The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1773-06-10 00:00:00

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From the VISTULA, February 20.
ALL the Generals of the Russian Army cantoned in Moldavia and Walachia have been sent for to Jassy, by the Field Marshal Count de Romanzow, where they assisted at a general Council of War, at the breaking up of which the Count despatched his Son to his Court with the Result of the Measures that were concerted for the Opening of the approaching Campaign. He has, at the same Time, ordered a considerable Body of Troops to march to Podolia.
COLOGNE, March 5. Letters from Frankfort mention that a great Number of Tents is preparing, and Horses buying, by Order and for Account of the French Court.
PARIS, March 16. They write from Marseilles, that at a Country House where some Protestants used to meet, near Notre Dame de la Garde, all the Benches, Books, and Pulpit, were lately burnt by Order of the Parliament of Provence, and the Doors and Windows of the House fastened up. The Ministers who officiated at these Meetings are put in Prison at Aix, and will be prosecuted.
LONDON, March 2.
IN a Letter addressed to Messrs. Walpole, Franklin, Wharton, and Company, Proprietors of Lands on the Banks of the Ohio, it is said that there are about 500 Families, in one particular District of Scotland, who intend to go and settle the ensuing Summer in some Part of America; their Number in all, with Children and Servants, being about 2000. The same Letter says, there are 20,000 People in Ireland, and the North of England, who will be obliged to leave their native Soil for the same Reasons; namely, Rise of Lands, Dearness of Provisions, and Want of Employment.
Monday Night the Crew belonging to the Ship Friend's Advice, bound from Boston to London, Captain Robert Thompson, which was lost near Yarmouth in the late bad Weather, arrived in the Longboat, after a Passage of five Days, during which they suffered inconceivable Hardships.
Two noble Peers, tremblingly alive all over to the exquisite Sense of Honour (says a Correspondent) went out the other Day to pistol each other, and one of them had the Fortune to hit his Mark. Ever since that Hour we have all been employed in talking about it. Oh! how charmingly they pulled off their Hats! His Lordship is in great Agony; and, alas! there is little Hope. His Lordship has not slept a Wink these three Nights. His Lordship is struck with the gallant Behaviour of Lord T—. The Ball is now extracted, and there is a Gleam of Comfort. The Sympathetic Fever has left his Lordship; but there are still dangerous Symptoms, and the Ball is not extracted. Ten Thousand Bells mortally wounded with Hunger alarm us less than one pierced with a Bullet. "What a fine Thing it is to be a Lord!"
Monday Night the following Question was debated, at the DEBATING SOCIETY lately established at Edinburgh, "Whether has Mr. Wilkes been of Service to Liberty or not?" It was contended, on the one Hand, that he had stood forth the Champion of Liberty, opposed that ministerial Influence which was growing so enormous, and roused the People from that Lethargy into which they were fallen; that while they were oppressed with Taxes, not for the noble Purposes of lessening the national Debt, nor of affording a comfortable Subsistence to the hardy Veteran, worn out in the Service of his Country, but for the mean End of bribing the Majority of our Representatives, whose Corruption was so notorious, that in Place of being the Representatives of the People they were the Representatives of the Crown; that whatever Mr. Wilkes's private Character was, it had nothing to do with the present Question. In his publick Character, he had been uniform and steadfast; destroyed that Engine of Tyranny, General Warrants; liberated the Printers apprehended on illegal Proclamations; and during his Sheriffship, in Place of calling in the Aid of the Military, executed the Duties of his Office by the Assistance of the Civil Power. On the other Hand, it was argued, that he was the Tool of a Party, raised for the most despicable of all Purposes, that of sowing Sedition between the two Nations; that he had infused a Spirit of Licentiousness into the People, so as almost to create a civil War; that if his Party got into Power, they would take as much Care of themselves, and as little of their Constituents, as those they wanted to turn out; that Mr. Wilkes had been fully recompensed for the Stand he made against General Warrants, by the Damages he received; and that whatever little Service he had been to the Cause of Liberty, it was far out-balanced by the Mischief he had done. The Vote being put, by a Majority of two Votes it was carried that Mr. Wilkes had been beneficial to the Cause of Liberty. One Hundred and ten Persons voted.
March 11. The Council of the Royal Society attended his Majesty, and presented an elegant Address, in which they express their Acknowledgments of his Royal Patronage, and thanked him for his princely Benefactions, which will enable them to pursue the great Ends of their Institution. This being ended, our gracious King, himself a Master of the fine Arts, instituted a new Order, called THE ORDER OF KNIGHTS COMPANIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, which is to be entirely confined to the Members of that Body, in Order to encourage philosophick and literary Merit; and knighted the President, James Burrows, Esquire. His Majesty is Governor and Patron of this Order. The Royal Society took its Origin from a Company of learned and ingenious Men who met for the Encouragement of natural Knowledge, and useful Arts, in 1651. The chief of them, at the first Assembly, were Sir W. Petty, the wise and opulent Ancestor of the present Earl of Shelburne, Doctor Bathurst, Doctor Wren, &c. who met at Oxford. King Charles II. was their Patron, and from him they received their Charter in 1662. It consists of a President, two Secretaries, and a Council of twenty one Persons, chosen from amongst the Members. There were lately near 400 national Members, including near forty Peers of the Realm. There is a Class of corresponding Members abroad, in Number about 150, which includes all the most celebrated Literati in Europe; among whom are D'Alembert, Linnæus, the Swedish Naturalist, Buffon, the French Naturalist, Bonnet, Euler, Justus Bernouilli, Maclaurin, La Nauze, Don Ulloa, the late Governor of New Orleans, Baron Von Swieten, the Physician of Vienna, Voltaire, together with the Sovereigns of Prussia and Poland. The Royal Society unites those Objects which the Academy of Sciences at Paris, and that of Inscriptions, have divided between them; that is to say, the Deep Sciences and the Belles Lettres. Every Man, whatever his Station, Englishman or Foreigner, whenever he has made any Observation which he thinks worthy the Attention of the Society, is admitted to propose it visa voce , or by presenting a Memorial. The Founders of this Society did it all for Honour, and nothing to advance the Fortune of its Members, who are to this Day obliged to defray all their Expenses out of their own Pockets. They either pay forty Guineas at their Admission, or contribute four Guineas a Year to the Society, and sometimes more upon an extraordinary Emergency. These Contributions serve to furnish out a Cabinet of Natural History, to defray a very extensive and costly Correspondence, and to support a heavy Expense in making Experiments, either to come at new Discoveries, or to confirm those which have already been made. So much for this august Institution, which many People on the Continent not being yet acquainted with, it was thought proper to give these Elucidations for their Amusement and Information.
March 23. It is said that the Russian and Prussian Ambassadors have each of them remonstrated very strenuously, by Order from their respective Courts, against the Conclusion of the Treaty which has been for some Time negotiating between our Court, and the Courts of Versailles, Madrid, and Lisbon, which still retards the Ratification thereof.
From Authority, so truly respectable as to render the Fact past Dispute, we are desired to acquaint the Publick that the triple Alliance, between Great Britain, France, and Spain, has been long upon the Tapis, but is now finally and conclusively settled. This Alliance is entered into in Order to form a Counterpoise against the Northern Confederacy, and was suggested as the best Expedient, in the Scheme of Politics, for preserving the European Balance of Power.
Lately died, near Cork, in Ireland, James McDonald. He was 117 Years and two Months old, and of uncommon Stature, being seven Feet six Inches high. When in Health, he could eat four Pounds of solid Meat at a Meal, and drink in Proportion of strong Liquor, without being intoxicated. His Limbs were larger than his Height required, and his Hands and Fingers seemed of that prodigious Size that a Lady's Bracelet might have served him for a Ring. He was formerly shown for Profit, but that Way of Life obliged him to be much confined, and his Health requiring a good Deal of Exercise, he took to the less profitable Employment of a Soldier, and served as a Grenadier till after the Rebellion.
By a Letter from a Correspondent at Paris, dated the 18th past, we learn that the Chevalier (commonly called the Pretender) and his Consort, arrived at Chanteloup, the Residence of the Duke de Choiseul, the 14th, and that they intended to spend the Carnival there. The Prince de Conti was likewise expected in a few Days, and the best Performers of the Opera and Playhouses had obtained Leave to repair there for the Amusement of those Princes; so that Chanteloup was likely to be in as high Reputation in France, during the Carnival Time, as Venice in Italy. Our Politicians are at a Loss to conjecture the Cause of this Meeting, which appears to have been agreed upon by the Court.
March 25. A political Writer observes, that "an inveterate Hatred, or perpetual Opposition to France, is a Maxim that was never laid down by wise English Ministers, nor ought ever to be received or countenanced." But whether the Justice of this Position should be admitted in so extensive a Latitude as to countenance the forming strict and intimate Alliances with a Nation, which, from Genius, Mode of Government, Policy, Religion, and Situation, is in a Manner at natural Enmity with Great Britain, may be questioned with the greatest Propriety. Most certain it is, that, since the Time of Elizabeth, England never entered into a single Alliance with France which did not, in the End, prove, in a greater or less Degree, destructive to her Interests.
It is said that three Men of War, and two Frigates, with a Regiment of Soldiers, are ordered to sail immediately for Jamaica.
A Letter from York says: "Our Patriots have been very busy to procure a Remonstrance from this Corporation, but hitherto without Effect, the Majority being against it."
On Friday the 19th the Sheriffs presented a Petition from the Court of Aldermen and Common Council to Parliament, praying Relief, in their Wisdom and Goodness, from the Evil of Lotteries in the Time of Peace; and on Friday the 26th the Corporation will petition his Majesty to dissolve this same Parliament, being corrupt and wicked.
March 26. Some important Matters relative to the Commerce between the Mother Country and the American Colonies are expected to be the Subject of Consideration, very shortly, in an august Assembly.
They write from Gibraltar, that a Russian and Spanish Frigate have had an Engagement in the Mediterranean, and after a Contest of five Glases, Yard Arm and Yard Arm, the Sea running very high, the Spanish sunk. Both Vessels being grappled, she carried her Antagonist with her to the Bottom, but Part of their Crews were taken up by an English Merchant Ship.
