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LETTER II.
TO THE ORTHODOX LAYMAN.
SIR,
IN my former Letter I endeavoured to demonstrate, by Arguments drawn from Reason, that infinite Punishments are contrary to the divine Perfections, and the End for which Mankind were created. I will now proceed to prove that they are contrary to the Scripture Doctrine concerning the Redemption of the World by Jesus Christ.
That Man was created in a State of Perfection, Happiness, and Immortality, has been demonstrated; but how he came to fall from this State, into a State of Imperfection, Unhappiness, and Mortality, is beyond the Power of human Reason to discover. We must therefore have Recourse to the Holy Scriptures for the Resolution of this Difficulty, and they teach us that Sin was the Cause of this Change and Depravity of our Nature; we are there told what this Sin was, and how it came to be committed.
I must state this great Event, that the Question I am debating may be the more clearly illustrated; and in doing this I will follow the Sentiments of a very learned Writer, as they correspond with my own.
Now it appears, from the History of the Creation, as recorded by Moses, that God created our first Parents not only good, but after his own Image, under which Description is comprehended all that can be meant by Perfection and Happiness; that he placed them in a delightful Garden, where they had suitable Objects to every Appetite; and that he gave them Power to eat of every Fruit of the Garden but ONE, which was forbidden under the Penalty of Death.
Against this Prohibition they are represented to have sinned, by the Instigation of the Serpent, under which Character, as we are told, in other Places of Scripture, is meant that evil Spirit called the Devil, and, in Order to compass his wicked Enterprise, he is said to have addressed himself to the Woman, endeavouring to persuade her that there was no Danger in eating the forbidden Fruit; insinuating, that, as they wanted Nothing to make them sure of everlasting Happiness but to discern between Good and Evil, so that was what this Fruit would give them, and by Consequence they could then want Nothing to make them like God, and free them from Death and Misery.
And as he urges this Motive to the Woman on the Consideration of God's knowing it to be true, so, without Doubt, he pretended to come from God, to inform her of it; of which Pretence, though this Scripture is silent, yet it is reasonable to suppose that unless it had been uttered in by some previous Pretence, to gain him Credit, our first Parent, whose Will and Affections, in a State of Purity, must have been in a regular Subordination to her Understanding, would not have been capable of so much as lending an Ear to that which was an evident Contradiction to a positive Command of God.
And though this History does not directly say that our first Parents were tempted to Sin by the Devil, under the Pretence of being a Messenger from God, yet this Opinion is fully confirmed by St. Paul, in his second Epistle to the Corinthians, eleventh Chapter, where he cautions the Corinthians against a false Teacher, that came to them as an inspired Person, and as a true Apostle sent from God, when he really was a Minister of Satan; and he makes a Comparison between Eve and those People, and represents them in the same Condition she was in when she was beguiled by the Serpent.
And again, on the other Hand, he makes a Comparison between Satan and his Ministers, and represents these as acting the same Part with the Corinthians that Satan did with Eve; and as he expresses his Fear lest the Corinthians should be beguiled by the Ministers of Satan, as Eve was by the Serpent, so he explains how this was: For (says he) as Satan transforms himself into an Angel of Light, so his Ministers are transformed into Ministers of Righteousness. And by this it is implied, that, if the People should be beguiled by such Ministers, under such a false Appearance, of Ministers of Righteousness, they would then be beguiled as Eve was by Satan, under the false Appearance of a Messenger from God.
Thus I conclude that our first Parents were seduced by the Devil under the Appearance of an Angel of Light, and as a Messenger sent from God; and as he applied himself to the Woman, it is said that when she saw (that is, was convinced) that the Tree was good for Food, and since it was desirable to make One wise, she did eat, and gave also to her Husband, and he did eat.
Here, then, we have an Account how our first Parents came to sin against the divine Prohibition, and that the Effect of this Sin was Death; but then we are not informed how their Posterity became mortal, and depraved in their Nature.
For if the Death threatened to our first Parents was only an arbitrary Punishment, the eating of the forbidden Fruit could only make them liable to the Execution of the Sentence, and could reach no farther than the Sinners; and therefore, though this History gives us an Account how they became liable to Death, yet it leaves us in the Dark as to the Corruption and Depravation of human Nature. This Corruption we certainly derive from our first Parents, and was the Effect of Sin; but then, if the Death threatened was a bare arbitrary Punishment, it is hard to conceive how the Corruption of human Nature could be the Effect of this Sin.
For the Punishment threatened is Death: Now it is evident that a mere outward Sentence of Condemnation to Death does by no Means imply an inward Alteration of the Nature of the Person condemned, much less can it imply that the Flesh shall lust against the Spirit; and yet this Lust-ing of the Flesh against the Spirit we derive from our first Parents, at what they contracted by Sin; and as this could not be included in the Denunciation of Death, so neither could it arise from their Sin of eating the forbidden Fruit, merely as Sin.
For if their Sin was only owing to a Mistake of their Understanding, in being deceived by the Devil under Pretence of his being a Messenger from God, here was Nothing in the Nature of Man, or his Operations, amiss thus far; since, from such a Mistake of the Understanding, can never arise any natural Tendency to Dissolution. And when the Body is governed by the Understanding, this can never beget a Lust-ing of the Flesh against the Spirit; and therefore the Corruption of human Nature could not proceed from the Sin of our first Parents, considered merely as Sin: And, if so, it follows that it was either inflicted on them as a Punishment of that Sin, or else that it was the natural Effect of eating the forbidden Fruit; and therefore forbidden to be eaten, as dangerous and destructive to human Nature.
If we say the Depravation of their Nature was inflicted as a Punishment on our first Parents for their Sin, let us consider that a first Fault, especially if committed through Mistake (as this has been proved to have been) is usually looked upon as Matter of Mercy; and if we consider how long-suffering God now appears to be, and that Penalties, as the Sanction of a Law, ought never to be stretched beyond the plain Declarations of the Law, we must think that God would hardly inflict a severer Punishment than he had threatened, for a single Fault of this Nature.
For all that was threatened was Death; but if the moral Depravation of their Nature was inflicted too, this was a more severe Punishment than Death.
To punish Sin of any Sort, with Death alone, might be proper for the Support of God's Authority, and therefore might be thought convenient, as a Warning to the succeeding World; but to suppose that a holy and good God, who prefers Sinners for no other End but as he desires their Happiness, and, as a Means thereof, their Reformation, and who will not do this without some Means to discourage the Innocent from imitating the Sinner; I say, to suppose that such a Being would punish such a Sin as this was with such a Corruption and Depravation of Nature as was in itself an unholy State, would seem to be an unholy Act: And therefore one would rather choose to account for this Corruption by supposing it to have arisen from a natural Cause; that is, the Fruit itself might have been the Cause of it in a natural Way.
Now that it was so appears from those Effects which were produced by the eating of it, in the Bodies of our first Parents. The first Effect we are informed of is, that upon eating the Fruit their Eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and sewed (or rather plaited) Fig Leaves together, to make themselves Aprons.
By their Eyes being opened must be understood the discovering Something they had never seen, and by their knowing they were naked must be meant that they found themselves under a Necessity of being clothed. They saw such uncomely Motions and Disorders in their Bodies as they were ashamed of, and therefore thought necessary to hide; and Adam is represented as making this Excuse for hiding himself from God: And, if so, we cannot but at a Loss to account how the Depravation of human Nature might be produced by a natural Cause.
For the Effects which the Fruit produced in the Bodies of our first Parents do show a manifest Depravation of human Nature, both as to that moral and natural Perfection in which they were created. Till the eating the forbidden Fruit all the Appetites of the Body were under the absolute Command of the Mind; but as soon as ever they had eaten, it is plain the Body became immediately ungovernable, because we see its Motions were such as they could not subdue, and therefore were forced to hide. And then, as to the natural Perfections of the Body, as soon as ever the Fruit was eaten its natural Equability of Temper was broken, and new and disorderly Motions were excited; the Blood was visibly inflamed, and the animal Spirits not only disturbed, but probably augmented too, by the new Juices of the Fruit; which, being incorporated with the Blood, may be conceived to create not only an unnatural but also a corruptive Fermentation in the Whole.
Now that this was the Nature of this forbidden Fruit, that as it had excited strange Disorders in the Body, so it would likewise beget Corruption and Death, is farther probable; because we are told not only of the Tree of Knowledge, but likewise of a Tree of Life, which, after our first Parents had transgressed, they were excluded from: And as they were not allowed to eat of the Tree of Knowledge, lest they should die, so, on the contrary, they were deprived of the Tree of Life, lest they should eat of it and live for ever.
Now from hence, as we may argue, on the one Hand, that the Tree of Life was of a sanative Virtue, which would naturally preserve Life, so, on the other Hand, we may reasonably conclude that the Tree of Knowledge was of a noxious Quality, which would naturally bring Corruption and Death.
For since they are denied the Use of the Tree of Life, lest they should eat of it and live, as it is thence evident the eating of the Tree would have prevented their dying, so it is equally evident that this Death was purely a natural Effect, in that it might be cured by a natural Cause.
Now, from all this put together, it doth sufficiently appear how the human Nature came to be depraved, and subject to Death; that it was the natural Effects of Sin, and that too of the first Sin of our first Parents, committed upon Mistake, by believing the false Suggestions of an evil Spirit in a Matter of Revelation, in Respect of Something which they thought it their Duty to do, as necessary to their Happiness, in making them like God.
And though it may seem strange that God should permit such a fatal Event as this to come to pass, yet, if we consider that God governs all Things according to their Natures, there is Nothing in this Event but what may be fairly accounted for.
