The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1772-02-27 00:00:00

VIRGINIA GAZETTE.
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The NORTHERN ELOPEMENT: Or, the Amours of the Scotch Worthies, Lady MARY SCOTT and Captain SUTHERLAND.
LADY Mary Scott, the Heroine of our Story, is Daughter of the present Earl of Errol, by his first Wife, who was Daughter to Alexander Lockhart, the Norton of the Scotch Bar. Being descended from such Parents, where is the Wonder if she be a fine Woman! Every Spectator may remember that when her Father walked in Procession at the Coronation, as hereditary High Constable of Scotland, he eclipsed the rest of his Peers in the Beauty of his Person; and we can assure our Readers that her Mother was not inferior in personal Accomplishments. It is not yet forgot how many white Handkerchiefs wiped the streaming Eyes of the Fair when her Grandfather, Kilmarnock, felt the Edge of the Axe on Tower Hill. Their tender Hearts relented at the Sight, and forgave his Ingratitude and Treason to his Sovereign. Lady Mary is worthy of her Progenitors. Tall, elegant, and admirably well proportioned in all her Limbs, she has fair Tresses that might excite the Envy of the Paphian Queen. Her Complexion may be more easily conceived than described; it is as pure as the driven Snow. The Features of her Face are regular and expressive, and there is in her Eye a melting Softness which Nothing can withstand. Whoever has seen her at the London Assembly (for she has honoured that Place with her Presence) move like one of the Graces, will find his own Heart the most powerful Advocate for the Treachery of Captain Sutherland.
To all these Circumstances add that she is but eighteen Years of Age, the Season of Love, and you will not wonder that she made an indelible Impression on the Heart of a young Man who had Nothing to engross his Attention but the Ladies. The only Thing which ought to surprise us, if indeed any Effect of her Beauty could surprise, is that she could captivate a Man of General Scott's Character so far as to make him conclude, in the Ardour of his Passion, a Match of Love; yet this is actually Fact. Except her Person, Nothing worth mentioning came by the Marriage into his Family. The Kilmarnock Estate having been forfeited by the Imprudence of the late Earl, her Father had only the Wrecks of the Fortune, and could therefore make no Settlement on his Daughter suitable to her Birth; for though he had, according to the common Policy of the Scotch Nobility, adhered to the opposite Side, and kept his Captaincy in the Guards, his Interest was not sufficient to secure any Thing but what descended to him in Right of his Mother, who was not only Countess of Kilmarnock, but sole Heiress of the Earldoms of Callender, Linlithgow, and Errol. But the Ruins of these Estates were but ill qualified for filling up the Breaches made in the Family Fortune, by the Father's Adherence to the Cause of the Pretender.
In Spite of these Disadvantages, Lady Mary made an entire Conquest of General Scott, who was, by his Acquaintances, deemed rather a bold Man to venture on such a young and buxom Bride: With Pope's Justin, they would say,
What! at these Years to venture on the Fair! By him that made the Ocean, Earth, and Air, To please a Wife, when her Occasions call, Would bury the most vigorous of us all; And, trust us, Sir, the chastest you can choose Will ask Observance, and exact her Dues.
Regardless as January of these Insinuations, and depending on his own Wisdom, he stood out against every Remonstrance, with the Obstinacy of George himself.
What then, you will ask, was the General's Age at this memorable Era? According to himself, he had hardly completed the mystical Number Forty Five; but the Envious and Malevolent insisted that he was nearer his grand Climacterick. Be this as it will, he was still hale and strong, and no disagreeable Figure; being of a middle Size, robust, and fresh coloured, the natural Consequences of his Manner of living. At sixteen he entered into the Army, and served many Campaigns as an inferior Officer. Though the Family Estate at Balgenie, in Fife, which is not despicable, was sufficient to procure him Respect, he found that neither it nor his Connexions had Weight enough to raise him in the Service. It is only of late that Lord Mansfield, his Relation, is become omnipotent. Hence his Youth passed in
Obscurity; a Subaltern having few Opportunities of distinguishing himself in the Field, and the first in Command making generally Prize of all the Honour.
Our Hero, who is not destitute of Sagacity, observing these Obstructions to his Preferment, and being perhaps inclined by Nature to imitate the Prudence of his Friend Mansfield, studied the Art of shuffling the Cards instead of wielding the Spontoon. Hoyle was with him a greater Favourite than Cæsar or Polybius, and he attended with much more Anxiety to the Revolutions of a Game at Whist than to the various Turns of Fortune in the most famous Battle ever fought by the King of Prussia. In short, he was an absolute Macaroni, and became a distinguished Character at Almack's. Not that he played at Random, with the Heat and Indiscretion of our young Nobility: Far from trusting to the fickle Goddess Fortune, he endeavoured to command her Attention by Address and Dexterity. Never did Locke make greater Preparations for developing the hidden Powers of the human Mind, never did Newton give more intense Application to the Solution of a mathematical Problem, than the General discovered in the Management of the four Aces. In Order to keep himself cool, he generally dined at home upon Chicken Broth, and drank but little Wine. Hence, when he stumbled of an Evening into the Temple of Fortune in Pallmall, he was sober as a Judge; while his Antagonists were, in the Seaman's Phrase, Half-Sea over. Hence, he frequently came home with his four or five Thousand Pounds in his Pocket of a Night. But if, notwithstanding all his Precautions, Luck ran against him, he made it a settled Maxim never to lose above a fixed Sum. Thus he secured himself against any great Blow, without giving the opposite Party any just Ground for being angry with him for interrupting the Career of his Success. We do not, however, hear that he observed any such Rule when he happened to be on the winning side.
By the regular Observation of this Plan, he accumulated an immense Fortune; being, after Sir Laurence Dundas, the richest Commoner in Scotland. Nor are there many in England to whom he is inferior in that Respect, if, as we are credibly informed, he be worth above four Hundred Thousand Pounds. Certain it is, however, that he has lent two Hundred Thousand Pounds upon very good Security; an alarming Proof of the extravagant Height to which Gaming is carried in the present Age. It is not that we would mark out the General as an unfair Player: No Stain of that Nature lies upon his Character, though, since the Days of Chartres, he is the greatest Gamester Europe has seen.
It might naturally be expected that a Man who acquired Money with such Ease and Expedition would have a Relish for Gallantry, and be extremely liberal to the Ladies. Our Hero had a different Turn. Whether it was, that, from the constant Habit of seeing the Heap increase, his Heart became contracted, or that he had a-mind, in Spite of Lord Bute, to show that Scotch Economy was not a Fable, his Name was never very popular among the Fair. Most of those Nymphs with whom he used to relax himself after the Fatigue of the Gaming Table speak but meanly of his Generosity; and yet a Pittance would have made them happy, as they were not of high Degree. Fond neither of the Demi-Reps of Quality, nor of distinguished Courtezans, he was never known to keep a professed Mistress. Too troublesome and expensive, they would have diverted him too much from the Prosecution of that Plan upon which he intended to build his Fortune and his Fame. Till his Connexion with Lady Mary, he never distinguished himself in the World of Gallantry, except in the Character of what the Ladies of Augustus's Court called Ancillariola; a Term of Reproach for one who carried on Amours with Maid Servants and low Wenchess. Many of these his Pimps and Panders, and particularly his Housekeeper, decoyed into his Service, where they officiated, in more than one Character, till they proved with Child, or he became cloyed with Possession, and longed for a new Object to provoke his languid Appetite.
His Schemes for trepanning Innocence were not always successful. The Prosecution against Lord Baltimore for a Rape happened to be in Agitation while he had a young Girl locked up in his Bedchamber for the Night. She was saved by threatening to commence an Action of the same Nature if he offered Violence. Another was left pregnant when he went
abroad to join his Regiment. Being distressed with Want, the poor Wretch at his Return petitioned for Relief. He told her, that, if the Child had been a Boy, he would have taken Care of him; and, after much Entreaty, dismissed her with ten Pounds. This Conduct may have perhaps been owing to the feudal Notions which still prevail in Scotland, and which make the Gentry consider the Happiness of the common People as of no Consequence. Having never reasoned or philosophized much upon Brag or Piquet, he had no Time to get rid of the Prejudices of Education, and to perceive that the inferior Ranks of Society were not, like the Brute Creation, solely made for the Use of the Great; at least his Behaviour to Lady Mary, and the Captain, would incline us to put this favourable Construction upon such unjustifiable Proceedings.
Such is the Man whom, by the Persuasions of Friends, and the Allurements of Fortune, our Heroine honoured with her Bed. The first Fruits of their Union, if a Male, was, by the Marriage Articles, to have a Hundred Thousand Pounds settled upon him and his Heirs for ever; the second was to receive twenty Thousand Pounds; and the rest of his Fortune was to be equally divided among their common Issue. The Jointure of Lady Mary amounted to fifteen Hundred a Year; a sufficiently ample Provision.
Notwithstanding all these flattering Prospects, she found a Void in her Heart, which it was not in the Power of the General to fill. He was old and grave, she young and gay. The latter loved Toying and Trifling, the former was past that Age. The one required a constant Attendance, and a Succession of Amusements; the other, from Habit, and a Passion for Money and Gaming, found no Amusement, for a Length of Time, in any Thing but Cards, and could give his Attendance only at Almack's. The Debates of the Lower House, to the unimpaired neither the Tropes of Burke, nor the Sarcasms of Barré, nor the elegant Flow of Wedderburne, afforded him Half so much Delight as the chinking of Guineas showed over to his Side of the Table.