We hear that the Art of dying Linen Yarn Scarlet has arrived at a singular Degree of Perfection, if not its ne plus ultra , as it rather exceeds than falls short of Woolen Dye in Point of Colour and Duration, by the steady Perseverance and judicious Experiments of a young Man in the Dying Business in Newcastle.
March 27. A Correspondent says, "A fresh Address will be moved for in the next Court of Common Council, in which a late Reception will be added to the former Grievances."
Before the Citizens were introduced to his Majesty, they were given to understand that on such an Occasion as the present they were not to expect to kiss the King's Hand.
The Remonstrance presented yesterday was not Mr. Wilkes's, but crude Ideas of an Attorney in Tyburn Road; the same Fellow who attempted, two Years since, to dispose of the City's Cash, and for which Piece of Audacity he has been executed by the Livery ever since. It is no Wonder, therefore, that there were not ten Men to be found, out of eight Thousand Livery, who could be prevailed upon to honour his Remonstrance to St. James's.
A Gentleman who arrived a few Days ago from Lisbon says it is the prevailing Opinion there that a Rupture between Spain and Portugal is at no great Distance.
Letters from Copenhagen say that the Report of the March of the Swedish Troops towards Finland is revived, as well as that of the Equipment of fifteen Men of War of the same Nation; but that it was certain such a Fleet could not be got ready before the Month of June next.
We hear from Flushing that they are building at that Port seven Men of War of the Line, four of which are so nearly finished that they will be ready for launching in May next.
They write from Vienna that the Emperor has ordered an Account to be given of the Number of Persons there are throughout his Dominions, distinguishing the married and unmarried, particularly of Maidens who are marriageable; and it is thought, that, after such Returns have been made, some Regulations will be published for the Discouragement of Celibacy, which is of such evil Consequence both to Morality and sound Policy.
Extra of a Letter from Stockholm, March 19. "The King of Sweden has certainly an Eye on several Parts of Livonia, which formerly belonged to the Crown of Sweden; but in the War between the Muscovites and Swedes, in the Year 1711, it was entirely conquered by the former, and has been held by them ever since. To accomplish this Intent, his Swedish Majesty has, we hear, a Scheme in View to engage the Kings of Prussia and Denmark, with the German Emperor, in facilitating his Design. All the warlike Preparations which have been going on so long are now proceeding, as the Spring advances, with redoubled Vigour, especially in the Marine, which has been prosecuted with so much Industry, that there are now 22 Ships of War, besides small armed Vessels, &c. ready to put to Sea immediately, and near as many more are now upon the Stocks, or rigging, &c."
When Mrs. Macaulay first published her History, Lord Chatham spoke very respectfully of it, and went so far as to propose a Visit to this Daughter of the Muses. A Couple of Wags, who knew that the Lady was unacquainted with the Person of the Lord, and wanted to play them a Trick, visited her, one after the other, on the Morning that Chatham was to appear, and pretended to be Lord Chatham. At last the real Chatham came, and was announced by her Footman. "What (says Mrs. Macaulay) am I doomed all my Life forward to see none but Chathams!" At these Words she flumped and domed; and in the Paroxysm of her Rage took Hold of her Slipper, which came off her Foot, and, salying his Lordship with it as he entered, belaboured his Back as he retreated down Stairs, as fast as his gouty Legs could carry him, believing her to be possessed.
On Friday the Polish Prince Czartoriski, accompanied by Doctor Solander, Mr. Banks, Lord Greville, the Honourable Captain Phipps of the Navy, Mr. Ivimey the celebrated Rectifier of Salt Water, Doctor Linde, and several other Gentlemen, went on Board the Mermaid, Captain French, at Wapping New Stairs, to see Mr. Moore's Improvement
in the Windlass, which (when they had seen it worked, and examined it with the closest Attention) they pronounced to be one of the most capital Discoveries ever made in Mechanicks, and one of the most useful to the general Purposes of the Community.
Lord Lyttelton reading one Morning some Epigrams of Miss Carter's, was asked by her what he thought of them. He answered, that to him they seemed flat, and without Salt. "Q (says Miss Carter) they are in the Greek Taste." Meeting her next Day at Dinner, at a Gentleman's House, where the Soup was extremely weak and insipid, his Lordship says, "This Soup, Miss Carter, is, I think, entirely in the Greek Taste."
BOSTON, May 10.
Extract of a Letter from Burnt Island, in Scotland.
THE People employed in the Manufactories in this Country (the chief of which is Linen) have now only from a Third to one Half of their usual Business, which their Employers divide in a Manner that seems very just. They give each Workman a little, so that in some Places they will have two Days Work in the Week, some three, but in many Parts of the Country the poor People have really no Employment at all; among whom are Swarms of Women and Girls whose Food used to be procured by their Wheels, many of which have of Course stopped with the Looms, and those that are employed receive three Half-pence and a Twpence in the Shilling less than they did in August last.
"The Necessaries of Life, I think, are much the same Price as they were last Year at this Time. Oatmeal, you know, is the common Food of the Poor here, and this is a little more than three Half-pence a Pound."
"At Dundee and Perth, there had been some Intention in supplying the Markets with a sufficient Quantity of Meal for the Consumption. The People could not be served at any Price; and as they saw Corn shipping at their Keys, Hunger prevailed over Fear, and they ran together and formed a Body to prevent it, as also to compel others that had Corn to bring it to Market. Sixteen or seventeen of these People were afterwards laid Hold of, and have been brought into Edinburgh to be tried for their Lives. Should it be the Fate of any of them to be hanged, their Situation may be as much envied as pitied by those that are left behind; for really if the King was to desire to have a true Account of the Situation of the poor Part of his Subjects in this Country, the Information might run pretty much in the Style of the French General's Letter who went into Germany to take the Command of the Forces in the latter Part of the late War. He wrote to the King, that he had found the Army in three Divisions: The first, who were abundantly the happiest, were under Ground; the second in Hospitals; and the third a Set of Half-starved Creatures, clothed in Rags."
NEW YORK, May 24.
ABOUT one o'Clock last Saturday Noon his Excellency our Governor, and his Lady, returned here from Hartford, in Connecticut, where they attended the Congress that was held there by the Commissioners from this Province and that of the Massachusetts Bay, for settling their contested Limits; and we can with Pleasure inform the Publick, that that Business is completed to the Satisfaction of all Parties. His Excellency was welcomed into Town by a Salute of seventeen Cannon from our Battery.
The Whim Purse of fifty Pounds, that was run for at Philadelphia last Wednesday, was won by Captain Delancey's Bay Mare Sultana (got by Wildair) beating Colonel Lloyd's Bay Horse Slow and Easy , and Mr. Patterson's Ginger-cake ; and the City Purse for fifty Pounds, run for the Day following at Philadelphia also, was won by Captain Delancey's Bay Mare Slamerkin (got by Wildair also) beating a Bay Mare of Colonel Lloyd's, and Mr. Patterson's Bay Filly Virgin .
Extract of a Letter from Kingston, Jamaica, April 1.
"The 16th of last Month was hanged at Spanish Town one James Hutchinson, the most detestable and abandoned Villain that ever disgraced the human Species. He was a Native of North Britain, and had a Pen in Pedro Valley, in St. Anna's Parish. When any of his Neighbours Cattle strayed on his Lands he always secured them as his own, and by that Means had acquired a little Fortune, and it is imagined that many People had been murdered by him for demanding their Property; and this Conjecture seems but two well founded, as you will observe in the Sequel. Mr. Callender (whose Land joined Hutchinson's) had lost a Jack Ass, and seeing him in this Wretch's Pasture, went to him and requested that the Ass might be turned into the Highway, when he would take Care he should trespass upon him no more. Hutchinson told him this Command should be immediately complied with, and when Callender had turned his Back, and was going away, the Villain took up a Gun and killed him on the Spot. A Man then lying sick at Hutchinson's, hearing the Report of a Gun, crept out of his Bed and asked what Firing that was, and said, I believe you have shot the Man that I heard inquiring about the Ass. The Villain replied, "Go instantly to your Bed, or I will serve you the same Sauce." The sick Man, however, in the Course of the Evening, found Means to get privately out of the House, and immediately lodged a Complaint, upon which Hutchinson was apprehended; and, by the Information of one of his Negroes, the Place was discovered where he had conveyed the Head of Callender, and where near twenty other human Skulls were found. The Body was thrown in a Cockpit (as is here called) a Place deemed inaccessible, being down a perpendicular Rock, that had been split by an Earthquake, or so formed by Nature, the Bottom of which could not be discerned. Upon a Point of the Rock, however, which jettisoned out, the unfortunate Man's Body was seen, and well known by his Clothes. By some daring Contrivance, a Person went down a considerable Length, and discovered a great Number of human Bones, but no Skulls, so that it is to be supposed this merciless Villain had always taken off the Heads of those he had murdered, in the same Manner he did with poor Callender. At his Trial he had several of our most eminent Council to plead for him, and during the whole Time, from his Commitment to his Execution, he behaved with the greatest Insolence. He employed the whole Day before he died in writing, and told the People he had made his own Epitaph, and left it so, to have it engraved on his Tombstone. It is long, and ill wrote; but he concludes it in these Words, speaking of the Court and Jury: Their Sentence, Pride, and Malice, I defy, Despise their Power, and like a Roman die."
Lewis Hutchinson, hanged at Spanish Town the 16th of March 1773, aged forty Years. Thus was the World rid of this detestable and most execrable Monster.
PHILADELPHIA, May 19.
Extract of a Letter from Dublin, March 1.