For as Mankind are rational Creatures, endowed with Understanding and Will, if they be governed according to their Natures, it must be in such a Way as is suitable to their Faculties, and, by Consequence, they must not only be provided with all necessary Means of Knowledge of every Thing necessary to be known, and with sufficient Motives to choose and do whatever is necessary to be chosen and done, but they must also be left to their own Freedom: And therefore, when God had forbidden them to eat of the Tree of Knowledge, as being in its own Nature dangerous to be eaten, and had forewarned them of the Danger, by declaring if they eat of it they would surely die; after they had been thus informed, what was necessary for them to refrain from doing, what could be wanting, in their Case, to a rational Nature, but to leave them to choose according to their Reason? And if, after this, they did eat of this Tree, what can Reason expect but that God, who governs natural Things in a natural Way, would leave the Fruit, as a natural Cause, to produce its natural Effects, as we are told by Moses that it did?
Thus, from the plain and literal Sense of the sacred Text, without Figure or Allegory, we have a View of the Effects of the first Sin; which were Death, and the Depravation and Corruption of human Nature, produced from a natural Cause, in a natural Way.
But then, though Death, and the Depravation of their Nature, were the natural Effects of their eating the forbidden Fruit, yet there is Something farther to be considered in this Case of our first Parents.
When God, by an express Command, had prohibited the eating of this Fruit, it became a Duty of moral Obligation not to eat of it, and an absolute Obedience was due to this Command; for, even admitting this Fruit was not pernicious in its Nature, and the Effects of it would not have produced Death and Corruption in a natural Way, yet, when God had prohibited it to be eaten by a positive Command, to eat of it was a Transgression of their Duty, and became Sin in a moral Sense: For whatever God is pleased to command, or forbid, how indifferent soever it be in itself, is, so far as it is commanded or forbidden by him, as truly good or evil as if it was absolutely and morally so, being enacted by the same divine Authority which makes all moral Precepts obligatory. God is our Lawgiver, and whatever he commands, whether it be a moral Precept or positive Institution, so far as he enacts it, is of the same necessary and indispensable Obligation. All Duties, therefore, which Mankind owe to God, are, in their very Nature, moral Duties. Their Disobedience, then, to a positive Law which he had enacted, was a Breach of their moral Duty, and was a Denial of that Relationship they stood in with God, as their Creator, Parent, Protector, Governor, and Benefactor.
But then, though this might be an Aggravation of their Offence, and might deserve a higher Degree of Punishment than that which God thought proper to make the Sanction of the Law they had transgressed,
yet their Sin, considered as a Breach of their moral Duty to God, was merely personal, and had no Respect to their Posterity. The Punishment due to their Sin, in this Sense, must be of a spiritual Nature; and spiritual Punishments, in an after Life, are to be inflicted upon Offenders only, without involving their Posterity in them. Every Man will be judged according to his own Works, and will receive the Things done in his Body according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad; so that, when the Books shall be opened, according to St. John's figurative Expression in the Apocalypse, the Iniquity of the Father will not be found placed to the Account of the Son, neither will the Iniquity of the Son be found placed to the Account of the Father, but the Righteousness of the Righteous shall be upon him, and the Wickedness of the Wicked shall be upon him.
In this Case, then, of our first Parents, so far as it involved their Posterity in it, we may observe that before they transgressed they were endowed with a Power to preserve their Innocency, and that Perfection of Righteousness in which they were created, and consequently of being immortal and everlastingly happy; but that after their Transgression their Nature became corrupt and depraved, subject to all the Miseries and Calamities we now experience, and to certain Death.
But as Death, and the Corruption and Depravation of their Nature, if they continued under it for ever, would defeat God's Design in their Creation, which was their everlasting Happiness, and as in this lapsed State they could never be restored to their original Happiness, from which they fell, it pleased the infinite Wisdom of God to extend his Goodness to them in a Way suitable to his essential Justice and Holiness; and to the End they might be comforted in their dejected State, labouring under the Sense of what they had lost, and the Fear of Death, God was pleased to assure them that though they should die yet that through the Seed of the Woman some Means should be provided whereby they should be reconciled to God, and being freed from that State of Imperfection, Misery and Death, which Sin had subjected them to, they should be restored to a State of Holiness, Perfection, and everlasting Happiness.
This I take"> This I take to be clearly implied in the Declaration God made to the Serpent immediately after the Transgression. The Words are: And the Lord God said unto the Serpent, because thou hast done this thou art cursed above all Cattle, and above every Beast of the Field: Upon thy Belly shalt thou go, and Dust shalt thou eat all the Days of thy Life; and I will put Enmity between thee and the Woman, and between thy Seed and her Seed; it shall bruise thy Head, and thou shalt bruise his Heel.
These Words seem to be spoken as well in Opposition to the several Designs the Devil might have had for engaging in this wicked Enterprise, as for the Comfort of our first Parents; for as God had threatened them that in the Day they should eat of the forbidden Fruit they should die, it is probable that the Devil might imagine they should die upon the very first Act of Disobedience: And therefore, in Opposition to this vain Imagination, it is promised that the Woman should live to have Seed, and so his Hopes should be defeated in this Respect.
And as he seduced the Woman under the Appearance of an Angel of Light, and a Pretext of Friendship, he is here condemned to an object and ignoble State; and a War is declared against him, which should end in the Destruction of all his Devices: For though, in this War, he was permitted to bruise the Heel of the Seed of the Woman (that is, to do them some inconsiderable Mischief) yet he was never thereafter to be able, by all his Machinations, to alienate them from God, or make them forfeit again the divine Favour, since the Seed of the Woman should bruise his Head (that is, defeat all his Policy) and, in the End, destroy all his Works.
This Promise was fulfilled in our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath effectually bruised the Serpent's Head, by destroying the Works of the Devil, reconciling all Things to God, and restoring human Nature to the Favour of his holy Father, and to its original State of Holiness and Perfection; for he gave himself a Ransom for all, so that, as in Adam all die, even so now in Christ shall all be made alive.
Now this Promise being made to Adam, the common Head and Representative of all Mankind, the Efficacy of it took Place immediately upon its being made, so that it extends to all his Posterity universally, and without Exception; all, and every One of them, have an Interest in the Lamb that was slain from the Foundation of the World. This meritorious Cause of the Restoration of Adam, and in him of all Mankind, to the Favour of God, looks backwards as well as forwards; and God was reconciled to Adam, and his Sin was pardoned and blotted out by Virtue of this great Propitiation, immediately upon the Promise made that the Seed of the Woman should bruise the Serpent's Head. The Sacrifice of Christ, therefore, though it was not offered till four Thousand Years after Adam's Transgression, was as available to him, and to all his Posterity, as if it had been offered immediately upon his Offence being committed; and if this was not so, then, as the Apostle to the Hebrews intimates, Christ must often have suffered since the Foundation of the World; but now hath he appeared once (ἐπὶ συντελείᾳ τῶν αἰώνων) in the Conclusion of the Ages, to put away Sin by the Sacrifice of himself: So that, as, by the Offence of one Man, Death, and the Corruption and Depravation of human Nature, came upon all Men to Condemnation, even so, by the Righteousness of one Man, Pardon and Grace came upon all Men to Justification of Life.
From whence it is to be observed, that the Office of Jesus Christ was not to save Mankind from any temporal Evil they had brought upon themselves, but to recover them from the Wrath of God, and restore them to Holiness, Happiness, and Immortality; so that he was the Mediator of a much better Covenant than that made with Adam. Since then the Redemption perfected by him for Mankind was a spiritual Redemption, the natural Effects of the forbidden Fruit remained, and they continued subject to temporal Death, and that Corruption and Depravation our first Parents, by their Transgression, had brought upon human Nature.
As then our first Parents were included in the Covenant entered into by Jesus Christ with his holy Father in Behalf of Mankind, and were entitled to all the Benefits of it, if it can be proved that they professed a firm Belief in the Promise made to them by God, of Salvation to be obtained by Means of the Seed of the Woman (which all Divines understand to relate to our Saviour) and relied upon that Promise for Pardon of the Sin they had committed, then was the Punishment of their Sin, so far as it respected their spiritual Nature, remitted; and they remained guiltless before God in their moral Character, and subject only to the natural Effects their eating the forbidden Fruit had produced in a natural Way.
For if Faith was reckoned to Abraham for Righteousness, so also must the Faith of our first Parents be reckoned to them for Righteousness; since God is no Respector of Persons, but he that feareth, and worketh Righteousness, is accepted of him.
Now it is to be observed that when God had created a HELF-MATE for Adam, and brought her to him, he called her (Icha) Woman, because she was taken out of Man; and by this Name she is always called till after the Transgression, and the Promise made that the Seed of the Woman should bruise the Serpent's Head. Immediately after this Promise Adam changed his Wife's Name, and called her (Chavah) Eve; and the Reason assigned, in the sacred Text, for this Alteration of her Name, is, because she was the Mother of all Living: From whence it appears that he believed in this Promise. It is, indeed, commonly supposed that these Words only denote that she was the first Mother of all Mankind; but this Interpretation is too low, and not answerable to the Dignity of the Occasion: For if we look back on the divine Sentence, but just before recited, where Adam stands as the Head and Representative of all Mankind, brought into a State of Death and Condemnation, and if we consider

that the Sed of the Woman is promised to restore them to the Reslitude of their original Nature, and that Life and Immortality they had lost, we shall perceive the Beauty and Propriety of this Appellation: She was the Mother of all Living , not because all Mankind were to descend from her, but because He (that Sed ) who was to bruise the Serpent's Head , and was to be the Author of everlasting Life and Happiness to Mankind) was to descend from her, according to the divine Promise.
As Adam then, according to this Interpretation of the Text, which I take to be the only true One, expressed Faith in a Reslitude to Life and Immortality by Means of the Sed of the Woman , so did Eve also express the same Faith: I have, said she, upon the Birth of Cain, gotten a Man from the Lord ; or, as the Learned say it may be more grammatically rendered from the Hebrew, I have gotten a Man Jehovah, or the Lord .
She had fresh in her Mind the Promise of a victorious Seed, and thought this Promise was accomplished by the Birth of this Son; who, though of human Nature, should have the Fulness of the Godhead dwelling in him, from whence she ascribed to him the incommunicable Name of God.