In this Opposition of Sentiment between him and his Rib, what was to be done? He could not recall his Youth, nor did he choose, in Imitation of Italy, to furnish her with a Cicisbeo; such an Establishment in his Household would have frustrated his Intentions of providing a true and lineal Heir to his Estate. In Order to render every Thing solid and sure, a trusty Person was appointed both to watch her Conduct and to make the Hours seem less tedious in the General's Absence. And who should this trusty Person be? Not a Duenna, you may be sure: British Ladies must not be treated like Slaves; they abhor your Spanish Padlocks and Duennas. The Guardian Angel of her Virtue was the General's Friend, Captain Sutherland, a young Man about thirty, and a Grandson of Lord Duffus's, who was attainted in the Year 1715 for being engaged in the Rebellion, and forfeited the Family Estate. With this gallant Youth, who has a fine Person, and is therefore, though no Wife-acre, apt enough to engage the Affections of the Fair, my Lady made Shift to pass the long Winter Evenings pretty agreeably. Being a near Relation, and almost a Child of the General's own Creation, no Suspicion of Infidelity could be entertained. If the Sanctions of Religion, and a Sense of Duty, should not be sufficient Restraints upon her, yet it was supposed that the Ties of Gratitude, and the Fear of Ruin, would infallibly keep her within Bounds. The General never attended to the Observation of Manley, in the Play, that if you are made a Cuckold it is by your Friend, because your Enemy has no Access to your House; and that if your Honour is sullied it is by your Friend, because your Enemy is not believed against you.
This Security proved the Bane of all the Parties. My Lady, having soon discovered that her Husband was not so young as she could wish, began to pay a particular Attention to the Captain. Never easy without his Company, she would frequently desire him to wait upon her to the Play, to the Opera, to Ranelagh, or some other Place of publick Resort, and there discovered much more Pleasure in conversing with him than in listening to the Entertainment of the Evening. When they happened to be playing alone, at All-Fours, she would often fall into a Reverie, and throw down a Trump for a common Card. Waking from her Dream, she would sigh, and cry out, "I

"believe, Captain, I am bewitched, for while I should be minding my Hand I am watching the Illue of the Game in your Face." "In mine, Madam!" "Well--I talk foolishly--how old, Captain, do you think the General may be?" "Upon my Word, my Lady, I never examined the Parish Register." "But I with you would, for my Satisfaction; for I do think he has imposed upon me in that Particular. O, Captain! that he were but as young and handsome, and as gallant, as you!" "My dear Madam, you are too partial to your humble Servant." "Why so, Captain?" "Because to a Lady of your unequalled Beauty, and irresistible Charms"---"Hold, hold, for Fear you stand Self-confuted; I think you know One to whom they have not proved irresistible." He blushed, the smiled, and they understood one another. From this Time they ogled, passed mutual Compliments, and interchanged Marks of Tenderness and Affection; till, at last, they began to think it meritorious to provide an Heir to the old General's Estate. Whether the Child that was fathered upon the Husband was the Fruit of their Dalliance cannot be positively affirmed, but certain it is that he is now extremely glad the Child is no more; because its Legitimacy would be always questionable. So far, however, was he, good easy Man, from suspecting their Intimacy, that, by the Persuasions of his Lady, he invited the Captain to pass the Summer Months at his Country House in Fife. The usual Summons was no sooner given than obeyed. The Parks, the Gardens, the Arbours of Balgenie, were inviting Scenes to Lovers; their Privacy and Retirement brought to their Minds the Idea of Paradise.
In this Elysium they found frequent Opportunities of being alone without exciting the Jealousy of Scott, but they were not equally lucky with Respect to his Domestic: An Argus-eyed Housekeeper, who used to be sole Mistress of the House, and did not relish the Resignation of her Authority, perceived their Familiarity, and gave the Hint to her Master. Accordingly he began to watch their Conduct; and finding that they whispered too often, and that he was too assiduous at her Toilette, he called the Captain one Day aside, and said, "Captain, my Regiment has been "for a long Time in America; the Lieutenant Colonel is absent as well as the Major, and I have not seen it for a Series of Years; yet it is a Duty incumbent on me to keep it in good Condition. You may easily see that it is very inconvenient for me to take "such a long Voyage, at the present Juncture. You are "disengaged: I would therefore esteem it a Favour if "you would go, and report to me its present State." Struck with conscious Guilt, the Captain immediately perceived that this was a Sentence of Banishment, and said that he would take the Matter into Consideration; but instead of examining the Merits of the Case flew directly to Lady Mary, who was in De- fair at the Nows. Impatient of a Separation from her Paramour, she proposed an immediate Elopement. He was too gallant, and had proceeded too far to retire. Accordingly his Servant engaged at the next Town a Carriage to convey them to the Ferry at Kinghorn.
[The Remainder in our next.]
HAMBURG, November 29.
Major General Weiffman having passed the Danube at the Head of a considerable Body of Troops, the Turks who composed the Garrison of Tulcea, Babadagh, Izaccia, Meschin, Koisoff, and Basbin, being seized with a Panic upon his Approach, ran away and left those Fortresses to our Troops, who immediately took Possession of them. The Booty which our Troops took upon this Occasion was immense, and General Weiffman thought proper to block up the Fortifications of all those Places. At the same Time Lieutenant General Essen attacked a Body of Ottoman Troops posted in the Neighbourhood of Giurgewo, and routed them; and General Prince Dolgorouki was detached to attack Giurgewo, which he took without much Loss.
PARIS, December 7. The Sieur Gilles George Gerard, Curate of Berticourt, in the Diocese of Beauvais, died a few Days ago, in the ninety second Year of his Age. He has left a Brother eighty two Years old, one Sister ninety four, and another eighty six. His Servant, who survives him, is turned of seventy five, and had lived with him fifty nine Years. Amongst his Effects are two Horses, each of them above twenty five Years old.
LONDON, December 7.
The Duke of Cumberland's Guards are taken away; and a Bill is preparing not only to make the King's Consent indispensably requisite in all future Marriages of the Royal Family, but to exclude the Issue of such Marriages as have been lately entered into, without that Consent, from succeeding to the Possession of the Crown.
The Friends of the Ministry give out that no extraordinary Supplies will be required for the next Year's Service.
The Accounts that have appeared in the Papers, relative to the Duke of Cumberland's being utterly discarded by a great Personage, are absolutely false. His Royal Highness's Return to England was by the express Permission of his Brother; and Cumberland House, in Pallmall, is now getting in Readiness, as the Duke and his Dutchess are to come to Town next Week, to reside there for the Winter.
One Day last Week one of the Yeomen of the Guards addressed Lord North, as he was passing through the Guard Chamber, in the following Manner: "My Lord, there is now almost three Quarters of a Year's Salary due to us, and we have many of us large Families, and Provisions are very dear; I hope your Lordship will take this into Consideration." To which his Lordship returned: "Very well, very well, these are Things of Course." Upon this dissatisfied Answer the Yeoman immediately formed a Resolution of selling out his last fifty Pounds to pay his Debts, and support his Wife and Children. This is a Fact.
This Morning arrived in the River the Esther Transport from Gibraltar, by which there is Advice of a fresh Insurrection of the Natives in the Island of Corsica, in which they had cut off upwards of three Hundred French Troops.
Letters from Paris mention that the French King has demanded a free Gift of forty Millions from his Clergy; but that they hoped to moderate the Demand, as the largest free Gift ever made has not exceeded thirty Millions.
An Express arrived last Night at St. James's from Copenhagen, which brought Advice that the Queen of Denmark is far advanced in her Pregnancy.
Certain Advice is received from Petersburg that Doctor James's Powder has been administered, in the petulantial Fever at Moscow, with the greatest Success; and that Doctor Holiday, an English Physician, has been sent thither from Petersburg, with a large Quantity, for the Relief of those who are affected with that Distemper.
A few Nights since Lady Bridget--being in the Stage Box at Drury Lane Theatre, when the Comedy of The Hypocrite was performed, in which there are several Passages of Latin, Lady B-- applied to a Mascara , who sat behind her, for an Explanation. The fine Gentleman told her that it was Dog Latin , and that he could not explain it. It is very strange , replied Lady B-- that a Puppy should not understand its own Language .
Yesterday was tried, in the Court of Common Pleas, a Cause wherein a Dutchman was Plaintiff, and the Colonel of a British Regiment Defendant. The Action was brought for Hay, Straw, and Oats, furnished by the former to the latter in the Course of the last War, and was laid at three Thousand five Hundred Pounds. The Defence was, that the British Officer acted only for Government, and consequently was not liable. The Court seemed to be of that Opinion; but the Jury thought otherwise, and in about four Minutes returned a Verdict for the Plaintiff, with two Thousand Pounds Damages.
This Evening the Grand Jury for the City of London, at the Old Bailey, found a Bill of Indictment against Dudley for wilful Perjury, in making Affidavit before the late Lord Mayor, Bras Crosby, Esquire, that he was concerned in the Fire at Portsmouth, by swearing he was at such and such Places at Portsmouth, on July the 14th and 25th, in 1757, the contrary of which was fully proved by some reputable Gentlemen at that Place.
Yesterday came on at Doctor's Commons, before Doctor Betterton, a Cause brought by Lord Ligonier against his Lady, for a Divorce, for criminal Conversation; and the Lady making no Defence, and the Fact being clearly proved against her, the Judge was pleased to pronounce for the Divorce.
Two remarkable Instances of good Fortune are told of Mr. Joshua Mendez, an eminent Broker in the City: In a former Lottery, he had two five Thousand Pound Prizes in one Day; and in the present, one Day brought him a two Thousand Pound Prize in the English, and another a two Thousand Pound Prize in the Irish Lottery.
