already posted a Party in our Suburbs.
DANTZICK, March 10. A Divorce between the Duke Peter of Courland, and the Princess Caroline Louisa of Waldeck, has just been declared; and an annual Pension of six Thousand Ducats has been settled on the Lady.
L O N D O N, April 4.
IT is certain that Prince Masserano, Ambassador from the King of Spain, has, on the Part of his Royal Master, most strongly remonstrated against any British Ships of War entering the South Seas, on the Score of making Discoveries in that Part of the Globe; and has even gone so far as to declare, that, after so just and amicable a Remonstrance, the King of Spain will be under the absolute Necessity of vindicating his own sovereign Rights to those Seas, and consequently shall give Orders to seize all Ships of War that shall be found making Discoveries in or through the South Seas, without a special License from the Crown of Spain. Notwithstanding this hectoring, blustering, Quixotick Language, Captains Cook and Furneaux have received their final Orders for sailing, and most probably will meet with a warm Reception from the Spaniards after they have passed the Straits of Magellan.
Colonel Keith, now Sir John Murray Keith, his Majesty's Ambassador at the Court of Denmark, is appointed to the Command of the forty seventh Regiment of Foot, in the Room of Lieutenant General Lascelles, deceased.
Thursday Part of the Baggage of his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester arrived in the Venus Frigate, and was carried to the Gloucester House in Upper Grosvenor Street. His Royal Highness is expected home the 28th of this Month.
By Letters from Pensacola there is Advice that the French have possessed themselves entirely of the Spanish Trade in New Orleans.
The Pretender was married the 28th of last Month at St. Germain's in France, by Proxy, to a Princess of Stollberg, who set off immediately for Italy to join him.
The King, who has frequently expressed his Disapprobation of the Custom at the Chapel Royal of saluting him at the Altar and from the Pulpit, has now actually given Orders that no Homage shall henceforth be paid in the House of God but to the KING OF KINGS.
His Majesty, we are told, has been pleased to declare, that, on Account of the Dearness of Provisions, he will not order any Regiments to be cantoned near London in Order to be reviewed this Year.
On Wednesday a Woman who pretended to be deaf and dumb, and by Motions told Fortunes, and a Man her Interpreter, were committed to Tothill Fields Bridewell, by Justice Kynaston, for defrauding a young Lady of three Hundred Pounds on Pretence of helping her to a Husband.
April 5. Monday last a Wagon coming to Leadenhall Market, from Hertfordshire, laden with Beef, Pork, &c. was seized by the Populace and sold for three Pence a Pound.
A certain Governor has prepared a Justification of his Conduct, which will speedily be presented to the Publick.
Yesterday a Motion was made in the Lower House for a Committee to be appointed to inquire into the Cause of stopping the Antiguallan Privateer, and her Prize, in the Bay of Cadiz, about thirteen Years ago; when the Motion was rejected, by a great Majority.
The Members of two great Assemblies seem resolved to pique each other as much as possible. The Lower have made some Progress already in refuting an Indignity which they suppose to have been put upon them by the Upper, and are determined, we hear, to have Satisfaction. On the other, Lord Ravenworth made a Motion yesterday, in the House of Lords, relative to the Dissatisfaction of the Commons; and it will be attempted, we hear, to prove that it is frivolous and groundless.
Mr. Charles Fox being lately at a polite Assembly, Somebody asked this young Minister if he could devise any new Method of raising a Supply without taxing the lower Orders of People; to which he instantly replied, that a Capitation Impost upon every Woman that painted, of five Guineas a Year, would bring in an immense Sum; and fall only upon Women of the Town, or upon Women of Quality.
Whatever the State of the Royal Coffers may be, we are assured, from pretty good Authority, that no Application will be made to defray the Arrears of the Civil List this Winter, as the Supplies are all voted, and as it would not only be unusual, but irregular, to make so particular an Attack upon the national Purse, for the private Purposes of the Crown.
Letters from Hanover mention that an Order is issued out for all Officers belonging to the Troops of that Electorate to join their respective Regiments by the 24th Instant.
By a Gentleman arrived in Town last Week from Brest, we learn that a Rear Admiral was to set sail from that Port in a few Days, with three Ships of seventy four Guns, two of sixty and three of forty each, but that their Destination was kept a profound Secret.