And though she was mistaken in taking Cain for the promised Seed, who was to repair the Damage of the Fall, yet her Faith did not fail; but she speaks of the Birth of Seth as the Appointment of God, to preserve Seed upon the Earth, till He should come who is, in a more eminent Sense, that Seed of the Woman who should bruise the Serpent's Head , and put an End to all his Oppressions.
Since then our first Parents expressed Faith in the promised Seed , or, which is the same Thing, in Jesus Christ, who was that Seed , and the Lamb of God which taketh away the Sin of the World (that is, that Sin whose Wages were Death, and the Corruption of human Nature) and since Jesus Christ, in Consequence of this Promise, hath made, by himself once offered, a full and perfect Satisfaction, Oblation, and Atonement, for this Sin of the World, it follows, therefore, that this original Sin is purged and done away, not only as to its spiritual Consequences, but also as to its temporal Effects, by the Reslitude of human Nature to its original Perfection, and to that Life of Happiness and Immortality it was created to enjoy.
And from hence is manifested the unspeakable Goodness and Mercy of God, who, by a divine Management incomprehensible to human Wisdom, hath not only restored Mankind from a State of Sin and Death to a State of Holiness and Life, but also hath put them into a Capacity of obtaining a far more exalted Happiness; since at the same Time that he excluded them from a terrestrial Paradise he provided a celestial One for their Reception, to which, by the kindest Invitations, he gives them free Access, by the Blood of Jesus, which was shed for them and their Reslitude.
From hence it is evident that Adam's first Sin, generally called original Sin, is totally remitted in Christ Jesus, who hath nailed it to the Cross ; so that it is blotted out, and will be no more remembered.
Indeed this Reslitude of Mankind to their original Perfection and Happiness will not be complete till they are raised to Immortality in a future State, when this Corruptible shall put on Incorruption , and this Mortal shall put on Immortality ; so that, during the Period of Man's Life in this World, the Corruption and Depravity of human Nature will remain as the natural Effects of the forbidden Fruit upon the Bodies of our first Parents, and from hence will arise a continual Lusting of the Flesh against the Spirit : From thence it must be that Offences will come, and from thence all Men will be Sinners.
And here give me Leave to take Notice of the Absurdity of that Opinion which is so tenaciously insisted upon by some of our own Church, that this original Sin of our first Parents is imputed to their Posterity; so that even Children, who die unbaptized , will be Objects of God's Vengeance, will be condemned to endless Punishments, and expelled the divine Presence for ever. This Opinion is so abhorrent to every Idea of Justice and Equity, so destructive of the most amiable and sacred Attributes of God, and so repugnant to the Scripture Doctrine concerning the meritorious Atonement made for the Sin of the World by the Blood of Jesus Christ, that the contrary Opinion ought to be held as true by every sincere Christian. Search the Scriptures with Attention and Diligence, and there you will find that there is no Condemnation of those who die before they are capable of personal Transgression; there you will find that every Person born into the World doth not deserve God's Wrath and Damnation before he is capable of sinning himself, since every Man will be judged according to his own Works, and not according to the Works of his original Progenitor. I say, Sir, search the Scriptures, and they will lead you to that Lamb of God which taketh away the Sin of the World ; to that Christ in whom God was reconciling the World to himself , not imputing their Trespasses unto them; to the Blood of that Jesus which cleanseth us from all Sin , and which hath put away Sin by the Sacrifice of himself . These are the true Doctrines of the holy Scriptures, which proclaim, in a Thousand Places, that Christ hath loved us, and given himself for us an Offering and Sacrifice to God, a sweet-smelling Savour in Christ ; which testify that the Father hath sent the Son to be the (sōtēr) Saviour of the World , because he wills that all Men should be (sōtēr) restored, and come to the Acknowledgment of the Truth. To say, therefore, that every Person born into the World does immediately, as soon as he is born, and before he commits any personal Offence against God, deserve God's Wrath and Damnation, in Consequence of the original Sin of our first Parents, is, in my Opinion, a damnable Doctrine and Position, and ought to be detested by every Man who believes that Jesus Christ was wounded for our Transgressions, and was bruised for our Iniquities; that the Chastisement of our Peace is upon him, and with his Stripes we are healed; that he made himself to be Sin for us, that we might be made the Righteousness of God in him .
Having stated what appears to me to be the true Scripture Doctrine concerning the Fall of Man, and his Reslitude to his original Perfection and Happiness, and shown that the spiritual Consequences of the original Sin of our first Parents are totally remitted and taken away in Jesus Christ, who hath nailed them to the Cross, and thereby reconciled all Things to God, I will consider the Condition of Mankind as they are now become the purchased Possession of their great Restorer and Propitiator; who, having made Peace by the Blood of the Cross, is set down at the right Hand of The Majesty in the Highest, being exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour, to give Repentance to Israel, and Forgiveness of Sins. But this must be the Subject of another Letter. I AM, &c.
A CHRISTIAN LAYMAN.
ERRATA in the Letter to an Orthodox Layman, Gazette No. 1092.
Page 18, Column 30, Line 10th, dele curious, and insert serious. Same Page, and same Column, Line 48th, after Mid, dele as, and insert, without giving myself the Trouble to print out the Page 20, Column 11, Line 14th, dele immortalized, and insert immaterial.
PETERSBURG, March 28.
THE Courier despatched from hence, five Weeks since, is returned, and brings the important Intelligence that the Porte has acceded, with the greatest Earnestness, to an Armistice, and to the holding a Congress; and we have the greatest Reason to hope for the Establishment of a lasting Peace, under the Mediation of the Courts of Vienna and Berlin, who both act with the most laudable Vigour to bring this desirable Event to a Conclusion.
April 2. The last Post from Kola gives a dismal Account of an Earthquake, which has done great Damage; but we have no Particulars yet.
UTRECHT, April 19. Many Letters received from Petersburg and Berlin confirm that Peace is nearly concluded between Russia and the Porte, and that Orders are already issued to publish an Armistice and to appoint the Place of Congress.
HAMBURG, April 14. By Letters from Copenhagen, dated the 7th, we are informed that the grand Commission assembled the 4th, at four in the Afternoon, and continued sitting till eleven, on an Affair of the greatest Importance, when every Member delivered his Opinion in Writing. The Sieurs Uldahl and Beng were admitted, on the 5th, to the Courts of Struenfee and Brandt, to confer with them on their Defence; but it is only a Matter of Form, as their Fate was to be decided on the 9th.
MARSEILLES, April 1. The Sieur de Grua, a Dutchman in the Russian Service, is employed in searching for Antiquities in the Islands of the Archipelago, and hath discovered in that of Nio [Jos] the Tomb of Homer, who was always supposed to have died there. This Officer writes to a Friend that he found a Greek Inscription on the Sepulchre, which contained the Skeleton of that Poet, the most celebrated of all Antiquity, but that it crumbled to Dust immediately on being exposed to the Air. He has made many other Discoveries, of Tombs, Medals, &c. at Naxio and Milo, as well as in the Island of Nio.
PARIS, April 22. The Duke de Choiseul's Cabinet of valuable Pictures was sold last Week to great Advantage, many of them having sold for three Times what they cost. The Duke d'Aiguillon, the Countess of Barré, and the Chancellor, were great Purchasers, as was likewise the Empress of Russia.
HAGUE, April 21. Sir Joseph Yorke set out this Morning for Helvoetsluys, in Order to embark there for England. Mr. Meddison is charged with the Affairs of the British Court during the Absence of that Minister.
COPENHAGEN, April 4. Last Tuesday Doctor Munter passed seven Hours with Count Struenfee, who then wrote a Letter to the Queen. After he had finished it, he said to the Ecclesiastick, "Now we will take in Hand some Affairs of the greatest Importance, I mean those of my poor Soul." His Conversations with the Officers of the Guard always have the divine Worship for their Object.
April 11. They write from Aalborg, in Jutland, that the Apartments of the Castle there are fitting up, and ordered to be furnished in the most magnificent Manner.
L O N D O N, April 15.
A LETTER from Copenhagen, by yesterday's Mail, says that the Trial of the Queen is over; she is confined in the Castle of Aalborg, to bear the Title of Majesty, and her Children are declared legitimate. Her Majesty is allowed to take the Diversions of the Country under a Guard, but not to cohabit with the King. Count Struenfee and Count Brandt are found guilty; the former will be executed, and the latter banished.
Extract of a Letter from Copenhagen, April 11.
"On the 9th Sir Robert Keith went to Kronenbourg, and had a Conference with her Majesty the Queen Caroline Matilda, and returned again yesterday; since which, it is said, he is to return to London. The 10th came on, before the Commissioners, the Affairs of the State Prisoners, Counts Struenfee and Brandt. The Pleaders were, for the King, the General Fiscal Vivat; for the Prisoners, the Counsellors Uldahl and Beng, but it was not ended that Day. Counts Struenfee and Brandt have leave to make Use of Pen, Ink, and Paper, and to number their Papers. The Queen's Household is now entirely settled, and the whole Expense amounts to forty Thousand Dollars; her whole Court consists of sixty Persons. This Day her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Frederick, went in a State Coach to the New Holm, and saw two new sixty Gun Ships launched; one is called the Dannebrog, the other the Holstein. His Majesty and the Prince went afterwards and saw the new Machine for cleaning the Harbour, and were highly pleased."
Extract of a private Letter from Altona, April 17.
"This Moment arrived the Post from Copenhagen, and we can assure you that the Divorce of the King from his Queen has been declared. She is to be titled Princess of Aalborg, and is not to bear the King's Arms."
"We are well assured, that, notwithstanding the seeming Slowness of a great Personage to undertake the Cause of an illustrious young Lady of his own Family, his first Address to his Minister, after receiving the News of her Confinement, was, "Save her Honour, save her Life, and do what you please with your Master."
"The Report of the Death of the Queen of Denmark is, we are informed, entirely void of Foundation."