Our Letters from the North are filled with the Distresses of the miserable Inhabitants, occasioned by the late terrible Inundation. Many Families, who before were in good Circumstances, have lost their All, and are in Want even of the Necessaries of Life. Subscriptions are opened for their Relief.
Wednesday last one Thomas Clark, a Miller, of Drewsteingon, near Exeter, undertook, for a Wager of five Shillings, to go to and from thence to Chagford, which is seven Miles, and a hilly bad Road, six Times in eleven Hours, and performed it in nine Hours and three Quarters. He went the first seven Miles within the Hour.
By the Martin Sloop of War, arrived a few Days since from Jamaica, an Account is received of two of the principal Planters, Men of immense Fortune in the Island of St. Domingo, having been lately executed there, by Order of the French Governor, for circulating some of the English Papers from Boston and Virginia, which they had translated, in Order to excite the People to support their Liberties after the Example of the British American Subjects.
The Hawke, Williams, from South Carolina, bound to London, laden with Rice, &c. is entirely lost near Penzance, in Cornwall, and Part of the Crew perished.
December 10. We are told that the Queen is again pregnant; she was not at Chapel on Sunday, but had divine Service performed in her Chamber, being slightly indisposed.
We hear that Preparations are making at Gloucester House, in Upper Grosvenor Street, for the Reception of his Royal Highness the Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester.
Saturday his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, and his Dutchess, paid a short Visit to Windsor Lodge. They were both in an open Pillion, drawn by Cream coloured Horses, and his Highness drove the Carriage. Their Stay was not more than three Hours.
It is asserted that the violent Anger against the Duke of Cumberland, and the Excommunication under which he now lies, is only a State Farce, and that all Matters are cleared up.
The Prince and Princess of Brunswick are expected at St. James's soon after Christmas, and we are told that two crowned Heads will also make London their Residence for a few Months in the next Spring.
It is said that a great Personage has signified his Disapprobation of the Intention of the Ecclesiastical Petitioners.
The following is handed about, at the west End of the Town, as a true Copy of the Letter which Mrs. Horton sent to his Majesty some Time after her Marriage with the Duke of Cumberland was publicly known.
"Gracious Sire, "The late Event in which your Royal Brother and I are (I fear) too nearly concerned, and which has already made so much Noise in the World, has, I am unhappy to hear, met with your Royal Disapprobation. If I have done amiss, it is my warmest Wish to have an Opportunity of throwing myself at your Majesty's Feet to beg for Pardon. May the divine Judge  Veri  gracious Sire , if the Errors of the Head are even unpardonable, some Lenity is to be shown to those of the Heart; and if to endeavour to reclaim a generous, but heedless Youth, from Levities which were more the Effect of good Nature than of bad Principle; if to recall a Heart that was wandering after Pursuits unworthy of it, and fix it to one steady Point; if to collect his scattered Thoughts, regulate his Passions, and lead him finally to Virtue; if these are Purposes worthy of Mercy, worthy of Royal Grace, witness Heaven how sincerely they are mine, and how faithfully I am, gracious Sire, your loving Subject and Servant."
The Civil List, comprehending all his Majesty's Servants, has been paid up to the 5th of July last.
A very considerable Bet is laid that the Vote of the Irish Commons, declaring the Pension granted to Jeremiah Dyson burthenfome and unnecessary , will be declared null and void in England.
Lord Shelburne, Sir Robert Bernard, and Colonel Barré, are now at Paris on their Return from Spain, and are expected here next Week.
This Day, about four in the Afternoon, the Sittings before Lords Mansfield ended in Westminster Hall. In the Course of these, sixty seven Causes were tried, and three compromised; of the former, were six for criminal Conversation.
By the Packet, Cox, from Minorca, there is said to be Advice that an Algerine Row Galley had taken the Friendship, Carter, from Leghorn to London, and carried her into Algiers; and that Sir Peter Dennis had just despatched a Man of War to demand Restitution thereof, with ample Satisfaction for the Injury.
By the Master of a Vessel from Lisbon, we are informed that the French King had threatened to recall his Minister and Consuls from every Place in Portugal, if some Infringements, of which his Subjects complain, are not immediately removed.
They write from Jamaica that a Spanish Man of War had taken two Dutch Sloops, richly laden, on the Coast of Campeachy, freighted by the Merchants of Curaçoa, on a clandestine Trade with his Catholic Majesty's Subjects. Both their Cargoes are valued at six Hundred Thousand Pounds.
A young Lady, Heiress to a considerable Fortune, made her Escape from a Nunnery at St. Omer's in France, where she had lately been sent from England.
A certain young Nobleman, just come of Age, was stocked the other Morning, at a Chocolate House near Pallmall, for seven Thousand Pounds, at Piquet.
Advice is received that the St. Amand, a French Man of War of sixty Guns, bound from Brest to Martinico, laden with Guns, Ammunition, and other warlike Stores, is totally lost within a few Leagues of Martinico, and all the Crew drowned.
Yesterday Levi Weil, Ashur Weil, Jacob Lazarus, alias Hyam Dresden, alias Hyam Lazarus, and Solomon Porter, alias Solomon Moses, were executed at Tyburn for the Robbery and Murder at Mrs. Hutchinson's, at Chelsea. Their Wives and Children were admitted into the Press Yard to take their Leave of them before they set out. The Priest did not attend at the Gallows, but gave each of them a Book in the Press Yard. When they came to the Place of Execution they prayed and sung about a Quarter of an Hour amongst themselves, and were turned off about Half past ten. After they had hung the usual Time, their Bodies were taken down and carried to Surgeons Hall, for Dissection. Levy Weil (the Physician) is to be anatomized, and hung up in Surgeons Hall. They all denied the Fact, but particularly Porter, who persisted in his Innocence to the last. It is said no Jew was ever dissected in this Nation, till these unhappy Convicts.
Marcus Hartough and Lazarus Harry (Accomplices with the four Jews executed yesterday) were tried for Burglary in the House of Mrs. Sarah Barclay, and acquitted. Hartough is to be removed to Hartford, to take his Trial at the next Assize, for Robbery in the House of Mrs. Deighton, of Wormley.
The Jewish Synagogue has much Credit with the Publick for its Activity in apprehending the Miscreants executed yesterday, as well as those in Custody. The utmost Vigilance, even of that excellent Magistrate Sir John Fielding, was defeated in the Pursuit, and the Synagogue itself expended a very large Sum to promote the Ends of publick Justice.
Extract of a Letter from Plymouth, December 4. Yesterday Morning the Tyne's Bay, Kellic, from London for St. Vincent's, was driven on Shore, in this Port, and beat to Pieces; the
Captain, chief Mate, and four Seamen, were drowned. Near the same Place, the Rachel, Henry, from New England for London, was driven on Shore near the Belt; the Captain and Crew are saved, Ship and Cargo entirely lost. The Henry Dawkins, from London for Jamaica, having lost the Head of her Mainmast. The Bayfleet, Callen, from Surinam for Amsterdam, having cut away her Main and Mizzen Masts, to prevent her oversetting; her ground Tier of Sugar being washed out. A Sloop, laden with Corn and Flax, was left in the Pool. Much Damage is done to the small Craft and Wharfs, the Sea having risen ten Feet above common Spring Tides.
A Regiment of Soldiers is to be sent to Jamaica in the Men of War which are soon to sail from Plymouth and Portsmouth for that Island.
December 11. This Day was received from Captain Stott, Commander of his Majesty's Ship Juno, in seventy Days from Port Egmont, the following Account of the Execution of his Commission to receive the Possession of Falkland's Island, in his Majesty's Name. On the Evening of the 13th of September last Captain Stott arrived at Port Egmont with his Majesty's Frigate Juno, Heund Sloop, and Florida Storehip, under his Command. The next Morning, seeing Spanish Colours flying, and Troops on Shore at the Settlement formerly held by the English, he sent a Lieutenant to know if any Officer was there, on Behalf of his Catholic Majesty, empowered to make Restitution of Possession to him, agreeable to the Orders of his Court for that Purpose, Duplicates of which he had to deliver to such Officer. He was answered, that Don Francisco de Orduna, a Lieutenant of the Royal Artillery of Spain, was furnished with full Powers, and ready to effect the Restitution. Don Francisco soon after came on Board the Juno, when Captain Stott delivered to him his Catholic Majesty's Orders. They then examined together into the Situation of the Settlement and Stores, adjusted the Forms of the Restitution and Reception of the Possession, Instruments for which were settled, and reciprocally delivered. On Monday the 16th of September Captain Stott landed, followed by a Party of Marines, and was received by the Spanish Officer, who formally restored him Falkland's Island, Port Egmont, its Fort, and other Dependencies, giving him the same Possession as his Majesty had before the 10th of June 1770; on which he caused his Majesty's Colours to be hoisted, and took Possession accordingly. The next Day Don Francisco, with all the Troops and Subjects of the King of Spain, departed in a Schooner which they had with them.
December 12. No less than three Expresses were received yesterday, at St. James's, from the Earl of Grantham at Madrid.
Advices are said to have been received from the Right Honourable Lord Grantham, British Ambassador at the Court of Madrid, informing that his Catholic Majesty is desirous of having the Difference relative to the late Affair at Carthagena adjusted in an amicable Manner, and that he promises to make all the Satisfaction that the Court of Great Britain can reasonably require for the Insult offered to the British Flag.
Earl Temple was yesterday at the Levee and Council, and after the Business was over had a long private Conference with his Majesty.
The Duke of Grafton has lately had several private Conferences with his Majesty at the Queen's Palace. His Grace has been offered the Vice-royalty of Ireland, but it is said he will not accept it unless it is secured to him for seven Years.
Yesterday Afternoon a Messenger arrived at St. James's with the News of his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester being in tolerable Health at Rome the 5th Instant, and that he will set out from thence the 14th for this Kingdom.