OUR new Lord Lieutenant is a deeper Politician than our last, and transacts his Business with much Secrecy. We are told that the Design of the British Ministry, to bring about an Union between Great Britain and Ireland, is for the present laid aside, seeing the Irish so extremely averse to it; and that they have now adopted the Scheme of loading us with Taxes, without giving us any Encouragement in Trade to enable us to pay them, thereby to induce us to accept of an Union. With this View, it is said, we shall, next Session of Parliament, be loaded with a Land Tax, and an additional Duty of one Penny a Pound on Tobacco at Importation, and a Stamp Duty on all Paper used in Law Proceedings, Newspapers, &c. But be the Intention of laying new Taxes what it will, it is most certain the Revenues of the Crown are not sufficient, in the Hands of the present Dispensers of it, to support the Establishments they are granted for. Both in England and Ireland,

Government is greatly in Arrear to every Branch dependent on it; and his Majesty is greatly so, even to his Domestic. Thus are the Subjects Pockets drained, to support a rapacious Crew; who, in Return, use their utmost Efforts to gratify the Desire of their Master for absolute Dominion. How long it may be before they throw off the Mask, it is hard to say; however, they have already accomplished their Purpose in Effect, and carry every Measure they adopt. Our principal Hopes of any effectual Opposition is upon your Part of the World, where Corruption has not yet made so great Progress. That you may be able to stem the Torrent of Despotism, and vindicate the Rights of British Subjects under the Constitution, is the sincere Wish of a Friend to America."
WILLIAMSBURG, June 10.
Extract of a Letter from Glasgow, dated April 5, 1773. YOU can hardly conceive the immense Change that the great Scarcity of Money, the general Distrust among Merchants, the convulsed State of publick Credit, and the universal Dread among all Ranks, have made in this Country. Manufactures of all Kinds are declining, poor Mechanicks discharging and turned adrift, American Produce reduced greatly in Price, Trade in all its Branches on the Decline, and a total Stop put to those numerous Buildings and Improvements which have had such a Share in beautifying the Country of late Years. Add to all this, the late great and capital Failures in Holland, which have given a severe Wound to publick Credit in Britain, and reduced the Price of Tobacco greatly below prime Cost; on which Account, the Importers of that Article must lose immense Sums, and by this Means will be prevented from paying their Tradebills with that Punctuality which the Times would require. This Winter many of our Weavers, and other Mechanicks, were thrown quite idle, and reduced to the utmost Distress; and, but for the humane and charitable Contributions of the principal Inhabitants, they must have perished for Want.
"We would now fatter ourselves that Things are at the worst, and that we shall have a Dawn of reviving Trade this Summer. Indeed, it has been upon a most wretched Footing for some Years past; and, without a total Change in the Mode of conducting Business in America, that Trade will be unworthy the Attention of any Person. Those in the Maryland Trade here, and in London, have lost immense Sums, and for this Reason will be cautious in their future Measures; on which Account, I am hopeful there will be less Competition, and that Business will be conducted with more Satisfaction to all concerned."
"We have had too much ideal Money among us, and by far too great a Number of Banks; but I hope this Grievance will be soon redressed, as the Douglas Bank Directors seem determined to bring their Affairs within a very narrow Circle. It is principally to their Impudence that we owe much of the Distress that beset this Country, and now their Notes which still remain in Circulation are a very great Hardship upon the trading Part of this City. Our own Banks are afraid to extend their Circle, and on that Account little else but Douglas Notes are to be had in Payments, which will neither produce us Specie nor London Bills, without going to Ayr, which is a great Inconvenience."
"I observe some of your Treasury Notes have been lately forged, by which Individuals are likely to suffer considerably. Paper Currency, in this View, becomes a very great Grievance in any Country; though, in the advanced State of Commerce, we could not well do without it."
On Tuesday last JOHN PAGE, Esquire, of Rosewell, was sworn in one of his Majesty's Honourable Council of this Colony, and took his Seat at the Board.
The Neptune, Punderfon, in six Weeks from London, is arrived in York River, the Dunmore, Maxwell, from Lisbon (via Falmouth) and the Thomas, Robertson, from Glasgow, in James River.
On Tuesday and Wednesday last the following Criminals were tried at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, and received Sentence accordingly: John Bentley, from Prince William, for Horsestealing: Acquitted.
Joseph Blundell, from Northumberland, for Theft: Acquitted.
Robert Cook, from Henrico, for Murder: Acquitted, but remanded to Jail, and to give Security for his good Behaviour.
John Anderson (alias Dixon) from Henrico, for Theft: Guilty, Burnt in the Hand.
David Wright, from Essex, for Burglary: Acquitted.
James Revell, from Essex, for Burglary: Guilty. Death.
William Childrey, from Prince Edward, for Robbery: Guilty. Death.
Joseph Berry, from Amelia, for Horsestealing: Guilty. Death.
[Deaths.] Mrs. ARCHER, Spouse to Mr. Thomas Archer of York Town; whose Conduct through Life, as a Wife, a Parent, a Neighbour, and a Christian, justly entitled her to universal Esteem. The Tears of an afflicted Family, and the Sighs of a grateful Neighbourhood (many of whom she has relieved in the Hour of Sickness and Distress) are the truest Testimonials of her Worth, and best declare how affecting a Loss is produced by her Decease.
This Morning a Negro Man, far advanced in Years, belonging to Mr. GOODALL, in this Neighbourhood, who had been blind of both Eyes for many Years, with a Cataract, was restored to his Sight in both by Doctor GRAHAM, Oculist and Aurist. We hear that the Doctor intends positively to set out from his Apartments in this City, on his Return to Philadelphia, next Tuesday Morning.
The TREASURER'S Reply to Mr. HENLEY in our next, if Business of greater Importance will permit.
To Mr. A. B. who has distinguished himself lately as a Writer against the Author of a Poem called WINTER.
WHEN you your birchen Rod resign'd, And all your Learning deep inclin'd, Against poor Bob of Chellow; You, A. B. thought you had the Art To pass, perhaps, for somewhat smart, Nay, for a 'wond'rous Fellow. Winter, ill-omen'd Piece! 'tis true, To Criticks lean and gaunt, like you, A high Repast display'd; Like Buzzards seeking Carnage round, You prey where Blunders can be found, Of Sense and Wit afraid, Though Rofinante, stumbling, goes, How could you, A. B. once suppose A better Brute you ride? You, Sancho like, poor Dapple kick, Or (when they serv'd the Squire a Trick) A wooden Thing you ride. Yet loaded, or with Prose or Song, Unsoo'd you might crawl along, Whene'er the Whim posses'd; Had not your dirty Brute, and you, On Passengers your Doings threw. And thus became a Pest. Want you your Prototype to know, From Virgil I'd Celano t' show, Who dropp'd his Flith around; Or I would paint the Coward Afs, Who, without Insult, could not pass The Lion on the Ground.
A. B. asks, with a Sner, who is not enraptured when he reads these Lines? "Burke, Hewitt, Henley, Gwatkin, in extreme, Though they have Wit, 'tis far beneath the Theme." Cum multis aliis. Contemptu omnia fcedant Immundo: tum tetrum dira inter odorem. The third ÆNEID.
We are favoured with a Paper of April 8th that came by Captain Punderfon, from which we have collected the following Advices, viz.
LONDON, April 8. YESTERDAY Count de Maltzahn, the Prussian Ambassador, set out on his Return from his Embassy, without taking the customary Leave of his Majesty, or any of his Ministers. It is strongly reported that the King of Prussia has demanded of England the 300,000l. which has been due to him ever since the last War. The Report of a Rupture between our Court and that of Berlin gains Ground daily. All Manner of Merchandise from the Baltick is raised, within these few Days, eight per Cent. The Lord Mayor has ordered 800 Tickets to be delivered out for the Entertainment on Easter Monday, 300 for the Dinner, and 500 for the Ball. Yesterday the Duke of Gloucester's Fever was greatly abated, and the preceding Night his Physicians pronounced his Highness out of Danger. It is reported that Letters of Recall were last Week sent to his Majesty's Ambassador at the Court of Berlin.
No Ambassador is expected here from Prussia in the Room of Count Maltzahn, nor will any be sent from thence in the Room of the British Ambassador recalled, unless an Accommodation should take Place.
It is reported that Orders were last Night sent to Portsmouth, to fit out for Sea, and man, four Ships of the Line, with all possible Speed.
Extract of a Letter from Vienna, March 28. "His Imperial Majesty has long entertained a Jealousy of the growing Power of the Russian Empress and the King of Prussia, which now begins to manifest itself in Opposition to some of the favourite Measures of those two Potentates; especially in Poland, where he has laid Claim to a Part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which the Empress had possessed herself of, and has publicly promised his Protection to the Cities of Dantzick and Thorn, which are now under the Dominion of the Prussian Sovereign. In short, the different Measures now pursuing, and the Misunderstandings also existing in the Northern Powers, seem to indicate a general War very soon."
Advices from Vienna mention that his Imperial Majesty really intends visiting Poland, in a very short Time.
They write from Warsaw, that a Skirmish has lately happened in the Suburbs of Prag, between the Austrians and Russians, in which ten of the former were killed.
They write from Paris, that the French Nation in general entertain the most sanguine Hopes of the new East India Company.
Some Letters from the Hague advise, that their High Mightinesses have ordered their Provinces to supply their stipulated Quota of Men immediately.
This being Maunday Thursday, his Majesty's Alms was distributed to thirty four poor Men and Women, at Whitehall Chapel, as follows: To each three ELLS of Holland, a Piece of Woollen Cloth, a Pair of Shoes and Stockings, twenty Shillings in a Purse, thirty four Silver Pence, a Loaf of Bread, and a Platter of Fish.
On Tuesday there was a numerous Meeting of the Creditors of Sir George Colebrooke, Lefingham, and Binns, at the London Tavern, when George Wilson, Esquire, being the principal Creditor, was desired to take the Chair. He informed the Gentlemen present, that, at the Desire of the Partners, he had for some Days past employed himself in examining and looking into the State of the Partnership Accounts, and, with Sir George Colebrooke's Permission, he had also examined Sir George's private Books. It appeared to him, he said, that on the Partnership Account there would be a Deficiency of upwards of 40,000l. but that, in Sir George's private Concerns, after making an Allowance for the above Deficiency, and supposing a Loss of 100,000l. on the Debt due to Sir George by his Brother in Law, there appeared to be a Surplus of 180,000l. after discharging every private Debt.
EDINBURGH, April 2. From the Isle of Sky we learn that the unlucky Spirit of Emigration is not at all diminished, and that several of the Inhabitants of Sky, Lewis, and other Places, are preparing to go to America next Season.