"We hear that the Divorce which has taken Place between the King and Queen of Denmark is very satisfactory to the latter and to her Family, and that no farther Punishment will be inflicted on her; and that there will be no Rupture between this Kingdom and Denmark, provided no farther ill Treatment be offered to the Queen Matilda."
"The Queen of Denmark, we hear, by a Letter which comes from the British Minister at Copenhagen, has never once lost her Fortitude in the Midst of all the Dangers that surrounded her. Though a Woman, and a very young One, she still maintained all the Dignity of her Rank, and determined to die at least with Heroism, if she could not live with Reputation."
"A Correspondent says, the Publick may rely on the Truth of this Assertion, when he declares that the Fleet now fitting out is not in Consequence of the late Revolution in Denmark; and farther, that much greater Danger now threatens this Nation, from the Machinations of other considerable Powers. A few Days will undoubtedly exemplify this Intelligence sufficiently, till when farther Remarks are needful."
"It cannot be determined, in less than a Week, whether the Fleet which has been so expeditiously equipping will really be employed for the intended Purpose or not."
"The Destination of the Fleet now fitting out is entirely altered, if the Intention of its sailing is now wholly thrown aside. Some say it is designed for the East Indies, where the French have been assiduously increasing their Force; but all agree that it will not fail to the Baltic, as an Accommodation is already effected between the Courts of London and Denmark."
"Lord Sandwich's real Reply to the Demand of the Danish Minister, who asked him the Reason of increasing the British Marine at this Time, is much talked of, and much admired at Court. "Your Lordship (said " "that Nobleman) inquires why the British Government is now increasing " "its naval Force, and I shall be very candid with you; we are increasing " "it to be always in a Condition of doing Justice to ourselves, and chastising any unexpected Offence which we may receive from our Neigh- " "bours."
"Lord North, in a Conversation which he lately had with a great Personage, made Use of the following Expression, which deserves everlasting Remembrance: "Peace, Sir, is the greatest Blessing your People can " "enjoy besides Liberty and Honour; and it shall be my perpetual Study " "to secure it while it can be obtained consistently with their Freedom " "and their Reputation."
"It is very certain that Sir Charles Hardy is to command the Squadron intended to go to the Baltic, with a Rear Admiral under his Orders. Sir Charles will also be appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the northern Princes with whom he may have Occasion to treat in the Course of his important Negotiation, but it is now imagined this Expedition will not take Place."
"The following is a Fact. The Express who carried down the Orders to Portsmouth, from the Admiralty, for fitting out three or four Ships with the utmost Expedition, was closely followed by another Express from Great George Street, who carried the same Intelligence to Versailles. The Duke de Nivernois used to boast that Frenchmen were the most expeditious Messengers in the World, for that he has landed Intelligence safe at Versailles before it had left the British Cabinet."
Extract of a Letter from Stockholm, April 7.
"His Majesty has this Day been pleased to fix on the 20th of May for his Coronation, and to accept the Oaths of Allegiance on the 1st of June." Letters from Bourdeaux, dated the 10th Instant, mention that upwards of twenty Sail of French Ships and Frigates were all arrived there from St. Domingo, within a few Days of each other.
"A certain Countess set out for Dover, in Order to embark for Calais, where she waits for the Arrival there of his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester."
"Accounts from Corsica inform us of a most cruel War being carried on in that Island between the French and miserable Natives, a War resembling the hunting Parties of Savages on one Side and the brutal Resistance of enraged Beast of Prey on the other; who, as soon as those bloody Conflicts are over, retreat again to their Dens, Caverns, and inaccessible Fortresses."
"The Inhabitants of Dantzick have lately transmitted several Memorials to the Court of Versailles, on what Subject is not publicly known."
"Last Night a Messenger arrived from his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whose Advices were directly laid before his Majesty, and this Morning the same Messenger was sent back with an Answer."
"An Express was sent off this Morning with Letters to his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, at Rome."
"Orders are sent to Plymouth for the Monmouth, a new Man of War of sixty four Guns, to be rigged and fitted, with all Speed, for the East Indies."
"The Europa, Mars, Magnanime, and Bienfaisant Men of War, at Chatham, are ordered to be got ready for the Coast of Africa."
"A private Letter from Paris remarks, that although the King of Spain's Fingers are continually itching, from one End to the other, to go to War with Great Britain, yet Nothing can rouse his good Friend and Ally Louis XV. out of his present lethargic State; and that Peace, so far as it depends upon the Court of Versailles, may be safely relied on for at least three Years to come."
"The Men of War destined for Newfoundland are to have an additional Complement of Men, who are to be employed in manning Sloops, and other small Vessels, for the better Protection of that Trade."
"They write, from several Parts of the Country, that there is the Appearance of a most plentiful Season for all Sorts of Fruit and Grain."
"Very large Orders are now lying at Amsterdam and Hamburg for naval Stores for the Use of the French Arsenals at Brest, Rochefort, and Toulon."
"Before the breaking up of a great Assembly, an Act, it is said, will pass, that any Person selling short Weight, or Measure, shall, for the first Offence, pay five Pounds; for the second, ten Pounds, and six Months Impmentment; and for the third, Transportation for seven Years."
"Tuesday Night the Scheme for a Lottery for 1772 is to be laid before the House by Lord North."
"A Correspondent informs us that the Duchess of Cumberland is making a curious Collection of Plants at Windsor, under the Direction of a great Botanist, in Imitation of the late Princess Dowager's at Kew."
"Yesterday the Workmen began to make Preparations in Guildhall for putting up the Statue of the late William Beckford, Esquire."
"A Coolness, it is said, has several Days past been visible between a great Personage and an illustrious Visitor who takes up his occasional
Residence amongst us. The Cause is, however, at present, an impenetrable Secret."
"The Debt for which Mr. Shuter is in Custody amounts only to seven Hundred Pounds, as a Correspondent informs us; and, we hear, that as he does not owe one Thousand Pounds to any single Creditor, the Act of Insolvency will speedily restore him to the Service of the Publick. We are also informed that this Gentleman's Income is at least eight Hundred Pounds a Year from the Stage, and that he never spends a single Guinea in any one Article of elegant Extravagance."
"Yesterday the Man taken into Custody in Salisbury Court, the Day before, was carried before the Sitting Alderman at Guildhall, charged with threatening to treat the Lord Mayor in an inhuman Manner, if he had him in his Power; when, on his asking his Lordship Pardon, and promising to do the same in some of the publick Prints, he was, by his Lordship's Consent, dismissed, as several Persons of Credit appeared to his Character."
"The same Day Richard Hazell, a Child about eleven Years old, was charged before the sitting Alderman at Guildhall, by Mr. Gates, the City Marshal, his Brother, and three other Men, who apprehended him for throwing Dirt at the Lord Mayor's Coach on Tuesday last, as it returned from St. Bride's Church. Mr. Gates deposed he saw him throw twice, and his Brother caught his Hands as he was about to throw the third Time; he was thereupon bound over to answer the same at the ensuing Session. He is the Son of a Widow, who has six more Children to maintain."
"Last Night, between the Play and Farce at Drury Lane Theatre, a Disturbance arose, which continued for a full Hour. Mr. W——, it appeared, was in Debt to the Managers a considerable Sum of Money, on which Account they had impounded all the Cash received on his Benefit Night. This the Comedian did not like, and therefore yesterday sent Word that he could not play, as he was arrested, and detained in a Spunging House, but desired that no Apology should be made of his being suddenly taken ill (the usual Stage Plea) as it would be an egregious Falshood. After the Play Mr. Vernon came forward, and informed the Audience that Mr. W—— was suddenly taken ill, and could not perform; upon which Mr. W—— instantly started up in the Front of the upper Gallery, and informed the House that he was not ill, but in the Custody of an Officer, and, if the Audience would have Patience, he would inform them of the whole Affair. A long Altercation ensued, the Managers sent on Mr. Vernon repeatedly, and, after much pro and con, Mr. W—— came down and played his Part of Sneak. The Managers promised the Town a Publication of the whole Affair, and till it appears it will be impossible to know whether they or Mr. W—— are to blame."
"On Tuesday last, as some Labourers were digging on Datchet Common, near Windsor, they found, about a Foot and a Half under Ground, a Bag which was full of Crown and Half Crown Pieces, to the Value of eighty four Pounds, which they divided among them."
"The 9th Instant Thomas Theobald and Philip Page were executed on Penenden Heath, in Kent, pursuant to their Sentence, amidst a very large Concourse of People. They both behaved very penitent, and Theobald acknowledged that he took the Tunbridge Bag from the Post-boy; but Page would not make the least Confession. Thomas Hanscomb, Page's Accomplice, died the Night before their Execution; and Alexander Clubb is respited in Order for Transportation, who is said to have committed upwards of twenty five Highway Robberies in Kent. Robert (alias Richard) Day, who was cast for Transportation at Maidstone Assizes, has declared that he has stolen, in different Counties, upwards of sixty Horses. He has been some Time making Discoveries of many of them."
"On Friday Evening last Mr. Heardson, of the Borough, having some Duck Eggs boiled for his Supper, on opening one of them, to his very great Surprise, he discovered another complete Egg enclosed in the middle of the Yolk of the exterior. This lulus naturae has been shown to some learned Naturalists, by whom it was pronounced a very rare Curiosity. They likewise add that it is the second ever heard of, the first being deposited in the Museum of the Royal Society."
Extract of a Letter from White House, near Belfast, April 6.
"You have no Doubt, ere now, heard of a Set of Men in this Country who give themselves the Name of Hearts of Steel, and are formed into a Body of some Thousands. The most cruel of Savages could not exceed them. They not only burn the Houses, Corn, and Hay, and kill the Cattle, of all those who refuse to join them, but rob and murder all that come in their Way. Since my last they have destroyed me four Cows, and a Horse worth forty Pounds; and, in short, have taken every Thing they could carry off, so that I am left quite destitute. If there is not a Stop put to their Barbarities and Depredations, this Country will be entirely ruined very soon. There are now seventy of them in the County Jail to take their Trials at next Assizes, which begin the 16th Instant; and it is supposed many of them will suffer Death, as there are happily two Regiments of Foot and two of Dragoons now to assist the civil Magistrates."