April 9. Orders are given for a Detachment of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, and a Quantity of Ordnance and military Stores, to be got in Readiness to be shipped for Bengal, and our British Settlements in the East Indies. Sir Eyre Coote is to go to the East Indies again.
A Gentleman of Consequence has favoured us with the Conclusion of the last Conference between Prince Masserano, the Spanish Ambassador, and our Secretary of State. The Ambassador, after charging the British Court, in a haughty and imperious Tone, with Infraktion of Treaties by some late Orders sent to the British Governors in the West Indies, and by the Design now going to be executed of prosecuting Discoveries in the South Seas, concluded with saying, "That he believed his Master would "not blame him if he was to leave the British Court, on this Occasion, "without taking his Leave." Then (said the Minister, turning on his Heel as he was opening the Door) I wish your Excellency a good Journey, in Case I should not see you again."
Advice was yesterday received that seven Sail of Spanish Men of War were seen cruising in the Straits of Gibraltar.
Five Sail of Men of War, and two Transports with Troops, are ordered to be got ready for Gibraltar.
A new Treaty of Commerce and Alliance is on the Point of being settled between the Courts of France and Petersburg.
It is confidently affirmed that some secret Advices have been received respecting the apparent Designs of a certain Power to disturb the Tranquillity of our American Colonies.
Private Letters from Berlin mention that a fresh Treaty has been just concluded between his Prussian Majesty and the Empress, and that in Consequence thereof Orders have been given for the Prussian Horse now in Podolia to join the Russian Cavalry.
It is reported that Captain Elphinstone, late in the Service of the Empress of Russia, will shortly be promoted to the Rank of an English Rear Admiral, and be employed on an Expedition.
Yesterday there was a full Board of Admiralty, to take into Consideration several Matters of the utmost Importance concerning East India Affairs.
According to a new Plan of American Operations, now under Consideration, it is said a parliamentary Representation, and the Appointment of Persons to act as Consuls in the several Colonies, are proposed to take Place.
Yesterday, at one o'Clock, Mr. Sheriff Bull, and the City Remembrancer, went from Guildhall and presented a Petition to the House of Commons for opening the Port of London for a free Importation of Corn from all Parts of America.

Lord Chesterfield, a few Days since, in Conversation with a celebrated female Historian, was asked by the fair Writer how he could describe the three Georges of the Brunswick Line, so as to give a striking Description of them in the most laconic Terms. I would, Madam, says the Earl, surname the first George the wife ; the second, George the best ; and the third, continued his Lordship, fetching a deep Sigh, George the unfortunate . Extract of a Letter from Copenhagen, March 17.
Yesterday Afternoon upwards of thirty Members of the Commission met at the King's Antichamber; the Business they deliberated upon shall be related in my next. The Words of Command, which were formerly given by the Regiments in the German Language, are now ordered to be in the Danish, as is all other Business in Writing or Printing. The King has appointed the Lord Chamberlain Hans Adolph D'Athlefeldt his Ambassador Extraordinary to the States of Holland. The 17th, 18th, and 19th, Colonel Falkenhiold was under Examination in the Castle. Before he was brought from the New Helm he was desired to get shaved; but as his Hands were to be held by two Serjeants, he refused to be shaved, and had his Beard only cut with Scissors. In the last Examination, he and Count Struensee were confronted; and it was thought that Examination would be the last, as the King ordered that all the State Prisoners Affairs should be finished the 2d of April. Count Brandt remains in his slight Humour, but is very serious when the Clergyman Hee visits him." Extract of a Letter from Copenhagen, March 21.