Last Week a Coal Mine in East Lothian, belonging to Sir Archibald Hope, fell in. Sir Archibald, and fourteen of his Men, were providentially saved, by coming out of the Mine only a Minute or two before it fell in.
Advertisement.
YORK Town, June 9, 1773. THE Subscribers being very solicitous to comply with the Will of their Testator, the late Honourable William Nelson, desire that all Persons who are indebted to him will endeavour to make as speedy Payments as possible. Those who have Accounts open on his Books, and who cannot immediately discharge the Balances, are desired to give their Bonds. This Request is the more necessary, as most of the Legacies bequeathed by the Testator are to be paid in Sterling Money, and he has directed that his younger Sons Fortunes shall be placed out at Interest upon undoubted Securities, so soon as it can be done. Those who have any Demands are desired to make them immediately known. THOMAS NELSON. THOMAS NELSON, Junior. HUGH NELSON. RO. C. NICHOLAS.
WARWICK, June 7, 1773. I THINK it necessary to inform the Publick that the 700 Acres of Land, lying in Bedford County, with the Improvements thereon, consisting of a Forge and Saw Mill, &c. which were lately advertised by Robert Harper and Thomas James for Sale, are made over, by a Deed of Trust, to James and Robert Donald and Company, as Security for a Debt due them for Dealings at their Rocky Ridge and Bedford Stores. (tf) PATRICK HUNTER.
WILLIAMSBURG, June 10, 1773. I INTEND to leave the Colony for a few Months. JACOB BRUCE.
RICHMOND Town, June 4, 1773. AS I have declined keeping Tavern, I desire all Persons indebted to me to come and settle their Accounts, and pay off their Balances, as no farther Indulgence can be given. I have a very fine BILLIARD TABLE for Sale. JAMES VAUGHAN.
Just IMPORTED in the ELIZABETH, Captain LEITCH, and in the VIRGINIA, Captain ESTEN, from LONDON, and to be SOLD by the Subscriber, at his Shop in PETERSBURG,
COMPLETE Sets of Surveyors Instruments, Magnets for touching the Needles of old Compasses, Surgeons Instruments, Paints and Colours, red and white Lead, red and black Chalk, Rose Pink, yellow Orpiment, burnt Ochre, Dutch Pink, Vermilion, French Chalk, Venetian Red, best Drop Lake, fine Water Colours in Shells, Lacker Varnish, shining hard brown Varnish, white Ditto, fine Camels Hair Pencils, Gold and Silver Leaf, a great Variety of Paints ground in Oil, Rotten Stone, a genteel and fashionable Assortment of Trimmings for Hats, both black and white, Pickles, fine East India Mangoes, English Walnuts, best Olives, Capers, Anchovies, &c. best Jar Raisins, Currants and Figs, Sugar Almonds and Sugar Candies, white and red Wines, distilled and white Wine Vinegars, Dyers Woods, Logwood, Redwood, Madder, red Sanders, Fustick, Aleppo Galls, Birdlime, and fine Florence Oil. Also the following BOOKS: LEWIS'S NEW LONDON DISPENSATORY, CHESELDEN'S ANATOMY, MARICAU'S MIDWIFERY, GIBSON'S FARRIERY, &c. &c. JOHN THOMPSON. N. B. Doctor Keyser's Pills, and Doctor Birt's new discovered Medicines, with a general Assortment of Medicines, as usual.
FIFTY eight Thousand five Hundred and sixty six Pounds of TRANSFER TOBACCO will be sold at Urbanna, to the highest Bidder, for ready Money, on Monday the 28th Instant (June) by the Sheriff of Middlesex. (2||)
Just IMPORTED, in the VIRGINIA, Captain ESTEN, and to be SOLD reasonably, by the Subscriber, in WILLIAMSBURG, A FRESH ASSORTMENT OF
DRUGS and MEDICINES. Also Almonds, Spanish Licorice, Finglass, French and Pearl Barley, Sago, Salop, Hartshorn Shavings, Saltpetre, Borax, Sallad Oil, Barbary Oil, Hungary, Lavender, and Orange Flower Waters, Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace, Nutmegs, white Ginger, Pepper, Allspice, Ladies Sticking Plaster, Eau de Luce, Doctor Hill's Elixir Bardana, for the Gout and Rheumatism, Essence of Waterdock, Pectoral Balm of Honey, Tincture of Golden Rod, Tincture of Valerian, Walker's Jesuits Drops, Norris's Drops, Bateman's pectoral Drops, Ward's white Drops, Black-ric's Lixivium for the Gravel and Stone, Fit Drops for Children, Anderson's and Lockyer's Pills, Doctor Keyser's Pills, James's Fever Powders, Annoyance Necklaces, Daffey's, Stoughton's, and Squire's Elixirs, Fraunces's Female Pills, Fryar's and Turlington's Balsams, British Rock Oil, Verdigrise, white and red Lead, Prussian Blue, Vermilion, Gold and Silver Leaf, Dutch Metal, Breast Pipes, Nipple Glasses, Lancets, Oil and Spirits of Turpentine, Alum, Brimstone, Figs, Ivory Syringes, Copperas, Logwood, Rotten Stone, Potash, Greenough's Tincture for the Teeth, Urinals, Clyster Pipes, &c. &c. JAMES CARTER.
THE frequent, and we believe very just Complaints, from our Customers in the NORTHERN NECK, added to the very small Number of Subscribers we have in the County of GLOUCESTER, have determined us to discontinue the Rider through that County to URBANNA, and instead thereof to establish one through ESSEX, WESTMORELAND, RICHMOND, NORTHUMBERLAND, and LANCASTER, where we have a Number of good Customers, and who are kind enough to promise us their Assistance in defraying the Expense of a Rider. That Rider will set off next SATURDAY fortnight, cross over at RUFFIN's and FRAZER's, and regularly perform his Route once a Fortnight. WILLIAM RIND. PURDIE & DIXON.
To be SOLD at publick Auction, on the Premises, on the 20th of July, if fair, otherwise next fair Day, A VERY good Tract of LAND in Amelia, containing 800 Acres, about twenty Miles from Petersburg, on the Waters of the Nansammon, known by the Name of Brantle's. It lies extraordinary level, and is suitable for either Tobacco or Wheat, with a small Plantation and several Improvements thereon, and is the best Range within fifty Miles of that Place. The Terms of Payment will be made known on the Day of Sale. WILLIAM WATSON.
N. B. I have for Sale 1300 Acres of very good LAND in Prince Edward, on Snail's Creek, which I will dispose of at private Sale, in small or large Quantities, to suit the Purchasers. It lies about sixty Miles from Petersburg, and has an extreme good Range.
Pursuant to the last Will and Testament of JOHN DANIEL, deceased, will be SOLD to the highest Bidder, at Urbanna, on Monday the 28th Instant (June) being Middlesex Court Day, THE LOTS and HOUSES of the said John Daniel, where he formerly kept Ordinary, in Urbanna, which are so well known that a Description of them is unnecessary. Also a very valuable NEGRO FELLOW. Credit will be allowed till the 1st of October next (when Possession of the Lots will be given) the Purchasers giving Bond and Security to the Executors. All Persons having Demands against the said Estate are desired immediately to make them known, and those indebted to the same are requested to pay, as no farther Indulgence can be granted.
To be SOLD, on TUESDAY the 29th of this Instant (JUNE) ALL the personal Estate of the Reverend Josiah Johnson, deceased, at his late Dwellinghouse in this City, consisting of a Variety of HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, a DOUBLE CHAIR and HARNESS, and two BAY HORSES, one of them a very fine Chair and riding Horse; also a fine Town COW, some SHEEP, CORN, &c. Six Months Credit will be allowed for all Sums above forty Shillings, the Purchasers giving Bond and Security. All Persons indebted to the Estate are desired to pay off their respective Balances; and it is requested of those who have any Demands against the Estate to send them in, properly authenticated, to JOHN CAMM, WILLIAMSBURG, June 8. JAMES CARTER, } Executors.
STRAYED from the Subscriber, on Thursday the 28th of May last, a likely Chestnut sorrel MARE, seven Years old this Spring, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, both hind Feet white as high as her Hams, paces, trots, and gallops, branded on the near Shoulder A, and on the near Buttock B. Whoever brings her to me, at Todd's Bridge, in King and Queen, or gives me such Information that I may get her again, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward. BERNARD TODD.
SUFFOLK, May 26, 1773. WHEREAS, by the Death of Mr. Josiah Granbery, the Partnership of Gibson, Granbery, and Company, is dissolved, it is therefore requested that all Persons indebted to that Concern do settle their Accounts, without Loss of Time, either by paying them or giving Bonds for their respective Balances, in order that the Books may be closed. The Business is now continued under the Firm of James Gibson and Company, and Orders complied with in the same Manner as heretofore. All Persons who have any Demands against the said Concern, or the Estate of Josiah Granbery, deceased, are desired to give in their Claims, that they may receive Payment. (6) BROOKESBANK, May 15, 1773.
AS I intend for Britain some Time this Summer, all Persons who have had Dealings at this Store are desired to make immediate Payment, or come and settle their Accounts by Bond or other Specialty, so that there may be no Dispute in my Absence; and those who have any Demands are desired to make them known. Those who do not comply with my Request may assure themselves of Suits being commenced immediately. The Store will be continued under the Management of Mr. William Hamilton, to whom I shall deliver up the Charge immediately. (4) JAMES ANDERSON.
JOURNEYMEN BRICKLAYERS will meet with good Encouragement by applying to the Subscriber, in Williamsburg. (2) HUMPHREY HARWOOD.
MANCHESTER, May 24, 1773. I INTEND to leave this Colony soon. (2||) JAMES LOCKHART.
SWAN'S POINT, June 1, 1773. BEING properly informed that a Brother of mine, in London (from whom I have not heard these three Years) wrote to me in January last, by a Ship then coming to Virginia; and as the said Letter is not yet come to my Hands, and may probably be mislaid, or have met with some unexpected Miscarriage, I shall esteem it a singular Favour of any Person who will give me Intelligence respecting it; or if conveyed to me, the Expense attending the same shall be thankfully paid. (2||) THOMAS FENNER.