"April 16. It has been remarked, with some Surprise, by the Freeholders of Middlesex, that Mr. Wilkes, in all his publick Letters as Sheriff, addresses them only to the Livery of London, though he is indeed the Sheriff for Middlesex, as well as of London, and is therefore as accountable to the Freeholders for his Conduct as to the Livery. The Patriot has herein varied a little from his Predecessors, that he would never forget his Obligations to the Freeholders of Middlesex; but as the County has now no more Rewards to give, the City is by far the warmest Nest for a poor Sheriff."
"Mr. Burke observed, in the House, that it seemed more than probable that the Spoils of Asia would prove as fatal to Great Britain as they once did to ancient Rome."
"In the Dispute between two Printers on Saturday last, at the Queen's Arms in Newgate Street, a Friend to both Parties said, "It was a Pity that two Printers should go together by the Ears." "Two Printers may be thankful (says a Bylander) that they have Ears to go together by, at such Times as these."
"The Prussian Forces are making repeated Acquisitions in Poland, which the united Efforts of the Parties there can never wrest from the resolute Monarch."
"In Rome, hired Carriages are obliged to give Way to those of the Nobility; the Adventurer Charles has had no other for some Time, so could not dispute with the Duke of Gloucester."
"An Extract of a Letter from Warsaw, after expatiating on the Miseries of Poland, concludes, "Let the Ambitious look without Prejudice on " "the State of a King, in the Condition of our Monarch."
"On Tuesday, in the Afternoon, a horrid Murder was committed at Mile End. A poor Countryman asking the Price of a Bullock's Heart, was answered two Shillings by the Butcher's Man. The Countryman again asking if he would take no less, was answered no, in a very impertinent Manner; which the Countryman resenting, a Battle ensued, when the Butcher's Man having the worst of it, the Master brought a Cleaver and made a Blow at the Countryman's Head, which killed him on the Spot."
"We hear that Lord Clive has lately received a Present of an exceeding fine Diamond from one of the Nabobs of the Carnatic, valued at the Sum of thirty Thousand Pounds."
"Advices from Smyrna say it is very probable that the Turkish Empire is near its Declension. The Russian Successes, the Enterprises of Ali Bey, the harrowing of the Arabian Emirs, with the Troubles in Egypt, seem too powerful for a distracted Empire's Opposition."
"April 24. It is now asserted that pacifick Measures will prevail in Consequence of some Advices received from Copenhagen last Tuesday Evening."
"The Report that one M. de Groinicht had pretended, at Copenhagen, that he had been admitted to improper Liberties with the great Lady there, puts us in Mind of what is mentioned in the Continuation of Lord Clarendon's Life, of an infamous Accusation against the Dutchess of York, by one Sir Charles Berkeley, who confidently told the Duke that he had lain with the Dutchess. This Story the Duke believed, or pretended to believe, till Berkeley confessed to the Duke that he had invented that Story to do the Duke Service, as he thought; and yet such was the Iniquity of that Court, and Time, that Berkeley does not appear to have been punished for his Accusation, confirmed by most solemn Oaths."
"It is very extraordinary how much more fatal in their Consequences the Piles , Cholick and Dropsy Affections , are in the northern than the southern Parts of Europe. Peter III. Emperor of Russia, it was said, died of the Piles ; and it is reported that a certain northern Princess was troubled with a Cholick , which brought on a Somnolency that occasioned her Death. Should this last be held out to the Publick as the real Cause of that Lady's Exit, some out-of-the-Way Reasoners will be apt to conclude that those high Personages quitted the World in the same Manner."
"They write from Gibraltar that a Number of Vessels are now fitting out at Toulon, to be employed in the Whale and Cod Fisheries in America."
"A private Letter from the Hague says that the Dutch Asiatic Company have sent out in their Ships, last Season, upwards of two Thousand Landmen, as a Reinforcement to their Garrisons in the East Indies; and that a very considerable Addition will be made this Summer to their naval Strength, by several Men of War from Holland."
"They write from the Hague that four of the Burghers of Dantzick, and some of the principal Merchants, were preparing to leave that City, on Account of the oppressive Taxations made on them by the Prussians."

All the East India Company's Ships that were taken up last Season are now failed to the Places of their Destination.
A perfect Reconciliation, as the Desire of the Cabinet, has taken Place between two great Sages in the Law, who lately had a sharp Altercation in an illustrious Assembly.
We are credibly informed a most noble Lord has declared his Intention of providing for an old Sea Officer, who, in the Course of the late War, saved to Government near two Hundred Thousand Pounds in America.
Lord Loudoun is not gone along with Lord Sandwich to Portsmouth, as has been mentioned, his Lordship being obliged to attend the Court Martial on a certain General, which begins next Monday.
Yesterday several Serjeants, and a great many private Men, arrived in Town from Ireland, to attend the Court Martial.
By an English Gentleman just arrived from Dublin we learn that the high Price of Provisions is so far from being felt by the Citizens of that Capital that there is hardly a Shopkeeper worth five Hundred Pounds who sits down without three or four Dishes of the best Victuals, and seldom rises till he has emptied as many Bottles of Claret.
There are said to be Letters in Town which mention an Execution having lately taken Place at Lisbon, where twenty Prisoners of Rank have suffered, among whom is a Bishop.
Two Sloops, of twenty Guns each, are appointed to cruise off Beachy Head, to watch the Motions of the French in the Harbours of Brest and Cherbourg.
Yesterday the Attorney General was at Court. When the Drawing Room was over, he had a long Conference with his Majesty, after which a Messenger was despatched to the Lord Chancellor, at Fairy Hill.
Yesterday a full Committee met in the Parliament House, to consider farther of the State of the East India Company, in Order to report the same on the first Meeting of an august Assembly.
Lord Clive, in the Course of his Speech in Defence of his own Conduct in Bengal, solemnly called God to Witness that he never received a Sixpence while he was in the Company's Service but in an honourable Way. Is not Violence of Affection sometimes a Sign of Guilt? Some Members, however, thought him innocent, till Governor Johnstone spoke, and showed the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. Though Governor Johnstone's Speech be perfectly genuine, the Reader can have from it but a faint Idea of the Spirit and Fire which it breathed in the Delivery. Much of both has evaporated in the Penning.
PHILADELPHIA, June 29.
CAPTAIN Hammond, arrived here from the Coast of Africa, but last from Nevis, informs us that he left Sierra Leone about three Months ago, where he heard there had been a very sickly Time up the River Gambia; that Governor de Berdt, and all the Traders at James's Fort, on that River, were dead; and that the Doctor was the only white Man living belonging to the Fort. He also informs, that a few Days before he failed Captain Savery, in a Brig belonging to London, trading at Camarico, having got about sixty five Slaves on Board, they rose upon the white People, killed the Captain, Mate, and all the Crew, except a Boy; and that the Vessel was afterwards retaken by one Mr. Cleveland, a Trader, who recovered about twenty of the Slaves, and intended to send the Brig home, for the Benefit of the Ensurers.
WILLIAMSBURG, July 16.
By the Lord Baltimore, Mitchell, arrived in Hampton Road from London, which he left on the 9th of May, we learn that Captain Necks was then ready to sail, and had fallen down to Deptford; and that Captain Peterfon was to sail in about ten Days after him. The Cuninghame, Buchanan, from Glasgow, is arrived in James River.
A R E B U S.
NOR Wings, nor Feet, -unto my Shape have fell, Yet I in Swiftness do the best excel; Arms I have none, nor Weapons do I wear, And yet I daily wound the Brave and Fair; My Name is odious both to Friends and Foes, Yet I'm admir'd by all the Belles and Beaus; And when my Name's conceal'd I've many Friends, The best Man fears me, and his Fault amends; All wise Men hate me, as their common Foe; Take C. from me, I keep you from the Snow; Old Maids, cares me, for this World I hate, As it hates them, so we receive our Fate; From these short Hints, to tell my Name's your Task; That well perform'd, I've Nothing more to ask.
Mess. PURDIE & DIXON, As the Drosy (as far as I have ever been informed) is a Disorder that has baffled the Skill of the most eminent Physicians, through Gratitude to my Benefactor, and for the Good of the Publick, I am desirous to have the following published. In 1770 I fell into a very bad Drosy, whereupon I had Recourse to Medicine, but to no Purpose. Being informed that Charles Hunt, of Northumberland, had a Recipe, and had actually made a perfect Cure of a Man afflicted with that Disorder for several Years, I sent for Mr. Hunt, who at once declared he could cure me, although at that Time I could not walk alone; and by carefully following his Directions (with the Blessing of God) I have been restored to a good State of Health, for some Time. GEORGE HEALE. LANCASTER, July 3, 1772.
FRIDAY, July 17. Just as our Gazette was going to Press, we were advised of the Arrival of Captain Necks, and have received Papers by him to the 11th of May, in which there is but little News of Importance, except the following Paragraphs.
LONDON, May 2. A Correspondent says the following may be depended on. Every Thing is accommodated with the Court of Denmark. Two Men of War are ordered immediately to sail for Copenhagen, with several of his Majesty's Household on Board, to conduct the Queen of Denmark to Praatz, and from thence to Hanover, where she is to reside during Life.
May 4. On Sunday last, about four o'Clock in the Afternoon, five Waggons, a saluted Marine, and a Cart, all loaded with Baggage, Provisions, and Utensils, set out from St. James's for Deal, in Order to be embarked on Board the Ships and Yacht preparing to sail for Elsinour to fetch away the Queen of Denmark; and this Morning, at four o'Clock, seven of his Majesty's Servants; several Cooks, &c. were to set out from the King's Household for the same Place on the same Occasion.