Count Struensee has been acquainted that his Fate is determined, and that he will lose his Head in a few Days, being found guilty of every Charge that was alleged against him; his Brother has been acquainted with the same, and they were both advised to make Preparations for Death. The latter seems to be insensible, but it is strongly suspected that he feigns it; but if it was real it would not save him, so determined is the Queen Dowager to get rid of them both. The Day is not fixed for their Execution, neither is the Place pitched upon, as it is imagined that the lower Sort of People (who are of Opinion that they have done Nothing worthy of Death) will endeavour to rescue them, for they were both beloved by the Rabble. As to what is intended to be done with our amiable Queen, it is yet unknown, as all the Proceedings carried on against her are kept a profound Secret. The villain M. de Gronich, who has been the Cause of all their Troubles, is set at Liberty, and sent, with a handsome Sum of Money, to reside in Germany. It is expected that most of the State Prisoners will be set at Liberty, after the Execution of Struensee and his Brother. The King is preparing to set out for Norway, to spend a few Weeks, and is to leave the Management of Affairs to the Queen Dowager."
It is a Fact that the Danes are so enraged against the English that all the Messengers who have of late gone from this Court to theirs have, by the express Orders of Colonel Keith, kept within his Excellency's Doors during their Stay at Copenhagen, and never once ventured into the Street, for Fear of being insulted.
From the Marriage of the Pretender, with the Approbation of France, many intelligent People suspect that the Court of Versailles has some Game to play which is not yet sufficiently ripe to be avowed.
The following new Instance of Sharping, which was practised a few Days ago near Utrecht, may be a useful Caution to Shopkeepers, &c. A Person, under the Character of a German Nobleman, attended by his Footman, went to a Watchmaker's Shop. Having examined and bargained for two Gold Watches, he gave the Watchmaker Earnest for them, telling him he had not Cash enough about him to pay the Whole, but that he should leave them till he sent the rest of the Money; and, to prevent their being changed in his Absence, he desired his Servant to give him a little Box out of his Pocket, into which he put them, sealed it with his own Seal, and gave it to the Watchmaker to put by. He then desired to see some other Watches, and while the Watchmaker was engaged in showing them the Footman conveyed another Box, exactly the same, and sealed in the same Manner, into the Place of the One in which the Watches were put, and which still lay on the Counter, after which they went away. Some Time after the Watchmaker began to be uneasy, finding no One coming for the Box; and venturing at length to open it, found therein, to his great Mortification, two Stones.
An old Usurer in Surrey was convicted of taking twenty Pounds per Cent. of two young Ladies for Money lent, besides a Premium of ten Guineas, for which he was sentenced to pay a Fine of fifteen Hundred Pounds.
Yesterday Morning were executed at Kennington Common, pursuant to their Sentence at Kingston Assise, Anthony Welps, an Italian, for robbing and murdering Antonio Janin, a French Gentleman, near Lambeth, and one Kennet, for throwing his Wife out of a Chamber Window, at his Lodgings at Lambeth, which occasioned her Death. Just before they came out of Prison, Kennet desired to be indulged with a Pint of Beer, for himself and his unhappy Companion.
The last Letters from Copenhagen advise that Count Struensee wrote a Letter to the King, on his Birthday, acknowledging his Crimes, and the peculiar Heighnness of his Guilt in conspiring against so gracious a Sovereign, by whom he had been honoured with the highest Confidence; and, as he dares not presume even to hope for Pardon, begs his Majesty will be pleased to order his Chains to be lightened, or his Sentence immediately put in Execution.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland is said to be going abroad, and some give out that it is to pay a Visit to his Brother in Italy.
This Morning Part of the Baggage of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland set out from Pall Mall for Dover, in Order to embark for France.
Yesterday a Motion was made in the House of Commons, by the Honourable Charles Fox, for repealing the Marriage Act, which has given so much Offence to the Nation, and for making a new Act in its Room. Lord North, Edmund Burke, and several others, opposed the Motion. Sir George Savile, Mr. Cornwall, and others, supported it. Mr. Charles Fox answered, with great Spirit, and Force of Argument, the Objections of North, Burke, and the rest. The House divided; and sixty two were for Mr. Fox's Motion, and sixty one against it.
The Insolvent Debtors Bill is ordered to be engrossed. The Commons have passed the Bill for the better securing and preserving his Majesty's Dockyards, Magazines, Ammunition, and Stores.
The Bill for the better observing of the Lord's Day is read the first Time, and ordered to be printed.
On Tuesday the Bill for the better Relief of the Protestant Dissenters was read the first Time, and ordered to be read a second Time on Friday next, and to be printed.