NORTHUMBERLAND, May 25, 1773. THE Subscriber lately had consigned to him, from London, an Assortment of the newest fashioned LUS-TRINGS, to the Amount of four Hundred Pounds Sterling; likewise a large Assortment of WORSTED STOCKINGS, and a Quantity of PORT WINE; which Goods will be disposed of for ready Money or short Credit, at a very low Advance. Any Person inclined to purchase may know the Terms by applying to Mr. Robert Gilmore of Norfolk, with whom Patterns of the Silks will be lodged. ROBERT GILMOUR, Junior.
Just IMPORTED from LONDON, in the VIRGINIA, Captain ESTEN, and to be SOLD at my Shop, in WILLIAMSBURG, A FRESH ASSORTMENT OF
Drugs and Medicines, CHYMICAL and GALENTICAL; Also fine Sallad Oil, Pickles, Spices, Currants, Figs, Prunes, Gold and Silver Leaf, Ivory Syringes, Tooth Brushes, and Lancets. A GREAT VARIETY OF PATENT MEDICINES, such as Doctor Norris's Antimonial Drops, Keyser's Pills, James's Powders, &c. &c. WILLIAM PASTEUR. I am in Want of an Apprentice for six or seven Years, who must have a tolerable Education, and be well disposed. A Premium will be expected.

A CATALOGUE of BOOKS, STATIONARY, &c.
To be SOLD at the PRINTING OFFICE, WILLIAMSBURG.
F O L I O S.
 B URKITT on the New Testament.  Sir John Comyn's Digest of the Laws of England, 5 Vols.  Jacob's New Law Dictionary.  L'Estrange's Josephus.  Lord Hardwicke's Cases in the Court of King's Bench.  Wood's Institutes.  Whitby on the New Testament, 2 Vols.  Q U A R T O S.  Bougainville's Voyage round the World.  Cambridge's Account of the War in India.  England's Bloody Tribunal, or Popish Cruelty displayed.  Elly's Tracts on the Liberty, spiritual and temporal, of the Protestants in England.  Ferguson's Astronomy.  Foster's Discourses on all the principal Branches of Natural Religion, and Social Virtue, 2 Vols.  Granger's Biographical History of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution, 2 Vols.  Heister's Surgery.  History of Westminster Abbey.  Kenrick's New Dictionary of the English Language: To which is prefixed a Rhetorical Grammar, in which the Elements of Speech in general, and those of the English Tongue in particular, are analysed; and the Rudiments of Articulation, Pronunciation, and Prosody, intelligibly displayed.  Leonidas, a Poem.  Macbride's Introduction to the Practice of Physick.  Priestley on Electricity.  Sheridan's Lectures on Elocution.  Sherwin's Mathematical Tables.  Stewart's Political Economy, 2 Vols.  Swan's Designs in Carpentry.  Warden's System of Revealed Religion. 
O C T A V O S.
 A New Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, by a Society of Gentlemen, 4 Vols.  Alexander's Medical Essays.  Angeloni's Letters on the English Nation.  Atrac's Midwifery.  Attorney's Practice in the Court of King's Bench, 2 Vols.  in the Court of Common Pleas, 2 Vols.  Bailey's English Dictionary.  Barbier Biedfeld's Elements of Universal Erudition, being an Abbreviation of the Sciences, Polite Arts, and Belles Lettres.  Beattie on Truth.  Ball's Practice of Physick, 2 Vols.  Baretti's Introduction to the most useful European Languages.  Benner's Christian Oratory, or the Devotion of the Closet displayed.  Biographical Dictionary, 11 Vols.  Bladen's Cæsar.  Book of Martyrs.  Boccace's Novels.  Bradley on Gardening.  Broughton on Futurity.  Buchanan's History of Scotland, 2 Vols.  English Dictionary.  Buchan's Family Physician.  Callander's Voyages to the Terra Australis, or Southern Hemisphere, 3 Vols.  Cellini (Benvenuto) his Life, containing a Variety of curious and interesting Particulars, and the History of his own Time. Written by himself.  Charlevoix's History of Paraguay, 2 Vols.  Dillon on the Resurrection.  Dictionary of the Bible, 3 Vols.  Dialogues between a Pilgrim, Adam, Noah, and Cleophas; containing the History of the Bible, and of the Jews. Adapted for Schools, and the middling Class of People.  Doddridge's Family Expositor, 6 Vols.  Dyche's English Dictionary.  Edinburgh Dispensary.  Emerson's Astronomy, Fluxions, and Opticks.  Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope.  Essays from the Encyclopædia.  Ferguson's English Dictionary.  Ferguson's Tables and Tracts, relative to several Arts and Sciences.  Foster's Travels through Sicily, Italy, and Egypt. Sermons.  Fair on Animal Motion.  Gordon's Universal Accountant, and Complete Merchant, 2 Vols.  Gordon's General Counting House, and Man of Business.  Goldsmith's Roman History, 2 Vols.  Gibbon on Horses, 2 Vols.  Gillies's Devotional Exercises on the New Testament.  Gerard on Taste.  Guthrie's Translation of Cicero's Epistles to Atticus, 2 Vols.  Glais's Cookery.  Gregory's Practical Geometry.  Guthrie's Geographical Grammar.  Hammond's History of the Bible.  Heilman's Lectures in Natural Philosophy.  Hill's Family Herbal.  Arithmetick.  History of Greenland, 2 Vols.  of California, 2 Vols.  of St. Kilda.  of Gustavus Adolphus, 2 Vols.  Harris on the Diseases of Infants.  Hume's Essays, 2 Vols.  Harmonia Sacra, or a choice Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes.  History of George III.  Johnson's English Dictionary.  Jenty's Lectures on the Human Structure and Animal Economy, 2 Vols.  Kennett's Roman Antiquities.  Keill's Astronomy.  Lawson on Oratory.  Langhorne's Platarch, 6 Vols.  Leland on the Deistical Writers, 2 Vols.  Translation of the Orations of Demosthenes, 3 Vols.  Lobb's Practice of Physick, 2 Vols.  Le Dran's Observations, and Operations, in Surgery.  Locke on the Human Understanding, 2 Vols.  Lord Lyttleton's History of Henry II, 4 Vols.  Macbride's Essays, Medical and Philosophical.  Macaulay on the Human Bile.  Martin's English Dictionary.  Mair's Book-Keeping.  Maxwell's Practical Husbandman.  Melmoth's Translation of Cicero's Familiar Letters, 3 Vols.  of Pliny's Letters, 2 Vols.  Medical Observations, by a Society of Physicians in London, 3 Vols.  Mihle's Surgery.  Miller's Gardeners Calendar.  Moss on Gauging.  Manning on Female Diseases.  Martin's Lectures on Philosophy, Astronomy, and Geography, 3 Vols. 
 Mackenzie on Health.  Nettleton on Virtue and Happiness.  Noble's Elements of Perspective.  Nugent's Observations on Italy and its Inhabitants, 2 Vols.  Nautical Almanack, and Astronomical Ephemeris, for the Years 1773 and 1774.  Osmer on the Diseases and Lameness of Horses.  Pascal's Thoughts on Religion.  Pilgrim's Progress.  Pierre Viaude, his Adventures and Shipwreck.  Pownall on the Administration of the Colonies.  Pullein on the Culture of Silk.  Penn's No Cross No Crown.  Practical Navigator, and Seaman's Daily Assistant. By T. Hamilton Moore.  Potter's Mathematicks.  Price on Annuities.  Pringle on the Diseases of the Army.  Priestley on Perspective.  Protestant System, containing Discourses on the principal Doctrines of Natural and Revealed Religion, 2 Vols.  Pardon's Arithmetick.  Quincey's Dispensary.  Rouppé on the Diseases of Seamen.  Ray's Travels, through Germany, Italy, and France, 2 Vols.  Rowning's Philosophy.  Ruffhead's Life of Pope.  Robertson's History of Scotland, 2 Vols.  of Charles V, 4 Vols.  Reflector; representing Human Affairs as they are, and may be improved.  Stackhouse's History of the Bible, 6 Vols.  Shaw's Practice of Physick, 2 Vols.  Smith's Distillery.  Stockdale's Antiquities of Greece.  Smith's Moral Sentiments.  Simson's Geometry.  Algebra.  Euclid.  Stuart's Physical and Mathematical Tracts.  Stewart (Mrs.) her Meditations.  Seed's Sermons, 3 Vols.  Secker's Sermons, 7 Vols.  Sheridan on Education.  Sharpe's Surgery.  Sydenham (Doctor) his Works.  Smollett's Present State of all Nations, 8 Vols.  Salmon's Geographical Grammar.  Temple (Sir William) his Works, 4 Vols.  Taylor's Holy Living and Dying.  Tillotson on Health.  Van Swieten's Commentaries, abridged.  Voltaire's L'Ingenu, Princess of Babylon, and Defence of My Uncle.  Watts's Astronomy.  Philosophical Essays.  Discourses on the World to come.  Woolaston's Religion of Nature delineated.  Whyte's Cases in Surgery.  Wilson's Surveying. 
D U O D E C I M O S.