The Reverend Mr. St--ns, who married the Duke of Cumberland on the 2d of October last, had a Salary of one Hundred Pounds settled upon him immediately after the Ceremony.
It is whispered, by the Moderators at the west End of the Town, that the only Way to heal the Differences in Ireland is to send over Lord Chatham to succeed the present Viceroy; and it is even said that such a Design has been hinted to his Lordship's Friends, by the Desire of a great Personage, but we have not heard what Reception the Proposal met with.
A Gentleman upon the Ben Ton , who is pretty conversant in the Matters of Gaming, says that a Calculation has been made that no less than a Hundred and fifty Thousand Pounds have been lost by young Noblemen and Gentlemen within these four Months in the Purlieus of St. James's and Covent Garden, without their having any Chance of winning.
They write from Brest that a French Snow in the Slave Trade, on the African Coast, had lately been surprised by the Natives to leeward of Cape St. Mary's, who murdered seven of the Crew, and obliged the Remainder to run the Ship on Shore.
By the late Inundation in the North the Town of Yarm, in the County of Durham, has suffered most severely. The Gentlemen are quitting it for ever, and those in Trade seem at present to be in some Degree doubtful whether they shall rebuild and repair, or pitch their Tents in some safer Situation.
Yesterday Morning, about eleven o'Clock, the Sessions ended at the Old Bailey, when nine Persons received Sentence of Death, among whom were Powell, for defrauding the East India Company of upwards of five Hundred Pounds, by counterfeiting the Hand Writing of Mr. Taylor Barrow, his Brother in Law, and Burch and Martin, for forging the Will of Sir Andrew Chadwick, whose Sentence had been respited for the Opinion of the Judges. Nine Judges had met, and Baron Perrot delivered their Opinion, that they must abide by their former Sentence. Mr. Davis, the Surgeon at Egham, convicted of robbing the Mail, was so ill as to be obliged to be held up by two of the Runners while Sentence of Death was passing on him.
Yesterday Morning John Shoales, a Dane by Birth, was executed at Execution Dock, pursuant to his Sentence at the last Admiralty Sessions, for Felony and Piracy on the high Seas. He was attended by a Danish Clergyman, and behaved with the greatest Penitence and Devotion, and acknowledged the Justice of his Sentence.
December 13. Yesterday Captain Stott, of the Juno, returned from receiving Possession of Falkland's Island, was presented to the King by the Earl of Sandwich, first Lord of the Admiralty, was most graciously received, and had the Honour of kissing his Majesty's Hand.
We hear that Lord Viscount Townshend is to continue his Station as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland during the present Session in that Kingdom, and that no Person has been appointed to succeed him, as mentioned in some of the Papers.
A Tax is proposed in the Irish House of Commons, by the Country Members, of two Shillings upon every Barrel of Ale or Beer, containing thirty two Gallons, imported from any Part of Great Britain into any Part of Ireland; and it was positively asserted, that, by the Customhouse Books, forty Thousand Barrels of Porter only are sent from London to Ireland, besides a prodigious Quantity of Ales, particularly Wellish.
The Irish Parliament have no positive Right to strike off such Pensions as are granted by the King's Letters on the Revenues of that Nation, but they have a Power nearly equal, which is to raise no more Money than they think proper; and this they will certainly exercise on the present Occasion, to the great Mortification of Government.
On the 3d Instant the Poll for a Member for the City of Dublin, in the Room of the late Doctor Lucas, concluded, and stood as follows: For Doctor Clement one Thousand five Hundred and twenty one, for Alcerman Geale one Thousand and seventy nine, whereupon Doctor Clement was declared duly elected. The temperate Manner in which this Election was conducted reflects the highest Honour on the Citizens of Dublin, who determined not to put their favourite Candidate to any Expense on their Account.
Advice is received from Denmark that his Majesty has established a School there for educating the Sons of Sailors in all the useful Parts of Navigation, and also an Academy for the Sons of deceased Gentlemen to learn Drawing, and all the useful Branches in the military Way, and that both the above are upon the same Plan as the Drawing Schools in the Tower and Woolwich.
There is a Talk that the King and Queen of Denmark are expected in England early in the Spring, but some say only the Queen.
Extract of a Letter from Penzance, December 9.
"On the 17th Instant was wrecked, in this Port, the Hawke, Williams, from South Carolina for London, laden with Mologany, Logwood, Rice, &c. The Vessel is entirely lost, but Part of the Cargo will be saved; five of the Men were drowned, and eleven saved. Stranded at the same Time, the Duke of Cornwall, Purchase; the Endeavour, Castle; and the Newnham, Salmon; but will be got off again. Almost all the Boats in the Port are lost, and most of the Houes and Cellars near the Water Side are washed away, together with the Wharfs, &c."
Yesterday came on at Doctor's Commons, before the Chancellor of London, a Cause brought by Mr. B--t, Surgeon, who lives fourth of London Bridge, against his Wife for Adultery. The Fact being fully proved, that the Wife had committed Adultery, the Judge was pleased to pronounce for the Divorce.
We are informed the Duke of Cumberland applied to the Lord Chancellor to intercede with a great Personage for his Highness's Admission to Court, but the former geately excused himself.
A Discovery has been made at Paris, by a Nurse on her Death Bed, which has occasioned an Order to be made to forbid any Person's giving Surgeons, Midwives, or Nurses, Fees at the Death of their Patients. The wicked Wretch has declared that she has destroyed upwards of forty Ladies for the Sake of the Perquisites of Linen, &c.

Lord Baltimore's Will came over last Monday from Italy. His Lordship has appointed Hugh Hammerley, Robert Eden, Robert Morris of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister, and Peter Provost, Esquires, Trustees and Executors, with an Annuity to each of one Thousand Pounds for Life, and one Thousand five Hundred Pounds to be divided among them; and he has bequeathed to Sophia Hales and Elizabeth Hales, Infants, Daughters of Elizabeth Dawson, Spinster, two Thousand Pounds each, and one Thousand Pounds to their Mother; to Charlotte Hope, Daughter of Elizabeth Hope, two Thousand Pounds; to his Sisters, Caroline Eden, and Louisa Browning, ten Thousand Pounds each; to Henry Herford, Son of Heister Rhelan, of the Age of fourteen, his Province of Maryland, and all his real and personal Estates, at the Age of twenty one; and in Case of his Death before twenty one, to his Sister, Frances Mary Herford, and her Heirs; and he also gave to the said Frances Mary Herford thirty Thousand Pounds, and to the said Heister Rhelan an Annuity of two Hundred Pounds a Year for Life.
Mademoiselle Henail has twelve Hundred Pounds for dancing at the Opera House this Season; she receives Half her Salary from the Macaroni Club, and the other Half is paid by the Managers.
December 17. The Expense attending the Equipment of the Navy, the Increase of our Land Forces, together with all the various Preparations for a War with Spain, amounts, we are assured, to three Millions Sterling; and the Value of Falkland Island is estimated at about five Shillings Value, of American Currency.
A great Man, speaking on the Affair of Falkland Island last Sunday, at St. James's, observed, that now the People had got their favourite Rock again into their Possession it was ten to one but they grumbled at the Expenses attending the Recovery, and exclaimed against the Government for increasing the national Debt to obtain an Object so notoriously inconsiderable.
Several political Screech Owls, who eternally love Misfortune, tell us that Spain has only patched up a Peace with us, and that the Moment she is in a Condition for War she will commence Hostilities. Let us even suppose this Prediction an absolute Fact, still are we to do an Injustice to prevent the Spaniards from being unjust, and to enter into a positive War at present through Fear of being forced into one upon some future Occasion by the Ministers of his Catholic Majesty?
A Correspondent observes that there is but little Room, on Account of Mr. Wilkes's Poverty, to suppose he is a Spy in the Pay of France. Was he employed by the Court of Versailles in so infamous a Character, People would be very affluent; and therefore, from the Embarrassment of his Affairs, disbelieve a Report of so deadly a Nature to his Reputation. Others again imagine that Mr. Wilkes's real Poverty is very problematical, insisting that Policy obliges him to wear the Appearance of Distress; first, with a View of getting his Debts paid by Strangers, and secondly, with a Design of covering his Connection with the French Ministry.
Though the Irish House of Commons have voted the Supplies demanded by Government, they have voted them upon a new Principle, and given Administration very little Occasion for rejoicing. Formerly, when the Parliament of Ireland granted an Aid, they laid a Duty upon some particular Branch of Trade, and appropriated the whole Revenues to his Majesty's Use. In such Appropriations, Care was always taken that the Duty brought in much more than was required for the ostensible Expenditure which it was to defray; and the Crown, by this Means, got a large Surplus upon all the Revenues, to gratify the Avarice of Pensioners. The Misapplication of publick Money, however, is now at an End; a specific Sum being given to his Majesty for national Purposes, subject to parliamentary Controul, and dangerous to be prostituted in the Arts of Venality.
Yesterday a special License was taken out in Doctor's Commons, for the Marriage of Sir Watkin William Wynne, Baronet, with Miss Grenville, Daughter of the late George Grenville, Esquire, and Niece to Earl Temple.
Lord Baltimore's personal Property is estimated at above one Hundred Thousand Pounds, and the two natural Children whom he has left are remarkably accomplished for their Time of Life; the Son is a most amiable Boy of fourteen, and the Daughter a most beautiful Girl about twelve Years.
To so great a Pitch of Extravagance was a certain new made Duchess arrived, before she married, that notwithstanding she had a Jointure of six Hundred Pounds a Year, it is said that at the Time of her Marriage she was above twelve Thousand Pounds in Debt.