The House ordered that in the Bill for regulating the Settlement of Bastard Children their Settlement shall, in all Cases, follow the Settlement of the Mother.
At a Court of Aldermen held yesterday at C Guildhall, the Petition to the House of Commons for opening the Importation of Corn was ordered to be presented, after a long Debate, by Mr. Sheriff Bull alone, the Majority of the Court of Aldermen being of Opinion that Mr. Sheriff Wilkes is in Parliament for the County of Middlesex, and therefore was exempted from that Duty. Mr. Wilkes insisted on his Right and Privilege, which was allowed by that Court, after a full Hearing.
The Steward to a Nobleman, who lately fled with above ten Thousand Pounds in his Possession, was accused of a Forgery, which was the Occasion of his making off.
Yesterday came on at Westminster Hall, before the Judges of the Court of King's Bench, the Case of James Summerfet, a Negro, who being apprehended by his Master, Charles Stuart, Esquire, and sent on Board a Ship, in Order to his being conveyed to Jamaica, brought his Habeas Corpus, with a View of trying the Point how far a Negro, or Black, is a Slave in England, and consequently entirely at his Master's Disposal. Mr. Serjeant Davy spoke first on the Part of the Negro, and continued his Argument for about two Hours and a Half. He began by showing the Origin of Villainage in England, and how little it was countenanced in the earliest Times, and very forcibly argued that at this Day no Man can be a Slave in England; that the making of Slaves was merely local, wholly dependent on the Laws of particular Places, and that Slavery is created only by Colony Government; that any Slave, being once in England, the very Air he breathed made him a free Man, that is, One that has a Right to be governed by the Laws of the Land, and claim their Benefit equal with any other; that the making Slaves free here would be a proper Check on Proprietors from bringing them over, otherwise, if Slaves were to be considered as in Slavery here, it might not be extraordinary for a Planter to bring over Numbers, and yoke them in Ploughs or Carts instead of Horses; and, after many other judicious Observations, concluded with hoping the Court would concur with him in Opinion, and order Summerfet to be discharged. Mr. Serjeant Glynn next spoke, and argued very strongly on the same Side, showing that Slavery was merely local, and that every Place, except the Place where the Slave comes from, is an Asylum for such Slave; that, suppose a Person was a Galley-Slave, and made his Escape to England, he presumed the Court would never suffer the Master of such Galley Slave to take him hence. He desired Slavery to be an arbitrary Correction, and used many other cogent Arguments for his Client; and concluded, after speaking about an Hour, with hoping, as Serjeant Davy had done, that Summerfet might be discharged. Mr. Wallace and Mr. Dunning were Council for Mr. Stuart; but it being now late, the Court deferred hearing their Arguments till next Term, when it is expected this Matter will again come on.
NEW YORK, May 18.
TUESDAY last the Ship New Hope, Captain Farquhar, arrived here from the Bay. Off the Matanzas she fell in with the Ship Suffolk, Captain Jerman, from Jamaica for London, who on the Night of the 24th of April ran on the north west Part of the Bahama Bank; Captain Farquhar himself meeting with the like Fate at the same Time, as also the Sloop Polly, from Jamaica, for Philadelphia. The two last mentioned soon got off, but Captain Jerman, before he could get his Ship afloat, threw overboard forty Thousand Feet of Mahogany, sixty six Puncheons of Rum, seventeen Hogheads of Sugar, a Steam Cable, a Hauser, some Water Casks, and Gun Carriages; and put on Board the Hope forty four Casks of Rum, six Hogheads of Sugar, six Bags of Cotton, some Sails, and a Cable; and on Board the Polly twenty Puncheons of Rum, and seven Bags of Cotton. The Suffolk afterwards proceeded on her Voyage, and was left well by Captain Farquhar the 3d Instant.
Friday Afternoon Captain Quill arrived here in eighteen Days from Cape Nicola, and informs that on the 26th Ult. a French Officer, with a Party of Soldiers, boarded all the Vessels at the Mole at Night, under Pretence of looking for Defectors, and carried ashore the Captains Davies, Grenell, Tucker, and Brown, and a Mate of one Captain Martin, and confined them in Jail for thirty Hours, but then set them at Liberty.