 Apocrypha.  Alzuma and Alonzo, new Tragedies.  Adventures of a Jesuit, 2 Vols.  Adultery anatomized, 2 Vols.  Armstrong's Miscellanies, 2 Vols.  Allan Ramsay's Songs.  Adventurer, 4 Vols.  Addison's Works, 4 Vols.  Alleyne's Alarm to unconverted Sinners.  Arabian Nights Entertainment, 4 Vols.  Aristotle's last Legacy.  Ambrose's War with Devils.  Amours of Lais, or the Misfortunes of Love.  British Plutarch, or Biographical Entertainer, 12 Vols.  Boyle's Receipts, for the Use of Families.  Beveridge's Thoughts on Religion.  Buchanan's Plan of a Grammar School Education.  Ball's Dispensary.  Bunyan's Holy War.  Boyce's Pantheon, or a fabulous History of the Heathen Gods, Goddesses, Heroes, &c.  Book of Fates, or Universal Fortune Teller.  Boyle's Voyages.  Boston's Fourfold State.  Brightland's English Grammar.  Bracken's Farriery, 2 Vols.  Brown's Sunday Thoughts.  Baxter's Call to the Unconverted.  Balbé Berton, his Life, 2 Vols.  Baxter's Matho, or the Principles of Natural Religion deduced from the Phenomena of the Material World, 2 Vols.  Brookes's Cookery.  Barford Abbey, a Novel, 2 Vols.  Charles Careless, his Amours and Adventures, 2 Vols.  Crevillon's Night and Moment.  Cole's Tales and Fables.  Charles Wentworth, his History, 3 Vols.  Centlivre (Mrs.) her Works, 3 Vols.  Countess de Barré, the French King's Mistress, her Memoirs.  Companion for the Fireside, or Winter Evenings Amusement.  Curtain Lectures, or Matrimonial Misery displayed.  Court Calendar for 1773.  Cautious Lover, or the History of Lord Woburn, 2 Vols.  Clarissa Harlowe, 8 Vols.  Charles Grandison, 7 Vols.  Charlotte Seymour, her History, 2 Vols.  Citizen of the World, or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher in London to his Friends in the East, 2 Vols.  Crookall's Esop's Fables.  Carpenter and Cabinet Maker's best Companion.  Centaur not Fabulous, by Doctor Young.  Cheerful Companion, or Songster's Pocket Book.  Constantia, or the Distressed Friend.  Child's new Plaything, a Spelling Book.  Connoisseur, by Lord Chesterfield, 4 Vols.  Classical Dictionary, being an alphabetical Account of the most remarkable Events and illustrious Personages of Antiquity.  Cocker's Arithmetick.  Cotton's poetical Works.  Cadogan on the Gout.  Cecil and Grey, their History, 2 Vols.  Chaubaud's Geography, being an Account of the present State of the several Kingdoms and Nations of the World.  Complete Letter Writer.  Comparative View of the State and Faculties of Man with those of the Animal World.  Complete Horse Doctor, by J. Thompson.  Complaint, or Night Thoughts, by Doctor Young.  Cook's Complete English Gardener.  Dodd's Sermons to young Men, 3 Vols.  Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul.  Dilworth and Dyche's Spelling Books.  Duncan's Logic.  Death of Abel, by Mr. Gessner.  David Simple, his Adventures, 2 Vols.  Don Quixote, by Quesada, 4 Vols. 
 Dodley's Esop's Fables.  Dryden's Fables.  Dodd's Visitor, 2 Vols.  Reflections on Death.  Edinburgh Entertainer, for the Use of Schools.  Erkine's Gospel Sonnets.  Entertaining Fabulist, containing a Variety of diverting Tales and Novels.  Economy of Human Life.  Economy of Love, a poetical Essay.  Essays and Meditations on various Subjects, by a Physician.  Family Instructor, 2 Vols.  Family Pictures, a Novel.  Feeling's Arithmetick.  Family Discourses, by a Country Gentleman.  Felicia to Charlotte, in a Series of Letters, 2 Vols.  Fanny Seymour, her History.  Ferguson's Institutes.  Fortunate Paris Girl, or the History of Charlotte Summers.  False Step, a Novel, 2 Vols.  Forbes (President) his Works, 2 Vols.  Fielding's Works, 12 Vols.  Fordyce's Art of Preaching.  Fair Greek, her History.  Family Prayer Book.  Falconer's Voyages.  Fairy Tales, 2 Vols.  Fairy Tales, by the Countess D'Anois, 3 Vols.  Female Cavalier, or the Apparition, 3 Vols.  Francis's Horace, 4 Vols.  Guardian, 2 Vols.  Golden Pippin, a new English Burletta.  Gordon's Every Man's Companion.  Gentleman's Companion, and Tradesman's Delight; containing a Variety of curious and useful Receipts.  Gay's Fables.  Greenwood's English Grammar.  Goldsmith's Essays.  Gouland on Venereal Complaints.  German Spa, its Amusements, by Doctor Limbourg, 2 Vols.  Gentleman Instructed in the Conduct of a Virtuous and happy Life, 2 Vols.  Hickes's Devotions.  Home's Plays.  Hervey's Meditations.  Time of Danger and Means of Safety.  Theron and Aspasio, 3 Vols.  Hutchesson (Francis) of Glasgow, his System of Moral Philosophy, 2 Vols.  Herbert (Lord) of Cherbury, his Life.  Humphrey Clinker, by Smollett, 3 Vols.  Harriot Watson, her History, 2 Vols.  Harriot Stewart, her Life, written by herself, 2 Vols.  Halifax (Lord) his Advice to a Daughter.  History of the Devil, and a Description of his Dwelling.  Henry and Frances, a Novel, 4 Vols.  Henry's Commuicant's Companion.  Historical Miscellany, for the Use of Schools.  Human Prudence, or the Art by which a Man may raise himself and his Fortune to Grandeur.  Horton (Charles) his History, 3 Vols.  Idler, by Mr. Johnson, 2 Vols.  Irish Widow, a new Comedy.  Julia Mandeville, her History, 2 Vols.  Joseph Andrews, his History and Adventures, 2 Vols.  Johnson's Spelling Dictionary.  Knights of Malta, their History, by Mons. Vertot, 5 Vols.  Kidnapped Orphan, his Adventures.  Lothario to Penelope, in a Series of Letters, 2 Vols.  Lord Clayton and Miss Meredith, their History, 2 Vols.  Lover's Instructor, or the whole Art of Courtship rendered plain and easy.  Letters to Married Women, on bringing up Children.  Lectures on Hearts and Noses.  Buncle (John) his Life, 4 Vols.  Lucubrations sentimental, by Peter Pennylesse.  Leonidas, a Poem, 2 Vols.  Letters from Parson Yorick (Author of Tristram Shandy) to Eliza.  Memoir's Midwifery.  Moral Miscellany, for the Use of Schools.  Mademoiselle De La Sarre, her Life and Adventures.  Martyn's Dissertations upon the Eneids of Virgil.  Miss Melmoth, or the New Clarissa, 3 Vols.  Members of Count Saxe.  Merry Companion, and Maque, Song Books.  Massey's Travels.  The Mesiah, from the German of Mr. Klopstock.  Mallet's Works, 3 Vols.  Marvell (Andrew) his Works, 2 Vols.  Marrow of Modern Divinity.  Male Coquette, or the History of the Hon. Edward Aftell.  Milton's Works, 2 Vols.  Modern Geographer, or a short Way to know the World.  Maid of Quality, or the History of Lady Lucy Layton.  Mawes's Gardening.  Moral Tales, after the Eastern Manner, 2 Vols.  Masquerade, or the History of Lord Avon and Miss Fannyworth.  Merry Philosophers, or Thoughts on Jesting.  Midnight Spy, or a View of the Transactions of London and Westminster from the Hours of 9 in the Evening till 6 in the Morning.  New Week's Preparation.  New Manual of Devotions.  Nature-Displayed, being Discourses on such Particulars of Natural History as were thought most proper to excite the Curiosity, and form the Minds of Youth.  Noah, from the German of Mr. Bodmer.  Old Maid, by Mary Singleton, Spinster.  Original Poems, by Blacklock, and other Scotch Gentlemen, 2 Vols.  Pleasing Instructor, for the Use of Schools.  Pamela, or Virtue rewarded, 4 Vols.  Protestant Manual of Christian Devotions.  Pennington (Mrs.) her Advice to her absent Daughter.  Portrait of Life, or the various Effects of Virtue and Vice.  Pliny the Younger, his Epistles, 2 Vols.  Pope's Works, 6 Vols.  Iliad and Odyssey, 9 Vols.  Patriot King, by Lewis.  Praise of Hell, or a Sight of the Infernal Regions.  Pilpay's Fables.  Preacher's Directory, or a Series of Subjects proper for publick Discourses, with Texts under each Head.  Plutarch's select Lives, for the Use of Schools.  Poems on various Subjects, by a young Lady of 18 Years old.  Rowe (Mrs.) her Letters, and other Works.  Rowe's Lucan, 2 Vols.  Robinson Crusoe, his Adventures, complete.  Reverie, or a Flight to the Paradise of Fools, 2 Vols.  Reading made Easy, a Spelling Book.  Revolutions of Literature, from the Italian of Carlo Denina.  Rosaro, or the Adventures of an Actress, 3 Vols.  Russell's Seven Sermons.  Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 3 Vols. 
 Rambler, by Mr. Johnson, 4 Vols.  Rousseau's Works, 5 Vols.  Richardson's Esop's Fables.  Religious Courtship, being historical Discourses on the Necessity of marrying religious Husbands and Wives only.  Spectator, 8 Vols.  Solyman and Almena, by Mr. Langhorne.  Sermons to Asics.  Scarron's Works, 2 Vols.  Something New, 2 Vols.  Scougal's Works.  Spence's Devotions.  Shakespeare's Works, 8 Vols.  Swift's Works, 24 Vols.  Smollett's Don Quixote, 4 Vols.  Suckling's Works, 2 Vols.  Seneca's Morals.  Sproton's Spelling Book.  Scipio and Berganza, two Dogs of Toledo, their Lives and Adventures. By the Author of Don Quixote, Square's Book-Keeping.  Talbot's Letters on the French Nation, 2 Vols.  Tom Jones, or the History of a Foundling, 4 Vols.  Tom Brown's Works, 4 Vols.  Tillotson on Health, 2 Vols.  on the Disorders of People of Fashion and sedentary Persons.  The Irishman, or the Favourite of Fortune, 2 Vols.  The School, being a Series of Letters between a young Lady and her Mother.  The World, by Mr. Fitzadam, 4 Vols.  The Contrast, or the History of Miss Welldone and Miss Moseley, 2 Vols.  The Fault was all his own, by a Lady.  Tom Fool, his History, 2 Vols.  The Favourite, a moral Tale, 2 Vols.  Tristram Shandy, complete, 6 Vols.  Turkish Spy, 8 Vols.  Travels of Cyrus.  Telemachus, his Adventures.  Theological Preceptor, or Youth's Religious Instructor.  Theodosius and Constantia, by Mr. Langhorne, 2 Vols.  Voltaire's familiar Letters.  Miscellaneous Poems.  Vicar of Wakefield, by Doctor Goldsmith.  Virgin unmasked, or Dialogues between an elderly Lady and her Niece.  Warden's Collections, for the Use of Schools.  World Unmasked, or the Philosopher the greatest Cheat, 2 Vols.  Waller's Poems.  Wilkes (not Patriot John) his Advice to a young Lady.  Watts's Scriptural History.  Hymns and Poems.  Wedding Ring, a new Comic Opera.  Willison's Balm of Gilead.  Afflicted Man's Companion.  Woodward's fair Warning to a careless World.  Woodbury, or the Memoirs of Mr. Marchmont and Miss Walbrook, 2 Vols.  Yorick's Sermons, 7 Vols.  Younger Sister, or the History of Miss Somerset.  Young's Works, 5 Vols.  Young's Sermons, 2 Vols.  Youth's Pocket Companion, or Universal Preceptor. 