The Victory of General Essen over the Body of Turkish Troops which was posted over against the Fortress of Giurgewo, and the Defeat of the Grand Vizier, by Major General Weiffman, are now fully confirmed; and the Advantages, it appears, are greater than were at first known. The Consequences of these important Events are, the Loss of the whole Camp and Baggage, and more than one Hundred and sixty five Pieces of Artillery. The Iron Cannon were burnt or sunk in the River, and the one Hundred and sixty five Pieces of Brass Cannon were carried off by the Victors. To these Successes we may add the retaking of the Fortress of Giurgewo, and the demolishing the Fortresses of Isakzia, Babadag, Tulcza, Medzin, and Hirsikowa. And what is still better, these Events have obtained for the Russian Troops safe and quiet Winter Quarters, especially as the whole Turkish Army is now at a great Distance from the Banks of the Danube.
Yesterday three Jews were taken in Wimpole Court, Petticoat Lane, on a Suspicion of being Accomplices in the Murder and Robbery at Mrs. Hutchinson's, near Chelsea. Nineveh, the Fellow who forced the Pistol to her Mouth, by which he cut her Lip, and loosened a Tooth, is one of the Number. They were carried before Sir John Fielding, who committed them, for further Examination.
Extract of a Letter from Crofton, November 17, O. S. Captain Josias Walker, of the Adamant, is just come up very leaky, having been on Shore on the Reef of the Pitters, and brings us the melancholy News of leaving about sixteen Vessels, English and others, most of which he fears are stranded on the Pitters, and other Islands thereabouts. This happened on the 28th of October at Night, in a hard Gale of Wind from the North, and prodigious thick Weather.
Extract of a Letter from Plymouth, December 13. Last Saturday Morning, and the Evening before, we had, on a high Tide, very rough and turbulent Weather. Two Vessels came in by Distress; one an outward bound Indiaman, with Goods from London. Before she could come to Anchor the Storm was so violent that it drove her on the Rocks; upon which a Vessel just by, at Anchor, seeing their Distress, put out their Boat to her Assistance. The Master, Mate, and three Men, leaped into it, but before they could get to their Oars the Mast broke off and fell upon the Boat, and it sunk immediately; all were drowned, but all taken up and buried on Tuesday last. The other Vessel was loaded with Wheat; she was also tossed on the Rocks, all the Cargo spoiled, but the Men all saved. The Water was higher than ever I saw it. We have very dismal Accounts from Cornwall, all along the Coast.
BRISTOL, December 19. All the Marshes from Powderham to Exminster have been laid under Water by the Wind blowing a Storm at South east, nearly at the Top of a Spring Tide, whereby three Hundred and twenty eight Sheep, and a few young Bullocks, were drowned; but the older Bullocks, Horses, and a great Number of Sheep, saved their Lives by swimming to the higher Lands. And the Houses and Cellars on the Key at Plymouth received much Damage, by the Tide running so high. No Boats are admitted on Board his Majesty's Ship the Juno, lately arrived at Plymouth from Falkland's Island.
HARWICH, December 6. Two Dutch East Indiamen, outward bound, have, by contrary Winds, been detained at Helvoetsluys some Time. Near a Hundred of their Crew have died lately of a Fever, which rages so much that four Hundred more of them have caught the Infection, many of whom die daily.
WORCESTER, December 5. On Saturday a violent Quarrel happening between one Noakes and his Wife, near the Parish of White Lady Aston, a poor Man of the Neighbourhood, very unfortunately, yet with a kind Intention, interfered in the Matter, when the Woman, in her Rage, stabbed him in two or three Places in his Belly, of which Wounds he died on Tuesday. The Woman is committed to Bridewell.
WILLIAMSBURG, February 27.
This Day the Honourable the House of Burgesses presented the following Address to his Excellency the Governor, in Consequence of his Message to them respecting his Clerk's Fees.
My LORD, WE, his Majesty's dutiful Subjects, humbly beg Leave to return your Excellency our unfeigned Thanks for your very candid and polite Message. It affords us the highest Pleasure and Satisfaction to find your Excellency so cordially disposed to cultivate with the Country that agreeable Harmony which will undoubtedly conciliate to you the Affection of his Majesty's loyal Subjects of Virginia, and thereby establish our mutual Happiness upon the most solid and permanent Foundation. We bear the greatest Respect to your Excellency's important and exalted Station amongst us, and think there is a Necessity for supporting the Honour and Dignity of our Governor; but, my Lord, give us Leave, on this Occasion, humbly to represent to your Excellency that we con-
sider the Emoluments of Government, as by Law established, adequate, and amply sufficient, for those Purposes. The Fees which appear to have been received by the Clerks of your Excellency's Predecessors, for issuing Commissions for the Appointment of publick Officers, and which we are now, for the first Time, regularly informed of by your Lordship's Message, are unknown to our Laws; and therefore we cannot sufficiently applaud your Lordship's Wisdom and Goodness in embracing, so early, an Opportunity of expressing your Willingness, if they should be found disagreeable to us, as they really are, to have them totally abolished. To which his Excellency was pleased to return the following ANSWER.
Mr. SPEAKER, and Gentlemen of the House of Burgesses. I AM obliged to you for your polite Address; and as you are of Opinion that the Fees received by the Clerks of my Predecessors, for issuing publick Commissions, were illegal, I will not only take Care that my Clerk shall not in future receive any, but also that he shall return those which he has received since my Arrival in this Colony.
The Brothers, Captain Emms, from Bristol, is arrived in York River; the left that Port the 29th of December, at which Time there was no Account of Captain Cawley.
The Pomona, Dunlop, belonging to Messieurs William Cuningham and Company, of Glasgow, was lately overset off Cape Clear, on the Coast of Ireland; but the Crew saved themselves on the Bottom of the Ship, where they remained some Time until taken up by a Man of War, who carried them into Portsmouth. Upon the Loss of this Vessel the same Gentlemen freighted the Ship Margaret, Captain Speirs, and sent her out, to take in the Loading designed for the Pomona; but she was forced ashore in the Night of the 15th Instant, twenty Miles to the southward of Cape Henry, and the Hull entirely lost; the Crew, with the Rigging, Anchors, and Cables, were saved.
By Letters from Grenada, we have the melancholy Account that more than two Thirds of the Town of St. George, in that Island, was burned; the Damage estimated at two Hundred Thousand Pounds, Half of which, it is said, was insured in London.
The Trimley, Page, from London, and the ———, Dunnett, from Rotterdam, are arrived in Potomack; and the Elizabeth, Leitch, from Glasgow, in James River.
The several Gentlemen who have the Collection of Accounts due to this Office are desired to return those which remain unsettled by the first Opportunity, that the necessary Additions may be made to them.
Advertisements.
WILLIAMSBURG, February 27, 1772.
ABOUT three Months ago we advertised, As run away, a likely Negro Woman, about twenty six Years of Age, known by the Name of SALL COOPER, and who had lost a Joint of the Finger next the little One of her left Hand. She is not yet returned, and, from the Length of her Absence, it is probable she may have escaped out of the Colony. Whoever delivers the said Runaway to us, or to Mrs. Braxton, in King and Queen County, shall have FIVE POUNDS, instead of the Reward before offered, if she be taken within this Government, and TEN POUNDS if elsewhere. JOHN BLAIR. JAMES BLAIR.
WESTMORELAND, February 1, 1772.
THE Subscribers being determined to act no longer as Trustees for Gilbert Campbell, Esquire, therefore beg the Creditors, by whom we were appointed, to meet at the March Westmoreland Court next ensuing; and, being then ready for a Settlement, we shall expect to get a Discharge. WILLIAM FLOOD. HUGH HAMILTON.
RICHMOND, February 18, 1772.
AS I intend for England by the 1st of May next, and to return in the Fall, I beg the Favour of all who are indebted to me to have their Accounts settled before my Departure; such as remain unpaid will be left with Mr. James McDowall, Merchant, of this Place, who is properly empowered to collect the same, and pay all just Demands against me. The Shop in Richmond, in Partnership with Ludwick Warrock, will be continued, and properly supplied with fresh Medicines yearly, on the very best Terms. JAMES CURRIE.
RICHMOND County, February 2, 1772.
AS my Ferry for Boats, and proper Attendance, is inferior to none in the Colony, and I find it troublesome in collecting the Debts due from different Persons to the same, am resolved, for the future, that no Indulgence shall be given, MOORE FAUNTLEROY.
KINGSTON Parish (Gloucester County) February 14, 1772.
ANY Person that will be in Want of any PINE PLANK for House Building, or any Thing else, may be supplied by the Subscriber in a short Time, who has ten Hands employed that Way for this Year; also Scantling of any Kind, good Pine Heart Shingles, which I will warrant to be as good as any Cypress, Laths for plastering upon, Garden Posts, Pales, &c. or, in short, any Thing in the Timber Way. I would undertake small Buildings, and find the Whole if agreeable. Any Person in Want of the above may depend on having them on good Terms, and as good Timber as any in the lower Parts of the Country. EDWARD HUGHES. * * I shall have a twenty five Hoghead Flat built by May, and then can send Plank, &c. to any convenient Landing.
THE Badness of the Weather having prevented my attending the Sale of Stitt's Land, on Herring Creek, in Charles City, agreeable to a former Advertisement, I do hereby give Notice that I shall offer it for Sale, on the Premises, on Thursday the 19th of March, with easy Payments. ROBERT WALKER, Executor.
CHESTERFIELD, February 25, 1772.
ON Tuesday the 19th of March will be sold, for ready Money, at the late Dwellinghouse of Captain Edward Wilkinson, deceased, all his HOUSE and KITCHEN FURNITURE, and some HORSES. 2|| BENJAMIN BRANCH, Executor.