May 7. Orders are said to be sent to Deal and Sheerness for three seventy four Gun Ships, two Bombketches, a Fire-ship, and a Yacht, to be got ready for Sea at an Hour's Notice. Where this Fleet is destined is uncertain; still it looks as if Matters were not fully accommodated between our Court and that of Denmark.
Extract of a Letter from Copenhagen.
"That Part of the Account in the London Prints which I have read here, relating to our Queen, is certainly true, though not altogether in the Manner you have it. You must know our Attorney General acted with great Spirit in the Trial, and dwelt much upon the Part the King has acted in this Business. He reminded them that the King was not the Prosecutor, though the Offence is alleged against him; nay his Majesty did not accuse, but declared he was satisfied with the Queen. He confessed he thought her too good a Woman for him, and acknowledged that he had long since been convinced, in his own Conscience, that he was not a Man good enough for her; and though he plainly perceived she was no Stranger to his Infirmities, he never would turn her Back on her Husband."
On the 5th ult. soon after Midnight, an Earthquake happened at Lisbon, which continued for two Minutes. The Weather was serene, the Sky Star-light, and the Air perfectly calm. The Direction of the Shock was from south to north, with equal Vibrations, which were strong and lasting. A subterranean Noise was heard at the same Time, which continued as long as the Shocks.
At the Bristol Assizes the noted Jonathan Britain was tried for Forgery and convicted, for which he is to suffer Death. He betrayed, through the whole Trial, a most daring resolute Disposition; and, when Sentence was passed upon him, seemed quite unaffected.
May 8. Yesterday Morning a Messenger was sent off Express to the Lords of the Regency of the Electorate of Hanover, and another to the King of Prussia.
It was yesterday reported upon Change that in the new Treaty lately negotiated between France, Spain, and the Emperor, were two Articles, namely: Putting the Pretender Charles in Possession of Corsica, and annexing Gibraltar to the Crown of France.
The Queen of Denmark's Situation at Zell will, we are assured, be far from being an uncomfortable One; as she will not only be secured from all farther Machinations of one of the most daring Women in the Creation, but from the Censures and Brow-beatings of an unpitying World.
By Letters from Copenhagen, of the 28th ult. we learn that the Counts Struenfee and Brandt underwent the Execution of their Sentence that Day, at eight o'Clock, before the east Gate of the City, in the Middle of a Field, upon a Scaffold erected for that Purpose, which was nine Ells high, and the upper Part eight Ells square. Their Sentence was to have their right Hands cut off, afterwards their Heads, then their Bodies to be quartered, and put on a Wheel, after which they were to be put on Poles, and placed over the Gates. Count Struenfee was dressed in Green and Gold, and Count Brandt in Blue and Gold. Struenfee, after his Hand was cut off, rose up, and was obliged, by Force, to sit down again; but Brandt did not move at all. The former behaved very penitently, but the other's Conduct was remarkably bold.
Advertisements.
WILLIAMSBURG, July 16, 1772.
LAST Saturday, at a Court of Common Hall, a bye Law was passed for constituting a WATCH, to consist of four sober and discreet People, who are to patrol the Streets of this City from ten o'Clock every Night until Daylight the next Morning, to cry the Hours, and use their best Endeavours to preserve Peace and good Order, by apprehending and bringing to Justice all disorderly People, Slaves, as well as others. They are likewise to have the Care of the FIRE ENGINES, and to be ready, in Cases of Accidents by Fire, to give their Assistance towards extinguishing the same. For which Services each Person is to receive a Salary of thirty Pounds a Year.
This Regulation, it is hoped, may prove extremely beneficial, not only to this City, but to the Neighbourhood in general. But as much will depend on those to be employed as Watchmen, such only as will answer the above Description (to which must be added Honesty and Diligence) need apply; and they are to give in their Names, with the necessary Certificates, to the Mayor, to be laid before the Common Hall to be held on the first Tuesday in next Month, when the Watch will be appointed.
WILLIAMSBURG, July 16, 1772.
JOHN BAKER, SURGEON DENTIST, begs Leave to inform the Publick, and his Friends in particular, that he is now in Williamsburg, where he performs all Operations upon the Teeth, Gums, and Sockets, as usual; likewise has a Quantity of his ANTI-SCOR BUTICK DENTIFRICE, for preserving the Teeth and Gums.
STAFFORD, July 6, 1772.
As my Wife Jean Johnson is not contented to live with me, but goes on in such a Manner as I think is likely to ruin me and my Children, I do hereby forewarn all Persons from dealing or making any Bargain or Contract with her on my Account, for they may depend I will pay no Debt she contracts. JOHN JOHNSON, Senior.
WILLIAMSBURG, July 11, 1772.
WE, the Executors of Mr. William Hunter, late of this City, Printer, deceased, having long since paid all Debts appearing against his Estate, and near all his Legacies, intend in a few Months to make a final Settlement of the Estate, and so conclude our Administration. Should any other Demands remain unadjusted, we desire they may be immediately made known to us, otherwise we shall not, after the Settlement, look upon ourselves obliged to pay them; and as several old Accounts remain open on his Books, we shall esteem it an Act of Generosity, as well as of Justice, in the Debtors to discharge them. BEN: WALLER. THOMAS EVERARD.
CITY VENDUE OFFICE,
WILLIAMSBURG, July 16, 1772.
THE Subscriber begs Leave to acquaint the Publick that he has opened the said Office, where he intends to sell, at publick Auction, all Kinds of Merchandise, Household and Kitchen Furniture, Negroes, Horses, Wearing Apparel, &c. and pledges himself to be strictly attentive to every Particular that can possibly contribute to the Sale of any Goods, or whatever the Publick shall please to commit to his Care, where constant Attendance will be given, and profound Secrecy observed. Due Regard paid to all Limitations, with the utmost Care and Despatch, will be the constant Study of the Publick's most obedient and most humble Servant, WILLIAM PAGE.
N. B. Will be sold, at the said Office, on Monday the 20th Instant, a Quantity of EUROPEAN GOODS, HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, &c. The Sales to be continued every Monday, and at other Times, as Business may require.
ALL Persons concerned are desired to take
Notice that the Collection of the Debts due to Messrs. McCall & Elliot of Glasgow, for Dealings had with the Subscriber, at Todd's Warehouse, are now transferred to Mr. Robert McCall, who is duly authorised to receive and give Discharges for the same. The Subscriber proposes to sell the Plantation whereon he lives, lying about a Mile and a Half from Todd's Warehouse, containing six Hundred and fifty seven Acres, under a good Fence, with good Apple and Peach Orchards; the Dwelling and other Houses have been built about four Years. Any One who chooses to purchase may know the Terms by applying to. ROBINSON DAINGERFIELD.
ABOUT forty Thousand Pounds of Tranf-fer TOBACCO will be sold to the highest Bidder, on Thursday the 20th of August, for ready Money, at Suffex Courthouse, being Court Day, for the Benefit of the said County and Albemarle Parish.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, on Saturday the 8th of August, on the Premises,
A TRACT of LAND belonging to the Subscriber, near Captain Henry Lynes's, in King & Queen, containing about three Hundred and fifty Acres, on which are two small Plantations, and will be sold together, or divided into two Lots, as may suit the Purchasers. The Terms of Payment will be declared at the Sale, and the Money to be paid, or Security given, to Mr. Edmund Pendleton. Any Person may be shown the Land by applying to JOHN BURNS.
FREDERICKSBURG, July 8, 1772.
STRAYED, or STOLEN, from the Subscriber, about the 24th of June, a likely dark bay HORSE about fifteen Hands high, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, a Star in his Forehead, trots and gallops, was shod all round, and has a small Knot on one of his Buttocks, but no Brand that can be remembered. Whoever delivers him to me shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward. HENRY MITCHELL.
COMMITTED to James City Prison, on Saturday the 11th Instant (July) a Negro Woman who says her Name is MOLLY, and that she is the Property of the Honourable William Byrd; she is of a yellow Complexion, about forty Years of Age, of the middle Stature, well made, has on an Osnaburg Waistcoat, Coat, Shift, and Petticoat, and a Virginia Yarn Ditto, with white Waping and blue Filling. The Owner is desired to take her away, and pay the necessary Charges. JOHN CONNELLY, Jailor.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Middlesex, about the Beginning of June last, a Negro Man named GABRIEL, about twenty two Years old, a very likely Fellow, of a yellowish Complexion, about five Feet high, and had on, when he went away, a Pair of Leather Breeches, a white Cotton Waistcoat, a greenish Virginia Cloth One under it, and an Osnaburg Shirt. It is supposed he will go towards Fauquier. Whoever will deliver him to me, or secure him in Jail, and give me Notice thereof, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, besides what the Law allows. JOHN M'NEAL.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Chesterfield, on the 12th of May, a Mulatto Man named DICK, about forty Years of Age, of the middle Stature, with straight Hair. I expect he will endeavour to pass for a Freeman. Whoever brings him to me, or secures him so that I may get him again, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward. EDWARD BRANCH.
PRINCE GEORGE, June 22, 1772.
CAME to my Plantation, on the 20th Instant, a likely outlandish Negro Fellow about five Feet six Inches high, talks some English Words, but cannot, or will not, tell his Master's Name so as to be understood; his Clothing consists of an old Virginia Cloth Coat bound with black Ferret, and black Horn Buttons, Rolls Trousers, an Osnaburg Shirt, and an old Cotton Waistcoat. He has his Country Marks on his Face. His Owner is desired to take him away as soon as possible. ROBERT GILLIAM.