FRENCH SCHOOL BOOKS.
 Boyer's and D'Alembert's Dictionaries.  D'Aubichon's Exercise Book.  Chaubaud's Fables.  Telemachus.  Gil Blas. 
GREEK SCHOOL BOOKS.
 Hederici Lexicon.  Ruddiman's Greek Testament.  Ruddiman's Collections from Esop, Lucian, Isocrates, Cebes, &c.  Hutchinson's Xenophon.  Xenophon's Memorabilia.  Clark's Homer.  Greek Sententia.  Dunlop, Moore, Holmes, Wettenhal, and the Westminster Greek Grammars. 
LATIN SCHOOL BOOKS.
 Cole's and Entick's Dictionaries.  Ruddiman's Grammar, Rudiments, and Grammatical Exercises.  Clark's Introduction, Cordery, Esop, Erasmus, Eutropius, Florus, Ovid, Justin, Salust, and Nepos.  Mair's Introduction, and his Tyro's Dictionary.  Christie's Grammar, and Introduction.  Stirling's Phædrus.  Arrol's Erasmus, with Vocabulary.  Wyllimott's Examples.  Watt's Grammar.  London Vocabulary.  Castellio's Sacred Dialogues.  Prosodia Consuetudo.  Lilly's and Ward's Grammars.  Gradus ad Parnassum.  Trapp's Praelectiones.  Pearce's Longinus.  Castellio's Bible.  Latin Testament.  Latin Common Prayer Books.  Lucan's Pharsalia, an elegant 4to Edition.  Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Terence, Juvenal, Cicero, Cæsar, Salust, Justin, Nepos, and Florus, in Usus Delphini. 
 Church Bibles and Prayer Books.  Quarto Family Bibles, gilt and plain.  Octavo Bibles and Prayer Books, gilt and plain.  Pocket Prayer Books, gilt and plain.  School Bibles, Testaments, Prayer Books, and Psalters.  Gentlemen and Ladies Pocket Books and Instrument Cases, of all Sizes.  As Skin and Ivory Memorandum Books.  Pocket Books with Slate Memorandums.  Ebony Inkstands, Silver fashioned Pewter Ditto, and common Pewter Inkstands. Cut and plain Glasses for Ditto.  Edinburgh Leather Inkpots.  Fine large Message Cards.  Compung Houfe Files.  Folio Paper Cases.  Hudson Bay and best Dutch Quills, and fine Office Pens.  Black and red Dutch Sealing Wax and Wafers.  Red Ink in Vials.  Japan Ink in Vials, Patent Cake Ink, and Inkpowder.  Pounce and Pounce Boxes.  Spyers's best Convex Penknives.  Black Lead Pencils, large and small.  Ivory Knives and Folders.  Reading Glasses.  Best Temple Spectacles.  Green Preserves.  Martin's Visuals.  Dolland's Patent Pocket Spy Glasses.  Broad and narrow Red Tape.  Gold Leaf.  Cases of Mathematical Instruments.  Copperplate Copies of different Kinds.  Several choice Pieces of Musick.  German Flutes and Violins. Violin Strings and Bridges.  Musick Paper, of different Sizes.  Fine Shining Sand.  Milliners Pasteboard.  Fine glazed Blue Paper for working upon.  Harry VIII. best Playing Cards.  Madden's sovereign Oil for Bruises and Strains.  Keyser's infallible Pills.  Quarto Gilt, Mourning, and plain Letter Paper.  All Sorts and Sizes of Writing Paper, by the Ream or Quire.  Cartridge, Blue, Blotting, London Brown, and Whited Brown Paper.  Embossed, and Red and Blue marbled Paper.  Blank Books, of all Sizes, ruled and unruled; bound Memorandum Books, and those in a lighter Cover, ruled and unruled.  And ETCETERAS in Abundance. 

POETS CORNER.
HONESTY is commended, and starves.
THERE once to Town a Rustick came, Virtue was all his Wealth, was all his Fame; A Stranger to each Vice, he knew no Fear, His Mind was spotless, and his Heart sincere.
Qui visum vitam dat — CIG.
THE infinitely wise Author of Nature has assigned to the Eyes and Ears the most useful and important Offices of Life. The Structure of those delicately tender Organs is so exquisitely minute, the Mechanism and Properties of their various Parts so admirably curious, that they may be styled, with Propriety, the Miracles of Nature.
To the INHABITANTS of VIRGINIA.
DOCTOR GRAHAM, OCULIST AND AURIST,
MOST respectfully offers his best Services, and acquaints them that he may be consulted at his Apartments at Mr. Hyland's, in this City, in all Disorders of the Eye and its Appendages; and in every Species of Deafness, Hardness of Hearing, Ulcerations, Noise in the Ears, &c.
MEDICINE and SURGERY have always been his favourite Study; but the Structure and Diseases of those tender, sympathetick, and nearly connected Organs, just mentioned, have for many Years particularly engaged his Attention and Practice; whence, regardless of vague conjectural Hypotheses, he hath deduced, on rational Principles, Methods of Cure, improved and confirmed by the most accurate Observations, in a Course of Practice the most extensive, and perhaps the most successful of any of his Contemporaries in Europe, or on this vast Continent.
Notwithstanding it has ever been a Custom with the professed Oculists and Aurists of Europe to conceal their Method of Practice, and to refuse to communicate to any one the Knowledge they possessed, yet as his Concerns in England will not permit him to remain long in America, and in Order that his Method may be rendered of as diffusive Utility as possible, he proposes to instruct and appoint, at a Series of actual Practice, one Person in every Province, through which he may pass to succeed him in treating, after the most improved Method, the Diseases of the Eyes and Ears, and to communicate to them from Time to Time such Discoveries and Improvements as may result from future Practice.
The candid and intelligent Inhabitants of these Parts of the British Colonies can readily distinguish true Merit from pretended Knowledge. To conciliate, therefore, their Favour, Doctor Graham begs Leave to assure them, that, with Tenderness and Moderation, even to the poorest Individual, his best Abilities shall at all Times be exerted to serve them; and as the Success which daily attends his Practice is a better Testimony of his Skill than any Thing he might advance in his own Behalf, let it suffice only to mention, that, after several Years Study at the justly celebrated University of Edinburgh, he has travelled in Pursuit of Knowledge, in his favourite Branches, attending the Infirmary and Hospitals, as well as the Lectures of the most eminent Professors, in Europe. In the Course of his Practice at Philadelphia, several Hundred Patients have been cured or relieved of the following Disorders, many of which had been of long Standing, and deemed incurable by other Practitioners, even by Gentlemen who otherwise do Honour to the Profession; the Success attending their Practice sufficiently evincing that they are worthy and capable of the great, the important Charge, with which they are intrusted.
The chief Disorders are as follows: Total, partial, and periodical Blindness; Weakness and Dimness of Sight; Squinting; Pain, Swelling, and Inflammation of the Eyes; Spots, Specks, Pearls, or Films occasioned by the Smallpox, Blows, or extraneous Substances; weak, watery, red, spongy, and ulcerated Eyelids; spasmodick Twitching of the Muscles; involuntary Weeping of the Tears; Tumours, and Excrecencies; Fistulae Lachrymales; total and periodical Deafness; Thickening of Hearing; Pain, and Inflammations; painful Sensations in Consequence of loud Sounds; Cracking, Itching, continual and remitting Noises in the Ears; offensive Runnings occasioned by Colds, Swelling, Swimming, Picking, and improper Applications, or by long and severe Sicknesses; Insects and extraneous Bodies getting into the Ears; Ulcerations, with Caries of the Bones, Pelvis, &c. and several Persons born deaf and dumb, Impediments in their Speech, &c.
N. B. Business in Philadelphia will not permit the Doctor to remain in this City longer than the 15th of June. Those, therefore, who have Occasion for his Assistance, will be pleased to apply immediately. The Poor, who apply properly recommended, will be assisted gratis with Advice, Medicines, or manual Operations, as their respective Cases may require; and for that Purpose he will appropriate every Morning, Sundays excepted, between the Hours of five and seven.
The Doctor, next Fall, on his Progress from Philadelphia to Charleston, South Carolina, will stop a few Days at each of the Places hereafter mentioned, where those Persons whose Circumstances or Situation have hitherto precluded them from the Benefit of applying for Assistance in their respective Complaints may have an Opportunity of consulting him, namely; ALEXANDRIA, FREDERICKSBURG, NEWCASTLE, HOPE'S HOLE, URBANNA, PETERSBURG, RICHMOND, NORFOLK, SUFFOLK, &c.
Æque pauperibus præsê, locupletibus æque, Æque neglectum pueris senibusque nocet. WILLIAMSBURG, May 12, 1773. HOR.
RUN away from York Town, on the 1st Instant (June) a Convict Servant named JAMES RYAN, by Trade a Cabinet Maker, about five Feet eight Inches high, with a fair Complexion, short brown Hair, a pretty large Nose, and smooth Speech.
RUN away from the Subscriber, two Convict Servant Men. One of them is named JOSEPH STEEL, by Trade a Hatter, about thirty Years of Age, five Feet ten Inches high, of a swarthy Complexion, has a small Scar on his upper Lip, short brown Hair, and had on, and took with him, a new Felt Hat, an old brown Cloth Coat, an old Fustian Waistcoat, an Onahbrug Shirt, a Pair of Sheep Skin Breeches buttoned from the Knee to the Hip, blue Stockings, and a Pair of old Shoes; he had on an Iron Collar, and is supposed to have an Iron Ring round his Ankle, the Impression of which may possibly be discovered.