To be SOLD, on Credit, or exchanged for Negroes, A VALUABLE Tract of TOBACCO LAND, containing twelve Hundred and sixty Acres, on Nottoway River, in Brunswick, thirty Miles distant from Petersburg, and within a very few Miles of two considerable Merchant Mills. Whoever is inclined to exchange, or purchase, may know the Terms by applying to Mr. Robert Walker, in Dinwiddie, Mr. Daniel Fisher, in Brunswick, or to me, at Weiland, in Mecklenburg. 2|| PEYTON SKIPWITH.
TAKEN from my Waggons, about eight Miles above Petersburg, on the 20th of November last, two black HORSES, one of which is about nine or ten Years old, between fourteen and fifteen Hands high, Ewe-necked, with a Switch Tail and hanging Mane, and much rubbed with Harnass, his Brand forgot; the other is about fourteen Hands and a Half high, six Years old, with a Switch Tail and hanging Mane, a Star on his Forehead, some white Hairs about one, or more, of his Feet, but his Brand, if any, is not remembered; neither of them pace, but trot and gallop well. At the same Time was left, a small bay HORSE that appears to be six or seven Years old, with a Star in his Forehead, no perceivable Brand, has a small hanging Mane, and a Bob Tail. He shall be taken good Care of, and moderately used, till the Owner applies for him. Whoever brings me the said Horses shall be handsomely rewarded. 2|| PEYTON SKIPWITH.
To be SOLD, pursuant to the Will of Peter Gillum, deceased, on Thursday the 4th of June next, at Hanover Courthouse, being Court Day, A TRACT of LAND containing three Hundred and sixty Acres, with a Plantation, Orchards of all Sorts of Fruit Trees, and about seventy Acres of cleared Land. It lies about five Miles above Hanover Courthouse, and is very well wooded and watered. Six Months Credit will be allowed for one Half the Money, and twelve Months for the other, giving Bond, with approved Security, to WILLIAM & JOHN GILLUM, Executors. * * An undoubted Title will be made, 2||
JUST arrived at Leeds Town, the Justitia.
Captain Gillies, in forty Days from London, with near two Hundred healthy SERVANTS, Men, Women, and Boys, among whom are many Tradesmen, namely, several Cabinet Makers, House Carpenters and Joiners, Blacksmiths, Whitesmiths, Gold and Silversmiths, several Tailors, both Men and Women, Mantua, Stay, and Habitmakers, Milliners, &c. Shoemakers, Bricklayers, many Weavers and Gardeners, a Barber and Peruke-maker, a Chair Carver, a House Painter, a Stone Cutter, a Brazier and Copper-smith, a Jeweller and Engraver, a Currier, several Schoolmasters, many Farmers, &c. The Sale will commence on Wednesday the 26th of February, by Wholesale, at Leeds Town, but shall begin to retail immediately. A reasonable Credit will be allowed, giving Bond, with approved Security, to THOMAS HODGE.
STRAYED, or STOLEN, from the Subscriber,
some Time in December last, a bright bay HORSE about four Feet seven or eight Inches high, eight or nine Years old, paces very little, trots and gallops, has a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, and is branded on the near Buttock EL in a Piece. As I understand he was bred by Charles Lewis, at Buck Island, Albemarle County, he may have made that Way. Whoever delivers him to Andrew Chalmer, in Richmond Town, or to the Subscriber, in Amherst, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, and FIVE POUNDS on Conviction of the Thief. THOMAS LUMPIN.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Chester-
field, a likely Virginia born Mulatto Lad named PRIMUS, about nineteen or twenty Years of Age, five Feet seven or eight Inches high, squints a little with one Eye, has a Scar on his Forehead, occasioned by a Stroke from a Stick when a Boy, he is very active, runs and walks upright, and is very artful. He has been a Preacher ever since he was sixteen Years of Age, and has done much Mischief in his Neighbourhood. I expect he will endeavour to pass for a Freeman, and perhaps may change his Name. Whoever takes up the said Lad, and conveys him to me, in Chesterfield, on James River, or to my Overseer (John Traylor) on Appomattox River, shall have THREE POUNDS Reward if he is taken in Virginia, and FIVE POUNDS if out thereof, besides what the Law allows. SETH WARD.
RUN away from the Plantation of Colonel
Clairborne Anderson, deceased, a Negro Man named JEMMY, of a yellowish Complexion, about five Feet ten Inches high, and about eighteen Years of Age. He is supposed to be at Mr. John Clack's, in Brunswick, who formerly owned him. Whoever brings the said Fellow to me, in Chesterfield, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, besides what the Law allows. 2|| R. CRAWFORTH ANDERSON.
TAKEN up, in Albemarle, a black Mare
about four Feet six or seven Inches high, with a Blaze in her Face, all four Feet white, two white Splotches under her Belly, a hanging Mane and Tail, branded on each Shoulder W, and on the near Buttock C. Posted, and appraised to eight Pounds. RICHARD BENNATT.
TAKEN up, in Albemarle, a small bay Mare with a bushy Mane and Tail, and branded on the near Shoulder C. Posted, and appraised to three Pounds. RICHARD BENNATT.
A SINGLE WOMAN that has been used
to take Care of Children, and can bring with her a good Recommendation, may hear of a Place by applying to the Printer.
E. ARMSTON (or perhaps better known
by the Name of GARDNER) continues the School at Point Pleasant, Norfolk Borough, where is a large and convenient House proper to accommodate young Ladies as Boarders; at which School is taught Petit Point in Flowers, Fruit, Landscapes, and Sculpture, Nuns Work, Embroidery in Silk, Gold, Silver, Pearls, or embossed, Shading of all Kinds, in the various Works in Vogue, Dresden Point Work, Lace Ditto, Catgut in different Modes, flourishing Muslin, after the newest Taste, and most elegant Pattern, Waxwork in Figure, Fruit, or Flowers, Shell Ditto, or grotesque, Painting in Water Colours and Mezzotinto; also the Art of taking off Follage, with several other Embellishments necessary for the Amusement of Persons of Fortune who have Taste. Specimens of the Subscriber's Work may be seen at her House, as also of her Scholars; having taught several Years in Norfolk, and else where, to general Satisfaction. She flatters herself that those Gentlemen and Ladies who have hitherto employed her will grant her their farther Indulgence, as no Endeavours shall be wanting to complete what is above mentioned, with a strict Attention to the Behaviour of those Ladies intrusted to her Care. Reading will be her peculiar Care; Writing and Arithmetick will be taught by a Master properly qualified; and, if desired, will engage Proficients in Musick and Dancing.
To the PUBLICK.
WHEREAS the Subscriber has actually erected a Mill, in full Size, to be worked by Water, for threshing Wheat, or other Grain, on which, at present, there can be no Experiment made for Want of a proper Quantity of Grain in the Straw; and as some Person, in the mean Time, may deprive him of the Benefit of this Invention, by copying his Model, he is therefore induced, by this timely Notice, to inform those few Gentlemen who were Subscribers to his Proposals, and all others who choose to encourage this Undertaking, that he intends, as soon as possible, to have the said Mill proved by a fair Trial, an impartial Detail of which shall be published in this Gazette, with the Observations of those Gentlemen, who will see the Experiment made, relative to every Convenience, and Inconvenience, attending the Machine.
The Subscriber will engage fifty Bushels of Grain to be beat out of the Straw in twelve Hours, with only three Hands to attend the Mill; and, on proper Encouragement, will warrant double that Quantity in the same Time. Should his Expectations be answered, Models of the Machine, to be worked by Hands or Horses, may be had, on easy Terms, for the Use of those who have no Streams of Water convenient.
It is hoped this Attempt will escape (at least till a fair Trial) the ungenerous Remarks of those who want publick Spirit themselves, and too often discourage it in others; as the Farmers of this Colony greatly want Something of this Sort, and can never have Experiments made on better Terms than are here proposed.
Persons of generous Sentiments will doubtless think it laudable to promote any Scheme apparently intended for publick Good, when Success is warranted by the Undertaker, although it may appear to them chimerical. With Zeal to serve the Publick, I am,
NEW KENT, } Their humble Servant, FEBRUARY 13. } || WILLIAM MASSIE.
TAKEN away from off Toe's Marshes, a
GRAPLIN about two Hundred Weight, with a Cable about fifty Fathoms long, and seven Inches thick. It was slipped and lost there in the Gale of Wind of the 26th of January last, with a large Skid for a Slip Buoy. Whoever conveys the same to me, at York Town, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS for his Trouble. THOMAS LILLY.
THE Badness of the Weather having prevented
any Person from attending the Sale of Mr. Benjamin Grymes's Estate, on Monday the 3rd Instant (February) this is to give Notice that on Monday the 9th of March (if fair, otherwise next fair Day) will be sold, at the Place where the said Grymes lived, about six Miles from Fredericksburg, on Credit till the 29th of April 1773, upwards of ONE HUNDRED SLAVES, mostly young Men and Women, amongst whom are several good Forgemens, a very good Furnace Keeper, several Watermen, Colliers, and Carters; about fifty HORSES and OXEN, several WAGGONS, CARTS, &c. sundry HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE and BOOKS, a BRIG and SCHOONER about a Hundred Tons Burthen each, which the Subscriber will agree to at any Time between this and the Day of Sale; also a TRACT of LAND, containing two Thousand Acres, lying near Lewis's Bridge, in Spottsylvania, which will be sold also either, or in Parcels, as may best suit the Purchasers. The Purchasers must give Bond and Security to the Trustees of Mr. Benjamin Grymes, who will attend the Sale, and make a good Title. Five per Cent. Discount will be allowed for ready Money; and all Bonds not discharged in the Time of the April General Court, 1773, to bear Interest from their Dates. ANTHONY THORNTON, Junior, AGENT to the TRUSTEES.