PHILADELPHIA, March 14.
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in LONDON to his Friend in PHILADELPHIA, February 1.
COOPER and HORROX have presented a Petition for an American Bishop, and are moving every Spring to support this pious Institution. Counter Petitions ought to be forwarded from every Opponent of this Design. Lord North wishes to know upon what Grounds to oppose it, and Bilborough is not friendly to it; but the virtuous Duke of Grafton is, I am told, very zealous. Something should certainly be done, but I think no one Denomination of Dissenters should singly take the Weight of the Matter upon them.
WILLIAMSBURG, June 4.
THE Arnold, Waterman, from London, and Sarah, Drew, from Bristol, are arrived in York River.
Captain John Ross, of the Sloop Speedwell, desires, through our Gazette, to have an Opportunity of making his publick and most grateful Acknowledgments to Captain Charles Hay, of his Majesty's Sloop Tamar, bound to Cape Fear, for his very humane Treatment of himself and People, when in Distress at Sea, the Middle of last April, and for the seasonable Supply of Provisions and other Necessaries he afforded them, after lying by them two Days, in a hard Gale of Wind, before he could get a Boat out to yield them that Relief without which they must inevitably have perished.
Advertisements.
Just IMPORTED, and to be SOLD by the Subscriber, near the Church in Williamsburg,
A NEAT Assortment of PLATE, WATCHES, and JEWELLERY, consisting of Silver Cans; pierced, oval, and round Salts; Tu-reen, Punch, and Pap Lades; Table and Tea Spoons; Spring Tongs; chased Cream Buckets; plain Silver Watches, of various Prices; Paste and plain Combs; Springs and Pins; Crystal, Paste, and other Earrings; Corals and Bells; Paste Shoe, Knee, and Stock Buckles; Brooches; Thimbles; fashionable Silver and Pinchbeck Buckles; Mocha Sleeve Buttons in Gold, set round with Marcasite; Crystal Ditto in Gold and Silver; Triangle, and other Seals, in Gold, Silver, and Pinchbeck; plain and ornamented Lockets; Diamond, and other Rings; Loop, studded, and Chain Spurs; Ladies and Gentlemen's Steel and Pinchbeck Watch Chains; Steel, and common Keys; chased Etwee Cases, and Instruments; Pearl, Bugle, Marcasite, Wax, and Venetian Necklaces; with a neat Assortment of TOOLS and MATERIALS in the different Branches of his Business, &c. &c. &c. JAMES GEDDY.
N. B. The Reasonableness of the above Goods, he hopes, will remove that Objection of his Shop's being too high up Town, as he proposes to sell any Article exceeding twenty Shillings Sterling at the low Advance of sixty two and a Half per Cent. and the Walk may be thought rather an Amusement than a Fatigue.
MOURNING RINGS, and all Kinds of ENGRAVING, done at the same Shop by WILLIAM WADDILL.
Just IMPORTED, and to be SOLD by the Subscriber, in Williamsburg, at a very low Advance,
A LARGE Assortment of SILVER WORK and JEWELLERY, namely, Tea Spoons and Tongs; Silver Shoe, Knee, and Stock Buckles; Silver Thimbles, with Steel Tops; set Shoe, Knee, and Stock Buckles; Hat Ditto; Necklaces and Earrings of various Sorts; Lockets, Springs, and Paste Pins; Ladies Silk Instrument Cases; Morocco Ditto; Paste Combs; Crystal Stone Buttons; Mocha and Satch Pebble Ditto; neat Smelling Bottles; Mens and Womens Steel and gilt Watch Chains; gilt Shoe, Knee, and Stock Buckles, Pinchbeck Ditto, &c. &c. BLOVET PASTEUR.
FOR SALE, A CHOICE and well assorted Cargo of MILLINERY and other GOODS, just imported from London. Inquire at the POST OFFICE.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Pursuant to an Act of the last Session of Assembly, the Court of Surry County stands adjourned to the fourth Tuesday in June. WILLIAM NELSON, Clerk.
JUNE 4, 1772. THE SNOW FRIENDSHIP, with all her Tackle, Apparel, &c. will be sold at NORFOLK, for ready Money, on Thursday the 11th Instant. ELBECK, ROSS, & Company.