TAKEN up, in Orange, a black and white COW marked with a Crop and Hole in each Ear. Posted, and appraised to forty five Shillings. CHARLES BUSH.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, on the second Lay of next August Augusta Court, at the Courthouse, FIVE Hundred and fifty five Acres of very good level LAND, well timbered, and very good for Grain or Tobacco, lying on Brigs Branch, about eighteen Miles below Staunton, and formerly belonged to Mr. James Diver. Any Person inclined to purchase may know the Terms before the Day of Sale by applying to the Subscriber, in the lower End of Orange, or to Mr. James Robb in Fredericksburg. Half the Money to be paid down, and twelve Months Credit allowed for the other Half, on giving Bond and Security to REUBEN DANIEL, Or JAMES ROBB.
CAROLINE, July 1, 1772.
WHEREAS my Wife ELIZABETH has, without the least Provocation, absconded from me, and declared she will not return to her Duty, these are to forewarn all Persons from giving her Credit on my Account, as I am determined to pay no Debt she may contract after this Date. JEREMIAH PEARCE.
WILLIAMSBURG, July 6, 1772.
SOME Persons having misunderstood my Advertisement, as if I intended to make myself liable for all my Brother's Debts, which is not my Design, any farther than the Law charges me, I explain my Meaning to be only to express my Confidence, that, if the Debtors are speedy in their Payments, and the Creditors indulgent, there would be sufficient to satisfy all Demands without ruining my Brother's numerous Family; and of this I am still confident, and earnestly desire both Debtors and Creditors to comply with my Request. JOHN DIXON.
Just IMPORTED from London, and to be SOLD by the Subscriber, in Williamsburg,
A COMPLETE Assortment of MILLINERY, &c. Passe Necklaces and Earrings; Marcassite Ditto; Wax Ditto set round with Marcassite; French Wax, Coral, Garnet, and Agate Ditto; Passe Buckles, Combs, Lockets, and Crosses; Silver Corals; Garnet Earrings set in Gold; Tortoiseshell, Ivory, Box, and Horn Combs; fashionable Paper Snuff Boxes; Silver Thimbles; Childrens Clasps and Lockets; japanned Tea Boards and Waiters; rich white Satin; flowered and plain Lustrings; figured, black, blue, and white Satin for Cloaks; Bat, Brufels, and Minionet Lace and Edgings; Blond and black Lace for Cloaks; joining Ditto for Hoods and Handkerchiefs; Silk, Cotton, Thread, and Worsted Stockings; Silk, Kid, and Lamb Gloves and Mitts for Ladies; a Variety of neat Gloves and Didbury's Shoes for Gentlemen; Calimanco, Silk, Satin, and embroidered Shoes for Ladies; Suits of Childbed Linen, Cradle Quilts and Robes; white Satin and Dimity Baskets; Lines and Pin cushions; Chip Hats; white Bonnets; Satin Quilts; striped, plain, and flowered Muffin; Book Ditto for Aprons; Long Lawn; Cambric; flowered, spotted, and plain Gauze; bordered Gauze Handkerchiefs and Aprons; Patent Net Hoods; Pieces of Ditto for Handkerchiefs and Ruffles; white Sarcenet; black, white, and blue Persian; Silver Blond for Stomachers and Sleeve Knots; Italian Ditto; Riband Ditto; Silver and Italian Breast Flowers; black, white, coloured, and India Fans; Dimity for Robes; Lace and Fringe for trimming Ditto; Fringe for Suits; Hair Rolls and Ear Curls; Silk Purse; Pocket Books; Smelling Bottles; and a Variety of Toys for Children; Silk Bags for Gentlemens Hair; fine Hyf'n Tea; Rappée and Scotch Snuff; with a great Number of other Articles. MARGARET HUNTER.
Cloaks, Bonnets, and Hats made in the newest Fashion; also Fans neatly mounted.
TWO Bales of German OSNABRUGS, containing about sixteen Hundred Ells, damaged on Board the Thomas & Mary, James Dunsley Commander, from London, will be sold, on Friday the 31st Instant (July) for ready Money, at the Subscriber's Store in King and Queen, for the Benefit of the Ensurers. EDWARD HILL.
MIDDLESEX, June 29, 1772.
THE Subscriber intends to leave the Colony, JOHN BAGOT.
JUST arrived from Africa, the Snow Nancy, James E. Colly Commander, with about two Hundred and fifty five healthy WINDWARD and GOLD COAST SLAVES, the Sale of which will begin at Osborne's, on James River, on Wednesday the 20th Instant (July) and continue until all are sold. Merchants Notes, payable at the General Courts in Williamsburg, will be received in Payment. JOHN LAWRENCE, WILLIAM CALL, & Co.
To be SOLD for ready Money, on Thursday the 11th of August, at Prince George Courthouse,
ONE Third Part of the SNOW Prince George, now lying in Appomattox River, Burthen two Hundred Hogheads of Tobacco, well found, and fitted either for the West India or Eastern Trade, five Years old, and a prime Sailer. JERMAN BAKER, For the Administrator of Samuel Gordon.
To be SOLD by the Subscriber, in HALIFAX Town, NORTH CAROLINA,
TWO Lots in the said Town, adjoining the Courthouse and Jail, well situated for Tavern keeping. There is one House forty four Feet long and twenty Feet wide, with three large Lodging Rooms up Stairs, and four Closets to the House, a Piazza the Length of the House, ten Feet wide, with a large Bar Room at one End, and a Cellar underneath; also a Dwellinghouse adjoining, thirty two Feet long and sixteen Feet wide, with three Rooms below and two above, and a Piazza on the Front Side, with good Glass Windows above and below, well finished off; also a Billiard House twenty eight Feet long and eighteen Feet wide, with a good Lodging Rooms above, and a good Billiard Table; likewise a Kitchen sixteen Feet square, and a good Smokehouse, Stable, Horse Lots, &c. a large Garden in good Order, wherein are many Fruits and Herbs, all well paled in. Any Person inclined to purchase may know the Terms by applying to the Subscriber, now on the Premises. CHRISTOPHER DUDLEY.
N. B. All the Houses have good Brick Chimneys, and are well plastered and whitewashed.
CAROLINE, June 30, 1772.
STOLEN from the Subscriber, in the Night of the 13th Instant, a sorrel HORSE about four Feet ten Inches high, with a small Blaze, light Mane and Tail, reached and hobbled, his near hind Foot above the Footlock much scarred, and branded on the near Buttock G. B. Whoever brings the said Horse to me shall have FIVE POUNDS Reward, TEN POUNDS if he is found out of the Colony, and TWENTY POUNDS upon Conviction of the Thief. JOHN ARMISTEAD.

POETS CORNER.
The RAKE.
An open Heart, a generous Mind, But Passion's Slave, and wild as Wind; In Theory a Judge of Right, Though banish'd from its Practice quite;
GENERAL POST OFFICE, New York, November 1, 1772. NOTICE is hereby given, that on Account of the new Regulation of the Post from Canada, which is to arrive every Tuesday Evening at this Office, and the weekly Post from the Eastward and Southward arriving every Wednesday, the Mail going from hence by the Packets will, for the future, be closed at twelve o'Clock at Night, on the first Wednesday in every Month (being the same Time it closes at the General Post Office in London for America) and a Packet despatched therewith the next Day for Falmouth.
WANTS EMPLOYMENT, A YOUNG Man, lately from England, who is perfectly acquainted with Book-keeping and Merchants Accounts. He was upwards of five Years employed as Clerk and Rider to a capital House in London, and is well recommended for his Honesty and Sobriety.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, on the Premises, on Thursday the 6th of August, pursuant to the last Will and Testament of Captain JAMES JONES, deceased, in Sussex.
THE noted ORDINARY known by the Name of Burgess's, situated about eight Miles from Peterburg, in the County of Dinwiddie, with between four and five Hundred Acres of tolerable good Grain Land; it lies well, and is well timbered with Pine and Oak; there is on it a good Dwellinghouse with Brick Chimneys, two Rooms above and two below, a Kitchen, and sundry other Improvements.
STRAYED, or STOLEN, on the 9th of June last, a bay HORSE about four Feet seven or eight Inches high, with a small Blaze in his Face, one hind Foot white, his Mane hangs on the wrong Side, and has a short bushy Tail.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in King and Queen, about a Fortnight ago, a NEGRO WOMAN about twenty one Years of Age; she is tall and black, very lusty, and supposed to be pretty far gone with Child; her Dresses cannot be well described, having several Changes of Apparel, and generally wears a blue Cloth Cloak.
RUN away, in the Night of the 15th of last Month, from on Board the Snow Anne, at Port Royal, two Convicts, namely, JOHN USHER and WILLIAM ELLIOT. Usher is a tall stout Fellow, rather pale, wears his own brown Hair tied behind, had on, and took with him, a coarse gray Cloth Coat, a brown Cloth Waistcoat, a Pair of long Troufers, and a white Shirt; he is a Weaver by Trade.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Dinwiddie, a Negro Fellow named ANTHONY, about twenty five Years old, five Feet nine Inches high, with remarkable white Hairs on the fore Part of his Head, slim made, speaks good English, and had on a Sailor's Jacket.
TAKEN up, in Chesterfield, a small bay HORSE about eight or nine Years old, branded on the near Buttock C, as near as can be discerned, with a small Star in his Forehead, a roached Mane and Switch Tail, paces very well, and has on a very good Bell.
FREDERICKSBURG, July 1, 1772. THE Subscribers have entered into Partnership in the Practice of PHYSICK and SURGERY, and keep their Shop next Door to Mrs. Julian's Tavern.
ALL Persons having Demands against the Estate of Roger Dixon, late of Fredericksburg, deceased, are desired to make them known, and they who are indebted to the said Estate are desired to make speedy Payment, either to Mr. Oliver Towles, Attorney at Law in Spotsylvania (whom I have empowered to act in these Affairs) or to JOHN DIXON, Administrator, with the Will annexed.