POETS CORNER.
On the DEATH of a young LIBERTINE.
FROM Scenes of Riot, and unmeaning Noise, Where sober Reason ne'er was known to guide, From Dissipation, which affords no Joys, The War of Passions, and the Strife of Pride, Now manumiss'd, the Son of Folly view: Clos'd are those Lips which have so often swore, Those boasted Cheeks display a pallid Hue, Those wanton Eyes must ramble now no more. That Breast is cold, the chilly Hand of Death Hath stopp'd Life's Current in its wild Career, Abridg'd the Crimes of thy infectious Breath, And chain'd the Tongue which never was sincere, The Sentiment obscene, the joyous toast, The Bully's horrid Oath, the Strumpet's Scream, The smutty Catch, the libertinian Boast, Are now but Shadows of a fleeting Dream: Before a Court his Soul must soon appear Where costly Bribes cannot for Crimes atone, Where simple Virtue has no Cause for Fear, And Vengeance is reserv'd for Vice alone! Now with (not hope) before his Soul withdrew, That in his Heart he supplicated Heaven; That he repented, as his Crimes he knew, And by eternal Mercy was forgiven.
HALIFAX (NORTH CAROLINA) February 1, 1772.
THOSE who have any Connexions with this Province will take Notice that, by a Clause in the Act of Assembly passed at Newbern the 23d Day of December last, for emitting Debenture Bills to the Amount of sixty Thousand Pounds Proclamation Standard, every Bill of that Emmission which shall have Paper, or any other Thing whatever, pasted, glued, or sealed, on the Back thereof, is declared to be thereby rendered of no Value, and not redeemable at the Publick Treasury. JOSEPH MONTFORT, Treasurer.
To be SOLD, to the highest Bidder, for ready Money, before Mr. Moreland's Door, at Cabin Point, in Surry County, on Thursday the 12th Day of March next.
THE Schooner POLLY, Burthen about sixty Tuns, with all her Rigging, Tackle, and Apparel; also eleven very likely NEGROES, consisting chiefly of Men, among whom are Ship Carpenters, Blacksmiths, and Sailors, being Part of the Estate of Archibald Dunlop, taken to satisfy a Judgment and Execution obtained against him by Messieurs Willison and McSween. ETHELDRED GRAY, Sheriff. AS LOOP to be sold at the above mentioned Time and Place.
To be SOLD, A TRACT of LAND, in Prince Edward, containing two Thousand Acres of good Tobacco Land, on Snail's Creek, about sixty Miles from Petersburg, and convenient to the Courthouse, Church, and Mill. Also another Tract of LAND, in Amelia, containing eight Hundred Acres, fit for Tobacco, Corn, or Wheat; it lies on Namozee Creek, about twenty Miles from Petersburg, and on the main Road to that Place. The Terms may be known by applying to me, in Amelia. WILLIAM WATSON.
To be SOLD, for ready Money, on Monday the 13th of April, altogether, or in Parcels, FOUR Thousand Acres of exceeding good Corn and Tobacco LAND, lying on the Rivers Rappahannock and Pianketank, in the County of Middlesex. It will be shown by Benjamin Hackney and Benjamin Herrin. And on the 20th, being the following Monday, will be sold, for ready Money, at Urbanna, eighty four NEGROES, among whom are Carpenters, Coopers, Wheelwrights, and all Kinds of House Servants. The above may be sold privately, before the Day of Sale, by applying to me, at Winton. WILLIAM CHURCHILL.
To be SOLD, on Monday the 16th of March, at Dinwiddie Courthouse, being Court Day, TWELVE likely Virginia born SLAVES. Credit will be allowed until December next, the Purchasers giving Bond, with good Security. I will take Tobacco, passed at any of the upper Warehouses, at the Market Price. WILLIAM DABNEY.
ISLE of WIGHT County, February 13, 1771. ROBERT SMELT having advertised that there is a Dispute about the Title of two Negroes (a Boy and a Girl) which he purchased of me about eight Years ago, which Claim I am conscious is groundless, I hereby call upon Mr. Smelt for the Name of the Person who sets it up, that I may learn from him what Right he has for so doing, and satisfy Mr. Smelt that his Apprehensions are causeless of suffering in the Purchase he made from ANDREW MACKIE.
SPOTSYLVANIA, February 11, 1772. RUN away from Mr. Doncasile's Ordinary, the first of November last, a likely Negro Boy named TOBY, about seventeen Years old, a thick, strong, well made Negro, has lost one of his fore Teeth, is very sprightly, and seldom at a Loss for Words to make out a plausible Tale. He had on, when he went away, a Kersey Coat, and green Cotton Waistcoat and Breeches. Whoever delivers him to me, between this and the 9th of March, shall have THREE POUNDS Reward. ANTHONY THORNTON, Junior.
NORFOLK, February 13, 1772. AS I intend for England in a short Time, for the Recovery of my Health, and being desirous, before my Departure, to have my Affairs settled, I hereby desire all Persons to whom I am indebted to apply for Payment, and those who have Accounts on my Books to settle them, by Bond or otherwise, between this and the first of April next. In my Absence, Matthew Jackson, and William Jaques, will carry on the Business; who, I make no Doubt, will study to give Satisfaction to the Customers, as well as to all who may please to favour me with their Commands. GEORGE JACKSON.
PETERSBURG, February 12, 1772. I INTEND to leave the COLONY soon. THOMAS HOGG.
TAKEN up, in Amelia, a red and white COW YEARLING about three Years old, marked with a Crop and Hole in the right Ear, and a Crop in the left. Posted, and appraised to twenty five Shillings. GEORGE HAM.
SOME of the Creditors of Mr. John Smith, late of Northumberland, being of Opinion that sufficient Notice was not given of the Sale of his mortgaged Slaves, on the 20th of last Month, and in Order to obviate this Objection, and satisfy every Person concerned, the aforesaid Sale is set afide, but the same Slaves will be exposed at publick Auction again, and proper Notice given of the Time and Place in this Gazette. JOHN SMITH.
For SALE, AN exceeding valuable Tract of old patented LAND, containing twelve Hundred and eighty Acres (though we are of Opinion there are two Thousand Acres within the Bounds) agreeably situated on Cuffy River, where the Bridge crosses, in Bertie County, North Carolina, with a Plantation cleared on the said Land, whereon stands the Courthouse, Prison, and a commodious large new Ordinary, with other convenient Houses belonging thereto; also, at a convenient Distance from the Ordinary and Courthouse, stands a new private Dwellinghouse, with necessary Outhouses, and a new Apple and Peach Orchard on the Premises. The above is, without Exception, as pleasantly situated as any in the County, and the best adapted for Trade, being at the Head of Cuffy River, and in the Centre of the County, two Miles above the Town of Windsor, and about twenty three Miles from Edenton. Exclusive of the high Land, which is very good, lie large Quantities of fine Land for Rice, on the River. On the said Land is erected, within sixty Yards of the Courthouse and Ordinary, and in View of the Dwellinghouse, a Saw Mill, which goes with two Saws, and a Grindmill. The Stream is exceeding good, and would admit of any Number of Stores, with an inexhaustible Fund of Timber on the Land, Oak, Pine, Cypress, &c. We doubt not but the Purchasers will be satisfied, in a short Time, of the many Advantages the Place commands: Good Land for Cropping, Mills, publick and private Houses, &c. and is a very good Range for Hogs and Cattle. The Premises may be entered on immediately. LILLINGTON & JAMES LOCKHART.
For SALE, TWO Thousand two Hundred Acres of LAND, on Mattapony River, seven Miles from Aylett's Warehouse, on which is a large new Dwellinghouse, with convenient Outhouses, a good Garden, Orchards &c. For Terms apply to NATHANIEL BURWELL.
STOLEN out of my Pasture, on the 15th of January, a dark roan HORSE about four Feet seven Inches high, ten Years old, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, his Face and hind Legs white, is a natural Pacer, and goes very well; not branded that I remember. Whoever conveys the said Horse to me, at Stewart's Shop, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward. SUSSEX, February 10. JOHN ATKINSON.
STRAYED, on the 1st of October last, from Thomas Parker's, in Northampton County, North Carolina, a light sorrel HORSE four Years old, four Feet eight Inches high, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, a Star on his Forehead, not branded. Whoever conveys the said Horse to Mr. Richard Kello, in Southampton, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS; to Mr. Benjamin Crooker, in Suffolk, FIFTY SHILLINGS; or to me, in Norfolk, THREE POUNDS Reward. WILLIAM CURLE.
STOLEN from the Falls Plantation, on the 17th of January, a sorrel HORSE about four Feet ten Inches high, with a Switch Tail and hanging Mane, paces slow, but no Brand that can be remembered. He has been used to Work, and is rubbed with the Harness. Whoever will give such Intelligence that I may get him again shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward. DAVID PATTESON.
TAKEN up, in Charlotte, a bright bay MARE about four Years old, four Feet six Inches high, branded on the near Shoulder with a large Blotch, and on the Buttock, with a small Star in her Forehead, both Shoulders have been rubbed with Geers, and had on a Bell, tied with a small Leather Strap. Posted, and appraised to seven Pounds. EDMUND BREWER.
TAKEN up, in Charlotte, a small black HORSE with a small Snip in his Nose, and branded on the near Shoulder and Buttock S. Posted, and appraised to thirty Shillings. THOMAS CARTER.
Six Thousand three Hundred Acres of LAND to be sold at Frederick Town, on Thursday the 28th of May next.