For LIVERPOOL, And will sail in fourteen Days, THE Ship LYDIA, Thomas Dean Master, Burthen two Hundred Tuns, only seven Months old, Philadelphia built, and has complete Accommodations for eight or ten Cabin Passengers. For Passage apply to the said Master, or to me in Norfolk. JOHN GREENWOOD.
TWO Hundred very likely African SLAVES will be sold at Peterburg, on Thursday the 11th of this Instant (June.) The Terms of Payment will be made known on the Day of Sale. Tobacco at the Cash Price, and Merchants Notes payable in Williamsburg, will be received; and five per Cent. will be discounted for ready Money. HUGH M'MEKIN. NINIAN MENZIES. JOHN WALKER, & Co.
N. B. The SLAVES are all remarkable healthy, and none of them exceed twenty five Years of Age.
FOR SALE, ABOUT twelve Hundred Acres of very valuable LAND on each Side of Great Duckers Creek, in the lower End of Buckingham County, none of it cleared, is well watered and timbered, and an exceeding fine Place for Stock. The Land on this Creek produces as large Tobacco as I ever saw grow on high Land. Any Person inclining to purchase may know the Terms by applying to me, in Buckingham. ANTHONY WINSTON. N. B. The Land lies about ten Miles above Mr. George Wright's, in Cumberland County.
To be SOLD on the Premises, the last Thursday in July, pursuant to the Will of John Price, deceased,
A TRACT of LAND containing about three Hundred Acres, with good Improvements, and lies convenient to Churches, Grist Mills, and Lloyden's Inspection of Tobacco on Rappahannock River. Possession to be given the 1st of January next, Credit for Half the Money to that Time, and for the Balance to the 1st of April next, on giving Bond and Security to ANNE PRICE, Executrix. JOHN LEE, Executor.
To be SOLD, next Superior Court to be held on the 22d of September, at Hillsborough, for the County of Orange, in North Carolina,
SEVERAL valuable Tracts of TOBACCO LAND, the Whole consisting of about ten Thousand Acres, well watered, situated on the Waters of Back Creek and Saxapahaw River, to which is contiguous a very good Summer Range, and many other Advantages. Twelve Tracts, containing from about two Hundred and fifty to six Hundred Acres, are already surveyed, and several more will be when Purchasers offer. Any Persons inclining to become Purchasers may view the several Tracts from the 1st of July to the first Day of the Court, by applying to George Lathbury, on the Premises. The Quitrent is only Sixpence a Hundred Acres, Proclamation Money; the Lands are situated in the Haw Fields, twelve Miles beyond Hillsborough, and bounded by Haw River. Good Titles will be made to the Purchasers, by GEORGE LATHBURY.
G. WALKER, Attorney for Sussanna Meade.
To be SOLD on the Premises, on the 17th Instant (JUNE) pursuant to a Decree of the Court of Chancery,
THE Land and Tenements belonging to the Estate of Miles Gale, deceased, joining the Town of Edenton, in the Province of North Carolina. Twelve Months Credit will be allowed the Purchaser, on giving Bond, with approved Security, to the Administratrix of Colonel Francis Corbin, deceased.
To be SOLD at private Sale,
THREE Hundred Acres of LAND in Chesterfield, near the Town of Petersburg, whereon is a good Dwellinghouse, and other convenient Houses and Orchards. For Terms apply to the Subscriber, on the Premises. JOHN MARTIN.
HANOVER Town, May 23, 1772.
STRAYED from Colonel John Bofwell's, in Hanover County, on the 17th of this Instant, a black HORSE with a Star in his Forehead, about eight Years old, fourteen Hands high, has a hanging Mane and Bob Tail, and may perhaps be galled by running in a Chair; he paces in the Saddle, but has no Brand. He formerly belonged to Doctor Read of Louisa County, and probably may be gone that Way. Whoever will bring the said Horse to me shall be genteelly rewarded, and have Charges paid. JAMES DENNISTOUN.
FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
RUN away from the Subscriber, a Convict Servant Man named GEORGE HARDGRAVES, about five Feet eight Inches high, wears his own light coloured Hair, and has lost a Piece of the upper End of one of his Ears; he had on, and took with him, a blue great Coat, a blue close bodied Coat, two blue Waistcoats, and a red Waistcoat, the Back of which is of a paler red, a Pair of Sailor's Trousers, two Pair of Shoes, and five or six Pair of Worsted Stockings. I expect he will endeavour to pass for a Sailor, and get on Board a Vessel. Also run away, at the same Time, another Convict Servant belonging to Clement Dale; he is about five Feet ten or eleven Inches high, wears a white Broadcloth Coat with a white Velvet Cape and yellow Buttons, a Worsted Waistcoat striped with red, a Pair of good Buckskin Breeches, ribbed Stockings, and large plated Buckles. Each of them had a fine Caster Hat. Whoever contrives the said Servants to us, in Culpeper County, or secures them so that we may get them again, shall have the above Reward, or in Proportion for either of them. EDMUND TERRILL. CLEMENT READE.
A BALE of RUGS, marked C R No. 1, imported last Fall in the Chatham Frigate, Captain John Anderson, not being come to Hand, the Subscriber will be much obliged to any Person with whom it may be lodged to forward it to him at Rocky Ridge. JOHN TURNER.
NORFOLK, May 23, 1772.
Just imported from London, in the Cochran, Captain Duthie, an Assortment of MEDICINES; to be sold by the Subscriber, Wholesale and Retail, at a low Advance, for ready Money. ALEXANDER GORDON.
ALL Persons indebted to the Subscriber, either by Bond or open Account, are requested to meet at his Store in Sussex County on Saturday the 13th of June, when the Debts due by Bond are expected to be discharged, and those due by open Account to be reduced to Specialties, with Security if required. There being a Necessity for the Subscriber to settle his Affairs, he flatters himself due Regard will be paid to this Advertisement. JOHN ATKINSON.
GLOUCESTER Courthouse, May 21, 1772.
NOTICE is hereby given that a great COCK MATCH, which was made some Time ago to be fought at the Battery in this County, is now agreed by the Gentlemen concerned to be fought here on Whitson Monday.
To be SOLD,
FOUR Hundred Acres of LAND lying on Beaverdam Fork, on Clink Creek, in Louisa County. The Terms may be known by applying to Mr. David Clifham, who lives convenient, and will show the Land to any One inclining to purchase. ELIJAH GRAVES.
Just IMPORTED from London, and to be SOLD by the Subscriber at his Shop in Williamsburg, cheap, for ready Money,
A VARIETY of Williamson and Son's best SATIN SHOES and PUMPS; white, blue, and black CALIMANCO SHOES and PUMPS; also CHILDRENS MOROCCO and CALFSKIN SHOES and PUMPS. ROBERT GILBERT.
To be SOLD at publick Vendue, at the SWAN Tavern in York Town, on Monday the 22d of June,
ALL the personal Estate of JAMES MITCHELL, deceased. Six Months Credit will be allowed, on giving Bond and approved Security. All Persons who have any Demands against the said Estate are desired to bring in their Accounts, that they may be adjusted; and those who are indebted are requested to make immediate Payment to JANE MITCHELL, Executrix.
RUN away from the Subscriber, a Negro Fellow named JEREMIAH, about thirty Years of Age, speaks good English, and sensibly, one of his Legs is smaller than the other, and turns a little inwards; he has been used to the South I believe was born in the West Indies, and now suppose him to be gone towards Norfolk. I will give TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward, besides what the Law allows, to any Person who secures him in any Jail till I get him again, and FORTY SHILLINGS if delivered to me in Bedford. WILLIAM DUDLEY.
COMMITTED to SMITHFIELD Jail, a Negro Man named TOBY, who says he belongs to Thomas Pritchett of the County of Pasquotank, in the Province of North Carolina; also a Negro Man who says he is the Property of Lucy Turner of Southampton, in Virginia. The Owners may have them on proving their Property, and paying Charges. JOHN TAYLOR, Jailor.

POETS CORNER.
Advice to Country Ladies against the introducing of LONDON FASHIONS among them.
FRAUGHT with each Fashion in its highest Taste, The Milliners from Town return in Haste...