ON serious Consideration of the present State of our Practice in the General Court, we find it can no longer be continued on the same Terms. The Fees allowed by Law, if regularly paid, would barely compensate our incessant Labours, reimburse our Expenses, and the Losses incurred by Neglect of our private Affairs; yet even these Rewards, confessedly moderate, are withheld from us, in a great Proportion, by the unworthy Part of our Clients.
The Subscriber by no Means disapproves of the above Resolution; but as he has long determined to quit his Practice as an Attorney, and practise only as a Counsel in such Causes as are ready for Trial, he has declined signing the above, as he shall not engage in any Cause for the future but such in which he shall previously receive an adequate Satisfaction for his Trouble, which they may be assured will not be less than the legal Fees. THOMPSON MASON.
NORTH CAROLINA, May 3, 1773. BY Virtue of a Power from Sir Nathaniel DUKINFELD, Baronet, now in Great Britain, will be sold, all his LANDS, known by the Name of DUKINFIELD, finely situated upon the Bay, opposite to Edenton, in Bertie County.
For SALE, at Mr. JOHN PRENTIS's Store, in WILLIAMSBURG, AN EXCEEDING ELEGANT SPINET, in a genteel Mahogany Case, with a Musick Desk, spare Wires, Quills, &c. This Instrument is entirely new, and just imported in the Virginia, Captain Esten. The lowest Price is twenty two Pounds Currency.
I SHALL attend at ALEXANDRIA on the Court Day in June next, to dispose of two Tracts of LAND in Fairfax County, for ready Money or Bills of Exchange. One contains upwards of eleven Hundred Acres, and lies on Four Mile Run, adjoining Colonel Carlyle's Mill, about four Miles from Alexandria; as the Soil is equal to any in that Neighbourhood, it needs no farther Recommendation, and I am told will admit of a constant Water Mill as any on this Side of the Ridge.
The foregoing makes it necessary for me to say, that I am not one of the happy few who are not in great Want of Cash. I must therefore earnestly request all those indebted to me, either on my own or Father's Estate Account, to make Payment in Time, to prevent farther Sales of my Estate, or Expense to themselves. (4) JAMES MERCER.
THE subscriber begs Leave to inform the Publick that the Reason of his not sending out the Models of his Wheat Machines, according to his former Advertisement, is occasioned by an Alteration he has made in it, which he thinks will be an Advantage to the Publick; and as it cannot be proved till Harvest comes in, he hopes this short Delay will be excused, but as soon as that happens he intends to set out with Models, in Order to instruct as many People in each County as may be necessary to put them in Practice. JOHN HOBDAY.
WANTS EMPLOYMENT, A YOUNG Man who has been brought up in a Store, understands Book-keeping, is capable of taking Charge of a Store, &c. and can be well recommended. Apply to the Printers. (tf)
AMELIA, May 18, 1773. WHEREAS, on the 28th of JANUARY last, we purchased a Negro Fellow of Miles Robertson of this County, for the Sum of eighty Pounds, and gave our Bond to one Nathaniel Friend of Chesterfield for the same, payable the 22d of July next; and whereas we are much imposed on in the Sale of the said Negro, this is to forewarn all Persons from taking an Assignment of the Bond, as the Money will not be paid when due. RULER RICHARDSON, JAMES BAGLEY.
I INTEND for Great Britain in September next, and hope those indebted to me will make immediate Payment, to prevent Suits being commenced against them, as they may depend no Indulgence will be allowed after the 28th of July next. Those to whom I am indebted are desired to bring in their Accounts, that they may be properly settled. SERAFINO FORMICOLA.
To be LEASED for a TERM of YEARS, or for LIFE, THREE Thousand Acres of valuable LAND in Hanover County, about eight Miles from the Courthouse. It will be laid off in Lots of one, two, and three Hundred Acres. For Terms apply to GARLAND ANDERSON. PAUL THILMAN.
TAKEN up, in Dinwiddie, a dark brown COW, marked with a Crop, Hole, and Halfmoon under the left Ear; there appears to have been a Hole in the upper Side of the right Ear, which was torn out, and makes it like a Halfmoon. Posted, and appraised to thirty Shillings. (11) JAMES BAUGH, Senior.
TAKEN up, in Amelia, a red and white HEIFER, marked with a Swallowfork in the right Ear, and a Crop and Hole in the left, the Hole torn out. Posted, and appraised to thirty Shillings. (11) WILLIAM HATCHITT.
RICHMOND, May 18, 1773. I INTEND to leave this Colony in a short Time. DAVID KIPPEN.
TO BE SOLD, A TRACT of LAND in Goochland, containing five Hundred and ten Acres, on the Waters of Beaverdam and Genet; the Soil is excellent for Wheat, with about seventy Acres cleared, and in good Order for Cropping. For Terms apply to the Subscriber, at Four Mile Creek, (4) JOHN PLEASANTS.
IF Richard Rogers, who went from England to America about the Year 1750, be living, he is desired to give an Account of himself; or if any Gentleman of his Acquaintance can give Information of him, so that a Certificate may be obtained of his being living or dead, by Letter directed to Mr. Henry Adams, Attorney at Law in Mark Lane, London, or to Mr. Thomas Coales of the Bank of England, the Favour will very much oblige the said Rogers's Friends, and will be gratefully returned the first Opportunity. All reasonable Expenses, &c. will be paid by Messrs. Perkins, Buchanan, and Drown, Merchants. The said Richard Rogers hath not been heard of since the Year 1754, at which Time he kept a School in Lunenburg County, Virginia, and ordered, in his Letter dated September 29th, in the said Year 1754, to direct to him, "in Lunenburg County, Virginia, to the Care of Mr. Clement Read, Clerk of Lunenburg Court" (adding, that "that Gentleman is much esteemed, and generally known by most of the Gentlemen in Virginia") or to direct to him "at Mr. John Speed's in Lunenburg, to be left to the Care of Mr. Theophilus Field, Merchant at Bolling's Point, on Appomattox River, Virginia." (6)
RUN away from on Board the Matty, lying in Pagan Creek, on the 21st of April, a Negro Man named JACK, alias PELL, about twenty one Years of Age, five Feet nine Inches high, of a yellow Complexion, proportionably made, and has lost two Joints of two of his Fingers on his right Hand; he had on a new green Coat, a blue Jacket, a Pair of gray Breeches, a white Shirt, and a Pair of black Stockings. This Fellow is the Property of Mr. Thomas Gordon of Peterburg, who has already advertised him in this Gazette. I will give a Reward of TWENTY SHILLINGS, besides what is allowed by Law, to any Person who delivers him to his said Master in Peterburg, Mr. Hugh McMekin in Portsmouth, or to Mr. Andrew Mackie near Smithfield, (tf) JAMES PRUDDEN.
TO BE SOLD, ABOUT fourteen Thousand Acres of exceeding good LAND in the County of Pittsylvania. For Terms apply to Mr. Hugh Rose of Amherst, who will treat with any Person inclinable to purchase, and be empowered to make a legal Title. CAROLINE, May 7, 1773. (tf) THOMAS LOMAX.
NORTHAMPTON, May 8, 1773. RUN away from the Subscriber's Plantation in Brunswick, last December, two Negro Men, DAVID and SAM, about twenty five Years of Age, of the middle Stature, and had on Cotton Clothes, new Felt Hats, Onahbrug Shirts, &c. David is likely, strong, and full faced; Sam is thin visaged, with a wide Mouth, and a higher Nose than common. They were carried from York, where they had Wives; but as no Advice can be had of their returning thither, I suppose they have taken some other Course, and perhaps may depart the Country. All Masters of Vessels are hereby forewarned from carrying them away. Whoever conveys them to me shall have FIFTY SHILLINGS Reward for each, and if taken out of the Country FIVE POUNDS, besides the Allowance by Law. (6) GRIFFIN SMITH.
TAPPAHANNOCK, May 4, 1773. AS it is now three Years since I discontinued Store-keeping on my own private Account at this Place, I request all those indebted to me to come and pay off immediately, otherwise their Accounts, &c. will be put into an Attorney's Hands, without Respect of Persons or farther Notice. Those who have any Claims against me are desired to bring them in. (6) ARCHIBALD M'CALL. I have LOTS, and a genteel and pleasant situated two Story HOUSE, &c. in this Place, which I will sell on reasonable Terms.
FOR SALE, THE PLANTATION whereon the Subscriber lives, in King and Queen County, about a Mile and a Half from Todd's Warehouse, containing six Hundred and fifty seven Acres, in good Order for Cropping, having a large Peach and Apple Orchard thereon beginning to bear, a Quantity of low Grounds which may be made good Meadow with little Expense; the Dwellinghouse, Kitchen, and other Outhouses, have been built between four and five Years. Any Person inclinable to purchase may know the Terms by applying to (tf) R. DAINGERFIELD.
TO BE SOLD, A VALUABLE Tract of LAND, containing about sixteen Hundred Acres, more or less, lying on the River Shenandoah, in Berkley County (formerly Frederick) which is one of the most flourishing Counties in Virginia. The Land is exceeding good, well timbered, and adapted to the raising of all Kinds of Grain, as well as Tobacco, and has the Advantage of a very fine Stream of Water, on which is a Blomery with two Fires, a good Stone Merchant Mill with two Pair of Stones, a Saw Mill, a Distillery conveniently situated, a Smith's Shop, a Cooper's Shop, and many other Outhouses. There are about a Hundred and fifty Acres of Land cleared, and about fifty Acres of Meadow may be made with a very small Expense, one Half of which may be watered any Day in the Year. A Stock of Cattle, Horses, and Hogs, some Household Furniture, and all Kinds of Utensils proper for carrying on the above different Branches of Business, will be sold with or without the Land. For farther Particulars inquire of Mr. William Little, on the Premises. Credit will be allowed for Part of the Purchase Money, the Purchaser giving Bond, with Security if required. For Terms apply to the Honourable George William Fairfax, Esquire, Carlyle and Dalton in Alexandria, or Preston Bowdin in Norfolk. (tf)
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