BY Virtue of an Act of Assembly of the Province of Maryland, empowering the Executors of Colonel Thomas Calvert to grant Deeds to Mr. John Semple, his Heirs or Assigns, for a certain Tract of LAND called Meryland, in Frederick County, and Province aforesaid, containing six Thousand three Hundred Acres, we the Subscribers, being Assigns of the said Semple, and having received from the Executors of Colonel Calvert sufficient Deeds for the Land aforesaid, do hereby undertake to dispose of the same, at the Time and Place above mentioned. It is laid off in Lots, in the most advantageous Manner, so that only one of them will make one, two, or three good Settlements, as will appear by the Plat, a Copy of which may be seen at the Coffeehouses of Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Annapolis, in the Hands of Cumberland Wilson at Dumfries, Adam Stewart at George Town, and Charles Beatty at Frederick Town, who will direct those desirous of seeing the Land to a Person acquainted with the Boundaries, on or near the Premises, who will show them the same; but as we intend to meet on the Spot ourselves, a few Days before the Sale, in Order to run the Lines, &c. those inclined to purchase will have an Opportunity of viewing it with us, by attending from Monday the 27th of May till the 28th, being the Day of Sale.
This Land is very suitable for Planting or Farming, being well watered and timbered, no Settlement having ever been made on it, and is a very good Soil. It lies along the Banks of Potomack River, adjoining it for a considerable Way, near to Harper's Ferry, the main Road from which to Frederick Town (a very flourishing, populous Place) runs through it, from which Place it is only distant about nine Miles, from George Town, the Seaport of the County, forty five Miles, and from Baltimore about sixty five, at each of which Places a constant and ready Market may be found for all Kinds of Produce. Its Situation on Potomack River must be of considerable Advantage to it, and in Time may add immensely to its Value, when the Navigation is opened, which may be done, without any great Difficulty, for a considerable Distance, there being at present a tolerable Navigation both below and above, it lying near the Shenandoa Falls, from whence, up to Fort Cumberland, a Hundred and ten Miles, Battoes now frequently pass, and downwards, to the Seneca Falls, twenty five Miles, which is within twenty Miles of George Town. It will be sold in separate Lots, or altogether, for Sterling or current Money, as may best suit the Purchasers; one Third to be paid down at the Sale, another Third payable in twelve Months, and the other in two Years, on giving Bond and Security, with Interest till paid. A most unencumbered Title will be made the Purchasers. ADAM STEWART. THOMAS MONTGOMERIE. CUMBERLAND WILSON.
To be SOLD at Dumfries, on Monday the 2d of March, being Prince William Court Day, THE valuable PLANTATION whereon Mr. William Bennett, deceased, lived, containing between seven and eight Hundred Acres, on which is a good Dwellinghouse pleasantly situated, with Outhouses, and fine Orchards of Apple, Peach, and Cherry Trees; it is fit for Cropping or Farming, and lies about three or four Miles from the said Town of Dumfries. Credit will be given for Part of the Purchase Money, by the Administrator. 5
To be SOLD, or RENTED for a Term of Years, and entered upon the 1st of March, A COMMODIOUS well built STORE in the Town of Petersburg, adjoining the Tobacco Warehouses, three Stories high, with a good Room fronting the Main Street, four good Rooms with Fireplaces, and a Granary, with a Cellar that will hold sixty Hogsheads; also a Warehouse forty Feet by twenty, built last Year, Stable, and Kitchen that is also new. The Lot is well enclosed, and the Whole is in good Repair. For Terms apply to Richard Lamb, on the Premises, or to the Subscriber, in Norfolk. JOHN GREENWOOD.
GOOCHLAND, January 13, 1772. RUN away from the Subscriber, some Time ago, a likely Negro Man named SUBA, talks but indifferent English, and squints pretty much. He ran away twice before, was once apprehended at Hobbs's Tole, and another Time at Farris Courthouse, and is now supposed either to be in that Part of the Country or lurking about Mattapony Warehouse, as he once lived there with Mr. Archibald Druce. I will give FIVE POUNDS for taking him up, and SIXPENCE a Mile for conveying him to me from the Place where he may be apprehended; and in Case it should be inconvenient to bring him to me, I will give the above Reward for securing him in the Jail of the County where he is taken. JOHN BOLLING.
WARRASQUEAK Bay, November 13, 1771. RUN away from the Subscriber, in Isle of Wight, a Negro named JACK, about five and thirty Years of Age, five Feet ten Inches high, a slim, clean made, talkative, artful, and very fancy Fellow. Also a Negro Woman named VENUS, thirty two Years old, five Feet four Inches high, stout made, very smooth tongued, and has been five Years accustomed to the House. They worked in the Dismal Swamp about two Years, under Mr. John Washington, and carried with them several different Kinds of Apparel. Whoever delivers the said Negroes to me, or secures them so that I may get them, shall have a Reward of FORTY SHILLINGS for each. NATHANIEL BURWELL.
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, Stills, Brewing Coppers, Sugar Boilers, Fullers and Hatters Coppers, Capuchin Plate Warmers, Tea Kitchens, all Sorts of Ship, Fish, and Wash Kettles, Stew Pans, Dutch Ovens, Tea Kettles, Saucepans, Coffee and Chocolate Pots, Brass Mill Work, Furniture for Coach and Chair Harness, Fenders, Andirons, Candlesticks, Cocks, &c. at the most reasonable Rates. Also tins and mends all Sorts of old Copper and Brass Kitchen Work, and gives the best Prices for old Copper, Brass, Pewter, or Lead. All Orders from the Country will be punctually attended to. N. B. He deals for Casks, or Country Produce.
WILLIAMSBURG, December 19, 1771. WHEREAS the Revenues of the College, unless more Care and Exactness be used in the Collection of them, cannot continue equal to the Expenses; and whereas a considerable Amount is due to the College, which arises from small Sums easy to be paid by each individual Debtor, all Persons concerned are therefore desired to take Notice of the following Regulations, passed at a late Meeting of the President and Masters: If any Person who owes Money to the College on Bond does not either pay off all the Interest, that is or shall be due, on or before the 10th of May next, or in the mean Time give a new Bond, with approved Security, for the whole Debt, both Principal and Interest, his Bond shall be put into a Lawyer's Hand on the said 10th of May, with Orders to bring Suit, and obtain Satisfaction for it as speedily as the Forms of Law will permit. If, after the said 10th of May, the Interest due on any Bond be not regularly paid, at the Expiration of each Year, the Bond shall be put in Suit without farther Notice or Delay. A salutary Order of the Visitors and Governors, directing every Boarder, on his Admission into the College, to pay for six Months Board in Advance, is evaded and rendered nugatory if the like Sum be not paid per Advance by every Boarder at the End of each Half Year. All, therefore, who are in Arrears for Board, are required to discharge them by the said 10th of May. On Failure, the Boarder shall be dismissed from the College until the Accounts against him be discharged, or recovered by Suit. And after the 10th of May next, if Payment for Board in Advance, as above mentioned, be neglected, the Boarder shall not be suffered to continue in the College for more than one Month after such Neglect, but shall, in that Time, be sent away with his Account, and shall not be received again till he be discharged. All Surveyors who have not settled with the Burfar of the College, for all their publick and private Surveys since the General Court in April last, are required to settle with him before the 10th of May next, under the Penalty of being superseded, and having their Bonds sued. If among these Surveyors there be any from whom Nothing is due to the College, it is demanded of them, under the same Penalty, to transmit to the Burfar attested Declarations of there being Nothing due from them to the College. And, after the 10th of May next, if any Surveyor shall omit sending attested Accounts or Declarations (as above specified) annually, he shall be superseded, and have his Bond sued. That this Advertisement may not be treated with that Contempt which several Notices of the like Kind have met with, and that no Body may hereafter plead Want of due Information concerning the Premises, this Advertisement is to be printed weekly in the Gazette until the 10th of May next ensuing. By Order of the President and Masters. ROBERT MILLER, Burfar.
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, has a Number of very convenient Lodging Rooms, and large and small Rooms for the Entertainment of Guests. Any Person qualified for the Business of a Tavern Keeper, with a proper Capital, may find this as advantageous a Situation as any on the Continent. Apply to the Subscriber, who lives on the Premises. THOMAS EGLETON.
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. The Land is good, and there are valuable Improvements on it. Also to be let on Lease, or sold, two LOTS in the Town of Blandford, on Appomattox River, at present in the Occupation of Mr. Patrick Ramsay, with a Storehouse, and every other necessary Building for a Merchant in considerable Business. For Terms apply to PETERSBURG, November 10. JERMAN BAKER.
To be SOLD, altogether, or in Lots, ABOUT two Thousand seven Hundred Acres of good LOW GROUNDS on both Sides of Roanoke River, and two Hundred Acres of HIGH LAND two Miles distant, lying in the Counties of Halifax and Bertie, twenty five Miles below the Town of Halifax, North Carolina. There are about six Hundred Acres of the Land cleared, with an Apple Orchard, a good Dwellinghouse, Dairy, Smokehouse, Negro Quarters, &c. Any Person inclined to purchase may know the Terms by applying to the Subscriber, in Prince George. RICHARD KIDDER MEADE. N. B. There is a good FISHERY on the said Land.
For SALE, THE LAND whereon I live, in Middlesex, containing about two Thousand two Hundred Acres, in good Order for Cropping, with Orchards and Buildings equal to any in the Colony; also thirteen Hundred Acres on the River Pianketank, in the County of Gloucester, with a Mill, and good Orchards. The Stocks, which are very large, may be had with the Lands. Any Person inclined to purchase may know the Terms by applying to AUGUSTINE SMITH.