CHESTERFIELD, May 18, 1772.
STRAYED from Osborne's, in September last, a COW and HEIFER, and a dark red CALF...
COMMITTED to Charles City Jail, on Tuesday the 10th Instant (May) a Negro FELLOW...
WANTED, on Charter for Port Glasgow, a VESSEL that will carry four or five Hundred Hogsheads of Tobacco.
TO BE LET, THE WELL ACCUSTOMED SWAN TAVERN IN YORK TOWN.
IMPORTED in the Annie, Robert Pollock, last Fall, and not come to Hand, the following PACKAGES:
AS I intend for GREAT BRITAIN some Time in the ensuing Fall, I beg the Favour of all those who are indebted...
LOST between this and Burwell's Ferry, or left at some House where I have been doing Business, two MEMORANDUM BOOKS.
GRAY'S CREEK, May 20, 1772. ALL Persons indebted to me are desired to make immediate Payment...
MANCHESTER, May 12, 1772. SOME Time ago Hooper and Jones's BOND was left with me to receive Payment...
THE Subscriber, at PITTENWEEN, just below the NEW DISTILLERY, near NORFOLK, has for Sale WEST INDIA RUM...
To be SOLD, pursuant to a Decree of the Honourable the General Court, at publick Auction, on the Premises...
TRACT of LAND, in the County of Northumberland, belonging to the Estate of the late Mr. John Smith...
Just IMPORTED by the Subscriber, and to be SOLD at his Store in PORTSMOUTH, for ready Money...
WELL assorted CARGO of GOODS suitable to the Season, among which are SWEETINGS from one Shilling...
To be SOLD at PUBLICK AUCTION, on WEDNESDAY the 10th of JUNE, TWO LOTS in the Town of Portsmouth...
For SALE, SEVERAL Thousand Acres of LAND in the Counties of Mecklenburg, Halifax, and Pittsylvania...
WILLIAMSBURG, May 20, 1772. STOLEN, or STRAYED, from the Subscriber, the 9th Instant, a large bay HORSE...
TAKEN up, in Bedford, five Head of CATTLE, namely: A brindled STEER with a Star in his Forehead...
TAKEN up, in Amherst, nine HOGS, namely, three red Sows and a red Barrow...
TAKEN up, in King William, two HEIFERS, one of them a brindled Colour...
A BOX, marked G B S, No. 35, containing Silver Ware, Pocket Books, &c. the Property of Robert Gilmore...
I INTEND to leave the Colony very soon. ANDREW CRAWFORD.
AS Mr. Andrew Crawford, late Factor, in Essex, for James Ritchie and Company of Glasgow, Merchants...
To be SOLD, on moderate Terms, A TRACT of LAND lying on Meherrin River, in the upper Part of Southampton County...
For SALE, ALL that Tract or Parcel of LAND lying in Fauquier Parish, in the County of Gloucester...
To be SOLD by the Suiscribers, Mortgagees of Mr. Peter Copland of Pittsylvania, and the said Mortgagee...
SIX Thousand Acres of valuable LAND, lying on Smith's River, Beaver and Reedy Creeks. It is laid off in small Lots...
STOLEN, on Saturday Night the 25th Instant, a dark bay HORSE about fourteen Hands high...
To be SOLD at Edenton, North Carolina, on Tuesday the 16th of June next, by publick Vendue, TWENTY five valuable SLAVES...
THE Subscriber, Executrix to the Estate of her late Husband, Matthew Rothery, deceased, hereby requests all those who have any Demands against the Deceased...
For SALE, THE following Tracts of LAND, in Pittsylvania, namely, four Hundred Acres on Banister River...
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Isle of Wight, a Negro named JACK, about five and thirty Years of Age...
JAMES HALDANE, COPPER SMITH and BRASS FOUNDER from Philadelphia, in Church Street, near the Church, Norfolk.
MAKES and sells all Sorts of COPPER and BRASS WORK, namely, Still, Brewing Coppers, Sugar Boilers...
To be LET on LEASE, A VERY large and commodious HOUSE in the Town of Petersburg, built for a Tavern...
For SALE, THE LAND whereon I live, in Middlesex, containing about two Thousand two Hundred Acres...