It hath been reported (and I fear the Report will prove detrimental to my Brother's distressed Family) that his Debts exceed the Value of his personal Estate, and that, dying intestate, his Lands would be liable for none but English Debts; but I hereby assure those whom it may concern, that there was a Will found, and proved, wherein he directs the Sale of all his Lands (except his Wife's Dower, the Houses and Lots where he dwelt, and his new Mill near Fredericksburg) the Produce of which will be applied, together with the Debts, as fast as they can be collected, to the Payment of his just Debts, which I must acknowledge amount to a large Sum of Money;
A GENERAL MEETING of the GRANVILLE COMPANY is appointed to be held at Hanover Courthouse, on the first Wednesday in August next, of which the several Members of the said Company are desired to take due Notice, and to give their Attendance accordingly.
NORFOLK, June 29, 1772. WILLIAM PASTEUR, my Apprentice, having absented himself, I hereby forewarn all Persons from harbouring or entertaining him.
To be SOLD, or LEASED for a Number of Years, altogether, or in Parcels, THE very valuable Tract of LAND, and beautiful Situation on James River, in the lower End of Amherst County, near Doctor William Cabell's, where I formerly lived, containing about a Thousand Acres, with a tolerable Dwellinghouse, and various other Houses, and Land cleared sufficient to work ten or twelve Hands, chiefly on low Grounds.
Just IMPORTED in the VIRGINIA, Captain Robertson, and to be SOLD reasonably by the Subscriber, in Williamsburg, A LARGE Assortment of DRUGS and MEDICINES; also white and brown Sugar Candy; Barley Sugar; Almonds; Capers; Spanish Licorice; Isinglass; Pearl Barley; Sago; Salop; Hartshorn Shavings; Saltpetre; Borax; Sallad Oil; Barbary Oil; Hungary Honey, Lavender, and Orange Flower Waters; Cinnamon; Cloves; Mace; Nutmegs; Ginger; Pepper; Allspice; Ladies Sticking Plaster; Eau de Luce; Doctor Hill's Elixir Bardana, Essence of Water Dock, Pectoral Balsam of Honey, Tincture of Golden Rod, and Tincture of Valerian; Walker's Jesuit's Drops; Doctor Norris's Drops; Bateman's Drops; Ward's white Drops; Blackie's Lixivium for the Stone and Gravel; Fit Drops for Convulsions in Children; Lancets; Anderson's and Lockyer's Pills; Doctor James's Fever Powders; Anodyne Necklaces; Daffy's, Stoughton's, and Squire's Elixirs; Fraunce's Female Strengthening Elixir; Turlington's Balsam of Life; Fryar's Balsam; Freeman's and Godfrey's Cordials; Brins's Rock Oil; Verdigris; white and red Lead; Prussian Blue; Vermilion; Gold and Silver Leaf; Dutch Metal; Breast Pipes; Nipple Glasses; Oil, and Spirits of Turpentine; Alum; Brimstone; Blue Stone; Copperas; Logwood; Rotten Stone; Potash; Greenough's Tincture for the Gums and Teeth; Urinals; Clyster Pipes, &c.
NORFOLK, June 30, 1772. WANTED immediately, a sober Lad of fifteen or sixteen Years of Age, properly educated, to serve as an Apprentice in the Business of Surgery, Pharmacy, &c.
WANTED immediately, to hire by the Month or Year, ten Pair of good SAWERS. Enquire of the Subscriber, at Mr. Charles Minnis's, at the Halfway House between York and Hampton.
NANSEMOND, June 21, 1772. WANTED immediately, on Charter for Port Glasgow, a VESSEL from three to five Hundred Hogheads. For Terms apply to JOHN HAMILTON, & Co.
TAKEN away, on the 28th of May last, from Northumberland Courthouse, by one Robert Poythress, from the County of Amelia, a Negro Slave named DICK, belonging to the Subscriber; he is a black Fellow, about twenty Years of Age, five Feet seven Inches high, very likely and sensible, has been brought up in the House as a Waiter, is very skillful in the Care of Horses, and a good Rider.
WANTED immediately, a Miller that understands the Management of a Merchant Mill; also one or two Journeyman SHIP CARPENTERS that can carry up the Side of a Ship. Apply to me, in Charles City.
DINWIDDIE, June 13, 1772. STOLEN from the Subscriber, on Friday Night the 12th Instant, a bay HORSE about four Feet seven Inches high, with a short Switch Tail and hanging Mane, paces, trots, and gallops very well, has remarkable good Spirit, was shod before, but his Brand, if any, is not remembered.
PETERSBURG, June 24, 1772. STRAYED from the Subscriber, in the Night of the 14th Instant, a very likely bright bay HORSE about four Feet nine Inches high, seven Years old this Spring, has a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, paces and gallops remarkably well, but his Brand, if any, is not remembered.
WANTED, A MILLER that understands the Management of a Merchant Mill; also one or two Journeyman SHIP CARPENTERS that can carry up the Side of a Ship. Apply to me, in Charles City. BENJAMIN HARRISON.
STOLEN from the Subscriber, on Friday Night the 12th Instant, a bay HORSE about four Feet seven Inches high, with a short Switch Tail and hanging Mane, paces, trots, and gallops very well, has remarkable good Spirit, was shod before, but his Brand, if any, is not remembered.
STRAYED from the Subscriber, in the Night of the 14th Instant, a very likely bright bay HORSE about four Feet nine Inches high, seven Years old this Spring, has a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, paces and gallops remarkably well, but his Brand, if any, is not remembered.
WANTED, A MILLER that understands the Management of a Merchant Mill; also one or two Journeyman SHIP CARPENTERS that can carry up the Side of a Ship. Apply to me, in Charles City. BENJAMIN HARRISON.
WANTED, A MILLER that understands the Management of a Merchant Mill; also one or two Journeyman SHIP CARPENTERS that can carry up the Side of a Ship. Apply to me, in Charles City. BENJAMIN HARRISON.
SURRY, June 29, 1772. RUN away from the Subscriber, last May twelvemonth, a Negro Man named EMMANUEL, a spare made Fellow, upwards of twenty Years of Age, of a yellowish Complexion, and speaks very hoarse. He formerly belonged to Mr. Simon Hillyard of Elizabeth City, and I am informed he is frequently lurking about there and Wilmsburg.
TAKEN up, in Orange, a red and white BULL about four or five Years old, marked with a Crop and Underkerel in the right Ear, and a Crop in the left. Poled, and appraised to thirty Shillings. BENJAMIN PORTER.
TAKEN up, in Louisa, a pale red STEER marked with a Crop and Underkerel in the left Ear, and a Crop and Overkerel in the right. Poled, and appraised to three Pounds. RANDOLPH WATSON.
TAKEN up, in Orange, a bay HORSE about four Feet nine Inches high, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, some white Hairs on his Nose and Back, and branded on the near Buttock I B. Poled, and appraised to ten Pounds. LAWRENCE TALIAFERRO.
FOR SALE.
TWO Thousand five Hundred and twenty Acres of LAND on Netaway River, in the Counties of Dinwiddie and Brunswick, about thirty Miles from the Towns of Peterburg and Blandford, to which Place there is a fine Road from the said Land; there is a good Water Grist Mill on the said River, with two Pair of Stones and a Bolting Mill.
To be SOLD by the Executors of Colonel RICHARD COCKE, on the Premises, to the highest Bidder, the 25th of November next, and to be entered on at Christmas.
TRACT of good TOBACCO LAND lying on Bear's Element Creek, in Lunenburg, containing about a Thousand Acres, together with all the Corn, Fodder, Stocks of Cattle, Hogs, Plantation Utensils, &c.
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 Layton's Inspection of Tobacco on Rappahannock River.
THE following Tracts of LAND, in Pittsylvania, namely, four Hundred Acres on Banister River, seven Hundred and seventy on Beaver Creek, three Hundred and forty five on Eury's Creek, three Hundred and eighty on Leatherwood, and four Hundred on Snow Creek.
For SALE.
THE Subscriber, at PITTENWEEM, just below the New DISTILLERY, near NORFOLK, has for Sale WEST INDIA RUM by the Hoghead, and a considerable Quantity of HONDURAS HIGHLAND MOHOGANY, equal in Quality to any Jamaica, from fourteen to forty Inches square, and from eight to seventeen Feet long, which he will dispose of on very reasonable Terms.
To be SOLD by the Subscribers, Mortgagees of Mr. Peter Copland of Pittsylvania, and the said Mortgagee, in Parcels, for the Benefit of the Subscribers, and others, SIX Thousand Acres of valuable LAND, lying on Smith's River, Beaver and Reedy Creeks.
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, Brats Mill Work, Furniture for Coach and Chair Harness, Fenders, Andirons, Candlesticks, Cocks, &c.
All Orders from the Country will be punctually attended to. N. B. He deals for Cash, or Country Produce. Those who have old Brats, Copper, Pewter, or Lead, to dispose of, are desired to apply to Mr. Joseph Kidd, in Williamsburg, or to Mr. McCaa, in Hampton, who will receive it for me, and pay them the Value; they will likewise receive old Work to be repaired.
To be LET on LEASE, A VERY large and commodious HOUSE in the Town of Peterburg, 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.
ALL Persons may be supplied with this PAPER at 12s. 6d. a Year, and have ADVERTISEMENTS (of a moderate Length) inserted in it for 3s. the first Week, and 2s. each Week after. All Sorts of PRINTING WORK done at this Office in the neatest Manner, with Care and Expedition.
To be LET on LEASE, A VERY large and commodious HOUSE in the Town of Peterburg, 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.
ALL Persons may be supplied with this PAPER at 12s. 6d. a Year, and have ADVERTISEMENTS (of a moderate Length) inserted in it for 3s. the first Week, and 2s. each Week after. All Sorts of PRINTING WORK done at this Office in the neatest Manner, with Care and Expedition.
To be LET on LEASE, A VERY large and commodious HOUSE in the Town of Peterburg, 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.
ALL Persons may be supplied with this PAPER at 12s. 6d. a Year, and have ADVERTISEMENTS (of a moderate Length) inserted in it for 3s. the first Week, and 2s. each Week after. All Sorts of PRINTING WORK done at this Office in the neatest Manner, with Care and Expedition.